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just had a very cathartic cry reading this

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An incredibly lifelike illustration of Paddington Bear, official psychopomp to the British royal family, gently escorting a man in top hat and tails (carrying a Puzza Express takeout) to Belmarsh

Ok I have far too much to do today to spend more than 2 minutes on this but here’s my political cartoon of the day, please enjoy

“If we don't start naming the rot, we will soon forget what substance even looks like”

Opinion Ignore the smears: I never fell off my horse. And I'm heading back to Tír na nóg forthwith. Oisin (Photoshop of Wes Streeting’s Guardian piece)

"Rage, rage against the dying of the light" okay you expect me to perform emotional labor when the lights are out and I am getting so sleepy even?

This might be the first hot take on how technology tells us how to live our lives, destroying our ability to make human decisions.

The technology in question is the sundial.

From a 3rd century BCE Roman adaptation of a Greek play, as discussed in Kerr’s “The Ordered Day”

(It isn't wrong, though)

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

Watching THE GREEN KNIGHT again

the Gay Haskell Compiler

I’m a single issue voter and my issue is that those busses that bend in the middle should make accordion noises

POV you won't let your autism stop you from bringing people together.

This feels like another example of the dynamic where AI is able to do this because we have already spent years getting ourselves used to wading through human generated 'slop' - unrigorous, low-quality, formulaic, largely unaccountable content (see also: memes, workplace emails, journalism).

I’m just, you know, a philosopher, but it seems obvious that intelligence is social and relational and the AI bros are deeply invested in it being private property that can be owned, so they will always always miss the mark.

The official home of the Python Programming Language

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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The original sin of UX "user satisfaction is the only measure" not "user actually achieves goals that are meaningful to them and the world" coming home in a lotta ways and it's trapped developer experience too

this happens to me so often!

A picture of a foggy street

Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage

The twos times tables are the easiest, you just add a zero

you heard about dark woke

now get ready for

ME, IN TEARS: you can't just say every single part of a computer system is a file

UNIX, POINTING AT THE MOUSE: file

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

every “ancient tradition” was invented between 1848-1870 and every “modern perversion” is so ancient as to predate writing

Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci!
ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.

YouTube video by The Haskell Foundation Teo Camarasu - Template Haskell, a case study in (in)stability

My talk about how we can make Template Haskell less prone to breaking changes is also up!

YouTube video by The Haskell Foundation Teo Camarasu - Catching space leaks at compile-time using th-deepstrict

My talk about avoiding space leaks in Haskell using th-deepstrict is now up!

Too much "we're cooked" & not enough "we're not gonna take this shit"

Front cover of Labour Together’s Britcard proposal. It is red and promises a ‘progressive digital identity for Britain’. The abstract imagery suggests progress (arrows) and immigration borders (the arrows are partially interrupted)

WW2 poster- a policeman’s hand takes a National Registration ID card from a plain, citizen’s hand. Text says a citizen may be asked for the card at any time

Preparing my notes for an interview on history of identity cards, back in the news because of proposals such as Labour Together’s Britcard (left). There’s a long history (see WW2 poster, right)

Here’s a thread on recent (1980s-2010s) UK ID card history, showing how Tony Blair became keen on them

Mockup drawing of a UK parliament petition where the petitioner has asked for "good thing please" with description "we think the UK needs this". Government responded: "No."

Every UK petition is like this

One thing that I think not enough programmers appreciate is:

If your code is *hard to write* it will be *hard for others to use*