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Squeezy John @johnspiers.co.uk · 26/09/2026

Spent an amazing day up on the Ridgeway above Uffington today. Politically, this landscape shaped by neolithic famers, Bronze Age people, Celts and Anglo-Saxons who loved it and knew it and made it their own makes a mockery of those who seek to claim immigration is wrong. Immigration is human.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 18/09/2026

It is incredibly important that political violence does not succeed. The far-right mob that shut down Portsmouth wanted this outcome. If the state wishes to avoid more of these actions, it needs to make sure this RNLI branch reopens *immediately*, or as close to that as humanly possible.

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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/09/2026

This is the world JK Rowling helped create. This is what Harry Potter is funding. All the legal challenges to enforce this regime are backed by Rowling and her Harry Potter money.

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Dr Lucy Rogers @drlucyrogers.com · 07/09/2026

#NarrowBoat for sale #Advert £60k, currently in Nottinghamshire. This was her advert from when I bought her 3 years ago youtu.be/B16ppCixmTE?... She now also has cratch and stern covers. #UKCanals Ping me before she goes on with a broker! Blacked summer 2025

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SOLD - Katy, 50' Semi-Cruiser 2016 GJ Reeves/Clifton Cruisers

YouTube video by Rugby Boat Sales

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James Munns @jamesmunns.com · 23/08/2026

Any bare metal Arm Cortex A knowers out there that can help JP balance his Cache flow?

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Mike Bell @rebelmike.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Bad Apple is back! This time on #TinyTapeout. I had a video only player on TT07, this version adds audio! The first minute of Bad Apple fits in the 16MB flash on the QSPI Pmod.

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pimoroni @pimoroni.com · 28/07/2026

🎂It's our birthday! We've just turned 14, and we're having a sale! 💰Save up to 40% on 1,449 products in our store. Including 25% off Picade, 35% off LiPo Amigo Pro, and 25% all of our Badgeware boards. 📅But, be quick! The birthday sale ends on August 5 11:59PM BST. blog.pimoroni.com/its-our-birt...

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It's our birthday — Save up to 40%!

Pimoroni began back in 2012 with the aim of selling laser cut acrylic cases for the Raspberry Pi. Yes, in 2012 our Pibow cases were our first and only product. Fast forward to 2026, and we're now 14 ...

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TinyTapeout @tinytapeout.com · 07/07/2026

You don't need expensive equipment or years of training to design your first chip. All you need is your laptop and a community to help you! Join our 2-day online workshop. July 13 & July 17, 5pm-7pm CEST. More info to follow 👀 Subscribe to our newsletter to get the latest updates. tinytapeout.com

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Alice I Cecile @alice-i-cecile.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

AI: virtually no subject provokes such vitriol in my communities. I can grant the haters many of its harms, but their solutions leave much to be desired. I fear for the future even as I wonder at the future we are living. And so, dear hater, I must write: shaping.systems/blog/ai-suck...

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AI sucks. Hating it is not enough.

A jeremiad on uninvention and bitter hope

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pimoroni @pimoroni.com · 29/04/2026

Happy 13th birthday, @micropython 🎉 We’re really happy to be increasing our GitHub sponsorship to $500/month to help support the project and ensure its future. If MicroPython’s been useful to you, it’s well worth supporting too: github.com/sponsors/mic...

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Sponsor @micropython on GitHub Sponsors

MicroPython is a lean, efficient and robust implementation of the Python 3 programming language optimised to run on microcontrollers and in constrained environments. It includes a subset of the Py...

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Mike Bell @rebelmike.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

About to head down into the old Liverpool docks, and a lovely sunny day for it!

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TinyTapeout @tinytapeout.com · 16/04/2026

Want to get your hands on a real lithography photomask? How about some silicon wafers? Enter our demoscene competition for a chance to win one! tinytapeout.com/competitions...

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Mike Bell @rebelmike.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Water coming over the top of the top lock gates means it’s very hard to get the lock empty enough to open the gates so the boat to come out the other end. This is going to be a “fun” morning…

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Mike Bell @rebelmike.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Heading down Marple Top Lock, it’s a deep one! We’ve planned to use this flight a few times but it’s always been closed. Hopefully all will go well today!

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Nina "Erina" Satragno @satragno.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I rendered Bad Apple!! on TIS-100. This was a fun long weekend project, and I got to learn about some of the internals of one of my favourite puzzle games! #zachtronics #badapple #touhou youtu.be/N3JwU-Kvqpo

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Bad Apple!! but it's running on TIS-100

YouTube video by Nina Satragno

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TinyTapeout @tinytapeout.com · 03/04/2026

Meet the awesome judges of our #ASIC demoscene competition: @jeriellsworth.bsky.social, @willflux.bsky.social and Sprite_tm! tinytapeout.com/competitions... #opensource #ASIC #competition

Jeri in front of a pinball machine pointing to a resistor on her cool tshirt

Sprite wearing 'I are a programmer' tshirt

Will with his feet up in front a pair of monitors showing hello world from his FPGA graphics system

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Len Smith @ignu.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Wait. You can just say "we might infringe on your rights" in your Terms Of Service?

Screenshot of Copilot's Terms of Use stating: "For example, we can't promise that any Copilot's Responses won't infringe someone else's rights"

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Flux @willflux.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I'm considering moving my git repos to #Codeberg (from GitHub). If you have open source projects on Codeberg, I'd be interested to learn from your experience. I host my own web sites, so it's only the core git stuff I need to worry about. 🙏

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TinyTapeout @tinytapeout.com · 27/03/2026

Announcing the second Tiny Tapeout demoscene competition! Free silicon space for all entrants! tinytapeout.com/competitions...

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Dr Lucy Rogers @drlucyrogers.com · 22/03/2026

This Wednesday 25 March 7pm I'm giving a free talk at the Gregson, Lancaster. All welcome. gregson.co.uk/event/lookin...

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Looking Up: with Dr Lucy Rogers MBE - The Gregson

Join us for an engaging 75-minute session with Dr Lucy ...

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Les Pounder @biglesp.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Shiver me timbers!!! After nearly six years at Tom's Hardware I am heading off for new horizons! Pimoroni, purveyors of maker toys, tools and kits has added me to its crew! From April 1st I will be Pimoroni's Content Editor. Creating content to inpsire everyone to be a maker! youtu.be/q1FYxBLDyQk

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After six years I'm leaving Tom's Hardware and joining Pimoroni — Back to my maker roots!

Shiver me timbers!!! After nearly six years at Tom's Hardware I am heading off for new adventures! The good ship Pimoroni, purveyors of maker toys, tools and what nots has added me to its…

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Squeezy John @johnspiers.co.uk · 16/03/2026

Join us tomorrow night as we play live on the Folk on Foot YouTube channel along with all the other nominees in the Folk Album of the Year award. Show starts at 7pm

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Samuel @samuel.fm · 11/03/2026

okay awesome! videos now no longer do the horrible dynamic audio adjustment, which should make music and other videos with dynamic ranges much more pleasant. I also fixed quiet videos getting boosted to oblivion enjoy this peaceful and quiet bird video!

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Mike Bell @rebelmike.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Agree with this, we should have built more nuclear over the last couple of decades, but we shouldn’t start new decade+ long nuclear projects now - focus on developing storage so renewables can be relied on makes more sense to me.

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Baochip @baochip.com · 02/03/2026

Interested in trying out a Baochip-1x? The 'dabao' evaluation board is now taking pre-orders on Crowd Supply: www.crowdsupply.com/baochip/dabao

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Dabao Evaluation Board for Baochip-1x

A powerful new RISC-V microcontroller with mostly open RTL

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Mike Bell @rebelmike.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

My RV4028 computer is getting to the point where video output would be nice. Maybe I can rig up PicoTerm on the VGA demo board... Anyway - for now I'm controlling the on board LEDs with a Pimoroni QwST Pad!

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 19/02/2026

The tech oligarchs pushing AI do not care if you can afford a computer, because they do not truly love the computer. aftermath.site/ram-prices-hdd...

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I’m Tired Of These Useless Jackasses Making The Computer Expensive

RAM, flash memory, and HDDs are unaffordable because of a bunch of greedy idiots that do not love the computer.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Absolutely insane story about a middle-aged woman from Hertfordshire who got arrested, shackled, and detained by ICE and held in a prison for eight weeks.... while on holiday... with a valid tourist visa... as she tried to leave the country.

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Mike Bell @rebelmike.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

I got the boards for my RISC-V computer fabricated. I've been documenting the bringup over on Fedi, but the conclusion is - it works! The thread here has lots more details: hachyderm.io/@rebelmike/1...

RV4028 IO module in the back slot of the backplane.

The RV4028 computer with IO, RAM and CPU modules populated

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

“Are you firmly in favour of rejoining the European Union?" - Robert Peston “Firmly very much in favour. Brexit has been a disaster under any criteria, under any measure" - Zack Polanski

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Mike Bell @rebelmike.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Looking forward to this tonight - there are some really cool designs on TT08!

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Mike Bell @rebelmike.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

My Bluesky Tufty app is coming along, it can now view images and display and open quoted posts

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.” hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...

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Mike Bell @rebelmike.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Ah, this'll be why it took multiple attempts to reply to a comment on a PR just now... How worried should we be about GitHub just failing completely one day? Seems like they might have more AI agents than people that actually know what they are doing working on it...

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pimoroni @pimoroni.com · 09/02/2026

Introducing Tufty2350 - A smart interactive badge powered by Raspberry Pi RP2350! 16MB flash, 8MB PSRAM, WiFi+BT, 1000mAh battery, and a 2.8" IPS display - a whole lot of goodies in a gorgeous shell.😲 Now available to order: shop.pimoroni.com/products/tuf...

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Gadgetoid @gadgetoid.com · 08/02/2026

Anyone got a userspace bitbang i2c driver for the Pi before I go trying to mangle my own together? 🤣 I’d use the kernel i2c but device tree doesn’t want to let me share pins between SPI (display init) and I2C (touch controller) no matter how nicely I ask.

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James Brown @ancient.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

"Animated Bokeh" has been on my whiteboard for a long time, and this is the result. I thought it would just be for cheesy novelty effects, but it also does lightfield manipulation that was cooler than I expected. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg_2...

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Digital Iris

YouTube video by Ancient

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Mike Bell @rebelmike.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Work in progress BlueSky app on my Pimoroni Tufty!

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology

She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

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TinyTapeout @tinytapeout.com · 04/02/2026

Finally, we’re ready to announce the demoscene competition winners! 🎉 Join us live on Wednesday the 11th at 19:00 CET to find out who won—and to hear how our amazing judges chose the winners. Click “Notify me” on the stream to get an alert when we go live: www.youtube.com/live/il_qKTi...

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Mike Bell @rebelmike.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Just placed the order for the first revision of the RV4028 boards! First step on the way to a hackable RISC-V based RC2014-alike. github.com/MichaelBell/...

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GitHub - MichaelBell/RV4028: RV4028 - A hackable Risc-V computer

RV4028 - A hackable Risc-V computer. Contribute to MichaelBell/RV4028 development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Flux @willflux.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I'm happy to release the next installment of 🏝️ Isle #FPGA computer with a #RISCV CPU design from @brunolevy01.bsky.social. This chapter demonstrates how to interface a CPU with your own hardware and how to write bare-metal RISC-V assembly code for it. projectf.io/isle/riscv-c...

Photograph of ULX3S dev board showing 'Hello!' in Isle text mode on a widescreen monitor.

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Mike Bell @rebelmike.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

The Pimoroni badgewa.re team assembled! They are really pretty.

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Andrew Cherry @kolektiv.xyncro.com · 28/01/2026

I think I might take one of these "under 20 minutes" AI skills courses the UK Govt. seems very keen on everyone doing and live-post it here... Maybe we can all learn something together! The press release sends me to aiskillshub.org.uk/aiskillsboost/ - let's go and see!

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AI Skills Boost - AI Skills Hub

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Mike Bell @rebelmike.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I'm migrating Mastodon accounts (to @rebelmike@hachyderm.io if you want to follow there). Think my phone might vibrate itself off the desk as the followers migrate over and apparently it gets a notification for each one 😆

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