January 2019 – Page 4 – Personal blog of Peter "Sci" Turpin

Twitter Updates for 15-01-2019

RT @BoozyBadger: Seriously. Having played Red Dead Redemption 2 and being familiar with history, the game’s depiction of the agency is some… 10:57:00, 2019-01-15
RT @sturdyAlex: THREAD – On this historic occasion, let us recall some of what was promised specifically on this deal:
“There will be no… 11:01:19, 2019-01-15
RT @MarinaHyde: Thanks @OvePM for this spellbinding David Davis interview from the weekend, where Davis gambols through his mind palace and… 11:07:02, 2019-01-15
RT @JimMFelton: Don't want to alarm anyone but the people responsible for getting us food if there's no deal are already guarding their don… 11:08:20, 2019-01-15
RT @PaulieTandoori: Government announce that old-age pensioners will now have to claim Universal Credit from 15 May if they have a partner… 11:09:28, 2019-01-15
RT @freak1ngawesome: This otter teaching a human how to pet it gets me every time..https://t.co/yT9vcbZIPZ 11:11:58, 2019-01-15
@skipai This reads weird as London is already supposed to be a clean air zone where only smokeless woodburners are… https://t.co/qY7yyMcI2e in reply to skipai 11:19:42, 2019-01-15
RT @TechnicallyRon: Tomorrow, as the government votes on Brexit, we find out if we are ACME missile coyote fucked or painted tunnel on a wa… 11:23:44, 2019-01-15
RT @BenVanDerVelde: The people do not care if the other side of the door leads to a 100ft pit filled with angry snakes, they voted to walk… 11:25:55, 2019-01-15
@embedded_iot @DrLucyRogers @DangerousThings I can see future people getting transfer tattoos to fake good health t… https://t.co/nlABanwcmv in reply to embedded_iot 11:28:14, 2019-01-15
RT @waltshaub: @kenvogel @TrumpDC @nytimes @maggieNYT The man who is his own landlord & tenant of a government property used an inaugural f… 11:29:24, 2019-01-15
RT @mehdirhasan: Boris literally speaking now like Trump, Bannon, Alex Jones and co https://t.co/Xy4w6njgBI 11:30:57, 2019-01-15
@embedded_iot @DrLucyRogers @DangerousThings I could imagine the W*lmart logo, but each leaf of it only shows the c… https://t.co/pkwfpM5QvB in reply to embedded_iot 12:07:06, 2019-01-15
I finally find out the tubes are made recently and they're out of stock. 12:20:53, 2019-01-15
Today I have been going through the Access Control System parts list and making a detailed Bill of Materials. I loo… https://t.co/UYH3Ahbx3q 23:40:37, 2019-01-15
TLDR; it's perfectly economical to make ACS units in lots of 10 or 20 and only cost £2-3 more than making 160 of th… https://t.co/pmumzEcs61 in reply to SciStarborne 23:43:00, 2019-01-15
There's also likely some savings to make (a couple of quid per unit) by doing a better job hunting down the fixings… https://t.co/3X5EvSu501 in reply to SciStarborne 23:45:10, 2019-01-15

Twitter Updates for 14-01-2019

RT @LouiseRawAuthor: Media- STOP playing Goddard’s game by calling this dangerous man a’yellow vest leader’ & ‘Brexiteer’.
HE IS A FASCIST… 01:14:18, 2019-01-14
RT @LouiseRawAuthor: Also present was the deeply unhinged James Goddard.He & fascists were abusing disabled activists from @Dis_PPL_Protest… 01:14:54, 2019-01-14
RT @dabeard: The first paragraph of the historic @nytimes lead story: "So it has come to this: The president of the United States was asked… 01:22:23, 2019-01-14
RT @YourAnonNews: While #SaveRahaf is a solid success, activists like #LoujainAlHathloul & her husband are still suffering in #SaudiArabia'… 01:36:30, 2019-01-14
RT @RealGDT: @missmonster is the best!! https://t.co/LiGHVjQs0M 01:39:29, 2019-01-14
RT @KaiborgStudios: Unfortunately someone had to back out of their order, so I have a 300 micron protogen kit with an accurate cut tinted v… 01:40:04, 2019-01-14
RT @KaiborgStudios: Inspiration. https://t.co/pkBHqx5zLX 01:42:18, 2019-01-14
RT @KaiborgStudios: Brilliant. https://t.co/IlooNmWRML 01:42:23, 2019-01-14
RT @JohnQuiggin: Obscure #Brexit point. Executive control over Parliamentary business isn't a "centuries old" democratic tradition, it's a… 01:53:51, 2019-01-14
RT @KenRoth: The trending rights tweets this week include Rahaf's escape from Saudi Arabia to refuge in Canada, Egypt Pres Sisi's televised… 01:55:50, 2019-01-14
RT @CosmoSnowmew: "Theresa May can't be that incompetent"
To that I say: wanna bet? 02:02:56, 2019-01-14
RT @Caudlewag: Apparently one of my better customers may have been committing a bit of fraud via their parents? Said parents called me (My… 02:06:18, 2019-01-14
RT @davidschneider: Brexit in a nutshell: Man whose team has players from several different countries and a Malaysian owner says “to hell w… 02:08:35, 2019-01-14
RT @kazweida: Oh, would you look at that.
The owner of Utah Gun Exchange, who followed the Parkland kids around last summer state to state… 02:08:51, 2019-01-14
RT @lainiemarsh: "It is easy to pretend that nobody can change anything, that society is huge and the individual is less than nothing. But… 02:35:30, 2019-01-14
Anyone know other good deals on a Cricut air 2 bundle? https://t.co/bQpyosiPc7 02:42:12, 2019-01-14
God bless everyone who worked on fixing the Y2K bug. https://t.co/wXsIX8Tu8O 02:44:11, 2019-01-14
RT @sophieraworth: When you are 18 years old and discover at a routine eye test that you have terminal brain cancer. This is the bucket lis… 04:20:04, 2019-01-14
RT @OwenJones84: You hired a Nazi, @afneil – the world's leading Holocaust denier – David Irving. According to Deborah Lipstadt, who Irving… 04:31:18, 2019-01-14
RT @tomselleck69: 51/100 https://t.co/QzzHF6AR7X 04:32:36, 2019-01-14
RT @page88: Just clinically shuddered.
This is a must-read. https://t.co/EZMSfznjgD 04:40:19, 2019-01-14
RT @iainmacwhirter: And while we're on the subject of devolution, Scotland voted Yes to setting up the Scottish Assembly in 1979 by 52% o 4… 13:37:34, 2019-01-14
RT @mynameiscal: Lovely scenes outside HoP earlier when the "Honk to Stop Brexit" and "Honk For Brexit" camps were unknowingly standing nex… 13:38:05, 2019-01-14
RT @EmmaHardyMP: Unbelievable. Ester McVey is on @BBCBreakfast telling the British government to trust her total nonsense about no deal bei… 13:44:24, 2019-01-14
RT @peterjukes: Britain’s private school problem: it’s time to talk “From judges (74% privately educated) through to MPs (32%), the numbers… 13:56:49, 2019-01-14
RT @rose_irl: I never sausage an amazing thing. I want one. https://t.co/cFaMadXEjr 13:58:59, 2019-01-14
@PoliticlCustard Haha, thanks! I've actually got a secondary account on https://t.co/NzZxfptZZv too. in reply to PoliticlCustard 15:38:44, 2019-01-14
Does anyone know someone who has experience installing mezzanine flooring? 15:41:01, 2019-01-14
RT @jonworth: This is so chronically bad. Is she ignorant or deliberately lying? Or both? It’s hard to tell.
She was a Cabinet Minister.… 15:44:34, 2019-01-14
RT @Staedtler: The mystery is why it has taken so long to sink in with people that Theresa May is the most nakedly deceitful prime minister… 17:33:13, 2019-01-14
RT @OJessicaNigri: Stuff like this is never okay.
NO MEANS NO. https://t.co/nc2FBzmRTd 17:34:39, 2019-01-14
RT @parislees: I swear to God 20 seconds after I tweeted this someone from the BBC just called me and asked me if I wanted to comment on wh… 17:37:10, 2019-01-14
RT @Andantonius: Art tip #2 – how to paint gold! Requested by @andreyu_art
This is a very condensed explanation but should be helpful to ge… 17:41:54, 2019-01-14
Well of course there's special rules explicitly for mezzanines over 200m^2.
Now I have another headache trying to p… https://t.co/msL8gvSRua 18:27:48, 2019-01-14
RT @Plaid_Cymru: ? GWYLIWCH / WATCH ?
@LSRPlaid slam the Prime Minister on her referendum hypocrisy

"In 1997 she voted against legislati… 18:29:28, 2019-01-14
@TheForgess Sounds like something that would be fairly easy to make with a laser cutter. Or at least suitable suppo… https://t.co/WyCwYVAzm2 in reply to TheForgess 18:31:45, 2019-01-14
RT @johnnemann: Advertising did this. Without ads everywhere, there would be no incentive for companies to collect your data in every way t… 18:33:27, 2019-01-14
RT @ironcircuscomix: NOW IN THE ICC SHOP: "FTL, Y'all!: Tales from the Age of the $200 Warp Drive!" Featuring the work of @bluedelliquanti,… 18:34:21, 2019-01-14
RT @HulkSJW: This Marine veteran keeping Joshua Tree clean is our hero of the shutdown https://t.co/r52VsArHU4 18:35:08, 2019-01-14
RT @mehdirhasan: Last night, Trump told Fox News he hadn’t left the White House for months. Yet we all saw him with *our own lying eyes* in… 18:40:37, 2019-01-14
RT @doctorow: Swedes! Poles! Germans! Luxembourgers! The world is depending on you to save the internet from the EU! (PLEASE RT!)
https://… 18:44:20, 2019-01-14
RT @CaseyExplosion: You ever feel like watching a British comedy is like rolling a dice on whether there's gonna be a real shitty transphob… 18:45:45, 2019-01-14
RT @DickMackintosh: Jacob Rees-Mogg's father wrote a book about making a financial killing out of collapsing the UK economy, like he is try… 18:46:06, 2019-01-14
Tomorrow I need to make a hole. https://t.co/BLvyjLap0G 21:15:37, 2019-01-14
RT @CosmicLin: https://t.co/vwHiRaJGF6 22:09:01, 2019-01-14
RT @SimonHoneydew: why is there a full magazine of army propaganda with my new copy of pc gamer 22:09:17, 2019-01-14

Twitter Updates for 13-01-2019

@Troglit They ain't wrong! Happy birthday Meesh :) in reply to Troglit 00:36:40, 2019-01-13
This is not a top-hat. https://t.co/0rF6kdBRi8 01:17:43, 2019-01-13
RT @SurlyAmy: He is hiding the conversations from *his own* administration. That means Russia knows more about the intent of the president… 02:10:57, 2019-01-13
RT @wolfcau: #TMITuesday ~
In case one ever wondered how I got into this mess, well, here you go. https://t.co/mGDFzlYBVw 02:11:23, 2019-01-13
Does the National Enquirer have to print a retraction if it gets a story right? https://t.co/LtU1akZSAI 02:14:26, 2019-01-13
RT @KenRoth: “I fought against a dictatorship and I never believed that history would repeat itself."–Nicaraguan Supreme Court justice upo… 02:17:19, 2019-01-13
RT @billybragg: Never Buy the Sun https://t.co/weiUtc4Wmb 02:20:27, 2019-01-13
RT @AlphaDogsStudio: I’m just gonna leave this here.. ? https://t.co/IfVtMh25ux 02:22:47, 2019-01-13
RT @PoliticalDoodle: "71% of police shot & killed this year weren't murdered by black men with cornrows or hoodies. They weren't gunned dow… 02:24:47, 2019-01-13
I could hear loud scratching behind the fridges again. I'm concerned something is chewing up the insulation at thei… https://t.co/aVpmZY1hlB 03:03:58, 2019-01-13
Time to make myself sleepy. https://t.co/yErvf4X6GG 03:04:21, 2019-01-13
RT @FENNERGY: "this generation is looking for any excuse to be offended"
Is an obfuscation of "people didn't used to have the courage to s… 12:39:12, 2019-01-13
RT @samthielman: Let’s not immediately blame the Russians. A really important thing they did with the 2016 campaign was demonstrate that as… 12:39:58, 2019-01-13
I am so annoyed no-one is calling the process "Jail birding" these scooters. https://t.co/S19azWMGOy 12:52:25, 2019-01-13
RT @MaxIsDrawing: she was teased about her hair, so she shaved it off.
instead of regrowing, it came back as a ghost. https://t.co/moaXjY9h… 13:39:19, 2019-01-13
RT @ekp: One tech billionnaire's take on @AOC shows how we got here and why change has been so slow ? https://t.co/jsh9Brmy7G 20:32:37, 2019-01-13
Okay, if I cut the 5v line on the USB cable the lasercutter controller can still talk to the PC but won't power on… https://t.co/Rlqo9Nc9CD 21:25:17, 2019-01-13
I have some improvements to make to the laser cutter. Mostly around improving drive power & reducing electrical noi… https://t.co/jhtSw1y7Id 23:51:32, 2019-01-13

Twitter Updates for 12-01-2019

RT @MachinePix: The Vine is a prosthesis with 26 articulated vertebrae by Kelly Knox and the Alternative Limb Project. https://t.co/REa4jZZ… 00:38:22, 2019-01-12
RT @radek_ratel: I've twice had environmental sounds claimed on video game footage – birdsong and wind were the played matches, all 8 secon… 00:40:13, 2019-01-12
RT @straczynski: Same as Jim Jones in Jonestown, or Hitler's literal scorched earth policy: if I go down, everyone goes down with me. https… 00:42:03, 2019-01-12
@FrameshiftShark Wait, that's a pretty big for an astero-*static* in reply to FrameshiftShark 00:44:15, 2019-01-12
RT @JUNIUS_64: Ford’s robot butt for testing car seats can now sweat https://t.co/qyfK4QSaNC via @Verge 00:46:40, 2019-01-12
RT @Alison_McGovern: Things have changed. I once thought we wouldn't be arguing for our EU membership anymore. Now I think it's vital we do… 01:35:35, 2019-01-12
RT @tobynook: Isabelle is just Leslie Knope's fursona.
RT if agree https://t.co/xkjHgGKnsU 03:36:28, 2019-01-12
RT @imajsaclaimant: A blind woman was told to ‘get her f*****g dog off a bus’ by a passenger who didn’t believe guide dogs could be any oth… 03:44:02, 2019-01-12
@FedcourtJunkie @SurlyAmy Trump wants to press all the buttons the office of the President has while he can.
Rememb… https://t.co/IkVSlQqVZm in reply to FedcourtJunkie 03:50:05, 2019-01-12
RT @carolecadwalla: Andrew Neil describes Owen Jones questions about his relationship with the Spectator as ‘smears & lies’. Smears & lies… 03:53:05, 2019-01-12
RT @wowhour: The DWP destroyed me. They could have killed me it would have been more humane. I am relying on the kindness of my friends, fa… 03:56:05, 2019-01-12
RT @shannonrwatts: BREAKING: Alex Jones is going down. https://t.co/dIbMhfM5vg 04:03:54, 2019-01-12
@alexisohanian @doctorow It feels like all venture-capitalist driven startups have serious little-man syndrome. in reply to alexisohanian 04:21:01, 2019-01-12
RT @xeni: Holy shit, @SpaceX laid off 10% of its employees today. https://t.co/wfL7Ys9Oah https://t.co/mXlvEILg2F 04:22:08, 2019-01-12
RT @Doc_Wolverine: … This was also shared with me, and accusations were leveled.
While this definitely sounds like something I'd do, I… 04:25:03, 2019-01-12
Serious anxiety tonight. I ate some chocolate at 3am to try & take the edge off but it didn't really work.
I really need to sleep but can't. 04:29:07, 2019-01-12
RT @doctorow: #5yrsago Quietnet: near-ultrasonic messaging service sends chat by chirps https://t.co/e0p1IcceNn https://t.co/mnlJIXTBnn 05:38:21, 2019-01-12
RT @metpoliceuk: Appeal to identify men in CCTV images following sexual assault in central London https://t.co/61851nkbUb https://t.co/jokZ… 05:38:27, 2019-01-12
RT @KevinCarson1: No Collision: In the face of climate apocalypse, the rich have been devising escape plans @rushkoff @doctorow | Boston Re… 05:44:41, 2019-01-12
I actually dreamt it was the day before Brexit last night. It was pretty fucking bleak. Still the same political bi… https://t.co/tIsL5LJM3W 12:00:47, 2019-01-12
RT @janemerrick23: This is brilliant from @NickBoles https://t.co/n3Jmhyunk7 https://t.co/QgdfgiUQlC 12:04:53, 2019-01-12
RT @rdt_lm: https://t.co/cslwQJ8gUV 12:15:57, 2019-01-12
@skipai I really doubt they are as it still won't effect them beyond a few investments failing to peak, and that ju… https://t.co/UzSe0X9URI in reply to skipai 12:18:11, 2019-01-12
Racist says "not doing incredibly racist thing is exactly what the racists want" and news believes them. https://t.co/bvbczvym0G 12:21:03, 2019-01-12
No meet for me today. Can't afford it. 12:27:48, 2019-01-12
RT @CherylMorgan: 2016: Brexit has no downside, only sunlit uplands
2019: Agree to the economic and political disaster of Brexit or we’ll s… 12:41:34, 2019-01-12
RT @UnlikelyWorlds: Potential supervillain lair. Needs TLC. Any offer considered.
https://t.co/ZBmmC7KHyS https://t.co/SiEdmkfY4m 12:44:04, 2019-01-12
RT @natashanyt: Tech Ethics 101:
Before you ask the engineering questions (How do we build this? How can we fix biased algos?), ask the big… 12:45:35, 2019-01-12
RT @Unclekage: Forty years ago, a young special-effects enthusiast named Mike Jittlov made this little short film in his garage. It became… 12:48:33, 2019-01-12
RT @JimSterling: One song claimed on behalf of TEN companies. https://t.co/fm0rcy9nYL 12:51:01, 2019-01-12
RT @joerybicki: Leave it to @scalzi to clearly and succinctly summarize the difference between reviewer, critic, and commentator in what is… 20:55:29, 2019-01-12
RT @Rokashi: holy shit https://t.co/oGA6nYI9Eu 21:01:39, 2019-01-12
RT @ironcircuscomix: Oh hey, looks like Hugo Award nominations are open! Why not nominate your fave story from "FTL, Y'all!" in the Best Gr… 21:06:09, 2019-01-12
400m^2 of used mezzanine flooring is anywhere from £10-20k.
No word yet on the installation cost. 21:06:54, 2019-01-12
RT @davidgerard: you can predict Theresa May with 100% accuracy:
she will *always* choose being Prime Minister of a smoking crater, over n… 22:01:37, 2019-01-12
RT @AwwwwCats: The cutest chicken breast https://t.co/VC48rqsWoh 22:02:00, 2019-01-12
RT @seis_matters: Blocking Brexit could cause far-right surge. Fucking scare tactics. Bring on the right-wing. And even if Brexit happens,… 22:03:04, 2019-01-12
There, tidied up. https://t.co/F7zZ0huh5r 23:45:21, 2019-01-12

Twitter Updates for 11-01-2019

Nice. You can buy crane arms to fit vans at relatively low cost. A 900kg capacity one is only about £350. 01:12:21, 2019-01-11
Hot water bottle tonight. 01:13:22, 2019-01-11
RT @willkirkby: https://t.co/BzjTzJDYf5 01:14:46, 2019-01-11
RT @CoronaCoreanici: this is genuinely why it's important to be unapologetically horny on main https://t.co/0GEqlSI0ap 01:15:48, 2019-01-11
@MuzzArts I'm glad you're back. I was scared for you & had no way to know if you were alright. in reply to MuzzArts 03:18:52, 2019-01-11
It's pronounced "mudular". https://t.co/nfTP64zNOf 13:34:57, 2019-01-11
RT @schweitzer_va: Good example of manipulated data visualisation. The reversed y-axis makes an increase look like a decrease. https://t.co… 13:35:40, 2019-01-11
RT @GullibleGull: @UKIP So UKIP supports giving the Falklands to Argentina now? Because of course they'll veto our WTO access until we do. 13:35:55, 2019-01-11
Because there aren't going to be enough police to keep public order. https://t.co/qeEIq45FKk 13:37:56, 2019-01-11
RT @Harryslaststand: I struggle to find the words for this b/c my dad starved as a boy and ate from bins when the grandparents of today's e… 13:38:34, 2019-01-11
RT @Wyla_: Does anyone still make yarn tails? I… want one ? 17:00:08, 2019-01-11
RT @GiantEye: https://t.co/BlKu4PskBh is an #opensource thermal camera for chefs. @noahfeehan built this super cute system and tapped me to… 17:03:29, 2019-01-11
RT @AyoCaesar: The thought of a trans woman sharing a hospital ward with me doesn’t bother me.
What does bother me is our media’s prurien… 17:05:58, 2019-01-11
RT @BrandyLJensen: if you get sick days it is your moral duty to take them! fuck the weirdo strivers who make working while sick seem norma… 17:06:50, 2019-01-11
For US readers.. https://t.co/9ROEKEwG0W 18:16:46, 2019-01-11
RT @garrwolfdog: Oh wow! I never knew there was a print version of Buster Wilde!
I loved that comic back in the 90's!
I wonder how it holds… 19:56:49, 2019-01-11
The pulleys for making the adjustable laser bed have arrived! And six complimentary allen keys. https://t.co/jrHI1o60dN 21:06:39, 2019-01-11
A crimping tool saves on parts. https://t.co/BpaTellk9P 22:00:41, 2019-01-11
The 6th pin on the cheap crimping tool is deformed so it can't make a proper electrical connection.
That's the prob… https://t.co/f882tGg5Jf 22:43:17, 2019-01-11