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Danny Birchall @dannybirchall.bsky.social · 7h

lol I only just saw this, didn't even notice the date!

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Danny Birchall @dannybirchall.bsky.social · 7h

ah, shit, man. hope it's not too painful!

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Danny Birchall @dannybirchall.bsky.social · 8h

Slowly coming to the conclusion that open licensing of cultural material was a big mistake all round. If they're not sucking it off into the Plagiarism Machine, they're making propaganda for genocide with it.

Owen Boswarva @owenboswarva.bsky.social · 11h

The IDF are problematic for a number of reasons – mass murder, other war crimes – but I'm disappointed to see they are also poisoning the digital commons:

The Israel Defense Forces used a Scottish museum's 3D models in propaganda videos theferret.scot/idf-scottish...

#opendata #dataforevil

The Scottish Maritime Museum confirmed some of its models are available online through Creative Commons licensing, but stressed it has no control over how the data is used. Following our request for a comment the museum's 3D scans used by the IDF are no longer publicly available.

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Danny Birchall @dannybirchall.bsky.social · 17h

Muriel Spark could have been on Facebook

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Danny Birchall @dannybirchall.bsky.social · 19h

that would have been impressive, but no!

Danny Birchall @dannybirchall.bsky.social · 19h

last night I read a poem about fascism to a data scientist, a kickboxer and a man who once played the Master on Dr Who

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Danny Birchall @dannybirchall.bsky.social · 1d

I only saw them play once, it was in a car park.

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Danny Birchall @dannybirchall.bsky.social · 1d

the algorithm don't lie

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Danny Birchall @dannybirchall.bsky.social · 1d

both bands, in my book.

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Danny Birchall @dannybirchall.bsky.social · 1d

Sonic Youth are just the post-punk Pink Floyd

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 1d

But the great thing about Robert Jenrick is that wherever he goes, he increases the number of white faces by two.

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Dom White @domw.bsky.social · 1d

"We want people to be living in mixed communities, don't we?"

Robert Jenrick's home is in Eye, Herefordshire, where 165 out of 166 residents were white at the time of the last census.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 2d

It’s Nobel Peace prize day on Friday, just saying

BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 2d

Greta Thunberg has just been released and she is back on the warpath, exactly like our leaders should be.

Israel will never silence her or the billions who oppose them.

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Danny Birchall @dannybirchall.bsky.social · 2d

Made my own dammsugare, now I only have to go to Ikea if I want to fight with my wife.

A very wonky set of little green rolls with chocolate at either end

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Danny Birchall @dannybirchall.bsky.social · 2d

waging war on FAQs

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Danny Birchall @dannybirchall.bsky.social · 2d

gonna organise a paramilitary demo on old compton street to protest at the price of vermouth in Gerry's these days

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Danny Birchall @dannybirchall.bsky.social · 2d

Cheers, riders

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Danny Birchall @dannybirchall.bsky.social · 2d

I think I understand Wordpress nonces all too well

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Danny Birchall @dannybirchall.bsky.social · 2d

It's a Number-used-ONCE, very clear and normal

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Danny Birchall @dannybirchall.bsky.social · 2d

"Understanding Wordpress Nonces"

pressidium.com/blog/nonces-...

Understanding WordPress Nonces: Enhance Site Security Effectively

Nonces play an important roles in securing your WordPress website. Find out what they are and how they work in this article.

pressidium.com

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 2d

There's a guy in the place who's got a bittersweet face
And he goes by the name of Ebeneezer Howard
His friends call him 'Ezer and E is the main geezer
And E greens up the place like no other coward

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 2d

I was very tempted to put "Ebenezer Goode" on the Spotify playlist for the module

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 3d

Four weeks from today is the anniversary of her becoming leader, and the 1922 committee will start accepting no-confidence letters.

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Danny Birchall @dannybirchall.bsky.social · 3d

Failed the André Gide test

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve just added my voice to this consultation saying I don’t want a situation in which staff and fellow swimmers might scrutinise or judge my body, or anyone else’s, when I use the ponds. The current policy of trans inclusion works perfectly well. You can fill out the consultation linked below.

Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · 4d

Those tedious and mysteriously funded transphobes want to limit access to the Ponds so I’ve had a pleasant 10 mins filling this out on why seeing a variety of women is magic and judging by what people look like or can do is very slippery territory hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.isn

Future access to the Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds

Inviting feedback from pond users, the local community, and stakeholders on how the Kenwood Ladies’, and Highgate Men’s ponds should operate in the future.

hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is

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Danny Birchall @dannybirchall.bsky.social · 3d

also one v low-key trans positive storyline

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