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“I increasingly saw senior officials interpreting their role as doing what ministers say and providing protections to ministers. It was almost as if their first loyalty being to their political leaders rather than to the public,” she said.

“Essentially people who said ‘yes’ and went along with it and bought into this shift in culture and approach were those whose careers went well. Those who resisted either found themselves buried somewhere or looking for jobs elsewhere”
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/feb/03/whistleblower-who-revealed-fall-of-kabul-chaos-sues-uk-government-after-sacking

Where were you when the Chinese weather balloon floated over Montana

Calculating Florida DL#'s

Florida driver's license numbers, for better or worst, can be calculated by hand if you know three things about them:

🔎Name (First MI Last)
🔎Date of Birth
🔎Gender at birth

Florida DL# number have the format of

🅰️#️⃣#️⃣#️⃣–✴️✴️✴️–✳️✳️–⚧️⚧️⚧️–0️⃣
[A-Z][0-6]{3}-[0-6]{3}-[0-9]{2}-[05]00-[0-9]

🅰️ → First letter of last name
#️⃣#️⃣#️⃣ → Soundex of rest of last name
✴️✴️✴️ → Soundex of first name + MI
✳️✳️ → Last two of birth year
⚧️⚧️⚧️ → DOB + birth gender
0️⃣ → [0-9] Zero usually, overflow for duplicate id #s

#OSINT #Soundex #DL #Florida #FL #Investigation #CatSalad

Paper sizes world map

It's dangerous to go alone! Take this tramway.

Things getting desperate down the supermarket 😂🐟🍷 #Morrisons #Gibraltar #brexit

You can now add up to four social account links to your GitHub profile which render with a sprinkling of formatting support for our most popular platforms. Yes, the resulting links links will satisfy Mastodon verification requirements when rendered.

To get started, visit your profile and click the "Edit profile" button in the sidebar.

Incredible improvements in the Twitter app lately. It once struggled to take up even half this much system memory

People love to harp on cultural differences between countries, but regional idiosyncrasies within each country are an oft overlooked source of fun:

French people from Brittany refuse to acknowledge the mere existence of unsalted butter. Northern and Southern Italians will start a civil war over the proper way to make a ragù sauce. Japan's Kantō people love natto, to the dismay of Kansai people. Brits spread cream then jam on their scones, except for a marginal minority of inbred southerners.