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Most people don't realize the size of Iran. It's helpful to see Iran vs Texas vs northern Europe at the same scale.
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Jon Green
25 days ago
given the modern conservative fascination with Sparta it's at least a little funny that they've engineered a situation in which Persia is able to level a dramatically uneven battlefield by forcing the conflict into a narrow pathway
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Dave Bagpuss Forsey 🍺
about 1 month ago
Oh god this made me laugh so hard. Watch til the end.
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Harry Eccles
about 1 month ago
Were raising money to fight and win the local elections in May on the IOW 💚 Can you spare a few quid? Thank you 🙏
actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...
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Help elect more Green Councillors this May!
On May 7th 2026, 39 Isle of Wight Councillors and 1 Regional Mayor will be elected! Help us elect more Green councillors than ever before, and our first ever Green Mayor. By donating today you can he...
https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/help-elect-more-green-councillors-this-may
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Sophia Smith Galer
about 2 months ago
Up there with one of my favourite things I’ve ever made. Episode 1 of Word For Word is here, and it’s with the inimitable poet Len Pennie.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnyl...
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The languages that shaped Len Pennie
YouTube video by Word For Word with Sophia Smith Galer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnylAMP01MY&t=14s
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Alex Shevrin Venet
about 1 month ago
And have to share two
@edutopia.org
posts in a row because this one from
@mrrablin.bsky.social
is SO cool! I have never seen this seating-arrangement strategy before.
www.edutopia.org/article/clas...
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An Unconventional Seating Plan Designed to Benefit Focus and Learning
After years of search and experimentation, this teacher finally hit on a room layout that allowed for efficient shifting between whole class, small group, and independent work.
https://www.edutopia.org/article/classroom-seating-arrangement-specific-purposes
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Neil Kaye
about 1 month ago
Come March, the buds on the tree's begin to burst, this
#dataviz
shows the timing of bud burst for different tree species across the UK. The black lines show the timing in the Spring for the years 2000 to 2025 and the blue line is the average day for that species.
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Carl Quintanilla
about 2 months ago
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Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I’ll get my LLM to use regular expressions.” Now they have three problems.
about 2 months ago
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Philip Ball
2 months ago
There hasn't been much media coverage outside the science media of the Epstein scientists. So I wrote about them here for
@thenewworldmag.bsky.social
. As many in science know, John Brockman was central in linking Epstein to scientific "public intellectuals".
www.thenewworld.co.uk/philip-ball-...
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Epstein and the moral rot of US public intellectuals
The disgraced sex offender was able to gather a group of scientists and thinkers around him who shared his anti-woke, anti-women and Silicon Valley techno-fascist views. But it doesn’t end with Epstei...
https://www.thenewworld.co.uk/philip-ball-epstein-and-the-moral-rot-of-us-public-intellectuals/
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about 2 months ago
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Fiona Watson
about 2 months ago
#WutheringHeights
Sweepcliff.
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Rhiannon Giddens
about 2 months ago
Your
#BanjoAunti
is here with a special guest: Ed Helms! While filming “Ode to Mary Jo” Ed and I got to have some banjo time behind the scenes. Today we’re demonstrating the difference between clawhammer and Scruggs-style banjo.
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avanscoperta
2 months ago
What if functional programming could solve your toughest Domain-Driven Design challenges? In the Domain Modeling Made Functional Workshop,
@scottwlaschin.bsky.social
shows how combining DDD with FP creates systems that are evolvable and business-aligned.
www.avanscoperta.it/en/training/...
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Mike Schuster
2 months ago
Breaking: Tragedy at the Winter Olympics
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K.B. Spangler
3 months ago
The whole internet is cheering for Milkshake Duck, the formerly canceled duck who went on a successful redemption tour! *five seconds later* Are you fucking serious.
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Screenshot below of why I love /r/AskHistorians. Proper ruthless mods!
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3 months ago
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Birmingham 81
3 months ago
Watch an extra funky and extra heavy version of Rock On performed by David Essex with a live band on the Midnight Special in 1975 here 📺▶️
youtu.be/BT6RdovM1OI?...
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.NET
3 months ago
A little F# goes a long way. The .NET Conf session “Smatterings of F#” is a joyful tour of pattern matching, pipelines, and the kind of expressive code that makes you rethink your next refactor. If you’ve been F#‑curious, this replay is a treat. 👉 Watch the session:
buff.ly/y4zajBa
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Jess Rose
3 months ago
SOAS's food studies centre (which runs the anthropology of food masters I fantasise about) publish videos of their incredibly interesting seminars. Live cheese regulations! War economics and hunger! More incredibly specific nerdy food talks!
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SOAS Food Studies Centre
Videos of events held at the SOAS Food Studies Centre, SOAS, University of London - the world's leading institution for the study of Asia, Africa and the Mid...
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1z_PGhPjwcpNlb5ZEvGJAQyAvWBFcTza&si=Xwr8DBu550_zpOu8
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3 months ago
If I was the commander in chief of the Imperial hegemon I would simply not dismantle the network of military and diplomatic alliances, favourable trade deals, and broad cultural paramountcy that had made my nation the most wealthy and powerful the world has ever seen.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
about 1 year ago
just saying: it's possible that "I'm gonna dramatically constrict my state capacity while plotting dramatic imperial expansion, and expanding my set of internal enemies while alienating most of my foreign allies" is the beginning of a world-historical masterstroke. but also possible that it isn't
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Open Culture
3 months ago
Watch Design for Disaster, a 1962 Film That Shows Why Los Angeles Is Always at Risk of Devastating Fires
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Watch Design for Disaster, a 1962 Film That Shows Why Los Angeles Is Always at Risk of Devastating Fires
The New Yorker published this piece in 1989, when Los Angeles' fire season was 'a particularly early and bad one,' but it's one of many writings on the same phenomenon now circulating again, with the ...
https://www.openculture.com/2025/01/design-for-disaster.html
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Tressie McMillan Cottom
3 months ago
Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.
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dag
3 months ago
We are Christopher Isherwood, watching the scenes in the Berlin street below from our apartment window above.
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Gareth Hanrahan
3 months ago
Like many others, I’m missing
@tinstargames.bsky.social
this morning. While I can’t claim to have known Steve that well, we’ve been moving in the same online circles for, god, I have no idea how long. Gaming Outpost? Usenet? He had a genius for wickedly clever little games. I especially love this:
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SCIF stands for Six Curtains Is Fine!
3 months ago
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capitolhunters
4 months ago
The cynics think today's attack on Venezuela is staged and transactional. Maduro is allied with Putin, but in 2019 Putin offered Trump a swap: Russia cedes Venezuela and gets Ukraine. (See Fiona Hill's testimony in Trump's first impeachment trial, h/t
@davetroy.com
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Tom Reagan’s Hat
4 months ago
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CEEFAUX
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Sergey Tihon 🦔🦀
4 months ago
"F# Advent Calendar in English 2025" is complete and all slots are filled 🎉
#fsharp
#fsadvent
sergeytihon.com/2025/11/03/f...
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F# Advent Calendar in English 2025
🎄 It’s that magical time of year again! 🎅🏻Christmas is twinkling on the horizon, and that means one thing — it’s time for the 12th annual F# Advent in English! It’s incredible to think that our tra…
https://sergeytihon.com/2025/11/03/f-advent-calendar-in-english-2025/
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Part 2 of my "Designing Weaving Software" series is up. This time using generic and parameterized implementations to reduce duplication.
#fsharp
fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/design...
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Weaving design, part 2
Using generics to reduce duplication
https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/designing-weaving-software-2/
4 months ago
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"Sauron wants to see Gondor succeed”
4 months ago
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avanscoperta
4 months ago
Domain Modeling Made Functional Workshop is now CONFIRMED! In February, we’ll be back in the classroom with
@scottwlaschin.bsky.social
, and we can’t wait! 🤩
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James Hunt
4 months ago
Yesterday
@bootsmcgoot.bsky.social
and I saw some techbro giving “30 pieces of advice for people under 30” over on Twitter and it was all grind culture bullshit. As adults of 38 and 43 respectively, we compiled 30 pieces of advice that people under 30 won’t have heard before:
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My
#fsharp
#FsAdvent
post for 2025 is up. It's about applying my functional DDD design principles to an unusual non-business domain, which is my hobby of hand weaving! Anyone else weave? I'd love any comments.
fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/design...
Thanks as always to
@sergeytihon.com
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Designing weaving software
Applying my design principles to an unusual domain
https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/designing-weaving-software/
4 months ago
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Rick Steves
4 months ago
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9
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RedScharlach
4 months ago
Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower
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Josh Goldstein
4 months ago
One of the biggest moments of my career: USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
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Tom Gauld
4 months ago
Happy 76th Birthday, Tom Waits!
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noé
5 months ago
last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
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Edd Mann
7 months ago
Error handling often clutters code. Fortunately, functional programming offers a more elegant way.
@scottwlaschin.bsky.social
explains the 'two-track' model 🚂 (railway-oriented programming) - keeping the success path clean while ensuring errors are always handled. 🎧
compiledconversations.com/9/
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Edd Mann
7 months ago
Programming isn't one-size-fits-all. In Episode 9 of Compiled Conversations,
@scottwlaschin.bsky.social
makes the case for being multi-paradigm - using the right language for the right job. Just like a tradesperson has more than one tool, a programmer should too. 🎧
compiledconversations.com/9/
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Birmingham 81
7 months ago
RIP Danny Thompson. Here's a playlist featuring just some of the hundreds of songs that were graced by his bass playing. Includes Nick Drake, Pentangle, Donovan, John Martyn, Sandy Denny, Marc Bolan, David Sylvian, Kate Bush, Talk Talk, Lilac Time, Julian Cope etc ▶️
open.spotify.com/playlist/4XS...
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RIP Danny Thompson
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4XSFgpb9NseQcFeuWdoth8?si=9db9fc8208ae41c7
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Edd Mann
7 months ago
Writing code isn't just for computers - it's for people too.
@scottwlaschin.bsky.social
explains how
#DDD
encourages developers to use the same language as non-developers; making code a tool for communication, not just execution. 🎧
compiledconversations.com/8/
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.
7 months ago
I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.
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Edd Mann
7 months ago
Ep. 8: Domain Modeling Made Functional, Part 1 w/
@scottwlaschin.bsky.social
#DDD
isn't about code - it's about communication, we discuss: - Strategic vs tactical DDD - (Sub)domains - Bounded contexts & ubiquitous language - Conway's Law & team organisation 🎧
compiledconversations.com/8/
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Domain Modeling Made Functional, Part 1 with Scott Wlaschin - Compiled Conversations
Scott Wlaschin, author of "Domain Modeling Made Functional" and creator of F# for Fun and Profit, joins us to discuss the powerful pairing of DDD and functional programming. In Part 1 we focus on DDD,...
https://compiledconversations.com/8/
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NY Times Pitchbot
8 months ago
Before the election, my MAGA focus group said its top priorities were ending inflation and releasing the Epstein files. Now, that same group says its top priorities are defunding scientific research and prosecuting John Bolton.
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Bjørn Einar Bjartnes
8 months ago
There are probably cases where we have to leave FP and do hardcore perf stuff, but with four partitions and four relatively small off the shelf containers we can do approximately 500.000 events pr second with no perf tuning and super simple code to maintain.
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Bjørn Einar Bjartnes
8 months ago
Kind of fun to see straight forward, functional programming in
#fsharp
with Result types on every single event and
@scottwlaschin.bsky.social
style domain driven design process 8-9 million events pr minute on a 2-core 4GB RAM Azure Container App IRL.
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