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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 28/09/2026

Why do the Orange Order need to march down the Garvaghy Road? Why can’t they just use the same route they’ve used for the last decade or so?

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 28/09/2026

TIL: You should eat the banana in your carry on before security Some airport scanners are sensitive enough to pickup the radioactivity in bananas and trigger a secondary check

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Ben Schwarz @benschwarz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don't like to "go-in" on web frameworks because it's unproductive. BUT Unfortunately, this preload situation is just yet another example of React’s failed abstractions that make pages slower — unless you fix it. It's busy work created by the framework. React-apps are full of these concessions.

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Ben Schwarz @benschwarz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

⚠️ PSA for React 19 SSR apps: React automatically preloads ALL server rendered images. Without hints, early bandwidth is needlessly wasted. Fix it: * LCP image → fetchPriority="high" * Never lazy load the LCP image * Below-the-fold images → loading="lazy" (this also stops React preloading them)

Screenshot of react.dev docs, with a highlight over the text "React automatically generates a perload hint for an <img> by default."

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Brendan Hark! T'is nearly Halloween. @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just to fully underline how spiteful this shit is for those unaware: On the left is the route the Orange Order have been ordered to take for the past 3 decades without trouble. On the right is the route that has brought hundreds of cops to Drumcree. The only motivation is sectarian antagonism.

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 27/09/2026

Are all EV Salary Sacrifice schemes a rip off? It’s cheaper to go to my local dealer than use the work scheme

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 26/09/2026

Up at 6.30mon Sat to go to the gym… what have I become? (it’s normally 7.30 but my PT has to work a gyn floor shift at short notice this morning)

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Nikola @greasyboiler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Not saying an raise in income tax won't go down like cold sick but the idea that the UK is some wildly high tax country seems to be endemic across British commentary.

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rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 25/09/2026

I love the quotes we get from attendees of @ffconf.org. And how cute do @hereinthehive.bsky.social and @hannahc.bsky.social look! It's the people that make the events. I look forward to this feeling each time.

Photos of groups of people chatting, taking selfies together and smiling together.

A quote beneath reads: "every time I've been to FFConf, I've left with my faith fully restored in humanity and the web development community, and itching to try out new things. It's always an inspiring event in calendar."

Get your ticket day: 2026.ffconf.org

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

‘What is emerging is not simply a relationship between [Reform and Farage] and a wealthy Gulf state, but a channel through which an authoritarian government can cultivate political influence here, and abroad.’ Would really recommend a read of this democracyforsale.substack.com/p/reform-and...

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Reform and the UAE – a threat to British politics

Nigel Farage's embrace of the UAE is part of a wider effort by the Gulf petrostate to build alliances with the far right across the West, says Alex Carlen.

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 22/09/2026

I’ve got beaver-cam footage to show you but only if you get @protect.earth up to 500 followers. We’ve been blocked from BlueSky for months, but we’re back now. Get us that count and I’ll show you a big fat furry river baby. 🫡

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 22/09/2026

The lowsrc attribute returns…

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 20/09/2026

Chinese emissions are falling due to reducing their oil use. Part of this was a 7% drop in aviation, with high-speed rail replacing domestic flights. The very clever environmental campaigners in the UK said that would never happen here based on made up numbers. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...

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Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions fall in Q2 2026 due to plummeting oil use - Carbon Brief

China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell by 1% in the second quarter of 2026, as oil consumption plummeted amid the strait of Hormuz crisis.

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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Lord give me the arrogance of a tax exile who feels the right to comment on the tax policies and general running of a country who you have deprived of billions by registering yourself in Monaco

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Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK

Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.

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Terence Eden @edent.tel · 19/09/2026

Don't listen to the Doomers. The UK's investment in green energy is making a huge difference. grid.iamkate.com

Fossil fuels
3.28
13.7
Gas
3.28
13.7
Renewables
20.91
87.2
Solar
0.18
0.8
Wind
20.36
84.9
Hydro
0.37
1.5
Other sources
4.18
17.4
Nuclear
3.33
13.9
Biomass
0.85
3.5
Interconnectors
−4.09
−17.1

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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I cannot comprehend anyone targeting RNLI volunteers with hate and threats. I cannot understand how anyone can have anything but respect and awe for people willing to set to sea in hurricanes, with waves as high as houses, to try to save lives.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026

What on earth is happening?

This had become the new normal. RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised, recognised for TV interviews he had done.

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 16/09/2026

NEW – Analysis: Global fossil-fuel emissions set to fall in 2026 amid Hormuz crisis | @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/spnuTWt

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 15/09/2026

Daughter has a water leak either on the pavement outside her house or in her or one of the neighbours front garden Thames Water’s time to come and take a look ranges from 2 hours to 5 working days! Of course they don’t answer the phone either…

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 14/09/2026

Sat on a beach… the cafe is playing mostly 80’s music… It’s amazing how much music is identifiable within the just first few notes

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The contagion of fear bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/13/t...

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The contagion of fear | The Observation Deck

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Woodo @woodo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

One guy has donated seven times more to Reform than Labour receives collectively from trade unions but tell us more about those union "barons" and their stranglehold on UK politics.

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Ricardo Autobahn @ricardoautobahn.co.uk · 12/09/2026

Good lord exactly what everybody said would happen happened

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 12/09/2026

We asked him how he chooses which language to greet people in and his response was “I look at the way they walk!”

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 11/09/2026

Guy who runs our favourite restaurant in Skiathos can speak 16 or so languages pretty fluently… we joke he was a spy in a former life… We’re staying in his daughter’s apartment… don’t think I’ve seen so many bolts and hinge bolts on a door before

Hinge side of a front door with many hing bolts in place

Opening side of a door with two locking bolts at the bottom, four in the middle and two at the top

The door is surrounded by a steel frame

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 11/09/2026

When in Greece… make Greek coffee…

Briki (Greek coffee pot) sat on a modern hid with the bottom right ring glowing read hot

Inside the briki is a a mixture of find ground coffee and water bubbling away

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Information is Beautiful @infobeautiful.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

25 years ago, light bulbs were the single largest use of electricity in American homes. By 2018, energy-efficient LEDs had shrunk that use. What’s likely to dominate in the future? Amazing interactive by @NYTimes www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Streamgraph titled "Residential electricity by use" showing U.S. home energy consumption by category from 2000-2025, measured in quadrillion BTU. Headline: "Around 2000, lighting was the single largest use of electricity in American homes. By 2018, energy-efficient lightbulbs had shrunk the category to sixth place." The lighting band (highlighted in green) starts near the top around 3 quadrillion BTU in 2000, holds steady through the mid-2010s, then drops sharply after 2015 to under 1 by 2020, settling below cooling, heating, water heating, refrigeration, televisions, and dryers.

Streamgraph extending the residential electricity-by-use chart to 2050, with a vertical divider at 2025 separating "historical" from "projected" data. Headline: "Energy forecasters expect that electric vehicles will come to dominate residential power use over the next few decades, contributing to an increase in overall electricity use." A new green band labeled "E.V. charging" appears near zero in the mid-2020s and grows steeply after 2035, becoming the largest single category by 2050, pushing total residential electricity use well above 4 quadrillion BTU, above cooling, heating, refrigeration, and dryers.

Streamgraph titled "Commercial electricity by use," historical data 2000-2025 with projections to 2050 divided by a vertical line at 2025. Headline: "But it's now changing fast. The explosive growth of data centers will help drive electricity use higher than ever." A green band labeled "Computing" is negligible before 2015, rises modestly through the early 2020s, then climbs steeply from the early 2030s onward, becoming a dominant category by 2050 alongside ventilation, cooling, and refrigeration, driving total commercial use toward 4 quadrillion BTU.

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 10/09/2026

Reading a talk Honeycomb published that’s hosted on Google Slides My browser sends Accept-Language: en-GB,en;q=0.9 but Google decides I’m in Greece so I must want the UI in Greek

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

As if the headline isn't enough incentive, do read this short news story to the last paragraph because MAN does it escalate! playbill.com/article/man-...

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Man Sentenced to 2-Year Jail Sentence After Strangling Fellow Theatregoer for Singing Along During We Will Rock You

The dust-up happened at a 2023 press performance in London's West End.

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 10/09/2026

Wish people would actually test using Reader Mode… Trying to read this article on Suzanne Ciani but the text is a bit fine in my iPad Unfortunately Reader Mode shows something completely different to the article

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 10/09/2026

After a fabulous four days on Skopelos it’s time for a week on Skiathos… Next year it might be two weeks on Skopelos, or perhaps a week there and a week on Alonissos

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Project Seagrass @projectseagrass.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We're delighted to be partnering with @ssencommunity.bsky.social to restore seagrass habitats across the Solent and Isle of Wight!

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Scott Jehl @scottjehl.com · 10/09/2026

The 8hr course remains just $25 with the coupon, or you can pay whatever you want—even $0—by emailing me. In between jobs? In school? Whatever, I don’t need a reason. Hit that contact form and learn a bit about web components. 👊

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

the uk media's staggering increase in anti-trans coverage shows they can bite & hold they're *choosing* not to for fascist street violence

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 09/09/2026

Looks like The Proclaimers need to walk 500 miles into the sea…

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Dan McCrum @mccrum.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

English schools are good!

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 07/09/2026

This view never get’s old… Skopelos Town, Greece

Skopelos town…

In the foreground, there’s the cool clear waters of the Mediterranean Sea. Behind there’s a hill sloping left to right covered in Greek houses with the harbour in front of them.

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Goodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026

Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.

A hand holding a model train with a replica of the same graffiti on the full scale train car behind it.

A model train with two graffiti pieces on opposite sides.

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Brian Eno News @dark-shark.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

A Library Of Synthesizer User Guides And Service Manuals #PDF #ARP #Buchla #Casio #Korg #Moog #Oberheim #Roland #Yamaha manuals.fdiskc.com/flat/

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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

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Mila Ardath (they/them) @ctrlspice.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Hey folks! otel-desktop-viewer 0.5.0 is out now and also the project just passed 1k stars on GitHub, so I figured I'd (re-)introduce it: ctrlspice.codes/rebuilding-o...

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I rebuilt otel-desktop-viewer on top of DuckDB

and all I got was locally searchable traces, metrics, and logs.

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The intense harm that this causes, ignoring all science and medicine, to appease a few rich bigots and Spectator columnists. Trans kids exist, have always existed, will continue to exist. You can help them or harm them. This cowardly government has chosen the worst harm. Forever shame.

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Ben Schwarz @benschwarz.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Reuters Climate Monitor shows temperature changes against historic averages. Today, its 6ºC warmer in Melbourne. www.reuters.com/graphics/CLI...

Screenshot of Reuters Climate Monitor tool showing Melbourne with a high of 20ºC, 6º higher than the historic norm

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Carlo Zottmann @zottmann.dev · 29/08/2026

💯 > Blaming #GDPR for the cookie banner is like blaming the health inspector for the roaches. The banner is deliberate vandalism, a dark pattern engineered to exhaust you before you can learn anything about the #surveillance apparatus humming behind the "OK." matduggan.com/you-know-gdp... #privacy

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You Know GDPR Is Good Based on Who Hates It

FDR has always been one of my favorite presidents, second maybe to Lincoln. Both were men the establishment assumed were one of them until, to their horror, they governed like they weren't. Both could...

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Zach Edwards @thezedwards.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

We launched decryptads.com two weeks ago to help people dumpster dive on the programmatic ad tech ecosystem – the ad tech companies, publishers, apps and accountIDs. We’re building my dream ad tech research tool, but I want to explain why it kicks ass. 🧵