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This is the West Coast Main Line, the UK's primary route from London to Scotland and the north of England.
Without HS2, there are no plans for climate resilient sustainable infrastructure linking the UK north-south into the middle of the century.
⚠️ NEW: Major disruption between #MiltonKeynes & #Rugby
❌ All trains suspended through #Northampton due to severe flooding caused by the River Nene bursting its banks
📲 Please check nationalrail.co.uk for journey info
@LNRailway @AvantiWestCoast
#StormBert
ALT A photo of severe flooding on the railway through Northampton station after the River Nene burst its banks during Storm Bert
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The US government recently bought powerful spyware that could make hacking your phone easier—and shape the way Trump executes some of his campaign promises, including mass deportations. My latest in @newyorker: newyorker.com/news/news-desk…
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If you want to throw minorities on the pyre and present it as strategic pragmatism, then you should at least cost the fact that they will obviously resist it (and you!) into said strategy, instead of whining about them being mean to you! What did you think would happen lol
My archive hasn't shown up yet, so I remain tethered. I guess they're getting a lot of archive requests atm
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Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X theguardian.com/media/2024/n…
I'll be closing this account soon. It's been 15 years; the community on this app has gotten me through thick and thin, I'll be sorry to leave it.
If you want to stay in touch, I'm scifinch on bluesky or instagram
Why am I absolutely REPULSED by this giant grape
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the physicality of information still blows my mind
-the string that is your third grade teacher's name
-a 2D image of lebron james' face
-a lossy 3D video of your ex's parents that one night 7 years ago
all sitting there encoded as volts in volumetric space in your synapses
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Around ten years ago, I started studying inverse problems in Topological Data Analysis (TDA). For decades people in computational geometry have used tools like Reeb graphs and persistent homology to summarize shape in data, but how lossy is this process? A thread... 1/n
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made up a game called “who are you kissin” where I kiss my wife as someone else in my head and try to make her guess who it is. she hates it
