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Tomb👻Time @tubetime.bsky.social · 2h

My coffee table book, Open Circuits, with beautiful cross-section photos of electronics, is 25% off through the 12th. Use the super-secret discount code "SHOWOFF". What, you already have the book? BAM--you just thought of a friend who would enjoy a copy.

nostarch.com/open-circuits

two images of a small cathode ray tube. the upper image shows that it is nearly as small as a ball-point pen, starting out at the same diameter but flaring out into a tiny screen that is about 10mm in diameter. the bottom image shows the same CRT cut in half, with a complex array of small metal electron lenses.

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Alisdair Calder McGregor @acmcgregor.bsky.social · 5h

Cool, thank you for the info!

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Alisdair Calder McGregor @acmcgregor.bsky.social · 5h

Did he? I wasn't aware of that 😞

His other half... I met her once and did not enjoy the experience.

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Alisdair Calder McGregor @acmcgregor.bsky.social · 5h

Out of interest, what shutter speed do you have to shoot on to get that degree of clarity?

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Alisdair Calder McGregor @acmcgregor.bsky.social · 5h

And Farage enthusiastically acclaiming it as the best budget in years. See if that ever gets mentioned, now

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Alisdair Calder McGregor @acmcgregor.bsky.social · 5h

I have seen some right wonks doing the whole "the problem with the Truss budget is it wasn't implemented properly/seen through".

So it's on its way towards being the right's equivalent of "true socialism/communism has never been tried"

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Alisdair Calder McGregor @acmcgregor.bsky.social · 6h

Justin Sullivan

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 6h

OTD 1807: Liberal philosopher Harriet Taylor Mill
Co-author of iconic Liberal text On Liberty with her husband John Stuart Mill
(He credited her as co-author, but for some reason hardly anyone else did at the time – or even 166 years later. Wonder why? Hmm, it’s a mystery)

Harriet Taylor Mill portrait in gold dress

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Alisdair Calder McGregor @acmcgregor.bsky.social · 6h

Sowerby Bridge, Mytholmroyd, Brighouse... honestly you could just CTRL-C CTRL-V a list of Yorkshire place names for this one.

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Alisdair Calder McGregor @acmcgregor.bsky.social · 6h

And from where I used to live:

Slaithwaite, Bradford, Huddersfield, Halifax

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Alisdair Calder McGregor @acmcgregor.bsky.social · 6h

Loughborough

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Alisdair Calder McGregor @acmcgregor.bsky.social · 7h

Ladies, Gentlemen and Otherbeings; The Ratio

Give it up Deelishis you look like a man..🧍🏾‍♂️ @blackranga.blacksky.app · 1d

Darin Chappell, who's a Missouri legislator actively pushing anti-trans laws, is her uncle. 🤎

Chappell Roan Declares She's “Voting for Fucking Kamala Harris” Following Backlash

Recent quotes about the 2024 election and “problems on both sides” of government had fans saying H-O-T-T-oh no and led to dual clarification videos from Roan.

www.vanityfair.com

Alisdair Calder McGregor @acmcgregor.bsky.social · 8h

Thread on how images justifying military strikes is actually sci-fi 3D videogame assets and a few filters

Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 10h

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 9h

the answer to the trolley problem is not to pick who to sacrifice, it’s to dismantle the system that led to an unsafe trolley crossing.

if any part of your morality strategy involves picking a group to let die on a hill, throw the entire strategy out. it’s wrong.

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Strange Days at Blake Hol(e)sey High 👻 🍑 @reactionordinary.bsky.social · 10h

The RIAA was suing teenagers. We had to sit through ⬇️ this shit anytime we wanted to watch a DVD. A whole generation shamed for using Limewire and torrents. Only for these silicone valley assholes to now find copyright infringement a necessary evil they shouldn’t have to answer for

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Rebecca Taylor @beccaet.bsky.social · 10h

😂😂😂

Cam Walker @walks30.bsky.social · 10h

“Children left unattended will be given a Red Bull and taught to swear.”

- sign at The Heys Inn, Oswaldtwistle, UK

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Big Spooky ColBosch @colbosch.bsky.social · 10h

Trans rights are human rights. There is no difference between someone's right to find their proper sex/gender and *your own* right to body autonomy. Either we're all free or none of us are.

alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 10h

this is not negotiable, mother fuckers

Civil rights or GTFO

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Luke Taylor MP @luketaylorld.bsky.social · 10h

British Transport Police's decision to not investigate bike thefts outside train stations where bikes have been left for more than two hours is really concerning. It could effectively decriminalise it.

Together with Lib Dem colleagues I've written to the BTP to get clarity.

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 11h

I have no idea if this works but delighted by the idea of dazzle camo for faces!

Stephanie Rewis @stefsull.bsky.social · 11h

Recently in Europe, students have found a clever way to fight back against facial recognition cameras. Not with hacking. Not with tech. But with simple face paint & strands of hair.

By shading or covering the points AI uses to identify faces, they make billion-dollar surveillance systems go blind.

Faces painted with bars and lines to confuse AI.

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Alisdair Calder McGregor @acmcgregor.bsky.social · 14h

little walking plague vectors

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 15h

So the argument is that authoritarian governments using slave labour and crushing dissent is good but democratic countries freely debating ideas is bad?

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Sarah has a suggestion @goatsarah.org · 15h

With thanks to @sparky373.bsky.social

A Joey and Phoebe meme. Phoebe says, “ADHD people know things need doing”. Joey says, “They know things need doing”. Phoebe says, “ADHD people want to do things”. Joey says, “They want to do the thing”. Phoebe says, “ADHD people can’t do the thing because their brain won’t let them”. Joey says, “They can’t do the thing”. Phoebe says, “So ADHD people need understanding and compassion”. Joey says “They’re just being lazy”.

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Wera Hobhouse MP @werahobhouse.bsky.social · 15h

Jenrick’s comments are deeply irresponsible and risk fuelling division.

When politicians like him and Farage imply non-white people can't truly be British, they make it that much harder to achieve the integration, tolerance and respect we all want to see.

Robert Jenrick says lack of integration leads to dark place

The shadow justice secretary is accused of racism after saying the Handsworth area was one of the

www.bbc.co.uk

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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 19h

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 17h

I'm giving away this signed 1st edition h/b of my new novel (it has a tiny jacket rip which means I wouldn't sell it) to one person who reposts this.

You might like it if you like:
Folkloric creatures
Old records
Intricate psychedelic stories
The idea of circular time

All shares much-appreciated.

Joe McLaren's fabulous cover for Everything Will Swallow You

A close up of the small tear on this first edition of Everything Will Swallow You

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