Tom Perry

And it almost happened, right until the last second

Pic of Stewart Lee and text : Stewart Lee on the Riyadh comedy festival

In this week’s column for the Nerve, the incomparable Stewart Lee wonders what Lenny Bruce and a generation he inspired would make of those on stage at the Riyadh comedy festival

I'm going to be a mathstronaut! 👨‍🚀

Moon Pi: we're going to calculate π on the Moon Join the first humans ever to calculate pi on a different celestial body: the Moon!

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YouTube video by Simply Railway I’m Launching My Own Night Train Company! (Yes, I’m Serious...)

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Post to the subreddit r/AskHistorians: What was navigation like for vehicle drivers in the United States before the internet and GPS? Before GPS devices and smartphones/cellular internet networks were a thing (Garmin company was founded 1989), millions of Americans were already getting around driving without the use of those inventions. How did they navigate? Did everyone need stacks of maps? Were drivers frequently lost? Did everyone have to understand the interstate system and use intuition to guide them? How burdensome was driving before GPS? Did drivers pay people to calculate an optimal route for them?

I am officially one of The Ancients, Keeper of Knowledge of the Before Time

Amazing. Imagine saying that when your entire game plan was just putting in more crosses than a catholic gift shop at Easter.

We took over the giant screen at Farage’s big rally in Birmingham

Lewis-Skelly Assist for Nwaneri. Made in Hale End.

#PSVARS

Omg i just discovered that the nation’s social security database is just a file called todo.txt on Jeff’s laptop! Someone should do something. Maybe aggregate the free threaded marshaler or call a RPC with a regex and a little agentic ai. I could do this in a weekend but I’m too busy soloing diablo4

Hello non-technical people. Just a heads up. Musk isn’t a programmer, a systems architect, or anyone with experience building or running large systems of any kind. However, he’s taken credit for others binding large systems which makes him think he’s That Guy. He is not.

In Leaked Email, Elon Musk Admits Defeat on Twitter Twitter's financials are still looking pretty dire — as owner Elon Musk himself admitted in a January email to staff reviewed by the WSJ.

IN LEAKED EMAIL, ELON MUSK ADMITS DEFEAT ON TWITTER

"OUR USER GROWTH IS STAGNANT, REVENUE IS UNIMPRESSIVE, AND WE’RE BARELY BREAKING EVEN”

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Reminded of this

MAGAS Lost the Election, Too. They Just Don't Know it Yet. There is joy in MAGAville right now.

“As Project 2025 quickly transforms from a laughable Leftist myth into the sobering true horror story of a life without access to education, no public health protections for their families, and an economic quicksand…they’ll ask why no one warned them”

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Picture of the Tesla gigafactory in Berlin with Elon Musk projected and the words Heil Tesla

Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin

(Collaboration with @politicalbeauty.bsky.social )

"And the Oxford English Dictionary word of the year 2025 was 'memecoin'. As in "Just going to the bog to launch a memecoin.""

Today my Christmas tree went in the bin. And back to work on Monday too... Definitely a depressing kind of day

I continue to be deeply moved by this statement to the heavens by President Carter.

YouTube video by Dylan Beattie Working on a Printer Paper Jam

If you think about it, the story of Christmas is a lot like the history of the GNU project… it’s all about a beardy guy who goes around giving away free stuff.

Happy Christmas, internet.

Chrinternet.

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Day 17 of #AdventOfCode and I'm very happy that I'm only one day behind.
I just took a sneak peak at today's puzzle before going to bed and it does look like a really fun one

Making Tea xkcd.com/3022

YouTube video by You Suck at Programming Advent of Code 2024 in Bash: Day 2 - Red-Nosed Reports + talk with Eric Wastl (the creator!)

This is amazing. YouTube algorithm introduced me to @daveeddy.com solving day 2 of #AdventOfCode using only bash.
Super impressive already, but then he realises that the creator of advent of code is watching. Love it!
Ends with a really nice chat with @was.tl

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I've been thoroughly enjoying it too!

Day 5 of #AdventOfCode done!
An assumption made in part 1 derailed my attempts at part 2, but after quite a bit of head-scratching I managed to figure it out.
Makes me appreciate even more how these puzzles are constructed!

I am pretty clueless about the concept of live coding as a performance, so I was a bit unsure about what to expect. But this was a fascinating discussion! Loved it!
I'm about to fall into a Sam Aaron/live coding YouTube rabbit hole now...

I would **not** want it to tell me how many minutes I spent watching this year. That would be depressing

Just saved my input for day 4 of advent of code and vscode thinks it looks like Powershell...
Not sure if that is a comment on vscode's language recognition capabilities or Powershell's syntax 🤷
#AdventOfCode

PlayStation at 30: the console that made video games cool Launched in Japan in December 1994, the record-breaking PlayStation started out as a CD add-on for the Super Nintendo – but ended up ushering video games into a new era all on its own If you were an obsessive video game fan in the summer of 1994, you’ll…

PlayStation at 30: the console that made video games cool

@dylanbeatt.ie love the thumbnail for your HAL video! And the actual content too! Now listening to Giorgio Moroder - cheers for the tip 👍

Really enjoying this podcast! It's been really helpful in clarifying some of the concepts for me.