Tim Holyoake
@timholyoake.uk
RetroComputing. Liberal Democrat. Caterham 7 Owner. In remission from Mantle Cell Lymphoma.
More often at https://oldbytes.space/@psychotimmy
Blogs at https://z80.timholyoake.uk/ , https://mcl.timholyoake.uk/ & https://railwaywalks.timholyoake.uk/
More often at https://oldbytes.space/@psychotimmy
Blogs at https://z80.timholyoake.uk/ , https://mcl.timholyoake.uk/ & https://railwaywalks.timholyoake.uk/
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Tories who say that allowing young people to access Erasmus+ to and from the UK is a betrayal of Brexit need to recognise that Brexit was a betrayal of the young by people by living in a past that never existed.
#bbcpm
#bbcpm
December 17, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Tories who say that allowing young people to access Erasmus+ to and from the UK is a betrayal of Brexit need to recognise that Brexit was a betrayal of the young by people by living in a past that never existed.
#bbcpm
#bbcpm
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Great! Now do a Customs Union!
December 16, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Great! Now do a Customs Union!
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counterpoint: nothing you post on any social media platform will in any way combat the dangerousness of the right
IMO it's hard to combat the dangerousness of the right by participating in a platform where they aren't present.
I think the best way to explain the X vs Bluesky preference is whether a person thinks the left is more annoying than the right is dangerous.
The reason so many Noah Smiths end up on the X side of that equation is that while the left annoys them personally, the right mostly endangers other people.
The reason so many Noah Smiths end up on the X side of that equation is that while the left annoys them personally, the right mostly endangers other people.
December 15, 2025 at 6:51 PM
counterpoint: nothing you post on any social media platform will in any way combat the dangerousness of the right
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Seaton - East Devon District Council
Lib Dem gain from Conservative (now Independent)
🟡Lib Dem Steve Hunt 789 41.3%
➡️ Reform UK 565 29.6%
🔵 Con 400 20.9%
🔘 Ind 156 8.2%
Congratulations to Steve and team - yet another win in Devon this December!
Lib Dem gain from Conservative (now Independent)
🟡Lib Dem Steve Hunt 789 41.3%
➡️ Reform UK 565 29.6%
🔵 Con 400 20.9%
🔘 Ind 156 8.2%
Congratulations to Steve and team - yet another win in Devon this December!
December 12, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Seaton - East Devon District Council
Lib Dem gain from Conservative (now Independent)
🟡Lib Dem Steve Hunt 789 41.3%
➡️ Reform UK 565 29.6%
🔵 Con 400 20.9%
🔘 Ind 156 8.2%
Congratulations to Steve and team - yet another win in Devon this December!
Lib Dem gain from Conservative (now Independent)
🟡Lib Dem Steve Hunt 789 41.3%
➡️ Reform UK 565 29.6%
🔵 Con 400 20.9%
🔘 Ind 156 8.2%
Congratulations to Steve and team - yet another win in Devon this December!
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What a victory! Today MPs narrowly backed our bill to cut the Brexit red tape and end this economic nightmare.
The PM must listen to Parliament and the public, drop his self-imposed red lines and go for growth with a new customs union.
The PM must listen to Parliament and the public, drop his self-imposed red lines and go for growth with a new customs union.
December 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
What a victory! Today MPs narrowly backed our bill to cut the Brexit red tape and end this economic nightmare.
The PM must listen to Parliament and the public, drop his self-imposed red lines and go for growth with a new customs union.
The PM must listen to Parliament and the public, drop his self-imposed red lines and go for growth with a new customs union.
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Recreating the lost SDK for a 42-year-old operating system: VisiCorp Visi On | Discussion
~nkali/vision-sdk (main): note/index.md - sourcehut git
git.sr.ht
December 7, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Recreating the lost SDK for a 42-year-old operating system: VisiCorp Visi On | Discussion
Halfway through #AdventOfCode for 2025 and I'm still managing to write the solutions in #Fortran 77. Is there anyone else out there who has decided to use an equally arcane language?
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GitHub - psychotimmy/aoc2025: Advent of Code 2025 in FORTRAN 77
Advent of Code 2025 in FORTRAN 77. Contribute to psychotimmy/aoc2025 development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Halfway through #AdventOfCode for 2025 and I'm still managing to write the solutions in #Fortran 77. Is there anyone else out there who has decided to use an equally arcane language?
github.com/psychotimmy/...
github.com/psychotimmy/...
Curiously the BBC subsequently removed the thumbs up/down feature from their live feed.
“Boss, people are still saying we at FIFA are corrupt after holding a World Cup in Qatar.”
“Don’t worry, I’ve got an idea that’ll get them giving us a thumbs up again”
“Don’t worry, I’ve got an idea that’ll get them giving us a thumbs up again”
December 5, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Curiously the BBC subsequently removed the thumbs up/down feature from their live feed.
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“Boss, people are still saying we at FIFA are corrupt after holding a World Cup in Qatar.”
“Don’t worry, I’ve got an idea that’ll get them giving us a thumbs up again”
“Don’t worry, I’ve got an idea that’ll get them giving us a thumbs up again”
December 5, 2025 at 6:09 PM
“Boss, people are still saying we at FIFA are corrupt after holding a World Cup in Qatar.”
“Don’t worry, I’ve got an idea that’ll get them giving us a thumbs up again”
“Don’t worry, I’ve got an idea that’ll get them giving us a thumbs up again”
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The penny has dropped FINALLY
December 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM
The penny has dropped FINALLY
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Starmer's defining trait is cowardice disguised as prudence.
December 3, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Starmer's defining trait is cowardice disguised as prudence.
"Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out"
z80.timholyoake.uk/the-nine-bil...
#Fortran #SciFi #RetroComputing
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#Fortran #SciFi #RetroComputing
The Nine Billion Names of God – retrocomputing ephemera
z80.timholyoake.uk
December 3, 2025 at 7:36 PM
"Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out"
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#Fortran #SciFi #RetroComputing
z80.timholyoake.uk/the-nine-bil...
#Fortran #SciFi #RetroComputing
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Limit jury trials.
Limit rights to protest and jail people for just talking about protesting.
Arrest peaceful protestors as "terrorists".
ID Cards.
Plaster the country in CCTV and add facial recognition.
When I was growing up during the Cold War, those were the sort of things the bad guys did.
Limit rights to protest and jail people for just talking about protesting.
Arrest peaceful protestors as "terrorists".
ID Cards.
Plaster the country in CCTV and add facial recognition.
When I was growing up during the Cold War, those were the sort of things the bad guys did.
David Lammy will announce the full detail of how he wants to restrict jury trials later today
But I have seen an inter-government briefing showing it goes beyond Leveson's recommendations to affect a larger pool of cases
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/w...
But I have seen an inter-government briefing showing it goes beyond Leveson's recommendations to affect a larger pool of cases
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/w...
U.K. Plans to Restrict Right to Jury Trial in Some Cases in England and Wales
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Limit jury trials.
Limit rights to protest and jail people for just talking about protesting.
Arrest peaceful protestors as "terrorists".
ID Cards.
Plaster the country in CCTV and add facial recognition.
When I was growing up during the Cold War, those were the sort of things the bad guys did.
Limit rights to protest and jail people for just talking about protesting.
Arrest peaceful protestors as "terrorists".
ID Cards.
Plaster the country in CCTV and add facial recognition.
When I was growing up during the Cold War, those were the sort of things the bad guys did.
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Brexit: the trillion pound ‘mistake’
The recent NBER report suggests the Treasury’s 2016 analysis – slammed by Brexiters as a ‘hoax’– actually understated the impact of Brexit
By Anthony Robinson
@anthonybylines.bsky.social
The recent NBER report suggests the Treasury’s 2016 analysis – slammed by Brexiters as a ‘hoax’– actually understated the impact of Brexit
By Anthony Robinson
@anthonybylines.bsky.social
Brexit: the trillion pound ‘mistake’
The recent NBER report suggests the Treasury’s 2016 analysis – slammed by Brexiters as a ‘hoax’– actually understated the impact of Brexit
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Brexit: the trillion pound ‘mistake’
The recent NBER report suggests the Treasury’s 2016 analysis – slammed by Brexiters as a ‘hoax’– actually understated the impact of Brexit
By Anthony Robinson
@anthonybylines.bsky.social
The recent NBER report suggests the Treasury’s 2016 analysis – slammed by Brexiters as a ‘hoax’– actually understated the impact of Brexit
By Anthony Robinson
@anthonybylines.bsky.social
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What’s the point of Keir Starmer employing an economics advisor if he ignores her on the biggest economic issue of the day?
December 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM
What’s the point of Keir Starmer employing an economics advisor if he ignores her on the biggest economic issue of the day?
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Some six months ago, I was playing the lovely Sharp MZ-700 adventure game Ropoko and writing a walkthrough. I never managed to complete it, but I just now noticed that it's been released for Steam & Switch. So I figured my partial walkthrough would be useful to new players.
Ropoko walkthrough in progress - Spillhistorie.no
Need help with this adventure game created for the Sharp MZ-700? Here's a partial walkthrough.
spillhistorie.no
December 1, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Some six months ago, I was playing the lovely Sharp MZ-700 adventure game Ropoko and writing a walkthrough. I never managed to complete it, but I just now noticed that it's been released for Steam & Switch. So I figured my partial walkthrough would be useful to new players.
November 29, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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A question of perspective. Applies to children, too.
November 29, 2025 at 11:14 AM
A question of perspective. Applies to children, too.
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The extraordinary Ernie Wise - born 100 years ago today - seen here celebrating on 1 January 1985 after just having made the first ever mobile phone call in the UK. 'Ring in the new year'. See what they did there?
November 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
The extraordinary Ernie Wise - born 100 years ago today - seen here celebrating on 1 January 1985 after just having made the first ever mobile phone call in the UK. 'Ring in the new year'. See what they did there?
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This Government has chosen to reject the single biggest thing it could do to turbocharge economic growth and repair the £90 billion Brexit black hole.
For millions of people struggling with higher bills this was a botched budget.
For millions of people struggling with higher bills this was a botched budget.
November 27, 2025 at 9:00 AM
This Government has chosen to reject the single biggest thing it could do to turbocharge economic growth and repair the £90 billion Brexit black hole.
For millions of people struggling with higher bills this was a botched budget.
For millions of people struggling with higher bills this was a botched budget.
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I wish I was surprised. Buried in this Budget is a plan to slash the Digital Services Tax, giving a multi-billion tax cut to US tech giants and the likes of Elon Musk.
That's right, cutting taxes for the world's richest man while hiking them for millions of hard-working Brits.
That's right, cutting taxes for the world's richest man while hiking them for millions of hard-working Brits.
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
I wish I was surprised. Buried in this Budget is a plan to slash the Digital Services Tax, giving a multi-billion tax cut to US tech giants and the likes of Elon Musk.
That's right, cutting taxes for the world's richest man while hiking them for millions of hard-working Brits.
That's right, cutting taxes for the world's richest man while hiking them for millions of hard-working Brits.
Utter madness. The project maintainers must've been pulling their hair out. So-called AI has very real costs that go far beyond the planet burning datacentres needed to run them.
These AI adherents are the programming equivalent of offering to be the designated driver when you’re not just the only one drinking, but are an incomprehensible, staggering, vomiting mess.
github.com/ocaml/ocaml/...
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DWARF support for macOS and Linux by joelreymont · Pull Request #14369 · ocaml/ocaml
DWARF v5 Debugging Support for OCaml Native Compiler
This PR adds DWARF v5 debug information to the OCaml native compiler, allowing proper source-level debugging in GDB and LLDB.
What's Impleme...
github.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Utter madness. The project maintainers must've been pulling their hair out. So-called AI has very real costs that go far beyond the planet burning datacentres needed to run them.
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Today the Government had the opportunity to end the cost of living crisis, get Britain growing again and repair the £90bn Brexit black hole - by fixing our trade with Europe.
It didn't.
It didn't.
November 26, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Today the Government had the opportunity to end the cost of living crisis, get Britain growing again and repair the £90bn Brexit black hole - by fixing our trade with Europe.
It didn't.
It didn't.
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This was a botched Budget by a Chancellor who’s diagnosed the disease but won’t administer the cure.
Despite promises to cut the cost of living and grow the economy, the Government still refuses to fix our trade relationship with Europe and repair the £90bn Brexit black hole.
Despite promises to cut the cost of living and grow the economy, the Government still refuses to fix our trade relationship with Europe and repair the £90bn Brexit black hole.
November 26, 2025 at 2:45 PM
This was a botched Budget by a Chancellor who’s diagnosed the disease but won’t administer the cure.
Despite promises to cut the cost of living and grow the economy, the Government still refuses to fix our trade relationship with Europe and repair the £90bn Brexit black hole.
Despite promises to cut the cost of living and grow the economy, the Government still refuses to fix our trade relationship with Europe and repair the £90bn Brexit black hole.