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Just found out that somebody has organised BBC #InOurTime in #DeweyDecimal.While we're about it is there room for a literary spin-off...

Just found out that somebody has organised BBC #InOurTime in #DeweyDecimal.

While we're about it is there room for a literary spin-off 'In Our Tome'? Or microbiology 'In Our Slime'?
https://www.braggoscope.com/directory

The Computer Lab barometer has dropped to 953 mBar. Must be approaching the lowest recorded in England. A little more and it'll be...

The Computer Lab barometer has dropped to 953 mBar. Must be approaching the lowest recorded in England. A little more and it'll be literally off the dial. #StormCiaran #Cambridge

Syd's bench at the Botanical Gardens is back. #PinkFloyd #Cambridge

Syd's bench at the Botanical Gardens is back. #PinkFloyd #Cambridge

#Twitter, #Musk, #Trump, #Latin'Vox populi, vox dei' tweets Musk. He should look up the quote's author Alcuin, a man who taught...

#Twitter, #Musk, #Trump, #Latin

'Vox populi, vox dei' tweets Musk. He should look up the quote's author Alcuin, a man who taught Charlemagne a thing or two about the dangers of autocracy.

"Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, Vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit."

"And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcuin

#MastodonTip Mastodon, being a collection of instances, self-organises into various subject streams. This means that you don't need to...

#MastodonTip Mastodon, being a collection of instances, self-organises into various subject streams. This means that you don't need to follow a whole load of accounts to get a subject feed, just browser-bookmark the public timeline of a relevant instance by appending /public to its address.

Interested in #Archaeology? Bookmark https://archaeo.social/public/local.

Bikes? Try https://toot.bike/public

As more people migrate from the general servers to their real 'home' this will get even easier.

The current eruption of the #Fediverse into the public consciousness reminded me that the original federated communication system was the...

The current eruption of the #Fediverse into the public consciousness reminded me that the original federated communication system was the telephone - a federation of local exchanges. So I went back and read the relevant chapter from the fantastic @JamesGleick book 'The Information', which contains this gem.

'Skyscraper time' was waiting for the development of the telephone. Network effects in the real world can sometimes be entirely unpredictable.

This is what they've done to #GavinTurk's Ariadne Wrapped at #Cambridge Station.

This is what they've done to #GavinTurk's Ariadne Wrapped at #Cambridge Station.

Ukraine, conflict descriptions.How Ukrainians are using pirated movies to bring war’s reality to Russian...

Ukraine, conflict descriptions.

How Ukrainians are using pirated movies to bring war’s reality to Russian viewers.
https://therecord.media/how-ukrainians-are-using-pirated-movies-to-bring-wars-reality-to-russian-viewers/

Mill Road Cemetery, #cambridge #TombTuesday

Mill Road Cemetery, #cambridge #TombTuesday

"...when the Aymara talk about the future they tend to make backwards gestures, whereas people who speak Spanish, for example, who view...

"...when the Aymara talk about the future they tend to make backwards gestures, whereas people who speak Spanish, for example, who view the future as being ahead of them, make forwards gestures. Similarly, like the Aymara, Mandarin speakers also imagine the future being behind them and the past ahead of them, calling the day before yesterday "front day" and the day after tomorrow "back day"".

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20221103-how-language-warps-the-way-you-perceive-time-and-space?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-en-GB

#Wordle gridI'm long past sharing Wordle results on a regular basis and 5 goes isn't much to shout about, but it was quite pleasing...

#Wordle grid

I'm long past sharing Wordle results on a regular basis and 5 goes isn't much to shout about, but it was quite pleasing this morning to end with a couple of words that are anagrams of each other but have opposite meanings.
Wordle 509 5/6

🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟨⬜🟨🟩
🟨🟨🟨⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟨🟨🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

#Amazon are using their advertising spend to persistently recommend that I buy this. I can only think that some sort of #ThePeripheral -...

#Amazon are using their advertising spend to persistently recommend that I buy this. I can only think that some sort of #ThePeripheral - style stub shenanigans are going on. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Robotics-External-Serial-Data-Modem/dp/B00437AWKE

If this had been recorded by #ABBA it'd be on the radio every day. #TheDooleyshttps://youtu.be/Fcd0YYB5TRI

If this had been recorded by #ABBA it'd be on the radio every day. #TheDooleys
https://youtu.be/Fcd0YYB5TRI

Looks like this may just buck the megafauna trend.

Looks like this may just buck the megafauna trend.

Yesterday I went shopping for some camouflage trousers, but I didn't see any that I liked.

Yesterday I went shopping for some camouflage trousers, but I didn't see any that I liked.