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Snigdha
about 10 hours ago
I'm no fan of Piers Morgan, but this clip shows what a grifting charlatan Russell Brand is so effectively. Brand is so self confident yet so lazy, he wasn't prepared to be questioned on his newly found beliefs. It isn't as if sticky tabs or highlighters exist. Or that Bible verses are numbered.
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David Sheppard
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FORE! A Russian businessman looked at buying a Lake District golf course that sits next to the rail line serving the UK's shipyard where the nuclear-power Aukus attacks submarines will be built. Then the FT started asking questions...
www.ft.com/content/19a3...
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Russian oilman tried to buy land on railway to British nuclear site
Purchase of Lake District golf course collapsed this week after government officials and the FT raised questions over strategic location
https://www.ft.com/content/19a3d7b1-c8a8-47b1-9f60-8901e6502241
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Michael Wara
1 day ago
Cherry trees in Kyoto. Not a subtle signal.
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i think a very big indicator is that everyone has forgotten that it started in late february and its almost may
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Rob Sheridan
1 day ago
“Lentrex” filmed practical effect. 2D animation loop created on the 1982 Vectrex console with the light pen, filmed off the vector display through and reflected in curved/angled lenticular sheets to create an illusion of 3D volumetric depth. This is not CG; it looks like this to the naked eye!
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“Lentrex” filmed practical effect experiment created with a Vectrex console and lenticular sheets.
YouTube video by Rob Sheridan
https://youtube.com/shorts/eOp7HXHtX5k?si=5LxBH0tyxNf2x2d6
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Hetan Shah
2 days ago
The guy who made Chuckie Egg was only 15 at the time. He now works as a forecaster for a global firm
www.theguardian.com/games/2026/a...
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‘People still remember it 40 years later’: the making of Chuckie Egg
The iconic game that came to define 8-bit programming still conjures flutters of nostalgia 40 years on – all thanks to a 15-year-old tea boy who worked a Saturday shift in a computer shop in Greater M...
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/apr/21/in-my-mind-it-was-just-tall-birds-wandering-around-on-platforms-the-making-of-chuckie-egg?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Dr Phoenix CS Andrews
3 days ago
Leeds trams update
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Alex von Tunzelmann
2 days ago
This is an extraordinary, searing interview. In the context of the repulsive new Jackson biopic, it raises questions about why so many people just don’t want to know what he did. FWIW I saw Leaving Neverland before HBO pulled it, and I absolutely believe those kids.
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The Hollywood Reporter
3 days ago
Dan Reed was a documentary filmmaker who specialized in terrorism and war when he detoured into very different terrain, explosive in other ways entirely: the accusations of child sexual abuse that have followed Michael Jackson since 1993.
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“People Just Don’t Care”: ‘Leaving Neverland’ Director on Why Michael Jackson Won the Court of Public Opinion
Dan Reed was a documentary filmmaker who specialized in terrorism and war when he detoured into very different terrain, explosive in other ways entirely: the accusations of child sexual abuse that have followed Michael Jackson since 1993.
https://bit.ly/4cZ3KgO
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Toby Nangle
3 days ago
🚨 Grabbed 2000 years of data for 169 countries & compared it to UN's projections for Chinese population collapse.
www.ft.com/content/78bc...
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Dan Grey
3 days ago
Fun fact: the under-construction East Anglia Three offshore wind farm is being fitted with the longest blades yet used in UK waters. Each blade (manufactured in Hull) is longer than a football field. The rotor diameter is 236 m – it's hard to understand the scale of these machines!
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First turbine of wind farm off Suffolk has record-breaking blades
One revolution will generate enough electricity to charge 1,700 mobile phones, says a power company.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c895jgexpqeo
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Two genuinely interesting companies at the forefront of green tech in the UK have *so much beef* with each other. Would make a fascinating docudrama… OctoTricity the movie
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Rain is wet, sugar is sweet, clap your hands and remove marginal gas pricing for electricity markets
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Doug Parr
4 days ago
As Ed Miliband seeks to 'double down' on the UK energy transition to clean power, this is a reminder of why that matters to consumers: The highest proportion of fossil fuels in the energy mix leads to the highest prices according to Fidelity international
www.ft.com/content/6b4e...
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Mark🐉Edits
5 days ago
Hi this joke is for me
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www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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From a Surrey oil well to the supreme court: how an activist changed UK climate law
Sarah Finch’s fight against drilling led to a landmark ruling on fossil fuel emissions – and a leading environmental prize
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/20/from-a-surrey-oil-well-to-the-supreme-court-how-an-activist-changed-uk-climate-law
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Yashar Ali 🐘
6 days ago
Absolutely incredible. NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone. Watch with sound on.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)
7 days ago
for an idea of how big a deal this is, my mom was in great shape when she got diagnosed and she lasted less than sixty days. six years is insane.
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Robyn Kemp
7 days ago
Someone has documented the entire source code for Elite and explained how every line works, plus included deep dives into various functionality. Covers all main versions like BBC Micro, Commodore 64 and NES. You can also play online in browser.
elite.bbcelite.com
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Fully documented source code for Elite on the 6502 (BBC Micro, Acorn Electron, Commodore 64, Apple II, NES)
Fully documented source code for Elite on the 6502 (BBC Micro, Acorn Electron, Commodore 64, Apple II, NES), with more than 100 deep dive articles explaining how every aspect of this iconic game works...
https://elite.bbcelite.com
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Colin Peters
8 days ago
Be sure to read the whole thing.
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The Register
9 days ago
North Korea targets macOS users in latest heist
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North Korea targets macOS users in latest heist
Social engineering: 'low-cost, hard to patch, and scales well' North Korean criminals set on stealing Apple users' credentials and cryptocurrency are using a combination of social engineering and a fake Zoom software update to trick people into manually running malware on their own computers, according to Microsoft.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/04/16/north_korea_social_engineering_macos/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky
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Does your child’s school use ScoPay? Is it messed up? We’ve had months of incorrect records. Curious whether it is happening across multiple schools…
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This is ingenious. Examine 25 years of the NYT
tedalcorn.github.io/nyt/
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ESA Space Science
10 days ago
Mars Express has captured a blanket of dark ash creeping across the Red Planet. It has spread hundreds of kilometres in less than 50 years. 🔭 🧪
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Robert Saunders
10 days ago
It's perfectly reasonable to challenge ministers on N Sea oil & gas as a response to the energy shock. But this is the exclusive framing for EVERY interview on this topic. No minister or opposition leader is ever asked if they'll "max out" wind/solar. It's always framed as fossil fuels v inaction
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FT Weekend
11 days ago
So you've stolen a Matisse — what do you do next?
ft.trib.al/lydvMCz
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So you've stolen a Matisse — what do you do next?
The rise of the three-minute heist is an alarming development — but looted paintings remain near-impossible to sell on the open market
https://ft.trib.al/lydvMCz
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Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️⚧️ Uranus Expert
11 days ago
How does the whole Periodic Table originate in Southwest Asia
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Child: “Was there Duolingo when you were around?” Me: “I’m still around!” 💀
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Jonty Wareing
12 days ago
I was recreationally reading the What3Words accounts and noted they'll need to raise more money soon, but surely they wouldn't dare run another crowdfunder given the hilariously bad financials. Well apparently they would. Here we go again.
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Loving the Boards of Canada hexagon graph map theory...
www.reddit.com/r/boardsofca...
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From the boardsofcanada community on Reddit: Updated Hexagon Poster Theory graph
Explore this post and more from the boardsofcanada community
https://www.reddit.com/r/boardsofcanada/comments/1sjnnby/updated_hexagon_poster_theory_graph/
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Video I produced for the Orban piece in Sunday's FT (first 300 clicks are free to read)
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Kate Allen
13 days ago
Perhaps now is a good time to share the
@financialtimes.com
investigative series on Viktor Orban. To start with here’s the one we sent a reporter up in a plane for … (300 free clicks)
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The riches of Viktor Orbán’s home village
[FREE TO READ] Hungary’s longtime leader is trailing in the polls ahead of April’s election, as the opposition alleges widespread corruption
https://as.ft.com/r/8cd54659-da6a-4e1b-8737-bfc04a062f89
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Ben Ansell
13 days ago
A number of British academics and ex-academics just lost a potential pay cheque.
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Share your greenest Conservative MP leaflets… (Rebecca Paul has voted consistently against environmental issues)
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Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️⚧️ Uranus Expert
13 days ago
Shiny
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Articles like this should link directly to the planning docs. The planning docs should be directly viewable in a web browser. Then you’d see exactly what is proposed. Some batteries behind some trees.
upa.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/online-appli...
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Phil Brickell MP
15 days ago
The Telegraph just gave a convicted criminal a two-page spread to explain why he's pumping £4 million into Reform UK. They tucked his criminal record away in the small print. So as a former financial crime specialist I’ll do their job for them👇
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Joshua J. Friedman
15 days ago
Hello, I made you a feed of your cats watching the Artemis II splashdown
bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Dan Hon
15 days ago
Sorry I can't respond to your email I'm currently surrounded by plasma
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dag
15 days ago
NEW Why Melania Trump's statement is a fascinating exercise in text and performance A close reading of an odd public statement By me, now without paywall.
emptycity.substack.com/p/why-melani...
(Non-Substack version later.)
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Why Melania Trump's statement is a fascinating exercise in text and performance
A close reading of an odd public statement
https://emptycity.substack.com/p/why-melania-trumps-statement-is-a
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kay taylor rea
16 days ago
oh, this is very important to know!!
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I keep thinking that a news-focused satellite unencumbered by state censorship requests isn’t a dumb idea. Cube-sats are cheap. Every news org wants to look at the same place right now. Why should that be dictated by the US govt?
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I’m watching two kids who don’t speak much French playing Mario Party with three kids who don’t speak much English, and they are having a fantastic time. It’s amazing how fun these games are despite being almost completely non-verbal “Allez! A gauche! A droit! Aaaaaa” etc
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Joe Sondow
21 days ago
Heads up GitHub users. You have less than a month left to opt out of "Allow GitHub to use my data for AI model training". "On April 24 we'll start using GitHub Copilot interaction data for AI model training unless you opt out."
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Kevin M. Gill
21 days ago
Beautiful crescent view of Earth from the Artemis II crew on April 3rd.
flic.kr/p/2s5E44L
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Extremely topical game: “The Moon Is Our Friend” You are the moon. Your job is to save the earth from asteroids by spinning around and deflecting them using gravitational pull. Such a brilliantly simple idea, hard to believe it’s never been done
@viewsourcecode.org
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