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Steve Hayes

@sxh.eurosky.social
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Retired developer, pursuing excellence and failing to a better future, day by day. Board games, TTRPG, scale aircraft, programming, science, economics, politics, sci fi, other stuff. Australian in UK scaleaircraftstuff.com

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Steve Hayes @sxh.eurosky.social · 3h
Agnotology - the study of how and why culturally or politically induced ignorance, confusion, and doubt are actively created. Seems like that might be a useful word.
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Steve Hayes @sxh.eurosky.social · 4h
When you hear Zelensky speak remember he is being more articulate in his third language than many other politicians are in their first language.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 11h
Zelensky: "When our strikes reached Yandex’s data centers, it suddenly became a little easier to breathe on many social media platforms. A lot of people noticed it. There was less hate, less division, and fewer provocations... It’s pretty clear where those bots were coming from."
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Steve Hayes @sxh.eurosky.social · 10h
Agreed
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Steve Hayes @sxh.eurosky.social · 11h
I often feel this way
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Steve Hayes @sxh.eurosky.social · 14h
Trump was going to end this war in 24 hours
theguardian.com
Trump announces partial ceasefire in Ukraine war as Zelenskyy says deal is ‘news to me’
Ukrainian president earlier rejected US call for Kyiv to stop bombing oil refineries, saying Moscow must first end attacks on energy infrastructure
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
In Germany, the curb can charge your car. Developed by Rheinmetall, these electric vehicle charging points are integrated directly into sidewalk curbs, removing the need for conventional charging posts. The compact system delivers up to 22 kW while taking up virtually no additional sidewalk space.
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Steve Hayes @sxh.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026
Friday I got both flu and covid vaccinations. Today I seem to have caught my wife's cold. I'm hoping the combination will somehow grant me a super power (beside sleeping).
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Mommapolitico @mommapolitico.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Everybody knew Russia interfered in the Brexit referendum - the evidence was there - but people were too afraid of Farage’s mob to say it. So it’s good to see Burnham finally speaking the truth.
observer.co.uk
From Russia with interference: Burnham first PM to confir...
The prime minister has revealed UK authorities told him there was ‘clear evidence’ that Moscow meddled in the referendum
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Steve Hayes @sxh.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026
In the Australia vs SA match in Durban Matt Renshaw faced 397 balls. The rest of the team combined, 435 balls.
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Steve Hayes @sxh.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026
Safe (and comfortable) travels
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Steve Hayes @sxh.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026
Ouch. I know that British Airways will apply a seat charge for any seat if you choose early, but seat selection is free in the last 24 hours
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Steve Hayes @sxh.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026
The cockpit didn’t have that odour. Though, I gave a notoriously bad sense of smell
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Steve Hayes @sxh.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026
I ended up teaching Cascadia to six people (over two games) and then playing Ticket to Ride Europe with two people
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Steve Hayes @sxh.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026
That’s a much better view than I expected
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Steve Hayes @sxh.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026
I suffered in a very similar way a few months ago. If you book a flexible fare, DO NOT pay for seat reservations until you’re absolutely sure what flight you are taking. The flight reservation is flexible, the seat reservation IS NOT. This intuition defying fact is in the small print.
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Steve Hayes @sxh.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026
Ware Community board game afternoon today
Table set up to plat Cascadia, looking very neat and tidyTable with Cascadia underway - less neat, less tidyStart of day - tables set up for Flamme Rouge, The Resistance, Cascadia, Ticket to Ride Europe, Thunder Road, Cthulhu Pandemic, Wingspan Same setup with people at tables and Jimmy adopting a heroic pose
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Steve Hayes @sxh.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026
It’s not a simulation of a person - it’s a stochastic token generator. A machine. An artefact. AI companies want us to anthropomorphise because then we make less rational decisions about these machines.
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Steve Hayes @sxh.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026
I wanted a light read whiel I was on vacation, and this surprised me. Filled with twists, I kept wanting to know what happened next and devoured the whole trilogy.
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Heaven's Shadow
THEY WILL DO WHATEVER IT TAKES TO CLAIM IT AS THEIR OWN In 2016 a pair of amateur astronomers spot an unidentified object – an object one hundred kilometres across and heading towards Earth. As it app...
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Steve Hayes @sxh.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026
I read this following on from Nuclear War: A Scenario. It may just be a scenario but it's backed by a lot of facts and research. No need to worry about LLMs, this is terrifying.
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Biological War: A Scenario
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThere is an invisible weapon among us. By the time you know you are a victim, it has turned you into a killer.'Even more perversely thrilling than...
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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is wild - somebody did a deep dive into the real stories behind this famous XKCD: sheets.works/data-viz/hol...
an XKCD comic showing a precariously assembled tower of blocks. much is labelled "all modern digital infrastructure." a thin leg down at the bottom is labelled "A project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003."
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Steve Hayes @sxh.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026
Awesome
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Steve Kenson ❌👑 @stevekenson.com · 06/10/2026
Um ... WOW. (Watch to the end to see it lit up!)
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Steve Hayes @sxh.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026
I did indeed! Then I went back the next day and did it again! Wife had calamari and fish - it was all excellent. Lay on the beach for a while, have a delicious lunch - what's not to like?
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Steve Hayes @sxh.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026
Lunch at Kiki’s Taverna, Mykonos. Second visit, this time with perfect seats. I highly recommend the pork chop
Our table is right by the edge, with a direct view of lovers beach and the cove beyond View from the upper level, showing the lower deck, the beach and the bayMe contemplating the largest pork chop I have ever seen
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Steve Hayes @sxh.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026
My American wife had a look and said "dodgy as fuck". Just to be clear, I don't have other wives of different nationalities.
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.
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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 03/10/2026
Electricity generation per person in the United Kingdom has fallen by a third from its early-2000s peak. Globally, electricity generation per person has grown by more than 50% this century. In the United Kingdom, things have moved in the opposite direction.
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Steve Hayes @sxh.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026
Yes, she liked it as well
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Steve Hayes @sxh.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026
Yep, showed it to my wife earlier because I liked it
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Steve Hayes @sxh.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026
Looks great to me
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Steve Hayes @sxh.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026
Stay for the alt text
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Steve Hayes @sxh.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026
Sounds like it could potentially much worse - so there is some good news. Still, sounds incredibly painful. I hope the recovery is swift and full.
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Steve Hayes @sxh.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
Sunset in Mykonos
Glowing pool in the foreground, then lights of road and town, backed by orange sunset behind the clouds
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Steve Hayes @sxh.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
Congratulations all around!
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UCL Constitution Unit @conunitucl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
How should a national commission on electoral reform be designed? On Tuesday, the Prime Minister announced a national commission on electoral reform. @alanrenwick.bsky.social argues that such a body should have three key features, and emphasises the care that should be taken. Read it 👇️
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How should a national commission on electoral reform be designed?
On Tuesday, the Prime Minister announced a national commission on electoral reform. In this article originally published in the Conversation UK, Alan Renwick explains that such a body should secure public involvement, not aim for a particular result and listen to the experts. He also emphasises that any change to the electoral system should be carried out with the greatest possible care.
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Atomique @atomiquefetish.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
How William Gibson’s Neuromancer helped shape the visual language of cyberpunk, imagining a future of networks, artificial intelligence, corporate power and digital identities long before they became part of everyday life. www.otaviosantiago.com/post/william... #WilliamGibson #OtavioSantiago
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William Gibson, Neuromancer and the Visual Language of Cyberpunk
Long before the internet became a place we carried in our pockets, before social media transformed identity into an interface and before artificial intelligence entered everyday conversation, William ...
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Somebody wake up Hicks @jonmarkhicks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Bangs hand on sign and points at it.
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Melissa Rogerson @melissainau.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Please share! Participants wanted for an online survey investigating player attitudes towards hybrid boardgames. Scan the QR code/go to go.unimelb.edu.au/t44h to complete the survey & enter the prize draw. Questions? Email hybrid-games@unimelb.edu.au University of Melbourne Ethics ID No.: 35781
The stylised image looks like a snakes and ladders board, with the logo of The University of Melbourne at the top left.  The text reads:

Call For Participants
Board Game Research Study
The University of Melbourne Ethics ID Number: 35781

We are conducting a research study that investigates player attitudes towards hybrid board games. We are inviting people who are interested in board games to participate in an online survey.

Who Can Take Part?
·        Board game players comfortable participating in an online survey
·        Be at least 18 years of age

What Will You Do?
·        Take part in an online survey which takes about 20 minutes to complete
·        Optionally, enter a draw to win a digital gift card equivalent to AUD$200.

What’s In It For You?
·        A chance to contribute to research shaping the future of board games
·        A chance to win a digital gift card equivalent to AUD$200.

Where/When?
·        Online, at a time that suits you!

How Do You Sign Up?
·        Scan the QR code or go to https://go.unimelb.edu.au/t44h to complete the survey and enter the prize draw!
·        Any questions? Email us: hybrid-games@unimelb.edu.au
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Burnham speech: An astonishing moment of radicalism and commitment iandunt.substack.com/p/burnham-sp...
iandunt.substack.com
Burnham speech: An astonishing moment of radicalism and commitment
It’s easy to be cynical, but it would be false. Something extraordinary is happening here.
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Information is Beautiful @infobeautiful.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If you're aged 30 or more, then 50% of all human fossil fuel emissions happened during your lifetime
Bar chart shows the % of global fossil fuel emissions occurring in a lifetime with bars of different length for ages from 5 to 100 years. More emissions happen over a longer lifetime. During the life of an 85 year old, 90% of all  emissions happened. For someone age of 30 the rate is already 50%
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Steve Hayes @sxh.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
Day 2 of Earthborne Rangers
Card tableau for a game of Earthborne Rangers Card for Pokodo the Ferret
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026
As *tech*, AI isn't exceptional. It's not exceptionally wicked. It's not exceptionally good. Take away the accompanying, galactic-scale stock-swindle, and we'd call AI's apps "plug-ins" and we'd use them and abuse them in the same way that we've used every other technology: www.normaltech.ai 1/
A carny barker waving his top-hat and selling tickets from a roll; his head has been replaced with the hostile red eye of HAL9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The background is a magnified, halftoned detail from a US$100 bill.


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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026
I think billionaire solipsism can account for much of the malinvestment in this obvious bubble, but I don't think it's the whole story. Rather, I think there's a whole cohort of investors who don't believe in AI, but believe that *other* people will believe in AI. 19/
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: Doctors in Houston Report Complete Disappearance of Aggressive Liver Cancer in a 3-Year-Old Using a Personalized Immunotherapy Made From the Child’s Own Cells No Cancer Detected One Year Later
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Steve Hayes @sxh.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026
In the argument about who is English, those who say it relies entirely on genetics are effectively saying there are no English values at all.
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Steve Hayes @sxh.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026
I want to try that
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Steve Hayes @sxh.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026
tidal.com/playlist/1ec...
tidal.com
Nick Harkaway
Playlist - Nick Harkaway - 12 items
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🧵 As front-page headlines go, this has to be one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time It's an out-and-out lie But notice the trick they use to get away with it...👀 *They're* not lying - they're just quoting someone else who is👍🏻 In this case, the leader of the opposition🙄 1/33
Daily Express headline:

"More Freedoms Handed to New Arrivals than British Citizens"

Above an image of Kemi Badenoch

All with a Monk Debunked stamp on top
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