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🔖 FFS explains: UK Voter fraud and ID plans

Chris M.
| January 10th, 2020

🔖 Bookmarked: FFS explains: Voter fraud and ID plans by

“The UK government wants to bring in a requirement for voters to show identification at polling stations. But is voter fraud a big problem?”

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Chris M.
| January 10th, 2020

Managed to escape the festive period with only a 1.4 kilo gain. I’ll take it, given how "off the wagon" I fell! 😅

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Chris M.
| January 10th, 2020

🔖 Bookmarked: The secret of Games Workshop's success? A little strategy they call total global domination by Ian Sturrock

“How a bunch of wizards and goblins drove a 25-fold explosion in the share price.”

Ian Sturrock (The Conversation)
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Chris M.
| January 9th, 2020

💖 Liked: a post by Tantek Çelik

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Chris M.
| January 9th, 2020

🔖 Bookmarked: Old Musicians Never Die. They Just Become Holograms.

“Companies are making plans to put droves of departed idols on tour — reanimating a live-music industry whose biggest earners will soon be dying off.”

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Chris M.
| January 9th, 2020

💖 Liked: This Browser Extension Shows if Books on Amazon Are at Your Local Library

“Want to learn photography from some good ol’ physical books? Before clicking the Checkout button on Amazon or other online bookstores, you might want to”

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Chris M.
| January 9th, 2020

💖 Liked: Air Travel in the Age of Climate Crisis: Is It Wrong to Fly?

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Because of the climate crisis, Greta Thunberg doesn’t fly anymore. Neither does climate journalist Eric Holthaus (aside from thi”

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Chris M.
| January 9th, 2020

💬 Replied to: For the love of god, don’t buy an 8K TV

“Despite the hype and bluster, the science says your mortal eyes can barely tell the difference between 4K and the new thing every TV maker wants you to get.”

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I haven’t even jumped on the 4K bandwagon yet, as I haven’t seen any compelling reason to upgrade my 32” 1080p Sony…

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🔖 Twitter Will Add Options to Limit Replies

Chris M.
| January 9th, 2020

🔖 Bookmarked: Michael Tsai - Blog - Twitter Will Add Options to Limit Replies by Michael J. Tsai

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Chris M.
| January 8th, 2020

I regret to inform everyone in the #warmonger community that, despite the derpy appearance, the Citadel Spray Stick is actually really bloody good it what it’s supposed to do, and worth every penny. Believe me, I’m as shocked as you 🤯

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Chris M.
| January 8th, 2020

Reposting: a tweet

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Chris M.
| January 8th, 2020

💖 Liked: a post by Ton Zijlstra

“You can find my current list of feeds I follow on https://zylstra.org/opml/tonzylstra.opml, which I publish as my blogroll. It’s an OPML file that is also readable for human eyes, and can be directly imported into your feed reader. Latest version is from November, I’ll update it later today. Rep…”

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Chris M.
| January 8th, 2020

💖 Liked: Week 1, 2020 - Seven Days of Hobby

” Greetings all! Happy New Year and all that, and hopefully another kick to re-start me blogging a bit more. I’m going to start with some…”

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🔖 Laura Kalbag – What is Mastodon and why should I use it?

Chris M.
| January 8th, 2020

🔖 Bookmarked: What is Mastodon and why should I use it? by Laura Kalbag

“Now you know why I’m moving away from Twitter, you probably have a vague idea of what I’m looking for in a social network. Mastodon is unique for a few reasons: it is federated, ethical, and inclusive.”

Laura Kalbag (Laura Kalbag)
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Chris M.
| January 8th, 2020

💖 Liked: How Ms. Marvel became Marvel’s most important superhero by Alex Abad-Santos

“Ms. Marvel’s superpower is changing the way Marvel thought about its readers.”

Alex Abad-Santos (Vox)
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Chris M.
| January 8th, 2020

💖 Liked: Firefox 72 blocks fingerprinting scripts by default, rethinks notification pop-ups by Samuel Axon

“It also brings picture-in-picture video to Mac and Linux users.”

Samuel Axon (Ars Technica)
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Chris M.
| January 7th, 2020

I have new coffee to try tomorrow morning on my way to work, which I’m very excited by… and then I get to do it all again in the afternoon with *another* new blend specifically ground for the French press I was gifted at Christmas. ☕️ 😍

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Chris M.
| January 7th, 2020

🔖 Bookmarked: The Final Chart Topper of the Decade Perfectly Summarizes the Current State of Media

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The number one song on the UK singles chart for the last week of 2019 was Ellie Goulding’s River, despite it not being available”

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🔖 Scottish Gaelic Resources

Chris M.
| January 7th, 2020

🔖 Bookmarked: Scottish Gaelic Resources

“A set of links and resources for learning Scottish Gaelic.”

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Chris M.
| January 7th, 2020

I know there’s an easy joke about “[haven’t] been paid since last year/decade”… but by heck does it really feel like it’s been that long already, and there’s still weeks to go.

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Chris M.
| January 7th, 2020

💖 Liked: The last tracker was just removed from Basecamp.com

“Can you believe we used to willingly tell Google about every single visitor to basecamp.com by way of Google Analytics? Letting them collect every last byte of information possible through the spyi…”

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🔖 Guide To Using Reverse Image Search For Investigations

Chris M.
| January 7th, 2020

🔖 Bookmarked: Guide To Using Reverse Image Search For Investigations - bellingcat

“Reverse image search is one of the most well-known and easiest digital investigative techniques, with two-click functionality of choosing “Search Google for image” in many web browsers. This method has also seen widespread use in popular culture, perhaps most notably in the MTV show Catfish, which exposes people in online relationships who use stolen photographs…”

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Chris M.
| January 6th, 2020

🔖 Bookmarked: "Release the JJ cut": the Star Wars conspiracy that offers fans an impossible fantasy by Aja Romano

“Rumors about fake films can reveal a lot about the fans who believe them.”

Aja Romano (Vox)

Modern fandoms on the internet feel like they’re getting increasingly deranged and possessive.

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Chris M.
| January 6th, 2020

💖 Liked: David Lo Pun-ch Nazis on Twitter

““He used his platform to take a political snipe at Greta Thunberg then told everyone to shut up about politics.

This wasn’t a call for ‘no politics’ it was Gervais deciding what politics needed to be aired. https://t.co/DPsm5kuYJe””

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Chris M.
| January 6th, 2020

💖 Liked: Coming Off the Cultural Fence

“Seven years after moving back to my family croft in the Isle of Tiree, Scotland— and having silently watched the increasingly swift decimation of our indigenous culture — I can’t keep quiet any lon…”

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