Steve Hanlon

Steve Hanlon

@stevehanlon.com

Co Louth based Lancastrian I write code, build sites, measure things and show others how to do it

277 followers894 following103 posts

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That's us!

Matt@limbo76.bsky.social

I would say a mash-up of Pet Shop Boys, Erasure and Sparks with gorgeous female vocals (St Etienne is a great shout). I did like a comment I saw online which described them as “if an evil genius cloned Stock Aitken Waterman by dark magic and animated them with bitterness and despair"

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Thought I'd share this post from a friend which is a more nuanced version of the frustration among mathematicians about how the "mathocalypse" was executed. karagila.org/2026/openai-... I think all nerds are currently processing it.

karagila.orgOpenAI, the Partition Principle, and mathematicsBy the time I got out of bed yesterday, I had three people ask me if I'd seen the OpenAI announcement that the Partition Principle does not (...)

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Streaming from Friday, officially approved by the Tony Wilson Archive it's the anthem of the north! The Cuban Boys are the techno anarchists and Peel faves, sold a million copies of Cognoscenti Vs Intelligentsia in '99 and almost took the Xmas no.1 from Cliff. Tony Wilson, well you know who he is.

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There's an "acid remix" of Praxis Makes Perfect on YouTube, this will follow the main version to streaming soon0 but you can enjoy it here for the time being! youtu.be/3_AzNc3Q5tY?... Featuring the voice of Tony Wilson, Praxis Makes Perfect will be streaming from the 28th August.

The state of Lancashire in this! We were twenty years in the gravy corridor. Good times

Brilliant Maps@brilliantmaps.bsky.social

Most Popular Sauce, Topping Or Condiment For Chip Shop Chips In The UK More about them: brilliantmaps.com/chip-sauce/

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"At the dinner after his ‘Antichrist Lectures’, Thiel asked several people present how they would feel if they woke up the next morning with $200 million in their bank accounts."

Hardeep Matharu@hardeepmatharu.bsky.social

For 6 months, Byline Times has investigated Reform policy chief & Cambridge Professor James Orr's 'political pipeline' to recruit students, some of whom he houses – & his links to Palantir's Peter Thiel. Cambridge sent our queries straight on to Orr's lawyers. What's going on at the institution? 👇

No way that any university should be taking money from this far-right creep. Sad that Cambridge is stooping to this level

Dr Nafeez Ahmed@nafeez.bsky.social

1/🧵EXCLUSIVE: @bylinetimes.bsky.social's six-month investigation into Reform UK's policy chief: a secret donation from Peter Thiel, Thiel's life-changing offers to Cambridge scholars, and a far-right, theocratic student recruitment drive in breach of safeguarding bylinetimes.com/2026/07/09/p...

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An absolute stunner of an evening on the Irish sea just past Carlingford Lough looking back at the sun setting behind Haulbowline Lighthouse. So magical. Here is just a taster. #HaulbowlineLighthouse #CarlingfordLough #IrishSea #SunsetPhotography #MagicalMoments

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All Bluesky users will now have to pass the following security question to use the platform #totp

News Eye@newseye.bsky.social

BREAKING: The UK Government confirms that Bluesky will be INCLUDED in the ban on social media for under 16s. The government said it will be BANNED because it is a “user-to-user platform who purpose is to enable social interaction.”

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NEW: lots of you have sent me this article asking for my thoughts. I’ve been able to confirm it. Just as she says, Trump’s administration is staging vote.gov on a non-government cloudflare account under the EOP where there’s no oversight or accounting. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/thedreyd...

open.substack.comI found a second vote.gov — and it's registered to the White HouseThere is a moment in every investigation where the thing you have been looking for finds you instead.

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"there's a new serif in town"

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social

Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move

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VOTE EARLY VOTE OFTEN. It is perfectly within the rules to vote once a day, it is encouraged. So we also encourage it.

SPRAY@spraypopmusic.com

Please, vote for Spray every day! radiowigwam.co.uk/awards_voting/ - we're about halfway down the page, under "Best Indie Pop Act" We'll remind you tomorrow, so you might as well do it now.

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Python was awarded a funding grant, funding grant asked Python foundation to remove all diversity and inclusion initiatives they have. Python foundation said no and rejected the grant. If you use Python, send a few dollars to the charity to keep it going. I’m pushing a dono on behalf of ScamGuard.

Please read our statement, share it with your networks, and support us if you can. www.python.org/sponsors/app... psfmember.org/civicrm/cont...

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It was on this day in 1742, in Dublin , that George Frederic Handel's "Messiah" was performed for the first time. It happened at the New Music Hall in Fishamble Street. The performance was a fundraising event for charities and prisoners, with tickets costing a half-guinea each.

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For what it's worth, here's main text of my formal complaint to IPSO on *that* Daily Telegraph 'mass deportation now' piece from midweek, which I claim breaches art 1 of the Editors' Code & requires correction & apology. To be frank, it's not worth much, but it's part of the journey to resistance

Changing the leaving cert to be 40% coursework at this moment is reckless. Indemnity for teachers isn't the solution. More testing under exam conditions is needed. Teachers seek indemnity from legal actions over students’ improper AI use in Leaving Cert www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

irishtimes.comTeachers seek indemnity from legal actions over students’ improper AI use in Leaving CertFailure to disclose use of tools such as ChatGPT may result in loss of marks for candidates