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I think this beats the "make up a bedtime story for my child" that was popular last year

a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes

shop.rnli.org Or we publicly support volunteers risking themselves to save others.

Celebrating Tim Curry by aspiring to this level of professional lock-in

For thousands of years, a solar eclipse has been a prophetic harbinger of a spectacular, epoch-making event. Just saying. #VoteBinface #Clacton

Something to ponder this week.

Pilot pulls off Count Binface stunt for Clacton byelection

Are the geospatial professionals using this feature for a range of useful purposes in the room with us right now

When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.

Having an absolute blast with the @pimoroni.com Plasma board at @emfcamp.bsky.social. got the hat lights sync'd up to my watch and now it shows my heartrate

Our talk and workshop line-up is live! Please favourite things to help our scheduling robot make sensible decisions. www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2026 Keep an eye on the list - Family Workshops, Music, and installations will be announced in the coming weeks.

somebody put this on sir keir's desk

NEW EXAMPLE FOR FONT LESSON JUST DROPPED

Classic study gave 146 economist teams the same dataset & got wildly different answers New paper reruns it with agentic AI. Claude Code & Codex land near the human median but with far tighter dispersion & no extremes This suggests that agentic AI is now useful for doing scalable economics research

Spent an enjoyable evening noodling about with @pimoroni.com 's excellent tufty badgeware. Of course I hooked it up to control WLED. Such a capable package!

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A magnificent piece of work. Comprehesive, revelatory & shocking. Journalism this good is always rare & precious but never moreso than at times like this. Latter day Lord Haw Haws being plumped, preened & delivered to your doorstep in plain sight by a Nazi-saluting goon news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Sentiment analysis on four decades worth of FT newspaper articles. 🥳 Rreally cool stuff from @joelsuss.ft.com. on.ft.com/4n2TVBq

Found the new BLS Commissioner

Politicians shouldn't rage-bait chart geeks. on.ft.com/4jrlz8h

"o3, show me a photo of the most stereotypical X and LinkedIn feeds as seen on a mobile device. Really lean into it."

"o3, You are a consultant hired by the Dark Lord, analyze the org chart of Mordor. How would you improve it for today's changing Middle Earth" o3 does some actual satire, ending with: “One Org to rule them all, One Org to find them, One Org to bring them all, And in the darkness, align them.”

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

I suppose Tarrot cards are in lieu of expert opinions?

Who made this 🤣

todays satirical diary from @hugorifkind.bsky.social

I have now seen the Ann Telnaes cartoon of Jeff Bezos's supplication before Donald Trump more often today than I've seen any other cartoon during the entire rest of the year. So, well played, Washington Post.

You’re welcome! 😊🍻 HNY!

Christmas is coming, spent the evening getting some smart lights rolling for the tree

Some pretty awesome announcements on Data and AI at #MsIgnite so far