Matthew Slowe

@alicemcalicepants even if migraine is gone, it's ok for the latent lethargy and brain fog to be a thing… be nice to you

Panel 1. Two scientists walking along. The first one says: I have opened a portal into an alternate universe that is an exact reflection of our own! Panel 2. The second scientist looks into a technical portal and says WOW Panel 3. A reflection of panel two. The reflected scientist's speech bubble still reads: WOW Panel 4. A reflection of panel one. The text is all back to front.

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon.

p.s. my new book of science cartoons 'Physics for Cats' is out now! Order from your local bookshop or online: www.tomgauld.com

An old reel to reel magnetic tape. It has a label, in Jay Lepreau's handwriting, proclaiming it to be "UNIX Original from Bell Labs v4 (see manual for fmt)"

While cleaning a storage room, our staff found this tape containing #UNIX v4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973

Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist: https://gunkies.org/wiki/UNIX_Fourth_Edition

We have arranged to deliver it to the Computer History Museum

#retrocomputing

And so we come full circle …

> General Availability of Microsoft 365 Local was confirmed, which brings Exchange Server, SharePoint Server, and Skype for Business Server to Azure Local.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/07/microsoft_announces_strengthening_of_sovereignty/

#digitalsovereignty […]

I am getting increasingly irritated by #Booking_dot_com weaselling their way into search tools and, by default, spinning up a second tab with "hotels in the place you're going".

It's underhand and they just need to stop.

Like this pre-enabled "Explore […]

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Four sheep in a trough in the middle of a field. Text reads "The Welsh bobsleigh team are in action today, let's wish them good luck"

Morning Twters, and happy #DefaidodonDay #DyddDefaidodon! It's a great excuse to share this absolute gem again!

Two young mathematicians just broke a 330-year-old geometry riddle. Jakob Steininger, 30, and Sergey Yurkevich, 29, friends since maths-Olympiad days, have discovered the first known shape that can’t pass through a copy of itself, overturning a belief dating back to Prince Rupert’s 17th-century […]

I am getting increasingly irritated by #Booking_dot_com weaselling their way into search tools and, by default, spinning up a second tab with "hotels in the place you're going".

It's underhand and they just need to stop.

Like this pre-enabled "Explore […]

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Screenshot of BBC news website

Each day I like to play the game "how many articles on the BBC News site mention the BBC in the heading"
Four in the first eight headlines this morning.

Shetland The dark side of one of the most beautiful places on earth. Uncovering secrets and lies from the past - detective drama starring Douglas Henshall, Ashley Jensen and Alison O'Donnell.

Yippe! New series of #Shetland on #bbc #iPlayer :blobhappy:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p01s711r/shetland

@leicestergazette @WiteWulf that's quite a land-grab… is there any sign of Leicester and Leicestershire being merged into a massive unitary?

two panel cartoon 1. Person holding up a red capped mushroom and the AI declares its safe 2. person in bed very ill with the AI saying "you're right, it's poisonous, would you lie to learn more abou poisonous mushrooms?"

Saw this on #LinkedIn

YouTube video by ProRail Aanrijding vrachtwagen met trein in Meteren

For those wondering why Dutch trains are so substantially built, this is why. Yesterday, a lorry got stuck on a level crossing, and the train (a VIRM) went right through it like it was made of butter.

Even so, it's fortunate that nobody died.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuvL...

@diazona yeah, I suspect there's some legacy involved, and I'm just writing about how it _feels_ to me.

#Python is quite nice for a lot of things (spake the Perl/Java programmer).

Please don't hate me but there are a few things about it that really wind me up.

1. Seemingly inconsistent functional or OO ways of doing things (like `list(thing)` rather than `.toList()` and `len(thing)` rather […]

Apparently this is "known" (from 3 days ago…) and being looked into…

https://www.reddit.com/r/openbsd/comments/1oevvin/did_someone_forgot_to_pay_for_openssh_domains/

Wondering if someone forgot to renew their domain at openssh.com as it appears to have recently changed hands and is offline…

#openssh #cybersquatting #security

A hi tech laboratory. Technicians work at computer work stations. A glass cylinder contains an unhappy bespectacled figure in a striped top and hat. A scientist explains to two colleagues: "The subject will be returned to his natural habitat. But now, thanks to our implanted tracking device, we can answer the question 'Where's Wally?' in microseconds rather than hours. "

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

a silhouette of a large ruined gothic abbey. It's surrounded by grass and the skies are mostly clear and blue

various gothic arches on a ruined abbey building with bright blue sky behind

a view of a beach in the distance through an old door in a ruined abbey building various people are seen in the grounds the abbey

#Whitby #Abbey

#EnglishHeritage

A clear plastic tray on an oak batten worktop. The tray is full of very colourful Komodo Dragon chilli fruit. Mostly bright red, some orange and some green. They are insanely hot.

I am become Death.

Great crop for the end of the year, about 100g of fruit.

At 1-2 million Scoville Heat Units, that's a LOT OF HOT.

#Chilli #KomodoDragon

Single medium sized network cabinet with glass door containing older network equipment. Behind the glass is a photo of Dolly Parton (Album art for Jolene Single).

I'm begging of you please don't take my LAN 🎶

I have a photographic memory. Unfortunately, it's a pin-hole camera and it's a cloudy day.

@Edent Badly (500 Internal Server Error)

New #britishrail #clock… I _think_ I like it!

https://www.railwaygazette.com/uk/national-rail-clock-design-with-circulating-split-double-arrow-launched/69786.article

a cluster of small fungal fruiting bodies at the base of a mature tree with general forest litter scattered around

More signs of autumn 🍂

ID photos of 70,000 users may have been leaked, Discord says The platform says hackers targeted a firm that helped to verify the ages of its users.

Absolutely *no one* saw this coming, right?

🤨😳😂

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8jmzd972leo

Hey, #accessibility friends in the UK!
New job just dropped.
Senior Accessibility Specialist at GDS.
https://www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi?jcode=1973202
Important role in a brilliant team - you should apply. Yes! You!

(I don't work there. Please don't ask me questions about […]

Another way to tell it's #autumn, the boy pheasants are all out strutting their stuff 😝

@Floppy :blobcatshocked:

All of the main thoroughfares that I used in #Copenhagen had separate cycle lanes and footpaths - that is there was a kerb between thr cycle lane and vehicular traffic. The busses stopped on the road and did not block the cycle lane. It looked great! […]

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