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Vickie Gray 🍁
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Vickie Gray, owner of GrayMatterGRCltd.com. Lead author for ITIL (version 5) Product. Posting and boosting about digital stuff, ITIL, PRINCE2 Agile, information security, autism, greyhounds, gardening, social justice, human rights. Calls out bullies and fascists. Plays bagpipes. I’m not arguing, I’m autistic.
William Lindsey 
"Mr. Trump didn't just happen to America. He was elected, twice – the second time after attempting a coup. That alone should tell us that something fundamental has changed in American society, that it is so broken that one half of it could knowingly put a degenerate lunatic in the White House just to spite the other half."
~ Andrew Coyne
#Trump #Republicans #MAGA #corruption #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteSupremacy #cruelty #immigrants
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https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-trump-may-be-temporary-the-damage-he-is-doing-isnt/
AI6YR BenWow, they sewed the Apollo spacesuits with TREADLE control (one stitch at a time)
MIT Press: The Bra-and-Girdle Maker That Fashioned the Impossible for NASA
"...Key to these demands were NASA’s painstaking engineering standards, which pushed the very limits of the equipment and seamstresses’ own techniques. The tolerances allowed — less than a 64th of an inch in only one direction from the seam — meant that yard after yard of fabric was sewn to an accuracy smaller than the sewing needle’s eye. To achieve such precision, many women used a modified treadle that, instead of starting and stopping a Singer sewing machine’s operation, fired one stitch per footfall through the multiple layers of a suit’s surface. ..."
h/t @wtrmt
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-bra-and-girdle-maker-that-fashioned-the-impossible-for-nasa/
Misty
Mike ShewardOk, if you are particularly sensitive to the effects of irony, I suggest you take a seat before reading further.
In what is perhaps the most perfect encapsulation of everything that this experiment has shown so far, last night, deleted-user.com received over 400 emails from the same organization.
This was an EU based tech firm.
The purpose of those emails? They were from the company's legal team, advising users of updated terms and conditions, and the first update was:
"Data protection: we added language explaining how we handle personal data under the GDPR"
Brian Bilston
Kevin BeaumontIf anybody is wondering, mastodon.social server got DDoS’d yesterday but it had no impact on cyberplace.social (and other Mastodon servers) - no queue issues either. Everything just worked as expected.
In other news, “decentralised” network BlueSky has been down so much recently the status page doesn’t even work.
Jerry 🦙💝🦙Due to ongoing pressure from governments globally, we are instituting an age verification program. Recognizing that it is not possible to confirm your age based on a picture of your face, we will instead be counting the number of rings you have. We understand this is the most accurate measure of age.
George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽Today I turn 89. I’ve seen this country at its best and its worst, and I know how much community matters. For my birthday, I’m asking you to stand with PFLAG and support the work that’s helped so many in the LGBTQ+ community, including me. https://give.pflag.org/page/95493/donate/1
Jan Wildeboer 😷
DDos (Distributed Denial of Service) attack against BlueSky a few days ago: The whole network goes down.
DDoS against mastodon.social today: Lots of users on that instance impacted, the rest of the Fediverse keeps on running, my instance doesn't really notice, messages will be queued up until mastodon.social is reachable again.
Both networks claim to be decentralised and federated. You decide :)