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Batch Bunch @batchbunch.dev · 09/07/2026

📅 Mark your calendar: batchbunch.dev/events Have a project you want to build? Or looking for inspo to get started? This is your space. Coffee, chatter, and 10/10 community vibes 💛

You are cordially invited at BATCH BUNCH #0018.

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Rizwana Akmal Khan @rizwanakhan.com · 04/07/2026

good luck on the new gig! 🖤

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 04/06/2026

Productivity doesn't matter if you're working on the wrong thing.

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Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com · 26/06/2026

🦊 In what I’m sure future design historians will call a stunning display of timeliness and marketing savvy, let me tell you about the redesign I launched two weeks ago. ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/the-ho...

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The house is valuable because it is the house. — Ethan Marcotte

On paring things back, and finding everything that remains.

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Rizwana Akmal Khan @rizwanakhan.com · 01/07/2026

website's now in the warmth era 💗

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Rizwana Akmal Khan @rizwanakhan.com · 27/06/2026

🫠 my homage to the fan saving(?) us in this heatwave uk-heatwave.vercel.app

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Lu wilson @todepond.com · 14/06/2026

new blog post "Drama free zone" www.todepond.com/sky/drama

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Todepond dot com

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Olu Niyi-Awosusi @olu.online · 22/05/2026

who are your favourite creators/writers/artists/videographers/podcasters/etc at the intersection of technology and the rest of culture/society/ethics? looking for inspo, and ideally people i might not have heard of! i might make a list of people i enjoy/have heard of but we'll see lol

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Rizwana Akmal Khan @rizwanakhan.com · 13/05/2026

@batchbunch.dev is an energy boost without any energy drinks 🛼 ^that's the vibe & mission 🕶️

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Good managers aren't just meeting attenders & dashboard readers. They provide mentorship and career development, help balance and prioritize tasks, and make sure that all the individual work adds up to something valuable for the business. Warlords won't volunteer for any of those responsibilities!

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Rizwana Akmal Khan @rizwanakhan.com · 06/03/2026

special thing (seriously unbiased) 😇

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Rizwana Akmal Khan @rizwanakhan.com · 28/01/2026

happy (belated) new year, friend. I grieve with you and wish the year ahead is kind to us all. flowers do become known to us, most, in times, especially, of loss. It is a comfort to find you steer through life through these journal entries; long may you keep writing ✍️ 💛

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Rizwana Akmal Khan @rizwanakhan.com · 28/12/2025

It was a journey. Arrived at v3, at last. Updated my website 💛

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Rizwana Akmal Khan @rizwanakhan.com · 09/12/2025

HOW TO ENSURE YOUR JAN 2026 TURNS OUT PERFECT YOU ASK? ⬇️

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Rizwana Akmal Khan @rizwanakhan.com · 09/12/2025

smol update: Luke, we were able to arrange putting on this event for next month, however, let's stay connected for future opps as BB grows in 2026 💛 thank you, again! bsky.app/profile/batc...

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Rizwana Akmal Khan @rizwanakhan.com · 04/12/2025

No worries, appreciate you so much ❣️

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Rizwana Akmal Khan @rizwanakhan.com · 04/12/2025

Hey Luke, curious if you had any updates to share after chatting with your work folks? 🙏 Bluesky DMs are not the best, so, figured I follow-up here (my email, too, is on my website)

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Rizwana Akmal Khan @rizwanakhan.com · 20/11/2025

This is an opportunity to make home in the hearts of our attendees with not much effort! 💛 Reach out or help spread the word?

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Rizwana Akmal Khan @rizwanakhan.com · 20/11/2025

Looking for companies in Nottingham willing to support @batchbunch.dev 12-month anniversary event 👀 I’m looking to organize a “boardgame” social/celebratory event (since our venue is a boardgame cafe..) to boost community bonding and mark this milestone, memorably.

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Rizwana Akmal Khan @rizwanakhan.com · 13/11/2025

...the next @batchbunch.dev event will be "12-month anniversary special" 💛 i'm already planning BB#0012 with so, so much elation!

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Rizwana Akmal Khan @rizwanakhan.com · 05/11/2025

nottingham's coziest tech meetup is back 😌

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Notts Techfast @notts.techfa.st · 20/10/2025

Don't forget to join us on Wednesday morning for some wisdom from @rizwanakhan.com, some chat, networking and free breakfast! Come kickstart your day with us :) www.meetup.com/notts-techfa...

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Rizwana Akmal Khan @rizwanakhan.com · 16/10/2025

making my debut speaking at an early morning meetup ☕️ i'm very much looking forward to meeting more folks in the nottingham tech community 💛

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Batch Bunch @batchbunch.dev · 15/10/2025

BATCH BUNCH #0010 is complete. A buzzing evening featuring riveting convos on code, art, AI, and podcasts. It was awesome to connect over monthly October-driven projects, too, like Inktober. See you next time? 🖱️⌨️😌🌐☕️

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Batch Bunch @batchbunch.dev · 14/10/2025

BATCH BUNCH #0010 is today. Come along for an evening of code, chatter, coffee, and community 😌 Equal parts productive and fun. 🗺️ Details: luma.com/exz6bw3y

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Rizwana Akmal Khan @rizwanakhan.com · 09/10/2025

nottingham's coziest tech meetup is BACK. join us? 🤠

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Rizwana Akmal Khan @rizwanakhan.com · 25/09/2025

new poem × 2 (grateful to be writing again 🥺)

These days inevitably outnumbering those days
that had moments aplenty to leave out of mind
what all worried me had you worried, too. now,
I make elaborate plans to accomplish even those
dreams I never once had a chance to confide in you.
Even if it all comes into fruition, I would still
take my worries, halved, than, all joys in full.

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dan @danabra.mov · 07/09/2025

i think it’s what phaedrus meant by quality being the knife-edge of experience. it feels so good because you get to disappear for a moment

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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 22/08/2025

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me?
Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

There isn't really a secret trick to identifying AI writing. It does things because they appear in the training data; real writers use em dashes, so the AI does as well. But blending that writing and extruding it back out as homogeneous sludge eliminates any passion or joy. The dashes are zombies.

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Rizwana Akmal Khan @rizwanakhan.com · 14/08/2025

making memories while making stuff 💛

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Rizwana Akmal Khan @rizwanakhan.com · 11/08/2025

biased but notts folks (+beyond!) deserve to attend at least ONCE. best part? everyone's welcoming, kind, curious. the hustle is "organic" because the env promotes attendees to work on a thing that excites them, a thing they're curious about or even a thing they've been avoiding for weeks/months 😌

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Rizwana Akmal Khan @rizwanakhan.com · 08/08/2025

AI anxiety? pfffft what AI anxiety 🫨

the intelligence insists to live in your mind,
rent-free. it has no insidious intentions.
the intelligence, pacing the corridors of its
new habitat, computes that the human is weary.
the harsh realities
prompting the human substitutes
the journey through curiosity
to, instead, the outcome of all journeys;
retrievable in an instant and without
the lulls of a life.

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Maya C. Popa @mayacpopa.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Algis Valiunas in his review of Richard Holmes’s The Age of Wonder (2008): “Poetry needs science, which lifts the veil from nature, and science needs poetry, which elaborates for public appreciation the beauty of the secrets that have been unveiled.”

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Maya C. Popa @mayacpopa.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Friends, I wrote a piece on poet Laura Gilpin, who died of glioblastoma in 2006. She is best known for “The Two-Headed Calf.” With gratitude to the Poetry Foundation for allowing me to try to restore this remarkable healthcare practitioner/poet’s legacy. www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/170...

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Rizwana Akmal Khan @rizwanakhan.com · 25/06/2025

✍️ i turned 27 and, yes, the birthday blog post ritual still continues www.rizwanakhan.com/prose/oh-27

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Oh, 27.

A rizbizkits (birthday) reflection

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Rizwana Akmal Khan @rizwanakhan.com · 25/06/2025

✍️ i turned 27 and, yes, the birthday blog post ritual still continues www.rizwanakhan.com/prose/oh-27

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Oh, 27.

A rizbizkits (birthday) reflection

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Rizwana Akmal Khan @rizwanakhan.com · 10/06/2025

(if you permit me to toot my own horn for a min 😅) i am so, so proud of myself for pulling this off. the idea of "omg, we need cake" was simple in my mind but executing it with BB-level finesse (& trusting myself to find a sponsor) was much harder 💛 community is the brand ✔️

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Rizwana Akmal Khan @rizwanakhan.com · 09/06/2025

phew! timed to perfection 🤣

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