February 2017 – Page 4 – Personal blog of Peter "Sci" Turpin

Twitter Updates for 07-02-2017

An artist I admired & added as a friend on LiveJournal has just added me back. That's like.. after 12 years? 00:47:10, 2017-02-07
RT @PennyRed: Make Britain 1973 Again. https://t.co/zBaJjxxo1I 00:56:54, 2017-02-07
RT @xeni: Speaker of UK House of Commons vows to block Trump from addressing Parliament. Nigel Farage, a huge asshole, objects https://t.co… 00:57:06, 2017-02-07
Oh, finally got some cheap "hoverboard" parts today! £10, and have a pair of the wheels to experiment with. 01:07:26, 2017-02-07
RT @xeni: In Trump's hot mess of a White House sometimes staffers can't find light switches so they hold meetings in the dark https://t.co/… 01:21:45, 2017-02-07
RT @Rogue_DoD: You know who's covering up terror attacks? @realDonaldTrump when he ignores Trump supporters shooting Muslims. https://t.co/… 01:24:40, 2017-02-07
RT @CrowFluff: How to mess with artists: make this your sona's fur pattern https://t.co/ThuuiLI7J7 01:25:08, 2017-02-07
@blueybirdy And they haven't updated their LJ since 2006. in reply to blueybirdy 01:55:47, 2017-02-07
RT @irisjaycomics: WHOA RAD https://t.co/k1oadjKEh2 17:09:15, 2017-02-07
RT @ShaunKing: Killed 30 civilians, mainly women & children, missed his target, for a Navy SEAL killed, all in an attack military officials… 17:10:26, 2017-02-07
RT @AP_Politics: Iran's supreme leader mocks President Trump, says U.S. president has shown the "real face" of the United States. https://t… 17:14:37, 2017-02-07
RT @leicesterliz: No serious concession from Govt on A50: no vote if no deal, accept their deal or fall back on WTO rules. Neither gives Pa… 17:15:44, 2017-02-07
RT @SteveKopack: Sheriff tells Trump that state senator is doing something he doesn't like
Trump: "Do you want to give his name? We'll des… 17:19:21, 2017-02-07
RT @nedsimons: Just @Anna_Soubry reacting to @johnredwood speaking about Brexit in the Commons. https://t.co/xZVXUzg6rI 17:28:46, 2017-02-07
RT @CarolineLucas: The Government's offer to MPs: accept a bad deal or crash out of EU on WTO terms. That's not a concession – it's an ulti… 17:47:15, 2017-02-07
RT @Sandmonkey: Everyone in the EU is about to get free mobile roaming in Europe – except Britons https://t.co/nsdEYlYIOU 17:47:45, 2017-02-07
RT @KFILE: WH official: We'll say 'fake news' until media realizes attitude of attacking the President is wrong @CNNPolitics https://t.co/c… 17:51:51, 2017-02-07
RT @joncstone: Ministers refused to stop bomb sales to Saudi Arabia despite being told to do so by own export control chief https://t.co/pV… 18:02:34, 2017-02-07
RT @respros: Someone please start a map of places in the UK that Trump is not welcome https://t.co/1npMOwsJ3M 18:03:14, 2017-02-07
RT @PoliceStateUK: Government says privacy safeguards are "not necessary" in Digital Economy Bill https://t.co/jqushgI8PZ #Internet #Privac… 20:29:23, 2017-02-07
RT @FozzTexx: It's the first Tuesday in February which means it's time for the reading of the List of Common Misconceptions. https://t.co/w… 20:31:43, 2017-02-07
RT @TerrenceOBrien: This is horrifying. Currently advising everyone I know who owns a @VIZIO set to toss it. https://t.co/hxt9sx2l8U https:… 20:32:49, 2017-02-07
RT @UARKMeganApril: They're good dogs Brent https://t.co/7gEiy7FeJg 20:41:08, 2017-02-07
RT @AdamBienkov: Jeremy Corbyn last week: We won't give Theresa May a free hand
Jeremy Corbyn this week: Actually we probably will. https… 21:21:56, 2017-02-07
RT @Harryslaststand: Considering that the people were duped into #brexit it's only natural that the govt would dupe MPs https://t.co/wlLoKv… 21:26:10, 2017-02-07
RT @irishexaminer: British Government defeats attempts to give politicians decisive say over final Brexit ter… https://t.co/h88GJrtpVw http… 21:27:05, 2017-02-07
Hopefully tomorrow I'll be well enough to move the wood to the conservatory for sale & shift the fridge to the workshop. 22:23:23, 2017-02-07
RT @elranno: Lil update on the modern wuff~ https://t.co/CzHFw4veYM 22:33:13, 2017-02-07
RT @KirariBOOM: Posting my heartbreak for educational purposes. If your rat sounds like this they are in respiratory distress and need a ve… 22:36:24, 2017-02-07
@KirariBOOM I'm really sorry Kirari :( in reply to KirariBOOM 22:37:39, 2017-02-07

Twitter Updates for 06-02-2017

RT @tywodlyd: Do French shows ask panellists to choose between the French language or care budget? Dutch? Swedish? Anyone else tired of thi… 13:10:57, 2017-02-06
RT @davidschneider: Bannon: And sign here.
Trump: What's this one?
Bannon: Er, Taylor Swift wants an autograph.
Trump: Nice! [signs order p… 13:12:06, 2017-02-06
RT @Harryslaststand: #JeremyHunt proves yet again that you couldn't slide cigarette paper between the Tories politics of hate & #UKIP's htt… 13:21:35, 2017-02-06
RT @emjrabbitwolf: Gov admits it makes no judgement on specific violations of international law when granting arms export licence https://t… 14:06:25, 2017-02-06
RT @Glinner: A paragraph that goes from amusing to horrifying at the last moment. This is it. No opposition. https://t.co/WRa72Ix9q5 14:07:04, 2017-02-06
RT @NatSecGeek: Email in your #FOIA requests to #FBI while you still can! They're banning it in less than a month. foiparequest@ic.fbi.gov… 15:28:28, 2017-02-06
RT @guardian: If Labour MPs can’t amend this Tory Brexit bill, they must vote against it | Manuel Cortes https://t.co/WSpNnv9diZ 15:28:46, 2017-02-06
RT @AoDespair: The republic is being butchered on the altar of tactics. https://t.co/4fzENAS4LH 18:01:44, 2017-02-06
RT @BenDunnell: "We want to appeal to working-class people in the North, Paul."
"Fine. How do they dress?"
"Er…dunno. Like wartime spivs?… 19:46:32, 2017-02-06
RT @MeanwhileScotia: The idea that @IanMurrayMP thinks @MrJohnNicolson was trying to 'shut him down' with this letter is hysterical… http… 19:48:22, 2017-02-06
RT @jonsnowC4: And this from a man who got sacked from the Daily Mirror for making up news! https://t.co/yLY9DShIm1 19:48:46, 2017-02-06

Twitter Updates for 05-02-2017

RT @Spacekatgal: Americans, do not take our tech economy for granted.
It requires talent from around the globe, and that talent has other… 00:50:43, 2017-02-05
RT @cathredfern: Brexit has already cost Bournemouth £60m in lost language students, says study https://t.co/14O0fYdGAO 00:52:04, 2017-02-05
RT @clayaiken: I've long said/believed that @IvankaTrump has been carefully picking her battles. I'm glad she picked this one.
https://t.co… 00:55:08, 2017-02-05
RT @strummerriot: London police escorting protesters marching from the US Embassy to Downing Street. Thank you trump for uniting the entire… 01:03:22, 2017-02-05
RT @davidschneider: Tories: "we want to have our cake and eat it"
Labour: "we want cake but if we can't get it, we'll vote for no cake anyw… 10:56:29, 2017-02-05
RT @mrfrankzola: ATOS Try To Interrogate Unconscious Patient In ICU https://t.co/7iICAvgzYn https://t.co/ib44hdipiK 10:59:00, 2017-02-05
RT @Phil_Lewis_: Meanwhile, in New York City. https://t.co/2OiArRm1HU 11:00:08, 2017-02-05
RT @KihuBlue: lmao for REAL please don't be this dumb. Big part of antifa is anonymity, if someone's asking for your name/info, DON'T. http… 11:00:31, 2017-02-05
RT @TransEthics: WARNING: There's several ANTIFA websites & petitions that have popped up. Most of them are set up by nazis, and are a hone… 11:02:31, 2017-02-05
RT @jameshamblin: Rereading Hunter Thompson on the death of Nixon and the limits of 'objectivity' in telling his story https://t.co/YudiLur… 11:08:42, 2017-02-05
RT @VoiceOfOBrien: Remember 4 days ago when @SeanSpicer stood in front of the press and claimed "it's not a travel ban"? This administratio… 11:09:49, 2017-02-05
RT @kurteichenwald: Trump swore under oath he never spoken 2 a person. Affidavits & documents showed not true. Perjurer or delusional? http… 11:11:50, 2017-02-05
RT @DasGiftBerlin: Here's your Arsch handed to you Theresa. https://t.co/9P3vfZAzCa 11:18:26, 2017-02-05
RT @Jolly_Jack: Did….did he just say there are state-sanctioned political killings in the US?! https://t.co/1gCxgaqJRa 13:56:36, 2017-02-05
RT @Research_Tim: The Judicial Branch has been removed from https://t.co/Ajkez0cW2T.
This isn't an accident, it's a deceleration of intent.… 14:02:49, 2017-02-05
RT @admlinks: Intel dossier on Trump said Russians offered him a 19% share in Rosneft to lift sanctions.
19% of Rosneft was just sold to a… 14:09:17, 2017-02-05
RT @egypturnash: Here's a nice little list of lovely ideas @vp had to deal with the aftermath of Katrina.
Fuck you, Pence. https://t.co/IY… 14:12:14, 2017-02-05
RT @DOOMTRAlN: i feel like theres just never a bad time for this gif lately but especially today https://t.co/3Z1kuE4Hph 14:17:45, 2017-02-05
@mothdust Here's another: https://t.co/kAz2svXD9a in reply to mothdust 14:20:25, 2017-02-05
@ShanieTX Good haul kitty! in reply to ShanieTX 22:26:29, 2017-02-05
First ebay timewaster. Bought the VR headset, then messaged asking about shipping costs to Russia. 22:33:48, 2017-02-05
Immediately asked to cancel the order when I said I couldn't accept returns or refunds if sent overseas. in reply to SciStarborne 22:34:23, 2017-02-05

Twitter Updates for 04-02-2017

Now have the new insulated enclosure for the 3D printer build. I can start dimensioning now. https://t.co/uEhbZ3ZJGQ 00:09:35, 2017-02-04
@apeslion “It’s always a good idea to demonstrate to your coworkers that you are capable of withstanding a tremendous amount of pain.” in reply to apeslion 01:54:56, 2017-02-04
@apeslion https://t.co/9zylwERO0b in reply to apeslion 01:55:01, 2017-02-04
RT @caseyplett: Anyone else told as a kid to just ignore bullies and they'd go away? Yeah I remember how well that worked too. https://t.co… 02:39:45, 2017-02-04
RT @samueloakford: This is incredible: raid ordered by Trump reportedly killed *the groom* who survived the 2013 "wedding strike" ordered b… 02:41:10, 2017-02-04
Phone error due to auto-updating unremovable google quick-search app. 03:35:32, 2017-02-04
RT @mulegirl: Trump's friend and advisor Roger Stone offers some words of encouragement to the protesters heading out to Palm Beach tomorro… 03:36:04, 2017-02-04
RT @Harryslaststand: Jewish community centers in US receive nearly 50 bomb threats in 2017 so far https://t.co/rmedUw5y3y 14:38:47, 2017-02-04
RT @stephenkb: As threats go "give us what we want or we'll gut health and education" lacks a certain plausibility: https://t.co/P6PEGgSBgZ… 14:39:13, 2017-02-04
RT @CapnRyder: So Trump revoked visas for over 100,000 Muslims, while quietly removing the KKK from the terror watchlist.
This is some sca… 14:45:58, 2017-02-04
I think we're all familiar with "I was just joking the moment you got angry about it, so it's actually your fault"… https://t.co/zfE0SHY0AX 14:48:12, 2017-02-04
Items posted. Off to Walthamstow to grab some cheap tuperwear. 16:39:24, 2017-02-04
Picked up lots of freezer containers. Decent ones. Can make ready-meals again & save on food costs. 17:22:43, 2017-02-04
RT @jwildeboer: Why the #EU matters, reason #1. https://t.co/Kma2VQIj7v 17:23:12, 2017-02-04
RT @lauriedtmann: Getting Trump supporters to re-think Trump (it can work sometimes) https://t.co/6U9dfzkAzQ 17:23:38, 2017-02-04
RT @matthaig1: This New Yorker cover is beautiful and so very sad. https://t.co/NX33Pw2FCN 17:24:09, 2017-02-04
RT @holytshirt: The British people should get the final say on any Brexit deal in a referendum. Agree? Add your name: https://t.co/bUA4nraA… 17:24:21, 2017-02-04
On the train home saw a guy with Mr Zorg hair, slick boots & gold-studded sleeves. Full cyber-slick. 17:41:46, 2017-02-04
First thought; in a years time he's going to be hiring me to hack his rival crimelords neuroware. in reply to SciStarborne 17:43:50, 2017-02-04
RT @xeni: Stunning image of Saturn's moon Mimas https://t.co/lIfAT8xL5d https://t.co/owlrtIqIdj 18:31:27, 2017-02-04
RT @Spacekatgal: This is a great question. Hey, @ATT. Why should women use your product when you support a company that harasses and slande… 18:31:59, 2017-02-04
RT @Spacekatgal: Love this @qz piece by @ariezrawaldman. Movements like Gamergate are being used to radicalize angry young men.
https://t… 18:33:28, 2017-02-04
RT @Harryslaststand: #DonaldTrump seems to think an #ExecutiveOrder is like a royal decree and not constrained by the constitution. https:/… 18:34:41, 2017-02-04
@Phenol_Fox Aren't they a cutie :) in reply to Phenol_Fox 18:38:58, 2017-02-04
@emilyhughes @MaraWilson Maybe they're feeling the need? in reply to emilyhughes 18:39:40, 2017-02-04
RT @carlmalamud: Removed 6,371 files from web server to comply with injunction. I must say, I don’t see how this makes America safer or enh… 18:46:08, 2017-02-04
RT @daisynorfolk: This cartoon is brilliant. The Simplest and Most Perfect Explanation of Privilege I’ve Ever Seen https://t.co/RYm1H7MWLI… 18:49:56, 2017-02-04
Comparing Poundland 1.5L clip & lock food containers with ebay prices. Ebay actually £2.50 per. Only Ikea cheaper, but part of large sets. 19:05:07, 2017-02-04
@song_in_heart Were those the clip ones with the rubber seal in the lids? in reply to song_in_heart 19:12:09, 2017-02-04
@song_in_heart Yeah, just going to freeze some ready meals in something that will last more than once & won't freezer-burn from popping open in reply to song_in_heart 19:15:12, 2017-02-04
RT @tanngrisnir: Good grief. https://t.co/hDuBwc7yqS 22:56:09, 2017-02-04
RT @raynerlucas: 8) They've identified that "you have to tolerate my intolerance!" is a way to force a tolerant society to destroy itself. 23:00:18, 2017-02-04
RT @raynerlucas: 9) It's a logic bomb only barely more subtle than "This statement is false", and we've got to be smart enough not to fall… 23:00:36, 2017-02-04
Thread on the abuse of "free speech". https://t.co/sESpzuLoOh 23:02:50, 2017-02-04
Verbatim DVDs are supposedly the best. 8.5-5p/gb. 25y life under ideal conditions. 23:16:35, 2017-02-04
SanDisk/Kingston 128Gb USB drives, cheapest about £24. So 19p/Gb. about twice the price as DVDs for backups. 23:23:08, 2017-02-04
But USB drives are more compact & don't need a DVD drive to read or the right drives to rewrite. Max lifespan unknown. 23:25:45, 2017-02-04
RT @kylegriffin1: Sen. Bob Casey fact checks Trump's immigration tweets, knocks his "exec orders written on the back of a napkin". https://… 23:26:53, 2017-02-04
RT @UnknownKadath: “Trump, Putin and the Pipelines to Nowhere” by @AlexSteffen https://t.co/l06K41iCNE 23:29:56, 2017-02-04
RT @Harryslaststand: You see #ukip was never about politics it was always about larceny. #nigelfarage https://t.co/wvwtM41JXA 23:40:25, 2017-02-04
RT @ianbremmer: Meanwhile, anti-corruption protests picking up steam in Romania. #wow https://t.co/zxvrRmrCen 23:47:28, 2017-02-04
PC currently has 3.3Tb of total storage. 1.48Tb in use. I'd need twelve 128Gb storage devices for all of it. I doubt I need ALL of it tho. 23:51:33, 2017-02-04

Twitter Updates for 03-02-2017

RT @CertainImp: Weird that the show that turned anti-Semitism into a popular meme wants to go easy on Trump. I wonder why. https://t.co/Kot… 01:49:36, 2017-02-03
Truly long-term human survival plans do tend to consider the nature of the surviving society to be irrelevant.. https://t.co/8x32PnYqRP 01:55:24, 2017-02-03
RT @BoingBoing: The Cyborg Bill of Rights v1.0 https://t.co/wOKT1ul2ea https://t.co/lfuMf1MvBm 02:25:02, 2017-02-03
RT @necrosofty: Cool, anyone saying this administration is not about white supremacy, here's the direct answer to your assertion https://t.… 02:25:16, 2017-02-03
24p short of £4 in coppers. 02:25:37, 2017-02-03
RT @coreypierceart: https://t.co/ywCLdc62q8 02:27:09, 2017-02-03
RT @ingeniarius08: @quinnnorton Or as an xkcd cartoon: https://t.co/CKpiXjjXoF 02:28:31, 2017-02-03
RT @LydiaBurrell: wow i'm very concerned about *squints* Gamer Pedo https://t.co/cfbn7ewNlq 02:30:18, 2017-02-03
@Pippystrelly Personally I think that certain political ideologies aren't well suited to this purpose. in reply to Pippystrelly 02:46:24, 2017-02-03
@Pippystrelly Extremists stagnate when they get what they want. If we get Nazis on Mars, they'll die out soon after. Wasted effort. in reply to Pippystrelly 02:47:04, 2017-02-03
@Pippystrelly Yes, but in the light of his unusual involvement with the new administration. If gov $ gets into his plan, who picks who goes? in reply to Pippystrelly 02:53:03, 2017-02-03
@Pippystrelly More's the pity. I was under the impression Musk was skipping the moon entirely. in reply to Pippystrelly 02:54:52, 2017-02-03
@Pippystrelly Earthbound ones are a ways off. I favour the Luna-L1 elevator. Feasible with kevlar as the medium. in reply to Pippystrelly 02:59:09, 2017-02-03
@Pippystrelly https://t.co/6eWlITQZy1
Without atmospheric drag though, I'm unsure how power-use compares to canon-launching materials to L1. in reply to Pippystrelly 03:04:24, 2017-02-03
For soundtrack to our times, go here: https://t.co/W5oM8NR8gT (free downloads) 03:05:40, 2017-02-03
@MeepisMurder @MaraWilson Or poke HumbleBundle for a Nazi-killing themed pack in reply to MeepisMurder 03:08:26, 2017-02-03
@Pippystrelly I think they'll get the materials down soon enough, the problem will be political will & active weather management around it. in reply to Pippystrelly 03:10:05, 2017-02-03
@Pippystrelly A lunar one would be better first anyway. Assembly yards at L1 & foundries on the lunar pole. Build the statite for Earth one. in reply to Pippystrelly 03:15:18, 2017-02-03
Thread. https://t.co/va6CvNLd2g 03:49:57, 2017-02-03
It's a haunted house called Massacre, in Bowling Green. https://t.co/vRj2yQ5fGo https://t.co/GVV498eQHs 03:55:20, 2017-02-03
RT @yashar: KellyAnne says most don't know about the 2 Iraqis behind Bowling Green Massacre cause it didn't get covered. It literally never… 03:57:19, 2017-02-03
@Ukimori Well, he is. He's providing legitimacy to it. And if his advice made Trumps America successful, it'd be aiding the true intents. in reply to Ukimori 13:32:28, 2017-02-03
RT @raynerlucas: Daily Mail article turns out to be bullshit. Who'd have guessed? https://t.co/KF4JzJLpGB 13:51:04, 2017-02-03
@Ukimori My concern is that he's a geek. He doesn't play people. I fear he'll be put to their use more than he can divert theirs. in reply to Ukimori 14:28:58, 2017-02-03
@Ukimori *hugs* in reply to Ukimori 14:30:06, 2017-02-03
RT @suspirialex: That time Orson Welles punched a Nazi https://t.co/8t9TsZ9vxX 23:12:44, 2017-02-03
RT @Harryslaststand: I'll always defend a public #NHS b/c in my youth healthcare was about profit & the working class was decimated by dise… 23:12:52, 2017-02-03
RT @vedia_lupae: I want to endlessly post this everywhere. https://t.co/OtDt80DJTX 23:13:50, 2017-02-03
RT @doctorow: DER SPIEGEL's February cover
https://t.co/mYCgAWWA55 https://t.co/gCiuEFQtIe 23:13:56, 2017-02-03
RT @MaraWilson: Of course. It's all an act. https://t.co/mMQuG2iuSg 23:15:54, 2017-02-03
RT @MaraWilson: Remember this bit about Ann Coulter? That's him, but male and gay. https://t.co/AbqJQDIPVy 23:17:51, 2017-02-03
RT @AbiWilks: Milo cares so much about free speech he twice called my former boss and unsuccessfully tried to get me fired for (v benign) t… 23:19:08, 2017-02-03