Loving Chris Ellis talk at #oggcamp2026 Beautiful work!!!I treasure the elephant badge I got at the last #oggcamp
@intrbiz
@intrbiz oh yes you can!
Trump says he speaks 'for the UK more than Prince Harry'
What on earth are you bleating about you senile fool? You don't even speak for the majority of your own country.
Go back to your play room, the one with the golden toilet and try putting the different shape wooden blocks into the correct holes for a while.
Moron!
So, PGConf.DE 2026 is over, after a quick turn around, on the train upto Manchester for @oggcamp 2026.
If Zarah Sultana MP had not entered this into the public record by saying it in the House of Commons on 14 April 2026, today it would be illegal to print this in any UK media.
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More on the UK's retrial of six already-acquitted activists from Palestine Action
They were acquitted in February following over a year in prison.
If convicted on retrial, they & 18 others will likely be sentenced as terrorists, facing long prison terms.
The jury is not allowed to know this. The UK is prohibiting crucial trial information from both the jury & the media.
https://thegrayzone.com/2026/04/12/uk-jail-palestine-action-terrorism-uk/
#UKPol #EUPol #USPol #Palestine #PalestineAction #CorruptTrial #ElbitFactory #IsraeliArms .
‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility
https://www.thewesternedge.media/p/everyone-is-replaceable-death-rattles
A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away & prevented from giving 1st aid
Maybe the B in JSONB stands for Beast? Boriss Mejias, @tchorix, (EDB) covers schema-design pitfalls, index strategies & TOAST tables for JSON/JSONB in PostgreSQL.
Join us for Livestream 1 to watch Boriss's talk on Tue 16 Jun https://posetteconf.com/2026/talks/json-in-postgresql-evil-data-type-or-just-needs-to-be-tamed/
Tomorrow, the London PostgreSQL Meetup Group will be presenting “Swapping the Elephant Without Breaking the Room: Zero-downtime Major PG Upgrades in Practice” with Anton Borisov and Vlad Bokov. This is an in-person event and the waitlist has been activated!
https://www.meetup.com/london-postgresql-meetup-group/events/313848775/?eventOrigin=network_page
Gentle reminder that May 5 our #CfP closes. Get your proposals in for 45, 25 and 5 minute talks on anything #PostgreSQL (community): https://2026.pgday.nl/call-for-papers/
let's stop UK being part of Trump's war...
Please sign, and publicise.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/762994
#UKPolitics
Regulators and the tech press are sleeping on the web's power to unlock mobile computing the way it pried open the desktop. What started an oversight is now a crisis for the legitimacy of both institutions:
https://infrequently.org/2026/04/the-web-is-an-antitrust-wedge/
London PostgreSQL Meetup is back for 2026 with: Zero-downtime major upgrades in practice
We're excited to be back and pleased to say this event is being sponsored by pgMustard.
On the talks front, we have Anton Borisov and Vlad Bokov from Fresha who will take us through how they recently upgraded their fleet with zero-downtime.
We will then host our first ever debate, on a topic to be determined!
WHERE
Join us at Doggett's Coat and Badge on 14 April from 18:30.
ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state
Sign the petition. Protect VPN use in the UK https://action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-government-protect-vpn-use-uk
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