Mike Sandells 

@mikejs
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#Windows #SysAdmin, Occasional #Coder, #DevinTownsend fan, #DarkSouls, Occasional #Guitarist, #Green, #Left. He/him.

I have a website, but I last updated it in 2008... Might do something about that.

So in summary: all that nonsense talk about young people suddenly turning to Jesus was nonsense and church attendance remains in long-term, near-existential decline. Still, they got nearly a year of utterly baseless headlines out of it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Church attendance report pulle...
Church attendance report pulled after YouGov finds 'fraudulent' responses

The original report claimed a rise in young people attending church in England and Wales.

BBC News
The existence of toblerone implies the existence of related triangular hydrochocolate chains such as the base alkane (toblerane), as well as the closed ring form (cyclotoblerone)

Honestly… I thought that the Christian Rapture was a religious concept going back to the very beginning of the religion.

Nope. John Nelson Darby created it in the 1800s, after he had a fall and a knocked his nogging real hard.

Look him up. It’s a hoot.

Dr. Chuck Tingle putting difficult things into words as always 🔥

There's this myth that automated spam detection is hard because spammers are all very clever masters of disguise.

No. Spammers are stupid as a shoe. They have dog shit for brains.

Automated spam detection is hard because the line between spam and "legitimate" marketing activity is a fiction.

We really, really need to enshrine in law the idea that fines be proportional to the size of the entity being fined. Stop fining near-trillion-dollar companies in the millions and start fining them in percentages of their market cap. Fifty million dollars is shake out the couch money to these guys. Two percent of market cap and you're goddamn right they'll pay attention.
A random question: My place was built with all the plumbing for a central-vac system that I have no intention of using ever. What alternative uses might I have, for this idle series of tubes? Right answers, speculative answers and hilariously wrong answers equally welcome.
C'mon, y'all - "run cat6", what are you doing here in the fedi with an answer like that. The good answers so far include "rapid hamster delivery pneumatics" and "baked beans on tap".

One thousand years of 😳

From an early ninth-century manuscript (Basel, Universitätsbiblitohek, N I 1:3c, fol. 2r).

The sun is shining, the wind is blowing a gale, and just 2.4% of British electricity is coming from fossil fuels. See the live data at https://grid.iamkate.com.