Peter Flynn

stumbled on a set of incredible 1970s illustrations in some government reports, so had to spend a day collecting them into a website to share with my friends on the computer: nickseaver.net/paperwork

A carefully planned Russian propaganda operation is underway. Having starved people in Oleshky for months, Russia, with the 'intervention' of Melania, will allow people to leave and pretend Ukraine was at fault. Read @zarinazabrisky.bsky.social www.kyivpost.com/analysis/88041

Family Foxford blankets over a century old and still going strong. Villeroy & Boch china bought in the late 1970s, and a set of cutlery as a present from the same period.

Looks like they extended the touch-sensitive area for the Rep candidate's checkbox to include most of the checkbox for the Dem, leaving just the bottom edge of the box available for voting Dem. Easy to do, pass along please, nothing to see here.

“When I look round the boardroom at the other board members Palantir has recently also recruited from the House of Lords – notably Lord Vader and Lord Voldemort – I don’t have any sense that these people are evil,” said Watson. From the new Private Eye, out now.

Attention Scottish voice actors! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎤 We’re gearing up to cast an upcoming project, which will require an (almost) all Scottish cast! So watch this space, if it’s nae bother.

Does anyone have a $ measure of all the Federal and State expenditure "saved" by Trump's cuts/abolitions/firings/etc? Presumably this has all been routed into the pockets of the people in his favor.

Chaos in Washington The new Private Eye is out now.

This is the only story I can see about ITV’s Reform documentary on the BBC website - I had to search for it - which frames it as “Reform is taking action against a few bad apples”. Good old, responsible Reform. BBC News is absolutely fucked.

Today in 1216 saw the death of King John, arguably the worst king ever to rule England. A tyrant, a coward, a liar and a traitor, contemporaries accused him of cruelly persecuting his enemies and sexually assaulting the women at his court. Some quotes from the chronicles:

Winter is coming and Collapse OS aims to soften the blow. It is a Forth operating system with tools and documentation intended to preserve the ability to program microcontrollers through civilizational collapse. This project is as self-contained as possible … https://collapseos.org

Anyone out there use Hive for domestic lighting? I'm finding it impossible to locate anyone who sells their bulbs. All the links on hive.ie go to vendors who don't stock them.

Add "for Tax Purposes" to a movie: 20,000 Leagues under the Sea for Tax Porpoises

What are the benefits of EU Freedom of Movement for businesses within the Single Market? #EUBasics 🇪🇺

eBay's selling process is sooo tedious, so I installed Vinted and my first item went up yesterday. I now have about 25 notifications from people who have favourited my item, inviting me to "write to them" and "start a conversation" FFS WTF would I want to chat with randomers who "like" my item?

Officially official! My first novel RICOCHET will be published by @tachyonpub.bsky.social and edited by @jhameia.bsky.social. All thanks to agent @hannahnpbowman.com

At Alan Davies "Think Ahead" show tonight and looking forward very much.

You'd have to live in the UK, @scalzi.com , but nice to know that someone, somewhere, is tackling a problem you may not even have :-)

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Despite the mealy-mouthed denials of the Orange Order, every dog in the street knows the real reason for marching that route is to flaunt their belief in their supremacy in the faces of the people living there. Religious and racial supremacy needs to die, and the Orange Order needs to die with it.

Nerval's Orca

GK3 was explaining his new imaginary friend, and she's a professor with pink hair. My immediate thought was @profaliceroberts.bsky.social but he doesn't watch archaeology AFAIK

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

Sugar Does Not Make Children Hyperactive #food #diet #sugar #children www.bobmayer.com/sugar-does-n...

@loreandordure.com I'd like to use one of your images of the curved type in an article I'm writing. Please can we discuss this in DMs or email? Or some other medium?

You couldn't make this shit up

If feeding a hungry kid accidentally benefits an "undeserving" kid, I am prepared to live with this devastating outcome.

@sheenadempsey.bsky.social GK3 just got Viking Voyage and loves it, thank you!

Oh my: LibreOffice just made "no AI" one of their official features: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09...

GK3: Arfur's Seat is a dormouse volcano 🤣💜

TCP/IP, the protocol of the Internet, runs on whatever wire protocol is underneath. "Ethernet" and "G5" are such "wire" protocols. The first TCP/IP ping packet sent by the protocol described in RFC 1149 is up for auction. RFC 1149 is "A Standard for IP Transmission via Avian Carriers."

Naomi Klein Is Spot On.......

@irishtimes.com Your bot is still posting everything twice in succession.