Robert Falla-Louvét 🔭🪐🚀

Huge personal news: 2027tcslondonmarathon.enthuse.com/pf/robert-lane

Been a while since we had some video game based questions on University Challenge. Tonight there were three questions about @expedition33.bsky.social

This is exactly what I mean when I say online writing isn't for human beings anymore.

My desktop wallpaper is a render of Anor Londo. It's a screenshot from From Software software.

I've been in web development for over 20 years, this is the first time I've seen a "We're taking everyone's sites down until they're patched" response. It's big.

My very first job was in a factory that made the sandwiches for the meal deals at M&S, Waitrose, Sainsburys, Co-op, Asda, Boots and Tesco. I made it 3/4 of a shift and didn't go back after my break.

'The University of Manchester is seeking alternative funding sources to keep scientific work at Jodrell Bank going after hearing that lost UK Research and Innovation funding would not be restored despite interventions by the prime minister.'

🟦 CLEAN FEED | A snippet from tonight's Shipping Forecast...complete with insuppressible yawn. 😂

Finished the first ep of #TheWargame and, although it's not as good as the Podcast it's adapting, it's still compelling and interesting.

Excellent TV version of #thewargame after last year’s stand-out podcast. But, blimey, what a slow-footed bunch in the COBR room.

Between European leaders briefing opposition parties and press on increased Russian aggression and the BBC publishing things like this, I'm starting to think we might not live long enough for AI to kill us.

these are cliffs on a comet that we landed a spacecraft on btw

Sydney Sweeney had a real swing at being the controversy farmer of the week but she's been blown out of the water in less than a day by Ed Sheeran blowing up his entire tour

Can I pull together a lineup or what? Truly incredible night celebrating Star Trek’s 60th Anniversary. We talked real space exploration, in show prosthetics, alien biology and chatted to Scotty himself, Martin Quinn 📸 James Klug

All these websites that are now making you put an e-mail address in to read the article, (but they say the article is free, when in reality it's conditional on you agreeing to be in their mailing list) just get reported as spam as soon as their verification code comes through.

Thought I’d been recruited to be the next Alan Turing. Turns out it’s just a suit company I brought a shirt off 2 years ago sending me junk mail.

OpenAI has apparently solved one of the Millennium Prize problems. The maths world is divided by the news. They will later be subtracted, added and multiplied. www.claymath.org/news/navier-...

New PISA data out England is now top ten in all three areas (reading, maths, science) and the second highest performing country outside of east Asia (after Estonia). This is a huge public policy success.

They'll be a lot of chatter about England's PISA results this morning, but we need to talk just as much about Wales. They rejected phonics and knowledge-rich curricula in favour of 'areas of learning', 'skills suites' and barely any testing. Wales is now 40 points below England in every domain.

The newly discovered asteroid CERNQ52 will flash harmlessly in the sky over the ocean between Java and Western Australia, in just under 3 hours from this writing: cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/scout/#/obje...

Warp drives, transporters, strange new worlds...how much of Star Trek is science fiction—and how much could actually become reality? Join us at the Ri as scientists and engineers explore the real science behind one of the world's most influential sci-fi series. 🖖 www.rigb.org/whats-on/sci...

There's a cracking thunder and lightning storm happening in the midlands.

Hey guys! I’ve made a new Raspberry Pi based MP3 player, just like the old MP3 players from before streaming & subscriptions took over. I’m calling it “iPod”, since no one’s using that name right now. I can’t see anyone having a problem with that, and it is indeed how trademarks and copyright work.

Christ the marketing copy was written by AI too. I'd bet the entire platform is vibe coded.

BBC One airing Dolly Parton tributes from 10.40pm

That we can see an eclipse from the surface of another planet is amazing.

This poster for Japan’s mission to Mars’ moon Phobos is gorgeous! 🔭

UK transit nerds are next level.

Poorly timed notification from the range there 🤦🏻‍♀️

Excellent thread

🟦 CLEAN FEED | The 'Holoship' episode of Red Dwarf aired tonight at 10pm on BBC Two. Network BBC Two, BBC Two Northern Ireland and BBC Two Wales marked the occasion by using the ident that introduced the episode in 1992 and elements of the announcer's script from the time.

OK wait: The "pipeline rerouted because of grave of fictional character" story was never true? It's a silly season spin-up reposted by the BBC, Guardian etc.? The pipeline never went near the "grave" and was never rerouted? Rusty Foster with the links: www.todayintabs.com/p/dobby-s-gr...

A good Bluey matches peak Simpsons

The Perseids are already doing their thing. The night of the 12th August looks set to be "Amaze, amaze, amaze" 🔭

literally every history question has been asked in there and thoroughly, *comprehensively* answered already

The wider issue is the peanuts UKRI is operating with. Under £10bn for the engine of the UK's research in ALL subjects should be a national disgrace. Jodrell Bank is a helpful example but we are losing so much across *every* research field. This underfunding will damage the UK for decades to come.

THEY TALKED TO THE COMPUTER IN STAR TREK BEACUSE ITS A *TV SHOW* AND YOU CANT HEAR WHAT SOMEONE IS TYPING NOT BEACUSE IT IS GOOD UX

The Madrid Deep Space Communication Complex at Robledo de Chavela municipality in the Community of Madrid, Spain on fire. Burgohondo wildfire. 📷 via Infues Avila

Because the IAU officially classifies a brown dwarf as a substellar object rather than a planet, anything orbiting it is circling a primary body, not a secondary planet. Therefore, by definition, it is a planet. In other words, "That's no moon".

The BBC know how to do a Montage www.youtube.com/watch?v=20Fi...