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Rebecca Williams
3 days ago
when you die all of your draft emails should automatically send (not in a surveillance way, in a spiritual way), it’d just be nice to see what folks were planning on getting to
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#OnThisDayInNTK:2001
ntk.net/2001/06/15/?...
Guardian plugs contributor site RABBIT-ON .com, babbles on to 2005
web.archive.org/web/20010623...
last mention of suck. com, debuts of Extreme Ironing
web.archive.org/web/20010607...
"Banzai"
youtu.be/4YcIrL6JZn0?...
& ICL slams those "no-good..."
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would prefer Baconface's history of Radio 4, but this'll do for now
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Stuart Houghton
9 days ago
♬ ♪♪ Three horrifying scorpions the size of dogs on a shirt/Primitive men screaming/ 30,000 years of hurt/ Claws and stings cause bleeding ♬ ♪♪
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Matt Jones
11 days ago
I haven’t seen it, and wasn’t planning to - but now thanks to
@tomcoates.bsky.social
I’m inordinately excited that Disclosure Day is *actually* “DR & Quinch Have Fun On Earth” told from pov of puny humans. Please let it be so.
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#OnThisDayInNTK:2001
ntk.net/2001/06/08/?...
@gregegansf.bsky.social
Turing/Lewis tale
gregegan.net/MISC/ORACLE/...
MoonFruit site builder: hyped by Guardian, purchased by Yell, offered "workarounds" to demise of Adobe Flash, decommissioned December 2021 +Cambridge Uni fails to invent Facebook
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...so slightly odd to see it used 10 times in Sat's BBC discussion of the topic, including 3 uses of "two-tier Keir" - perhaps Labour should select future leaders with less obviously rhyming names?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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17 days ago
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Bill Thompson
24 days ago
PSA: Puntcon will be on August 16 this year. Emails going out soon.
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Mike Cook
28 days ago
Do you make art and weird things with computers? Would you like to meet other people who do and talk to them about it? This June we're hosting a creativity unconference at King's - CUAK for short. Sat June 27th - Bush House - 9.30am-5.30pm Info and free tickets:
www.possibilityspace.org/cuak/
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Bill, that's exactly why that rogue police punt was chasing you & other ageing revolutionaries last Aug?
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20 days ago
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#OnThisDayInNTK
: 2001
ntk.net/2001/06/01/?...
in the absence of Kubrick minifigs, "The biggest response came from women given a DVD player," claims Amazon
web.archive.org/web/20010606...
& via "Star Wars Kitsch"
theswca.com/images-speci...
the impressively-unauthorised
youtu.be/C8NjEspThbE?...
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tangentially - Lego deserves more credit for its lower-cost Minifigs effectively revitalising the "dolls for boys" market following the eventual decline of Star Wars figures, GI Joe and Action Man?
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Jo-ho-ho
25 days ago
"Copy that floppy" - if you have an old floppy disc you can take it to the Centre for Computing History in Cambridge on Sat 13 June and for £12 they'll attempt to put it on the USB stick that you also bring with you. No guarantees
www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/76911/Co...
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#OnThisDayInNTK:2001
ntk.net/2001/05/25/?...
saved for future: top 8 1990s scifi haikus
web.archive.org/web/20210213...
BBC oddity
news.bbc.co.uk/news/vote200...
unlabelled EastEnders 90210 April Fool?
web.archive.org/web/20010410...
& what if the EU had enforced this rather than cookie popups?
28 days ago
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Kim Plowright
30 days ago
I made an automated hyper-normaliser. It produces some uncannily familiar vibes.
mildlydiverting.github.io/are.na-toolk...
Vibe coding means I can finally build browser toys myself! Years of discussing specs, bugs and ideas with developers is good training data for this human.
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Are.na Hypernormalisation
Pull images and text from are.na channels and combine them into a strangely familiar documentary critique of late capitalism. Good for full-screen ambient displays, or just staring into the void.
https://mildlydiverting.github.io/are.na-toolkit/arena-hypernormalisation.html
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Lore Sjöberg
about 1 month ago
If you can’t handle me at my Spicy Chicken, you don’t deserve me at my Priority Specimen.
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Robin Clarke
about 1 month ago
(You can play it here btw
archive.org/details/msdo...
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Llamatron 2112 : Jeff Minter : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
LLamatron 2112, Release 1.0, A very challenging game of trying to get to the next level of play, goes pretty good at first, but as each level goes by, your in...
https://archive.org/details/msdos_Llamatron-2112_shareware
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appreciate it's been a warm few days but this feels like quite a big conclusion to draw from "fridges and freezers haven't worked for a week at the local Tesco"?
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about 1 month ago
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#OnThisDayInNTK:2001
ntk.net/2001/05/18/?...
Prescott egged - from 'Grassy Verge'?
web.archive.org/web/20010614...
1st/last mention of antipsychotronic MINDGUARD software - for Linux/Amiga only & Apple debut eye-hurtingly soulless high st experience - admittedly less "unprofitable" than expected:
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as
@robmanuel.b3ta.com
has noted, there was a lot of "you must get online" marketing in the early-ish years of the WWW - and before that, entire government campaigns to "make the most of the micro[computer]" in the 1980s. Yet neither Ofcom or DCMS have demanded a BBC LLM - sort it out you cowards!
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disappointed there aren't more people furiously agreeing with this - & Tom wields his anger more productively than most of us - but surely way more than half of online anger is either pointless and/or actively counter-productive in terms of creating engagement around the thing you disagree with?
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about 1 month ago
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Glenda Adams
about 2 months ago
Took about a year, but I finished my cross-stitch tribute to the class Amiga Deluxe Paint King Tut. It’s 180x200 stitches, about 34,000 non-black tiny thread X’s 🙂
#NerdStitch
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DANIELPEMBERTON
about 1 month ago
At OFFPRINT great alt books and zine fair that’s on today and tmrw at 180 The Strand London.. Delia Derbyshire patch and very appropriate to me book on STOLEN SPOONS.. Go see if in town it’s GREAT!
offprint.org/en/
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#OnThisDayInNTK:2001
ntk.net/2001/05/11/?...
sad deaths of the Times "Inter//Face" section, Douglas Adams cryptic debut mention of UK Independence Party & in modern parlance: Mike & The Mechanics' The Living Years, but it's The Shangri-Las' Leader Of The Pack
youtube.com/watch?v=gOFc...
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Big Daddy - The Living Years
YouTube video by tashikitten
https://youtube.com/watch?v=gOFcMedjNQk
about 1 month ago
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- you don't have to listen to pt1, interesting exegesis of Tommy the rock musical, plus extra trivia that 1950s UFO "contactee" George Adamski knew he'd spoken to aliens due to their distinctively non-terrestrial trousers
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SocietyWorks
about 2 months ago
We are hiring! 📢 Specifically, we're looking for Python developers with a willingness to learn Perl to help develop and support the rollout of our digital services for local authorities and other public sector clients. Remote role. Friendly team. More details:
apply.workable.com/mysociety/j/...
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Developer, SocietyWorks - Fully Remote - mySociety and SocietyWorks
SocietyWorks is the commercial division of the UK civic technology charity, mySociety, the organisation behind well used services such as FixMyStreet, WhatDoTheyKnow, TheyWorkForYou and WriteToThem. W...
https://apply.workable.com/mysociety/j/0C123A1525/
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Rob Manuel
about 2 months ago
The battle for the left between greens and labour is going to tear your friendship groups and family part. My advice is stay out of it with the line, "I'm going to vote for whichever left-ish party has a chance of winning in my local area, based on polls just before the election."
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Stuart Houghton
about 2 months ago
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for the sake of argument this Star Wars Day - surely some of the appeal of cinema scifi comes from the transportative novelty of the production design, which comparatively lower-budget TV shows can't easily compete with (though Dr Who & Star Treks use various techniques to try)?
@robmanuel.b3ta.com
about 2 months ago
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#OnThisDayInNTK:2001
ntk.net/2001/04/27/?...
@edfelten.bsky.social
et al defeat audio watermarks, silenced by RIAA Lucozade renamed Lara(Croft)-zade "Large Global Anti-Capitalism Protests Put Smaller, Local Protests Out Of Business"
web.archive.org/web/20010603...
& "..one Cheggers made earlier"
about 2 months ago
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Matthew Somerville
2 months ago
This makes me so angry. Honestly think it should be illegal. Losing millions, and every so often asking the public to fund your large salaries for the next while, with no financials even provided. And others:
www.reddit.com/r/crowdcube/...
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Eriol Fox
2 months ago
I'm speaking on the 26th of April (tomorrow!!) at
www.oggcamp.org
in Manchester speaking about my much loved Open Source Design Diary studies project! which you can read here:
github.com/sprblm/Diary...
#oggcamp
#oggcamp26
#oss
#opensource
#opensourcedesign
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OggCamp 2026 | OggCamp 2026
OggCamp is a free software & free culture unconference.
https://www.oggcamp.org/
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#OnThisDayInNTK:2001
ntk.net/2001/04/20/?...
netimperative.com
& Attachments' in-show site
web.archive.org/web/20110725...
battle on longer than expected + following
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sho...
comic Bob Mills gets 2nd series of similarly Larry Sanders-y BOB MARTIN:
youtu.be/lR5ZWi0F4Jw
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SeeThru.co.uk - your internet filter and webzine
https://web.archive.org/web/20110725214628/http://www.seethru.co.uk/
2 months ago
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Jack Yeo
2 months ago
3 sentence horror story
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Terence Eden
3 months ago
Train tickets booked for
#oggcamp
😃 Hope to see lots of you there. I'll try to bring random electronics for the swap shop. Weekend tickets still available on
https://www.oggcamp.org/
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OggCamp 2026 | OggCamp 2026
OggCamp is a free software & free culture unconference.
https://www.oggcamp.org/
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The Citizens
2 months ago
Get your schooling on resisting Big Tech empires next Saturday from
@globaljusticenow.bsky.social
with
@doctorow.pluralistic.net
and others This is not one to miss 👇👇
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Resisting Big Tech Empires - Global Justice Now
📅 April 25, 2026 | ⏰ 11am–6pm📍 London. Join international speakers including Cory Doctorow, Anita Gurumurthy and Nick Srnicek to challenge big tech power and explore how we can reclaim technology…
https://www.globaljustice.org.uk/event/resisting-big-tech-empires/
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#OnThisDayInNTK:2001
ntk.net/2001/04/13/?...
Higgs "Bosun" ahoy!
ntk.net/2001/04/13/d...
(perhaps deliberately?) cheesy promo Alt Reality Game for Spielberg A.I. movie
legacy.aintitcool.com/node/8659
& Nazi shows may lose ratings battle, say media analysts... "but zey vill vin - ZE WAR!"
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had to go back to Twitter, wasn't as bad you'd expect?
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former Tory defence minister Tobias Ellwood is still doing his quote about "It will cost each taxpayer roughly the price of a cappuccino a day" ...like he's asking Britons to set up a charity direct debit, or to crowdfund unexpected medical expenses for a pet
www.the-express.com/news/world-n...
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2 months ago
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Owen Blacker
2 months ago
Your Kindle's not obsolete, it just needs a jailbreak — and I'll show you how it's done You can transform your old Kindle — even a bricked device — into the ultimate open-source reader. Here's how.
www.zdnet.com/article/your...
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Your Kindle's not obsolete, it just needs a jailbreak - and I'll show you how it's done
You can transform your old Kindle - even a bricked device - into the ultimate open-source reader. Here's how.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/your-kindles-not-obsolete-it-needs-a-jailbreak-ill-show-you-how-its-done/
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RMS' odd behaviour fairly well-known 22 years ago
zork.net/pipermail/cr...
gamers conned by bargain deals - on PlayStation 2 Harlan Ellison's anti-piracy campaign - "I Have No Caps Lock Key, And I Must Scream"
web.archive.org/web/20010418...
3 months ago
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Ryan Lambie
4 months ago
I've just had an amazing idea
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Gary Erskine
3 months ago
The quality of photos from Artemis II of the moon surface is incredible to witness in real time.
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Nick Brumfield
3 months ago
In his grave at Golgotha, Lord Jesus waits dreaming
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ntk.net/2001/03/30/?...
Mike Magee quits
@theregister.com
, launches The Inquirer (later sold to VNU)
web.archive.org/web/20050502...
not an April Fool - Avon quits Blake's 7: The Movie
hermit.org/Blakes7/news...
& state-of-the-art JS encryption:
web.archive.org/web/20010216...
3 months ago
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Dan Hon
3 months ago
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/b...
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Tracy Kidder, Author of ‘The Soul of a New Machine,’ Dies at 80
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/books/tracy-kidder-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.V1A.L4NN.Ko9FvUTpsY-j
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always good for indie game devs to have a "unique" PR angle, although...
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3 months ago
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#OnThisDayInNTK:2001
ntk.net/2001/03/23/
debut mentions of: no free Tacos for deorbiting Mir
web.archive.org/web/20010405...
the Ted Nelson-esque
nongnu.org/gzz/
Bandle Bobble
remix.kwed.org/files/RKOfil...
Open Firmware anthem
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8Wy...
& Foot & Mouth vs - Jerry & Margo?
3 months ago
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jenn schiffer 🐑
3 months ago
london!
@jbrew.bsky.social
will be hosting robot karaoke among other awesome shows (shouts out to algorave!) on friday at this london games festival event
www.vam.ac.uk/event/Wl9jvz...
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Friday Late: Player/Performer - Drop-in at V&A South Kensington · V&A
For Friday Late x London Games Festival, artists working with games and interactivity will push the boundaries of play, performance and spectacle
https://www.vam.ac.uk/event/Wl9jvzQb6a/friday-late-march-2026
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