John Doyle

Big love for Morsenet mention in the wild.

Whisky diplomacy

Bizarre mix-up at draw as winner of World Cup accidentally revealed seven months in advance

No problem at all. The recent reform in Scotland allows the type of research I'm asking about so there will be something soon to consider, albeit in a different procedural context.

Not at all! I'm coming from another jurisdiction and I value your contribution as it's more than simply juries good/plans bad. There was a debate in Scotland along similar lines and I'm very interested in how criminal processes and decision making works.

Fair enough, I think that's a little harsh though. Saying juries are a safeguard because they don't simply follow what prosecutors or judges say is a bit of a bold claim. I think if that were true, you'd want all criminal justice processes to be jury-led (so no judge trials) but that's not your arg?

"Juries break this chain of process, making it impossible for judges to simply nod along with what the police and prosecutors say"

I'm interested in this. How do we know juries don't do that? There will be research on jury decision making in Scotland soon but isn't this hard to evidence?

Royal Mail have written a GDPR policy for their letter to Santa scheme that is a) pitched at children explaining how their data is used and b) fully committed to the existence of Father Christmas and it’s just… really cute

Little Gertje

The ISS flying over Brussels last night #ISS #spacestation #nasa #esa #spacetravel #space #spaceflight @esa.int @nasaspaceflight.com

A fine morning to be in Edinburgh

Yaldi isn’t enough. Super Yaldi Go Ballistic, perhaps.

Yaldi

Absolutely deid

This was our host in Nikko, Japan. Little Marie-Chan.

It's very hard to explain what supporting Scotland does to your psychology

Another fine evening in Brussels

Time for another podcast with @hakhverdian.bsky.social ?

Launch of Soyuz TM31 on 31 October 2000.

Crew of ISS Expedition 1: Exp.1 Commander Bill Shepherd (centre), Soyuz Commander Yuri Gidzenko (right) and Flight Engineer Sergei Krikalev (left)

#OTD 2️⃣5️⃣ years ago: 31 October 2000, launch of Expedition 1 and the first permanent crew to the International Space Station 🚀

Anyone born after this date has never known a day without a human presence in space... 🎂

There was lots of discussion before the last election about the left, in broad sense, being too split to take on the right, so they merged and it didn't work either time essentially.

can albanian speakers please tell me more about this verb that apparently means “to die” but only for humans and bees???

Little Gertje

A BBC news cover that says scientists reveal the secret. A photo of a fat little puffy dog is shown.

I fucking knew it.

One wonderful legal fact is that the provision effectively giving licence to agent to commit crimes abroad is...

...section 007 of the Intelligence Services Act 1994.

www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1994/1...

I don't think enough people talk about how great BBC Bitesize is. Secondary school textbooks are now vanishingly rare and Bitesize content is (a) not in a terrible app, (b) engaging and interesting and easy to understand, and importantly (c) FREE. A properly great digital public good.

Nikko

a map of netherlands with flags and a cartoon character ALT: a map of netherlands with flags and a cartoon character

HEADS-UP! 🚨

On Wednesday October 29, the Netherlands will holds its 9th (!) legislative elections of the 21st century. I will continue to post disproportionately about my country of birth and citizenship (but not of residence) in the coming weeks.

This will be my thread for Dutch news! 🧵

Big fan of amulet 29.

I've started some image processing and am delighted to note I captured a wee meteorite.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD ***************** Investigation of: LOSS OF THE SUBMARINE TITAN IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN ON JUNE 18, 2023 * * * * * * Accident No.: *********** * * * * * * Interview of: Co-designer/Pilot Deepsea Challenger DCA23FM036 via Microsoft Teams Friday, July 26, 2024

INTERVIEW OF 10 BY LCDR 11 Q. So how did you get yourself started into submersible 12 operations? 13 A. Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic. When I 14 set down the path to make that film, the first thing that I did 15 was arrange to be introduced to the head of the submersible 16 program at the P.P. Shirshov Institute in Moscow, a guy named 17| Professor I. I did that through a mutual friend 18 of ours, a guy named , who is one of the preeminent underwater cinematographers in the world. And had been on a 20 submersible expedition out to Titanic the previous year with the 21 Russians. And that was organized by a Canadian company that was 22 doing an IMAX film which was released under the title Titanica.

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."