Idle Coronation Thoughts

How Britain has changed since 1953: A black lady soprano singing the anthem as the congregation filter into the abbey. And the BBC put a QR code overlaid on the TV picture with a link to the Order of Service on their website for people to scan with their mobile phone...

Those Wacky Brits, part 94.

Apparently, two people in the crowd on the procession route, are dressed as chickens.

When the BBC reporter asked them, why, they said, "We are coronation chickens!“ Um…

Those Wacky Brits, part 95

The BBC commentator informs us, in hushed tones, that the lead horse drawing the carriage is a Major, "the most senior ranking horse in the British Army." Note the slightly disconcerting absence of the word "honourary" anywhere in that sentence.

At the risk of doing a bad Abbott and Costello riff, when they're all gathered together on pay parade, Who gets the money?

Republicans arrested

Note for my American friends (most of whom are on the "left hand side of the aisle") – the headline "Republican protest leaders arrested and taken away by Met Police" is NOT the story you might think (or even hope) it is.

Mathematical Social Media

Good example of how the decentralised nature of Mastodon allows individual servers to develop both their own “flavour” of userbase and server-specific functionality, all as part of the overall Fediverse.

RT FediGarden@social.growyourown.services Mathstodon.xyz is a server for people who love maths. We have LaTeX rendering in the web interface! We hope there’ll be lots of maths chat, but any topic of conversation following the code of conduct and the principle of getting along together is OK.