The first personal computer that only adds up to £69.95
#OnThisDay 1981 : 45 years ago today, the ZX81 was launched. It was produced by Sinclair Research and manufactured in Dundee, Scotland by Timex Corporation. Did you have one? I'm off to WH Smith to get one 😀
#retrogaming #80s
Astronaut gun meme: Wait, it's all proxies and heuristics? Close enough
FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.... • 2h Condoleezza Rice was just seen walking into the White House, according to reporters on X
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Don't know why, I picked up a copy of the Telegraph in TG Jones today, this was the headline and it costs 300 quid
The very existence of commercially available glasses with Internet-connected cameras sold by Meta, a company built entirely on hiding the costs of services in negative privacy externalities, is an indictment of U.S. tech law and policy. This is an unfixable product from a fundamentally bad company.
All wise children in Hookland know that the gauge doesn't just measure the river at flood and drought, but tell you whether the brook is deep enough for Stay Belows to swim. – Stella Fleet #VOH
Spring is told in bulb bloom, wild garlic crowding. Spring is told in stretching shadows, the waking of ghosts. For the gentle kiss of the sun is a summoning. Whether at meadow edge or a town's neglected alley, few things can refuse it's call. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982
at last he loses his identity
Photo of me proudly displaying my signed copy of David Burns’ “The New Sins”
Current “the new sins” Status
it’s only Tuesday
I like how in 2026 a common security paradigm is writing a strongly worded letter to the guy in your computer
Classic helicopter evacuation photo from the fall of Saigon
F Forbes • @forbes.com •1d Demand for private jets out of the Middle East are surging as the wealthy look to escape the Middle East. 9H-BOF Private Jet Prices Soar For Wealthy Tourists Desperate To Leave Dubai Demand for private jets out of the Middle East are surging as the wealthy look to e... www.forbes.com
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literally your customer base was 90% parents of young children who want a good future for their kids in which they can be free to be themselves, no matter who they are. you told those people to go fuck themselves. they won't be back
Geology specimen photo
Fantastic Vanadinite Mibladen mining district, Midelt Province, Morocco
📷 proper_gems
#minerals #geology
“In a pair of recent interviews with STAT, Plotkin expressed dismay at seeing the achievements of his career & his field slip away. He knows what lies ahead…
“All I can say is that I’m beginning to regret having lived so long —because we’re going downhill,” Plotkin said” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
had a death in the family and was almost completely off the internet for a few days & my observation is that there is too much happening too fast such that basic facts abt the world are difficult to ascertain unless you are mainlining info all the time & doing that seems to drive people insane
Tipsy the tortoiseshell kitten pauses mid-scratch to take in the setting sun on an absolutely maximally decimated upholstered chair
a portrait of the artist at work
“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”
James Baldwin
if you are a voter in one of these states I think an actually substantive thing you can do is be plaintively vocal about paying legislators more money. Go full Karen about it. It's a Karen-worthy issue and no one will expect a Karen reaction about it
’Tis the time’s plague, when madmen lead the blind.
today was the day john mccain finally became president
I was preparing to hear some good stories about whaling
Geology specimen photo
Amazing Natural Aquamarine Crystals Bunch with Mica Specimen from Pakistan.
📷 Muhammad Majid
#minerals #geology
what a crazy night for sam altman to be like "yeah we got that dept of war deal, and there's no moral concerns here"
so we went from war on anthropic to war on iran in a matter of hours
