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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/07/2026

Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”

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Jan Stette @janstette.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

AWS reckons I owe them over 3 billion dollars. Pretty odd considering I've paid $1 per month for my account for the last few years and haven't logged into it for a long time. Have you seen other cases like this one, @quinnypig.com, has the AWS Budgets console gone mad?

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

3/ Irony number two. I was told for years that climate change is a hoax and British summers aren't getting hotter. Now the same voices demand to know why Britain never installed AC. You cannot have it both ways. The case for cooling IS the case that the climate is changing.

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

1/ Irony number one: Many of the people now cheering me on spent years insisting heat pumps don't work. Air conditioners ARE heat pumps. Same refrigeration cycle, same physics, running in reverse. Most modern units do both. If AC works (it does), heat pumps work (they do).

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Jer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Y'all know where my allegiances are for the England vs Norway match this weekend, but reading about Norway's youth football system is really interesting. They don't allow scorekeeping or team ranking until the age of 13. The focus until then is 100% on having fun.

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Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan @warringtonruncorn.com · 30/06/2026

My old grindcore band were staggeringly unpopular and had songs called things like “You’re Stupid, Ugly And Wrong” and “Some Cunt From Preston”. We never played a stage that big, but we never played an audience that small.

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Forsberg™ @magnusforsberg.no · 29/06/2026

Og som vanlig, helt stille i norske medier om at verdens rikeste mann er enig med Anders Behring Breivik.

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Jan Stette @janstette.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Stuck in sweltering London, pining for the fjords.

Weather forecast for northern Norway showing forecast 12 degrees centigrade and rain tomorrow.

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Jan Stette @janstette.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Must remember this line for my next job interview

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Idiocracy wasn't this dumb.

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I’ve charted American hegemony during the Iranian campaign

The chart of Napoleon marching on Russia and losing

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SMBC comic Bot @smbc-bot.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Consciousness www.smbc-comics.com/comic/conscious… From an idea in Aguera y Arcas' recent book What is Intelligence?

From an idea in Aguera y Arcas' recent book What is Intelligence?

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

MAY HER MEMORY BE FOR A REVOLUTION ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 (dammit. dammit.)

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

“We believe Asimov’s Laws were really more suggestions”

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Jer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Just a top notch job, guys.

If you search the word "disregard" it does just that

Google doesn't like it when you search for "ignore"

You can no longer google the word "stop"

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 22/05/2026

In case you’re wondering how rigged this $1,776M slush fund agreement was: Trump’s personal tax attorney is now the top lawyer at the IRS.

New York Times excerpt:

Ken Kies, a Treasury official acting as the top I.R.S. lawyer, previously represented Mr. Trump in his tax controversies, according to his financial disclosure. As a result, he

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Allen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

I've been working on a new Software Architecture class description (more on that in a day or so), and Google Docs just told me that the document was, at least in part, AI-generated. None of it was AI-generated. That presents something of a conundrum. 1/8

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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

There is something very peculiar about encountering such blatant lies about things I personally witnessed as they were happening.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Huge achievement! The first single-dose vaccine to combat all four types of dengue virus. An estimated 5.6 billion people are at risk of dengue, with an estimated 100–400 million infections occurring every year, mostly in tropical and sub-tropical climates. [Google Translate ⤵️]

Researcher Neuza Frazatti, from the Butantan Institute, led the development of the first 100% Brazilian dengue vaccine—the only single-dose vaccine against the disease in the world. This represents a milestone for national science and for the fight against one of the diseases that most affect Brazil.

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SMBC comic Bot @smbc-bot.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - End www.smbc-comics.com/comic/end-2

During the book tour of A City on Mars, I did a talk with Randall Munroe in NYC, and he made, impromptu, a better joke than any of us have committed to paper. During a discussion of whether you could eliminate all life on Earth for a reasonable price, a person asked if there might be a way you could specifically annihilate Queens. To which he replied, 'regicide?'

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Zoë O'Connell @zoeoconnell.co.uk · 26/04/2026

Having worked for 4 startups now, I like the idea that my past work could be useful even if the startup fails. Too late now, that data is long gone, but I was well paid for that work already so no moral/legal issue w/copyright. But the privacy implications? Oof. www.fastcompany.com/91528808/shu...

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Shuttered startups are selling old Slack chats and emails to AI companies

Defunct companies are striking gold by selling their digital footprints to AI labs as training data, Forbes reports.

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 12/04/2026

🐰🇮🇷 Close the Strait! 🦆🇺🇸 Open the Strait! 🐰🇮🇷 Close the Strait! 🦆🇺🇸 Open the Strait! 🐰🇮🇷 Open the Strait! 🤭 🦆🇺🇸 Close the Strait! 🐰🇮🇷 Open the Strait! 🦆🇺🇸 Close the Strait! Look, I say we're closing the Strait, and that's final! Don't try to talk me out of it! 🤡

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Rabbit season, duck season

YouTube video by sadegh sepehri

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Jan Stette @janstette.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

That's some delay! But I guess even the best of us ship late some times...

Screenshot from my Amazon account showing that Kent Beck's book "Tidy Together" has been delayed from 8 February to 8 March

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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 08/04/2026

America’s intervention in Iran, Feb-April 2026

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 03/03/2026

Truly the Fyre Festival of strategic campaigns.

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Maciej Gorywoda @makingthematrix.github.io · 23/03/2026

roadmap.sh/scala Scala Roadmap for learning is now officially published. It contains over 150 nodes with descriptions and links to learning materials. It's aimed at beginners but I'm sure many advanced developers can find there something for them as well. Please repost 😊 #learn #scala

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

If those advocating the policy were actually confident that it was popular to triple and quadruple the settlement timelines, they would describe the actual proposals, when there is a converted effort to avoid that + talk mainly/solely about 5-10 years www.express.co.uk/news/politic...

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Labour civil war as Shabana Mahmood 'issues Starmer ultimatum' over immigration

The Home Secretary reportedly threatened to resign if Number 10 blocked her immigration changes

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Jan Stette @janstette.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

@theregister.com Did you know that the Co-Op bank in the UK has had an outage that's lasted most of today and is still ongoing? www.co-operativebank.co.uk/help-and-sup... downdetector.co.uk/status/co-op...

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Spain's renewables build-out has structurally decoupled its electricity prices from gas markets. Gas now sets the price in only 15% of hours, compared to 90% in Italy. Countries that invested early in clean power are far less exposed to fossil fuel price shocks. Those that didn't now pay the price.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

On Friday we revealed the Companies House vulnerability letting anyone access the private dashboard of any UK company. This is the moment I first saw it demonstrated. My reaction says it all. What do we know? What don't we know? What should companies do now?

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Reaching net zero by 2050 is often framed as a cost burden. The UK Climate Change Committee’s latest analysis suggests the opposite. The real risk is fossil fuel dependency.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 06/03/2026

The idea that if you abandon enough of your principles you can make yourself too small a target for the right wing to bludgeon assumes a fidelity to reality on the part o their messaging that's simply not in evidence. Trump is on TV pretending Biden gave Ukraine F-35s and space lasers.

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Martin Kleppmann @martin.kleppmann.com · 06/03/2026

Does anyone have a favourite book on the history of nuclear weapons? I'm particularly interested in how the physicists grappled with the ethics of what they were unleashing on the world. I fear computer scientists might be the next to have such a reckoning.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Reform are in denial about why they lost by 12% in Gorton & Denton (60% white, 80% UK-born) after losing by 11% in Caerphilly (98% white, 98% UK-born) to Plaid Cyrmu Both seats unusual in seeing more people vote than at last Welsh Senedd/last GE: more voters turned out to stop Reform than supoort

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Jan Stette @janstette.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

The absolute state of this and everything else on this thread

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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

There's a lot of mean-spiritedness about people who have gone to live in Dubai. We need to help, and ensure they have secure accommodation in the UK for 91 days of the next tax year.

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

So the Telegraph is taking this well

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

There's a "is anyone even reading this" sort of honesty you get in the software update release notes from a project that's been around for a long time.

The screenshot of the release notes reads:

A new version of TeX Live Utility is available!
TeX Live Utility 1.55 is now available-you have 1.54. Would you like to download it now?
Release Notes:
Changes Since 1.54
• Fix bug 137, homepage link in Help Book.
• First release in a long time, since I don't use TeX anymore and resent the very idea of paying Apple annually for the privilege of giving away free and open-source software. Also, I'm really lazy. Please accept my apologies for all the annoying issues you've encountered in this mission-critical software.
• Updated mirror list, which was three years out of date.
• Added missing legacy mirrors, which was even more out of date.
• Added an alert on startup when user tries Homebrew's lobotomized MacTex, because those lunatics left timgr but removed its database.
Thanks for nothing, guys. Bug 142 and 144.
• Use a custom user-agent to work around the Anubis bot trap on texlive.info. Can't wait to see what else breaks because of this, thanks to the profusion of degenerate Artificial Insemination fetishists scraping websites to feed their models.
• Lists of countries in Repository/Continent are now sorted. No idea how you people let me get away with that one for the last fifteen years.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

I have asked the BBC to scrutinise + correct the factually inaccurate claims made by Mr Nigel Farage about why net migration fell in 'Political Thinking with Nick Robinson' Here is the link if you want to do something like this. www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...

Nigel Farage in answering Nick Robinson's question about why he believes Britain is broken gave an analysis of falling net migration that is demonstrably factually inaccurate.

"It is so broken and its declining so quickly that anybody with a dispassionate view can see it. It is quite interesting. Just look at the net migration numbers. 'Oh isn't it good net migration is coming down?' But do you know why? It is because there is an exodus. There is now an exodus.Those who are of a situation and a financial position to have a choice are now fleeing the country in numbers".

This is factually incorrect. Net migration fell year on year by 465,00 in the most recent Official of National Statisitcs figures: the year to June 2025. This was not because of an "exodus" (an increase in emigration). It is because immigration fell by 401,000 (to 898,000 from 1.299 million the previous year). That accounts for 90% of the big drop in net migration. The increase in emigration by 41,000 was a minor component. Most of the increase in emigration was of non-EU nationals. British citizens made up a third of emigrants, but there was no significant increasse in British emigration, which was at very similar levels in 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025: it is not a significant cause of the drop in net migration.

Nick Robinson did tell Mr Farage that he was exaggerating the number of people who don't speak English - and BBC Verify did produce an analysis showing that was a five-fold exaggeration. But this central incorrect claim about immigration and net migration was not caught in the programme, or before broadcast.

It should at least be scrutinised and corrected afterwards - so that an accurate account of why net migration fell (primarily a reduction in immigration visas to the UK) can be communicated to the audience.

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 23/02/2026

Amusing - I'm hearing a comeback of XP (Extreme Programming) practice. In the early 2000s these used to be popular (championed by @kentbeck.com). Then died down. They are now surging again. XP practices like small releases, frequent integration, and constant customer input!

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 20/02/2026

Supreme Court absolutely bodies Trump on IEEPA. Just complete groin kicking. They could have said that IEEPA lets him impose tariffs in an emergency but that this didn't qualify as one of those, or he failed to define one. It didn't. It ruled IEEPA doesn't let him impose tariffs at all.

There is no exception to the major questions doctrine for emergency
statutes. Nor does the fact that tariffs implicate foreign affairs render
the doctrine inapplicable. The Framers gave “Congress alone” the
power to impose tariffs during peacetime. Merritt v. Welsh, 104 U. S.
694, 700. And the foreign affairs implications of tariffs do not make it
any more likely that Congress would relinquish its tariff power
through vague language, or without careful limits.

(a) IEEPA authorizes the President to “investigate, block during the
pendency of an investigation, regulate, direct and compel, nullify, void,
prevent or prohibit . . . importation or exportation.” §1702(a)(1)(B).
Absent from this lengthy list of specific powers is any mention of tariffs
or duties. Had Congress intended to convey the distinct and extraordinary power to impose tariffs, it would have done so expressly, as it
consistently has in other tariff statutes.
The power to “regulate . . . importation” does not fill that void. The
term “regulate,” as ordinarily used, means to “fix, establish, or control;
to adjust by rule, method, or established mode; to direct by rule or restriction; to subject to governing principles or laws.” Black’s Law Dictionary 1156. The facial breadth of this definition places in stark relief
what ”regulate” is not usually thought to include: taxation. Many statutes grant the Executive the power to “regulate.” Yet the Government
cannot identify any statute in which the power to regulate includes the
power to tax. The Court is therefore skeptical that in IEEPA—and
IEEPA alone—Congress hid a delegation of its birth-right power to tax
within the quotidian power to “regulate.”
While taxes may accomplish regulatory ends, it does not follow that
the power to regulate includes the power to tax as a means of regulation. Indeed, when Congress addresses both the power to regulate and
the power to tax, it does so separately and expressly. That it did not
do so here is strong evidence that “regulate” in IEEPA does not include
taxation.

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