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PotatoSpade

@potatospade.bsky.social
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Father of a legend. Teacher of small humans. The world is quiet here.

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PotatoSpade @potatospade.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
When you wake up genuinely believing it’s Friday and then realise it’s Thursday and you’ve been robbed of a day in your head. That.
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PotatoSpade @potatospade.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Apparently a bunch of 'fighting age men' have 'invaded' Dover this morning wearing 'face coverings.' www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...
bbc.co.uk
Port of Dover delays: Disruption as masked 'stop the boats' protesters block roads
Hundreds of demonstrators, wearing black with their faces covered, caused delays to traffic reaching the port.
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:
channel4news.substack.com
Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation.
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PotatoSpade @potatospade.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
It’s alive!!! Having spent longer troubleshooting this than I care to admit, I finally have a working version of the Synare 3. Next step is to get it responding to MIDI note velocities instead of how hard you hit the speaker. The Frankenbeat will one day live!
The circuit of the Synare 3 drum synth constructed on breadboard with various electrical components and wires in a tangled mess. To one side sits a speaker which acts as a transducer when it is hit, creating a sharp change in voltage which triggers the rest of the circuit.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Okay Clacton. Let’s go.
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PotatoSpade @potatospade.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Humans, not content with ruining their own planet, manage to find a way to dump their unwanted trash on their nearest celestial body. #Moon
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
On my way, Clacton.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Game on, Nige.
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PotatoSpade @potatospade.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
One of the best games I’ve ever played. I’ve happily spent hundreds of hours avoiding wolves and bears while trying not to freeze or starve to death. I simply cannot recommend it highly enough.
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PotatoSpade @potatospade.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
I made a thing: www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=157... I'm pretty new to coding so it's not very polished but it's something. #pico8
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David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Reform schools: Suella's plan for your children. open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...
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Reform schools
Braverman's new world
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Antony Hook @antonyhook.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Democracy in Kent is under attack from a Reform administration that is clearly terrified of scrutiny. They are moving to quiet the opposition while prioritising songs and prayers over policy discussion. It is a bizarre and anti-democratic shift for our county. 🧵 1/6
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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Our Father Who art in heaven,
Donald be thy Name.
Thy madness come,
Thy Will be done,
In Iran & not in heaven. Give us this day your daily dread.
And forgive us our trespasses
As you trespass against us. 
And lead us not into Epstein, 
But deliver us lots of evil. Amen.🙏🏻
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PotatoSpade @potatospade.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Just finished Episode 5 of #TheLongDark. WOW! All I can say is thank you so much @raphlife.bsky.social and @hinterland.bsky.social for the many many hours of entertainment you have given me. #TLD is an absolute masterpiece and I can't wait to see what you guys have in store for the future.
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PotatoSpade @potatospade.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
South East Water have been rubbish for ages but this just takes the biscuit. Beleaguered water company throws bottles into skip www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Bottles of water thrown away by South East Water in Tonbridge
South East Water says the water was from bottled water stations or returned by customers.
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PotatoSpade @potatospade.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Today could quite possibly be the best day of my life. (I tore the plastic film lid off one of those foil tray oven bake ready meals in one piece.)
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PotatoSpade @potatospade.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
One of the funniest things I’ve read in a long time: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...
theguardian.com
Melania review – Trump film is a gilded trash remake of The Zone of Interest
Dispiriting, deadly and unrevealing – there is a decent documentary to be made about the former model from Slovenia, but this one is unredeemable
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David Head @davidheadviews.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
This. Faversham is the best of British.
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PotatoSpade @potatospade.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
I noticed a few flags on lampposts and poorly drawn lines on road markings. Then I heard that a bunch of people are apparently coming here for an angry walk tomorrow morning because they’re scared of unaccompanied children who’d like to live in Britain. #faversham tinyurl.com/pu8at5yv
A “Faversham Says No To Racism” poster designed by Hannah Temple.
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PotatoSpade @potatospade.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
The GPS test has always been about using a number to quantify something more akin to an art so that politicians can claim they have improved something because the number went up. Often y6 writing is now devoid of any character entirely because of this, yet ticks all the boxes to meet ‘age expected’
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PotatoSpade @potatospade.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Linden Kemkaran - the new Reform leader of Kent County Council. 😳 Just a different shade of blue? A somewhat questionable appointment in my humble opinion.
theguardian.com
Tory candidate shared tweet claiming Muslims have 'nasty culture'
Exclusive: Linden Kemkaran also retweeted user who said Muslims have ‘nasty culture’
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Matt Parker @standupmaths.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Get ready for the squarest year of our lifetimes! 2025 = 45² and we don’t get 46² until the year 2116. AND, as a 1980 birth, I’ll get to turn 45 during the square year. I’ve been looking forward to this since when I still had hair. youtu.be/99stb2mzspI?...
youtu.be
Why 1980 was a great year to be born... but 2184 will be better
YouTube video by Numberphile
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PotatoSpade @potatospade.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
I’m very slowly building a polyphonic synthesiser cobbled together from various schematics I’ve stumbled across online. Working on just one voice for now. DCO is based on the Juno 106. Got the VCA working with the ADSR today. Needs plenty of tweaking but feels good to accomplish something. #synthdiy
Various electrical components assembled on a breadboard connected to an oscilloscope.
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PotatoSpade @potatospade.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Well this is refreshing. Long may it continue.
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