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David Lemouton
@dfdlm.bsky.social
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French guy (he/him) in the UK 🇬🇧, Leamington Spa based.
Mechanical engineer specialist in CAE & FEA.

On the spectrum.
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Je tempere car il y a 2 élus de droite dans les 4
January 9, 2026 at 10:07 PM
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Il y a eu une fuite des messages d'un groupe de député.e.s labour qui poussent pour le gvt quitte Twitter. Et cela doit être l'étape suivante pour faire pression.

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zoecrowther.bsky.social Zoë Crowther @zoecrowther.bsky.social · 4d
EXCLUSIVE: Leaked WhatsApp messages show Labour MPs urging govt to leave X, arguing that it should "show direction to others in the UK"

The MPs said X owner Elon Musk is "fascist" and that the platform's AI tool, Grok, had put "children in harm's way"
January 9, 2026 at 10:05 PM
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@emmanueltouzot.bsky.social

Vers un départ de Toto de la F1 ?
November 12, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Non, ils vont amplifier la bulle. Ils vendent pour investir dans l'IA.

www.ft.com/content/5f04...
SoftBank sells Nvidia stake for $5.8bn as it prepares for AI investments
Net profit doubles to $16bn on gains from OpenAI and PayPay holdings
www.ft.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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J'ajoute les vidéos de réaction qui comment une vidéo sur fond verts qui touche la communauté noire au US, ou tout est faux, le commentaire et la vidéo commentée.

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histoftech.bsky.social jennifer uncoolidge @histoftech.bsky.social · Oct 23
This person is one hundred percent correct and it’s scary af. We will never “media literacy” our way out of this as a society. We are about to reap the whirlwind when it comes to misinformation, disinformation, and informational warfare.
October 28, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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Feels like quite an apt summary for the future of Britain
Screenshot of the post from Ian who I answer to with a thumbnail saying: Access restricted. As the article is behind a paywall
September 26, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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Mince alors, j'ai pas d'accès à science direct non plus.

Dans ces cas là mon dernier recours est Research gate et contacter tous les auteurs par mail, en général ils ont content de partager leur travaux.

Bonne chance pour ta quête
September 11, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Tu as cherché l'article sur sci-hub.se ou annas-archive.org ?
September 11, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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En tout cas, les étudiants US ne sont pas allés au Royaume-Uni.

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benansell.bsky.social Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · Sep 11
No ‘Trump bump’ for British universities, alas. Not helped by Jacqui Smith, whose view of international students is similar to Basil Fawlty’s to hotel customers.
September 11, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Reposted by David Lemouton
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Smajo Beso • Follow 3d • © I started school in Newcastle in Year 5 without knowing a word of English. I was nine years old and had arrived as a refugee from Bosnia just a couple of months earlier. I was one of those strangers our politicians often speak about. I missed my grandparents and friends. I was having awful nightmares, and I would wake up screaming every single night. I hated going to school. I would sit in my chair, look out of the window, and spend my day daydreaming about ways to run back to Bosnia. I didn't want to be here. After a couple of weeks at school, my teacher, Miss Webster, and my classmates did something special to help me settle, something that made me feel less of a stranger. That was the first day I went home with a smile on my face. I have shared this story before, but as tomorrow is start of the new school year, I thought I would share it again. ** Miss Webster was amazing, but I couldn't understand a word she was saying. She had this ritual where, at the end of each day, we would all sit on the floor around her, she would play the guitar, and we would all sing a song together. I couldn't understand what they were singing, but I could see she would sing one part of the song, then she would say someone's name or point to them. The next part of the song would be sung with that person's name in it, and they would get to go home first. My classmates loved this, but I hated it. It annoyed me because I couldn't understand what they were singing, but if I am honest, l hated it mainly because of how happy they all were. I definitely wasn't happy. I cried myself to sleep nearly every night. I eventually started having separate English lessons, which I enjoyed more because it took me out of the classroom. It was always daunting coming to school because I felt everyone was looking at me or speaking about me. For months, my dad would stand with me outside the school gates in the morning until it was time to go in. One day I came back into the classroom from my English lesson. We sat down, and everyone was extra-excited, looking at me more than usual for some reason. Of course, I thought it was because I was a refugee, because I couldn't speak English, or because they couldn't pronounce my name. I was bracing myself for another afternoon of my classmates encouraging me to sing. This was probably the closest I came to running out. So we were all sitting on the floor around Miss Webster. She was holding her guitar, ready to sing. I remember the sun shining through the tall, narrow windows as I slowly drifted into a daydream of being back in Bosnia. She began playing the guitar, my classmates joined in, but this time, everything was different. I froze. I understood what they were signing. Not because I had miraculously learned English in one afternoon, but because they were singing in Bosnian for me. I looked around in shock, and they were all smiling at me, and for a moment I thought I was daydreaming. While I was having separate English lessons, Miss Webster had taught our entire class to sing this song for me in Bosnian. They sang it terribly, but it was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard. I skipped home that day with a huge smile on my face. For the first time, I looked forward to going back to school the next day. I have often imagined Miss Webster and my classmates rehearsing, struggling with the strange Bosnian words and laughing at themselves. For me, that effort was the ultimate recognition, an act of peace that felt like the opposite of everything I had known during the war. It was special. I do not know if they realised it then, but that moment helped to give me back my dignity, my belonging, and, for the first time in a long time, I didn't feel like I was just a refugee or an outsider. I was home.
September 3, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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In France, a twitch creator, zack nani, has the right for free to for the Saudi premier league for the whole season and has teased there is more to come.
August 21, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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Ces voitures on été mise en service en 1980 et mises hors service entre 2014 et 2017.

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Pour GWR qui utilise d'autres voitures, une grande partie de leur flotte sera à remplacer/améliorer d ici 7 à 10 ans
D78 Stock (métro de Londres) — Wikipédia
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August 20, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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De plus ils ont développé un système de fast charge posable sur les voies en gare.

Point bonus on peut voir le crash test d'une voiture sur un obstacle de voie.

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TRL 08 Real Time
YouTube video by Vivarail
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August 20, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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De plus ces voitures 230 sont des anciennes voitures du métro londonien D78 qui ont été "recyclé" après avoir été mise hors service et adapté pour les standard de sécurité ferroviaire.

Le but et de remplacer sur certaines lignes les moteur diesels ou électrification de la ligne est compliqué.
August 20, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Pour plus d'info news.gwr.com/news/great-w...

Et leur white paper sur leur technologie
www.gwr.com/-/media/gwr-...

Disclose: je connais quelques personnes dans leur équipe et j'ai contribué à des projets techniques sur ce train mais côté structure.
news.gwr.com
August 20, 2025 at 11:13 AM