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Jonty Wareing @jonty.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Its What3Words accounts filing day! They're doing so great. Nothing to worry about. I'm sure "the launch of our advertising revenue stream" will offset the "lost major Enterprise customer". Ads are really profitable now, right? find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/0843...

WHAT3WORDS LIMITED
GROUP STRATEGIC REPORT (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2025

Financial key performance indicators

The Group's total loss for the year was £12,234,738 (2024: loss £10,644,836)
The increase in reported loss compared with the prior year was driven primarily by the fair value adjustment
relating to convertible loan notes recognised in 2024, which reduced the overall reported loss in that year.
Operating loss for the year was £12,828,534 (compared with £14,133,347 in 2024). The underlying operating
performance of the business remained focused on revenue growth, product investment and disciplined cost
management.

The group has continued to maintain a dynamic operating model, balancing investment in growth initiatives
across key markets with careful control of operating expenditure and cash runway.

At 31 December 2025, the group had net assets of £10,925,686 (2024: £15,659,513). Assets were
predominantly comprised of cash and cash equivalents totaling £6,493,450 (2024: £11,705,453) and term
deposits of £2,649,047 (2024: £5,948,370).

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Joachim Froholt @jfroholt.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A few years ago, I was working on making a dungeon crawler for the Sharp MZ-80A. It used a mix of traditional character graphics and pseudographics. Development eventually stopped, and it's been sitting around collecting dust since then.

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Sharpworks @sharpworks.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Joachim has put together an awesome package here full of his great games for the Sharp MZ and to top it off he created a really cool manual in the style of the old club newsletters we used to have back in the day. It's a fun read but also looks so cool. Please check it out! ko-fi.com/s/f0e274af58

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Sharp MZ Games Collection - Joachim Froholt's Ko-fi Shop

This collection features all my released games for the Sharp MZ range of 8-bit home computers. This includes my arcade game Minesnake, which got 82%...

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Tautology @tautology.uk · 24/08/2026

Make a band bigger Toolshed

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Tautology @tautology.uk · 31/07/2026

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice in Chains.

Cover of the Dark Tranquillity's album "The Gallery"

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Tautology @tautology.uk · 30/07/2026

Internet, how was your day? Today I managed to get Doom to run on a coffee machine.

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Tautology @tautology.uk · 19/07/2026

Procrastinating by cleaning up the garage. Found my old CD case, which contained these this CD from about 20 years ago. I'm half curious as to what's on it.

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Tautology @tautology.uk · 12/07/2026

@steelcon.info n I went to put in the bottles of hendos in the "to be used" part of the cupboard and found an unopened one from last year. What can I do with four bottles of hendos? I'm not certain hendowine would work.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

On my way, Clacton.

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Phil Brickell MP @philbrickellmp.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

🧵I’d rather spend my weekends doing something else than post about Nigel Farage’s murky finances, but his behaviour poses such a threat to our democratic norms that I wanted to flag a number of points in the public interest.

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Revealed: Nigel Farage secretly funded by convicted criminal

The Reform UK leader did not declare benefits including staff, security and housing by crypto-gambler George Cottrell, our investigation reveals

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 26/06/2026

Baryon Asymmetry xkcd.com/3263/

4-panel comic. (1) [Person floating near glowing black ball] PERSON: So you’re the creator of the universe? CREATOR: That’s me! So, got any questions? (2) PERSON: Oh man, so many. What’s the reason for baryon asymmetry? Why is most of the universe matter and not antimatter? (3) CREATOR: Crap. Did I forget the antimatter? One sec, let me just... (4) [explosions everywhere with “BOOM” sound effect]

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Dave Gilbert @wadjeteyegames.com · 25/06/2026

🎺The Steam Summer Sale has BEGUN!!🎺 Nab all of our games for up to 70% off from now until July 9th! store.steampowered.com/developer/Wa...

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Cyberr @cyberrdotai.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Well this is nice to do as our first post! Supporting #WomenInCyber is super important to our team. So we're funding a CybHER bootcamp scholarship this summer - details on how to apply are in this blog: cyberr.ai/blog/you-do-... Please do share and tag anyone you think may be interested!

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Tautology @tautology.uk · 30/05/2026

Other things that you can't use whilst plugged in and that don't warn you in a timely manner before they run out of power (like headsets). My beard trimmer. I go out in 25 minutes and it failed halfway through trimming. Can the trimmer get enough power in time?

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Tautology @tautology.uk · 03/05/2026

Slightly diminish a book Tolkien's The Lord of the Ring

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BSides Leeds @bsidesleeds.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

🪙 Insert Coin. Pull the Lever 🎰 BSides Leeds is about to be Game On. Cybersecurity meets play, puzzles & competition - because learning shouldn’t be boring. Test your skills. Learn new ones. Join the community. 📍 13 June – Leeds 🎟 Ticket drop: 10 April at 13:37 #BSidesLeeds #Infosec #GameOn

Slot machine showing 'ticket drop' and 1337

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Paul Carnahan @pacarnahan.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

This week, Brexit finally killed our family business. We cleared out our warehouse, handed back the keys, paid the final bills and said goodbye to our last employee. What was once a thriving firm died a slow, sad death, all thanks to Farage, Johnson and the gullible idiots they conned. 1/18

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Tautology @tautology.uk · 30/03/2026

It's time for another LLM image generation thread, because they're humourous. If you just want to see the images and don't care about joining in the snark, you can find this at tautology.org.uk/blog/2026/03... 1/35

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LLM Image Generation: Space – Tautology’s Blog

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

I have deleted my original debunk of this story as it appears it is actually an amalgamation of 2 stories... (Don't let anyone tell you I'm not prepared to be corrected!!) So let's look at them individually: We'll start with the photo... So what's going on? 🧵1/12

Screenshot of a tweet saying:
* WTF: Lincolnshire Church of England primary school allegedly forced 7-year-old children (none Muslim) to perform full Islamic prayers to Allah in
RE lesson.
"We did prayers to Allah yesterday," one girl told her father.
Pupils were shown a demonstration video then told to kneel, bow heads & copy the movements themselves.
Angry parents reported it to Lincolnshire Police.
School unnamed amid backlash fears. Disgraceful.
There is a Picture of children in school uniforms kneeling on the floor, heads down, in a classroom setting

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BSides Leeds @bsidesleeds.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Are you ready to do your first talk but need a little encouragement? We have mentors on standby to help you craft your talk, from creating slides to content delivery. Many experienced speakers delivered their first talks at a BSides, as community conferences are super friendly.

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Tautology @tautology.uk · 17/03/2026

Go see this, I've seen Morgan's research and it's stonking!

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SteelCon @steelcon.info · 09/03/2026

For those who missed it yesterday, our CFP is now open.

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Tautology @tautology.uk · 05/03/2026

Ported my Spectrum Rick Roll code across to the Sharp MZ-700. What took the longest was writing the code to match graphics to the highly restricted SharpSCII character set tautology.org.uk/blog/2026/03...

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Rick Rolling on the Sharp MZ-700 – Tautology’s Blog

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Tautology @tautology.uk · 02/03/2026

Some before work messing with my PNG -> sharpscii convertor. At the moment it's only black and white, but it's good enough. Image shows original -> B&W -> sharpscii

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Tautology @tautology.uk · 24/02/2026

I do not see what is mirthworthy with the title of the news article.

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Thrilled that they've arrested Mandelson after the broadcast of yesterday's episode of Mock the Week on tlc. Thanks for waiting, fellas. Why not watch the show, if you like seeing TV shows that I am in?

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Tautology @tautology.uk · 16/02/2026

Quick write up of creating a rick-roll video on the ZX-Spectrum (back in 2019, it takes me a while to write stuff up): tautology.org.uk/blog/2026/02...

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Rick-rolling on a Spectrum – Tautology’s Blog

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Tautology @tautology.uk · 30/01/2026

I have been told by many game developers that it's not their problem that their games allow workshop mods to perform RCE. It's no surprise that they keep getting found ...

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 29/01/2026

On almost everything – fraud, polarisation, radicalisation, misinformation – evidence suggests that over 60s are in much more urgent need of online protection and education than teenagers. But that issue gets zero political attention, and is a total non-starter. Nothing good will come of it.

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Ulysses Pascal @ulyssespascal.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

You might be interested in this other map experiment where someone asked LLMs to decide if a particular gps coordinant was over land or water: open.substack.com/pub/outsidet...

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How Does A Blind Model See The Earth?

A tiny LLM eval with pretty pictures

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Tautology @tautology.uk · 27/01/2026

I'm trying a new "see how well AI image gen is" test. This time I'm going to ask it to draw a map of the world, and then zoom in to Europe, the UK, Yorkshire and York to see when things start to get hazy. All of these are with the free models using the smart/thinking variants. 1/n

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Superb - and alarming - piece on the torrent of falsehood and disinformation pouring into people's phones, designed to stir up racial hatred. If you don't subscribe to @londoncentric.media, its investigative journalism is outstanding. @jim.londoncentric.media www.londoncentric.media/p/tiktok-lon...

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Who's secretly filming fake TikToks inside Londoners' homes?

We tracked down the viral video account invading people's houses to spread false claims about immigrants.

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Tautology @tautology.uk · 23/01/2026

Lunchtime fix. Original Gameboy belonging to one t'other half's co-workers needed the regulator board changed. One part purchased from Retrosix and 5 minutes soldering and we have a fully working Gameboy once more!

Back half of a yellow original gameboy with a replace voltage regulator board. The replacement has the text retrosix.co.uk on it.

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BSides Birmingham @bsidesbirmingham.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

BSides Birmingham is a volunteer led, non-profit community event built by people who genuinely care about security. And the support has been unreal… our first ticket drop sold out in 30 mins. 📣 Call for sponsors is OPEN Sponsor pack link in comments 👇 #BSides #BSidesBirmingham

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Michael Horne @recantha.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

My #RaspberryPi project - the PsionPi. A Pi 4 is underneath the screen. Then, I have a 3S Waveshare UPS giving power to the whole thing, over which is a #Psion 5 keyboard. A small adapter board converts the keyboard signal to USB. 2 3D printed halves of the case are held together with M2.5 screws.

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Tautology @tautology.uk · 07/01/2026

I thought I'd start writing up some of the reverse engineering of 8-bit format I did in the past as I turn all my old C code into modern stuff. First up is the Line drawn picture format for the Mysterious Adventure text adventures. tautology.org.uk/blog/2026/01...

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Reverse Engineering Mysterious Adventures Graphic Format – Tautology’s Blog

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Tautology @tautology.uk · 01/01/2026

Happy birthday to all those people who lie about their date of birth to social media.

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Tautology @tautology.uk · 08/12/2025

Stupid form requirements n/∞. The application for a UK postal vote: WTF do they need a signature for? Have we dropped back in time to the 90s? There is zero guarantee that my signature will look anything remotely like the last time I used it, which was about 5 years ago.

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Tautology @tautology.uk · 03/12/2025

Seriously Amazon, the recommended size for a T-shirt is based on *other* customer orders?

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 27/11/2025

Io beauty shot. Taken by the Juno spacecraft on 3 February 2024. The right-hand hemisphere is illuminated by the Sun. On the left, the night side isn't totally dark because of Jupitershine. Image credit: NASA/SwRI/MSSS

Against a black background, Jupiter's volcanic moon Io shines in sunlight, its right-hand side an orange–yellow colour, the surface pockmarked with detail of volcanic and tectonic landforms. The left-hand side is barely visible, illuminated by reflected sunlight from Jupiter.

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Tautology @tautology.uk · 26/11/2025

My usual experiment to find out how bad LLMs are at technical instructions (wiring a UK plug) as applied to grok. It's just as bad as any other LLM out there:

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Tautology @tautology.uk · 25/11/2025

11 years behind Randall Munroe on this cartoon. Being the other half to a person with cancer is strange: you don't get the physical symptoms, but you still have the upheaval and stress. Still, it shows there is a future where the worst case doesn't happen. xkcd.com/3172/

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Fifteen Years

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Ian Scott @polpo.org · 19/11/2025

It's official! #PicoIDE, the open source IDE/ATAPI drive emulator I've been working on for the better part of this year, will be launching at Crowd Supply! Go there to sign up for updates and to be notified when the campaign is live: www.crowdsupply.com/polpotronics...

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PicoIDE

An open source IDE/ATAPI drive emulator for vintage computers

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Tautology @tautology.uk · 12/11/2025

People who know scam tactics: I've just had an SMS conversation with someone who was adamant I'd phoned them at 16:50 when I hadn't (I don't make phone calls). They kept asking who I was. Caller spoofing on them or somebody trying to set up a scam on me?

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bsidesncl.bsky.social @bsidesncl.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Mission Update: Speaker recording available - Dave Lodge - From Sputnik To James Webb: Satellite Comms (And Security?). Join Dave Lodge for a journey through satellite comms, security, GPS spoofing, pulsars, and even vintage tech like modems & tapes. youtu.be/4PexfCLvO_E

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Tautology @tautology.uk · 25/10/2025

Today I discovered that the bottle opener key I was given by the lock picking village at @bsidesncl.bsky.social works well as a trolley token if you jiggle it just right...

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