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Matt Ellis @citizenmatt.bsky.social · 1h

We were given a room that was already occupied last weekend. Walked straight in on someone

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 5h

Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...

A casual Star Wars alien fella at the cantina, in a sun faded, reddish photo. Someone will be mad at me for not knowing who this is.

Phil, a balding Caucasian man, poses a model of the garthok, an antagonist from the Coneheads movie.

Phil, a balding caucasian man, points at some CG on a CRT computer monitor, as a younger man looks on. The screen shows a model of a dinosaur attacking a jeep, while there's an actual physical model of that event in the foreground for reference.

an isolated shot of a star wars vehicle. Sorry, I don't know star wars lol

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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.ca · 19h

Lighthouses of the BC South Coast. Cool. mapped.earth/lighthouses/...

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Maarten Balliauw @maartenballiauw.be · 30/09/2026

It's been 0 days since @rider.jetbrains.com Local History saved my butt.

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archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

'Arrival', the first episode of The Prisoner, debuted in the UK on this day in 1967 in selected ITV regions.

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 29/09/2026

WipEout was released 31 years ago. Since the game is set in 2052, we're already more than halfway there. 😁 A technical gem, this Psygnosis game made a huge splash on the PS1 (and other platforms). Especially with its electro soundtrack and in-game branding & artworks by The Designers Republic.

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Beautiful everyday Ladybird things Before the blue Smartie Artist: Harry Wingfield (First Picture Book, 1970)

Photo-realistic illustration of a tube of Smarties with Smarties spilling out onto a white background

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Baroness Floella Benjamin @floellabenjamin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today it’s 50 years since I first presented Playschool wearing my blue beads and silver heart. I adore bringing joy into the lives of my Playschool Babies during the 12 years I was on the programme. ❤️

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Matt Ellis @citizenmatt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Fantastic Public Service Broadcasting gig at Ally Pally tonight. My kind of nerdery #sputnik

Public Service Broadcasting playing Sputnik. With a flying Sputnik

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Matt Ellis @citizenmatt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

While it feels like we’re living through our own Jackpot, I am looking forward to the next book

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Happy Kicked In The Head By A Horse Day, to all who celebrate. It's the 7th anniversary of this absolute banger.

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Update Conference @updateconference.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

What’s next in .NET? Our .NET community is coming together at #UCP26 for some serious deep dives. Meet Konrad Kokosa, @codetraveler.io, Nico Vermeir, Johan Smarius, @isaacrlevin.com, @flash0ver.bsky.social, Angie Kadnar, and @citizenmatt.bsky.social. 👉 prague.updateconference.net/en/2026/sche...

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Matt Ellis @citizenmatt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My kind of thread. Also, Berlin. Berlin’s is the best.

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Matt Ellis @citizenmatt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

What?! Wow. Well, it’s been a while, might as well…

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Matt Ellis @citizenmatt.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Amazing sequence. The soundtrack (and sound effects) are phenomenal

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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 18/09/2026

In the second part that just went out, I focused on the Mac, and bought all the white keyboards and took precise photos of them, which was *totally* not necessary: unsung.aresluna.org/key-symbols-...

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 11/09/2026

Why is 'lb' the abbreviation for 'pound'?

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Matt Ellis @citizenmatt.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I have no desire for one of these, at all. But that’s a lovely effect when opening/extending the screen

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Matt Ellis @citizenmatt.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It’s incredible to see the range of Defender scan times for different apps. It can have a HUGE impact

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JetBrains ReSharper @resharper.jetbrains.com · 08/09/2026

#ReSharper for #CursorAI is here from @jetbrains.com! Bring instant ⚠️ code analysis, 🧭 navigation, 🔁 refactoring, 🧪 testing, and 🐞 debugging to AI assisted .NET development, **all without tokens**! Learn what it's all about with our short 5-minute video. #dotnet #CSharp #AI youtu.be/yB2INwcpJqQ

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This is a delightful video showing Adam Savage utterly besotted with the elegance and beauty of these gorgeous mechanical wings made by Laura Mathews. They really are magnificent! youtu.be/WT7MLrxor1A?...

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Adam Savage Experiences Anatomically Correct Wings!

YouTube video by Adam Savage’s Tested

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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/09/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms

The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.
Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars.
Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.
But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.

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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Breathtaking Citroën DS spotted on the streets of North London

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Muppet GIF of the Day @gifs-of-puppets.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Happy 50th Anniversary to The Muppet Show! Jim Henson's groundbreaking puppet variety show began airing on the United Kingdom's ATV Network on this date in 1976 ahead of its US debut later that month.

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Matt Ellis @citizenmatt.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Last chance for CFP! Share and tell everyone you know!

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Kevin Gosse @kevingosse.net · 04/09/2026

Starting this week, my job at JetBrains changes. I'll be focusing less on ReSharper, and more on agents integration inside our IDEs (Rider, IntelliJ, ...).

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

“Hi! I’m studio notes!”

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JetBrains @jetbrains.com · 03/09/2026

Registration is open for JetBrains GameDev Day 2026! Figma-to-Unity automation, Godot world generation, C#/C++ debugging, ECS migrations, Unreal profiling, and CI from the IDE – see it all on September 28 online, in Belgrade or Limassol. Registration is free: jb.gg/register-gamedevday2026

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The Art School

Ink line and wash drawing of an imaginary city

Detail of ink line and wash drawing of an imaginary city

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Emper Kyu Vulpes @kyuvulpes.com · 31/08/2026

So, I just found out you can add attributes to C# Anonymous functions. It looks so cursed, ngl. rootSlot.ChildAdded += [SuppressMessage( "ReSharper", "ConditionIsAlwaysTrueOrFalse" )]( _, _ ) => {/*some code here*/}; Thanks @rider.jetbrains.com, I hate that you showed me this.

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Matt Ellis @citizenmatt.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

If you get the chance, go see Joe Lycett’s exhibition in the Birmingham art gallery. It’s lovely

An old Nokia phone showing a text message asking if we all should go to Snobs?

A pink hindeburg disaster. Everything is fine

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Matt Ellis @citizenmatt.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Wins the award for the musical instrument with the best name

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Isaac Levin @isaacrlevin.com · 28/08/2026

Do you use Pi today? If so, you should checkout ThinkRail, a visual interface for agents that breaks up git worktrees into workspaces. github.com/JetBrains/th...

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GitHub - JetBrains/thinkrail: Vibe code with pi in a lightweight, real IDE - The Vibe You Need

Vibe code with pi in a lightweight, real IDE - The Vibe You Need - JetBrains/thinkrail

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JetBrains Rider @rider.jetbrains.com · 27/08/2026

Need your #dotTrace snapshot analyzed? 📉 Hand it off to the dottrace-analyze #agent #skill in Rider 2026.2 and have it do the rest: trace the hot path, explain the root cause, and the fix. 🔮📈 Learn more and download the latest Rider release here 👉 jb.gg/rdc61g #dotnet #performance #profiler #Unity

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Matt Ellis @citizenmatt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton was one of the greats

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Matt Ellis @citizenmatt.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Not entirely sure what led me down the goth rock rabbit hole to the Wikipedia page for the Sisterhood’s Gift album (IYKYK), but I wasn’t expecting the Spooks connection

The final episode of Spooks has several references to the Sisterhood album. Bonkers.

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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 20/08/2026

I wrote a bit about Zalgo, the glitchy text you sometimes see. I wanted to explain not what it is in the meme/lore sense, but how it is constructed, and why is it even possible to construct it. unsung.aresluna.org/zalgo-the-go...

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Zalgo: The good, the bad, and the very, very ugly – Unsung

A blog about software craft and quality

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JetBrains ReSharper @resharper.jetbrains.com · 19/08/2026

ReSharper 2026.2.1 has arrived! 🎉 Out-of-Process mode is now the default and supports dotCover, as well as type and project dependency diagrams. In the ACP integration, Junie adds support for Claude Opus 5. See what else is new: blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2026/...

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JetBrains Rider @rider.jetbrains.com · 19/08/2026

Rider 2026.2.1 is here! 🎉 AI agents can now refactor and debug using new bundled skills, as well as analyze dotTrace snapshots captured during Unity project profiling. Codex now supports Rider’s quality-check hooks. Learn more: blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2026/...

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 18/08/2026

Scott Reeder, prop master, answers your questions. youtu.be/mlP2xuXOhmY?...

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Explaining the Annoying Empty Cups in Movies and TV

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Matt Ellis @citizenmatt.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Hey @unity.com devs, Rider's cooking some very helpful features for working with editor code in your C# files!

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

pro-tip: place cold brew in the microwave for 30 seconds for delicious "hot brew"

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Isaac Levin @isaacrlevin.com · 17/08/2026

C# Finally Got Unions!!! With .NET 11 and C# 15 we are getting one of the most requested features in the language, union types. To learn more about unions, check out the video! #dotnet #csharp youtu.be/d2xP-sJCIhU

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C# Finally Got Unions!!!

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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Back to work tomorrow after two glorious weeks off

Ask not for whom the emu snarls; it snarlsfor thee, Parky.

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Matt Ellis @citizenmatt.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

And I’ve spent most of those 30 years trying to get my wife to watch it. She took against it, and has dug her heels in ever since

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