TIL why (in British English) we don't use a dot after the “St” short form of “Street”.

The “t” in “St” is *not* the second letter of “Street”, but the sixth. So it's not an abbreviation (like “Prof.” for “Professor”, “etc.” in “et cetera”, etc.), it's a contraction (like “Dr” in “Doctor”, “Mr” in “Mister”, “St” in “Saint” and so on) and contractions don't have a dot.

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I assumed it was just a weird English thing, but turns out I found the only language feature that's entirely consistent 

So the UK Met Office is inviting people to suggest up to 5 names for storms. And apparently lots of people have been suggesting "Storm Bigoil", along with BP, Equinor, Exxon & Shell... This is obviously appalling & definitely not to be emulated via this link:

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-our-storms-call-for-names

if anyone needs to know the time, 1194online.com has you covered

https://1194online.com/

Good news, the Tuscolo CT logs are now "Qualified" (meaning that some of your certs are/will soon be using our CT log!!)

The bad news is that by including our new logs in the well known list of CT logs, some stuff now instantly crashes (seemingly because the array of non "Sunlight" (aka next gen) logs is empty).

Impacted things seem to include:

1. 80% of the food delivery app market in Brazil
2. Lots of banks in India
3. Lowes????
4. Basically any app that uses appmattus/certificatetransparency

Suboptimal.

More info:

1. https://github.com/appmattus/certificatetransparency/issues/143
2. https://github.com/google/certificate-transparency-go/issues/1712

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

MUNICH (June 15th, 2025) - FAFO e.V. has announced today that it has successfully observed quantum tunneling effects between a tungsten probe (made with a pair of pliers) and a brass plate in a DIY scanning tunneling microscope that one of its members built a decade ago.

"Oh, we are tunneling!", exclaimed @rahix, lead Rust developer at FAFO, having never done this sort of work in his life before. "I think we can work with it", he claimed with full confidence.

it lives!  JVM in Bash

for now it only has ~5 opcodes implemented, and one virtual method (println). So this is literally the minimal amount of Stuff to get a hello world working

next up, conditionals?

Big thanks to my friends at @trekcore who have edited together the bridge/viewscreen footage with Kirk in command, spread over 8 #StarTrekTOS season 1-3 episodes and put it all back together into one long sequence, the way it was originally filmed almost 60 years ago. Check it out at the Trekcore Youtube channel. This was well worth all the research! 😊

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WM9mjSIHfk