Doing stuff badly since 1965, 48%er, Parent, Hausmann, ex-IT ProjMgr, Gin tester, 🧬Genealogist. Also: 🐘@PhilGrass@genealysis.social 🟦@philgrass.bsky.social
South of Frankfurt
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I'm now, rather reluctantly, also on Mastadon as @PhilGrass@genealysis.social . At the moment I'm not leaving Twitter as much as I hate the current direction I find Twitter as the best source of intelligent news and commentry for folks I respect.
🚨NEW blog post 🚨. I wrote some thoughts on the #WGS announcement from #MyHeritage, it's imaginatively titled "Some Thoughts on the Whole Genome Sequencing announcement from MyHeritage". I'd welcome any feedback.
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Woohoo 🎉
Great to see that the new full-sequence mtDNA haplotree results are coming through at #FamilyTreeDNA.
mtDNA was always the Ugly Ducking of full-sequence testing compared to yDNA. I was previously just I2.
Now upgraded Hg and moved tmrca c. 2,700 yrs forward.
I’m guessing here, BUT I think the answer is “Our ancestors died for the lack of decent health care” 🤷♂️
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Typically German. No one wants a late night, so we’re closing at 8. Also no need to answer any work-related emails outside office hours 😀
While it’s good that Assad has been deposed in Syria, it is disappointing that the new leader does not treat a woman the same as a man.
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👀Finland/Estonian undersea cable has been cut on Christmas. The Estlink Two is 1 of 2 cables connecting the Baltic power grid to Finland.🇨🇳ship Xin Xin Tiang crossed the cable at noon local time. This is the third time that a Chinese ship is suspected of involvement in cable cut
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"I can see the complaints coming from a handful of middle-class women of a certain age."
Today I was painting in the Kitchen whilst listening to @RoryStewartUK and @campbellclaret on the @RestIsPolitics.
TBH It felt like an #EchoChamber 😂
Looks like the Ampel coalition has fallen 🚥
Waiting for statement by German chancellor Olaf Scholz on his decision to sack his finance minister Christian Lindner tonight.
This is the beginning of the end of Germany’s three-way coalition.
What a day to break up the German government. #USElection2024
Today might be a good day to come over to the Blue 🦋 side. It’s much more interactive than X and you don’t get notifications that some random weirdo has posted.
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As if today wasn't bad enough the Independent is pushing the Graham Hancock view of history🤦♂️
indy100.com/science-tech/wor…
Maybe I’m paranoid, but #X insists I have a new notification when there isn’t one and never clears. 🤷♂️
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The FBI is aware of bomb threats to polling locations in several states, many of which appear to originate from Russian email domains. None of the threats have been determined to be credible thus far. fbi.gov/news/press-releases/…
This doesn’t seem good 🫨
Elon Musk plans to spend election night with Donald Trump, giving the former president direct access to the person controlling X, a key information platform, on what could be a chaotic evening. nyti.ms/3Apvv1R
This is the type of pedantic grammar-checking I’m here for 👏👏👏
I don’t even know why this is a news story 🤦♂️
Elon Musk tells Keir Starmer to ‘leave farmers alone’ in tax row
thetimes.com/article/78aaeb3…
