Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

I know this isn’t important in the scheme of things but… *propellers*?

A samurai crab walks into a bar, and the barman says “Why the face?”

We’re operating two direct @lner.co.uk services between Newcastle and Bedford to make journeys to/from London easier during the upcoming engineering work closure on Sunday 30 August. They will connect at Bedford with Thameslink services.

Good example of poor colour blindness accessibility on UKHSA's heat health alerts map. 'No alert' and 'Red alert' are practically indistinguishable if you have protanopia ukhsa-dashboard.data.gov.uk/weather-heal...

A samurai crab walks into a bar, and the barman says “Why the face?”

I'm absolutely devastated for colleagues at Jodrell Bank who found out this morning that funding for the UK's e-MERLIN radio telescope array will be terminated. This is a short-sighted move, to save a tiny fraction of the overall UK science budget. #SaveJodrellBank 🔭🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands

Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans@astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 3w ago

“What will the Lovell Telescope discover/enable 20 yrs from now? I can’t tell you, and that’s the point. It will either be something extraordinary that none of us can yet predict, or we will defund it and leave Cheshire with a rusting monument to unfulfilled potential and discoveries never made.” 🔭🧪

Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

Does anyone have a recommendation for a good guide for identifying peaks in the radiance of reflectance spectra of exoplanet atmospheres, preferably in the NIR? I have some simulated spectra I'm analyzing and I'm trying to figure out which species are actually detectable at this resolution. Thanks!

Maybe he odyssey a doctor.

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#fsharp is the #dotnet #rust but with GC (much better 99% of the times for regular code) in case someone wants to check it out, you language deniers

If I were a nominally progressive political party and my policies on LGBT rights were being condemned by *establishment Christian organisations* as cruel, inhumane and regressive, I would probably ask myself what the hell I was doing @andyburnham.bsky.social

frank: print witch@mxfrankduffy.bsky.social · 3w ago

honestly, in bits here

would v much be interested in filling my East London sports pub (Stratford) with women/nb/queer people for the next few World Cup games if anyone would be interested in our currently quite free table ressies (fiver per four seats, goes to CALM charity)

The fact that J.K. Rowling successfully bullied Amnesty International into taking down a report that accurately called out her attack on trans people, especially trans women, is so repulsive and such a display of the power of her money, and her choice to put her vast fortune behind persecution.

Amnesty removes report that called JK Rowling's centre 'anti-rights'

Amnesty International UK has removed a report which labelled JK Rowling's sexual abuse crisis centre Beira's Place as "anti-rights".

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Today’s linguistic annoyance is a Quickbooks ad which completely misunderstands what the word “outdone“ means.

This is fantastic for accessibility - Wimbledon's Inclusive Feed adds spatial audio cues and a high-contrast overlay showing the ball's path, bounces, serve speed and calls, for blind and partially sighted fans On iPlayer here: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

RNIB@rnib.bsky.social · 4w ago

This year’s Wimbledon is serving accessibility through the Hawk AR: Inclusive Feed, designed to make live tennis easier to follow 🎾 It works alongside the usual sports commentary and adds extra audio cues during a live tennis match. 1/3

UK paperback edition of THERE IS NO ANTIMEMETICS DIVISION is coming on *3rd September 2026* Preorders are open

There Is No Antimemetics Division

An antimeme is an entity with self-censoring properties. Some are benign; but others, less so… But how do you contain something you can't record or remember? How do you fight against an enemy when y...

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Driving home last night I noticed a trail of sparks coming from the rear axle of a school minibus. Managed to get it to pull over and got the driver to take a look. He walked back to my car: “They used the bus for a parade yesterday. There’s something wrapped around the axle. It’s tinsel.”

Dear all pundits and spokespeople: if you say “incidences” the word you are looking for is almost certainly “incidents” or “instances”.

Hiding in plain sight

I’m not surprised that the Russian navy is a bit jumpy about passing yachts. They are after all being thrashed by a country without a Navy.

Always loved these early Hockney paintings of Bradford

I've been telling people for 25 years that Jane Street is not interested in formal methods. No more! And we're actively hiring to form a new formal methods team! blog.janestreet.com/formal-metho...

Formal methods and the future of programming

I’ve been telling people for the last 25 years that Jane Street as an organization was just not interested in formal methods.

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What's better than Fable 5? Fable 5.1 and 5.2! 🎉 (And yes, I totally forgot to announce 5.1). Both releases bring plenty of fixes across various targets. Check out the release notes for details: github.com/fable-compil... #fsharp #fablecompiler

Releases · fable-compiler/Fable

F# to JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Rust, Erlang and Dart Compiler - fable-compiler/Fable

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If Muslims or members of the Asian and Black community had set fire to white people’s homes with children running for their lives, do you think we would be discussing legitimate concerns or focussing on who radicalised them and ideological and contributing cultural factors?

Has the latest VS Code update definitively broken Polyglot Notebooks? #fsharp #csharp #dotnet

Fable.Lit full-stack F# template v3.0.0 🚀 End-to-end type-safe RPC via Serde.FS: define one [<RpcApi>] interface, get a generated Fable client + a plain ASP.NET server — no routing library needed. #fsharp #fable github.com/JordanMarr/f...

Release v3.0.0 — Type-safe full-stack RPC, powered by Serde.FS · JordanMarr/fable-lit-fullstack-template

This release moves the template's client ⇄ server layer over to Serde.FS (https://github.com/serde-fs/Serde.FS), giving you end-to-end, compile-time type safety across the network boundary — with n...

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I am looking at working with visual artists on creating video backgrounds to synchronise with some of my tracks. These will probably be shown via Resolume, with a set tempo. They must also work within my existing graphic design style. Does anyone have any contacts or skills in this area?