Dan Waterfield

You’re a commie, why are you even bothering with party politics?

reminded of that post that was like "subtle difference! Catholics think suffering is good and Protestants think pleasure is bad :)" and increasingly worried about our Protestant-coded times

‘I’ll always remember you, Fry. MEMORY DELETED’

Bangor uni marketing team's job done

Okay, I’ve heard all the criticisms. I agree now that my plan to create a Jonestown on Mars was foolish and dangerous. I will instead be building a much more achievable Jonestown on the Moon

nice project to have in the past few days while waiting for other things to run for my actual job

(richardson, fielding, smollett, radcliffe, edgeworth, and austen to be precise)

In what can only be the inevitable outcome of my interests, I have successfully trained a neural net to distinguish frances burney from her contemporaries

Absolutely!

I am around 12k miles away

Very long spoof news report, much too long to transcribe in ALT text, about a family on benefits. Includes lines such as that quoted in the tweet, and also “Bill hasn't done a single days work in the two years since he was blinded and partially paralysed in a car accident. He claims he's not fit for employment. But he still manages to get to his door mat once a week where he picks up a whopping £85 state benefits cheque for so-called ‘invalidity’. Unable to work, he sits at home on his arse all day, counting his cash.”

“Their house is crammed with tell tale signs of their cushy lifestyle. In the kitchen Mrs Dougan offered us a cup of "tea or coffee". Oh yes. The big spending Dougans have BOTH.”

Tabloid report on family on benefits from Viz comic, c. 1990s.

Woah! That Bluesky map is really accurate.

Completed Duolingo, found it useless. Memrise is much better, but you’ll need to supplement it with reading, listening, writing, and peaking practice

Landslides are NZ’s deadliest natural hazard. Why does it still tolerate the risk? As heavier rain raises landslide risk, gaps in data, law and funding leave New Zealand relying on response rather than prevention.

I built the NZ landslide fatality dataset, - most fatalities from landslides happen in ones and twos, every other month or year. When I began, there were ~400 fatalities in the dataset. I built it up to ~1800 events of which ~1600 were landslide fatalities.

theconversation.com/landslides-a...

It’s 2002, I’m learning Japanese and keep confusing left and right.
It’s 2006, I’m learning Latin and keep confusing left and right
It’s 2010, I’m learning french and keep confusing left and right.
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It’s 2026, I’m learning mandarin and keep confusing left and right

don’t threaten me with a good time

Today, Reform attempted to canvass my house. I was out, so they were met by my wife @ralucahippie.bsky.social. It is fair to say that they probably did not enjoy their meeting with 5ft of Romanian fury, exhausted from looking after a 2 month old, but with an almost perfect memory for Farage policies

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GitHub pages, docs.github.com/en/pages

seeing someones Xbox 360 Gamer Zone on their profile is ‘Recreation’

He looks as though he's been caught cooking and also as if he mistakenly believes cooking to be illegal

Yes, a bad habit!

I love to point the manicule of contempt at people. ☞ ☞ ☞

Someone pointed out that influencers use serotonin/dopamine/cortisol/oxytocin like they’re the four humors and now I can’t stop seeing it

"shocked pikachu"? not gonna be very effective. pikachus are resistant to electricity. lol.

az login,
Git add ., git commit -m “removing breaking changes”, git push.
Source venv/bin/activate