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Dave

@davemck.bsky.social

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Glaswegian nerdy type, former rocket surgeon, now doing controls & model based design. Massive fan of MATLAB, Simulink & test driven development (TDD). #MATLAB #Simulink #TDD

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Dave @davemck.bsky.social · Jun 23

For some reason, I bought a 3D printer a few weeks ago. Goodness knows I've not got the spare time for it, but it's been quite nice to muck about with.
I've slowly been printing some Warhammer like bits because one of the kids has some Warhammer friends, who really have Warhammer Dads.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 13h

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.

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Dave @davemck.bsky.social · 11h

Maybe a few 5s are skewing the tail.

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@jburnmurdoch.ft.com did a great article on the FT with something similar with age vs political intention. I think it was the more assets you had, the more conservative you voted. Young people just aren't accumulating assets in the same way.

I'd like to see the actual numbers with JL partners.

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Dave @davemck.bsky.social · 11h

Agree with your article. We need a story. Any cohesive message. Some hope.

Dave @davemck.bsky.social · 11h

MPs aren't listening. If they are listening, they're not replying. Not here, not on Facebook, not on twitter (at least my MP).
When she does, it's "SNP bad", which was the attack line that used to work 15 years ago up here but strangely doesn't any more.
Yeah, Comms are terrible.

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trashkitten.bsky.social @trashkitten.bsky.social · 11h

Leaked meeting of the ceo of antifa discussing the deployment of antifa super soldiers to Portland

MOOMIN CRIME

YouTube video by aluco-strix

youtu.be

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Dave @davemck.bsky.social · 12h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Variable off by one.

Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 13h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

The football is open.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Archives banned making copies.

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Dr Joanna McKenzie @jobob.bsky.social · 12h

Day 12, orca. #inktober2025

A black ink sketch of an orca leaping out of the ocean, trailing water.

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Dave @davemck.bsky.social · 12h

By all metrics that matter, you seem to be doing pretty decently.
You've got a cool dog and aren't a dick. What more can we ask of life.
I guess the other guy is on linked in at the weekend for a reason.

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Jen Larkin @petticoatdespot.bsky.social · 1d

Sex ed for young children focuses on teaching kids what touching is inappropriate and what to do about it, which *fights* child sex abuse. LGBTQ+ inclusion fights bullying.

These bigots call it "grooming" to teach kids to not bully and to report sexual abuse.

That's what's really sick.

Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 1d

One of the nastiest things from these nasty pieces of work has been the lie that kidlit creatives, teachers & librarians are somehow grooming kids.

Statistically, a parent, guardian, or other relative is more likely to be the perpetrator: www.nationalchildrensalliance.org/media-room/n...

National Statistics on Child Abuse - National Children's Alliance

A look at the scope of the problem of child abuse, including how it impacts kids, where and how it happens, and how CACs help.

www.nationalchildrensalliance.org

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 21h

Every day is a good day to point out that 92% of Reform's donations were found to come from figures and groups linked to the fossil fuel industry. @desmog.com

Nigel Farage’s Reform Party Has Accepted £2.3 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests, Climate Deniers, and Polluters Since 2019 Election

Reform UK has received more than £2.3 million from oil and gas interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers since December 2019, amounting to 92 percent of the party’s donations...

www.desmog.com

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Dave @davemck.bsky.social · 13h

If I had a nickel for every time that Lecornu resigned, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird it's happened twice right?

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🍔 Lomie @yelomie.bsky.social · 1d

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Dave @davemck.bsky.social · 13h

All I'm saying, is that regular golf and taxpayer funded sheds would protecting society from Batshit ideas.

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 1d

Think about how for decades, one of the ingredients of a crackpot was: retired engineer.

Retired engineers, for *generations* have been a fertile ground for crackpot theories in everything.

They get that golden watch and bam, incoherent manifesto about quantum archeology inbound.

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Rhonda Henry @rhonda234567.bsky.social · 1d

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 1d

the fact he sounds exactly like you'd expect a stuffed frog to sound is why this is the rightful winner

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

“I’m worried about my community… I’m out here in a frog costume to show how ridiculous the notion that we’re violent terrorists is, and showcase how that narrative is wrong…”

Serious Q: is it too late to give this dude the Nobel Peace Prize? 🐸 🏆

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Polygon @polygon.com · 16h

Game developers fear for the future of games with LGBTQ themes, which is leading some to pursue alternate (and way cooler) forms of distribution

As Steam cracks down on adult games, one dev urges taking back control

Game developers fear for the future of games with LGBTQ themes, which is leading some to pursue alternate (and way cooler) forms of distribution

www.polygon.com

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Runalong Womble @runalongwomble.bsky.social · 15h

Comment more than question

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 23h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 23h

"The chancellor approved it"

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Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 16h

"I'm not surprised the personal attacks have started. They've got loads of lines: about my teeth, about my history as an actor, about my name change... the right just don't actually have a line of attack against me that's political"

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trashkitten.bsky.social @trashkitten.bsky.social · 15h

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Chris Limb @catmachine.com · 21h

The kind of infographic I could stare at for ages - combined maps with space and information.

Infographic comparing the size of London and Manhattan with

MARATHON DISTANCE
WILD 2 (Comet)
4179 TOUTATIS (Potentially dangerous near-Earth asteroid)
PROVEN GLOBAL COAL RESERVES
NEUTRON STAR (1.4 Solar Masses)
PROVEN GLOBAL OIL RESERVES
ALL LIVING PLANT BIOMASS
HALLEY'S COMET
BLACK HOLE OF 1 SOLAR MASS
ALL LIVING BACTERIA
CHIXCULUB IMPACTOR (Caused the extinction of the dinosaurs)
3200 PHAETHON (Asteroid that approaches closer to the Sun than any known object
PHOBOS (Moon of Mars)
EROS (Potentially dangerous near-Earth asteroid)
DEIMOS (Moon of Mars)
VREDEFORT IMPACTOR (Created the largest known crater on Earth)
EJECTA FROM THE 1883 KRAKATOA ERUPTION
EJECTA FROM THE 1815 TAMBORA ERUPTION
EJECTA FROM THE YELLOWSTONE SUPERVOLCANIC ERUPTION 2.1 MILLION YEARS AGO

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 17h

This is it. I didn’t find it at all difficult to leave Twitter in the end: it stopped being fun and became boring and depressing. Whenever I opened it I’d see things that were obnoxious or upsetting. It was a relief not to do that.

Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 20h

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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Dave @davemck.bsky.social · 13h

The teenage mutant ninja turtles logo generator is down at the moment. You'll just have to imagine something witty.

Sarah Primate @langurlover.bsky.social · 1d

This makes me so happy! 🐢

Green turtle bounces back from brink in conservation 'win'

Once endangered due to hunting, it is making a strong recovery thanks to global conservation efforts.

www.bbc.com

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Darrell Z. Grizzle @dzgrizzle.bsky.social · 15h

“The Bookworm” painting by German artist Carl Spitzweg (1808-1885)

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Dave @davemck.bsky.social · 14h

Has anyone asked Moore to talk to/about Theil.
I'm sure he's got opinions about some of this wazzakery.