Mark D

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

Related: I’m still looking for leads and help on jobs, fellowships, and freelance contracts on drones, GIS, aid, disaster, OSINT, tech ethics, and journalism. I simply will not work for evil people and/or weapons manufacturers, which is also why I haven’t had paying work since Trump 2.0 began.

for too long people have fallen over themselves to argue that while Musk's companies may break laws, harm workers and torture animals, and though he may use the proceeds to persecute the most vulnerable in our society, the products are actually very good... and no, that's just not true long-term!

Should men be allowed to vote?

Westminster station -the portal to British government, passed through by 1000s of policymakers every day - almost always offers a good illustration of why TfL & @london.gov.uk need to curb fossil fuel ads on our tubes, trains & buses. BP isn’t advertising here to sell consumers more petrol directly

I've now migrated my bluesky account across to eurosky and away from USA controlled servers. Quick and painless.

I keep doing Bridge Command when I’m in London and

It really knocks you on your ass when you realize the problem is that the fascists are largely made up of a bunch of grown men in arrested development who spend their adult lives playing pretend and making everyone miserable as they LARP through the world.

What's up,

Vulnerability xkcd.com/3314/

i remember briefly wondering whether Tate was something to worry about, then i saw that BBC interview and realised the first person he reminded me of was the Squeaky Voiced Teen from the simpsons

not yet, funk soul brother

interviewer: give me an example of a time when you took control of a situation me: no, YOU give ME an example interviewer: lol okay, that was pretty impressive me: I’m afraid we’re going to have to let you go interviewer: *being led away by security* what is happening right now

Sidewalk humour about an all too familiar experience.

is this partly why we cant afford NHS

This job posting has a bit of a whiff of 'toxic workplace' about it lol

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BREAKING: trump renames the United States as the America’d Americas of America

Just got all my boys together to take on the wandering ronin who came to town. There’s like 15 of us and only one of him so pretty much the only thing that would give me any pause is if he was master of the devastating and lightning-fast iaidō style. But that’s not likely. Coward hasn’t even drawn h

Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First https://theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351/

Casualties down. Pollution down. Road danger down. Trade in local shops up. Numbers of vacant shops down. Low traffic neighbourhoods are a win-win for everyone. road.cc/news/ltn-oxf...

i have walked past this victorian toll bridge near my house literally 10,000 times and never once stopped to look at all the crazy old timey modes of transport listed on the reproduction toll bridge sign

the survival instinct is strong in this one

me: dr pepper, please waitress: is mr pibb okay? me: can mr pibb diagnose me? waitress: me: i swear it shouldn’t be so hard to get in to see a doctor

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

Yeah I love AI An Italiansandwich

Preserve endangered animals

"You've just got to be a bit savvy to get the broad appeal, then once you're in you can do what you want,” Cllr Feeney "We're not f*** stupid enough to piss off the entire woke south" said Cllr David Kerr "The stuff people are uncomfortable with, don't annoince it, just do it" said Cllr Perkins

Leaving X has, I'm pretty sure, hit my bookings and career. But it comes at the massive bonus of a) my own mental wellbeing and b) not providing free content for the owner of Starlink:

it turns out that “optimize for engagement” and “optimize for societal best outcomes” are opposing goals and if you look at the entire history of the tech industry you can see which of those two wins out

undeclared mustard is my salt-n-papa cover band

BOB THE BEER DROPPER: I make the worst decisions ME: hold my beer

my hummus just had a whole chickpea in it, so i guess now i'm suing Lidl