h2g2bob @h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com

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

?fbclid
https://zaitcev.livejournal.com/258056.html

CO2 emissions for things we import and export.
https://ourworldindata.org/consumption-based-co2 #world #climatechange

Fed up with the election campaigns and useless politicians? You'll be even more fed up when the wrong one gets elected! Register to vote - last day Tuesday. https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote #ukpol

The frontier of bromine chemistry, full of nasty compounds which "inevitably explodes" https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2019/11/21/the-higher-states-of-bromine #chemistry

Here's a version of DontSplit with minimal branding and no noise, just the tactical voting recommendations. Suitable for embedding or linking or whatever. https://dontsplittheremainvote.com/minimal.html

How do you aim a neutrino beam?
https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/how-do-you-make-the-worlds-most-powerful-neutrino-beam #physics

"The End of the Line" - storytelling ideas
http://fabledlands.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-end-of-line-scenario.html

Tom Scott and Irving Finkel play The Royal Game of Ur, a 4,000 year old game https://youtu.be/WZskjLq040I

Microsoft are easing patent restrictions for the common exFAT file system
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2019/aug/30/microsoft-exfat-oin/

Dark winter poetry - The Black Place by Tamar Yoseloff
https://sheenaghpugh.livejournal.com/132812.html

The Earth's Core contains a large iron crystal spinning differently to the rest of the Earth. But how could scientists ever work that out? In Our Time http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05s3gyv #earth