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Light rays over Lake Wanaka as the sun was getting low in the sky. #landscapephotography #landscape #naturephotography #nature #scenery #newzealandlandscape #newzealand #PhotographersofBlueSky #wanaka #sonyalpha #photography

IKEA showed us all the absurdity of anthropomorphizing back in 2002. I think of this ad every time companies pretend their software is alive.

2/ Meta found guilty of lying about Cambridge Analytica & hate speech, violence + misinformation policies. Now they face up to $219 billion in penalties. It took years (and a lot of begging to be believed, while leaning on those who came before me for strength), but the public has finally spoken.

The BBC's new director general's brain is smaller on the inside.

Jesse Welles is a national treasure: youtu.be/Lwz1XwHwWhY #MusicSky #MusicianSky #Music #TheNerdReich

The results of the video I posted earlier was this iconic shot 👏 Danny León and his crew smashed it.

An American interviewer asked me about my political beliefs. #VoteBinface

Fact: When abroad, James Bond is known as +44 07.

One more from The Hoot, perhaps my favourite, it's bluesy as. At Last ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4ys...

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😍 I finally took time to finish a project I started during COVID 🎹 Web Components to display piano keys, chords and scales 🎸 And this time I also did a fretboard for guitars, ukuleles... 🧪 This is still alpha as I haven't used them yet for a real projet yet but enjoy hsablonniere.github.io/musiq/

Tony Blair’s essay VS the Pope’s encyclical Blair essay: number 1 bit of advice, do not regulate AI (in which I have £millions invested) Pope essay: we need the most rigorous constraints on AI 1/

To the Uig hills

Beeootiful m.youtube.com/watch?v=rj0V...

'You Blew Me Away' sculpture by Penny Hardy #womensart

Petition to send Bob Mortimer to Eurovision next year with ‘Slender People’ ✍🏻

Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂

Sonic Pi v5 Beta 2 [VJ + Streaming Tools]. Fresh new Sonic Pi beta just dropped - ASIO support, audio + video recording, video streaming. www.patreon.com/posts/sonic-...

wrestling with robot dogs seems fun where can I do this youtu.be/lA8WuXDXfcI

Dang. www.stvn.sh/writing/prog...

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

Well this was fun. Did the BBC’s ‘Strong Message Here’ with Stewart Lee & Armando Ianucci & got to slag off incoming BBC Director General/tech bro, Matt Brittin 😂 Oh & snuck in an Andrew Neil drive-by too just for the hell of it 🎯 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Scenes of Affric

I've been rebuilding Druimnashallag for Scotland's Mountain Bothy Association.

I've made dramatic progress on Sonic Tau over the past couple of weeks. I've already managed to leap ahead of Sonic Pi in a number of areas. All the many years of deep thinking and design is really paying off. Read more in my latest Patreon post. www.patreon.com/posts/re-re-...

Digital sovereignty means having real control over the tech and systems we depend on. Right now, in the UK, we don’t have that. 💥 We’re hiring a Campaign Lead to push this onto the agenda. More details 👇 the-citizens.com/2026/04/job-...

I hadn't seen this before. This is pretty remarkable. Earth and Moon in one NASA photo. ht @astrokatie.com

Sonic Tau - Re-Rerezzed An update on the considerable progress I've made on Sonic Tau... www.patreon.com/posts/re-rer...

and here's @doctorow.pluralistic.net clarifying like hell, as usual (seriously, you should read this)

Oh my. It's taken from the right side of an aircraft flying past Cape Canaveral just as the Artemis II mission was taking off. Source: Reddit (posted by u/Spook_485; I don't know if that's the person who took the video)

NASA's web developers are doing good work with the visualisations lately www.nasa.gov/missions/art... eyes.nasa.gov/apps/asteroi...

Artemis 2 countdown clock is now counting down.

read this twice now, so so good

"Open the Strait of Hormuz. You may not receive the help of any other sovereign nation. Fastest wins."

Why I 🧡 the web. Since 1949, LEGO has produced 228 solid colors (excluding transparent ones). The visualization shows when each color first appeared, how long it lasted, and when it disappeared. sheets.works/data-viz/leg... #lego #oldschool

A fine deep dive on Hegseth’s ‘frustration that the “kill people” switch in Claude is toggled to OFF and greyed out in their settings’