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So, Twitter appears to have killed third-party apps. That's it for me, I'm done. I might check in from time to time to read , but that's it. please migrate to Mastodon.
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Clearing up the kitchen at the end of Christmas Day to ’s Tinsel and Lights which is keeping me going after a long day.
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If you're thinking this isn't a good place to be anymore and you're looking to move, I've set up my own server in the other place. I intend to keep it small and limit it to people I know, either online or in real life - you can find a link in my bio, or DM me for more info.
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I've seen a lot of people asking "why does everyone think Twitter is doomed?"
As an SRE and sysadmin with 10+ years of industry experience, I wanted to write up a few scenarios that are real threats to the integrity of the bird site over the coming weeks.
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I have my own Mastodon instance up and running and now I think I've got the hang of things, I'm opening it up to people I know - the idea is to keep it small and cosy. If we know each other, and you're looking for a home in the Mastodon world, check it out
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This is a good thread. Well worth reading.
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That’s a lovely fantasy to have but let’s just investigate it for a second. (1) Twitter has a fairly unusual set of engineering needs in a bunch of areas - and a bunch of necessary institutional knowledge that is just walking out the door.
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I’m not abandoning this place just yet, but you can now find me on Mastodon at @dopiaza@masto.dopiaza.org
Everyone on social media should know about the Illusory Truth Effect
If you see something repeated enough times, it seems more true. Multiple studies show that it works on 85% of people. Worse, it still happens even if the information isn't plausible & even if you know better.
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This is a good summary from a Brit living in the US. Well worth reading if you’re at all confused by UK politics right now (and really, who isn’t?)
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For Americans confused about how British politics works, here’s a very quick overview: Britons don’t vote for a PM, we just vote for our local MPs. They belong to a political party. The party chooses who leads them.
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Everyone scoffs at PHP the language, but their documentation kicks everyone's ass because it's loaded with things that aren't obvious. Writers don't discover these things, folks doing the work do.
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Apple really should put their docs on GitHub and let people augment the@.
It is really tragic. twitter.com/chockenberry/s…
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These are the people choosing the next Prime Minister. “I’m of an age where I don’t really care about saving the planet that much”
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Meet the 'normal' Tory members who get to choose the next prime minister
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Are they trying to hide something? We plan to find out ⬇️ 👀
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This week we laid off most of the rest of our staff.
TL/DR: It's down to Brexit. Not Covid. Not the war in Ukraine. We've got the figures. We know our business. Brexit did this. 1/18
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Thread: For our family business, there's no doubt #Brexit will have an impact - the question is how bad it will be. Meanwhile, the chaos surrounding Brexit leaves us in limbo, unable to continue the expansion which has helped us create jobs and aid other firms. @fascinatorfun
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I no longer think of as a novelist. She's a future diarist narrating current events and passing them back down a few decades.
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The removal of the Johnson “Chief of Staff” story – a media lawyer’s perspective – The Law and Policy Blog
If only he’d adopted the same attitude to parties that he took towards COBRA meetings…
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I’m tired of reading endlessly depressing news. I’ve decided to binge watch Black Mirror to cheer myself up.
Until today I had no idea who provided the voice of in Ukraine. Speaking for myself, thank you, President Zelenskiy. #PaddingtonBear
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May 22nd, 1968
John Lennon; “I think all of our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.”
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If you support the idea of an 'extended cut' of #TheBeatlesGetBack then please re-tweet to show and #applecorps that there is demand from the fans!
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Today is Holocaust Memorial Day.
In 1938, Sir Nicholas Winton brought Jewish children from German-occupied Czechoslovakia to safety in the UK.
Fifty years later, That’s Life reunited him with some of those children.
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Remember the time everybody lost their shit when Diane Abbot dared to crack her tiny can of M&S Mojito open on a train journey home..? I miss those days when everyone cared about totally irrelevant bollocks. #BorisJohnsonMustGo #DowningStreetParty
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Tory MPs, enraged and on the verge of tears in Parliament, know Afghanistan is a world defining moment
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Here's something I would sincerely like to know from anybody who thinks today that Brexit was a good idea:
What did my UK soundman and UK mandolin player gain from Brexit? I want somebody to tell me, because I keep hearing about "Global Britain" and "all the new opportunities"!!
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Y'all notice how bare those walls are? No art, no pictures, nothing. No sign of any music equipment either, very few books. It's truly one of the bleakest looking rooms I've ever seen. I'd probably come up with a bunch of angry paranoia too if I spent much time in such a room!
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Personally, I think we should spend £16.5 billion on the NHS and clap for the military.
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I can't say I'm especially a fan of Piers Morgan, but it's very hard to fault him here.
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100 seconds that illustrate perfectly just how shambolic Boris Johnson and his government have been this year
Please RT if you think everyone should be clear
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So is Betsy DeVos is going to be carried off by centaurs now or what
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