The first rain in months. For a brief period it’ll be wet and miserable, like a proper English summer.
Mark Croxton
@croxton.bsky.social
Dad, web developer, curmudgeon. Mostly harmless.
Sneak peek of a personal project that’s been in my brain for a while, and all about water, places and how we use it. www.waterdictionary.net
The Water Dictionary
Simple mixing recipes for recreating world-famous water profiles for brewing, coffee, baking, and aquariums — using bottled waters from your local supermarket.
waterdictionary.net
Currently drinking this from my local whisky bar. The tasting notes are a bit silly (that’s Brighton for you) but the important thing is it’s a fabulous smooth Speyside but with a surprising amount of smoke. #whisky www.masterofmalt.com/whiskies/tam...
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Cloudflare’s biggest outage since 2019 - the post mortem is as comprehensive as ever: blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-...
Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025
Cloudflare suffered a service outage on November 18, 2025. The outage was triggered by a bug in generation logic for a Bot Management feature file causing many Cloudflare services to be affected.
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Thought we’d left it too late but loads of sloes still about to collect. And now enjoying the last bottle from 2024.
‘Kin hell. The USA is a crazy scary place these days.
Belfast Telegraph@belfasttelegraph.co.uk · 12mo agoHorrors of Trump detention centre: Lisburn man tells his story after arrest for 'looking like a Mexican' Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping. Here, he tells us his story.
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever.” - George Orwell, 1984
“…everything is going to be alright” – conflict, balance and resolution in law and policy
22nd August 2025 * In his 1992 memoir Fever Pitch, Nick Hornby describes his experience of a crush in a stadium at a 1980 match (before the tragedies later on that decade): “…there was a forty-thou…
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This was 6 months ago. I can only assume he was trying to pump the stock price, because these kind of wild proclamations about the future of AI are proving to be complete and utter bollocks.
Anthropic's CEO says that in 3 to 6 months, AI will be writing 90% of the code software developers were in charge of
"And then in 12 months, we may be in a world where AI is writing essentially all of the code," Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said.
businessinsider.com
It finally happened – we launched the new Datastar site and V1 (RC) 🚀 It’s been an incredible journey, and I feel honoured to be working with people like @data-star.dev and Johnny Stevers. And there’s so much more yet to come!! data-star.dev
The 50 year anniversary of Talking Heads’ debut. I used to sing this one in my 6th form band (badly, and usually drunk). @stach.uk I bet you can still do the bass youtu.be/CJ54eImz88w?...
Talking Heads - Psycho Killer (Official Video)
YouTube video by Talking Heads
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📢 New video and a big announcement! briefs.video/videos/intro...
Introducing: Webbed Sites
A video from Webbed Briefs
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Got some availability coming up from mid-June for illustration, comics and commissions. Hit me up if you have a project in mind and shares - as always - appreciated 🙏
Cole Henley@cole007.bsky.social · last yr.Some news shared in visual format (more details in blog post #linkinbio). Please swipe for a short heart-felt summary of my health and if you need an illustrator/artist please do get in touch! Thanks for reading 🙏
Shameful bullish. What's done incalculable damage is a decade of pernicious falsehoods about immigration, while people who should know better refuse to counter the lies of the increasingly normalised far right. Let's tackle those lies:
🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
Those bastards penguins have been getting away with it this whole time. They can't fool us with that cutesy monogamous waddling crap. America is going to tariff the shit out of them.
Arthur Snell@snellarthur.bsky.social · last yr.Tariffs on penguins.
Post you from a different era. 1990-ish, rocking a paisley shirt for reasons.
Justin Stach@stach.uk · 2y agoPost you from a different era. A different millennium no less.
Planting Black Poplar trees in the woods today with the help of some new little volunteers. #wildernesswoods
The bust of Sir Winston Churchill sits in Trump's Oval Office. He was an immensely brave leader who visited Washington, dressed in fatigues, seeking support against a despot. We all know what he would have made of today's unedifying spectacle and whose side he would have been on.
I guess this is one way to bring 'transparency' to government operations. Horrifying.
DOGE Exposes Once-Secret Government Networks, Making Cyber-Espionage Easier than Ever
A new investigation shows nuclear secrets and government servers are dangerously exposed to nation-state hackers.
cyberintel.substack.com
(CW: outraged swearing) Fuck this MAGA imperialist bullshit. This hypocritical prick is part of a government that fires anyone with a dissenting view, ignores its own courts and has actively set out to dismantle US democracy. The brass neck to lecture us in the actual free world. Absolute twat.
Adam Schwarz@adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 2y agoJD Vance, vice president of a regime currently overthrowing its own democracy, lectures Europe on the "retreat" from "some of its most fundamental values". He cites the Romanian Constitutional Court annulling its recent presidential election. He doesn't mention this was because Russia interfered.
FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
WASHINGTON—Putting the nation on alert against what it has described as a “highly credible terrorist threat,” the FBI announced today that it has uncovered a plot by members of al-Qaeda to sit back an...
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Today’s jobs with fellow #wildernesswoods volunteers Dave and Joel: build dams to reduce surface run-off and redirect the path around a 400 year old beech tree, to give it a fighting chance to survive the increasingly hot and dry summers.
