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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 10h

There arent enough rich people to tax to keep the triple lock going, such is the ratchet effect on the share of national wealth it will gobble up if continued. The number of workers per pensioner is dropping: we cant afford to keep it. bsky.app/profile/zack...

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Until recently, I thought Torsten Bell was the pen name of the fourth Bronte sister. What he is is the best communicator in the government. He should be front and centre of any news media operation.

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Farage's response to Burnham's speech was basically 'stop foreign aid and smallboats'. Foreign Aid is pretty much zero already. SB arrivals are down 40%; Brexit enabled small boats by ripping up the Dublin Convention (for UK). Farage show the paucity of his politics: his time is over. 👏

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September 2026: the world today, as seen by one Polish guy

Pulling together a blog post on the state of the world, and your home country, is a lot of work in its own right. Doing it in as graphically rich way as this Polish chap has done is amazing (too good to have been AIed) tomwojcik.com/posts/2026-0...

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How a Pole sees the world in September 2026: a scrolling essay that follows one closed strait into fuel, food, bonds, defence and demography.

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"It Was Powerful" | Rory and Alastair React To Andy Burnham's Speech.

Good reaction podcast to yesterday's Burnham speech by Rory and Alastair. youtu.be/5cxaErj0eaw?...

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YouTube video by The Rest Is Politics

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 13h

Gove is talking rubbish #bbcr4today. Other countries have moved to nationalise water services - Berlin for example did it for the city of Berlin not long ago. To say EU bans it is rubbish. Other countries have zero rated, temporarily, some items too.

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 14h

AI training is a fascinating subject. Some people think its like human training in some ways. Its completely different in method, but still requires someone to decide what values to instill, what the quality/target thinking levels desired are etc. But in two areas it can never be same:...

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 14h

Its Nobel Prize announcement week next year (October seems to come round faster every year). Peace Prize is announced on Friday at 11am Norweigan time. When does Trump declare war on the winner? 🤣 www.nobelprize.org/prizes/about...

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Prize announcement dates

Nobel Prize announcement dates 2026.

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 14h

Just bizarre Care Service interview by #bbcr4today Nick Robinson on two fronts: the pretence that what Burnham has said so far constitutes a nitpickable proposal as opposed to just a stake in ground. Second, the idea that all hospital care is delivered as in-patient is patently nonsense...

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 29/09/2026

Wrote about the decline and fall of SCOTUSblog, which used to be the single best resource for Supreme Court stuff, and (thanks to some intervening crimes committed by its co-founder) is now a weird platform for conservative pundits to talk about what a good job the conservative justices are doing

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It Was the Essential Home of Supreme Court News. Now It’s a Joke. What Happened?

How high-stakes poker brought down a pillar of Supreme Court coverage.

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 19h

There's a lot of UK coverage for Burnham's conference speech today in the media. One under-remarked feature of it: Team Burnham has probably the best operational security of any recent Downing Street team. They don't seem to (thankfully) revel in sharing tittle tattle with matey journalists.

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 20h

Humanoid robots are running off the production line in China now. You can order them from some of the usual suspect retail websites. By next summer, they might just be fighting on the ground in Ukraine's army against Russia www.wesodonnell.com/p/fedorov-wa...

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Fedorov Wants Humanoid Robots Hunting Russians Within Six Months

Well, that’s terrifying

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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 21h

Andy Burnham has stated clearly that Brexit was a costly mistake, and has promised to look at the options for our future relationship with our European neighbours. Turns out that the most popular option is to become a member of the EU

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 21h

Burnham's pension triple lock proposal arent the red meat policy that Badenoch and Jenrich seem to think it is. It about as mild a change as could be imagined, removing the ratchet effect of the current approach whereby pensions get ever larger wrt the economy as a whole. ...

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Tom Wilson @feedthedrummer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Found the best Labour Conference protestor.

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Starliner Targets Uncrewed Flight NET December, Crewed Follow Up in 2028

Boeing and NASA seem set on trying to launch Starliner once again in December, uncrewed this time. Last time, it flew to the ISS but stranded its crew there for months. As one of the two commercially contracted crew launchers, its woefully behind for its objectives. payloadspace.com/starliner-ta...

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NASA confirmed Boeing Starliner will fly an uncrewed mission to the ISS no earlier than December 2026, with a crewed follow-up in 2028.

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Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Crying at how the new intern at work was born in 2005 and knows about the Blair government because "we studied it in sociology".

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Sky News is interviewing Labour supporters who cant get into the hall to hear Burnham's speech - its packed out already. Now, the sceptic in me knows its possible to engineer too few seats to give impression of 'sold out'. Lets see what its like inside when the cameras roll

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I thought that Balaclava clad bunch hated people who clog up prisons - he must be popular ;-) bsky.app/profile/gile...

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SpaceX gets lots of attention for Starlink - over 12000 satellites launched so far for its megaconstellation. China has 6 constellations of various sorts set to follow, some already having 100s in orbit. This website provides good coverage of Chinese space activities ...

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One aspect of the triple lock that needs discussion: pension credits. It'd make sense to make part of the triple lock means tested, delivered via the pension credit top up system.

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Labour: 'we must do big bold things to deliver for working people of all ages' Also *some* Labour: 'AARGH PANIC PANIC TRIPLE LOCK CANT BE TOUCHED' Ffs: if its not reformed it'll reach 7% of GDP apparently.

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Polish notation - Wikipedia

Interesting that Polish Notation (and its relative Reverse Polish Notation) was only invented in 1924. (Its the prefix style of writing operators: 2+3 is written as + 2 3. You'd think human variety would have used it earlier - there's nothing sacred about 2+3 style. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_...

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Politics.co.uk @politics.co.uk · 29/09/2026

NEW: Labour will ‘stand by’ ECHR unlike Farage and Badenoch, says @chrisbryant1962.bsky.social “They say they’ll bin the European Convention on Human Rights. They’ve clearly never read the Good Friday Agreement. Or maybe they don’t care about it”, Bryant stated www.politics.co.uk/2026/09/chri...

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Chris Bryant: Labour will ‘stand by’ ECHR, unlike Farage and Badenoch - Politics.co.uk

Sir Chris Bryant has vowed that Labour will “stand by” the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and the Good Friday Agreement, accusing Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch of having “clearly never re...

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Nuke the site from orbit: American orbiting nuclear weapons during the Cold War

The idea of weapons in orbit has been in news again recently. There's no evidence yet that anyone has actually put nuclear weapons in orbit, but some have looked at it. 3.5yrs into the space age, here's a look at the declassified US look at it in early 1960s www.thespacereview.com/article/5325/1

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In the aftermath of World War II, it seemed obvious to many that the future of warfar would involve rockets in orbit designed to deliver nuclear weapons. Dwayne Day and Hans Dolfing examine one study ...

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animationobsessive.substack.com

Comically, musically, graphically, the 1957 Bugs Bunny Cartoon 'Whats Opera, Doc' was - is - an absolute gem. Chuck Jones directed it, but the colours, the layour came from Maurice Noble. A look at his work on this cartoon here: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/why-whats-...

Why ‘What’s Opera, Doc?’ Looks Like That

Plus: news.

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The £102BN Plan to Finish HS2

Good B1M new video on HS2 , worth it just for the views inside the nearly completed (civils anyway) tunnels . He emphasises speed too much imo, rather than capacity. Some may wish to duck the Walmar segment - he was always a critic youtu.be/IJnKt2AOCJ8?...

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Musk's fantasy of 1000s of data centres in orbit will remain just that, pure fantasy. But the need for some computing capacity in space shared between satellites - aka data centres in orbit - is already evident. One co has already tested an Nvidea H100 in space....

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China Mobile Reshaping Tianqi, GuoWang User Terminals Appear

China has two satellite constellations moving towards regaular use. One can provide internet service to regular devices using standard 5G protocols albeit with low data rates, another towards a Starlink-like terminal based service. www.china-in-space.com/p/china-mobi...

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Two of China’s space-based connectivity constellations are moving towards being widely available infrastructures for users.

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Docker The Hands-On Way | iximiuz Labs

In an age of AI slop, I do like coming across blogs/content which makes good, consistent use of graphics. This one seems to have used Excalidraw - but kept an excellent coherence to every diagram. Neat. labs.iximiuz.com/roadmaps/doc...

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Master Docker by solving practical problems. The learning path includes: Must-Have and Digging Deeper routes, theoretical materials where it helps to learn faster, and cross-cutting topics such as sec...

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What separates Trump voters who consider themselves MAGA from Trump voters who do not?

Why does Trump keep on repeating his lies on subjects like the economy? Because to his cult they need to keep on hearing it since that's what they believe, even if its contrary to their own lived experience at the supermarket or petrol pump. robertreich.substack.com/p/maga-repub...

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The MAGA Factor

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The Drawn World: a map of every border drawn from memory

One for map and border nerds. A whole bunch of games . Plus an aggregate map of what borders people have drawn in the games around the world. www.habibicode.org/thedrawnworld

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Every border anyone has drawn playing Borderline, on an empty map. The only line nobody drew is the coastline.

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This blog on AI coding gets a lot right. AI demands intentful instruction: if you can lay out what you want then you will more likely get it. Leaving it - content, process, house style and standards - to the AI to make up is just resorting to law of averages, what it happened to learn. ...

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Russians Used Civilians as Cover During Retreat Through Gas Pipeline in Kupiansk Region

Russian soldiers retreating from an area they had occupied in Ukraine used civilians to provide cover, forcing a group - including someone in a wheelchair - to walk with them through a ditch and then for 10km through a gas pipeline to escape. militarnyi.com/en/news/civi...

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Russian servicemen led civilians from the Kupiansk community through the Shebelynka–Ostrohozk gas pipeline.

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