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For the sake of SEO, the book is Imagination, A Manifesto by @ruha9.bsky.social and I'm listening to it on @libro.fm which is a very nice audio book reader and a good alternative to Audible. #BookSky #Books #ReadingList #Imagination

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I signed up to a reading group and I gotta tell you this is a great book 👏 Second non-fiction read of the decade (not including text books, I guess...) Also I have many questions. Also also, those questions come with little questions of their own. This is good. I'm barely a third of the way in...

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When I wrote Friday’s debrief, I kept thinking about the importance of “small lonely actions” I could not find the link back to an essay that had inspired me - but I found it!! thewhitepages.net/p/thirty-lon...

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In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…

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I'm suddenly very interested in keeping control of my books. This afternoon's reading rabbit hole included... 📚 Calibre - a really nice application for managing, backing up, and converting ebooks... calibre-ebook.com 🔨 The Kindle modding wiki, for more adventurous souls... kindlemodding.org

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Amazon are advertising a cut-off date of Feb 26th to use the "download and transfer by USB" capability for ebooks. I tried today, but it seems to be disabled early. Lots of disappointed people trying to backup their collections. www.reddit.com/r/kindle/com... #Amazon #Kindle #Books #Download #Backup

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I wrote about it. Hopefully this post will save someone some trouble... instantiator.dev/post/emptyin... If you're stumped when the AWS CLI won't delete an S3 bucket, this is for you 🪣👍

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🎩 What a talented family I am lucky to be a part of! 🪄 My nephew, at Blackpool Magic Convention 2025... 👉 ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0iF... ⏱️ Tricks are at: ✨ 0:05, ✨ 1:10, ✨ 5:24, ✨ 7:06, ✨ 10:09 #Magic #Tricks #Magician

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Butting heads with the AWS CLI over whether you're allowed to delete a bucket? You may find this bash script to completely empty a versioned S3 bucket helpful: gist.github.com/instantiator...

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open.substack.com/pub/rorycell... My latest Substack post is about the importance of building public trust in the sharing of health data for research - and explains why I’ve changed my mind about trusting Palantir

submitted 5 days ago • 13 comments

Your public service announcement that the incredible You Do Not Have Yo Say Anything - with the equally incredible @joannahs.bsky.social - continues today on BBC Radio 4 and iPlayer. It’s a wonderfully true and compassionate insight into the criminal justice system. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

It took most of my life to understand and then accept that most people don't need all the systems I've put around me. They can just... remember things later? For me there is no "I'll get to that" - choices are: do it now, write it down, or forget it. 1/2

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

This looks cool.

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I'd love to see a browser plugin dedicated to finding non-paywalled articles or indie blog posts on the same subject as a paywalled article. Or a plugin that rustles up supporting / contradictory papers... Do these exist? If not, am dev will code: Who can teach me about the supporting search tech?

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Not gonna lie, I'm pretty pleased with progress! #Presence is an #OSS tool to format and post threads to any* social network - as a #CLI, #.NET #library, or #GitHubAction... ✅ BlueSky ✅ Threads ✅ Links ✅ Hashtags ✅ Images (+ alt text) 🔜 Mentions... 🔜 More networks... 🔖 instantiator.dev/presence

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"Authoritarianism isn’t standing still and is learning how to use technology to extend its surveillance and control over people. Democracy’s reaction to this needs to be not to reject technology but to use it to evolve and compete." www.mysociety.org/2024/11/07/p... #ProDemocracyTech #PDT #CivicTech

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This is brilliant - bookshop.org are selling e-books, now, too. Every purchase financially supports local, independent bookstores. Buy on the site, and read in their app... bookshop.org/info/ebooks

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⚠️ Important clarification. It's not the krill that are from space. www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

They're calling it dev metal 🤘🖤 youtu.be/yup8gIXxWDU?...

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

You know what? Presence, my fun new suite of .NET libraries and CLI tools for formatting and posting threads to social networks is almost ready for early adopters! I'd love for you to check it out 🎉 instantiator.dev/presence/

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.

submitted 26 days ago • 3624 comments

You know what's nice? When an author you like turns out to be on BlueSky. I've had some good reading lately and it's thanks to @dennisetaylor.bsky.social Dennis, love the Bobiverse, but how can I send you a box set of the BBC's classic Jeeves and Wooster? You're going to love Steven Fry as Jeeves 🤩

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Idris Elba: Our Knife Crime Crisis - is on BBC One, tonight at 9. (Seems like you can watch it right now on iPlayer, too.) www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0027ffx

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I haven't picked up non-fiction for anything other than work or a course in a long time. It's time. Will report back...

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Feels like it's time for some hot new protest songs. Who's working on that? #SongSky #BlueSong #Democracy #Hope

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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

submitted 33 days ago • 1358 comments

Letter in Times today

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

Watching America, and wishing it weren't so. Follow the example of Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde, stay strong, and speak truth to power. The powerful original by Pastor Niemöller: hmd.org.uk/resource/fir... #Holocaust #Persecution #Mercy #SpeakOut #TakeAction #Trump #Fascism #Inauguration #USA

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Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic. (posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)

submitted 36 days ago • 2216 comments

Blimey. Today I passed through all 6 stages. #Developers #Bugs #Debugging

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Today a colleague showed me that eslint do not recommend eslint for formatting 🤯 #TIL #ESLint #JS #TS #Formatting #Dev #Developer #DevTool eslint.org/docs/latest/...

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Meta's decision to specifically allow users to call LGBTQ+ people "mentally ill" has sparked widespread backlash at the company.

submitted 43 days ago • 72 comments

Case 163 really brings home why I love working on my dotty little projects. 💕 Right now, that's instantiator.dev/presence/ - a library for sharing across social networks. It doesn't matter that it's not perfect. It's joyous to create things and who knows, maybe it'll be useful soon. 🤞

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The Codeless Code is a masterpiece, and Case 163 is still a favourite. Vacation... 👉 thecodelesscode.com/case/163

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Step 1 to setting yourself free is "turn off the notifications" 💕

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I recently posted a link to an article about Meta's change to their moderation policies on Facebook. It was removed 😔

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