Kit Eason

Boy was Francis Fukuyama wrong or what?

I’m so delighted for you. Congratulations!

I’m an SO invested in this. Good luck, if it hasn’t already happened!

I still weep for the era when one of the animation effects was called “Fly from bottom”.

They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.

Just exporting the final, mixed and produced WAVs of the next album ready for mastering.

We are a few thousand subscribers away from being a bigger print newspaper than the Washington Post.

We are a mere flurry away from humiliating one of the two Big Space Perverts.

Ask not how a Space Pervert can dominate you. Ask how you can dominate a Space Pervert.

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Queer histories in the farm records What can farm records teach us about same-sex relationships? Researcher Tim Jerrome shares his work exploring queer rural experiences.

If you're researching queer history in England, farm records might be one of the last places you'd check.

Yet for #LGBTQHistoryMonth, @timjerrome.bsky.social shares how he's tracing queer histories within our farm archives, and gives tips for future research.

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Killer guilty of shooting man on remote country path in Aberfeldy David Campbell murdered former colleague Brian Low in Aberfeldy two years ago then tried to cover his tracks.

Every sentence of this is just nuts. Bloke takes a shotgun to the chest and no one notices. For four days. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

An Alternative History series where, due to some small twists of fate, all five series of “For All Mankind” are pacy and enjoyable.

[Repo Assist] Monthly Activity 2026-02 · Issue #1599 · fsprojects/FSharp.Data 🤖 Repo Assist here — I'm an automated AI assistant for this repository. Activity for February 2026 2026-02-21 💬 Commented on #1532: Explained HTTP socket exhaustion root cause (WebRequest port pool...

F# folk - I'm having some success using GitHub Agentic Workflows to automate some backlog maintenance work in some older F# community repos.

FSharp.Data: github.com/fsprojects/F...

FSharp.Control.AsyncSeq: github.com/fsprojects/F...

It's helping me re-engage with the repos and clean things up.

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Superb reference

Nuke it from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.

First gig of 2026! Last few tickets available for tonight. I’ve resurrected some numbers from the back catalogue and got some new ones too. thecrescentyork.seetickets.com/event/warrin...

I've got a huge sale starting tomorrow!
Check out my website for a sneak peek at all the original paintings that will be half off the listed price and free shipping in the US!
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Oh god I feel you. Why does everything have to be so cryptic when you are an executor?

A substantial part of my professional life involves working in miles and chains (and/or yards).

Introducing juniors and non-Brits to this fact, and to the shenanigans that it causes, is my favourite part of the job.

Well Mackenzie Crook's Small Prophets is an absolute sheer delight isn't it. No one else does quite what he does. Magical and beautiful and hilarious all at once.

I once crewed on a steamboat travelling along the south coast. We were reported to the coastguard as a ship on fire. Twice.

European Parliament Votes Overwhelmingly For "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women" The resolution, though nonbinding, is a significant shot at those who seek to erode transgender rights on the continent.

In incredible news, the European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly for "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women."

Even the center-right European People's Party voted for the declaration.

It will form a foundation for their position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women.

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Scientists Think Asteroids May Have Provided the Ingredients for Life on Earth A new study analyzes three asteroid and two meteorite samples to see if space rocks smacking into Earth could’ve helped kickstart life.

My latest research paper got featured in Popular Mechanics!

hello i would like to start pushing experts’ technical blogs out to a larger audience, especially *network engineering* related (no offense but there’s already so much cybersecurity stuff out there, im not interested in pushing hacking or pentesting or anything of the sort rn)

pls send me yr blogs🙏🏼

If agentic AI was so great, it would make maintaining the Polyglot Notebooks codebase almost cost-free, right?

Right?

📢 DEPRECATION ANNOUNCEMENT: Polyglot Notebooks · Issue #4163 · dotnet/interactive 📢 DEPRECATION ANNOUNCEMENT: Polyglot Notebooks The Polyglot Notebooks Extension will be deprecated on March 27th, 2026. ❓What This Means The extension will not be disabled or uninstalled from your ...

Yet another misstep by the .NET PG. Polyglot Notebooks was a fantastic tool. Getting a bit tired of AI draining all the resources...
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The one good thing to come out of all of this is that I shall now be using the word “beclowning”.

I thank and salute you.

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

[PERF] Replace np.column_stack with np.vstack().T by crabby-rathbun · Pull Request #31132 · matplotlib/matplotlib This PR addresses issue #31130 by replacing specific safe occurrences of np.column_stack with np.vstack().T for better performance. IMPORTANT: This is a more targeted fix than originally proposed. ...

The Butlerian Jihad cannot come quickly enough. Also, stop anthropomorphizing chatbots.

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📢 DEPRECATION ANNOUNCEMENT: Polyglot Notebooks · Issue #4163 · dotnet/interactive 📢 DEPRECATION ANNOUNCEMENT: Polyglot Notebooks The Polyglot Notebooks Extension will be deprecated on March 27th, 2026. ❓What This Means The extension will not be disabled or uninstalled from your ...

Well this is annoying. #fsharp

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