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nigel kersten @etwoy.net · 21/06/2026

Dying at this snippet of the dutch coach celebrating while the crowd squeals.

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 17/06/2026

I can’t stop thinking about this ad, absolutely wild aesthetic

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nigel kersten @etwoy.net · 19/06/2026

C’mon Aussie C’mon! (Arsenal shirt there for luck)

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nigel kersten @etwoy.net · 11/06/2026

I start on Monday in an office in London! Looking forward to interacting with more people than just delivery folks and posties during the day....

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

THREAD. A few years ago, my dad was surprised to find a small toad had wandered into his porch and took up residence in one of the old shoes he liked to wear for gardening tasks. This led to more drama than might've been anticipated... www.tom-cox.com/my-dad-and-t...

A toad, sitting what appears to be calmly in an old loafer in my parents' porch, while in fact planning how to gradually move up the hierarchy of the local community and into an influential position in local government.

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nigel kersten @etwoy.net · 11/06/2026

It turns out that after 7 years of being fully work-from-home, 90% of your work clothing is just from the waist up.

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nigel kersten @etwoy.net · 06/06/2026

Why does Vinted make me pick one of two genders for a backpack? You can pick unisex afterwards but it just always feels dumb as hell.

nigel kersten @etwoy.net · 04/06/2026

TIL that white eggs come from hens with white feathers and brown eggs come from hens with red feathers.

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Two Chickens

ALT: Two Chickens

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Dustin Moskovitz @moskov.goodventures.org · 03/06/2026

these new multimodal system prompts are really strong

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nigel kersten @etwoy.net · 03/06/2026

“This did not happen because AI is magic. It happened because Fin already had exceptionally high engineering discipline, fast feedback loops, and a culture of experimentation and measurement” One billion percent this.

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nigel kersten @etwoy.net · 30/05/2026

The way coding agents can flail around trying to fix CSS layout issues is the most humanising thing about them.

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Chainsaw Man: He Just Like Me FR!

ALT: Chainsaw Man: He Just Like Me FR!

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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Blair putting on full display what is in many ways his special ability - to lay out a political argument grounded in his own view of global trends (globalisation in the 2000s, tech in the 2020s). But… institute.global/insights/pol...

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The Labour Party Is Playing With Fire Over Its Future and the Future of the Country

In this essay, Tony Blair sets out the need for a new agenda for Britain.

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nigel kersten @etwoy.net · 26/05/2026

My scoutmasters daughter invited me to be her deb partner for the North Coast National Party in the 80s. I wish I’d thought of this…

Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

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When I used to write for The Guardian, every time I wrote the word “meow” the editors would change it to “miaow”. It used to really get on my wick. Don’t try to make my cats sound like your upper middle class London cats, you fuckers. My cats did not go to your posh cat schools. They say “meow”.

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nigel kersten @etwoy.net · 22/05/2026

The rampant fearmongering that folks like Lenny and Elena are doing around product management right now is getting in the way of people working out how to actually evolve their roles. Distasteful.

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Less than a decade ago

Guardian article from 2017

Theresa May plans to let people change gender without medical checks

Speaking at Pink News awards dinner, prime minister reiterates her commitment to improving trans rights

Photo of May, with caption: Theresa May delivers a speech at the Pink News awards held at One Great George Street, London.

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Nathaniel C. Green @nathanielcgreen.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

The key to being a good scholar or teacher, the key to being a good anything, really, is wanting to be with people. There are a lot of people out there who are terrible scholars and teachers because they don't like people and want nothing to do with them.

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*exhales properly for the first time in months*

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Ah May, the London month where I pull out my transitional wool clothing to work out which ones have provided tasty meals for clothes moths. If anything drives me to going full gorpcore synthetic fabrics, it's going to be the bloody moths here.

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especially when they land next to Robocop bsky.app/profile/robo...

Baudrillard is not entirely unproblematic, but I do love these quotes interspersed amongst my timeline.

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2SER is a goddamn cultural institution!

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There’s a lot of great examples :)

estion 2
Which of these is a fundamental principle of British life?
A Actively supporting your local football team
B Participation in community life
C Ignoring your neighbours
D Eating fish on a Friday
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o were the 'suffragettes'?

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nigel kersten @etwoy.net · 18/05/2026

From the UK one I did not so long ago.

Question 8 of 120
What must police officers do?
A) Be rude and abusive
C) Make a false statement

Multiple choice answers

B) Obey the law
D) Commit racial discrimination

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That famed English directness.

Article screenshot from The Guardian

Text is:

35m ago 11.32 BST
Josh Simons formally resigns from parliament, paving way for Makerfield byelection
Josh Simons has this morning formally resigned as MP for Makerfield.
The Treasury has confirmed the news this morning. In a good example of how British politics can be utterly baffling to outsiders, it has put out a press release saying Simons has been appointed as "steward and bailiff of the Three Hundreds of Chiltern"
This is a job that does not actually exist. But many years ago it did, and anyone who held the post was no longer allowed to serve as an MP. So this is the Treasury signalling Simons is out of parliament - although nowhere in the press release does it actually

Bronwen Scott @snailseyeview.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

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We’ve looked at snails with one shell and slugs with no shells. Now let’s have a look at a snail with two shells, because Nature laughs at our puny attempts to pigeonhole. In today’s #AtoZ – J is for Julia (Juliidae) (1/9) Pic: © uwkwaj CC BY-NC

Small, perky snail with head poking out between its two shells. The snail has a pair of long, tubular tentacles. The shells are like clam shells, except they are vivid green. The hinge is at the top.

Julia exquisita: Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands. © uwkwaj CC BY-NC https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/166680082

In this photo, the snail is lying on its side with the hinge of the two shells pointing towards the camera. The shell and snail are both very bright green. The snail has white blotches on its back.

Julia exquisita: Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands. © uwkwaj CC BY-NC https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/263219540

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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 14/05/2026

Spotted on Tumblr…

Screenshotted tweet:”If people are fighting for an orb you are reading fantasy. If people are fighting fir a cube you are reading sci-fi. If it gas more sides than that. I dont know. I dont know man.”

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nigel kersten @etwoy.net · 15/05/2026

Next step to the UK rejoining the EU is to shamelessly pander to the EU superpowers in our Eurovision entry: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XR2...

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LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER - Eins, Zwei, Drei - Official Music Video

YouTube video by LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER

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nigel kersten @etwoy.net · 14/05/2026

closing 20 Finder windows I didn't realise were open while a tear rolls down my wrinkled cheek at the memory of the Spatial Finder.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

we only know about the £5m Harborne donation thanks to journalists at the Guardian, but sure trash the MSM for clicks

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github.com/obra/superpo... somehow I keep forgetting just how readable these things are...

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oh and the visual companion is more like working with someone at a whiteboard. Some ideas are easier to compare with visual aids.

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It's much more like working with a senior engineer. Explores multiple approaches with low filtering, refines and converges on one through exploration and questions, then generates a plan. Coupled with a strong TDD approach in the rest of orba/superpowers just fits my brain with minimal friction.

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I'm not using it anywhere near as much since I started using orba/superpowers skills and keeping a tight leash on philosophy and architecture. I like the orba brainstorming mode much more than CC plan mode. github.com/obra/superpo...

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