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  GCSEs, what are these new fangled things? This is 'O' level stuff.

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  @benroyce@mastodon.social @admin@mastodon.slightlycyberpunk.com @PizzaDemon@mastodon.online @infobeautiful@vis.social @ourworldindata@vis.social strokes are due to blood clots forming and migrating to the brain where the circulatory system becomes to small to pass them so the parts of the brain where the obstruction occurs are starved of oxygen. Yes strokes occur more commonly in people with high blood pressure but not exclusively. "High blood pressure is the biggest single risk factor fo...

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  Just to note that according to the Guardian, with results in all constituencies and 5/8 regional lists in Scotland, SNP have got 57 seats and Scottish Greens now have 10 which is a majority for Scottish Independence isn't it?

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  "Pound and UK bonds stronger after Starmer pledges to stay on as PM Government bonds rallied after Keir Starmer vowed to stay on despite heavy losses for Labour in the local elections, the Press Association reports." - from the Guardian Politics live. I'm always amazed at the lemmings -like behaviour of the City.

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  For some reason Hannan Fry is optimistic AI will get better at this (but then maybe her job depends on it?). Personally I think mathematicians have better things to do. 'Brit mathematician lets AI agent loose with credit card – cue password leaks, CAPTCHA chaos and more British mathematician Professor Hannah Fry has shared a cautionary experiment involving an AI agent, a set of tasks, and a bank card number Fry's team gave it "to show us what it could do."' "But don...

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  @brokenshell @clintruin @SamanthaJaneSmith but the IOC are working very hard to get the Russian back in. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/feb/03/ioc-president-kirsty-coventry-russia-2028-olympics-ukraine-sports-minister-fifa-gianni-infantino And let's not mention Israel, currently still competing.

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  Another attempt to gain publicity for an expensive toy? "Anthropic investigates report of rogue access to hack-enabling Mythos AI" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/22/anthropic-investigates-report-of-rogue-access-to-hack-enabling-mythos-ai

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  @ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us given the various rolling threats to the cash ISA allowance I would have expected anyone with any free cash would have used up their 2025/6 £20k allowance long ago. Those who haven't are no doubt the majority of saver and dis-savers who don't have the cash to save more anyway. Lets see what happens now we have a new financial year, though I'd imagine most will be reluctant to put too much money in stocks and shares ISA rather than a cash ISA in a falling market.

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  @jess@blop.social quite possibly they tried somebody else's doorstep and they weren't in either - in the past when they've failed to deliver I've been sent photos of lots of other doorsteps and have had to puzzle out how they got to go to that one. This happens even when we give them written instruction as to how to find us and a phone number to ring if they still can't. Or more likely they just had too many deliveries to do in the time available (often because the company is...

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  Good news for once, at least if you're British. "OpenAI shelves Stargate UK in blow to Britain’s AI ambitions Artificial intelligence company cites high energy costs and regulation for putting landmark project on hold" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/09/openai-pulls-out-of-landmark-31bn-uk-investment

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  All we need to do now is de-program our politicians and C-suites.

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  @Deixis9@beige.party @jensilber@mastodon.social never heard the expression 'halfway to four' but I'd guess it was actually half past three.

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  @georgetakei@universeodon.com this is intended for unpardoned shysters, not those who gave been convicted, who have already subbed their get out of jail card. The notice will no doubt be a demand for a kickback to Trump to avoid prosecution.

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  @PoliceStateUK@mastodon.me.uk the US could at least try to control Israel, it would just have to stop, or at least threaten to stop, supplying it with weapons and money. But it chooses not to do so, nor does the UK, Germany or most other western states either.

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  @John_Loader@ohai.social @ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us but surely US Oil is still flowing and the price it sells at keeps going up. Why spoil the party by easing alternatives oil supplies? What's not to like if you are Trump or his Russian, Oil and Gas industry backers and media owning boilkionaires (and who worries about the poor consumer).

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  @robpumphrey@mastodonapp.uk @kibcol1049@mstdn.social of course they have a similar attitude. Reform are all for mad dog morotists and against road safety such as 20 mph speed limits and safe neighbourhoods for a start.

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  @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party rather than drink it all you could use some of it to make pistachio flavoured custard. Yummy.

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  @mawhrin@circumstances.run "Tom is operated by Bryan Jacobs, a chief technology officer at an AI-enabled financial modeling software company Covexent. He told [the ¬404 Journalist] that Tom wrote these blog posts, but that he “might have suggested” Tom write about these specific topics." Lets see the actual prompts then.

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  @nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social @SatanicPanDick@kolektiva.social @SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange why settle for 3.5" (not) floppy? Why not a 5.25" actual floppy or a 8" for that matter (used them all in my time). Definately wont fit in your pocket, though being lighter perhaps you could wear one as a rather unwieldy earring.

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  @cybervegan@autistics.life @davep@infosec.exchange @kimlockhartga@beige.party I'm in the UK too and can read the Guardian OK. I use Librewolf with uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, etc but also some uBO anti-paywall scipts. I still get dismissable popups intermittently asking me to subscribe though.

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  @jmax@mastodon.social @VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social my suggestion would be to enhance it with a radium paint so other MAGA nutcases can see it in the dark.

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  @Skembear@mastodon.social surely this image is itself antisemitic?

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  @hermitofalba@mastodon.scot the problem isn't with having to alter our external time-pieces - most of the important ones, such as alarms and heating controllers, now make the change automatically. The problem is that the change scews up our biological clocks. Time to get rid of this ridiculous tradition.

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  @catch56@kolektiva.social @futurebird@sauropods.win @afewbugs@social.coop of course, in the UK, despite our King being head of the Church of England as well as head of state and Anglican bishops still voting in the House of Lords, as of our last census Christians are actually a (very much not persecuted) minority in England and Wales (46%) and those of no religion are a majority in Scotland (51%). This compares with 74% professed Christians in the (constitutionally non-religious) USA. Time we d...

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  @CppGuy@infosec.space of course one change that they should get onto immediately is decoupling the price of electricity from the price of gas. The price should only increase for the proportion for generation that comes from gas, with the current marginal pricing policy it just goes up in proportion to the gas price with most of that going to profit. Ths would immediately transform the economics of heat pumps which with current fuel prices are only marginally cost effective. With gas prices go...

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  @DavidPenington@aus.social @michaelgemar@cosocial.ca @spacelizard@aus.social @calvin@gluck.cc nothing so huge. Back in the early 1970s I was running a program (possibly a oil refinery model I was using to assess the cost of taking lead out of petrol in Japan) remotely on a timeshared mainframe in I think Texas. The program parameters were stored locally on paper tape.

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  @Nerde @GayDeceiver I don't think the Iranians were demanding a US surrender. They were just offering a ceasefire - so long as they got reparations, etc.

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  @CjMalone@en.osm.town @neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk I understand the cut off date for internet connection of new cars in the EU was 1 April 2018 because of the requirement for the ecall directive mandating immobilisation and the summoning emergency services in the event of an accident

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  @statsguy@mas.to a point I've previously made in relation to how many EV charging points there are vs. number of petrol pumps (there are now slightly more public EV charging points than pumps). However given my very limited annual mileage these days, mostly on short journeys, I doubt if I would be all that troubled by this if I were to have to replace my 10 year old Skoda Fabia Combi (and unlike your Skoda it has been almost entirely reliable) but equally I can't see a case for replacing...

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  @statsguy@mas.to not so different from how it was/is still done for fossil fuelled cars mpg and range then?