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Nick Pollard

@nickpollard.bsky.social
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Software, Graphics, Programming languages and Type systems. I like Good coffee and Heavy Metal. London, UK. He/Him. DMs open.

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Having grown up in Wales, I can testify that if you are actually worried about your culture and history being under threat, the thing to do is write poetry and songs, perform plays, tell stories and organise festivals, not just sit around whining.
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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This gets said constantly, but it worth reiterating: Games Workshop being bigger than fishing is important to shout about because you wouldn't know it from government talking points, which are rarely about anything creative or artistic. Growth won't involve fish or steel, it will involve goblins.
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David Anderson @bricksilk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Letter printed in The Times today
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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Yes. We do not study the past with a view to feelgood vibes. Sometimes we encounter events and people that do that, but it is not the *purpose* of serious or just basically honest study.
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 04/08/2026
Christopher Nolan, cinema's manic street preacher aftermath.site/christopher-no...
The Odyssey
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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Cowardice or corruption. Either way shameful.
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Most UK media reports on June heatwave failed to mention climate crisis
Exclusive: Analysis of nearly 2,500 articles finds almost three-quarters made no reference to global heating
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 18/06/2026
Engineering ethics needs to have an renaissance in Silicon Valley.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
We the anti-fascists outnumber the fascists by a mile. We are surrounding them. Brighton is anti fascist
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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
It’s at risk of being drowned out by other news, but great to see the CCC’s latest warning on climate adaptation on the front page of the Guardian. An issue that needs far more attention. Great to see @samalvis.bsky.social quoted on the case for more air con too…
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UK ‘built for climate that no longer exists’ and needs urgent changes to survive global heating, report warns
Landmark report calls for widespread air conditioning and says UK temperatures forecast to exceed 40C by 2050
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 18/05/2026
I am once again begging, praying, weeping for lists of written instructions rather than videos. I do not want to watch your two minute video in the hope of catching the two seconds where you whizz past what goddamn menu the thing is under. Write. It. Down.
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Sam Dumitriu @samdumitriu.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Failed legal challenges have delayed major infrastructure projects like new roads and power stations by a collective 32 years. Labour recently changed the law to cut the time it takes to throw out anti-infrastructure lawsuits. And it's working. www.samdumitriu.com/p/the-planni...
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The Planning and Infrastructure Act is working.
It just got harder to delay infrastructure with bogus lawsuits
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Nick Pollard @nickpollard.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Helen Mirren is famously sad that Kurt Cobain didn't live to experience GPS, but personally I'm sad Sir Christopher Lee didn't live to star in Celebrity Traitors. Time is a cruel thing.
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 08/04/2026
And this beautiful game on grief is out now! If you want to support Arab-made work about the Arab world, history, arts, and culture -especially in a time of destruction and erasure towards our people- I cannot recommend this game more. store.steampowered.com/app/3451680/...
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Save 10% on The House of Hikmah on Steam
The House of Hikmah is a fully voice-acted, narrative-driven 3D adventure game exploring grief, legacy and the search for answers after profound loss. Solve puzzles, encounter historical scholars of t...
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Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
World Book Day, is it? Here’s one the mighty @rossignol.bsky.social and me made earlier
Mileships book by Ian McQue and Jim Rossignol
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
The NYT style guide
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Because I am unreasonable, I accept this is true, while being annoyed at anyone who says it. Only I, London’s uncrowned king, may publicly express any view other than “greatest city in the world, No. 1 at everything”.
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
the European mission to Greenland was fourth in the BBC news running order this morning, which feels a bit like doing a light "and finally..." item about the archduke's motorcade taking a wrong turn in Sarajevo
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 12/01/2026
The Ellison/Weiss CBS News of today would insist they couldn't platform Eisenhower without also platforming Göring and if anyone pointed out how ridiculous it was they'd talk about the importance of "open debate" and if you complained loudly enough they'd say "come debate that on my podcast"
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Adam Farrer @adamjfarrer.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Think I’ve just found the most English thing.
The singer of Iron Maiden registering delight at a thatched cottage.
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Scottish Trans @scottishtrans.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Today is Trans Day of Remembrance (TDoR), a day where we pause to remember those who we have lost around the world this year to transphobic violence.
A black graphic with five candles on it. The candles are in the trans flag colours - blue then pink then white then pink then blue. White text above the candles reads "Trans Day of Remembrance 2025" and the Scottish Trans logo is in the top right hand corner.
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Nick Pollard @nickpollard.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Burglars warn: door locks and alarms could "financially ruin" the burgling industry
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
When you publish a website that posts the names and photos of scholars who have written or said things you disagree with and encourage people to surveil and harass them, you are not, in fact, a “free speech” organization.
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Kevin Hovdestad @hovdestad.ca · 09/07/2025
Excited about this - Dylan, Braeden, and Cole are all huge fans of CATAN, and we're over the moon to be working with them (and to send some CATAN players to see them in concert at an INCREDIBLE venue in London!). (Note: The contest is just for tickets, winners are responsible for their own travel.)
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🎥 Kathy 📼 Fennessy 📽️ @kcfennessy.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Massive Attack via Instagram.
The first two paragraphs:

"Today, a hot day when 22 Palestinians (including journalists) sat in a seafront café were murdered by one Israeli bomb, various national media outlets have contacted us (again) to ask our view of something a musician said.

For 636 days now, unprecedented & insufferable horror has been recorded by the brutalised communities of Gaza and shown to us on our phone and television screens. It will not stop. No one, it seems, will stop it."The last two paragraphs (in part):

"As we all watch on aghast, every single day, shouting or typing into an echo chamber of complicity...

Given the total ban by Israel on international journalists reporting from Gaza, and the simultaneous murder of hundreds of journalists in Gaza by Israeli forces, Massive Attack would urge the BBC and other media outlets to redirect their considerable news resource to reporting the truth of what is happening, daily, to the people of Gaza, and critically, to explaining the corresponding inaction of western governments (such as the UK) to their viewers.”
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Nick Pollard @nickpollard.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
A sad thing about social media is just how much it is full of people who just need to go outside and enjoy live but are instead radicalising themselves and others into fearing what is objectively one of the best and safest cities not just now but in all of human history.
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Nick Pollard @nickpollard.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
I have a joke about Theseus but the thread is hard to follow
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Tom Scott @tom--scott.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
The Greens now have nearly 200 more councillors than Reform. This is not something you'd be likely to guess from all the copiously salivating media coverage of Farage & his crew of billionaire-backed far-right chancers.
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Haley MacLean @haleyfax.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Indie game devs! Worried you don't have a good publishing deal? May I present my firm's 2025 Publishing Agreement Data Report! Taken from 100+ actual Publishing Agreements ranging from 2017-2025, providing averages for rev share splits, advances, IP ownership and more! indiegamepublishing.com
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Nick Pollard @nickpollard.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
William Hague in the Times is clear-sighted about the need for significantly increased defence spending, and he's right: archive.ph/CiQ2V
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Nick Pollard @nickpollard.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
He's making a list He's checking it twice But the second check skips every other element So he'll know if there are any cycles
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ChristopherE @christopher664023.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
In 1890, the X and Y chromosomes were discovered. It was found that the men who were tested had 46 chromosomes, including an X and a Y, while women who were tested also had 46 chromosomes, including 2 X chromosomes. So obviously the conclusion was that the Y chromosome defined masculinity.
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Teddy Wilson @reportbywilson.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
If you do not have the courage to standup and loudly, clearly, and unequivocally defend the basic human rights of transgender, queer, and other people within the LGBTIQ community, then I have some bad fucking news for you about what is going to happen over next four years.
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Dara O'Reilly @daraor.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
The Venn diagram of England and Portugal has "enormous historic maritime empires" and "big fans of custard" in the intersection.
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Nick Pollard @nickpollard.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Numpy rhymes with grumpy and I will not be taking any questions.
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Xerea 💙☕ VTuber @xerea.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance. Remember those who have been killed, injured, abused, tortured for being who they are. Remember those who have taken their own lives because they could not live in a world where they could not be themselves. Remember them. And make the world remember them.
Light blue, pink, and white candles on a black background, arranged in the order of the Transgender Pride flag. Beneath, the text "TRANSGENDER DAY OF REMEMBRANCE NOVEMBER 20" is displayed.
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Nick Pollard @nickpollard.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Always the Reader Writer, never the State Monad
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Nick Pollard @nickpollard.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Actually Ctrl + Shift + V is just "paste". Not to be confused with Ctrl + v, which is "hallucinate a fever dream loosely inspired by the contents of your clipboard into your current document, possibly filtered through whatever Steve Ballmer was drinking today". Hope that helps!
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Mina Markham @minamarkh.am · 13/11/2024
I made a Black women in tech starter pack because I couldn’t find one and it annoyed me. go.bsky.app/5upv7SQ
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Nick Pollard @nickpollard.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
OskSta is posting on Blue sky! Finally the moment I've been waiting for to leave Twitter.
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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 06/01/2024
Chuffed to be in 'Cultures of London' alongside many others, bringing a bright range of people and voices into the history of the city where they belong. Jed seal of approval. All good bookstores etc.
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