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Oooh, the Dead Railway!

One of their buildings is still standing in central London (it's just an office block these days)

Any copies available via reference libraries you can access - even if it's just to get the page numbers from them?

I have worked out what the reference is, and am eye rolling at Ed on principle.

most of the people who are against puberty blockers or other forms of gender-affirming care for trans minors are not against these treatments for non-trans minors, suggesting it is not the risks but the idea of conformity to their comfortable norms that is at issue

Drawing of a duck looking at a flier for curling lessons

duck pulling a curling stone

A duck pushing a curling broom

That same duck on a podium winning first prize with a medal and crown

A few months ago I got the story of a duck who aspires to curling greatness stuck in my brain and simply couldn't get it out until I did this

Historian of medicine here. Yes. Yes, they did.

I'd heard there was quite an array of local signage there!

Older UK prohibition road sign for no vehicles (red circle with plain white inner) with information panel below "Play Street 8am to sunset except for access". Sign is on a street name post for Elbow Street, and at the side of of a road.

Got a photo of one of the things I meant to post to @showmeasign.online about - are these still actually a thing?

This one is in Levenshulme.

Well, that was certainly "a thing".

XhatGPT idiotic layout of 13amp plug wiring. Just random wires really.

CoPilot AI diagram of plug wiring. Two live wires, one forked off the earthm and a screw head is also labelled Live.

And finally, Gemini AI diagram of 13 amp plug wiring. Hard to know where to even begin with this. Just a mess really.

One of the easiest ways to shoot down the idea that "AI" is an expert is to show how it deals with something people know about.

Younger readers may not get this as most appliances come pre-wired, but anyone 35+ can see these are chaotic fire hazards.

From Mastodon, AI asked how to wire a plug:

Old but classic 🤣

A set of four cake pops that read HAPPY VALENTINES DAY; The first has H, VA, and D; The second has A LEN A; the third has PP TIN Y; the last has Y ES <3. A cartoon below shows a very sad hamster holding up the one that reads PP TINY

I have been laughing at this for a solid five minutes.

Tumblr post by stimmyabby Sometimes people use "respect" to mean "treating someone like a person" and sometimes they use "respect" to mean "treating someone like an authority" and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say "if you won't respect me I won't respect you" and they mean "if you won't treat me like an authority I won't treat you like a person" and they think they're being fair but they aren't, and it's not okay. 642,270 notes

I think about this post a lot

Thank you for sharing a body that I can look at and think "that's nice, maybe I could look like that".

a possibly nsfw pic of a hot trans girl

Reskeet if you love fat trans girls!!!

Conspiracy: they fully are, and all appearances are a body double (which is why he's "off script" so much, the performer looks like him but doesn't have speaking skills).

The bruising on the hands is itself the makeup, it covers a distinctive tattoo that the double has there!

It’s Penguin Awareness Day which seems like a great excuse to post the greatest ever Wikipedia edit.

It's a risk I won't be taking!

that "use gift card credit to pay for prime" box you have to untick is one of the bad things.

This is your reminder that Hungarian-Jewish scientist George de Hevesy dissolved two Nobel Prizes in aqua regia to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis.

He then left the dissolved solution on his shelf and fled to Sweden.

(After the war he un-dissolved the gold and the prizes were re-cast.)

I just had wonderings if I could float messages downstream to you from the brook near me in ping pong balls (in a terribly inefficient & environmentally problematic way).

Turns out: No, the brook feeds into the Ship Canal instead!

I know it's been a while since I worked behind a bar, but I reckon that might not be the best pour... ;)

"Glasses in rain" is such a hibernation drive.

@davep@infosec.exchange 7 Jul 2023 me: do you sell ducks? him: yes, but they're going quick me: ok I'll take one [later] duck: quick me: I see

Leaving it was hard; but it's gone.

I left my account existing but locked down and most content deleted to keep the username secure - but now I'm considering nuking even that.

There are only three plausible explanations for why politicians won't condemn X producing CSAM.

1. They agree with CSAM and are consumers of it.
2. They are taking coin from X to say any old shite to deflect from the fact X is producing CSAM.
3. Both 1 and 2.

It's not a "difficult" moral choice.

Are you back in? Do you have somewhere you can fall back to if this becomes an extended evacuation?

Potentially could be a bit of #uksnow around tonight and into tomorrow. Looks light at best but if it is snowing where you are post your report and it will get added to the map at uksnowmap.com