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OK, friends, this is social.yyy.scot, social media for folk in Scotland. It will run until the 30th June, and then the folk who use it will have a vote on whether it's worth keeping.

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as usual based on @yogthos's luminus guide
```
(extend-protocol jdbc/IResultSetReadColumn
org.postgresql.jdbc.PgArray
(result-set-read-column [value metadata index]
(vec (.getArray value))))
```

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all right got refresh token exchange working too. i had to extend some protocol to translate org.postgresql.jdbc.PgArray to #clojure vectors but it works now

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@simon_brooke New Leaf Coop in Edinburgh, marchmont do bring your own containers for dry food!

Checkout can take a while with weighing.

I've been living in Germany: getting consumers to reuse containers is good, but standardizing containers and implementing refund is so superior #pfand It would be easiest to start we with biz/gov support but could potentially be cooped/crowd-funded

"In our connected world of malware for the soul we have become immune to [truth], even" - @J_amesp

Read more at:byline.com/column/67/article/2

"This is as simple and complex as truth is: without truth there is no justice, without justice there is no fairness, without fairness there is no society, without society there is no humanity" - James Patrick

Read more at:byline.com/column/67/article/2

Further to that, I've seen a link to this really inspirational 'bring your own container' shop in Cornwall. I knew there were such places in Germany, but didn't know of any in the UK. Do we have any in Scotland?

therefillstore.co.uk/

With bulk vending machines, you take your own container to the machine and fill it (much as you do when you're filling a can with petrol for your lawnmower at a garage). Examples here:

themilkstationcompany.co.uk/

risto-vending.com/en/index.php

brunimat.ch/en/products.html

The benefit is the consumer fills their container, takes it home, uses the milk (or other product), washes it out, takes it back and fills it again potentially very many times, saving hundreds of single-use plastic bottles.

If you respond to this consultation (and I'd urge you to), I'd suggest you consider mentioning bulk liquid vending machines - I'll put links in the next tweet - which can eliminate a great deal of single use packaging. >>>

consult.gov.scot/environment-f

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this is an inadvertently great allegory for humanity

"So. Does America have a future?

Let me ask that another way.

Can you cap a supervolcano?"

(Why) American Collapse is Extraordinary – Eudaimonia and Co

Or, Why America’s Melting Down Faster Than Anyone Believed

eand.co/why-this-is-no-ordinar

social.yyy.scot/media/xL-uOs-k

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Nmap has a webpage referencing all their uses shown in movies.

nmap.org/movies/

I'm sitting with my lover, who is dying. She's beyond the stage of being able to recognise anyone, and, despite intravenous morphine, is obviously in discomfort.

If she was a dog we'd put her down out of sheer humanity. Our attitudes to homan death are odd.

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i'll have to figure out why the scope is empty (it's correct in the db) -- in other words oauth seems to work mostly?

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"Money doesn't interest me" - Creator of Blender talks about its future - redd.it/8uxi14

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"[without a Scottish currency] for all practical purposes, the Scottish Government would have no effective control of any of the measures used to control its economy. In fact, it would be worse off than it is now. It would have, post independence without


♲ @The National (Unofficial) (thenational@f.praschnig.com): I FOUND Ivan McKee’s article (The people of an independent Scotland make the decision on a new currency, June 25) in The National a little disappointing. I am sure McKee has good intentions in following the SNP line on the Growth Commission report, but much of what he says is misleading for those who are not terribly well informed on the significance of a country having its own currency. He also makes a number of claims about other countries that are not supported by evidence. www.thenational.scot/comment/1… #News #Sport
#scotland #currency #news
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Open source's nature is to fade into the background and go unnoticed except by those whose work touches it directly. It is the plankton of computing. We all breathe, but few of us stop to think about where the oxygen is coming from.

-- "Producing Open Source Software" by Karl Fogel

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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.


github.com/simon-brooke/adl

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