The NTP servers at the National Physical Laboratory appear to be down. I am connected to the pool-address for the UK, which rules out shenanigans affecting NTP packets generally.
Dave Bell
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Born in 1958, Socialist, Furry, Filker, this is a reserve account, but not inert. There is a highway to hell, but only a stairway to heaven: I doubt your car will get you up a stairway.
I have seen a report from the BBC that Nancy Pelosi will not seek re-election to the US Congress.There is her age, and this is nothing special for the timing of the process. I expect some blathering about what the Democratic Party should do. Voters, real people rather than Pundits, will need to organise.. The election takes place next year. There are the Primaries. None of the timing is special, not the same as a death that could happen on any day.
I have been puzzling over the way vehicles use road space, and how it relates to speed.
It turns out that doubling the speed needs four times the distance to stop. So two times the number of vehicles can go past a marker, but it needs four times the space to be safe. So the road uses twice as much ground per vehicle.
Yes, I didn't include the thinking distance in that.
I can assure youthis is not Rocket Science. I used to play Kerbal Space Program.
I suppose "Bill Bailey" is not so unusual a name, but Google will link you to hundreds of videos showing a porn star of that name.
And then they will sell your name to porn producers who want customers.
My usual account will be affected by the particular server undergoing major maintenance.
The Fediverse has been my most reliable contact point for gossip about the British Eastercon, which is being held in Belfast. Some stories do get onto Bluesky, which is better than most US-based Social Media, but connections that cross the USA-border have become unreliable during Friday.
I have seen Bad People in Fandom, some more obvious than others. My parents taught me about Fascists.
The picture that best shows the USA on Saturday was the one of armed police guarding an abandoned backpack full of Monopoly money.
I am not sure that I can trust the alternative social media services they name here, but the North Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Trust today are stopping using the X Service, formerly known as Twitter
https://x.com/NHSNLaG/status/1840730661562302662?t=UMtDjvj-CS0xlEOxE1nskg&s=19
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Mark Holtom (aka Kingbeard)