Justin Cormack
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Tech and pictures of nature. Suffolk, UK
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Andrew Nesbitt
5 days ago
A GitHub for maintainers - Giving dependencies the same treatment the fork got
nesbitt.io/2026/05/02/a...
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A GitHub for maintainers
Giving dependencies the same treatment the fork got
https://nesbitt.io/2026/05/02/a-github-for-maintainers.html
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A white green-winged orchid amidst the purple ones for
#wildflowerhour
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Cordelia Jenkins
6 days ago
I cannot recommend this week's cover story by
@christopherjm.ft.com
highly enough. It's the frankly astonishing story of the fortitude of one Ukrainian drone commander on the eastern front... don't miss it...
as.ft.com/r/ddae74ad-4...
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‘I’m fighting two wars. One against the Russians. And one inside myself.’
A drone pilot and her all-women unit are waging a new kind of warfare on Ukraine’s eastern front
https://as.ft.com/r/ddae74ad-4e90-4d99-b10a-3004dbfe2e35
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All the hares are out today
6 days ago
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Terence Eden
7 days ago
New blog post: NHS Goes To War Against Open Source
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/nhs-goes-to-war-against-open-source/
The NHS is preparing to close nearly all of its Open Source repositories. Throughout my time working for the UK Government - in GDS, NHSX, i.AI, and others - I championed …
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NHS Goes To War Against Open Source
The NHS is preparing to close nearly all of its Open Source repositories. Throughout my time working for the UK Government - in GDS, NHSX, i.AI, and others - I championed Open Source. I spoke to dozens of departments about it, wrote guidance still in use today, and briefed Ministers on why it was so important. That's why I'm beyond disappointed at recent moves from NHS England to backtrack on…
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/nhs-goes-to-war-against-open-source/
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OpenUK
7 days ago
📣State of Open Con 26 is On The Road 🚘 and Early Bird Tickets for Edinburgh, on 5 June, are available at a discounted £99 until 6 May, focusing on the AI stack, working up from Compute through Models and Agents to user experiences and ROI with an openness slant.
stateofopencon.com/edinburgh-so...
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Jocelyn Galsworthy at Lords
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8 days ago
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OpenUK
10 days ago
Welcoming some impressive open tech contributors to the OpenUK team with our Ambassador refresh! 😇 We will be launching our Apprentice Ambassador and OpenHQ international Ambassador programmes in the next few weeks.
openuk.uk/ambassadors/
#openuk
#openukambassadors
#opensourcecommunity
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James O'Malley
15 days ago
NEW: The Green Party is STILL bad at being green (FREE TO READ)
takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/the-green-...
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The Green Party is STILL bad at being green
We need 'industrial-scale' solar if we want to reach Net Zero.
https://takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/the-green-party-is-still-bad-at-being-green
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pretty in pink, purple and white - green winged orchids, wood anemone and early purple orchid because thats the time of year around here in Suffolk
#wildflowerhour
18 days ago
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My copy of
@beenwrekt.bsky.social
book just arrived, looking forward to reading this
21 days ago
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Chaddeus Stevens 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌹
28 days ago
Jarvis pull up the relevant shitpost
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Cherry blossom in the garden coming out
30 days ago
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#c0ffee 🇺🇦🏳️⚧️
about 1 month ago
IT Support to Major Tom You're Outlook's dead, there's something wrong Can you ping me, Major Tom? Can you ping me, Major Tom?
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Part n of the FT Alphaville occasional series on tax hearings for various foodstuffs is one of the finest
www.ft.com/content/eb37...
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Much ado about marshmallows
Good news, it’s s’more VAT nonsense
https://www.ft.com/content/eb37569d-0a2b-4df6-bd11-4d0c4e81cdc9
about 1 month ago
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First cowslip of the year on the lawn for
#wildflowerhour
about 1 month ago
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Crane coming in to land. Peak Amsterdam
about 2 months ago
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Dr Sophie Hay
about 2 months ago
One of the most remarkable objects in
#Pompeii
is a marble table support with P. Casca Longus inscribed on it. Longus was the 1st assassin to stab Julius Caesar on
#IdesOfMarch
(today in 44 BC). On his death Longus’ possessions were auctioned & this table was bought by a Pompeian
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John Bull
over 2 years ago
If you ask someone today to name the builder of Hadrian's Wall, they would give you a funny look. But historical memory is odd, and right up to the 1800s we forgot who built it. Until in 1840 John Hodgson, an obscure Northumbrian clergyman, published the LONGEST footnote in history... 1/22
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Anil Madhavapeddy
2 months ago
Made the cover of
@acm.org
with "A Decade of Docker Containers", recapping much systems work! Docker grew so fast in those early days that we never got a chance to write an academic paper about it, so this has been a long time coming
cacm.acm.org/research/a-d...
w/
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Kevin Rothrock
3 months ago
Hard to overstate the excellence of this long-read from
@shaunwalker7.bsky.social
on the Western and Ukrainian intelligence run-up to Russia's full-scale invasion: the Iraq War's legacy, Zelensky v Zaluzhny, the geopolitical forces that shaped what followed. Awesome work, wonderful writing.
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A war foretold: how the CIA and MI6 got hold of Putin’s Ukraine plans and why nobody believed them
Drawing on more than 100 interviews with senior intelligence officials and other insiders in multiple countries, this exclusive account details how the US and Britain uncovered Vladimir Putin’s plans ...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2026/feb/20/a-war-foretold-cia-mi6-putin-ukraine-plans-russia
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OpenUK
3 months ago
One of the highlights of the IndiaAI Impact Summit, this phenomenal panel hosted by OpenUK brought people who really understand open source together to dig deep into resilience and sovereignty. With Amanda Brock,
@anastasiastasenko.bsky.social
, Jimmy Wales, Dr Laura Gilbert, and
@mishi.bsky.social
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My first London primary school, Highbury Quadrant, closed last year
www.islingtontribune.co.uk/article/its-...
- although my memories of the school dinners were not those of the people quoted in the article! The teachers were great though.
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It's a last look around the old school before primary closes forever
Islington Council said Highbury Quadrant had to shut due to a shortage of pupils
https://www.islingtontribune.co.uk/article/its-a-last-look-around-the-old-school-before-primary-closes-forever
3 months ago
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“Toto is not the first ostensibly non-tech company in Japan that has become part of the AI boom. Ajinomoto, better known for soup stocks, uses resin derived from its expertise in umami flavourings to make insulation material between chips and motherboards.”
www.ft.com/content/4252...
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Japan’s largest toilet maker is undervalued AI play, says activist investor
Toto should invest more in its sideline in the chip supply chain, Palliser urges
https://www.ft.com/content/4252e45f-75fb-4dfc-aebe-72de48b7fb8e
3 months ago
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glove
3 months ago
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Thanks to
@cedricchin.bsky.social
for arranging a group call with
@davidbessis.bsky.social
definitely going to be reading his book about how maths is really done, see
davidbessis.substack.com/p/thinking-f...
for a taste
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Thinking fast, slow, and super slow
How mathematicians train their intuition
https://davidbessis.substack.com/p/thinking-fast-slow-and-super-slow
3 months ago
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on the beach
3 months ago
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Steve Jinman
4 months ago
www.the-londoner.co.uk/the-mystery-...
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The mystery of South Bank's unknown husband
'I feel a bit sad for you that you have met the Easter Bunny, because now the mystery is solved, and you're just gonna close that chapter'
https://www.the-londoner.co.uk/the-mystery-of-south-banks-unknown-husband/?ref=the-londoner-newsletter
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Sophie Jane
4 months ago
My favorite:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potoooo...
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Potoooooooo - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potoooooooo?wprov=sfla1
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sunset
4 months ago
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On the beach
4 months ago
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A very unexpected primrose in the churchyard for
#wildflowerhour
4 months ago
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Evening, from a few days ago.
4 months ago
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WInters day by the sea
5 months ago
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Henry Farrell
5 months ago
Fluffy toys spouting CCP talking points in response to questions is decisive evidence in favor of my "Philip K. Dick as greatest prophet of our era" shtick.
www.bostonreview.net/articles/hen...
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"The black line merely exposes the darkness inside the toy" ok wikipedia thats a bit much
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etch_A_...
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Etch A Sketch - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etch_A_Sketch
5 months ago
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Had not seen this painting by Constable before, Rainstorm over the Sea. (in the Tate exhibition, must go)
5 months ago
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OpenUK
5 months ago
Welcoming our new Board members,
@chira001.bsky.social
, Ashley Ward, Clare Schramm,
@justincormack.bsky.social
, Margherita Di Cerbo, Maria Lema,
@mathewlodge.com
, and
@mikemcquaid.com
, to strengthen our existing OpenUK Board.
openuk.uk/newboardmemb...
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"Even after applying weights to ensure the reported demographics of respondents match up to the target population, 12 per cent of young adults in the sample declared they had a licence to operate a nuclear submarine."
www.ft.com/content/1298...
by
@jburnmurdoch.ft.com
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The AI Shift: Is AI about to break polling?
Online surveys are susceptible to bogus respondents and synthetic samples warrant scepticism
https://www.ft.com/content/1298a2cd-5623-480c-b30e-ff81fc5c788d
5 months ago
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Morning walk by the vineyards
6 months ago
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OpenUK
6 months ago
🔥✨🤩🫣⬇️ Want to get more involved in OpenUK and become a part of the team?
openuk.uk/ambassadors/
#opensource
#opendata
#openhardware
#opensourcesoftware
#openuk
#ambassador
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"China added 240GW of solar capacity in the first nine months of this year, and 61GW of wind"
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6 months ago
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For
#wildflowerhour
some wild snapdragons from Spain where I was earlier this week. Back home its more shaggy inkcap weather and slime mold
bsky.app/profile/just...
6 months ago
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I was re-perusing
@komorama.bsky.social
organizations are like slime molds piece
komoroske.com/slime-mold/
and then ran into a whole lot of the tastefully named "dog's vomit slime mold" up the road - slime molds are weird!
6 months ago
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evening walk
6 months ago
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sunset
6 months ago
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Justin
7 months ago
The Tour de France slows rise of far right
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The Tour de France slows rise of far right: "It looked like our town was actually important" | BikeRadar
Voting in towns and villages on the route of the Tour found to shift less to the right than nearby areas, according to new research
https://www.bikeradar.com/news/tour-de-france-slows-rise-of-far-right
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"This is a more extreme policy position than, say, the BNP’s 2005 manifesto."
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7 months ago
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