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user0 on El Graun. Temporary custodian of the ThursdayQuiz https://thursdayquiz.org/quiz.html
I used to have something funny on here. But now I have to be boring.
Haven't done the age verification yet so you can't DM me.
I used to have something funny on here. But now I have to be boring.
Haven't done the age verification yet so you can't DM me.
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How delightfully quaint some of these old Devon village names are, their etymologies lost in the mists of time.
November 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
How delightfully quaint some of these old Devon village names are, their etymologies lost in the mists of time.
Martin's official Thursday Quiz appeared again at 6.30am
I forgot to close, but there's still a bit of time before comments close.
I forgot to close, but there's still a bit of time before comments close.
Thursday news quiz: hasty exits, horny bees and naked Nordics
Test yourself on topical news trivia, pop culture and general knowledge every Thursday. How will you fare?
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Martin's official Thursday Quiz appeared again at 6.30am
I forgot to close, but there's still a bit of time before comments close.
I forgot to close, but there's still a bit of time before comments close.
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Billionaires shouldn't be able to buy a bigger voice in politics. Add your name to @electoralreform.bsky.social's call to cap how much they can donate and get big money out of politics
action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/179420/...
action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/179420/...
Sign now to demand an end to big money in politics
It takes 30 seconds
action.electoral-reform.org.uk
November 11, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Billionaires shouldn't be able to buy a bigger voice in politics. Add your name to @electoralreform.bsky.social's call to cap how much they can donate and get big money out of politics
action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/179420/...
action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/179420/...
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A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
November 10, 2025 at 11:53 PM
A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
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Maybe Nigel Farage should refuse to appear on the BBC in protest.
November 10, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Maybe Nigel Farage should refuse to appear on the BBC in protest.
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Glad that someone has finally taken responsibility for the appalling assault on democracy that was the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?
Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?
November 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Glad that someone has finally taken responsibility for the appalling assault on democracy that was the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?
Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?
@clairecopperman.bsky.social @katarazzi.bsky.social I think I need your expert help:
One of our quizzers is a Claudia Winkleman lookalike who was out at a Traitor's screening on Thursday night!
thursdayquiz.org/quiz-2025-11...
One of our quizzers is a Claudia Winkleman lookalike who was out at a Traitor's screening on Thursday night!
thursdayquiz.org/quiz-2025-11...
November 8, 2025 at 5:56 PM
@clairecopperman.bsky.social @katarazzi.bsky.social I think I need your expert help:
One of our quizzers is a Claudia Winkleman lookalike who was out at a Traitor's screening on Thursday night!
thursdayquiz.org/quiz-2025-11...
One of our quizzers is a Claudia Winkleman lookalike who was out at a Traitor's screening on Thursday night!
thursdayquiz.org/quiz-2025-11...
I have ground out a Supplemental Quiz:
thursdayquiz.org/quiz-2025-11...
Lots of travel - long journeys by football clubs, traitorous railways, and myths about the underground. As well as handy things to do with mushrooms; weyward sisters; baby owls; Gnarls Barkely; and crabs. Lots of crabs.
thursdayquiz.org/quiz-2025-11...
Lots of travel - long journeys by football clubs, traitorous railways, and myths about the underground. As well as handy things to do with mushrooms; weyward sisters; baby owls; Gnarls Barkely; and crabs. Lots of crabs.
November 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I have ground out a Supplemental Quiz:
thursdayquiz.org/quiz-2025-11...
Lots of travel - long journeys by football clubs, traitorous railways, and myths about the underground. As well as handy things to do with mushrooms; weyward sisters; baby owls; Gnarls Barkely; and crabs. Lots of crabs.
thursdayquiz.org/quiz-2025-11...
Lots of travel - long journeys by football clubs, traitorous railways, and myths about the underground. As well as handy things to do with mushrooms; weyward sisters; baby owls; Gnarls Barkely; and crabs. Lots of crabs.
Javascript wish list: `String.prototype.indexOf()` has a stop position as well as a start position. *sigh*
(Although, knowing how V8 does `slice()` under the hood, it's probably a reasonable solution to search in a slice.)
(Although, knowing how V8 does `slice()` under the hood, it's probably a reasonable solution to search in a slice.)
November 7, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Javascript wish list: `String.prototype.indexOf()` has a stop position as well as a start position. *sigh*
(Although, knowing how V8 does `slice()` under the hood, it's probably a reasonable solution to search in a slice.)
(Although, knowing how V8 does `slice()` under the hood, it's probably a reasonable solution to search in a slice.)
Strong agree.
November 7, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Strong agree.
English pitfalls: cannon or canon?
November 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM
English pitfalls: cannon or canon?
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Early Thursday quiz today, published 15 minutes ago !
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Thursday news quiz: errant flamingos, bottled messages and space nonsense
Test yourself on topical news trivia, pop culture and general knowledge every Thursday. How will you fare?
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Early Thursday quiz today, published 15 minutes ago !
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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As context to freeing of an Algerian man, here's some info about HMP Wandsworth, where he was:
• Built for 900 prisoners. Holds 1,600.
• Daily roster of prison officers c.70. Up to 15 staff on long-term sick leave.
• 36% of officers have >3yrs service.
• 12% of prison staff leave *each year*.
• Built for 900 prisoners. Holds 1,600.
• Daily roster of prison officers c.70. Up to 15 staff on long-term sick leave.
• 36% of officers have >3yrs service.
• 12% of prison staff leave *each year*.
November 5, 2025 at 2:10 PM
As context to freeing of an Algerian man, here's some info about HMP Wandsworth, where he was:
• Built for 900 prisoners. Holds 1,600.
• Daily roster of prison officers c.70. Up to 15 staff on long-term sick leave.
• 36% of officers have >3yrs service.
• 12% of prison staff leave *each year*.
• Built for 900 prisoners. Holds 1,600.
• Daily roster of prison officers c.70. Up to 15 staff on long-term sick leave.
• 36% of officers have >3yrs service.
• 12% of prison staff leave *each year*.
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So I'm reviewing a PR from a colleague that was written for like 95% by AI, and while it might have made his job easier, it's making mine a lot harder because it's riddled with mistakes and issues that I have to now fix, and I feel like I have to thoroughly check every single line of code twice
November 4, 2025 at 10:42 AM
So I'm reviewing a PR from a colleague that was written for like 95% by AI, and while it might have made his job easier, it's making mine a lot harder because it's riddled with mistakes and issues that I have to now fix, and I feel like I have to thoroughly check every single line of code twice
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For November 5th, Russell Mael of Sparks clutching some fireworks to himself in a poster for 8/11/1975’s Fab 208 magazine. (On the mag’s cover, the dishy young Mr Mael was described as, shamelessly, “A Real Sparkler”.)
November 5, 2025 at 2:40 PM
For November 5th, Russell Mael of Sparks clutching some fireworks to himself in a poster for 8/11/1975’s Fab 208 magazine. (On the mag’s cover, the dishy young Mr Mael was described as, shamelessly, “A Real Sparkler”.)
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November 4, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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My nieces and nephews could not comprehend how I could draw, how I was drawing something right in front of them. This sucks.
I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.
November 4, 2025 at 4:16 PM
My nieces and nephews could not comprehend how I could draw, how I was drawing something right in front of them. This sucks.
Every C-derived object-orientated programming except, JAVA:
`new QueryProductDetailsParams(productList)`
But JAVA: `QueryProductDetailsParams.newBuilder().setProductList( productList ).build()`
🤦🤦🤦
(Okay, Javascript might do `QueryProductDetailsParams.from(productList)`, which I like.)
`new QueryProductDetailsParams(productList)`
But JAVA: `QueryProductDetailsParams.newBuilder().setProductList( productList ).build()`
🤦🤦🤦
(Okay, Javascript might do `QueryProductDetailsParams.from(productList)`, which I like.)
November 4, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Every C-derived object-orientated programming except, JAVA:
`new QueryProductDetailsParams(productList)`
But JAVA: `QueryProductDetailsParams.newBuilder().setProductList( productList ).build()`
🤦🤦🤦
(Okay, Javascript might do `QueryProductDetailsParams.from(productList)`, which I like.)
`new QueryProductDetailsParams(productList)`
But JAVA: `QueryProductDetailsParams.newBuilder().setProductList( productList ).build()`
🤦🤦🤦
(Okay, Javascript might do `QueryProductDetailsParams.from(productList)`, which I like.)
Aghhh! My perfectionism is strangling the supplemental quiz, like it strangles everything.
November 3, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Aghhh! My perfectionism is strangling the supplemental quiz, like it strangles everything.
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Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
November 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
phys.org/news/2025-10...
I haven't had chance to dive into the paper yet. But it's claimed Gödel's incompleteness theorems prevent the universe being a simulation. (AKA your simulation suffers from the halting problem.)
I haven't had chance to dive into the paper yet. But it's claimed Gödel's incompleteness theorems prevent the universe being a simulation. (AKA your simulation suffers from the halting problem.)
Mathematical proof debunks the idea that the universe is a computer simulation
It's a plot device beloved by science fiction: our entire universe might be a simulation running on some advanced civilization's supercomputer. But new research from UBC Okanagan has mathematically pr...
phys.org
November 3, 2025 at 9:30 AM
phys.org/news/2025-10...
I haven't had chance to dive into the paper yet. But it's claimed Gödel's incompleteness theorems prevent the universe being a simulation. (AKA your simulation suffers from the halting problem.)
I haven't had chance to dive into the paper yet. But it's claimed Gödel's incompleteness theorems prevent the universe being a simulation. (AKA your simulation suffers from the halting problem.)
Item 1 is ticked off. (Although it ended up in my spam folder on my mobile phone. Grrr.) So lets see how that goes.
Thursday Quiz, current roadmap:
1. Email notifications of new comments to me. (So I test.)
2. Email notification of comment replies opened up to everybody. (So test y'all.)
3. Email login/password reset.
4. Email notification of new posts.
Add push notifications for all except login.
1. Email notifications of new comments to me. (So I test.)
2. Email notification of comment replies opened up to everybody. (So test y'all.)
3. Email login/password reset.
4. Email notification of new posts.
Add push notifications for all except login.
November 1, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Item 1 is ticked off. (Although it ended up in my spam folder on my mobile phone. Grrr.) So lets see how that goes.
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I hope this little cutie will be able to do its job of eating and storing a kilo of dices by far, and give lots of love to its new dad @solidslr.bsky.social. There goes another son of mine leaving the nest!
#ttrpg #dnd #leathercraft #art #handmade
#ttrpg #dnd #leathercraft #art #handmade
August 30, 2024 at 10:59 PM
I hope this little cutie will be able to do its job of eating and storing a kilo of dices by far, and give lots of love to its new dad @solidslr.bsky.social. There goes another son of mine leaving the nest!
#ttrpg #dnd #leathercraft #art #handmade
#ttrpg #dnd #leathercraft #art #handmade
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Johanna Bram and Maren Gann dressed up as dominoes for Halloween in Danevang, Texas back in 1928. Almost 100 years ago. They look like they're having fun.
October 31, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Johanna Bram and Maren Gann dressed up as dominoes for Halloween in Danevang, Texas back in 1928. Almost 100 years ago. They look like they're having fun.
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Morgan McSweeney is exactly like Brexit:
A relentlessly escalating disaster ... but the one thing that can never be questioned or changed.
Great piece from Ian Dunt.
open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
A relentlessly escalating disaster ... but the one thing that can never be questioned or changed.
Great piece from Ian Dunt.
open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
A world without Keir Starmer
Is it time to change the Labour leader?
open.substack.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Morgan McSweeney is exactly like Brexit:
A relentlessly escalating disaster ... but the one thing that can never be questioned or changed.
Great piece from Ian Dunt.
open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
A relentlessly escalating disaster ... but the one thing that can never be questioned or changed.
Great piece from Ian Dunt.
open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...