h2g2bob @h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com

Who owns the Post Office and which minister is responsible? BEIS, Cabinet Office, UKGI and Treasury all involved. https://www.postofficetrial.com/2019/11/the-post-offices-journey-into-disaster.html

Lack of oversight led to millions of public money wasted and lives destroyed https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/post-office-high-court-case-it-horizon-postmaster-prison-latest-a9249431.html

Getting a .gov domain name
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/11/its-way-too-easy-to-get-a-gov-domain-name/

Every Christmas since 1825, the Royal Institution gives science lectures for kids and adults.

This Christmas, Dr Hannah Fry talks about maths: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000crbl

Previous lectures, including Kevin Fong talking about how to survive in space: https://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/watch

GiveWell's top charities
https://blog.givewell.org/2019/11/26/announcing-our-2019-top-charities/

Every Level Crossing In The UK
http://www.paulplowman.com/stuff/every-level-crossing-in-the-uk/

All coal is the same age, and we're not making any more of it. https://youtu.be/b34al8YmQSA

Home-made Christmas decoration. If Dulux are wondering where their paint colour cards are, don't tell them.

Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds sounds strange and alien and disco. An amazing concept album, and worth listening to the whole thing. https://youtu.be/6fnPn9Xr7fI #music

London Reconnections annual Christmas quiz is out. It's about transport in London, and it's impossible as always. https://www.londonreconnections.com/2019/the-london-reconnections-2019-christmas-quiz/ #london

Neutron star particles go under the LHC microscope
https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/neutron-star-particles-go-under-the-lhc-microscope

Where is plastic in the ocean, and how long has it been there?
https://ourworldindata.org/where-does-plastic-accumulate

Remain won the popular vote: 53% vs 47%. No mandate for Brexit.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2019/dec/12/uk-general-election-2019-full-results-live-labour-conservatives-tories #ukpol

It's a disaster. The Tories are in power. #ukpol

Blind and partially sighted voters use the tactile to voting template to vote in secret. Vote Thursday. https://www.rnib.org.uk/campaigning-current-campaigns-accessible-information-campaign/voting-and-elections

The rise of IPv6 https://blog.mythic-beasts.com/2016/04/27/ipv6-only-hosting/ #video #networking

The Realm of the Ice Giants
http://www.planetary.org/explore/the-planetary-report/simon-the-realm-of-the-ice-giants.html #space

We're in this brexit mess because David Cameron got a majority in 2015, even though:
- 2 in 3 people voted against him
- 159 Tory seats where most people didn't vote Tory

Our electoral system is a disaster. Vote tactically. https://dontsplittheremainvote.com/ #ukpol

CURLmas is back! The advent calendar webpage that takes all 24 days of advent to download! Be amazed as the image changes every day without any JavaScript! Swoon as the progress bar in curl or wget shows the percentage of advent completed! http://curlmas.dbatley.com/

OSCE act as international observers in elections everywhere from the United States to Kyrgyzstan. They've been invited to the UK general election, continuing a 15 year tradition. https://www.osce.org/odihr/elections/uk #ukpol