Mary Branscombe (marypcb) wrote,
Mary Branscombe
marypcb

My tweets

  • Mon, 13:08: RT @Polyducks: It's taken a month, but I've finally completed my asset pack for LEGO-compatible isometric pixelart blocks! 30 bricks in 15…
  • Mon, 13:11: RT @KylePlantEmoji: Saying that wearing a mask during a pandemic is "living in fear" is like saying that using oven mitts means you're "afr…
  • Mon, 13:11: RT @zackwhittaker: One of the vulnerabilities was so easy to find that I, a dumbass reporter, found it. And yet the university mandated tha…
  • Mon, 13:12: RT @SimmerVigor: This blogpost is well worth a read. We found that HTTP/2 upload performance didn't meet all of our expectations given the…
  • Mon, 13:13: RT @sispurrier: I can't promise it'll change any minds, but it can't hurt. If you've loved what we've been doing with #Hellblazer and are s…
  • Mon, 13:14: RT @DrEricDing: 📍BREAKING—First ever official re-infection case of #COVID19 documented. Research team from @hkumed report the first reinfec…
  • Mon, 13:15: RT @hugorifkind: It's everything, this. It's a particular leftist solidarity with minorities which, whether it comprehends it or not, can e…
  • Mon, 13:15: RT @donasarkar: Friends who are looking or know people looking at remote jobs 👇🏼 Seeing all of these open JDs, I’m learning a TON about ho…
  • Mon, 13:16: RT @BenCodeGeek: If you're writing k8s YAML from scratch you're an idiot, but it's not even remotely as hard as this quote would have you b…
  • Mon, 13:17: RT @pettyantics: I added the ability to "look for" things in the game and I am excited about it https://t.co/0mAjTm9SYD
  • Mon, 13:17: RT @MSFTIssues: Checking for unnecessary urgency in requests ⏱️ Is the email atypical? 💭 Confirm the sender actually sent it. ✔️ Here's h…
  • Mon, 13:18: RT @carlquintanilla: To repeat: The top 10% of earners own 87% of all U.S. stocks. https://t.co/JizWy97mho
  • Mon, 13:18: RT @DmitryOpines: "Who received this money? It's a mystery, and frankly an unsolvable one," a Treasury spokesman told the FT while awaiting…
  • Mon, 13:18: RT @kvlly: parent: and what do we say when we want something? child: sudo
  • Mon, 13:19: RT @JimMFelton: Public: Please show us you have a plan to keep the virus low whilst reopening schools Government: Rest assured kids get sm…
  • Mon, 13:19: RT @ballantine70: Wait until she hears about 60% hotdesk provision in many Whitehall offices... https://t.co/K1GXDAlgs1
  • Mon, 13:22: RT @StevePeers: Seeing some people saying that this doesn't apply to the UK - in fact it applies to the UK and all other WTO Members, as th…
  • Mon, 13:22: RT @XboxP3: Today we filed a statement in support of Epic's request to keep access to the Apple SDK for its Unreal Engine. Ensuring that Ep…
  • Mon, 13:22: RT @SamuelMarcLowe: Consequence of Northern Ireland being legally within UK’s customs territory as per NI protocol. Not addressed here, but…
  • Mon, 13:23: RT @sharonodea: So. Much. This. It's absurd to write off people aged 50+ as "not digitally savvy". Anyone aged 60 with a desk job will ha…
  • Mon, 13:23: RT @Awfidius: As good as subdiv and 7x faster... Watch the talk live today @eccvconf! https://t.co/ekfIKlhEKK
  • Mon, 13:24: RT @ProfTimBale: Another algoshambles in the making. An important read. https://t.co/f6huFk3gUW
  • Mon, 13:25: RT @billmarczak: Wow... The UAE and Saudi governments have gotten so much data from hacking phones with NSO’s Pegasus spyware that they don…
  • Mon, 13:26: RT @ralph_squillace: The INDUSTRY? Are you kidding me? Only some degree of labor freedom AND the fact that dev isn't that hard make this po…
  • Mon, 13:26: RT @Brinkhoff_C: This was a game-changer. This day #25years ago, #Windows95 made its way into the world. See here the promo video remastere…
  • Mon, 13:27: RT @nigelwUK: None of us needs to be lectured on moral imperatives by one of the most morally bankrupt governments of the modern age.
  • Mon, 13:27: RT @tomwarren: I’ve never seen this Apple Watch notification before. I got it while I was sitting still with a 38.7C fever, body aches, chi…
  • Mon, 13:28: RT @nationaltrust: Many of the places we care for have direct or indirect links to slavery, including objects made from materials obtained…
  • Mon, 13:28: RT @neil_neilzone: Financial Institution Notice: a new power HMRC can use to require financial institutions to provide information when req…
  • Mon, 13:28: RT @neil_neilzone: The gist is that the independent oversight framework is too slow, and so needs to be circumvented rather than fixed: "O…
  • Mon, 13:36: RT @ballantine70: Why Twitter is brilliant #231 https://t.co/XG60g8Sz5q
  • Mon, 13:37: RT @GeorgeMonbiot: Those who claim the Nazis were socialists, on the grounds that "Nazi" is a compression of National Socialist, doubtless…
  • Mon, 13:38: RT @SaxtonJoe: My eldest son had a +ve covid test: symptom a sore throat. A week later @NHSTestTraceapp ask for contacts - a whole week. To…
  • Mon, 13:40: RT @PrivacyMatters: ‘The Facial Recognition Industry Promises to Regulate Itself. Sure, Okay’ “Nearly every recommendation of the SIA prin…
  • Mon, 13:40: RT @jdportes: The author of the Universal Credit and ESA disasters says civil servants who warn that things might not go entirely according…
  • Mon, 13:42: RT @LaSouvarine: For example i have fluctuating sight levels. Many of my mutuals are blind or are visually impaired. Alt text or a text des…
  • Mon, 13:42: RT @LaSouvarine: Logged in to a tl full of "Here is what to do in this kind of emergency! Pls RT!" Which is great activism. Unless all th…
  • Mon, 13:42: RT @msdevUK: On this day 25 years ago, Windows 95 was released to the public! 🥳 Who remembers when Visual Basic looked liked this? 💾 #Vis…
  • Mon, 13:42: RT @BathysphereHat: @Imani_Barbarin When I was in therapy for anorexia, another client at the clinic gave me a really silly sounding but gr…
  • Mon, 13:43: RT @carlykind_: A new piece by me, in which I look at (the imperfect categorisation of) three waves of “ethical AI” - the first dominated b…
  • Mon, 13:43: RT @neil_neilzone: The notion of a "missing stair" — someone whose unwanted behaviour people are used to working around, rather than fixing…
  • Mon, 13:44: RT @rechelon: It's in every newspaper's style guide to never use active voice when it comes to murders or brutality by the police. It's ou…
  • Mon, 14:54: so we can't correlate these with the PPE procurement companies from the @GoodLawProject investigations because that would be a really interesting comparison https://t.co/whSQxMpmKK
  • Mon, 15:27: RT @MitchBenn: RICHMOND/HAM/KINGSTON/TWICKENHAM/TEDDINGTON PEOPLE: @MsClara’s African Grey parrot Effie has flown away. Desperate to find h…
  • Mon, 15:54: ‘Disgusting policy’: Prisoners’ families must pay for remains after COVID-19 deaths - this seems so cruel, and I'm just realising I have no idea how it's handled in the UK https://t.co/UfFbpsownL
  • Mon, 16:18: RT @ericlaw: While 2020 feels like an alien timeline, the Chromium train rolls onward. New major version this week! https://t.co/j6b80ZnnYF
  • Mon, 16:19: RT @ericlaw: Unfortunately, TLS/1.0 and TLS/1.1 will remain enabled by default in IE and Edge Legacy until Spring 2021, but these old proto…
  • Mon, 16:20: RT @jgrahamc: @R1CH_TL @Cloudflare In general we love to upstream changes, but we've found that the NGINX community likes to build things t…
  • Mon, 16:22: RT @appcompatguy: Docs are now live for our on-prem sync coming in Edge 85 - have a look and let us know what else you need us to talk abou…
  • Mon, 16:26: RT @ericlaw: @odinthenerd @jfbastien @cpeterso ...I looked him up in the org chart and his level was "Member of technical staff." In some o…
  • Mon, 16:26: RT @ericlaw: @odinthenerd @jfbastien @cpeterso ...someone was so specialized in a tiny niche that they didn't even have basic knowledge of…
  • Mon, 16:27: RT @MarkUrban01: Break: Initial results from German hospital indicate that #Navalny was poisoned with a cholinesterase inhibitor and is bri…
  • Mon, 16:28: actual footage of me reading twitter in preparation for emerging from the bedroom on a Monday morning� https://t.co/BwO8JzDtnX
  • Mon, 16:29: RT @stshank: Coronavirus pandemic gave Zoom a huge boost. How big a boost will Zoom's troubles today give Google Meet? Note from our school…
  • Mon, 16:29: RT @adbertram: We need a Bob Ross of IT. Imagine it. “We’re going to migrate this happy little server to the cloud today. You know...this…
  • Mon, 16:31: RT @zsk: oh my word this thread is a must-read. Sarah set up 2 accounts - one called Sarah and one called John. Guess what happened.... htt…
  • Mon, 16:32: RT @Geekazoid: 10 out of 12 men who started games with me sent messages (83.3%) compared to 1 out of 10 women (10%; P=0.0006). 50% of men w…
  • Mon, 16:32: RT @Geekazoid: 30% of men who messaged sent content I deemed "inappropriate". 2 expressed a sense of entitlement to conversation from me, a…
  • Mon, 16:32: RT @Geekazoid: These findings suggest that men need to SORT THEMSELVES OUT (scientific term), as the onus falls on women who wish to play g…
  • Mon, 16:33: RT @Gartenberg: the definitive history of the Rolling Stones, Start Me Up and how that song became part of the Windows 95 marketing campaig…
  • Mon, 16:33: RT @jaydeipowell: raise your hand if you have left a job because of a toxic environment and/or manager. 🙋🏾‍♀️
  • Mon, 16:34: RT @inafried: From zoom: “We have identified the issue causing users to be unable to start and join Zoom Meetings and Webinars and are work…
  • Mon, 16:34: RT @anotherwdwlady: Re Claudia Conway: This is why abused children don't speak out, bc of people who write them off due to their age and sa…
  • Mon, 16:35: shift to Chromium, shift to the marketing practices Chrome normalised� https://t.co/w1KT2nC6No
  • Mon, 16:36: RT @ToniBeeHQ: So Ikea recreated their 2021 catalogue using photos from animal crossing. 🏕🌲🍑🛏 https://t.co/1YyXLai2JF
  • Mon, 16:36: RT @ToniBeeHQ: https://t.co/TACVMZ2YSC
  • Mon, 16:39: RT @davenicolette: Received an email from Amazon asking me to write a review of a product for which I already wrote a review that they alre…
  • Mon, 16:39: RT @astepanovich: This is crucial to avoiding burnout. If you're thinking of implementing a sabbatical / refresh policy here are some thing…
  • Mon, 16:40: RT @john_lam: 25th anniversary of Windows 95 today! Thanks to @chapman, I can look at this cover from the Chicago special edition. I love h…
  • Mon, 16:41: In the UK, the run-up to Chicago (the code name for Windows 95) was a series of in-depth press briefings; my editor did the first 3 but sent me to the fourth where the PR team helpfully gave out copies of the material from the first 3 with the new info 'just in case'
  • Mon, 21:40: RT @rachelleingang: I finally heard back from the number associated with the “asu_covid.parties” account that was sued by ASU. Full convo b…
  • Mon, 22:36: RT @JeffreyASachs: There's some truly dreadful advice going around about how to "combat wokeness" at work through Logic and being an ass. I…
  • Mon, 22:37: RT @UNGeneva: #IndigenousPeoples have the right to the lands, territories and resources which they have traditionally owned, occupied or o…
  • Mon, 22:37: RT @dcb42: Most people will never understand how this is so horrible, so listen to me, a guy who used to have no credit card, no debit card…
  • Mon, 22:39: RT @gilbert: March 2020: CEO: “Any idea when COVID will end?” Banker: “Nope.” CEO: “Well what’s the latest we could possibly file to go…
  • Mon, 22:39: RT @ProfKateJudge: Just six retailers controlled nearly 30% of all US sales last quarter. The era of the giant middleman is still going str…
  • Mon, 22:41: RT @CNBCnow: BREAKING: Salesforce, Amgen, Honeywell to join the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Exxon Mobil, Pfizer, Raytheon to be removed f…
  • Mon, 22:41: RT @ChappellTracker: imagine thinking this should be called neumorphism and not glorp https://t.co/4cRoZRsZ3k
  • Mon, 22:42: RT @DavidGauke: It’s been the longstanding position of Brexiteers that the EU will give us whatever we want as long as they believe that we…
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