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52 year old data tape could contain Unix history : It might have the first-ever version of UNIX written in C

Bell bottom-era tape unearthed, could contain lost piece of Unix history

www.theregister.com/2025/11/07/u...

It might have the first-ever version of UNIX written in C

<- by me on @theregister.com

I hope to walk @realjohnlecarre.bsky.social 's London next week. I hope to see the Tradecraft exhibit in Oxford. I hope to attend the opening night of The Spy Who Came In From the Cold. But we live in a tin pot dictatorship run by idiots, monsters, fascists, racists, and ghouls. So...who knows.

What a sweet little nugget. Just needs a thousand kisses on that head. An hour.

I do, but shan't spoil it.

It's THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD. It's that one. The one that made le Carré a household name, the OG, the book Graham Greene called the greatest spy story ever told.

Also soul-rot, acute assholism, and side-effects from the greedy ingestion of the hopes and dreams of young children.

The Senate is still meeting and holding votes as normal despite the shutdown.

The House has not held a vote in a month and a half now solely because Mike Johnson wants to prevent the release of the Epstein Files.

They've killed our government to save their pedophiles.

Nope.

Traveling without bookstore access for the week, so just ducked into a little airport bookseller looking for KING SORROW by @joe-hill.bsky.social ; found it sold out (yay!) but I'm hauling 90 lbs of carryon so probably for the best. They DID have a faced-out TTSS by @realjohnlecarre.bsky.social, tho

Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes: September 2025: Atrocities 417-466 Early in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We...

September provided Trump and his administration a bevy of opportunities to continue to fuck shit up, and boy did they ever come through. #LestWeForgetTheHorrors

Seems like a great moment for some magazine to do a big spread of photos of the East Wing throughout its history, driving home exactly what kinds of spaces have been taken from the people.

Well said.

Ah, Mcsweeney's, so good to see they're still doing such fine work. After trying for yonks I finally got them to publish one of my Lists (Common Illnesses at the Vatican, Hymnorrhoids being my favorite; Ave Malaria a close second); highlight of that entire year, really. ☺️

The Honourable Schoolchunk

(That made me laugh out loud.)

The Spy Who Came In From The Chunk

Notifications about insurance hikes and SNAP/WIC cuts are rolling out.

I personally would NOT start construction on a fancy ballroom the same week but I also don’t run a successful cult so maybe they know what they’re doing.

John le Carré's first publisher told him he should use a nice solid Anglo-Saxon pair of syllables, like "Chunk Smith." There's a lawyer in the book I'm writing named Charles Duncan Smith, but his friends call him Chunk. ☺️

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Added this Time magazine to the Musée du Cirque; a wonderful @realjohnlecarre.bsky.social cover story. Includes possibly the silliest photo of le Carré I've ever seen (though delightful all the same) and redeems itself with a lovely family photo including Jane and @nickharkaway.com. #tradecraft

Move over James Bond: A new service lets anyone share secrets with Britain Afraid to sneak into a British embassy? MI6's new dark web portal Silent Courier lets you share secrets online.

Afraid to sneak into a British embassy? MI6's new dark web portal Silent Courier lets you share secrets online.

DREAMSCAPE is such a banger, and made 14 year-old me shit myself. Need to revisit.

Wait, y'all's politics have subtext?

Honestly I haven't noticed, mate. My mom passed away on the 19th, we're headed to Mississippi right now for her funeral. But yes, you do. 😊

So thrilled to hear this, and cannot wait to see it all for myself. Sounds like it's been an amazing week! ❤️

Added this small but charming bit of @realjohnlecarre.bsky.social ephemera to my growing Musée du Cirque, in loving memory of the great spy writer. Alec Guinness writes to a fan who'd requested a photo, but all he had handy was a promotional headshot from SMILEY'S PEOPLE. ❤️ I've died.

Writing my mother's obituary may be the hardest bit of writing I've ever done. So little room to say so much.

I, for one, would JUMP at a Rapture created by Charles Nelson Reilly. How much fun would THAT ascension be?

A photo of Charlie Kirk with the caption "Trans rights are human rights" in loving memory Charlie Kiek 1993 - 2025

If they're going to try and retcon Charlie Kirk, then we should try to retcon him too.

Racing through IAH, the World's Dumbest Airport Layout Award winner every year I land here, and spotted the familiar red and black spine of a favorite @realjohnlecarre.bsky.social novel on their cute but forlorn little Book Club cart. Perhaps it's been seconded from a local correctional facility.

Thankfully no, we're spared that well-trod path in this one, though the announcer disclaims his intelligence work in the intro. So I guess the Legend preceded him onto the stage. What I love about this interview is how focused on writing it is, and there's some lovely James Bond talk! :)

THE WEIRDEST VOWELS!! 😆 This is the very definition of Toff, it's thick as ... well, toffee. But I just love it to pieces.