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Cliff Harris (Cliffski)

@cliffharris.bsky.social
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Owner of Positech Games. www.positech.co.uk Coder of Democracy, Gratuitous Space Battles etc blog: cliffski.com. Built a solar farm. Ex heavy metal guitarist & teacher. Cat owner. Making Ridiculous Space Battles!

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CleanTechnica @cleantechnica.bsky.social · 4h
Driving An EV Now Costs Half As Much As Diesel, New Analysis Shows cleantechnica.com/2026/09/29/d...
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Driving An EV Now Costs Half As Much As Diesel, New Analysis Shows - CleanTechnica
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription, on Patreon, or on Stripe. Help us produce all of the high-quality, original content we publish week after week despite the challenges of c...
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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 11h
I've been saying this for at least a year. The fascist US king does not want any more elections and its entirely possible he simply cancels or ignores them. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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Trump muses on midterms: “When you think of it, we shouldn't even have an election”
Every time the president talks about not having elections, his authoritarian vision comes into sharper focus.
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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 11h
I forget how quiet it is where I live. I really need to remember to always take noise cancelling headphones with me everywhere else...
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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 17h
Classic old English castley thingy on a fairly nice day...
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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 18h
Kinda sums up the UK unless we get our act together.
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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 19h
Ruins of an old English tithe barn where the evil aristocrat lord of the manor demanded 10% from all the peasants. Yup. Just 10%...
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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 23h
I seem to have the opposite of executive dysfunction. There are 4 emails in my inbox, and all 4 are there because they are pending a timed event or response from a third party, and yet their mere existence stresses me. I actively look forward to tonight when 2 of them will be automatically gone!
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Tom Haddon @tomh-analyst.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Every economist screams. Again. Instead of subsidising consumption, to keep bills vaguely similar, subsidise reducing demand. A huge missed opportunity the first time round when the government did nothing until it utterly had to, and was left with one lever... helicopter money.
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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I look forward to releasing my game, but I dread the steam 'community' and its forums and review system. I expect to get absolutely piled on by anti-AI activists, and personal attacks. I despise the way gamers have been told that being antisocial pricks is part of the identity of gaming.
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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Geely announced it would roll out 2.2 megawatt chargers, able to charge an EV in under 5 minutes. Those chargers are now already in service in 5 cities, with 15,000 charging sites planned by the end of next year." Its possible to do this. China does it. Its a choice. electrek.co/2026/09/30/c...
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China's 2,250kW chargers are already in service, while US thinks about 750kW next year
Geely announced 2.2MW charging last week, and it's already out in 5 cities. Meanwhile, EVgo's 750kW US chargers are delayed until next year.
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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
SUCCESS! It likely will not affect anyone, but my game can now recover from losing graphics card focus, in the middle of a frantic battle like this, and its just maybe a one-second pause while everything gets rebuilt, cleared and re-set. Lots of render targets and vertex buffers to check etc.
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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This comment on the south China morning post website sums it all up. China does not need the US, and sees it as uninvestable. The average American voter is clueless about the way China views the US. They still think they are #1 and world leaders. Reality disagrees.
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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think one of the reasons I hate most 'social media' video sites and content, and most reality TV is that it is entirely focused around over-expressive, over-emotional caricatures who I just find irritating as fuck. Everyone is so LOUD and over-reacting to the smallest things. It overloads me.
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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My game is now showing up in the personal release calendar for people on steam, which is cool, because it means more wishlists. Its a bit scary to be close to releasing something though. Demo soon, then next fest, then release. As long as a few people buy it and like it, I'll be pleased.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sadly there was a climate & nature shaped hole at the heart of Burnham’s speech. Nothing on the benefits of nature restoration & same old words on a “pragmatic” approach to N Sea drilling. There’s nothing pragmatic about pouring fuel on a scorching earth - he should rule out Rosebank & Jackdaw now
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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"And so I am announcing a new national commission on electoral reform." What bullshit. Its like he thinks nobody has ever thought of it before, and we need to research the options. For fucks sake the lib-dems have campaigned on it for at least thirty years. Fucking DO SOMETHING. #burnham #pr
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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If you still heat your home or fuel your car using fossil fuels, enjoy this handy chart. Its basically telling you to stop doing that, as its getting madly expensive. Of course you are also accelerating climate change that will kill you, but people don't seem to care about that argument.
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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So far all the major labour conference speeches seem to be "Its vital we have a policy on this issue, and we need to make sure that the policy we have is the right policy". Ok...a chimpanzee could have reasoned this. What the actual fuck IS your policy then?
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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Jesus. Just taking some big complex bits of code, throwing them at opus 5.5 high, and asking for performance recomendations...and its just crazy good. Maybe I should try Fable, but I cant see how it can be better. Also: my code might be about to get even faster.
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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Tried a tai-chi lesson for the first time today. I liked it. I will keep doing it. Its all a bit 'worf teaches klingon martial arts on the enterprise'. Its also quite complex :D.
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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
So I am at the 'demo upsell screen' part of the whole 'releasing a new game' process for Ridiculous Space Battles. Still some balancing to do...
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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Modern tech just astounds me. Teenage me did not vaguely imagine this kind of stuff would exist in my lifetime: www.reddit.com/r/singularit...
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From the singularity community on Reddit: GPT-6 turns my room into Studio Ghibli (on Apple Vision Pro)
Explore this post and more from the singularity community
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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Christ the stupidity with which much of the UK screeches that Heathrow needs a 3rd runway infuriates me. No it fucking doesn't. You just tax airline fuel the same rate as fuel for a car. (currently its untaxed). You cannot pretend to give a fuck about climate change and keep building more runways.
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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I am constantly told that 'everyone' hates AI and that 'nobody' is positive AI, but as with so many things angry mobs yell about...its bollocks. There are actual global Gallup polls. No surprise China is at the top. They are mostly embracing home grown, open source models too.
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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is an unpopular take but as a neurodivergent self-employed person, LLM's have been an unbelievably helpful tool for the things I have struggled with my whole adult life: managing my finances, filling out paperwork, and staying on top of my email. I'm functional in a way I never dreamed of.
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Cllr Owen Burbidge 🔶 @oburbidge.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is what we are up against. It’s why I’ve always said the under 16 social media ban doesn’t go far enough. We shouldn’t be banning it for children, we should be properly regulating it for everyone. This is scary. How do we fight this?
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 26/09/2026
A massive Microsoft data centre was fined after a drone investigation revealed the use of illegally operating gas turbines -->> www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
US mortgage rates are heading dramatically up, thanks to the bond market not buying any of the governments bullshit. Not sure how long it takes for the average voter to realize they are massively worse off, but it must be starting to sink in?
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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I haven't tried it...but I love news like this: old.reddit.com/r/vibecoding... The whole idea of RENTING an app like this was always ludicrous. I have always kept my ancient fully-owned version from decades ago. But cool. The more people turning away from big US tech companies the better.
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My vibe-coded photoshop just crossed 20k users
My [original post](https://www.reddit.com/r/vibecoding/comments/1wf3hvx/i_vibe_coded_photoshop_alternative_using_gpt6astra/) blew up after I...
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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Israel is a terrorist state. Why the fuck are we not responding to them the way be responded to saddam hussein? a proportionate response would be strategic bombing of the Israeli military to topple the regime. FFS. Destroying food supplies is a war crime. www.reuters.com/business/env...
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Israeli bulldozers smash Palestinian olive trees ahead of annual harvest
Palestinian villagers wailed over the mangled remains of their olive trees on ​Wednesday after Israel's military uprooted them with bulldozers, days ahead of the annual ‌olive harvest, normally a sour...
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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I treat my customers 1,000 better over a $20 purchase than Volvo do with a £40k car. Absolutely insane to me. 'Saving money' on customer service is always short sighted and stupid. In the long run, you just destroy your brand.
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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Over a YEAR of emails complainming to volvo and NOTHING, but the minute I phone them up, tell them I am fucking furious and threaten them with a lawyer, they book the car in to be fixed. They are training all their customers to be aggressive and angry. Absolutely fucking STUPID. NEVER buy a volvo.
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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Gah. Democracy 4 is not in the autumn sale, because its a 30 day cooldown after raising prices in Israel to fuck with them :D. (Kinda silly that a single country change triggers that...) Oh well...worth it.
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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Had to phone a car company and be angry and threaten legal action. I hate all this. Just fucking do your job and fix stuff without making your customers angry, its not rocket science. FWIW its @volvo-cars.bsky.social They are absolutely abysmal, basically buy ANYTHING but a fucking volvo.
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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If you haven't read about the new CRSPR thing Claude has found, then no, you are NOT up to date on the capabilities of AI. And yes...this might be what the singularity feels like. Navier Stokes, maybe P =NP, and this, and we are talking about a single month. Maybe time to buy TSMC again...
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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Ok its official. Ridiculous Space Battles will be released into Early Access on 16th November :D. store.steampowered.com/app/3607230/...
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Ridiculous Space Battles on Steam
RIDICULOUS SPACE BATTLES is the spiritual successor to the first ever autobattler game: Gratuitous Space Battles! After a fifteen year wait, the ridiculously over-the-top and completely unjustified ba...
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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Youtube would be 100x better if it dialled down its fucking recency bias. You watch just ONE video on a topic, and it suddenly assumes that is your entire world. I speak to lots of people who say the same thing. A simple fix, but there is ZERO feedback system. Google just knows best.
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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Finally squashed all the pak file bugs...so proper work on putting together a demo of Ridiculous Space Battles for nextfest is underway now. here are some new screenshots :D store.steampowered.com/app/3607230/...
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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
AFAIK we have not seen much in the way of impact of AI on renewable tech. If AI can make breakthroughs in solar panel efficiency, wind turbine and heat pump design, along the lines of the maths breakthroughs, then we could be heading for some awesome tech in the next few years. #optimism.
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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Even at the end of September, with trees blocking part of my panels, with an inefficient ground mount, and living in a house from the 1750s...I am still generating loads of solar power, and running the house with it. (electric-shower blip excepted). Anybody who can afford solar should do it NOW.
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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
To save you a click...if you want to email the British home secretary to insist she look into 'Tomo' trying to kill people in a dinghy, the email address is shabana.mahmood.mp@parliament.uk Not that we should have to pressure her to do her fucking job...but here we are. #Tomo
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Possession of an offensive weapon, reckless endangerment, criminal damage ... Let's hope the police take this seriously. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Far-right activist Daniel Thomas slashes dinghy in Channel with blade while rescue worker onboard
Thomas called followers to protest against arrival of asylum seekers in Gosport, but Border Force instead transported them to Dover
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It is disgraceful and wilfully misleading that the BBC do not report that Danny Tommo was filmed slashing the boat.
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Migrants taken to Dover after more than 30 hours at sea
Protesters gathered in Gosport after initial reports the small boat would be brought further west.
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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If I stood outside a court holding a sign in support of pealestine action, police would show up in no time and arrest me. But this far-right hooligan 'tomo' is on VIDEO slashing a dinghy to make the people in it drown...and where is the arrest? This should be attempted murder. Fucking arrest him.
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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
OMG Share this EVERYWHERE especially with your elderly relatives who are fed facebook bullshit...
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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
US republicans provide endless, endless comedy. The entire story of US politics these days is like an episode of 'Veep' but dialled up to about a billion.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Deeply disappointing to see Libdem leader now supporting more drilling in the North Sea - it will add to global volume of climate emissions, drive climate breakdown & send a dangerous signal to the rest of the world
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Sir Ed Davey says Jackdaw gas field 'makes sense' as decision looms for government
A consultation on the gas field - located 150 miles northeast of Aberdeen - closed last month, with the prime minister set to make a decision.
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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Yup. #judaspriest
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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I grew up here. I didnt like it. I have decided I still don't. I sometimes forget how awesome it is to live in a tiny sleepy village surrounded by fields.. 🌳🌲🐑🐄
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