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Look at how pure the signal is from the peregrine's wings. The signal from feral pigeon is extremely noisy in comparison, as if it is fighting to stay the in the air. The peregrine…

Same here. I can still hear them breathing quite clearly in the next room, even with the bedroom doors partially closed. My hearing for noises further away got more sensitive, but …

You forgot to mention personal integrity and setting a good example to others.

If you need an authoritative source, look no further than the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. https://www.jrf.org.uk/uk-poverty-2025-the-essential-guide-t...

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Not at all, the slightly snarky wording, was typed on the spur of the moment. Incidentally, I tried the same terms on Google and the AI-powered answer was rather informative with t…

I'd be very interested in learning more about how DOGE got staffed. If your goal was to dramatically cut government spending, then hiring bright, young people, with no prior experi…

> you are always birding Amen, Brother. I think a large part of the blame for this state of affairs belongs to people like the BBC's Natural History Unit who licence their material…

The path of progress is strewn with needles.

Microsoft at least sees the writing on the wall... Microsoft announces new European digital commitments https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2025/04/30/europea...

A somewhat public thank you to Donald Omand from Aberdeen University for all the work he did in documenting the dialect of Caithness - that purple-ish bit at the far top right of t…

Spaghetti revealling scientific truths? Bobby Henderson would not be amused, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastafarians

1972 is the answer to the question on the lips of everybody too busy to look at the source files.

I expect first responders rarely have to deal with the level of depravity mentioned in this Wired article from 2014, https://www.wired.com/2014/10/content-moderation/ You probably …

Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) heads are white in the breeding season. Birds start breeding aged three to five. So technically the statement is correct but I wonder if Gemi…

Technologists' very existence is based on the idea of improvement, and, as a result, making the lives of others better. Compared to other approaches, nothing has delivered quite on…

What kinds of forests? For nature, or for lumber? If the latter, what is quality of the timber produced, or will it spark a new wave of power stations burning wood pellets. Lots of…

If you wear gloves, you'll always wear gloves - annec-data from the crew I used to go out with catching shorebirds, in Scotland, in the middle of winter. The glove wearers we unabl…

This is a re-run of the end of the first dot-com boom where the rest of the organisation got some payback against the pampered and coddled engineers who built the web sites in betw…

Interesting to see from the press release that Right to Repair is being cracked down upon: When a product is repaired and upgraded outside the original manufacturer’s control, the …

The prices for housing, in any form, in the major metropolitan areas suggest this will not be successful.

Thanks for that. I didn't realise that the community extended beyond the government departments.

Horn tooting time... I wrote, https://github.com/wildfish/crispy-forms-gds/ , a template pack for Crispy Forms for regular, form-based, Django sites. Matt's done a great job and it…

Wikipedia always delivers, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-resident_citizen_voting "As of 2020 a total of 141 countries grant expatriates the right to vote in elections in their …

tamaiti - a Maori name seems to be the obvious choice