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Quintessentially Celtic, vehemently Viking, passionately European, unashamedly, proudly Scottish, craft beer & single malt whisky lover, rookie vegan, new dad
I'm from #Scotland, interested in #politics especially constitutional π ! Have recently become #vegan which I'm loving! Have even more recently become a dad for the first time, so I'm obviously perpetually tired!
Otherwise: Quintessentially Celtic (quote from DNA report), vehemently viking (ginger-bearded), passionately #European and unashamedly, proudly #Scottish, #craft beer enthusiast, #singlemalt #whisky lover
I also love #Japan, #samurai and can read\write\speak #ζ₯ζ¬θͺ
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The Slorance Sketch: Why the sun always shines on the Tories
@asovereignscot
I feel their pain. But, but... Here's a guy who'd love to have a visit: http://www.newsweek.com/trump-worshipped-god-man-and-he-not-even-republican-996854
Learning to drive today at local driving school in #chiangmai, #thailand.
The experience is very pleasant so far. The staff while not very fluent in English is very friendly and professional. I paid 160β¬ for car and motorcycle course where back in Europe I'd have to drop at least 5 times that!
I drove a smaller car Toyota Yaris and was really surprised how comfortable I felt. I feel that smaller cars are really under appreciated these days.
Wait, what. Windows 10 sends info on USB devices plugged in directly to Microsoft?
And it does that using pure HTTP?
https://pastebin.com/ttYp5rLg
You gotta be kidding me.
An epic coding day. When I started work 16 hours ago, virtually nothing was working. Now, some 45 forms look slick and although they're not completely finished, they're working.
This rate of progress totally vindicates my strategy of autogenerating most of the code: fix a problem once and you fix it everywhere.
Photos of the objects found when a canal in Amsterdam was drained (via sarahdal on bird site) https://belowthesurface.amsterdam/en/vondsten
#Facebook #Quiz App #SECURITY #DATA #INTERNET #WEB #HACKER
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Oh the unrivalled joy of de-husking whole cardamom because you once again forgot to buy cardamom seeds..
This will be dinner tonight and I guarantee* that it will look exactly** like the pictures!
https://www.veganricha.com/2017/02/ethiopian-berbere-chickpea-pizza-with-tahini-garlic-dressing.html
* this guarantee carries no compulsion to deliver, it's like a politician's guarantee.
** no sufficient measure of exactitude is currently acknowledged by the cook.
It's #FollowFriday so time for some #alternatives to follow:
@funkwhale FunkWhale: Open source federated alternative to GrooveShark and SoundCloud
@prismo Prismo: Federated open source alternative to Reddit, in development.
@Fairphone and @WeAreFairphone Fairphone: Makers of fairtrade modular smartphones
@kevinbeynon Libreture: eBook storage site and comprehensive list of non-DRM eBook publishers.
@clickblaster ClickBlaster: Endless clickbait! 
Oooh @UBports is on mastodon.. Will be keeping an eye on this account, I'm very interested in having ubuntu touch on my phone.
Offtopic metafediverse #ff Show more
@asovereignscot We need to build up the community here, but yes, it's beginning to work.
We're currently 19 folk, but I think only half a dozen are active. social.yyy.scot users, if you're still here please like this tweet!
Factfulness: Ten Reasons Weβre Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think amzn.to/2tPa8ke
Reclaiming RSS
βBefore Twitter, before algorithmic timelines filtered our reality for us, before surveillance capitalism, there was RSS: Really Simple Syndication β¦ As we move away from the centralised web to the peer web, itβs time to rediscover, re-embrace, and reclaim RSS.β
Been using mastodon for just over a week now.. this being my 3rd or 4th time to get into it.
It's definitely grown on me & continues to do so. I think the difference between this attempt & previous ones has been fortunately finding the right instance to join.
I joined both mastodon.social and mstdn.io previously and was overwhelmed by the volume of streaming toots which made it difficult to find any that interested me.
Happy to have found a small & relevant (to me) instance in social.yyy.scot
It's #FollowFriday! Here are some #alternatives to follow:
@cloutstream CloutStream: An open source federated alternative to LinkedIn, just launched its new website
@Chocobozzz Chocobozzz: Lead developer of #PeerTube, the ethical alternative to YouTube
@Purism Purism: Makers of privacy-oriented computers and the upcoming Librem5 smartphone
@fdroidorg F-Droid: The open source alternative to Google Play
@krita Krita: Open source painting software aimed at artists and illustrators