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So far the main difference between my 20s and my 30s is all the fascism. No-one tells you how much fascism there will be in your 30s.
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Man steals three academic textbooks bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-49741769
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S10E15, 'The Bad Art Friend': George donates a kidney but is frustrated when no-one acknowledges it. Elaine finds unexpected writing success with a story about a short bald man donating a kidney.
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*Slowly pushes over a bin while making unbroken eye contact with The Queen* #CleanForTheQueen
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If you're an undergraduate or postgraduate student at a university in the UK, please don't forget to use UCU's form to email your VC urging them to tell @UCEA1 to settle with @ucu so that we don't have to strike. ucu.org.uk/email-your-VC
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Adobe operates an extortionate subscription model where you don't own the software you pay for. Today's open sauce post is a select of open source alternatives to software like Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Premiere Pro. opensauce.simonxix.com/open-source-adobe-alternatives/
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The @Copim_community Experimental Publishing Group and the @CovUni_CPC Post-Publishing strand are running a seminar series about experimental scholarly book publishing. Our first seminar will be Thursday 21st November discussing Manifold. More info at compendium.copim.ac.uk/practice_seminars
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Hobbits didn't have October: Tolkien "translated" all calendar terms into their English-language equivalents. This actually occurred on the 4th day of Blotmath in Shire-reckoning. @TeawithTolkien/1849259853631434809
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The second episode of @TAKEONECinema's new podcast series, The Dinopod, will be dropping on 23rd October 2024. In this episode, @JimGR and I critique THE LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK and the film's approach to ecological questions.
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What these robots do in footage that wasn't pre-prepared and pre-edited is walk forward slowly in a straight line so I'm sceptical that they will do whatever I can think of. @PopBase/1844594933518434642
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Deeply embarrassing that so many of you are openly revealing that you use BBC Weather who get their weather data from MeteoGroup rather than the more reliable Met Office.
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parkrun isn't a race, it's a run. That's why it's not called parkrace. When I get my results every week, I look at my time and compare it against previous times. There's no reason for me to look at any of the other data. @TessWhite4NE/1843224675918516266
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Sure, the technology is contributing to environmental impacts that will destroy the ecosystem but it'll also help us automate people out of jobs so who is to say if it's good or bad? @BLopenresearch/1843218206150058057
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New post in my newsletter reflecting on a recent server migration and how I'm managing the deployment of my open source web services and applications. opensauce.simonxix.com/on-server-migration/
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Now that reviews for JOKER: FOLIE À DEUX are coming out, it's worth remembering that JOKER was always garbage. @SimonXIX/1188114373744746496
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If you missed our showcase on Open Book Futures project work, you can now see a recording of me discussing some of our Experimental Publishing Group pilot work. @Copim_community/1841055376457748484
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I knew I wouldn't like it and I went to see it anyway. MEGALOPOLIS irritated and bored me in roughly equal measures. letterboxd.com/simonxix/film/megalopolis-2024/
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If you're going to see JURASSIC PARK at a Cineworld today, you might want to make sure you're got the first episode of @TAKEONECinema's The Dinopod downloaded to listen to afterwards. @SimonXIX/1838861212127293846
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Now do the superior The Lord of the Rings Theatrical Versions. @aboynamedposh/1839115047060021270
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