I'm very into Timmy Mallet being a cycling legend now

Timmy Mallett@timmymallett.bsky.social · 30m ago

Cycling round coast of Britain I came to special place on opposite bank Thames nearly 5 months before I'd last set eyes on the river.... Between those two dates I've pedalled nearly 5000 miles around the coast of our island painting landmarks sharing stories. good news -there's more to come!

@mwpalen.bsky.social vindication press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Pax Economica

The forgotten history of the liberal radicals, socialist internationalists, feminists, and Christians who envisioned free trade as the necessary prerequisite for anti-imperialism and peace

press.princeton.edu

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈@josephpolitano.bsky.social · yesterday

DSA-aligned Democrats are now the most pro-free-trade voting bloc in the United States, in an incredible turn of events www.theargumentmag.com/p/who-suppor...

Fastmail data can now live primarily in the EU, on servers our own engineers set up in Amsterdam. Current customers can switch in settings; new accounts pick a region at signup. 

 Our CEO Bron's post walks through exactly what lives where.
www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmai... #Fastmail #Email

Fastmail offers EU data region

Choose if you want to make the European Union the primary home for your Fastmail data, on our own secure servers in Amsterdam.

fastmail.com

airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027

"Inspired by timeless french workwear but for people that like reading more than working" with massive pockets for when you need to carry 8 massive books but for some reason hate bags and won't need to sit down at any point.

they're running DOOM in the language we made up for our programming contest

nolen@itseieio.bsky.social · 3w ago

i'm running a programming contest next week! we've spent the last few months thinking about how to make a fun contest in a world with agents. I think we've got a good answer :) Starts next friday. Give it a try! and mutuals dm if you wanna test or chat about this

The worst thing about having Fuck Off For A Bit money and not Fuck Off money is it's very hard to pretend to give a microfuck about someone elses self inflicted problem

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

It was a trip to Jodrell Bank when I was 5 that ignited a love for science that took me through a PhD and beyond into a life dedicated to good evidence and sound data. Closing it doesn't just mean less science in the UK, it means fewer kids will get the spark that makes them want to do science.

I shared this the other day, the contest is about to finish but I hope they leave it up as a permanent resource as it's loads of fun

ICFP Programming Contest 2026@icfpcontest.bsky.social · 2w ago

This year's ICFP programming contest has begun! To get started, read the textbook: icfpcontest2026.com/textbook

Very interested. I’m assuming you’re Ken Armstrong’s son 😊 I work with Jonathan Helm to create Blake’s 7 production publications. We’ve even resurrected the magazine your dad worked on. Those photos would be made very good use of… www.cultedge.art

Grahame Robertson

cultedge.art

There is more to say about all this, but it would be a dereliction of duty not to begin with a bit of lifting cats, toppling horses, and hurling trees at one’s enemies with the power of one’s bodily emissions—plus the art of getting your mate to fart in a sack and emptying that at your foes

Remember, both the Iliad and the Odyssey were originally audiobooks.

This year's ICFP programming contest has begun! To get started, read the textbook: icfpcontest2026.com/textbook

I guess this is how one becomes someone who haunts estate sales for old Pyrex

Your Cookware Got Worse On Purpose

One buyout firm quietly collected Pyrex, Corelle, Instant Pot, and Oneida. Farberware is a name on a 200-year lease. And the pans still worth buying.

worseonpurpose.com

Have you noticed an opaqueness to the blue sky this morning? Wildfire smoke from North America is drifting south across the UK, meaning the clear skies may not be as blue as you might expect 🌤️

The average human spends nearly 4% of their lifetime being Indonesian.

Left: Venus, 1 March 1982 Centre: Titan, 14 January 2005 Right: Boston, 15 July 2026

Think of how efficient the NHS would be if you replaced all the productivity hating doctors with a Fabian Society Labour careerist pointing at the screen with the Palantir interface showing waiting lists and clicking "deport", smiling and nodding at the 'kinetic action' #sensible #progressive

2026 @localfirstconf.com is truly one of the few places that unite disparate communities—open source, LLMs, p2p, interface design, standards—behind a shared value: user agency and empowerment. How refreshing to witness the openness and curiosity everyone brings to the discussion.

'this leering fairground spiv can longer sell the same magic beans simply by posing with a fag in one hand and a pint in the other' 🎯

Matt Carr@mattcarr.substack.com · 3w ago

My substack piece on Mosley-Farage's by-election gambit. open.substack.com/pub/mattcarr...

not being able to use subs with a third party harness is why i stopped going to german night clubs

Scoiattolo@scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz · 4w ago

Honestly, the real reason to cancel is that Claude Code is an awful harness that hinders the true potential of the models, and one of the main reasons I'm canceling is that they don't let you use subs with third party harnesses.

Britain’s biggest community solar farm forced to shut over grid overload fears - www.theguardian.com/environment/... absurd; the grid should buy some batteries...

Britain’s biggest community solar farm forced to shut over grid overload fears

Timing of Devon switchoff ‘could not be worse’, says board, as members face an estimated £2m in lost revenue

theguardian.com

The thing about being ruled by a gerontocracy is that cohort mortality is a probability density, meaning all these fuckers start dying around the same time -- in clusters. The same Weibull Distribution "bathtub curve" explains why batches of light bulbs and hard drives all die in the same month.

Solar's sharp rise continues. As of April 2026, global solar capacity now exceeds 3 terawatt. 1 gigawatt → 1 terawatt: 20+ years 1 terawatt → 2 terawatt: 33 months 2 terawatt → 3 terawatt: 19 months

Very pleased with this, first proper hill day in ages.

In case you missed it, here's Count Binface's appearance on the BBC this morning.

is this a joke or reality? (or both?)

Belgium Atmosphere@belgium-atmosphe.re · last mo.

New Verification rule: to be fully verified on mu.social by us as Belgian, you'll need to repost this image!