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Annoying for Lewis again, he was hooking up a nice lap there. Two purple sectors.

The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.

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UK Public Opinion toward Immigration: Overall Attitudes and Level of Concern - Migration Observatory This briefing provides an overview of attitudes toward immigration in Britain.

How old is the polling you're looking for - could it be the Migration Observatory one?

If anyone is friends with any Georgian air traffic controllers, buy them a nice bottle of wine. As guardians of pretty much the only narrow gap still available between Europe and Asia that avoids both Iran, the Gulf, Ukraine and Russia, they are under some substantial pressure.

Explains why he’s picking up all the postbags in his Cybertruck.

Team America - Cairo... that's in Egypt YouTube video by juntistik

Strong Team America vibes. ‘Cairo… that’s in Egypt…’

It should be on the citizenship test.

Rainbow Code - Wikipedia

I particularly enjoy that we named the research effort triggered by the navigation system ‘Headache’ and the countermeasures ’Aspirin’. Rainbow codes were adopted in the UK to avoid such revealing details.

Red Dwarf was the first comedy I ‘discovered’ on my own. It meant a lot to me and I’m delighted my kids have a soft spot for it too. RIP and my condolences to you, Rob.

Ironic that Joseph Lucas built his company on engineering excellence. Its later decline was as a result of marketplace collusion which antitrust laws would eventually make illegal - no need to innovate or QC when your customers have literally no other choice of supplier.

I think of this sketch every time I’m on a transpennine express train through Stalybridge - “it’s got… a stonybridge!”

Sacrilege.

This seems incredibly cynical, at the very least.

The NF learned that if it put a suit on it could make itself electable.

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I suspect letraset.

Good luck! You got this! I’m also not at all superstitious but I was brought up by someone who very definitely was so I still say good morning to the magpies 🤣

XKCD 327: [Mrs. Roberts receives a call from her son's school on her wireless phone. She is standing with a cup of hot coffee or tea (shown with a small line above the cup) facing a small round three-legged table to the right. The voice of the caller is indicated to come from the phone with a zigzag line.] Voice over the phone: Hi, This is your son's school. We're having some computer trouble. [In this frame-less panel Mrs. Roberts has put the cup down on the table turned facing out.] Mrs. Roberts: Oh, dear – did he break something? Voice over the phone: In a way – [Mrs. Roberts is now drinking from the cup again looking right. The table is not shown.] Voice over the phone: Did you really name your son Robert'); DROP TABLE Students;-- ? Mrs. Roberts: Oh, yes. Little Bobby Tables, we call him. [Mrs. Roberts holds the cup down.] Voice over the phone: Well, we've lost this year's student records. I hope you're happy. Mrs. Roberts: And I hope you've learned to sanitize your database inputs.

Do you also have a son called Little Bobby Tables?

When it descends into Chaucerism I can’t help but channel my inner Bill Bailey.

There’s nobody here but us chickens.

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

A bizarre way to behave. Make your mind up, guys.

Gone now :/

a group of men are walking down the street . Alt: Cast of The A Team walking down a street.

‘Rag-tag gang of socialists’ makes them sound like the cast of an 80s US tv series that ran for 200 episodes.

a man is standing in front of a door and talking about things he has seen in his nightmares . Alt: Robin Williams in Jumanji: “I’ve seen things you’ve only seen in your nightmares…”

This is very triggering for anyone who did web dev at the time.

John Nettles appointed director-general of the BBC.

What's going on with 2020/1/2? Mislabelled? Compensation for covid effects?

Dividend.

The collapse of curiosity driven research has occurred in STEM too. Everything has to be outcomes focused - cure disease, grow better crops, etc. But so much of what humanity has discovered is from "basic" curiosity-driven science. I'm hugely in favor of funding curiosity in every discipline.

Can also be used to improvise a one-way valve for a chest drain in an emergency.