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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 05/10/2026

Time Flies: CBBC show, whenever Mr Tumble does his trousers up he travels to a different point in history

Alan Partridge speaking into a dictophone

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spooky 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 · 21/09/2026

"... I need to x-ray all these lemons."

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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 · 08/09/2026

Thank you! I have swapped it out now, it should be fixed!

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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 · 03/09/2026

This is a super useful cheat sheet! I think my students will find it very helpful - mind if I share it with them in Jan?

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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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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 17/08/2026

The rust! The overly harsh shadows! The warning signs that for some reason obscure each other! There's no way this door even registers that you've tried to open it See also the "fire exit" sign above the door on the right, despite this being outdoors. Procedural generation's gone a bit wonky there

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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 · 15/08/2026

And in some cases, even then! In two successive years we've had students complain a paper was way too hard (distributions unchanged from the previous year), and then not complain at all (massive decrease in scores across the board)

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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 15/08/2026

Yep. It's not too hard to create a bijection between unary strings and n-ary strings. It would be completely useless for tokenizing though, since you would need to read the whole input to decode it. Unlike any other base.

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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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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 · 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

(4)

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

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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

I will not be taking questions about the Isle of Man at this time

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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 · 30/06/2026

(As of a couple of days ago, both the Wiki and clue 1 of the Whodle were incorrect - they both claimed this was the *only* such episode)

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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 30/06/2026

Their own episode, I believe. The fact is courtesy of tardis.wiki, which now reads: > This is the first of two episodes in which the episode's writer appears on screen, the second being TV: The Story & the Engine.

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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 28/06/2026

Thanks very much for the notice! I'm on holiday in Italy on a train right now - but the fact should now be corrected. Please can you check? :)

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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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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 21/06/2026

Gives a good indicator of how long they've had that article sitting around for!

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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

'... She is today best remembered through allusions to a nebulous concept known only as "pork markets".'

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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 19/06/2026

'...was Liz Truss, who, in the year 2022, held the post for only 49 days, during which time she crashed the economy, accidentally killed the most-loved Queen in modern history, and roundly lost the court of public opinion to a decomposing head of lettuce. ...'

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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

This clue could have been a bit ruder and a lot better but I'm a coward

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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 14/06/2026

I swear we queued them up last week! We didn't know!! 😭

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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 11/06/2026

the dildo has left the building

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