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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · 4h

My parents dropped a bottle of port on a parking lot literally decades ago and the pain has never fully healed. I wish you a swift recovery.

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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · 1d

It’s always a good day when my interests overlap! @contamclub.bsky.social would love this.

womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

Elin Thomas, UK textile artist who uses embroidery/crochet to create unique work resembling petri dishes and bacteria spores #womensart

Photo looking down on four petri dishes, neatly arranged, with what resembles bacteria and mould growing inside created with crochet and embroidery

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 8d

Nudibranchs as pictured by a Japanese illustrator named Kumataro Ito, artist for the USS Albatross’ Philippine Expedition, 1907–10. More of his stunning images here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/k...

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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · 12d

You could at least change the “tell the user to restart session” message you already have to something that uses utils::menu to ask the user if it’s okay to restart then do it for them. Wrap it in a “if(interactive())” and you can still use the same script in other places too.

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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · 12d

Maybe a .rs.restartR() to the top of the script if analysts are working in R Studio only? Everything else I can think of is potentially trickier to work with, though this is a bit slow to run and won’t solve any package installation issues.

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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · 12d

Maybe over the top for the problem you’re facing, but using something like the “knitr” package to run your script in a clean environment instead of trying to clean your current environment might be a good option?

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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · 17d

A beautiful morning for some gullible buoys.

A photo of a sunny dock where a small sailing boat is passing by a line of yellow buoys, each of which has exactly one gull perched on it, bar one empty one.

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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · 19d

The Focus Tree app does a better job of being pretty while you’re using (not using?) it, though the items you earn are less interesting. Hopefully with Bean Friend’s success, there will be some cool new ones in this space!

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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · 19d

Not cats, but a bean that knits socks: apps.apple.com/gb/app/focus...

‎Focus Friend, by Hank Green

‎If you interrupt your Bean by turning off the timer, they'll be really really sad. Complete your focus session, and this cute Bean will give you prizes to buy decorations to help furnish their room....

apps.apple.com

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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · 23d

I can’t make any statements about how replicable it is, but Portugal did pretty much that and it deserves to be better known! 🇵🇹
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnati...

Carnation Revolution - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · 28d

Pretty similar in the UK, actually!

www.gov.uk/government/s...

Bar chart showing 38% of British farmers are 65+, with another 30% 55-64 years old.

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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · Sep 6

A classic case of “the front is not supposed to fall off”: youtube.com/watch?v=3m5q...

Clarke and Dawe - The Front Fell Off

YouTube video by ClarkeAndDawe

m.youtube.com

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Dr Gary Fuller @drgaryfuller.bsky.social · Aug 20

"Fuel duty is 1/3 lower, in real terms than when Alistair Darling was at the Treasury.

Richest 1/5th of households..who drive more, own more vehicles & buy gas-guzzling SUVs...have benefited 2x as much as the poorest 1/5th."

-Larry Elliott for @theguardian.com

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A policy that benefited the richest and cost the UK £100bn: it's long past time to end the fuel duty freeze | Larry Elliott

Successive chancellors have steered clear of increasing taxes for motorists for 15 years, but this should be a no-brainer for cash-strapped Rachel Reeves, says Guardian columnist Larry Elliott

www.theguardian.com

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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · Aug 20

We had this back in 2021! I searched for *six months* for a shelter that would let me have one or two adult cats to live in an apartment and it was just not possible. We ended up adopting two street cats from Abu Dhabi and honestly, best decision ever.

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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · Aug 20

I have been thinking we’re creating a generation of BMX cyclists with that!

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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · Aug 19

I just cycled through deep Brittany for a holiday recently and it was a gorgeous place! We mostly stayed at chambre d’hotes (bed & breakfast?) sort of places, and quite a few were run by retired former city-dwellers who wanted to occasionally have some new people to talk to.

Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · Aug 13

It’s an under-appreciated downside of Brexit actually, the availability of European language teachers is way down!

Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · Jul 12

Yes I do! The “HRF 40 Heat Rejection Window Film” from Purlfrost. www.purlfrost.com/mirror-and-t...

Heat Rejection Window Film | Reduce Heat Gain | Purlfrost

Heat rejection film designed to cut down 80% of infra red light responsible for heat gain.

www.purlfrost.com

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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · Jul 12

Interesting! We didn’t have that problem, but maybe that’s the flip side of having one that was very fiddly to apply and seemed to love sticking to everything, including itself! We also used the trick of getting the window thoroughly wet first and squeegee-ing out the water.

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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · Jul 12

If you have large windows, solar window film can really help! It’s very easy to install if you don’t care how neat it looks, and fiddly but possible with patience if you do. It’s the only thing that made a real difference when we lived in an all south-facing windows flat!

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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · Jul 11

That looks like AC has higher power consumption than open windows until the car exceeds 80mph, which is above the national speed limit in the UK, and that’s only for one of the two cars tested.

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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · Jul 11

I will put up with people who want ACs in residential properties banned when they ban AC in cars too.

Open a window! Get a nice breeze going. What’s the problem?

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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · Jul 11

I think it’s literally just that air con is discussed in the summer, when global “warming” sounds bad because it’s already hot, and heating is discussed in winter and it sounds like it’d be nice to be cozy.

Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · Jul 7

I think it’s also to do with what Kate Fox calls “empiricism” in Watching The English, a “preference for the factual, concrete and common-sense. […] our matter-of-factness; our pragmatism; our cynical, no-nonsense groundedness; our gritty realism; our distaste for artifice and pretension”.

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でんか @k-hermit.com · Jul 3

Those beautiful blue, blueberry-like things are sensory organs that detect light, like eyes.

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