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Richard Jordan @ericretro.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Development continues on Melkhior's Tower for Playdate. Here's a quick fire selection of clips. Pixels by @craigstevenson.bsky.social and music by @mcalby.bsky.social bitglint.itch.io/melkhiors-to... #melkhiorstower #playdate #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart

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Jack @wakeupangry.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

If I ever had a DNA editing robot I’d probably name it Gene Hackman as a little joke.

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Georgina Kent @georginadoodles.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Today’s 10 minute sketchbook challenge (10 mins to draw (with pen), 10 mins to paint) is of Carew Castle in West Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #sketchbook #watercolours #carewcastle #castles

A quick watercolour painting of a castle

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Randy Cassingham @thisistrue.com · 20/03/2026

We Rate Dogs rocks.

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Krista D Ball is Canada's Spooky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I finally got around to putting together my Jane Austen lego last night.

Jane Austen themed lego. It's small, shaped like a book. It has a piano, books, curtains, and a desk with a quill.

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 15/01/2026

NASA say that the crew member who was ill and returned to earth is doing well and now having a meal with colleagues.

John Hurt enjoying a meal in the film Alien

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Isofarro @isofarro.com · 21/05/2025

@wizwords.bsky.social, reading your Spectrum article in this month's Retro Gamer. A fascinating read, nice touches of tech detail. I loved the info that Incentive reverse-engineered Sandy White's I, of Mask for their Freescape engine. On the shoulders of giants! Marvellous! #zxspectrum #retrogamer

Retrogamer cover for May 2025, the subscriber issue, shows a solitary 48k ZX Spectrum, with the iconic Spectrum rainbow stripes on the machine and on the cover background.

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Isofarro @isofarro.com · 13/03/2025

eBay auction prices seem to be broken these days. The price of an auction item on a search list is different from the price on the listing page itself. Even worse, when you go to put in a bid, there's another two different prices on the same item, which makes incremental bidding a running joke.

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Isofarro @isofarro.com · 14/02/2025

Chess 960 is basically 959 starting chess positions that don't have 400 years of opening evolution. It's a thought experiment: Given our modern chess understanding, if we went back 400 years, how would we approach solving the opening?

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Isofarro @isofarro.com · 06/02/2025

Reading @simonwillison.net on running a link blog simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/22/..., and the recursive commentary through HN, I saw a parallel with zettelkasten: your commentary is a discussion on points raised in the material, and Zettelkasten enables subsequent self-conversation/threaded musings.

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My approach to running a link blog

I started running a basic link blog on this domain back in November 2003—publishing links (which I called “blogmarks”) with a title, URL, short snippet of commentary and a “via” …

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Isofarro @isofarro.com · 10/01/2025

Hi @ottoenglish.bsky.social, I saw your tweet now. I don't know parliamentary procedure, wanted to understand better: How/why does an amendment cause a bill to be killed? Is it the content of the amendment itself, or is it some procedure? thank you!

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I talked to 10 current and former Meta employees about the company's surrender to the right on speech issues. All were upset. One person called the changes "a precursor to genocide" www.platformer.news/meta-fact-ch...

But in its panicked retreat from the system it spent years building, Meta may now be putting billions of users at risk. Just because Meta deleted that line about hateful speech causing offline violence doesn't mean it isn't true. And now the company has all but declared open season on immigrants, transgender people and whatever other targets that Trump and his allies find useful in their fascist project.

"I can't tell you how much harm comes from non-illegal but harmful content," a longtime former trust and safety employee at the company told me. The classifiers that the company is now switching off meaningfully reduced the spread of hate movements on Meta's platforms, they said. "This is not the climate change debate, or pro-life vs. pro-choice. This is degrading, horrible content that leads to violence and that has the intent to harm other people."

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The Life of Sharks @thelifeofsharks.com · 08/01/2025

The comic that got us demonetised on Facebook back in August. (We’re no longer on Facebook).

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

I know it's not a tunnel but there is definitely a light at the end of it. The Rochdale Canal at Mytholmroyd in a photograph by Tim Green. CC BY-SA 2.0

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

They promised me 32 counties But all I got was just 32 Bountys In my box of Celebrations In 2024 🎶

Image from Star Trek TNG in which Óglach Data, speaking from the future, recalls an imagined past where Irish Unification (generally assumed to be the combination of the +353 and +44 bits of Ireland into a single state) occurred in 2024.

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Isofarro @isofarro.com · 22/12/2024

Paypal's Honey extension, for finding the best coupon codes on the internet, this video shows customers and affiliate marketers are being fleeced. From withholding the best discount coupons, and claiming the last click affiliate, Honey is anti-consumer!: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc4y...

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Exposing the Honey Influencer Scam

YouTube video by MegaLag

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Matt Perry @citizenofnowhe.re · 17/12/2024

🚀 Introducing the new Motion examples minisite! This is the new home for Motion examples. This is just the first version but it already has most of the introductory Motion for React examples. Much more to come. 1/3 🧵

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Mike-in-Scotland @mikeinscotland.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Nigel Farage: We need to leave the EU because Brussels has too much influence over Britain! Also Farage: Send us your MAGA millions, Elon. Nothing quite like right wing hypocrisy.

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Douglas Griffin @dgriffinchess.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

BLOG UPDATE: 5 games added to the page on Lisitsyn's book on the 10th USSR Championship: Belavenets-Ragozin, Ilyin Zhenevsky-I. Rabinovich, Rauzer-Alatortsev, Rauzer-Panov & Levenfish-Rauzer. dgriffinchess.wordpress.com/2022/03/26/l... #chess

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Lisitsyn’s book on the 10th USSR Championship (Tbilisi, 1937).

A short blog post dedicated to the tournament book of the 10th USSR Championship, which was won by Grigory Levenfish. The writer’s copy of Lisitsyn’s book The 10th USSR Championship too…

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Isofarro @isofarro.com · 13/12/2024

The #chess world has a new World Champion, the 18 year old Gukesh. Congratulations on his victory, and a worthy one through his tenacity and resilience. Many players would have broken after game 12, but Gukesh held his nerve. This is one player at the start of an amazing career...

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Matt Perry @citizenofnowhe.re · 13/12/2024

🕵️‍♂️ Sneak preview at the next Motion Cursor feature

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Isofarro @isofarro.com · 11/12/2024

I guess I'm slow. Just discovered that Stefan Pohl, a name familiar in chess engine circles, has a tool called the Interesting Wins Search Tool on www.sp-cc.de/downloads--l... It uses pgn-extract, and a clever use of material balance filters. I was curious how Chessbase implemented theirs...

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Ron’s Computer Videos 🧍‍♂️🖥️📼 @ronscompvids.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Really coming down to the wire on this one.

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 11/12/2024

5th person to be cured of HIV “Today, researchers announced the Dusseldorf patient still has no detectable virus in his body, even after stopping his HIV medication four years ago.”

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5th person confirmed to be cured of HIV

Researchers are announcing that a 53-year-old man in Germany has been cured of HIV.

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Tae Kim @firstadopter.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Seeing your debut book in a bookstore for the first time 🥲

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 11/12/2024

The fact that we appear to treat Russian attempts at sabotage, assassination and murder as somehow less significant than other forms of terror is baffling to me. Attempting to blow a plane up in mid-air is bad regardless of whether the ones responsible are doing it for Putinism or Wahhabism.

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Marshall Shepherd @drshepherd2013.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

This is so spot on. As a climate scientist and public intellectual, I see or experience these often

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Britain's new anti corruption champion Margaret Hodge will have a very full in-tray Protecting British politics from dark money and foreign interference needs to be top of the pile New newsletter by me, on some positive anti-corruption moves from HMG: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/britains-n...

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Britain’s new anti-corruption champion has a lot to do

Margaret Hodge will have a very full in-tray. Protecting British politics from dark money and foreign interference needs to be top of the pile.

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Scott Rose @rprose.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Welcome to GM Jonathan Tisdall! @mandoran.bsky.social I believe he's fully one half of all grandmasters who had set up shop on Mastodon. So everybody be cool!

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 10/12/2024

Love this because it works for any profession. The West fails to grasp that bloodthirsty tyrants believe they are... Doctors: ...purging a diseased organism. Janitors: ...taking out the trash. Accountants: ...balancing the books of justice. Break Dancers: ...popping and locking up traitors.

Screenshot of an article by Melanie Phillips in the The Times.

Headline reads: "It's no coincidence dictators are often doctors."
Subheading: "The West fails to grasp that bloodthirsty tyrants believe they are purging a diseased organism"

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

And of course he's now coming for the academics, intellectuals and universities -- it's a well-known pattern.

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Lord Arse! 🕹️ @lordarse.com · 10/12/2024

More than once.

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Matt Perry @citizenofnowhe.re · 10/12/2024

📢 React 19 users can now use Motion ^11.13.4 just like the rest of us filth

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Isofarro @isofarro.com · 09/12/2024

As a passive observer, today's World Championship game looks amazing. As if Ding knew that the only way for Black to hold was for Gukesh to find precise engine moves. But Ding's moves were that of a highly skilled technician, which he is. An engine could have held Black's position, a human... not.

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Shadran @shadran.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

An AI made up a report that was sent to another AI that accepted it and now there's a very real human devop trying to undo the AI fuckup. Peak "AI revolution" moment. This bubble can't burst soon enough.

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itch.io @itch.io · 09/12/2024

I kid you not, @itch.io has been taken down by Funko of "Funko Pop" because they use some trash "AI Powered" Brand Protection Software called Brand Shield that created some bogus Phishing report to our registrar, iwantmyname, who ignored our response and just disabled the domain

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Not exactly the most important issue, but this site has proved exceptional at covering breaking international news, exclusively due starter packs. Far superior to Twitter, even in its prime.

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Douglas Griffin @dgriffinchess.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Havana, 17th November 1966. Bobby Fischer is pictured in play v. Florin Gheorghiu on top board of the Romania v. USA match, in the 12th round of the 'A' finals. (📷: Yu. Paporov, Novosti Press.) #chess