1/8 #OTD in 1752, Joseph M. Jacquard, a silk weaver and inventor from Lyon (France), was born. His use of punched cards to control complex patterns would later provide the crucial programming concept for Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine. #histsci 🧪 #computing #science #tech

The question for Nigel Farage now is whether it's less embarrassing to un-resign and claim that was an establishment stitchup, or to spend a month competing with a bin. Neither is exactly a *great* option. Neither solves his ongoing scandals. And it's a mess entirely of his own making.

Calling a by-election over the sovereign right of every MP to take secret gifts from a convicted criminal. What a time to be alive.

"it is like living in a communist country"

Where is this going?

Saying you're the "most physically attacked" MP when two MPs have been killed in the last decade is just horribly self-absorbed.

“I am a crook, I am dishonest” says man directly into camera seemingly unaware of what the internet will do with that clip

god this is nausiating

this is getting towards Partridge level of indignation

"one day I believe we will"

"absolutely clear"

it's going to be some self-pitying thing about how he's being hounded and made the decision for the good of his family

it is wonderful. at 10s he can clear it. but no. this keeper is going to do a clever feint and make an incisive pass. except he's not.

Bluesky this morning:

Starmer should call Fifa and ask for Jarell Quansah's suspension to be cancelled just for LOLs. It won't be, but FIFA would have to justify why the rules are different for the USA.

Have tried to distill the second half into one image

got up early to watch catch up of England winning the football with son 2.0... that and a strong cup of coffee... I think my cardiologist wants a word

I got to pick this week’s #FeatureFriday, and I chose The World is Not Good Enough by Sean Solomon (@foreversean.bsky.social). It’s sad and prettty, but also really catchy. Plus, he’s made his own drawings and animations for each song. I’m kind of obsessed.

By me! www.theregister.com/public-secto...

I made these at a kid

In this case Sopra Steria is suing the DWP for accepting an allegedly abnormally low bid from Capita. In its defense, the DWP said, no, it is Sopra Steria's bid that is excessively high. In its reply, Sopra Steria quoted the DWP's own cost modelling. Oops. www.theregister.com/saas/2026/06...

The Braun calculator in white is no longer in production, we’ve got a small number in stock for die hard Dieter Rams fans www.presentandcorrect.com/products/bra...

I feel like I should repost this every day until everyone reposts it every day and demands this simple change with big impact

This is doing really well on our site today, if you wanna get some insight into what Reg readers like

44

H/T to @colinyeo.bsky.social for alerting me to this report. The Home Office had more than eight years to develop the system but did not include a feedback loop from asylum appeals, so case workers struggle to learn from them www.theregister.com/public-secto...

It is now almost 100% of the time that when I do vox pops in rural America I get asked about Britain supposedly being taken over by Muslims and crushed under the boot of Sharia law. I was just asked suspiciously if I am a Muslim myself when I pushed back

BMW Isetta Brochure 1957.

France, bloody hell

Home Office press office hold music is some folky pastoral flute-based bullshit and it is not making me feel any more relaxed

The Last Landmark, painting by Jen Orpin. Forton services, M6.

Shout out to onshore wind, which has avoided nearly double the greenhouse gas emissions of utility-scale PV :)

Some AI dork: “Well, actually, golf courses use more water than data centres.” Yes. Those can go, too. Thanks.

It seems such a no-brainer. Does anyone know why this doesn't happen? Planning permission? Capital outlay?

I've just been asked to do some thought leadership. I said no, but I feel a bit soiled.

I for one would enjoy seeing a rhinoceros romp around the oval room

Donald Trump hijacked America’s 250 and turned it into a ‘theatre of the absurd’

Flipping through auction catalogs and this antique phone seems surprised by something it heard. Cc: @pareidolia.bsky.social

On this day 40 years ago, I was at the huge Artists Against Apartheid concert on Clapham Common. Here are some of my pics of Gil Scott-Heron, Sade, Billy Bragg and Sir Coxsone Outernational Sound System (THREAD 1 of 6)

Please stop showing racist, and right-wing sympathiser John Terry on telly thx 🙏🏾

Ok media X technology X history nerds: my partner and I use a hollowed out TV stand inherited from his grandparents to store bar supplies. Last night I noticed this diagram posted deep inside of what I assume what once were the internal electronics. Can we date it based on this? What even is this?

Every time I see this picture of the Fonz, I think he’s stood by the Endor Bunker.

pastoral flute music is the hold music for the Home Office press office

Once again, I am being compared to the pope britmonkey.com/2020s-politi...

Lego glasses by jeancharlesdecastelbajac.com

Does anyone use Discord? I don't but I must have set up an account to look at something at some point. I'm trying to look something else. But all I get is this. Is the channel locking me out or is my set-up wrong?