Does anyone know any Kurdish freelance journalists based in the UK?
Jared
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Developer. From London. Find me in the club, bottle full of bub'.
With the Strait of Hormuz closed, Iraq has resorted to moving its oil across the desert to Syria in hundreds of tanker trucks, in true Mad Max style. From there, it will be shipped to worldwide markets.
The term "artificial intelligence" was coined before the term "software" first appeared in print.
C++ has no standard library for HTTP clients. Asked customer what they use: "Boost". "Cool. I'll just use that." 3 hours later...
💙📚 Author friends, I implore you to follow @bytebinding.com. I'm building the next generation EPUB editor that will solve a ton of your problems and help you create the ebooks your stories deserve. Public announcement coming soon.
Btw, does anyone know where we could donate a couple of hundred modern film posters? Vintage ones are going to the cinema museum
Rather odd request, and a very long story, but do I have any followers in Badajoz 🇪🇸 who could lend me a bike Saturday morning to cycle to Elvas 🇵🇹, buy some Interrail reservations, and then return to Badajoz before a 14:00 train? #LongestTrainEU #CrossBorderRail
Jon Worth@jonworth.eu · 3w agoWelcome to the #LongestTrainEU #CrossBorderRail record breaking thread! This journey starts Kemijärvi 🇫🇮 and ends Lagos 🇵🇹 18 trains, 100 hours 9 minutes, 4008km as crow flies, 6281 route-km Project background: longestjourney.crossborderrail.eu Follow live: longestjourneylive.crossborderrail.eu
Didn't any of these people grow up watching Blue Peter?
Robert Shrimsley@robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 3w agoIt's hard to think of anything less British than the morons doing this to the heroic RNLI
Nic Cage really has no luck with property
Los Angeles Times@latimes.com · 3w agoMalibu residents evacuate after massive, expanding sinkhole opens at Nicolas Cage's house
FIRST LOOK: bluesky designs for the upcoming foldable iphone have been leaked
fun little selfie with a bunch of masked nazis really symbolises everything there is to love about great britain 🇬🇧 paddington bear picky bits josef mengele
Welcome to the #LongestTrainEU #CrossBorderRail record breaking thread! This journey starts Kemijärvi 🇫🇮 and ends Lagos 🇵🇹 18 trains, 100 hours 9 minutes, 4008km as crow flies, 6281 route-km Project background: longestjourney.crossborderrail.eu Follow live: longestjourneylive.crossborderrail.eu
Always horrified when I wash my long Rick Owens tee and it comes out half the size.
Well the view of /r/london is a resounding no
Jim Waterson@jim.londoncentric.media · 3w agoJames Cleverly makes his introductory pitch to London Centric readers on why he should be mayor... whether Brexit was good for London... whether the capital really is a crime-ridden hellhole... and whether he wrote his message to Londoners using ChatGPT... www.londoncentric.media/p/james-clev...
EVERYBODY WHO'S TRYING TO HATE ON #OMARCHY AND #1PASSWORD AFTER THAT PIECE IN @theverge.com - HERE IS THE DONOR LIST FOR YOUR DAILY TWO MINUTES OF HATE FOR THE NEXT FEW WEEKS: omarchy.org/news/2026/08...
I find it weird but indicative of the character of #BlueSky that elsewhere X/Twitter is blowing up with the announcement by Eric Lu of the factorization of #RSA260, a 862-bit RSA key: x.com/penlume/stat... …whilst over here folk are about what it *means* to give money to a Linux distribution.
Was time team involved? Is that a trench tony? Nah it's a drug cache
Mixmag@mixmag.net · last mo.Cheshire Police have dug up a cache of drugs buried at the site of Creamfields Festival, which is set to take place this August Bank Holiday Weekend
“It isn’t malfunctioning. It does exactly what I wrote. The problem is I wrote the wrong thing” - Claude to me this morning ~ $2T for a company whose primary product works when it feels like seems extremely misspriced. That said, Claude fails me daily yet I still pay for it so maybe I’m the dummy.
Jerry Falade and Jason Arday are two sides of the same coin: a Black person can’t be this smart, so it must be plagiarism/AI/pick-your-poison. AI will make this worse. Every Black intellectual achievement can be dismissed as Claude/ChatGPT with no evidence while the accused suffers the damage.
Holy shit, recruiters have reached the next level of hell, they're now sending links to videos where they outline the role they're recruiting for.
@jim.londoncentric.media you're getting requests to investigate the Rainham volcano: www.reddit.com/r/london/com...
markvauxhall's comment on "What are our councils doing?"
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AI token budget consensus I'm hearing from friends at >150 developer companies is ~$3000-4000/mo per developer. Which is equivalent to buying every developer a new Macbook Pro every month. My guess is we spend more and more per developer going forward, but hopefully on raw compute not model APIs.
Private Eye once again the only outlet speaking on the topics we cover here, especially ironic considering our industry itself says nothing. In Secret DJ Book II we published how nepotism and the rising use of famous names over new talent is rapidly destroying the arts. It continues...
My free range daughter just showed me this off her Insta feed, as a reminder that there are a lot of parents out there who think that being a deranged cyberstalker is both normal and funny.
@garius.bsky.social anyone in your London circles nifty with a soldering iron?
Jared@jarede.bsky.social · 2mo agoI have a feeling my Huawei Mateview monitor has tripped a fuse limiting brightness. Anyone in London good with a soldering iron and can follow these instructions? www.reddit.com/r/Huawei/s/L...
I have a feeling my Huawei Mateview monitor has tripped a fuse limiting brightness. Anyone in London good with a soldering iron and can follow these instructions? www.reddit.com/r/Huawei/s/L...
PSA: I found a way to fix the MateView 28.2" 3:2 displays with backlight / black screen failure! Pics + explanation + guide inside.
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