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Lindsay 👩‍🔬🚲
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PhD candidate. Bike nerd. Train enjoyer. Possibly BlueSky's leading expert on outrigger monorails. Nuclear power is pretty cool. Support my research: https://www.patreon.com/m/BroadwellElectrics - https://paypal.me/luusb

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For the record, measles typically hospitalizes about 25% of those it infects, and kills ~0.1-0.3%.

It's dangerous for that alone (by these numbers: ~40-480 dead kids), but measles has a nasty trick. It suppresses immune function for years afterwards so other infections can kill even more children.
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Health officials are racing to contain a growing measles outbreak in London, which has struck down dozens of young children and affected 7 schools and a nursery.

UKHSA has warned an outbreak across London could see 40,000 - 160,000 cases:
www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...
London measles outbreak: more than 60 children infected
Cases are spreading between children in Enfield as the virus exploits low MMR vaccination rates, medical experts say
www.thetimes.com
February 14, 2026 at 9:29 PM
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⚠️ NOTICE ⚠️ Important Update!

Hypernode BBS is finally returning!! We have secured a new private #Linux server this last weekend and are aiming for a soft relaunch of #HypernodeBBS this spring 2026! Keep an eye on this BlueSky account and our YouTube channel (@Hypernode_youtube) for new details.
February 10, 2026 at 4:26 PM
my supervisors: "lindsay have you done the writeup:

me: not yet

"why not"

went on a tangent about stirling engines

"lindsay"

sorry
February 14, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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It's Valentine's Day. That has nothing to do with this review. Let's blow shit up in the name of Super Earth with my review of Helldivers 2. To my friends and mods that played with me throughout my recording sessions, thank you so much for the laughs.

Link: youtu.be/kMI7zRNw-hI
February 14, 2026 at 4:59 PM
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By refusing to even consider a customs union, Keir Starmer himself is the biggest block to closer ties with Europe.

Unless he changes that stance, this is all just meaningless blather
February 14, 2026 at 10:45 AM
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Today Khalil's children borrowed Lulu here from one of their neighbours. He used to be a stray and now he comes to visit sometimes.

Remember that every Palestinian isn't just a bundle of needs and hunger, but a person with the capacity for fullness and love.

chuffed.org/project/khal...
February 14, 2026 at 10:44 AM
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It's genuinely so fucking demoralising watching liberals stand up and say with their full chest that you can do as much horrendous shit as possible as long as you say all the Serious Statesman incantations while you do it.
February 14, 2026 at 9:51 AM
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Europe desperately wants the US to be Normal Again so it doesn’t actually have to engage with any of the hard work (and spending) that engaging with reality actually involves.

So if Rubio gives a speech with ~better vibes~ it gets lapped up, even if it’s meaningless on substance.
Jesus Christ, a standing ovation? For an apologist for a regime which is buying warehouses to build concentration camps and murdering protesters on the street?
February 14, 2026 at 9:26 AM
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nobody posted the clip anywhere so i went and dug the whole episode up
February 13, 2026 at 5:22 AM
Amsterdam is great fun because sometimes you walk in on a heated argument between someone from China (Taiwan), someone from China (Mainland), someone from Japan, and two drunk Koreans, and then an even more drunk American barges in and assumes everyone present is from Thailand.
February 14, 2026 at 9:04 AM
the reason I still prefer longtail bikes to bakfietsen is because the former never develops steering death wobble from a loose steerer linkage
February 14, 2026 at 8:49 AM
had someone ask "why a tape drive"

well the fiber-channel controller was €20 and the cabling another €20 and the drive was €90 and a stack of 15 LTO-5 tapes of various sorts was €90, so I now have ~22TB of bulk storage for the grand total of €220, which is half the price of a ~22TB HDD
February 13, 2026 at 10:34 PM
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during COVID lockdown i got into cocktails and assembled a large bar cart full of booze. it was kind of expensive but then when bars opened back up i went out and ordered a negroni and it was $20 and i asked brOther what
"zoomers are killing the bar industry" oh interesting was it zoomers who decided a drink should cost seventeen dollars
February 13, 2026 at 10:25 PM
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I am always thinking about the y2k george foreman grill commercial that blew up and for whatever reason they tried to copyright remove it from the internet
February 9, 2026 at 6:35 PM
supposed to be doing PhD work today (hard part's done, just need to do the writeup) but instead I've been distracted by Stirling engine microgenerators
February 13, 2026 at 6:17 PM
simultaneously very glad I have a tape drive and also reminding myself that it the endless whirring is definitely going to invade my dreams.

anyway it works and it works well actually (including hardware encryption) so now to write an ethics proposal for the university about my data storage wheeee
February 13, 2026 at 3:07 PM
the more I think about Pluribus the more I think it could have and should have been a single-season show.
February 13, 2026 at 2:00 PM
actually scratch thay, Talking Heads is good for this because when David comes to the line "my god! what have I done?" that's when your tape drive will get stuck in a rewind loop
February 13, 2026 at 11:02 AM
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Unclear if the politician here is lying, or simply west wing brained so they think our Supreme Court is the same as the American one? Because the UK government can, in fact, simply change the law on which a judgement rests. It absolutely can do that.
Angeliki Stogia (Labour). Angeliki broadly performed well, but she felt very hemmed in by her government's record. When questioned about trans rights, for instance, she stated that the Labour Party would always stand against transphobia and that they couldn't just change the supreme court decision
February 13, 2026 at 9:53 AM
my main question about installing Ring cameras in your house is why the fuck would you install Ring cameras in your house
February 13, 2026 at 9:56 AM
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They've been garbage forever! This is from six years ago! www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
February 13, 2026 at 6:46 AM
having an LTO drive on your desk is like having a small angry data demon growling at you
February 13, 2026 at 1:19 AM
was expecting the hardware compression that LTO drives do to be kinda bullshit but it's actually decent. 700GB of SSD compressed down to about 500GB. not bad!
February 12, 2026 at 11:58 PM
lukhash continues to make the best music to put on while doing nerdy technology shit

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqRS...
LukHash - Keygen // (Chiptune / Chipmusic / 8-bit / Cracktro)
YouTube video by LukHash
www.youtube.com
February 12, 2026 at 10:13 PM
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💾 Configuring the new #HypernodeBBS is my happy place right now, its like interactive #TextMode art. I really love using #MysticBBS software its so simple. I stopped for a moment and really appreciated the #CP437 aesthetic I had to take a screen shot.

🔜 Hypernode BBS relaunch Spring 2026!
February 12, 2026 at 9:47 PM