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Simon Middlemiss (he/him) @SimonMiddlemiss

liberal atheist feminist technologist.

Joined May 2008
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How did I miss that my favorite book series from one of the best scifi authors currently writing is now an Apple TV show? @Writer_Wells001 it's such an amazing adaptation!
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I'm so sad to hear the news that @MrKenMitchell has died. He was an amazing person, and an amazing actor. His portrayal of Kol and other Klingons in #StarTrekDiscovery was magnificent, but my favorite by far was the moving performance of "Aurellio" in "There is a tide..."
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I'm researching the legal & legislative implications of generative AI, so I've been following the Taylor Swift deepfake fallout with interest. I've read 6 articles this morning & it wasn't until I went to Twitter just now that I realized X.com isn't a porn site.

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Hannah@hannahmakes
26 Jan 2024
Hand soldered my first 0201 component today! A teeny capacitor on a PS5 HDMI I knew the husband would *love* a PS5 for xmas but we didn't have that kinda money, so I learned to repair them Got a cheap broken unit, repaired it and gifted it...now I can't stop😅😂 #RightToRepair
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"The Iron Oxide Incident", coming to a cinema near you, January 2024.
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In further evidence that #startrek is awesome, I did a boxing day treasure hunt and the code for the lock at the end was 1701. I complemented the organizer on also being a star trek fan, and they had no idea what I was talking about...
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It's great to see that the people at @OctopusEnergy thought about the process of reading a meter. It's the small things that make a real difference in user experience. #ux #inclusivedesign
A screen shot of the Octopus Energy ap showing the meter reading UX. In the top right hand corner is a toggle button to turn on the phones flashlight so you can see the electricity meter in the dark.

ALT A screen shot of the Octopus Energy ap showing the meter reading UX. In the top right hand corner is a toggle button to turn on the phones flashlight so you can see the electricity meter in the dark.

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"There was a young woman from venus..."
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Dominic Minghella@DMinghella
12 Dec 2023
Just heard the Home Secretary stand up in Parliament and declare that "the British people support the Rwanda plan". I'm sick of these guys telling me what I support. I do not support the "Rwanda plan". If you don't either, please retweet.
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I'm reading Terry Hayes' "Year of the Locust". It's brilliant until 2/3rds through. Others have said this, but my reason is different as I saw the scifi left turn coming. What's killed my suspension of disbelief is optics being used to stealth a sub. Sonar doesn't work like that.
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Okay, I take it back. We've just jumped the shark. In the space of 4 pages, we've gone from spy thriller to EM & sound waves mixed up & optical refraction mixed up with gravitational bending of light.
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Time travel. Oh boy. A bn tiny prisms hid a sub from sonar & caused time travel because no one's tried bending light at the pressures & temps a sub endures. Ignoring that light tends not to GAF about pressure, fairly certain there's a star or two that'd have some input here.
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United Nations
@UN
18 Nov 2023
Schools are #NotATarget. Hospitals are #NotATarget. Children are #NotATarget. Civilians are #NotATarget. Humanitarians are #NotATarget.
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Today, I will mostly be shaving a yak.
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Might sting a bit, but ok.
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Waking up in the middle of the night to find 1000s of likes. 2021 - "ooo, I've gone viral!" 2023 - "eugh, bots"
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Like gender....
Iheanyi Ekechukwu
@kwuchu
13 Oct 2023
I wish I could count the number of times we assumed that something we thought is a binary state and it ends up being an enum later on.
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"There can be no compromise - there are only two possibilities: either victory of the Aryan, or annihilation of the Aryan and the victory of the Jew." - Hitler, 1922
BBC Politics
@BBCPolitics
4 Oct 2023
"We shouldn't get bullied" into believing that "people can be any sex they want to be" "A man is a man, and a woman is a woman, that's just common sense," PM Rishi Sunak says Follow live bbc.in/3rLuHjj
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Star Trek: Prodigy Writers@TrekProdigyRoom
27 Sep 2023
✨ like/comment/retweet if you’d like to see more #StarTrekProdigy crossovers with other shows ✨
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