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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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Isofarro @isofarro.com · 27/03/2026

Oh wow, that's Reykjavik? Beautiful And good luck! Hope it's going well

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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 · 21/08/2025

That's something I'm never going to unsee. The thought of "Vote for Beaker!" posters popping up come the next election, that's making me giggle. And, he's my MP.

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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

At least something to give players time and space to replay 400 years of chess opening theory evolution. Applying modern methods to the start positions. Not flounder like our Italian and Spanish ancestors. #chess #chess960

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Isofarro @isofarro.com · 14/02/2025

I kinda look forward to a "thematic" tournament, where a single Chess960 starting point is picked a day before the first round, and every round uses the same position. The tournament becomes a battle to see further and deeper than your opponents. Or find creative solutions and systems.

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Isofarro @isofarro.com · 14/02/2025

At the moment, I can't help feeling that we are tending more towards rediscovering Napoleon's mate than inventing modern systems like the Sveshnikov Sicilian. That players have 10 minutes before a game to figure out a position seems like something out of The Generation Game. #chess

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a computer screen shows a chess game being played with a time of 10:00

ALT: a computer screen shows a chess game being played with a time of 10:00

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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

Two practitioners and bloggers on Zettelkasten worth following reading: Bob Doto: writing.bobdoto.computer/zettelkasten/ Chris Aldrich: boffosocko.com/tag/zettelka... Both regular commenters on www.reddit.com/r/Zettelkast...

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All Things Zettelkasten

💚 MY BOOK 💚 💚 ZETTELKASTEN BASICS 💚 💚 ZETTELKASTEN PRACTICES 💚 💚 DEMOS 💚 💚 FOLGEZETTEL 💚 💚 COMPARISONS 💚 💚 ST...

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Isofarro @isofarro.com · 06/02/2025

My thoughts conclude with: What does a link blog look like done in the spirit of a zettelkasten, and necessarily public? A single link blog item has (two way) references to other link blog items and commentary/thoughts. It may be a bit wild (in the untamed sense), but over time...

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Isofarro @isofarro.com · 06/02/2025

So I'm toying with the idea of, not just link blogging, but threading conversations with that particular second-brain over time, may result in interesting connections (and serendipitous ones). A single item in a link blog isn't isolated, it's a time-stamped pin in a journey of discovery.

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Isofarro @isofarro.com · 06/02/2025

The bite-sized posts reflect the idea of "Atomic notes", and mirror Simon's philosophy that one note may not be ground-breaking, but the evolution of thoughts, and narration, in subsequent discoveries -- that's the fundamental basis of zettelkastens (of the pure Luhmann variety)

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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

Ah, I found this BBC article: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... AIUI, if I'm reading this right (disclaimer: brain fried) An amendment added would delay the bill, because it's got to go through the various reading stages again. So the amendment is used to stop the bill from going ahead now.

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Bid to halt children's bill 'sickening' - Bridget Phillipson

The education secretary criticises a push for a new inquiry into grooming gangs by halting progress of the bill.

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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

Just tried a NameCheap renewal. Honey didn't find any discount codes. I popped up a Google search, 2nd site that wasn't namecheap gave me a 20% discount code that worked: COUPONFCNC The video seems to give a convincing explanation of why Paypal's Honey doesn't give me even this code on checkout.

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Isofarro @isofarro.com · 22/12/2024

What's infuriating is that the Honey extension is using dark patterns to coerce customers into clicking it's buttons in cases where no discount codes are found. and using that to cookie stuff their affiliate code as a referral. FROM THE CHECKOUT PAGE!

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Isofarro @isofarro.com · 22/12/2024

What started out as a genuine "find the best deal for customers" after Paypal's aquisition of Honey, looks to be optimising their own affiliate comission at the expense of customers and content-creators using affiliate marketing for their income.

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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

Gukesh is the man of the moment. He's the new superstar. And long may that superstar shine in our chess sky!

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Isofarro @isofarro.com · 13/12/2024

Ding is not immune to blunders. I recall him blundering against Nepo twice in two consecutive candidates in a similar tactical theme. The second time was during the Covid-interrupted Candidates. So it's not a post-covid thing. I hope he has a continuing successful career, one that brings him joy.

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Isofarro @isofarro.com · 13/12/2024

I feel for Ding. I hope he can come back to elite level play. Certainly game 12 is an indication the old Ding is still there. Game 14 shows that there's still work to do on his tenacity. His ability to keep playing at a high level in long games has been the flaw over the past year.

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Isofarro @isofarro.com · 13/12/2024

I came back after lunch, expecting to see the post-game press conference after a quiet draw. But instead a flurry of congratulation messages for Gukesh. How quickly things can turn, how quickly history is made.

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Isofarro @isofarro.com · 13/12/2024

Yesterday I was stunned. I looked at the endgame position at about 12:30 UK time, Rook and same-coloured bishop each, I figured Ding needed to keep both pieces on the board. Because if he traded the rooks, Gukesh could use his bishop and king to shepherd his extra pawn to promotion.

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Isofarro @isofarro.com · 13/12/2024

World Champion at 18, it's what we expected from Magnus, and Alireza. Magnus chose not to play, Alireza failed in two consecutive candidates. Gukesh has eclipsed them both, on his first attempt. No have-a-looksie, and be better prepared on the second go. He won first time round.

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Isofarro @isofarro.com · 13/12/2024

When Kasparov won the title, he wasn't the finished article either. Although he had 48 lessons from Karpov in their abandoned match. And it delayed his crown for 6 months, but still he became the youngest world title holder, spurred on by the previous holder, Tal, who wanted a nice birthday present.

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Isofarro @isofarro.com · 13/12/2024

The Gukesh we see isn't the finished article. And it's going to be glorious seeing him grow into the role of World Champion, and get stronger. e.g. his positional/strategic understanding. He'll learn from that game 12, and start to build a natural positional intuition.

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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...

Isofarro @isofarro.com · 11/12/2024

Pluto might not be a planet by the time he gets there though...

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Isofarro @isofarro.com · 11/12/2024

Well earned! It will make a good testimonial for the 2nd edition.

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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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