Deccers
@deccers.bsky.social
Transplants Save Lives, I’m 25NO. Better here than the alternative
Cyclist, manager of the GB Transplant Cycling team, IC member, Schnauzer lover. Wanting more time for SPI & Avalon Hill. Learning history helps avoid the mistakes of yesteryear.
Cyclist, manager of the GB Transplant Cycling team, IC member, Schnauzer lover. Wanting more time for SPI & Avalon Hill. Learning history helps avoid the mistakes of yesteryear.
Impressive
Taking a ride on a tiger...
Today in 1944, outside Rauray in Normandy, British tank crewmen of A Squadron, Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry, take a ride on a captured German Tiger. #OTD #SWW #WW2
Film: Peter Handford AFPU, IWM A70 59-6 www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
Today in 1944, outside Rauray in Normandy, British tank crewmen of A Squadron, Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry, take a ride on a captured German Tiger. #OTD #SWW #WW2
Film: Peter Handford AFPU, IWM A70 59-6 www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
July 2, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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First, encrypt your plaintext using one of 158,962,555,217,826,360,000 possible settings.
Then send the plaintext straight to a journalist.
Then send the plaintext straight to a journalist.
March 25, 2025 at 9:46 AM
First, encrypt your plaintext using one of 158,962,555,217,826,360,000 possible settings.
Then send the plaintext straight to a journalist.
Then send the plaintext straight to a journalist.
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"The program is called ‘safe place for science and will provide 15 million Euros in funding for some 15 researchers over a 3-year period,”
French University to Fund American Scientists Who Fear Trump Censorship
The program, called ‘safe place for science,’ offers American scientists funding to continue their research in France.
www.404media.co
March 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
"The program is called ‘safe place for science and will provide 15 million Euros in funding for some 15 researchers over a 3-year period,”
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Stealer, not stealing, natch.
March 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Stealer, not stealing, natch.
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My old windsurfing haunt of Geraldton hit 49.3°C yesterday, equaling its all time record set only in Feb last year, and smashing its January record set in 1954 by 1.6°C. Australia has warmed by 1.51°C over the past century.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...
January 21, 2025 at 7:28 AM
My old windsurfing haunt of Geraldton hit 49.3°C yesterday, equaling its all time record set only in Feb last year, and smashing its January record set in 1954 by 1.6°C. Australia has warmed by 1.51°C over the past century.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...
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#GoodMorning you wonderful people. Let’s do this. Have a great #Weekend. Don’t believe the hype and ask those difficult questions. DMs open if you need to talk. Big Love Pegg ❤️❤️❤️.
January 18, 2025 at 8:19 AM
#GoodMorning you wonderful people. Let’s do this. Have a great #Weekend. Don’t believe the hype and ask those difficult questions. DMs open if you need to talk. Big Love Pegg ❤️❤️❤️.
#boardwargames Been a week since I broke out to solo play this beauty, copy of the first game I ever played, December’78. Been out of playing since ‘83, bought an eBay copy ($21 plus shipping & tax to get to UK) last summer, 40 odd years since the last time I set a game up.
Thinking Sunday sorted
Thinking Sunday sorted
January 14, 2025 at 9:46 AM
#boardwargames Been a week since I broke out to solo play this beauty, copy of the first game I ever played, December’78. Been out of playing since ‘83, bought an eBay copy ($21 plus shipping & tax to get to UK) last summer, 40 odd years since the last time I set a game up.
Thinking Sunday sorted
Thinking Sunday sorted
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First image: 48 years ago, Carter's Secret Service detail on the alert, when Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter got out of the armored car and walked through sub-freezing temperatures down Pa Ave on inauguration day, Jan 20 1977.
Second: Veterans of his Secret Service detail, Jan 4 2025. (Images via Getty.)
Second: Veterans of his Secret Service detail, Jan 4 2025. (Images via Getty.)
January 4, 2025 at 9:58 PM
First image: 48 years ago, Carter's Secret Service detail on the alert, when Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter got out of the armored car and walked through sub-freezing temperatures down Pa Ave on inauguration day, Jan 20 1977.
Second: Veterans of his Secret Service detail, Jan 4 2025. (Images via Getty.)
Second: Veterans of his Secret Service detail, Jan 4 2025. (Images via Getty.)
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New Year's Day 1945 - Operation Bodenplatte. Originally conceived as a component of the Ardennes offensive, a futile and phyric attempt to eliminate Allied tactical Air Forces on the ground. Squandering pilots, fuel, and fighters - The final death throes of the Luftwaffe.
January 1, 2025 at 9:57 AM
New Year's Day 1945 - Operation Bodenplatte. Originally conceived as a component of the Ardennes offensive, a futile and phyric attempt to eliminate Allied tactical Air Forces on the ground. Squandering pilots, fuel, and fighters - The final death throes of the Luftwaffe.
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Christmas doesn't actually end until the 6th of January, or the Sunday after if you're going by Ordinary Time, or Candlemas if you're going by Ye Olde Calendar, so it's technically illegal to take your tree down or eat anything other than sweets for breakfast until early February
January 1, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Christmas doesn't actually end until the 6th of January, or the Sunday after if you're going by Ordinary Time, or Candlemas if you're going by Ye Olde Calendar, so it's technically illegal to take your tree down or eat anything other than sweets for breakfast until early February
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“Early Medieval Ireland, AD 400-1100. The Evidence from Archaeological Excavations” (2021 version has an updated bibliographical essay). eBook is €9.99 shop.ria.ie/products/ear...
Early Medieval Ireland, AD 400-1100
How did people create and live in their own worlds in early medieval Ireland? What did they actually do? And to what end did they do it? This book investigates and reconstructs from archaeological evi...
shop.ria.ie
December 30, 2024 at 3:54 PM
“Early Medieval Ireland, AD 400-1100. The Evidence from Archaeological Excavations” (2021 version has an updated bibliographical essay). eBook is €9.99 shop.ria.ie/products/ear...
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There must be a story about a planning hearing somewhere in the past of this sign.
December 26, 2024 at 4:19 PM
There must be a story about a planning hearing somewhere in the past of this sign.
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“I WILL STILL BE PRESIDENT THIS TIME NEXT WEEK”. In case you missed @therestpolitics.bsky.social interview with Georgia President Salome Zourabichvili earlier today here it is. Remarkable woman in remarkable times in her battle for democracy v autocracy. open.spotify.com/episode/4FuP...
356. Georgia, Russia, and the fight for democracy - An interview with the President of Georgia
The Rest Is Politics · Episode
open.spotify.com
December 27, 2024 at 6:30 PM
“I WILL STILL BE PRESIDENT THIS TIME NEXT WEEK”. In case you missed @therestpolitics.bsky.social interview with Georgia President Salome Zourabichvili earlier today here it is. Remarkable woman in remarkable times in her battle for democracy v autocracy. open.spotify.com/episode/4FuP...
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Here is the link. See you there I hope. A fascinating woman at the centre of a moment of choice and history for her country. Do they go with Europe or with Russia? www.youtube.com/live/lUASY40...
December 27, 2024 at 10:03 AM
Here is the link. See you there I hope. A fascinating woman at the centre of a moment of choice and history for her country. Do they go with Europe or with Russia? www.youtube.com/live/lUASY40...
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By me @forbes.com, as I'm still not relaxing: Beware those Gmail account recovery prompts, folks, especially when you expect them!
#infosec
www.forbes.com/sites/daveyw...
#infosec
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Critical Gmail Warning As Google Prompt Used In $500,000 Hack Attack
As hackers strike using an ingenious Google prompt attack, stealing $500,000 in crypto as a result, here’s what all Gmail users need to know.
www.forbes.com
December 27, 2024 at 1:59 PM
By me @forbes.com, as I'm still not relaxing: Beware those Gmail account recovery prompts, folks, especially when you expect them!
#infosec
www.forbes.com/sites/daveyw...
#infosec
www.forbes.com/sites/daveyw...
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Tonight’s OC festive offering is the BBC Special! Celebrating 60 years of BBC Two, it features two teams from the *very first series* of Only Connect, which happened so long ago it was actually performed as a live quiz at the Globe with bearbaiting as a curtain raiser.
8pm on, of course, BBC Two
8pm on, of course, BBC Two
December 27, 2024 at 3:10 PM
Tonight’s OC festive offering is the BBC Special! Celebrating 60 years of BBC Two, it features two teams from the *very first series* of Only Connect, which happened so long ago it was actually performed as a live quiz at the Globe with bearbaiting as a curtain raiser.
8pm on, of course, BBC Two
8pm on, of course, BBC Two
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I'm trying to build my network here, so if you are an #infosec or #journalism or #weirdo affiliated person please holler, and I'll follow for a follow, or whatever it's called today.
I cover the cybersecurity beat at forbes.com and have been contributing editor at PC Pro magazine for 30 years now.
I cover the cybersecurity beat at forbes.com and have been contributing editor at PC Pro magazine for 30 years now.
November 19, 2024 at 11:05 AM
I'm trying to build my network here, so if you are an #infosec or #journalism or #weirdo affiliated person please holler, and I'll follow for a follow, or whatever it's called today.
I cover the cybersecurity beat at forbes.com and have been contributing editor at PC Pro magazine for 30 years now.
I cover the cybersecurity beat at forbes.com and have been contributing editor at PC Pro magazine for 30 years now.
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If Joe wants to mess up Trump’s inauguration he should quit the day before and make Kamala president for 24 hours. All those made in China “45 & 47” hats will be useless.
November 8, 2024 at 5:24 PM
If Joe wants to mess up Trump’s inauguration he should quit the day before and make Kamala president for 24 hours. All those made in China “45 & 47” hats will be useless.
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Sent congratulations to Governor Trump. Look forward to meet to discuss Ukraine, without Ukraine.
If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu.
If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu.
November 8, 2024 at 5:09 PM
Sent congratulations to Governor Trump. Look forward to meet to discuss Ukraine, without Ukraine.
If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu.
If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu.
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Me arriving in Mongolia:
Customs: Name?
Me: Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin
Customs: Occupation?
Me: No, just a short visit.
Customs: Name?
Me: Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin
Customs: Occupation?
Me: No, just a short visit.
September 3, 2024 at 5:59 AM
Me arriving in Mongolia:
Customs: Name?
Me: Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin
Customs: Occupation?
Me: No, just a short visit.
Customs: Name?
Me: Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin
Customs: Occupation?
Me: No, just a short visit.
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My short feature in this month's issue of Soldier Magazine. Some of the many lessons that can be gleaned from a study of Op Market Garden and the battle of Arnhem.
September 3, 2024 at 6:20 PM
My short feature in this month's issue of Soldier Magazine. Some of the many lessons that can be gleaned from a study of Op Market Garden and the battle of Arnhem.
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Libraries are the absolute best thing our society has created. This is both horrible but also sadly unsurprising...
The UK has lost one in 20 libraries since 2016, either by closing them completely or moving them over to volunteer-run groups. The poorest areas were around four times more likely to permanently lose a local library than the richest
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Public libraries in 'crisis' as councils cut services
Deprived communities lost more libraries since 2016 than richer areas did, the BBC finds
www.bbc.com
September 3, 2024 at 8:16 PM
Libraries are the absolute best thing our society has created. This is both horrible but also sadly unsurprising...