Truculent Sheep @TruculentSheep@mastodon.social

Autumn is coming! 🎃🏴

I'd previously mumbled about how growing up in post-WW2 Germany is a bit weird because construction work keeps turning up unexploded bombs and everyone just kind of goes "oh, okay, another one of those"

there was one found in Nuremberg again yesterday but when searching for news reports about it I'm just finding other articles about one found in February (also in Nuremberg)

here's a screenshot of the "related articles" bit from one of them

The #Debian tartan is currently not sold anywhere and must be made to custom order. If you'd like a piece of the tartan, or even a full #kilt, there is now the possibility to register your interest by entering your name and contact info into this pad: https://pad.stratum0.org/p/debian_tartan
It gets a lot cheaper when more people join!

For more info about the tartan design in general, see https://wiki.debian.org/Tartan and https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails?ref=5936

just saw an absolute belter of a placard from the glasgow climate protests elsewhere

it reads: "i am the lorax, i speak for the trees, litter again and i'll break your fucking knees"

A reminder that Escape Velocity, one of the breakout hits of still-active Mac shareware game studio/publisher Ambrosia Software, was designed as an Elite clone based entirely on the manual and novella that came with Elite

the guy who made the game, a teenager at the time, had bought Elite but lost the copy protection device before he got around to ever playing the game, and so he decided to make his own version

I went home, I was tired and dejected. I didn't realise worse was to come.

I didn't stay in bed long, I wanted to see the voting patterns across Scotland, and specifically for my home area. What I discovered was much more ominous.

George Square (Freedom Sq.) in Glasgow had been commandeered as a location for Yes supporters to gather, in the final weeks of the campaign. They were always joyous gatherings. On September 19, 2014 the joy was shattered by Nazi saluting Unionists.

#Yes #OTD

Dr Hannah Fry has joined calls for a Hippocratic oath for tech & maths specialists.

"The issue has become urgent now that researchers are building systems that gather and sell personal data, exploit human frailties, and take on life-or-death decisions."

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/aug/16/mathematicians-need-doctor-style-hippocratic-oath-says-academic-hannah-fry

#loli should be illegal, y'all are inhuman.

The Incredible Sulk

#Brexit #BoJo

Cats are banned on Svalbard, so the one cat on the island is registered as a fox.

I'm starting to believe there is some truth in the theory that PM Johnson is saying increasingly bizarre things to crowd-out headlines that are critical of his premiership.

#BoJo #IncredibleHulk #media #Brexit

When 2,000 Brits were asked the best way to decide how we should respond to aliens contacting humans, the least popular option was to hold a referendum.