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  I will accept FIFA's red card reversal if Donald Trump can coherantly explain the Offside Rule.

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  @MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social This is the very reason that the relatively few "self made" "successful" people are often boosted as the norm and an achievable status by the Elite. They want to obscure how THEY got there by using the occasional "I grew up poor" successful person as cover for how they had all the privilege and it would be more difficult to be a fuck up in their world than a "success".

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  Ooft the new Scottish Premiership season starts and Rangers are losing 1 nil at half time to Dundee United, I wonder if the bookies have started taking bets on who will replace Derek McInnes.

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  I see Reform UK, the supposedly insurgent party in UK politics has failed badly in another major election. Labour were within a few percentage points of winning the Manchester Mayorality election outright on 1st choice votes (50% required) but easily won when 2nd choice votes were counted.

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  Watching @georgetakei on an episode of the Six Million Dollar Man, Bill Shatner was on the previous episode talking to dolphins :-)

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  In 1987 Alexa was called William https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XontIgFUTXM #BBC #BBCArchive

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  No Mr Youtube Advert, your "NASA inspired" smaller than a toaster AC is not gonna cool a room in less that 90 seconds no matter how loudly and quickly you shout about it.

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  Well that's a strange one. The Morrisons Supermarket about half a mile from my parents house had been thru 2 rounds of planning permission over about 5 years and eventually got planning permission for a McDonald's taking up about a third of the existing car parking space. It's been over a year a not a brick has been laid. All of a sudden the petrol station is shut to be extended and a Greggs added to it

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  #TeamUSA could easily maintain integrity and "rest" Folarin Balogun for the next match. #FifaWorldCup2026

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  @frahtehderp@beige.party I saw a horsebox being towed and the last three letters of the plate was NAG.

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  @jmaris@eupolicy.social @kde@floss.social I have just put a new internal battery and Mint OS onto a little laptop I don't use often but will get a bit of light use. It was WIN 8 when purchased and I officially upgraded to WIN 10 but no official WIN 11.

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  @noisetank@oldbytes.space Ouch, I feel your pain. Minidisc was/is so underrated. For me it was a great stop gap tech between cassette to smartphone mp3. I bought 3 over about 5 years BITD. So much better than cassette, cheap blank discs, easy to dub/transfer music onto, gradual improvements with each new gen. I still have my three MInidisc Walkman and they all still worked when I check a year or so ago.

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  @HarriettMB@toot.wales @Tattooed_Mummy@beige.party I read yesterday that the way Trump has Hacked American politics is to ignore conventions and the honour system implicit in much of it. This has now allowed him to ignore actual real rules and laws as if they don't exist. Reform are treading this path enthusiastically.

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  Off to vote in the Scottish Parliament elections. For the uninitiated you can vote at age 16 and over, you get two votes. One vote is a first past the post constituency vote for a candidate and the second is for a Party (or independent candidate) from a regional list. Although not strictly PR, the system is designed give a more proportion outcome. You also don't have to be "Scottish" to vote, just normally resident in Scotland and forfil the criterion that allows you to...

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  On this Star Wars day I wish you all live long and prosper.

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  @MedeaVanamonde @TheBreadmonkey "mechanical production of an orgasm" sounds like a sexy evening class 12 week course at a local college. 😃

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  @Alice Looks like a fairly bog standard photo to me. British Joke, can be explained if required

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  @Pepijn That sounds vaguely familiar. Back in the mid 2010's my boss had a minor panic when one of the main Japanese manufacturers announced the cessation of blank 3.5" floppy disk production. The DOS based CNC software we used wrote directly to floppys. The solution was elegant. Physically remove the floppy and remap the A: drive to a C:\ folder. One tech then wrote a Delphi program to copy the CNC code across the network to the industrial machines that used the code.

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  @noisetank Mince Pies come in many a size, An extra visual reference is needed for preference.

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  @Olly42 And is better than the C64 You missed out the important bit 😂 😂 😂 #8BitWar

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  RE: https://mastodon.scot/@IndyRichard/116325451410757272 Share and enjoy.

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  Why do we still use the term anachronism?

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  Scottish Parliament Elections take place on the 7th May 2026. Each voter gets two votes. Vote 1 is the standard first past the post where you vote for a candidate in your constituency (district). 73 members are elected by this manner. Vote two is the Additional Member system. You vote for a Party or Independent candidate from a list. This is vote is an attempt to bring some Proportional Representation to the system but doesn't absolutely guarantee. 56 members are elected in this ma...

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  Maybe I am misunderstanding something but it seems to me that laws in various places which require age declarations for OS's are going to make all vintage machines with ROM based fixed OS's illegal in those locales. I cannot tell my ZX Spectrum my age so that it will only load age appropriate software when I use it.

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  A couple of lunatics* create an electric triangle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwtAzdtwnaA *of the best type.

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  @cstross@wandering.shop @jackwilliambell@rustedneuron.com Yeah could plug 10 modern 40" TVs into a UK power strip and it would easily cope and have a bit of power to spare.