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Alex Dixon

@dixonary.co.uk
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Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Warwick 🏳‍🌈 {they,he} Interests: Functional programming; theoretical computer science; Indie games; Gamedev; TTRPGs; Doctor Who (I made whodle! 📺)

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Sisyphus, but for reducing tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
we don't talk enough about the total cultural victory of functional programming nerds honestly. big monad was really cooking with promises, even awful Enterprise Software SaaS sludgeware is monadic now
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Charlie Brooker @charliebrooker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here. Have this.
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 20/09/2026
I wonder whether the average stately home in the UK has seen more actual murders, or murders staged for cosy crime dramas
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Stuart Millard @franticplanet.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Firstly, a female Doctor, played by an older actress with a background in theatre/comedy. For an added frisson, let's make the sidekick character the husband. And we'll lose the whole 'Doctor' tag and reveal the birth name, which is spelled 'Bucket' but
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 06/09/2026
Made fun of my friend for buying special condoms, but it was only a bit of gentle ribbing
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 02/09/2026
Nobleman in 1326 whose scion just became a mendicant monk be like: Guys you have GOT to get an heir friar. Life changing
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Wildvale Cryptic @wildvale.co.uk · 18/08/2026
Today's Cryptick Daily Clue is from @dixonary.co.uk! Former rep has breakdown (6) #cryptic #crossword #cotd
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Clue of the Day | 18 Aug 2026
Former rep has breakdown (6)
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 17/08/2026
Can't get over how much this door on my walk home looks like a painted-on videogame texture
A metal grate door, surrounded by a thick gray inset surround. The metal grate is perfectly rusted. To its right is another door with a fire exit sign over the top, despite being on the outside of the building.
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 12/08/2026
Had a quick look at the Sun just now, and everyone was right, it did some serious harm. Looking at it for any more than a couple of seconds is a terrible idea Bunch of vapid headlines about small boats and the royal family. Nice lady on page three though
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 12/08/2026
Right listen up folks. Five heatwaves is too many. I am taking the unilateral decision to block out the sun Gonna give it a test run at about 7pm tonight xoxo
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 10/08/2026
What a trouncing. Can't spell Warwick without W! #universitychallenge
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 05/08/2026
Just realised that, looking at the numbers, almost certainly more Whodle games have been played than the number of people who have watched S15E08 The Reality War...... #doctorwho #whodle
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Haskell programming language @haskell.org · 03/08/2026
"Twenty Years of Pandoc" by John MacFarlane pandoc.org/twenty-years... #Haskell
pandoc.org
Pandoc - twenty-years-of-pandoc
A universal document converter
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 01/08/2026
it bears repeating:
A duplicated picture of a bear using a computer (IT bears, repeating)
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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
August as an academic
Tabbycat in tie say he hopes he doesn’t have a lot of meetings… while in the background is a lots of meetings factory
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Wildvale Cryptic @wildvale.co.uk · 01/08/2026
Today's Cryptick Daily Clue comes courtesy of @dixonary.co.uk! Kid with a motto of "measure once, cut twice"? (3) #cryptic #crossword #cotd
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Clue of the Day | 1 Aug 2026
Kid with a motto of "measure once, cut twice"? (3)
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 29/07/2026
Promotion get! :)
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 26/07/2026
Game dev moment: finding a random loose card with "Winston Churchill" on it and nothing else, and having no clue why
A white card with "Winston Churchill" written on it
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Dave Powell @powellds.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I think they got these two the wrong way round
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Henri @henriwords.com · 21/07/2026
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News > UK > UK Politics

Nigel Farage hits out
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 14/07/2026
The Message From Deep Space is a fantastic game. If you haven't played it yet, get on it! And if you have, come chat with us on the Deep Space Communication Relay :) [bring your own dictionary]: dscr.dixonary.co.uk
Deep Space Communication Relay
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 08/07/2026
There once was a man called Ted Mowels Who had awful trouble with vowels He was wonderfully fond Of those he called 'frond' And he drank hot soup out of his bowels
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 03/07/2026
Since we're doing North-South divide discourse again, here's the objectively correct breakdown of the UK that everyone can agree on
Map of the UK, divided laterally into northern (around Manchester), midlands (around Birmingham) and southern (around  Bournemouth); and longitudinally into good (around Wales), neutral (around Birmingham), and evil (around Cambridge).
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 25/06/2026
join :: Monad m => m (m a) -> m a #haskell
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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 25/06/2026
🚀Citizen Sleeper 1 and 2 are OUT NOW on Nintendo Switch 2! Play the critically acclaimed series in its smoothest, most beautiful, handheld form: CS 1: www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro... CS 2: www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro... Enjoy higher resolution and framerates, with a free upgrade for owners ⭐
Citizen Sleeper and Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector SWITCH 2 EDITION
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lynn @chordbug.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
fixed your headline
A hit song on the Billboard 100 charts is termed *$k$-good* if it is _ever_ in a weekly top-$k$, and *$k$-immediate* if it _debuts_ in the top-$k$.


An artist is *$(n,k)$-Olivian* if their $n$ first $k$-good hits are all also $k$-immediate.

*Headline 1.* Olivia Rodrigo is the first $(10,10)$-Olivian woman.
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
It’s time for Andy Burnham to do the honourable thing and resign
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Thom @thwphipps.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Starmer to take full advantage of all the possibilities of legs
But he goes on to say - as we reported earlier:
"If there is a contest, then yes I will run, I will stand, and I've said repeatedly I'm not going to walk away from that."
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 19/06/2026
Douglas Adams reincarnated as a 26th-century historian: 'Despite all the odds, Joseph "What are you going to do, nuke us?" Webb is widely regarded as only the *second*-worst Prime Minister in the history of the United Kingdom. The worst...'
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 17/06/2026
more like order of the stinking shart lmao gottem
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 14/06/2026
Queer AF artists rejected twats' hot air? (5) cryptick.wildvale.co.uk/clue.html#UX... #cryptic #crosswords #cryptick
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Cryptick | Solve this clue!
Can you solve this cryptic clue?
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 11/06/2026
the dildo has left the building
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Gabby HC @scriblit.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Cabin Pressure is honestly one of the best British sitcoms of the 21st Century so far - if you haven't heard any of it yet, treat yerself
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Calligram Studio @calligramstudio.com · 05/06/2026
📣✨ NEW GAME ANNOUNCEMENT ✨📣 We're pleased to introduce... I’M YOUR HOST An audio deduction game where you have one task: restore a series of lost podcast episodes.





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 👀 30-second trailer👇
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Mike McMahan @mikemcmahan.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
We should be two “D&D Honor Among Thieves” sequels deep.
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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
I'll probably stop using theatrical trapdoors eventually, it's just a stage I'm going through
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 29/05/2026
So much talk of the halting problem. I see only halting opportunities
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 27/05/2026
I will play every single one of this type of game until the end of the world
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 27/05/2026
I beg your absolute fucking pardon
Email from ELEGOO UK titled "Grab your vibe. Literally."
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Americans think British people are wimps for complaining about the heat. But what you don't realise is that most British houses were actually built in Britain, a cursed island that hates us.
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 26/05/2026
I'm not saying it's hot or anything, but one of our drinking glasses just spontaneously exploded
Broken glass in a cupboard
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zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Blue Prince (2025)
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 12/05/2026
Clearly false. I've seen him before
BBC: "Starmer seen for first time today on visit to college"
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 12/05/2026
I apologise to the nation
Me 2 weeks ago: "sticking a bit of money onto UK markets today so good luck everyone"
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 11/05/2026
For the record, it was a different Alex
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 10/05/2026
Brokeback Mountain implies the existence of Brokeback Island, Brokeback Plains, Brokeback Forest and Brokeback Swamp
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Wildvale Cryptic @wildvale.co.uk · 08/05/2026
Today's Clue of the Day is from @dixonary.co.uk! Couple of computers with one setting switched (4) #cryptic #crossword #cotd
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Clue of the Day | 8 May 2026
Couple of computers with one setting switched (4)
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 07/05/2026
They're mad about spoiled Celtic ale - two cents per serving in your backyard? (5,9) cryptick.wildvale.co.uk/clue.html#VG... #cryptic #cryptick
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Cryptick
Create a cryptic crossword clue and share it with people you know.
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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
We’ve been told our content needs to be more informative so here you go
An incredibly silly meme with an image of Buckinghamshire's waterways. The following text is around it.

'Can't remember the names of the rivers and waterways in historic Buckinghamshire? Try this handy mnemonic!

"Roman roads really ran right resiliently"

[The first letter of the following words (R) is highlighted]
River Thames
River Great Ouse
River Wye
River Thame
River Colne
River Ouzel'

There is an image of an otter in the bottom left with a speech bubble says 'It's easy!'
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