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#looters

We still have a plague. You can catch it more than once, and each time is worse than the last. Each time, you have a chance of horrid symptoms lasting months, years, or the rest of your lives.

Why are people I care about going to conferences, gatherings, indoor concerts, and so on? Planes??? Are you fucking kidding me?

Sigh. ​

In an attempt to bolster support from the Mail & Express crowd, the UK government's launched a consultation with the intent of permitting Imperial measurements as the primary or sole units for goods for sale.

If you'd like to weigh in, the consultation document and form are here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/choice-on-units-of-measurement-markings-and-sales

The form is an ODT (like docx, but from LibreOffice et al), and you need to either email it back to them, or post it.

It closes on Aug 26, so, no hurry. It'll be worth considering good answers, particularly as the questions are heavily weighted toward the goal of Imperial measurement, but answers are completely free-form, so you have full latitude to express your sentiments.

NEW WORK! And some of my best yet. Welcome to Grisedale -> https://www.iancylkowski.com/blog/2022/6/4/grisedale-lake-district-summer

Summer is here.

I license my work CC-by-NC-SA 4.0. If you’ve ever enjoyed them and/or reused them, consider supporting me, please -> https://www.iancylkowski.com/support-me 👍

#landscape #photography #photo #photographie #summer #lakedistrict #cumbria #uk #britain #england #nature #travel

Nouvelles #photos splendides de @IanCykowski qui
indifférent au jubilé de la reine, a exploré à nouveau les parties montagneuses du Lake District
https://www.iancylkowski.com/blog/2022/6/4/grisedale-lake-district-summer

encourager son travail
https://www.iancylkowski.com/support-me

Mont de Grange – 2432m
1132D+ / 13km / un sommet magique pour découvrir le Chablais et tous ses secrets !

https://hellyandthemountains.fr/2022/05/27/mont-de-grange-2432m/

I see people are doing #Introductions.

I teach university mathematics (modelling, combinatorics, game theory, history, programming) in the UK. I also research university-level educational practice. Recent papers including teaching programming, automated assessment & play and problem-solving: https://peterrowlett.net/publications

I'm one of the editors at @aperiodical.

I'm a Vice President of https://ima.org.uk/

I co-host a podcast Mathematical Objects with @stecks https://aperiodical.com/podcasts/mathematical-objects/

Out of spa—

Something I wrote last year but is eternally relevant.

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Today is the Israeli Holocaust Memorial Day, and I would like to talk about the Nazi book burning.

The first and largest book burning, the one pictured right here, is quite well known, but what's less well known is that 20000 out of the 25000 books burned that night came from Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute of Sex Research library.

Magnus Hirschfeld was a key promoter of LGBTQ rights.
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@powerofzero

Today's weather brought to you by that guy leaving his job at the Forth Bridge.

current status

J’avais envie de partager une photo des Côtes d’Armor, juste parce que je peux ! (Ici le chemin entre cap Fréhel et fort La Latte)

Dear open source users,

If the author of your favorite open source app has announced they stopped developing and supporting the app (because they're frustrated and possibly burned out), please don't suggest they do more free work so that you can continue using the app.
Instead, consider thanking them for their past work and let them know that you enjoyed their app.

Regards,
another open source developer

Rien à cacher, jusqu'au jour ou...

#ViePrivée

https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2022/05/14/est-ce-que-mon-cycle-menstruel-est-espionne-les-americaines-s-inquietent_6126053_3210.html