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  1. Celine drawing to celebrate Fields of Mistria releasing the 1.0 update🌷
    #fom #fieldsofmistria #fanart #art

  2. So maddening that Spa Francorchamps will only be on an alternate year cycle for #f1 I get that in the big money world of #fom and #libertymedia it's a difficult venue: half capacity of modern circuits and not so easy to get to. But it is the best IMO!

  3. His love of VAXen

    My longtime friend and acquaintance, Dr. Bernd Ulmann, Once had so little space in his home that he had to sleep on top of the machinery he had rescued. Dubbed, "The VAXMAN" by a visiting friend of his, the name stuck, and to this day we have an awful lot of history that would otherwise not exist - but at great personal sacrifice and expense I might add.

    Here's but a taste of the vagaries that cometh your way when you indulge yourself in a (worthwhile) labor of love, one that is now shared with people worldwide, but nevertheless not without great, unforseen difficulties:

    Since the warehouse was quite filled with computers I asked the company to place the tiles into the cellar and decided to bring them up into the first floor when I began to glue the supports to the floor. I never thought that 5 tons of floor tiles would be so heavy! One tile weights about 13 kg and at the beginning I carried two tiles at once (by the way - to bring something up from the cellar one has to walk around the warehouse - there is no direct in-house connection) - after some time I carried one tile at a time and after two days I could barely walk with a floor tile in my hands. By the way - the special glue to fixate the support stands to the floor is a fantastic glue - it glues shoes as well to the floor as gloves, hands to gloves, everything to everything.

    We won't even go into the precarious rebuild of the roof or subsequent repairs, or the catastrophe that resulted in a hockey rink in and around dozens of vintage computer systems when a water main broke whilst he was away attending a conference in the United States (Ouch!).

    You can indulge yourself in the magic that resulted in his Computer Museum HERE

    There's got to be one of those laws that goes something like, "Everything always runs just fine until you close and lock the door behind you for the weekend getaway"

    If there's truly an attribution for that phenomena (that everyone of us knows all too well) then do let me know!

    Needles to say, he know longer sleeps atop PDP-11 systems, and I think his wife Rikka had something to do with being the motivational force in the commissioning of the wonderful computing museum, effectively putting an end to his bachelor life sleeping with VAXen.

    Today, Prof Ulmann is a Professor of Business Informatics at FOM University in Frankfurt, Germany (FOM Hochschule für Oekonomie und Management). His computer museum is located in Heidenrod-Kemel, in the state of Hesse, and I believe it is still welcoming visitors by appointment.

    In 2023, Dr. Ulmann founded anabrid GmbH in Berlin, continuing the pursuit of his decades long passion that predates his undergraduate years - analog computing, and even its place in the application of future AI, as demonstrated in his most recent published paper HERE. As a semiconductor company, One of the obvious missions of anabrid is the manufacturing of analog computers on a chip - beyond the bleeding edge, actually.

    You can browse his Analog computer collection online HERE - it's a truly amazing accomplishment, even for the lay-person to behold. Truly.

    Bernd Ulmann, a remarkable steward of computing history and visionary pioneer in the applied sciences of analog computing.

    Before you go you should know...

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    #tallship #analog_computing #Bernd_Ulmann #FOM #computer_museum #VAXMAN

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  4. #refugees #migration #FoM #exodus #geopolitics Opinion. I think, understand, (#verstehen) that the history of #mankind #hom_sap #culture can be understood through the lens of #movement / #evolution with the rare but necessary #blackswan event. e.g. the flood, solar pulses and the like. Only a #theory but covers most of the bases ?

  5. #refugees #migration #FoM #exodus #geopolitics Opinion. I think, understand, (#verstehen) that the history of #mankind #hom_sap #culture can be understood through the lens of #movement / #evolution with the rare but necessary #blackswan event. e.g. the flood, solar pulses and the like. Only a #theory but covers most of the bases ?

  6. #FoM #EU I know it's good news for students but not heard the word #Erasmus and shelfishly what about us oldies on the #Flixbus . I want more than 90 days, I can't get 'there and back again' on that timescale. #EuroTramp

  7. #FoM #EU I know it's good news for students but not heard the word #Erasmus and shelfishly what about us oldies on the #Flixbus . I want more than 90 days, I can't get 'there and back again' on that timescale. #EuroTramp

  8. #RejoinEU #radionews #brexit #bbc whisper it ever so quietly #badenoch admits the #tories may have lied about the costs of the divorce. Meanwhile #shama #starma looks to 'reset' without touching the #customs #union or #fom. Well good luck with that you w⚓ .#ForeverEUropean ✊🏽 💖 🇪🇺 😎

  9. #RejoinEU #radionews #brexit #bbc whisper it ever so quietly #badenoch admits the #tories may have lied about the costs of the divorce. Meanwhile #shama #starma looks to 'reset' without touching the #customs #union or #fom. Well good luck with that you w⚓ .#ForeverEUropean ✊🏽 💖 🇪🇺 😎

  10. 🎊 Gratulation, Inga! 🥂
    Unsere jüngste Festangestellte und zugleich dienstälteste Mitarbeiterin hat Großes erreicht: Neben ihrer Arbeit bei Bonn.digital hat sie in den letzten 3,5 Jahren „nebenbei“ ihr Studium „Digitale Medien & Marketing“ erfolgreich absolviert.
    Eine beeindruckende Leistung! Wir sind stolz, eine so zuverlässige, sympathische und erfahrene Kollegin wie Dich zu haben.

    Toll, dass wir dieses Ereignis gemeinsam feiern dürfen! 👩🏻‍🎓

    #Bachelor #DualesStudium #Bonndigital #FOM

  11. 🎊 Gratulation, Inga! 🥂
    Unsere jüngste Festangestellte und zugleich dienstälteste Mitarbeiterin hat Großes erreicht: Neben ihrer Arbeit bei Bonn.digital hat sie in den letzten 3,5 Jahren „nebenbei“ ihr Studium „Digitale Medien & Marketing“ erfolgreich absolviert.
    Eine beeindruckende Leistung! Wir sind stolz, eine so zuverlässige, sympathische und erfahrene Kollegin wie Dich zu haben.

    Toll, dass wir dieses Ereignis gemeinsam feiern dürfen! 👩🏻‍🎓

    #Bachelor #DualesStudium #Bonndigital #FOM

  12. On the train from Belgium to Austria via Germany. No passport control, multiple languages all around me.
    #FreedomOfMovement #FoM

  13. On the train from Belgium to Austria via Germany. No passport control, multiple languages all around me.
    #FreedomOfMovement #FoM

  14. So the #EU offered the UK the chance of returning to a version of #FOM for 18-30 years old. An incredible opportunity for the younger generation to experience what people my age took for granted; the ability to experience the cultures of our nearest neighbours by living in other European countries for a decent period of time (max four years).

    And so what did the #tories do? Said no.

    What a bunch of small minded absolutely evil cunts they are.

  15. So the #EU offered the UK the chance of returning to a version of #FOM for 18-30 years old. An incredible opportunity for the younger generation to experience what people my age took for granted (the ability to experience the cultures of our nearest neighbours.

    And so what did the #tories do? Said no.

    What a bunch of small minded absolutely evil cunts they are.

  16. If only the readers of the Daily Express had the right of freedom of movement to allow them to move to another European country to retire.

    But the same Daily Express readers voted to deny that right to all but the very wealthiest of Brits. Certainly six out of ten British adults won't be rich enough to meet the criteria for a third country citizen to adopt permanent residence in, say, Spain when they retire. More like one in twenty.

    #Brexit #brexitshambles #schadenfreude #fom

  17. If only the readers of the Daily Express had the right of freedom of movement to allow them to move to another European country to retire.

    But the same Daily Express readers voted to deny that right to all but the very wealthiest of Brits. Certainly six out of ten British adults won't be rich enough to meet the criteria for a third country citizen to adopt permanent residence in, say, Spain when they retire. More like one in twenty.

    #Brexit #brexitshambles #schadenfreude #fom

  18. Freedom of Movement: the Key to Rejoin - A toolkit for pro-EU campaigners
    please sign up and share widely
    "Why is Freedom of Movement so important?
    How do we explain this to our fellow citizens"?
    #FOM
    tickettailor.com/events/grassr

  19. Freedom of Movement: the Key to Rejoin - A toolkit for pro-EU campaigners
    please sign up and share widely
    "Why is Freedom of Movement so important?
    How do we explain this to our fellow citizens"?
    #FOM
    tickettailor.com/events/grassr

  20. Come and Join us all on Saturday 23/9/23 at the #NationalRejoinMarchII
    Whether your fed up of loosing your #FOM, #YourRights, worried about the #Enviroment, #YourFuture #CostOfLiving etc, you can make your voices heard at the #MarchForRejoin

  21. Come and Join us all on Saturday 23/9/23 at the #NationalRejoinMarchII
    Whether your fed up of loosing your #FOM, #YourRights, worried about the #Enviroment, #YourFuture #CostOfLiving etc, you can make your voices heard at the #MarchForRejoin

  22. That is a significant difference.
    In a way there is Freedom of Movement within the UK & NI in a way that didn't exist in Continental Europe and FOM within the EU is still controlled from the registration of address. While we were in the EU FOM wasn't controlled in that way in the UK.

    That may be the underlying reason for so many wanting to remove FOM because it was argued from the perspective of immigration rather than the analogue of moving within the UK.

    #FOM

  23. @loehwe ja der klappt nich so ganz ☀️ :blobcatmelt2: der 'fast feierabend' gehört da ja dazu

    #tgmiao thank god monday is almost over hmmm, nee, #fum oder #fom tut's auch. keine erklärung notwendig

  24. FROM ASHES TO NEW UNVEIL NEW SINGLE /MUSIC VIDEO “ARMAGEDDON”
    FROM ASHES TO NEW’s upcoming album BLACKOUT, due July 28 via Better Noise Music, conceptually acts as a prequel to their 2016 debut album DAY ONE and encapsulates the distress of a pre-apocalyptic world; it mirrors the frame of mind the world felt during the 2020 pandemic at which time it was written. The...
    comiccrusaders.com/from-ashes-
    #fom ashes to new #music #armageddon

  25. Obviously I hope I'm wrong but my guess is nobody in the (current) "U"K🇬🇧 (a.k.a. #SmallerEnglishEmpire) is getting 🇪🇺Rights&FoM back in my lifetime (I'm 60)...sooooo, I'm going to have to use one of my #PlanB routes to get out of 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 and back to civilisation.

    My current best one will take about 2 years (and be quite expensive).

    Has anyone (without dual nationality) beaten 2 years?

    #uk #ukpolitics #brexit #fom

  26. @MartinFarrent @gotofritz @MimiJ9

    I think there will be an accretion of alignment agreements over time. But that is not half-in half out

    Anything more requires #FoM - and that is not something any party in #england that aspires to gain a majority will adopt as an aim .....at least not for some years

  27. Freedom of movement #FOM

    Allegedly the stumbling block and something that #KeirStarmer is also still quite unsure of. It is a freedom that goes both ways.

    Now, in 2018, even in the strongest #Leave supporting areas, support for Freedom of Movement was well above 70%, on average.

    This suggests that FoM was not as much of a controversial issue across the Leave/Remain spectrum.

    And that is not surprising, because many #Leave voters were #ProtestVote's.