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Andrew Wyld @andrewwyld.bsky.social · 21h
I know what you're thinking. "Did he eat six bites or only five?" Well to tell you the truth in all this excitement I kinda lost track myself.
johnrogers.bsky.social John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 1d
It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.
joshmankiewicz.bsky.social Josh Mankiewicz @joshmankiewicz.bsky.social · 1d
Trial Begins for Man Accused of Lobbing a Sandwich at a Federal Agent www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...
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Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 2d
Important November Dates

2 Book Lovers Day
3 Sandwich Day
3 Cliché Day
5 Bonfire Night
6 Nachos Day
11 Origami Day
13 Kindness Day
14 Pickle Day
16 Party With A Bear
16 Fast Food Day
19 Toilet Day
26 Cake Day
30 Stay Home Day
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Andrew Wyld @andrewwyld.bsky.social · 1d
Si on avait voulu sauvegarder tout ça on l'aurait appelé le musée de la fermeture
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Andrew Wyld @andrewwyld.bsky.social · 1d
Et puis, on l'ouvre
perryodontal.bsky.social Perry Areolar @perryodontal.bsky.social · 1d
the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre"

www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...
according to the liberation newspaper, documents dating back to a 2014 inspection by the French National Agency for the Security of Computer Systems reported a staggering detail: "the password of the louvre's video surveillance server was simply " louvre. "
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Perry Areolar @perryodontal.bsky.social · 1d
the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre"

www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...
according to the liberation newspaper, documents dating back to a 2014 inspection by the French National Agency for the Security of Computer Systems reported a staggering detail: "the password of the louvre's video surveillance server was simply " louvre. "
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Andrew Wyld @andrewwyld.bsky.social · 1d
On en a honte
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Andrew Wyld @andrewwyld.bsky.social · 1d
Have you ever met a meta for a date?
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Andrew Wyld @andrewwyld.bsky.social · 1d
I was interested in the part about Chris Morris's early career, because wasn't he fired from BBC Bristol for filling a newsreader's booth with helium?
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 1d
Now that Roisin Agnew's doc "The Ban" is up on The New Yorker's website, here's a piece I wrote about it, and the broadcasting ban itself, on the 30th anniversary of its lifting last year, and which involved me quizzing Chris Morris about *that* sketch.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
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Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social · 1d
On Sergelstorg baht ‘at
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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 1d
"There is nothing more intimidating than a clergyman on the loose."

This is, as Jacqui says, utterly delightful.
jacquiwine.bsky.social JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 5d
MISS PYM’s DAY OUT, on the iPlayer for the next 26 days, is delightful!

A drama doc about Barbara Pym’s trip to London for the Booker Prize ceremony - featuring Patricia Routledge as Pym, various Excellent Women and cameos from Jilly Cooper & Penelope Lively! #BookSky

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Miss Pym's Day Out: Bookmark
Dramatised documentary about the writer Barbara Pym, depicting one day in her life - 23 November 1977 - when she travelled to London to attend the Booker Prize ceremony.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 1d
"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?'... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."

Charles Babbage, inventor of the mechanical computer, 1864
Charles Babbage, inventor of the concept of the analytical engine, the first programmable mechanical computer. The analytical engine, a mechanical computer, conceived by Charles Babbage, and created after his passing by his sons.
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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 2d
That means the next Developer Science Office Hour is going to be Design-a-Study with Cat!

Get your (free) spot here for our online event, space is limited for the vibes, but the enthusiasm will be unlimited: www.eventbrite.com/e/design-a-s...
Design a Study: with Dr. Cat Hicks
Join our free & open Developer Science Office Hour to "Design-a-Study"! Like Build-a-Bear, but for learning about research design!
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Andrew Wyld @andrewwyld.bsky.social · 2d
Not allergic but they do get me down
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Andrew Wyld @andrewwyld.bsky.social · 2d
I grew up with my parents very carefully and safely giving us little firework displays in the back garden.

But then my friend gave a fireworks party, set up two at once, a bang from one knocked the other one over, and it fired white hot sparks right at my feet.

So broadly: no, they shouldn't be.
railwayhistorian.bsky.social David Turner @railwayhistorian.bsky.social · 2d
Teenagers near us letting off fireworks: in a children's playground, near houses, lighting them up and then running away, not caring how they are aimed.

It's your annual reminder that: FIREWORKS SHOULD NOT BE SOLD TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC.
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David Turner @railwayhistorian.bsky.social · 2d
Teenagers near us letting off fireworks: in a children's playground, near houses, lighting them up and then running away, not caring how they are aimed.

It's your annual reminder that: FIREWORKS SHOULD NOT BE SOLD TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC.
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Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social · 2d
"it is striking how many of the key players we have looked into — the people who have gone out of their way to put up hundreds of flags — seem anything but ordinary."

manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
The men who raised the flags
Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found
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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 3d
Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
More than 50 child asylum seekers still missing after disappearing from Kent care
Council data obtained by the Guardian shows 345 children have gone missing in recent years, many probably taken by traffickers
www.theguardian.com
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Andrew Wyld @andrewwyld.bsky.social · 3d
However, plenty of species DO have four colour channels, and the mantis shrimp has eight, as well as a punch that will break the sound barrier and probably your fishtank. Do not mess with the mantis shrimp or make it watch what we laughably call colour television.
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Andrew Wyld @andrewwyld.bsky.social · 3d
The analogy here would be something like mixing multiple microphones into a single stereo output (which we really do, all the time); you can't hear higher dimensional stereo, but you do get better clarity.
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Andrew Wyld @andrewwyld.bsky.social · 3d
In fact it turns out I may be wrong: if a person had four colour receptors, but only three colour channels in their brain, the difference between mixture yellow and pure yellow might not seem as stark, though I bet TV would still look slightly off.
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Andrew Wyld @andrewwyld.bsky.social · 3d
In the early days of film there were some experiments with two-colour systems (Howard Hughes developed one and you can see something like it in parts of The Aviator). To a tetrachromat, all colour TV and film would presumably look this weird.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multico...
Multicolor - Wikipedia
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Andrew Wyld @andrewwyld.bsky.social · 3d
It's possible that some women can see a fourth primary colour, this being called tetrachromacy, though as far as I know nobody is entirely certain if it's happened. If that fourth primary were yellow, you'd expect them to experience mixture yellow and pure yellow as differently as green and purple.
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Andrew Wyld @andrewwyld.bsky.social · 3d
I always find it interesting to think about this. Purple is a mixture of red and blue; green is halfway between red and blue; we see them as opposites. By comparison, a mixture of red and green and a pure yellow from a sodium lamp can look virtually the same.
jonnelledge.bsky.social Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 3d
There’s a fairly reasonable chance that, if you look around, you’ll spot something purple right now. (I did – it’s a massive pillow.) Purple absolutely definitely exists. You apologise to Alice Walker, right now!

So - exactly why is it the internet thinks the colour purple does not exist?
Some notes on the non-existence of purple
The colour light forgot.
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