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Nick Dixon

@ndixon.bsky.social
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Software developer, writer of wrongs, photonerd and currymuncher

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 3h
Today's the 960th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings, so obviously I'm reposting my scenes from the Bayeux Tapestry in Playmobil.
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Nick Dixon @ndixon.bsky.social · 15h
Since Trump seems to have been inspired by it, there's an enclosure in a wildlife park in Yorkshire we could chuck him in.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 17h
I hate editor Halloween. What do you mean you're going as an italicized period??
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Nick Dixon @ndixon.bsky.social · 18h
Of course Katie Zacharia is hopeless. What else could you expect from a kakistocracy?
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Nick Dixon @ndixon.bsky.social · 18h
Does he know it's 2026, not 1976?
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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 20h
github.com/pfrazee/pdoo...
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GitHub - pfrazee/pdoom-kaboom: Meanwhile, at anthropic
Meanwhile, at anthropic. Contribute to pfrazee/pdoom-kaboom development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My man looks like a beluga whale pitching Bitcoin
Elon Musk, douchy and doughy and pale
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Reform County Councillor Anthony Screen gave money earmarked for the community back to the Reform-run council.
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Staffordshire County Council Funding Itself from Community Funding
Reform Kidsgrove Councillor Antony Screen uses funding for Kidsgrove organisations to allow the Council to spend on itself. The Officers emails tell a damming story .
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Nick Dixon @ndixon.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
"and we would know about it" is grimly funny. The Iran experts who could've told them were fired for investigating classified documents being kept at Mar-a-Lago.
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Nick Dixon @ndixon.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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Muse Wonder: Zuckerberg and Wang's $100B AI
YouTube video by Cheeky Pint
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Pascal Jacquemain @jacquep.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I will disappoint many on here. I have decided NOT to return to Twitter.
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Jim Carrey's 'I'm Sorry' Meme
Alt: Jim Carrey's 'I'm Sorry' Meme
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Nick Dixon @ndixon.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
So the guy who rages about trade deficits gave $60m to Russia, and in return received an hour's worth of diesel supply?
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christhebarker @christhebarker.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Bit weird…
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
So, happy 89th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians—and someone concussed him with a brick
A man in a suit, standing on top of a van with loudspeakers on it, flinches as projectiles are hurled at him
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Wah Wah Cry
ALT: Wah Wah Cry
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Nick Dixon @ndixon.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Yes if only we could keep weak, confused, whiny, emotional impulsive, unpredictable people out of politics
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Donald Trump Kisses American Flag
Alt: Donald Trump Gropes And the Kisses American Flag Without Consent
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Nick Dixon @ndixon.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
... pour encourager les autres
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Nick Dixon @ndixon.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Hard to tell 😏
1970s comedian Bernard Manning, in a blue suit, behind a microphone
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Nick Dixon @ndixon.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I suppose it's churlish to point out that if he had TOTAL CONTROL of the Hormuz Strait, there'd be no need to buy in diesel.
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Nick Dixon @ndixon.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
These buggers in the White House must be terrified. Enjoy their fear.
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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
everyone in 2005 after hearing You’re Beautiful for the ninety millionth time #celebritytraitors
James Acaster saying ‘we’ve got to murder James blunt’
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 09/10/2026
Margaret Hamilton, a computer scientist who helped NASA land on the moon, has died. She was 90. As a young mathematician at MIT, Hamilton was the first female programmer to work on the Apollo project in the 1960s. She went on to lead the 100-person team that wrote software for the moon mission.
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Nick Dixon @ndixon.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I remember the complaints when the BoE and Mark Carney himself chose Jane Austen for the £10 note. Some people are only happy when they've summat to moan about.
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Mostly books! #BookSky
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Nick Dixon @ndixon.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Many people have committed gruesome multiple murders. None of what Vance says justifies a public execution.
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Mark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Bread and circuses.
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Nick Dixon @ndixon.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Perfect choice for GBNews
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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Anyway, happy anniversary to this tweet:
Matt Zarb-Cousin:

Zack Polanski is one of the most talented political leaders this country has produced in decades and the only one capable of stopping Nigel Farage. The Greens will outpoll Labour by next year and be the second largest party in terms of membership. The sky is the limit.
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Nick Dixon @ndixon.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Symbols like the BBC and the NHS and the Post Office - oh wait, that was his side
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Nick Dixon @ndixon.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I could have a bit of respect for Tom Harwood if he'd said something like "Congratulations to Labour on keeping their safe seat, but it doesn't guarantee their success in 2029". But describing it as "an inverse indicator" is utterly pathetic.
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Eric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.
Screenshot from this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/us/politics/fort-hood-execution-streamed-public.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HVE.Rw7O.Sj-0_s5YONzL&smid=nytcore-android-share
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Secular Talk @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Better idea
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Nick Dixon @ndixon.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Red states are gonna run out of lube and Kleenex.
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Nick Dixon @ndixon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
That's another way to screw the economy then.
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Nick Dixon @ndixon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Gateway drug
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ACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Air to Ground Message: LAV D VERY HARD TO OPEN FROM INSIDE. STUCK. Area: Portsmouth, UK Type: Airbus A321neo A: #ae3bcf25546 F: #ffaab0eb9e0
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
My favourite thing in the world is when the economy is bad, middle class people get classic poor people problems but still refuse to listen to the ways poor people have managed said problems, oh, forever. Today: is it more expensive to cook from scratch? If only someone had looked into this before!
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
1/x Two of the best-known coats on any high street began as working kit for sailors on cold decks. Both carry names from my little corner of the North Sea: Duffel, a small town near Antwerp, and the Dutch word "pij". The story of the duffel coat and the peacoat. #maritimehistory
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zoë @zo-e.xyz · 07/10/2026
okay so this anecdote in Margaret's obituary has me crying because this is exactly what it's like being in tech and trying to anticipate failures and having men basically tell you you're being hysterical and then you have to fix it later
"the Lauren error": One day, her daughter Lauren, then four years old, was playing with the command module simulator at the
Instrumentation Lab when she somehow activated a pre-launch program, called P01, while the simulator was in midflight - which
crashed the simulator altogether. Hamilton created a program add-on in the technical documentation warning users not to launch P01 during flight.
She also proposed a software fix to prevent the error happening during a real mission, but she was overruled on the grounds that the highly trained astronauts were never going to make that same mistake. Yet during the Apollo 8 mission in 1968, that's exactly what happened: Jim Lovell inadvertently launched P01 during the flight, causing the on-flight navigational data to vanish. Hamilton and her team were called in to solve the error, and after that her proposed changes were integrated into the program. This was an early example of "defensive" programming, the
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Nick Dixon @ndixon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
How I arrived on Bluesky from X
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Nick Dixon @ndixon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
What syllab– ahh
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Nick Dixon @ndixon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It's interesting to compare Trump's actions against Americans with the Declaration of Independence list of complaints against the King. Shame Trump's most ardent supporters haven't read it, or more than three words of the Constitution.
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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Compaints
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Seems that the person who drafted the Green party motion came via Your Party and joined - by her own admission - to press this simply because the Greens had a bigger platform. Classic bit of entryism which now threatens the future of the movement.
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Nick Dixon @ndixon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
You know who else used triple exclamation marks? Hitler.
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Nick Dixon @ndixon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Will *anyone* dare to ask him how many Americans he's prepared to sacrifice to Iranian retaliation and whether he thinks 5 million is about right?
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Nick Dixon @ndixon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
He always says that when his lies have been exposed.
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