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Mark McLaughlin @mark.mclaughlin.uk · 05/10/2026

Desperately sad to hear of the passing of @afcwimbledon1889.bsky.social commentator Mikey T this morning; the man had sublime way with words right in the moment - wingers "marauding" down the left flank and describing "a salmon-esque leap" for a headed goal have always stuck with me. RIP, mate.

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Mark McLaughlin @mark.mclaughlin.uk · 30/09/2026

It's 2026, and I'm still an absolute fanboy for a beautifully designed custom DMG folder view. Lovely work, anonymous Apple designer!

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Taylor Mullen @ntaylormullen.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

This week's Gemini CLI update 👇

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Mark McLaughlin @mark.mclaughlin.uk · 11/04/2026

Flipping on the Moby livestream at #coachella and hearing it as the "FIFA 2001" soundtrack first, and uh, "Bodyrock", second.

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Paige Bailey (webpaige.dev) @dynamicwebpaige.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

weekend plans: locking in and building something weird 💖 if you're looking for a side quest, gemma 4 just dropped in ai.dev! 31B dense or the 26B MoE are both available to call via the Gemini APIs: multimodal, 256k context, and exactly $0 wrote a quick guide below👇 🔗 dev.to/googleai/hac...

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Mark McLaughlin @mark.mclaughlin.uk · 20/03/2026

And I'm designing for terminals again. BRB, going to bring "information superhighway" back into the vernacular now.

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Srinath Padmanabhan @sri3po.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Gemini CLI v0.33.0 is live! 🚀 Plan Mode is here—a safe, read-only environment to research and architect before you build. We’ve also shipped multiple UX improvements, ACP enhancements and more... Full details: github.com/google-gemin... 🧵

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Mark McLaughlin @mark.mclaughlin.uk · 08/03/2026

I had a summer temp job for a few days moving furniture in that building back in the early 90s, and this was absolutely normal. Utterly surreal in hindsight.

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Hawk Ticehurst @hawkticehurst.com · 28/12/2025

👋 Hi! For those unfamiliar I'm Hawk, a UX Engineer on the @vscode.dev team. As 2025 comes to a close, I've been wanting to get a pulse on how folks are writing code. Genuinely curious: What tool(s) do you use? What do you like/dislike about them? What do you wish your tool could do that it doesn't?

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Ben Goldacre @bengoldacre.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

ACCIDENTALLY BOUGHT CHRISTMAS WRAITH. EVERYONE DEAD.

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Mark McLaughlin @mark.mclaughlin.uk · 19/12/2025

Sounds dangerously close to “voluntold”.

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Mark McLaughlin @mark.mclaughlin.uk · 12/11/2025

Obviously had to stop by this legendary spot while driving up the Oregon coast this summer.

A pale blue hanging oval sign in a wood frame, showing a hand-drawn blue whale, with the words "Exploding Whale Memorial Park" surrounding it. The sign is at the entrance to a small park, in Florence, Oregon in the United States.

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Captain Howdy @captainhowdy.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

From this day in 2016. #Halloween

An IKEA instruction sheet for "NOSFERATU" that shows the bald-headed IKEA man telling you you'll need a hammer and a wooden stake for this. The next panel down shows two images. The first has a frowning IKEA man kneeling next to an open coffin while the moon is up. No, IKEA man. Do not do this. The next image is the same, but the sun is up and he's smiling. This is the way, IKEA man. The next panel shows IKEA man struggling to move a coffin on his own. The large black 'X' across this image shows what a terrible idea this is. The adjacent image has the bald-headed IKEA man getting the help of curly-haired IKEA man and moving coffins as a duo is now a doddle. The bottom panel shows a puzzled IKEA man staring into the open coffin while holding the stake and hammer. The last image shows IKEA man being bitten by the swirling figure emerging from the coffin. He's dropped his tools and is looking to curly-haired IKEA man for help, but curly-haired IKEA man has already shit his pants and is giving it legs in a cowardly act of self-preservation. Don't be surprised when bald-headed IKEA man comes tapping at your window in the dead of night, curly-haired IKEA man.

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Hawk Ticehurst @hawkticehurst.com · 08/10/2025

Folks who know #atproto, I have Qs I still haven’t found answers to and would love any thoughts / opinions you have! 1. Given that most PDSs are hosted by @bsky.app, if an atproto app comes along that gets really popular, does that mean Bluesky is now covering the hosting costs of that app’s data?

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manuel muñoz solera @mamuso.dev · 07/10/2025

Work hard, stay (very) humble, have fun, and be kind to others.

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Rob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

I've been considering whether to do this for months. Now that Radiohead tickets are being offered for huge mark-ups on resale sites (as per our story today), I think the time has come. We're going to play a game of Catch The Ticket Tout. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

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Radiohead condemn ‘exploitative’ touts and resale sites ahead of tour

Band urges fans to avoid secondary sites, where more than 1,000 potentially fraudulent tickets for their shows have been found

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Hawk Ticehurst @hawkticehurst.com · 19/08/2025

I need some help! I’m working on a YouTube video that explores what it would take to build a web app that, if built today, could last 100 years. It covers tech stack, dev strategies, DX, etc but I need help coming up with a demo. Any fun ideas for a full stack app meant to live for a century??

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Alice Averlong 🏳️‍⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 24/07/2025

I've been bedridden for the last 7 months, unable to work, and now my roommate who was covering rent is having tax issues. I need to raise a few thousand dollars to cover rent and bills for this month, so If you could send a couple dollars, it'd really help. Thanks so much. ko-fi.com/fooneturing

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Support Foone Turing ❤️

Become a supporter of Foone Turing today!

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Stephen Thomas Erlewine @sterlewine.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

My appreciation of Ozzy Osbourne, one of the truly iconic figures in rock history, is up at @avclub.com www.avclub.com/ozzy-osbourn...

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Mama, Ozzy Osbourne is coming home

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Julian "Jaz" Rignall @jazrignall.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

40 years ago, I was playing this very cheap and extremely cheerful Mastertronic budget rerelease. A really great game that had split-screen multiplayer - which was still a very new and exciting thing at the time. Really bloody hard too, but that was how it was back then.

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Mark McLaughlin @mark.mclaughlin.uk · 29/05/2025

Great to see Irish actors appearing in the most unexpected of places.

A screen capture from the game "Assassin's Creed Shadows" showing three enemies labeled "Saisesha Ronin", which reminded the author of the Irish actor, Saoirse Ronan.

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Mark McLaughlin @mark.mclaughlin.uk · 28/05/2025

Now I’m recalling South London: “I’m telling, you’re smelling, and you went to the royal wedding.”

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Mark McLaughlin @mark.mclaughlin.uk · 26/05/2025

The Dons are going up! And good job by the @cbssports.bsky.social producer who absolutely knew why they were putting Mumford & Sons behind every recap clip in the breaks.

Haydon the Womble, AFC Wimbledon's mascot, celebrating.

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Mark McLaughlin @mark.mclaughlin.uk · 03/05/2025

Mikey T. closing off with “avoiding a battering, now we’ve got bigger fish to fry” was poetic.

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Mark McLaughlin @mark.mclaughlin.uk · 03/05/2025

The official commentary for the @afcwimbledon1889.bsky.social win over Grimsby closing off with “avoiding a battering, now we’ve got bigger fish to fry” is just one of the many reasons I love this club.

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Mark McLaughlin @mark.mclaughlin.uk · 20/04/2025

Always had you down as an evolved SX-64, tbh.

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Mark McLaughlin @mark.mclaughlin.uk · 04/04/2025

Focusing on the essential imported goods before the tariffs land.

Bags of Percy Pig candy from Marks and Spencer in the UK

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Scott Hanselman 🌮 @scott.hanselman.com · 30/03/2025

Assassin‘s Creed shadows is an absolute fantastic game. It’s a little repetitive, but so is life. It’s absolutely gorgeous, unbelievably massive, there’s easily 60 hours+ content here, 38 castles, you can literally just walk around just being a ninja and ignore the whole plot if you feel like it

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a black and white photo of a woman holding a sword with a caption that says ' darksamurai ' on it

Alt: a black and white photo of a woman holding a sword with a caption that says ' darksamurai ' on it

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Liz Rice 💛💙🐝 @lizrice.com · 03/02/2025

WiFi captive portals. Pointless nonsense. I wonder how much time is collectively wasted on them (I’d hazard to guess that it’s a meaningful amount)

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GigerPunk @gigerpunk.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

OMG, why didn't anyone tell me I could keep up to date with all the latest news and weather, music charts, etc, with Pages from Ceefax, courtesy of @nmsni.co.uk? This is outstanding! www.youtube.com/live/v8OUAiW...

A small bedroom TV displaying the YouTube stream "Pages from Ceefax", in this case WORLD NEWS:

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Chinese fashion giant Shein re-enters India five years after ban Chinese fast fashion app Shein has relaunched in India five years after it was banned by Delhi, under a deal with Indian firm Reliance Retail.

An official from Reliance Retail, who did not wish to be named, told the BBC the firm has entered a long-term licensing deal with the parent company to sell products manufactured and sourced in India on the platform. The group has not yet made an official announcement.

News Index 102 Flash 150 Regional 160

https://www.youtube.com/live/v8OUAiWH_jc?si=D6XDRy41BeHDojkA

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Visual Studio Code @vscode.dev · 13/01/2025

Want to work with the coolest team around? VS Code is hiring product designers👇 Senior Product Designer: jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/e… Product Designer II: jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/e…

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Search Jobs | Microsoft Careers

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Mark McLaughlin @mark.mclaughlin.uk · 28/12/2024

$10 for a mocha at Storyville in Pike Place surely has to be the peak of whatever's going on with dining prices in Seattle, right?

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Mark McLaughlin @mark.mclaughlin.uk · 16/12/2024

It’s bittersweet that I had my last ever #foursquare city guide upvote as recently as this weekend. Such a treasure trove of useful data just disappearing without a trace this week.

iOS notifications of someone upvoting a Foursquare tip at a hotel in Savannah

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Hawk Ticehurst @hawkticehurst.com · 16/12/2024

Re: Web Components Logo I've created a repo with all the designs that you are free to use and modify as you wish! - Web components logo (color, dark, light) - Custom elements logo (color, dark, light) - Variants inspired by @zachleat.com and @davatron5000.bsky.social - Copy of Figma file

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GitHub - hawkticehurst/web-components-logo: A logo for web components and custom elements.

A logo for web components and custom elements. Contribute to hawkticehurst/web-components-logo development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Mark McLaughlin @mark.mclaughlin.uk · 16/12/2024

Was that the game with the drone show?

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 11/12/2024

Wrote up my initial impressions of the new Google Gemini 2.0 Flash model - it's really good, and the streaming mode (where you can stream video and audio to it and get audio streamed right back) is pure science-fiction simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/11/...

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Gemini 2.0 Flash: An outstanding multi-modal LLM with a sci-fi streaming mode

Huge announcment from Google this morning: Introducing Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era. There’s a ton of stuff in there (including updates on Project Astra and …

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Mark McLaughlin @mark.mclaughlin.uk · 08/12/2024

ZIP discs really feel like planned obsolescence. I assume a ton of TIF files for “Follow The Leader” are trapped on this forever at this point.

An Iomega “zip” disk from the 1990s labeled “Korn Photos 1998”

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Showbox Presents @showboxpresents.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Showbox Presents is joining Bluesky and we're celebrating by giving away a pair of tickets each week in December. To enter, simply give us a follow and we'll select a winner at random each Friday at 10am PT. Winners can choose from any upcoming show at The Showbox or Showbox SoDo! Good luck! 🦋

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Mark McLaughlin @mark.mclaughlin.uk · 05/12/2024

Legalized city go-kart, tbh. 🏎️

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Mark McLaughlin @mark.mclaughlin.uk · 05/12/2024

Fiat 500e in this household, and sometimes those spots feel like they’re just made for us.

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Mark McLaughlin @mark.mclaughlin.uk · 30/11/2024

Happy “Unsubscribe from our marketing emails” Day to all those who celebrate.

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