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Celebrating Windrush Foundation’s 30th Anniversary event at The Tab Centre, London, SE13 on Saturday, June 21, 2025, from 6 pm to 8:30 pm.
Please arrive at 5:30 pm - (NO ENTRY AFTER 6:30 pm). Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/celebrating

❗ "Massey is the 13th councillor in Scotland, out of a total of 1,226, to have defected to Reform"
- I can't help wondering if Farage, who has access to large sums of right-wing American money, is PAYING those councillors to defect, literally BUYING THEM.

These lads really loved Bohemian Rhapsody when they first heard it a few months ago, so no wonder they also like the LIve Aid set. Despite the fact that they don't speak English they have some great insights.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txRyUSmBHNU

I was originally planning on taking my pickup truck to Oshkosh for the fly-in in July, but then I gave it to my sister. I wonder if I can get my EV there and back again. I know that I can top up the battery in Port Washington but the last time I tried to juice up in West Bend, every charger was broken.

Another gorgeous Canberra winter day. We drove a little then walked the remaining 3km to the restaurant. Had a fabulous lunch then walked 3km back to the car and drove home. Not exactly our best effort but at least we walked a little. Some days that's all you can do.
#Lunch #Walking

Holy s*** repairing the car's paint damages after winter is extremely expensive.
As ignorant as I am, I was just there at the skadesenter listening in horror to how a thing here and a thing there and there basically meant that one needed to paint the whole roof, the whole back, and the whole door, of course taking apart half the car because whatever, so here it is a 56 kNOK quote.
WHAT.

I am once again asking GHC devs to make it possible for tooling such as HLint and the Haskell Language Server to compile against multiple versions of GHC.
I realise that this is a gigantic undertaking, but if you're wondering why people don't stick with Haskell, it might be because every compiler version upgrade breaks *everything*.

masks at protests / demographics
Interestingly, at the May Day gathering I was the only one in a mask.
Thinking about the contrast with the trans protest the other week, where "good" (fitted not floppy) masks were dotted about throughout the crowd, and felt normalised.
Today's march was a less crowded event than the trans protest, so pretty low-risk for covid transmission anyway. But then when we got to the mini-fair after the march, indoors at the Friends' Meeting House, I didn't see anyone masking indoors either.
I wonder about the demographics of that difference. Seems like there's a traditional union/Labour left who share the mainstream denial of present-day covid, and a statistically more disabled & marginalised cohort where trans awareness and disability/illness awareness overlap.
#masks #CovidIsntOver

I watched a video of the ukrainians blowing up Soviet era aircraft and I have to wonder: why are there tires scattered all over the wings and top surfaces of those planes?

Lonely Little Red Dots: Challenges to the AGN-nature of little red dots through their clustering and spectral energy distributions
Mar\'ia de las Mercedes Carranza Escudero, Christopher J. Conselice, Nathan Adams, Thomas Harvey, Duncan Austin, Peter Behroozi, Leonardo Ferreira, Katherine Ormerod, Qiao Duan, James Trussler, Qiong Li, Lewi Westcott, Rogier A. Windhorst, Dan Coe, Seth H. Cohen, Cheng Cheng, Simon P. Driver, Brenda Frye, Lukas J. Furtak, Norman A. Grogin, Nimish P. Hat…

Lonely Little Red Dots: Challenges to the AGN-nature of little red dots through their clustering and spectral energy distributions
Observations with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveal a previously unseen population of compact red objects, known as ``little red dots`` (LRDs). We study a new photometrically selected sample of 124 LRDs in the redshift range $z$ $\sim$ 3 - 10 selected from NIRCam coverage of the CEERS, NEP-TDF, JADES and JEMS surveys. For JADES, the NEP-TDF and CEERS, we compare SED models with and without AGN components and analyse the impact of an AGN component on the goodness of fit using the Baye…