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Disgusting behaviour by Trump and JD Vance in the White House. A pair of bullies, completely out of control. We need to stand with Ukraine.

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Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people. Be strong, be brave, be fearless. You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy. We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.

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I'm sure everyone with Starmer right now feels massively out of their depth, on a massive panicky comedown after patting themselves on the back after yesterday's meeting. But there's no reasoning with Trump, nothing to be done. You're either for or against and the UK absolutely must be against.

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We discuss AI images and fascism in this episode -- have a listen: shows.acast.com/the-data-fix... it'll help you understand that aesthetic...

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I wrote an article for the amazing folks at @honeybadger.io! Give it a read and let me know what you think! 💙

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Attended the opening night of Fitzwilliam Museum’s latest exhibition. Rise Up: Resistance, Revolution, Abolition. Fascinating and impactful. Great to see so many people attend. It’s on until 1 June so come and see it. fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/plan-your-vi...

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Started reading my new copy of @heyrocker.com’s new book Designing Content Authoring Experiences on how to make the CMS editing experience actually work for editors! Nice to see my name in the back as a Kickstarter supporter.

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What @adactio.com describes here also matches the sound of #btconf. “As you can imagine, that’s not an easy sell.” 👈 that is true for many independent events these days. All of them need your help. Spread the word about the events you love, so new people learn about them. adactio.com/journal/21722

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HELL YEA

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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

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We said goodbye yesterday. Safe travels Tony

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Academics, Authors, Artists in the UK here is a CRUCIAL #DigitalFriday task - the govt's consult on AI use of our hard work ends 25 Feb. It's deliberately intimidating but here's a guide to filling in the 9 crucial questions (u don't have to answer it all!) againstthebox.substack.com/p/time-to-ha...

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Following its call for views, the House of Commons Modernisation Committee announces its next steps as it sets out to make the Commons more effective and accessible to all.

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London. Next Saturday. I’ll be speaking. We are Europe. We are Ukraine. Be there. 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺

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And now Trump is after the arts. Is there anything he doesn’t want to control? Well done Ben for making a stand. I hope others follow suit.

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📢 Don't miss the chance to see our exhibition, A Thousand Kisses, including remarkable #Kindertransport stories from our archive in our Bloomsbury exhibition gallery this week!

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Sooo… Looks like this is happening tonight. That counter is going to tick over 100,000 🔥 Keep signing —> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

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I shall briefly emerge from my cave later today to talk about TCNs, Apple, and the consequences of policy by “won’t somebody think of the children”. Sees you there. www.eventbrite.com/e/how-encryp...

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Helping my wife edit a WordPress charity site she’s involved in. It may be the theme used but the Gutenberg block editor really does have poor UX. Disappointed to see ALT text hidden away at the bottom of block options. It was far clearer on Classic Editor.

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Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take. thebullshitmachines.com

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Update on my life: Last year, I joined my kids' school's PTA, because they needed a treasurer and I'm good enough with numbers. It was a straightforward, self-contained job: balancing the checkbook for an organization that only did a few fundraisers each year.

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⏰ One week to go before our next meetup! Joby Harding will show us how to work with HTMX in Laravel. Can't join in person? Join us online! All the details are in the meetup's description 👇 www.meetup.com/php-s...

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🎥 Don't miss out! The Cambridge Film Festival Youth Lab is hosting a FREE screening of "Juno" on Feb 17th at 6 pm, as part of the Cambridge Arts Festival delivered by @CambridgeBID. Grab your free ticket now! Visit: https://www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk/news/cff-youth-lab-presents-juno

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We have to be direct about Trump’s plan in Gaza: He is calling for ethnic cleansing. Congress must stand firm against his demand for war crimes. Palestinians have a right to live with equal rights and freedom on their land.

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Just read (and listened to) this fabulous article by Hank Azaria on voice acting and AI. Beautiful digital art direction from the New York Times team :) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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@zuzana-k.com hope you’re having a good time at #LaraconEU, the talk on fun PHP functions looked great!

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Watched @taylorotwell.bsky.social’s keynote at #LaraconEU via the wonder of YouTube. The new starter kits are interesting and a good move - will have to take a look (I wonder how accessible they’ll be). Also looking forward to trying out Nightwatch monitoring. Is that a Terry Pratchett reference?!

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I'm not saying this is a coup. But if you were going to do a coup, how would things look different from recent events -- seizing the federal payments system, federal purging law enforcement, threatening to sic armed US Marshals on civil servants guarding classified data

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Our Cambridge cycling friends @camcycle.bsky.social have an evening with @lauralaker.bsky.social on 6th March - details here

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It’s Groundhog Day! www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c4...

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

I like the new website. A good write up from Jeremy on building a website with simple, performant HTML, CSS and a sprinkle of JS. Standards & progressive enhancement makes for great websites!

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The #WordPress project is at a crossroads. I wrote a blog post to guide our clients on what's happening, share my personal perspective on the current WordPress controversy, and the impact this may have on the industry as a whole. www.studio24.net/blog/the-fut...

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A new UK group is suggesting a five-point manifesto to address the rise of SUVs www.suv-alliance.org.uk

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On @bbclondonnews.bsky.social last night, artist Sara Davidmann spoke about her discovery of the fates of her German-Jewish family members during the Holocaust, including research uncovering 130 pages of documents at the Wiener Holocaust Library... www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

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Kudos to @crampell.bsky.social. So few people willing to just cut through the nonsense and call out the facts. We should celebrate those who do.

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I really like the new design on statamic.com (not sure how new it is). Very slick, professional, yet still has character. #statamic #php #laravel #cms

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Today, on #HolocaustMemorialDay, we remember the 6 million Jews murdered in the Holocaust, including 1.1 million killed at Auschwitz, as well as all those who have been persecuted during genocides worldwide.

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In today's episode of #FixTheForms, a golden oldie from @edent.tel where he reminds us that some of the people who really, really need that form may have the worst possible technology available to them

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