Scott Martin  

@hex

Short handle, long-winded // also , // Mastodon: @hex@kitty.town // my pronouns are he/him

Islington, London
Joined February 2007
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  1. 19 hours ago

    I'm 38, health and safety training. You don't need to tell me that

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  2. Jul 2

    A long, extremely depressing, and essential read.

    "By trying to improve our cities, we have only succeeded in making them empty simulacra of what was…” Important words from a New Yorker about the death of her city’s spirit - a death , too, will experience if we don’t insist on new solutions.
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  3. Jul 1

    I was never able to find one social feature on Google Reader, let alone the hordes of creative people described here, and using it was always profoundly isolating for me. So reading this description of a rich social network was a bewildering experience

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  4. Jul 1

    And who said 2018 was all bad news

    Screenshot of headline from The Guardian: "7,000 estate agents at risk of going to the wall, says study"
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  5. Jul 1

    Keeping this for future usage.

    Replying to @Peeetah @fakemikewillman and 3 others
    His takes are hot in the same way compost heaps generate heat.
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    Jul 1

    This, by , on where the rhetoric meets the reality of mental ill health is an essential read and contains the fury of many unspoken truths via

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  7. Jun 30

    The single best film adaptation of a computer game that I've ever seen.

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  8. Jun 30

    Current mood: the song that TMBG wrote while watching Aerosmith and Run DM's video for Walk This Way with the sound off

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  9. Retweeted
    Jun 28

    bring back this aesthetic you cowards

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    Jun 28

    Best Animals Ranked: 10. It's unfair 9. To rank 8. Animals 7. Because 6. All animals 5. Can be 4. Special 3. In their 2. Own ways 1. Cats

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  11. Jun 29

    Late dinner on our roof in Islington. Carried by the wind from Finsbury Park about a mile away, the sound of Liam Gallagher singing Wonderwall, assisted by several thousand people.

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  12. Jun 28

    Very sad indeed. RIP.

    Susan Ellison has asked me to announce the passing of writer Harlan Ellison, in his sleep, earlier today. “For a brief time I was here, and for a brief time, I mattered.”—HE, 1934-2018. Arrangements for a celebration of his life are pending.
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    Jun 25

    A report has revealed HMRC employ just 522 staff to tackle tens of billions of tax evasion by the super-rich but the DWP employ 4,045 to tackle benefit fraud. If you ever needed confirmation of this lousy governments priorities, this is it.

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    Jun 24

    oh ho, if you’re such a feminist, how come you hate these terrible assholes who suck

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    Jun 25
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    We don't recommend eating books! Far too much fiber, and the paper tends to get stuck in your teeth!

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  16. Jun 26

    Oh my god

    Remember that cute eSheep pet we could have running around in Windows while working? It was ported to 64-bits and is open-source
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    Jun 25

    He really does walk in to these things

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  18. Jun 25

    a reliance on URIs, or URLs in the older sense, is fragile and dependent on the continued presence of that resource at the specified location. The DOI Foundation has itself been unable to avoid that fragility for one of their own pages, validating its point in an unexpected way.

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  19. Jun 25

    Here's the page that I linked to back in 2008 - saved, of course, by the 's Wayback Machine.

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  20. Jun 25

    the weakness of URIs, or in the older sense URLs, in their reliance on the continued presence of the resource at the specified location. The DOI Foundation's own page has been unable to avoid that weakness, and ended up illustrating their point in an unexpected way.

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