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One autistic individual is reported to be living the dream, having opened a bookshop and then displayed a large sign in the window reading NO CUSTOMERS. Alix Gardner, 42, has embraced their inner Bernard Black by creating a uniquely hostile retail experience, whereby any potential...

Being a 'good guy' doesn't mean saying the right thing and then getting praise, but saying the difficult thing that prompts an uncomfortable silence.

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An autistic woman trying running for the first time is reportedly stuck on the bit between leaving the house and returning home. Talia Cohen, 40, decided to try to start running because she was too broke for a gym membership, and also because she had...

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From the team behind The Daily Tism and A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs comes the first ever sitcom by and for autistic people. Wait, surely that’s illegal? It’s a Superpower?? follows Norah, Sophie, Pix, Wilder and Bums, five strangers who meet at...

Britain sent paratroopers on a brave and experimental mission in 1941. Get the full story of what happened to these courageous men.

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Britain sent paratroopers on a brave and experimental mission in 1941. Get the full story of what happened to these courageous men.

Britain sent paratroopers on a brave and experimental mission in 1941. Get the full story of what happened to these courageous men.

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In 2000, an unusual motion was passed in the House of Commons. It noted the inaccuracies in the new Hollywood movie U-571, recognised the true history of the capture of an Enigma machine by HMS Bul…

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AI should be AS… There is nothing at all intelligent about AI. But the name ARTIFICIAL STUPID fits perfectly. AS for short. Now, please don’t try to explain to me what AI (or AS) is, I understand it. And for heaven’s sake, don’t tell me about some threat that Harlan imagined over fifty years ago…

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I’ve had a chance to try using my Palm m505 and folding keyboard several times now. I’ve found that it works well when I’m writing something that doesn’t require frequent reference to sources. The keyboard is large enough for comfortable typing. The Palm screen is…

You may have noticed that my website is now looking very different. I've just migrated from WordPress to a static…

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This is a very good account of the Able Archer war scare in 1983. It's unusual, though, in that it includes scans of thirteen important primary source documents. I read the ebook, and I was surprised when the main narrative ended at about the 42%…

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The Life and Death of the Spanish Republic A Witness to the Spanish Civil War By Henry Buckley Published by I. B. Tauris & Co. Ltd ISBN: 978...

I bought Save the last bullet after hearing about it on The WW2 Podcast. It's a memoir by a teenager that was conscripted to fight against the Allies at the end of the Second World War. I had expected the bulk of it to he…

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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LibreOffice extensions are optional, third-party addons for the suite, that add extra functionality. Bora Yarkın has been working on a new extension for LibreOffice Impress, so let’s hear from him about it… Tell us about it! The extension lets you control a LibreOffice Impress presentation from your phone or any other device with a modern web browser. When you start the remote, LibreOffice displays a QR code. Scan it with your phone and the presentation starts from the first slide. The phone interface then shows the current slide, presenter notes, elapsed time and navigation controls. I tried to make the process as simple as possible: no separate mobile application and no manual pairing codes. The remote can be opened from the Slide Show menu in LibreOffice’s top application menu bar—the menu alongside File, Edit, View and the other main menus. This should not be confused with the Slide Show tab inside LibreOffice’s Tabbed user interface. LibreOffice’s UNO extension API does not currently let me add commands to that built-in tab. When using the Tabbed interface, the remote commands are therefore available under the Extensions tab instead. The extension currently provides several connection modes: Local network: The phone connects directly to

What do you do when the thing you love turns out to have been created by someone whose ideology or behaviour repulses you?

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