#LGBTQ #Manchester #England #1990s
'Queer Up North emerged when Manchester’s queer communities were finding new ways to make themselves visible and to create culture on their own terms.'
https://aboutmanchester.co.uk/queer-up-north-digital-archive-launches/
📈 “Stop lethal boat strikes. Fund arrests, not killings” hit 100 signers! https://resist.bot/petitions/POMGKK?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=POMGKK
Me (HS Marching band uniform mom): I’ll just go get a spare shako wrap out of the band closet.
Band closet: Try it, lady!
Me: 😂🤦♀️🤪
(Location of shako wraps, indicated by arrow)
overexplaining as a defense mechanism
1m agoMaybe it's time to get a tattoo
2m agoEvery Lego SaturnV or LEM should come with a Lego Margaret Hamilton
2m agoRE: https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/117401786422084237
Terrible loss..
#Inktober Day#07 Panic
Kernel panic... ♪badum tish ♪ 😁
Oftentimes when writing #rust code I find myself so twisted into a knot trying to get past the borrow checker that I think the best thing is to git reset --hard and try again with a simpler design.
Reading about dyn traits at https://quinedot.github.io/rust-learning/dyn-trait.html it seems that Rust has got itself into such a knot that the best thing for the language is a git reset and try again with a simpler design...
White Sox Minority Owner’s Firm Buys Another Property Near Proposed Ballpark In South Loop
https://blockclubchicago.org/2026/10/07/white-sox-minority-owners-firm-buys-another-property-near-proposed-ballpark-in-south-loop/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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I died a little bit today when I sent a message in group chat at work letting others know my two officemates were gone for the day, accompanied by a link to Eric Carmen singing All By Myself, and one of the people I work with said, "Who's the dude singing that Celine Dion song my mother loves?"
Oh no!
"Margaret Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT during NASA’s Apollo program, died on Sep. 30. She was 90.
A computing pioneer who authored over 130 publications, Hamilton helped to establish software engineering as a dedicated discipline."
We all remember her from these iconic pictures.
https://news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007
https://news.mit.edu/2016/scene-at-mit-margaret-hamilton-apollo-code-0817
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Why Californians Want a Billionaire Tax (but May Not Get One) https://robertreich.substack.com/p/why-californians-want-a-billionaire?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
New novel — 'Friends and Family' — offers raw and frank look at race and class
https://www.npr.org/2026/10/07/nx-s1-5860913/new-novel-friends-and-family-offers-raw-and-frank-look-at-race-and-class?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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4m agoOnly Nioh 3 manages it because it’s so likely the game will crash before the next checkpoint
mr smushie at wee book inn on whyte ave
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And like Peter Neumann, she pushed for reliability and correctness in a field where “eh it compiles, ship it” passes for engineering excellence far too often.
6m agoMargaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
https://news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007
The FCC proposes new mid-band spectrum auction and unlocking 800MHz for drones
https://www.engadget.com/2280708/the-fcc-proposes-new-mid-band-spectrum-auction-and-unlocking-800mhz-for-drones/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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On this day in 2011, a LockerGnome community member asked me whether to wait for Windows 8 before buying a laptop. My answer: if you need one now, don't wait. If you can hold out, save up for one with a touchscreen. A capacitive touchscreen Windows computer, I said, would be a dream come true.
