James
@jbeston.dev
Founder and Creative Director @ Big Pixel. Spends far too many hours looking at screens.
I have just listened to the local, UK, and World news headlines and can save you the bother. This gif sums up exactly what is happening. Everywhere. To everyone.
Constantine Walks Through Hellscape
Alt: A clip from the movie Constantine with him walking through a hellscape
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At first I thought this was a normal sized screen and very, VERY small man. I think I need to sleep.
CodeTV@codetv.dev · 4mo agoA tiny tip that might help with your app architecture planning from @mikeryan.dev. Watch the full episode: codetv.link/wdc/s3e2
Is this what the new Apple Siri device will be based on? I hope so! 🤞 Also loving the punk chain just hanging at the back.
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 5mo agoJVC Videosphere // CRT television (Japan, 1970) vizreef.tumblr.com/post/8118633...
A month ago I was bemoaning the state of @sanity.io - I was wrong. I’ve just spent the past couple of days setting up a new site & getting to grips with all the new features. Sanity haven’t spread themselves thin. They’ve made an epic platform to build… ANYTHING! 🥰 🤓 🧑💻
Joy of ADHD #36 A plan I made yesterday has now altered three times. So the decision part of my brain has now checked out and left me to it. 🧠
Guess who recently discovered @prestomusic.bsky.social! A 1953 recording of Tosca with Maria Callas and Mozart’s Requiem performed by @ensemblepygmalion.bsky.social 🥰😍❤️🎼
Anyone else feel that @sanity.io has lost its way a bit? I still love it, and the team behind it. But the quality feels like its dipped as they try to do so much. I spend more time debugging than I do building 😢
Here’s a thought: maybe don’t replace the nuclear weapons, because they are F**KING EVIL. Article from the Economist.
Palantir managing the NHS data is equivalent to Elon Musk managing all our schools data. Plus another sign of privatisation through the back door.
Good Law Project@goodlawproject.org · 6mo agoOver 26,000 have emailed their local trust to keep Palantir out of the NHS. Will you join them? https://notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-target/stop-palantir-in-the-nhs/?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=PalantirNHS&utm_medium=social_media
I have loved Lucy & Yak and their drive to be inclusive. However, I will not be buying from @lucyandyak.bsky.social again until they reverse their decision to remove size 32/4xl from their range. That is all.
Tell me again how respected the US is on the world stage Mr Trump 🤣
willy wonka is wearing a purple suit and top hat and talking to a boy .
ALT: willy wonka is wearing a purple suit and top hat and talking to a boy .
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I am a huge fan of AI and integrating it into work. But I wish larger organisations could see outside the Microsoft bubble. www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/w...
World-first AI partnership between The University of Manchester and Microsoft announced
The University of Manchester becomes first university in the world to provide Microsoft 365 Copilot access and training to all students and staff.65,000 staff and students will receive full Microsoft ...
manchester.ac.uk
As part of a concerted “fuck you” to Trump, we have started using this at home. apps.apple.com/gb/app/buyeu...
BuyEuropean AI App - App Store
Download BuyEuropean AI by Felix Graeber on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips and more games like BuyEuropean AI.
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I do feel like this is a perfect moment for the western world to ween itself off its USA dependence. I think we help provide the US with its global power by buying into the narrative. It’s not that we make it powerful — it can do that itself — but we are a key ingredient.
On the plus side. We did discover the amazing Polo Bar on Liverpool Street. 🤤
Just coming home from the #UNGA at 80 event in London. It was an incredible line up and a beautiful venue but shoddily organised to say the least. Waited over two hours in a queue to get in only to watch latecomers stroll in front of us. Missed all the main speeches. Gutted. And £100 lighter to boot
Anyone know why drunk people on buses always listen to rubbish music? I’d have a lot more tolerance if it was Ministry, Led Zeppelin, or Bruch’s Violin Concerto. But it’s always tinny dub
I also discovered that the @soasuni.bsky.social website by Numiko may be one of the most beautiful academic websites out there. www.soas.ac.uk
Welcome to SOAS
At SOAS, we use our expertise in Africa, Asia and the Middle East as lens through which to interrogate the planetary questions of our time.
soas.ac.uk
I’ve just listened to part of The Epic of Gilgamesh in Akkadian whilst lying in bed. Proof that the internet can inspire as well as it conspires.
Richard Kadrey@richardkadrey.bsky.social · 10mo agoWhile doing research on ancient languages for a novel I'm working on I discovered Dr. Martin Worthington at Cambridge University. After years of study, he's come up with an approximation of Akkadian. You can listen to The Epic of Gilgamesh here: www.openculture.com/2010/10/the_...
It would take around 1.1 million acres of solar panels to (clean) power the world. That's less than a quarter of the number of acres devoted globally to golf courses. You can see where this is going, right...?
I’ve just realised how badly I’ve been neglecting BlueSky and how poorly I’ve been using it. I’m going to try and rectify this. Starting now… ish
China doesn't like wind at all? I'll just leave this here for Trump: globalenergymonitor.org/report/china...
China continues to lead the world in wind and solar, with twice as much capacity under construction as the rest of the world combined
China is cementing its position as the global leader in renewables development with180 GW of utility-scale solar and 159 GW of wind power already under construction1 .The total of the two is nearly tw...
globalenergymonitor.org
This Trump speech is actually hilarious. I guess he's moving into stand-up?
