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Police say they have recovered writings in a car used by suspect in shooting of Minnesota lawmakers Police have recovered writings that mentioned the names of multiple lawmakers and other officials in the fake police car they believe a suspect used in the shooting of two Democratic legislators in Mi...

apnews.com/article/minn...

14.06.2025 16:52 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Buyers show up in force for Treasury’s 10-year auction, shocking bond traders Bond-market participants got a major surprise Wednesday afternoon when the Treasury Department’s $39 billion auction of 10-year notes produced very strong demand, helping to alleviate concerns that bu...

Not to tell you that you're wrong on something that I know nothing about... but some people seem to think that the spike was caused by an bond(?) auction www.marketwatch.com/story/all-ey...

11.04.2025 19:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The blue whale: the world's most versatile measuring stick? Feedback is delighted to hear from a reader who proposes an ingenious new unit of data – but we have some quibbles with the maths

congratulations your skeet has made it to the back pages of a major science magazine: www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
(in case you didn't already know!)

11.04.2025 18:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I think that it did some automatic link shortening, I'll have to be careful of that in the future

24.01.2025 21:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

that's wierd - the text link goes to the correct page but the large one with the picture doesn't

24.01.2025 21:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

oh, that was a fail - I'll go and look to see if any others have been started in the mean time or try again I guess. Thanks for telling me

24.01.2025 20:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Web page: Black text on white background. There is a title "Episode 201" underneath is css code, every line starts with "!important"

Web page: Black text on white background. There is a title "Episode 201" underneath is css code, every line starts with "!important"

There seems to be something wrong with your website - there is a lot of css styling displayed as text:
wildarchaeology.com/language-sel...

09.12.2024 14:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

yeah, its so easy to do. I was confused for like 10 minutes before remembering that = doesn't make a copy of the array in python

02.12.2024 20:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
solutions 2024 Index of solutions 2024 by Tom Brandis

Day 2 was a little bit harder but I did it! #AdventOfCode tombrandis.uk/advent-of-co...

02.12.2024 20:30 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If you have a domain name you can set it as your tag/name btw

02.12.2024 20:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
How to not google it anymore - Tom Brandis post by Tom Brandis - How to not google it anymore

If anyone wants it in a bit more detail: tombrandis.uk/posts/How-to...

01.12.2024 22:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Marginalia Search search.marginalia.nu is a small independent do-it-yourself search engine for surprising but content-rich websites that never ask you to accept cookies or subscribe to newsletters. The goal is to bring...

or if your looking for something more specific:

indie:
search.marginalia.nu
www.alexandria.org
indieseek.xyz/links/search...

forums:
forumscout.app/search

academic/papers:
www.refseek.com
core.ac.uk

so I think the answer is that multiple are needed to replace google but I think it's worth it!

01.12.2024 18:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
Don't google it - Tom Brandis post by Tom Brandis - Don't google it

duckduckgo! tombrandis.uk/posts/Don't-...

01.12.2024 18:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

If the petition gets 10k signatures the goverment will respond and at 100k it would be debated in parliment.

This is my first time doing a petition so we'll see how it goes! If you have a more popular account than me (literally everyone) I would appreciate you sharing.

01.12.2024 16:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Thank you - Petitions Official online petitions in response to issues of the day, listing the number that got a Government response, and those that have been debated in the House of Parliament

Elon Musk wants to interfere in UK politics and give money to the far-right Reform party, using X to get round donation rules.

That sucks so I decided to do something about it. If you are a UK resident/British citizen please sign my petitition: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

#UK #democracy

01.12.2024 16:49 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
National Trust properties | Visit by Train, a station by station guide to UK attractions Visit National Trust houses, gardens, countryside and other attractions by train.

this website seems promising: visitbytrain.info/nt.htm

@nationaltrust.bsky.social themselves also have a relavent page: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/oxford... but I didn't find it to very well laid out

01.12.2024 15:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Just shipped: Bluesky Direct Messages! - Bluesky You can now send direct messages (DMs) to people on Bluesky! Say hi to a friend, colleague, or a crush.

you can restrict who can send you DM's: bsky.social/about/blog/0...

01.12.2024 14:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@dollarpbr.gay brand alert!

01.12.2024 13:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
solutions 2024 Index of solutions 2024 by Tom Brandis

I did the first day in python - you can see my solutions at tombrandis.uk/advent-of-co... if your interested. They are quite chaotic though be warned!

(it's just file download for now but I'll figure out a nice way to present them soonish)

01.12.2024 12:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Day 1 - Advent of Code 2024

Decided to try and do advent of code this year. Anyone else doing it? #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/1

01.12.2024 11:44 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

You say that the tax will effect small, local farms but surely small, local farms are worth less than Β£1.5 million so won't be effected (or is it affected I can never remember?)

26.11.2024 14:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
UK Petition Data Viewer

I don't know if this is bots but it looks like it could be.

This seems to be a good site to look at the data that we do have available to us: petitions.elexn.uk

24.11.2024 22:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Proposal to Break Up Google Is Finally Here The Antitrust Division proposed a comprehensive solution to Google's monopoly, including pushing Apple into search. Now comes a mini-trial where Judge Amit Mehta will decide what to do.

Google break up?! :)
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/the-propos...

23.11.2024 08:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

As the people on here with older accounts will undoubtedly tell you, bluesky is a protocol, not a platform. Customization is key - you can have your cake and eat it, mass mute/block all the right-wing people you want!

20.11.2024 22:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That's what's weird to me about this. All the companies that hate the archive are... big companies. And surely they wouldn't do this?? If it does turn out that one of the publishers was behind the attacks everyone is going to get very upset.

16.11.2024 08:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There probably just working really hard on restoring the functionality and too busy to approve comments. Let's hope that they are back to normal again soon.

16.11.2024 08:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I love it!

16.11.2024 08:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Caption+ by JS* | Professional Subtitles for Creators

If you don't find anyone else then I find the subtitles "technical difficulties" yt channel to be very good. The company they use is called caption plus: caption.plus

12.11.2024 15:24 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think it worth mentioning that, as of now, this is just a rumor based on some tweets. Not saying it's definitely not true though

09.11.2024 09:31 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Welcome!

05.11.2024 16:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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