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Katy sings her heart out @katysings.bsky.social · 1h

Two of my UK trains were delayed by more than 30 mins, one because a person unfortunately died on a train ahead of mine and it stopped all trains behind it, and the train company is reimbursing me 50% of each fare because that’s the fucking law here smdh

Katy sings her heart out @katysings.bsky.social · 1h

His three favorite musicians were Harry Chapin, Cat Stevens and Willie Nelson

Ź🖤🥀 @lalaspeaks.bsky.social · 21h

What’s ONE green flag about your father?

Katy sings her heart out @katysings.bsky.social · 2h

Went back to the curry mile for dinner. Craving hummus, we picked a random ‘middle eastern’ restaurant with a 4.8 rating online from the dozens lining both sides of the street. Turns out it’s Palestinian✨

Hummus, makloubeh, & farruj mussahab 🇵🇸

Katy sings her heart out @katysings.bsky.social · 3h

Correction, 2017. The memorial was installed in 2022

Katy sings her heart out @katysings.bsky.social · 5h

I think they’re all over the UK, this is in Manchester

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When you see Paddington just sitting there all alone you gotta take a pic

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soup

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Katy sings her heart out @katysings.bsky.social · 7h

@bobbby.online the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester is right up your alley. There’s a replica of the Manchester Baby, basically the first computer with RAM. Manchester also pioneered mass production of electrical wire, among other things. The retired IT guy, now docent, was a hoot🤓

Geoff Tootill
Lancashire-born Geoff Tootill was an electronics engineer and part of the team that built the
'Baby' computer.
As a child, Tootill built his own radio, using it to listen to music at night.
In the Second World War he helped develop electronic radar systems used to defend Britain from air raids.
This experience taught Tootill how to design and build complex electronic devices and get them working. Tootill used these skills to help develop Baby.
Image: The estate of Geoff Tootill
Quotation from An Oral History of British Science.
© British Library Board
We went on with this process of adding units and making the whole lot do something together at every stage until we got to a stage where we'd made a computer:

The Manchester Baby, also called the Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM),was the first electronic stored-program computer. It was built at the University of Manchester by Frederic C. Williams, Tom Kilburn, and Geoff Tootill, and ran its first program on 21 June 1948

The baby computer commands. They only subtracted and did not add or multiply

Katy sings her heart out @katysings.bsky.social · 7h

I’m on a two week hiatus 🤞

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Katy sings her heart out @katysings.bsky.social · 8h

In the shadow of the Manchester Cathedral there’s a memorial for victims of the bombing at Manchester Arena after the Ariana Grande concert in 2022. What’s cool is the tree in the middle has several birds nests and it’s so peaceful and quiet you can hear the baby birds chirping 🕊️