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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
To get casual fans caught up, the new Avengers movie should start with all the characters doing a rap where they say who they are and what their deal is
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ModernDayNTK @modernday.ntk.net · 28/09/2026
indeed - Young MC effectively debunked this kind of Cartesian dualism in 1989 ("Some of the busiest rhymes ever made by man... written by this hand/ Are comin' out of this mouth, made by this tongue"), to the extent there are now TWO different TV shows emanating "From the underworld of Guy Ritchie"?
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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 25/09/2026
Stop using location information that requires this outfit to continue running a server (looking at you NHS and others).
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ModernDayNTK @modernday.ntk.net · 26/09/2026
#OnThisDayInNTK:2001 ntk.net/2001/09/21/?... Jacko releases PC-proof CD UCAS releases 300K home addresses 9/11 reckons from: Richard "pigeon missiles" Dawkins theguardian.com/world/2001/s... Ian "Elite" Bell web.archive.org/web/20011222... & sci-comms declares - unwinnable? - War on Gravity
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Gav Thorpe @gavthorpe.co.uk · 04/09/2026
Today I realised that Huel is just formula, but for adults.
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Chris @basiclychris.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Not sure how long it’s been like this, but if you google it the first image you get features an edited sign reading ‘The World of Allegations’
A Google search result for ‘World of David Walliams’ - the first image shows the entrance, where the large sign has been edited to read “The World of Allegations”
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Open Web Advocacy @open-web-advocacy.org · 22/09/2026
🇬🇧 OWA is having a special meetup in London on the 1st of October 2026 together with London Web Standards. 🌐 Join us for talks on browser competition, web apps, browser choice and data portability followed by Q&A and a chance to meet people from OWA and others working on these issues. 🔗 More info:
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London Web Standards OWA Meetup - Open Web Advocacy
We’re having an OWA meetup in London on 1 October 2026, from 19:00–21:00 BST, together with London Web Standards.
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
boingboing.net
Archive of Usenet postings going back to 1981
Usenet-Rewind is the a vast archive of Usenet postings (previously at Boing Boing) covering text from 1981 to the present day. It contains 1,059,610,453 messages and has the "advanced search"…
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DANIELPEMBERTON @danielpemberton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
LONDON! On Tuesday I’m doing a talk with Spiritland in Kings Cross about making the music to lots of films and things like #ProjectHailMary, #Spiderverse, #SlowHorses and a bunch of other stuff. 7pm. Some tickets available here: www.eventbrite.com/e/daniel-pem...
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Daniel Pemberton in conversation with Paul Noble at Spiritland King's Cross
Daniel Pemberton is one of the world's most in-demand and prolific soundtrack composers, in conversation with Spiritland founder Paul Noble
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ModernDayNTK @modernday.ntk.net · 19/09/2026
#OnThisDayInNTK:2001 ntk.net/2001/09/14/?... simultaneous UK releases for: first Fast & Furious film Kinji Fukasaku's Battle Royale @rathergood.bsky.social's PopBitch vs NTK - a comparative review: web.archive.org/web/20010924... & - perhaps predictably - no shortage of wild theorising over 9/11:
         In these terrible times, it's good to watch the tech
         community put its problems aside, and supply what we were
         all so desperately short of: plenty of wild unsolicited
         opinions. After those first few hours of awful shocked
         silence - what a relief to be interrupted by the CEO of
         CoffeeCup Software, producers of an innocuous Windows HTML
         editor, e-mailing his 1.2 million customer base to "call for
         [the responsible] country's complete destruction and
         annihilation". And at the end of that fateful day, noted
         hacker Eric S. Raymond rained his thoughts like fresh water,
         revealing that those who "disarmed all the non-terrorists on
         those airplanes ... bear some moral responsibility". Thanks
         too to BYTE's Jerry Pournelle, who slowly toughened his
         demands from an early request that /usr/bin/laden be handed
         over "bound and chained", to Thursday's demand that Nablus,
         Gaza, Baghdad *and* Damascus be razed to the ground; to the
         Evening Standard infowar expert who warned that "inflamed
         young men" could escalate the conflict by releasing "cyber
         viruses, crashing our computers ... from council houses in
         Bradford"; and kindly John Keegan in the Telegraph, who
         wrote that ISPs should ban encryption among their users, and
         those who refused must be "destroyed with cruise
         missiles". And on through the lonely nights, as net.folk on
         chat traded credulous rumours and confused geopolitics, and
         Nostradamus buffs mulled seriously over a quatrain that,
         sadly, was probably invented by a skeptic to show how *any*
         random phrase could end up a doomladen prophecy.
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ModernDayNTK @modernday.ntk.net · 18/09/2026
"That's gonna last until next year, you're gonna be in here regurgitating *Gordon Wood*..." (always a treat to be reminded that these names are real historians)
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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 09/09/2026
Sounds like a Future Me problem, not a Current Me problem
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Turmut Hoer @4u5t0.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Spare the Rod, Jane the Freddy
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b3ta @b3ta.com · 12/09/2026
25 years ago today B3ta launched Well, 25 years ago today, we launched the version of the website you are familiar with, we were going for at least three months beforehand, if you check newsletter dates on issue 1. However most b3tans look at the board post date - so happy birthday us. Sort of.
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ModernDayNTK @modernday.ntk.net · 13/09/2026
#OnThisDayInNTK:2001 ntk.net/2001/09/07/?... @theregister.com take on Stephen Hawking theregister.com/2001/09/05/c... Ansar-e Hezbollah take on "Iranian Mr Bean" news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/m... & "That platform was becoming too unstable. I had to circle and hope that things didn't get too rough"
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ModernDayNTK @modernday.ntk.net · 12/09/2026
fascinated that they've called themselves Blade Runners, ie merciless enforcers of a dubious policy when they themselves are part of the problem. & what are the meetings like: "Pelican crossings are like any other machine - either a benefit or a hazard. If they're a benefit, it's not my problem..."
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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
He won't though, will he? Oh, Harry and Meagan should do a photo op at Portsmouth lifeboat station! Take the kids along, have them arsing around in their adorable little RNLI wellies! Make it happen!
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OSMLondon @osmlondon.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026
Next Wednesday (16th) it's #geomob . An evening of geo talks. These are sure to feature some OpenStreetMap, particularly the talk by Matt Amos, which is all about pub locations. A topic close our hearts! Get signed up! Speaking of which, the next #OpenStreetMap pub #meetup will be the Wednesday […]
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Lloyd Davis @lloyddavis.eurosky.social · 06/09/2026
Worcestershire at its weirdest! Must watch.
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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I have zero idea what I'd make in a Star Trek Shuttlecraft Le Creuset Casserole Dish, but I also don't care and I wants it. blog.trekcore.com/2026/09/star...
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Le Creuset Cookware Announces New LE CREUSET x STAR TREK Collaboration for 60th Anniversary
The first big announcement for STAR TREK’s 60th anniversary week is here — a new collaboration with luxury cookware company Le Creuset to send your kitchen to the final frontier
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ModernDayNTK @modernday.ntk.net · 07/09/2026
for the avoidance of doubt - Coyote Vs Acme is directed by IMDb's Dave Green(XVI) www.imdb.com/name/nm17577... ...the former NTK editor is IMDb's Dave Green(XIX) www.imdb.com/name/nm48343... ...& not sure if @davidallengreen.bsky.social is one of the other 20+, doesn't Equity usually step in here?
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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026
I shall be doing a talk in Laaahnnndaaahhhn on Sept 15 called "Let's unfuck the mobile Web (together!). On stage will also be Colombian Heart-throb Gerardo Proaño from Browser Choice Alliance and Northern megahunk @dletorey. And, if you're cool n groovy (and YOU ARE), it's free […]
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ModernDayNTK @modernday.ntk.net · 05/09/2026
#OnThisDayInNTK:2001 ntk.net/2001/08/31/?... 1st/only mention of @zefrank.bsky.social Linux Mouth Billy Bass web.archive.org/web/20010902... on hand-cranked webserver web.archive.org/web/20010810... for full Sega Fishing experience & emerging "mashups" - early example: youtu.be/dsT52ZGBD1c?...
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Jason Moore @moorejh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Hard core #amiga
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ModernDayNTK @modernday.ntk.net · 31/08/2026
we're all grieving Tim Curry in our own way, but great to see this Fright Night Concert including that oft-overlooked tale of the resurrected undead, Jesus Christ Superstar
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Liam Proven @lproven.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The astounding slowed down version of "Jolene" is what taught me what a truly astonishingly talented performer Dolly Parton was.
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ModernDayNTK @modernday.ntk.net · 29/08/2026
#OnThisDayInNTK:2001 ntk.net/2001/08/24/?... "What were the copyright wars like when you were young, @lessig.bsky.social ?" "They went on for ever" web.archive.org/web/20010824... RIP scifi astronomer Fred Hoyle @msaunby.bsky.social shirt idea & Ballmer truth via web.archive.org/web/20011101...
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Richard Herring @herring1967.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Not King Harald V. Another piece of my childhood gone. 2026 is the new 2016.
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Robin Rimbaud - Scanner @scannerdot.com · 28/08/2026
One week until London Interzone, where I will present the premiere of a new work using unheard, unreleased tapes of William S Burroughs www.thehorsehospital.com/events/londo...
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left-shark politics @andrewctenor.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I was listening to this episode of one of my fave podcasts just a few days ago, and now all of a sudden she’s gone. Listen to this if you want to take a journey with @kirkhamilton.com inside Dolly Parton’s singing and artistry. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/s...
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"I Will Always Love You" by Dolly Parton
Podcast Episode · Strong Songs · November 13, 2019 · 59m
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ModernDayNTK @modernday.ntk.net · 25/08/2026
by this stage, anyone not watching Person of Interest should be considered inherently suspicious and possibly surveilled on a continuous and intensive basis?
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ModernDayNTK @modernday.ntk.net · 22/08/2026
#OnThisDayInNTK:2001 ntk.net/2001/08/17/?... Future US coverdisc payola: ntk.net/2001/08/17/i... Ballmer sweats from elbows: youtu.be/Vhh_GeBPOhs debut mentions of: Joel @rathergood.bsky.social zombo.com Tim Burton Planet Of The Apes & not a spoof? "Image Makers" web.archive.org/web/20010710...
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OpenUK @openuk.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The OpenUK Awards are live the "Oscars of Open Source." 🏆 🚀 This 7th edition recognises UK leadership and global collaboration in open tech. Gala dinner at the House of Commons, 5 Nov, hosted by Chi Onwurah MP. Nominations close midnight BST, 6 Sept. Nominate here: openuk.uk/awards/ #openukawards
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James Brown @ancient.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
If you haven't yet subscribed to my YouTube channel www.youtube.com/@ancientjames (perhaps you have been in prison, or on a long ocean voyage), then be warned that you're about to lose the chance to grab one of those sweet sub-6-digit subscriber IDs. Be in to me now, before I'm mainstream.
@ancientjames  99.9k subscribers  72 videos
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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
White professor ‘ MattGPT ‘ whose most recent book contained fabricated quotations, non-existent source references, & left ChatGPT URLs accidentally embedded in footnotes is sad about Jason Arday’s death but still wants Arday & all black academia held to higher standards than his own writing .
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ModernDayNTK @modernday.ntk.net · 18/08/2026
as @phil.gyford.com once noted, this can feel like you've been targeted for an imminent drone strike - if it's just the word "Sorry" it's probably from one of the more ethical automated weapon systems?
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ModernDayNTK @modernday.ntk.net · 17/08/2026
. @locusinpes.bsky.social - this is how former NTK editors prefer to communicate with each other/ "float" experimental future policies to gauge public interest
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ModernDayNTK @modernday.ntk.net · 16/08/2026
guess they could have posted it earlier in the year, but CB wasn't dead then?
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ModernDayNTK @modernday.ntk.net · 15/08/2026
#OnThisDayInNTK:2001 ntk.net/2001/08/10/?... users annoyed by SirCam, HipCrime, & named-after-Mountain-Dew-variant Code Red malware debut mentions of: Elite: The New Kind McD's Chicken McCrispy Sun Tzu's The Art Of Web (Application Development) web.archive.org/web/20010818... + OOLONG:
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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
some upcoming gigs in London: blog.vbuckenham.com/more-visuals...
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More visuals gigs!
A quick one to let you know about some upcoming gigs where I'm doing visuals, again with Picodevil. On Monday the 17th (so, like a week and a half away), I'll be doing visuals at AlgoLush. The vibes ...
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I subscribed to NTK back in the day and probably understood a solid third of it most weeks. OK, maybe a quarter. Rereading it now I miss even more than then. But it's important social history. We need a podcast that looks back and explains each week's newsletter.
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ModernDayNTK @modernday.ntk.net · 10/08/2026
always wondered - is this guy wasting real balloons or has he finally worked out how to do it in Photoshop (right down to graduated tint on the garage door)?
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Nick S @holgate.permanent.red · 09/08/2026
Somehow I had forgotten that Bass-O-Matic was a William Orbit project. RIP. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ifK...
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Bass-o-matic - Fascinating rhythm (dance energy)
YouTube video by webm8music *
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ModernDayNTK @modernday.ntk.net · 08/08/2026
#OnThisDayInNTK:2001 ntk.net/2001/08/03/?... London "Free Dmitry [Sklyarov]" demo featured on Newsnight last-ever Brass Eye special & via @matsimpson.com - historic debut of Dancing Steve Ballmer: youtu.be/edN4o8F9_P4?...
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Steve Ballmer - Dance Monkey Boy!
YouTube video by MasterBlackHat
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gwEm @gw3m.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I’ll be performing this Saturday at the Kickstart UK Amiga Expo afterparty. It’s at the Fat Cat in Derby. #demoscene #commodoreamiga #chiptune
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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 31/07/2026
obsessed with the font on IKEA's clam chowder packaging. this is what's in the freezer on the Nostromo
Transparent bags of frozen clam chowder with black and white labels and an all-caps font not quite Eurostile but similar energy
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Weebl (with bits) @mrweebl.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Are you around Manchester way? Want to see me do an hour set of dancey mememememe madness? DICE - dice.fm/event/g535a6... RA - ra.co/events/2467214 Use code WEEBLFAN for 10% off (can be used for the first 20 customers)
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BITRATE. Tickets | From £22.25 | 15 Aug @ Concept Haus, Salford | DICE
**BITRATE. is an exciting new day party festival in Salford, with plenty surprises in store. Much like the internet back in the 2000s, who knows what you'll ...
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ModernDayNTK @modernday.ntk.net · 04/08/2026
if anything, Channel 4 haven't gone far enough here... They could out-Curtis Adam Curtis by investigating whether all kinds of things are socially constructed: medicine, illness, science, TV, language, society, civilisation etc - the shocking conclusion: "it's social constructs all the way down!"
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Merlin Mann @hotdogsladies.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
"MOTHERS BEANS"
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ModernDayNTK @modernday.ntk.net · 01/08/2026
#OnThisDayInNTK:2001 ntk.net/2001/07/27/?... NTK debuts of: pre-2manyDJs Soulwax - a "Belgian PWEI"? @mc.frontalot.com via @sd.solle.uk Hayez Squad web.archive.org/web/20010721... Xtian pop rewrites web.archive.org/web/20010720... & Aeon Flux v Atari Teenage Riot in... youtu.be/ofBqoI8GyUk?...
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The Mad Capsule Markets - "Pulse" (1999)
YouTube video by Masters of Audiovisuality
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