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Dave Harper @randompixel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Mario Kart Tour #mkt ends with a whimper rather than a bang. After taking a day's maintenance I was expecting more than a glorified web page.

Mario Kart Tour end of service screen showing Customer Support or Past Tour Records

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 07/09/2026

It's sometimes remarked that a lot of modern harassment, doxxing and online abuse culture draws its roots from Gamergate. This is true, but it was also a perfect example of "legitimate concerns" reporting by mainstream outlets who should have known better.

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glastomichelle.bsky.social @glastomichelle.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Absolutely stunning sky at sunset tonight in Glastonbury. 💜🩷

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Matt is Just Trying His Best @thegrampus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Whoever decided to promote Coyote vs Acme by letting Wile E do an AMA using only signs deserves all the praise.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 01/09/2026

The Campaign for Rural England believes the countryside is for looking at, and nothing else. They really give the game away on what they're up to at the end of this piece... capx.co/the-countrys...

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The countryside lobby's war on batteries

A solar battery site has proven safe but was blocked anyway

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 21/08/2026

What year is it? Am I mad, in a coma, or back in time?

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Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

New: Target staff "pranked" for social media; a comedian filmed mid-set; a Sprouts worker whose boss started wearing Meta glasses; and a cashier worried customers are filming down her shirt. Meta glasses are in the workplace, and workers feel powerless to stop it. 🎁 www.theverge.com/report/98241...

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Meta glasses are a workplace menace

“Pervert” glasses are making jobs weird and putting workers on edge.

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Heather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

TIL if you write a blog post about a data protection violation you experienced in your professional life, two years later a private investigator will find out where you live, show up at your house, and tell you he's watched your videos and listened to your podcasts and wants you to be nice to him.

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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 13/08/2026

Temperatures provisionally reached 38.1°C at Kew Gardens, making it the hottest day of the year so far. This is the second time this year we have reached 38°C. The only other time this has happened twice in one year was in 2022. It also makes it the 5th hottest day on record.

A map showing 38.1°C recorded at Kew Gardens. This makes it the hottest day of the year so far.

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Andrii Frolov @artandriifrolov.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

My photo of today’s solar eclipse. The bird is real - what an incredible coincidence! 🙂

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DuckDuckGo @duckduckgo.com · 30/07/2026

No camera. No AI. Just Normal Sunglasses. From DuckDuckGo x @Knockaround. (Yes, these are actually real. Get a pair here: knockaround.com/products/duc...)

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Solar energy supplied more power to Britain’s grid in July than any previous month on record. The figure of 14.4% of all power generated in July smashed the last monthly record of 12.4%, set only in May In July 2025, the (formerly) best year for solar generation, 9.6% of generation was from solar.

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Ranked News @rankednews.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

San Diego just watched an Amazon delivery robot drive straight off a pi For daily global news videos, please visit Ranked.News/videos

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Allen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

A "story" is not a code word for some random bit of work. Thinking of it as such is a classic example of Larman's Law. People cannot imagine a new way of doing things, so they twist the new approach into something that looks like what they do now. 1/4

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Dave Harper @randompixel.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

5.5 hours of negative electricity prices thanks to Octopus Agile means we're blasting the air con upstairs on powerful all day and it is cooling down the entire house. Finally cool again!

Octopus Agile electricity rates for 2026-07-12

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Flightradar24 @flightradar24.com · 10/07/2026

A Ryanair (Malta Air) flight from Thessaloniki suffered an apparent uncontained failure of its right engine, with debris impacting the fuselage and shattering a window before a passenger was partially sucked out of the aircraft. Data and video: www.flightradar24.com/blog/flight-...

The Ryanair 737 in better days with the position on the shattered window circled in red.

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Dave Harper @randompixel.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Watching #xmen97 S2. Jubilee kicked absolute ass in episode 2. Had such a grin on my face. 🎆

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NevereverDave.bsky.social @nevereverdave.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

#WestVirginia lightening strike captured by photographer #DebbieParker Don't shelter beside trees in a storm!

Tall mature tree struck by lightening bolt that flashes mostly alongside the trunk into the ground. Perfect exemplar of why one mustn't shelter beside trees in a storm.

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Dave Harper @randompixel.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

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My Political Compass closest match is Mark Carney

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23

Telegraph headiline:

"Heatwave hysterics wouldn't have lasted a day in 1976", overlaid with a bold “MONK DEBUNKED” stamp.

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 17/06/2026

Keir Starmer’s under-16 social media ban can only work if everyone proves who they are, so it’s a natural move for a government selling surveillance as safety By tech policy expert and digital rights advocate @heatherburnstech.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/under-16-s...

Scan your eyeballs, think of the children: how Britain sells surveillance as safety. Illustration of a child holding a phone with a ‘forbidden’ sign on top, against a pink and yellow background

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Tom Wilson @feedthedrummer.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I beg, beg, one person who understands the internet being involved in policy creation and implementation.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 12/06/2026

This is outrageous. When I hire KPMG to validate my priors I expect to receive the wildly overconfident lies of a 23 year old MBA, not those of some stinking robot.

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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Got into an argument on Sky a few weeks about about banning social media for teens. "But parents want it!" Sure, but that doesn't mean it will work or is a good idea! How about a serious conversation about what social media is doing to all of us, adults included? Or is that too difficult?

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LibreOffice @libreoffice.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

#LibreOffice is a desktop application, and we will continue making it! But we have constant requests for web and mobile versions, so here is our updated plan: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/05... #foss #opensource #freesoftware

Banner with photo of people working with cogs

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R @liburghal.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

For every young person drawn into violent behaviour or suicidal thoughts there is an older person who has been radicalised or tricked into an AI powered scam. Both extremes of neuroplasticity should concern us regarding social media, but it is understandable why only one is getting attention.

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James East @jameseast.online · 24/05/2026

I was responsible for this (it was literally my idea while I was Product Manager for Media Playout at the BBC) and it is still my proudest achievement ever

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Sacha Greif @sachagreif.com · 20/05/2026

2016 web developer worries: "man, divs really are hard to center!" 2026 web developer worries: "there are 639 compromised npm package versions in tonight’s Mini Shai-Hulud wave"

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GitHub @github.com · 20/05/2026

1/ We are sharing additional details regarding our investigation into unauthorized access to GitHub's internal repositories.

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 12/05/2026

Important announcement: a staycation is where you have time off and stay at home. It is not a holiday away from home in the UK. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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Wes Bos @wesbos.com · 08/05/2026

here is the new CSS Border shape API this is going to unlock so many sick new designs

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MDN Web Docs @developer.mozilla.org · 08/05/2026

Create frosted glass effects in CSS 🪟 backdrop-filter applies visual effects to the content behind an element - blur, brightness, contrast, and more. backdrop-filter: blur(10px) brightness(0.9); No JavaScript. No canvas tricks. Learn more 👇 developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/...

Code snippet showcasing various CSS `backdrop-filter` functions like blur, brightness, contrast, and saturation against a blue background.

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 08/05/2026

Spiralling global temperatures (1850-2026) It is exactly 10 years since I first put this animated graphic of changes in global temperature online. #ClimateSpiral It instantly went viral. People watched it over and over again. It still offers the power to shock a decade on.

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MDN Web Docs @developer.mozilla.org · 29/04/2026

Did you know about Clear-Site-Data header? 👀 One HTTP header to clear cookies, storage, or cache for your site. Perfect for logout flows. Learn more 👇 developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/...

Code snippet demonstrating the syntax for the HTTP Clear-Site-Data header, including single, multiple, and wildcard directives.

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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 29/04/2026

Microsoft losing the plot to the extent that games running on Linux through a compatibility layer are now not only faster but *assumed to be faster* than games running natively on Windows should be an even bigger story than it already is

For gaming, Microsoft views steamOS as the benchmark, and is working to optimize the platform so that steamOS and Windows gaming performance are comparable. Within the next year or two, it believes that Windows will be able to truly compete head-to-head with steamOS in gaming performance on identical hardware due to foundational changes that are being made to the platform in the coming months.

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Cozy and Comforting Hedgie 🌻 @shadow.hedgie.social · 26/04/2026

"in 2024, YouGov found that Britain was the most voice note-averse country of the 17 mostly rich nations it surveyed, with 83% of respondents saying they prefer text based messages to voice notes (and only 4% saying they prefer voice notes)" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Animated cartoon still from The Simpsons showing Sideshow Bob dressed in a dark naval uniform with gold epaulettes and a bicorne hat, arms outstretched, standing in front of a large Union Jack flag.

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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 23/04/2026

Social media is no longer social. Most of it is passive viewing of videos and pictures from people we've never met. But we're still studying social media like it's 2010. We've entered the post-social media era — and research needs to catch up. osf.io/preprints/so... preprint w/ Richard Rogers

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Ryan "UnionToTuple" Cavanaugh @searyanc.dev · 18/04/2026

Thread: How I accidently DDoS'd npm with TypeScript

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Alicia Stella @alicia.social · 14/04/2026

Universal Orlando has debuted a single-use ala carte Express pass option named Universal Express Now. Available day of your visit from mobile app only, purchasable for select attractions (when available). Currently at Epic Universe, Islands of Adventure, & Universal Studios Florida

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Nick Stevens @nick-stevens.com · 07/04/2026

Awesome image from Artemis. Big!

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Dave Harper @randompixel.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Achievement unlocked. My first RMC completed. Bloody marvellous too. #buschgardens

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