Alex @stsquad@mastodon.org.uk

Moar election data.

RT @PhilRodgers@twitter.com

Scatterplot of turnout in Thursday's EU elections (across) and Remain vote share in 2016 (up) by @PJHeneghan@twitter.com. As you can see turnout tended to be higher in Remain areas. I've labelled Cambridge and South Cambs; unsurprisingly we are outliers.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/PhilRodgers/status/1132183093606014976

I have come to the realisation that it might take a while for #mosh to issue a new release so it's time to build from tip of tree on my machines so I can enjoy roaming with #trucolour terminals - and of course #emacs themes 🌈

Anecdotally my local ward was seeing brisker voting yesterday than for most local elections. However that data point is very dependent on when people walk their dogs. It will be interesting to see both the results and turnouts on Sunday.

RT @hnjsamuels@twitter.com

@andygmckay@twitter.com This is a really interesting thread so I graphed it

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/hnjsamuels/status/1131720536386625538

Jeez the National Rail website takes some convincing to tell you the actual cheapest fares. Fortunately I knew they existed having checked on the excellent traintimes.org.uk website first. Tickets booked for a weekend in #manchester!

I was helping one of my kids with their 1960's timeline for homework. We tried to avoid the cliches and were looking for something for 1970 when I remembered - "start of unix time" ;-)

..I enjoyed it. It certainly meets grrm's bitter sweet prediction. The pack seem to be surviving by scattering to the four winds although I guess on their own terms this time.

waiting on #mu4e to rebuild it's database. Takes a while on a 37gb Maildir.

Every time I'm about to press the button on upgrading my ageing rig at home another processor vulnerability gets reported. As the mitigations get applied to my rig it's performance drops again. Video playback almost always causes the thermal limiting to kick in these days.

Where has the fish gone? #russiandoll #binging

Aaand it looks like I jumped the gun: https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/05/no-someone-hasnt-cracked-the-code-of-the-mysterious-voynich-manuscript/?

It seems the language of the #voynich manuscript has finally been identified (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02639904.2019.1599566). It's not been fully translated so far but what has so far seems to match up pretty well. Fascinating.

The first two #euro elections leaflets have arrived. The #labour one has a 3 clause conditional before backing a #peoplesvote. The #changeuk leaflet is short and unambiguous about having another vote.

RT @julianhuppert@twitter.com

I think he means it's an embarrassment for Assange ...

Funny really, because if Assange thought there wasn't a strong case against him in Sweden, he'd surely welcome this as a way to avoid deportation to the US.

https://twitter.com/SkyNewsBreak/status/1127871379167174658

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/julianhuppert/status/1127876012375670784

Learning about the D'Hondt method of vote allocation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27Hondt_method) in preparation for the Euro elections. However I suspect total MEP's will be less important than turnout and vote share.

and also to ensure "acc mastodon set hide_sensitive true" #bitlbee rocks ;-)

the key is to preface posts with a separate line (cw blah....)