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🔴Boris Johnson’s Radon Gas Filled Prison Deal to Cost Taxpayers £100 Million

Full costs of the botched agreement to lease an unusable prison filled with poisonous gas from the Duchy of Cornwall, revealed for the first time

bylinetimes.com/2026/01/07/b...
Boris Johnson's Radon Gas Filled Prison Deal to Cost Taxpayers £100 Million
The full costs of the botched agreement to lease an unusable prison filled with poisonous gas from the Duchy of Cornwall, revealed for the first time
bylinetimes.com
January 8, 2026 at 11:18 AM
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The shortsightedness of this new breed of Republican ideology will haunt us for years to come.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funded NPR, PBS and hundreds of local radio and TV stations across the U.S. for more than a half-century, said on Monday that its board of directors had voted to dissolve the organization because Congress cut off its federal money.
Corporation for Public Broadcasting Votes to Shut Down
Executives debated whether to allow the corporation to lie dormant after federal funding ended last year, but decided against it.
nyti.ms
January 7, 2026 at 5:49 PM
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Most companies be like “We daren’t go functional, we might not be able to hire”.

Jane Street be like “Hold. Our. Beer.”
Excited to say that we're looking to hire someone to focus on OxCaml education! We're doing enough to change the language that we have a pretty big internal education task ahead of us, and we want to hire someone to focus on it!

Please share this with others!

www.janestreet.com/join-jane-st...
OxCaml Educator :: Jane Street
Jane Street is a quantitative trading firm and liquidity provider with a unique focus on technology and collaborative problem solving.
www.janestreet.com
October 3, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Hey #fsharp!

Ionide 7.29.0 / FsAutocomplete 0.81.0 is out and brings F# 10 and .NET 10 support! Give it a try and report issues when you find them!
November 13, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Elmish Land docs just got a major upgrade! New comprehensive API Reference, JSON Schema support with IntelliSense for config files, and refreshed Core Concepts guides. elmish.land/blog/documen... #fsharp #elmishland #fablecompiler
Documentation Refresh and new API Reference | Elmish Land
The Elmish Land documentation has been refreshed with a new API Reference section, improved organization, and enhanced content.
elmish.land
November 14, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
September 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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I've been absent from social media and content creation for a bit. A few months back I got a medical diagnosis which has taken a while to digest. I have Common Variable Immunodeficiency (#CVID) which is a rare, and if untreated, potentially life-threatening chronic condition. #chronicillness
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September 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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A man on the streets of the UK is asked about the “problem of immigration” and dismantles talking points with ease.
September 2, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (1988!)
July 7, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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It’s a DOGE eat DOGE world
July 1, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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Thames Valley Police are seeking help in locating heirlooms stolen from an Abingdon resident in his nineties who served in the Army and worked at Pressed Steel in Cowley. They say “the vintage motorbikes are believed to have been advertised for sale online in the Oxfordshire area”.
June 25, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Bezos Wedding Guests Delighted By Amazon Worker With Ring Tied To Collar Crawling Down Aisle

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June 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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GB News : "Brexit is a good thing?"

Brexit Fisherman : "It's been a disaster"

"But exports?"

"Red tape is 100 fold, our main market is the EU"

"But EU fisherman?"

"They didn't come here"

"But charge more?"

"They can buy in the EU"

"How would you vote?"

"I'd vote for Remain in a heart beat"
"Brexit five years on - It has been a disaster" GB News interview with fisherman Andy Dixon
YouTube video by Russell England
www.youtube.com
February 13, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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When I set out to capture everything I knew about sending email using .NET in a video course, I thought it would take a few weeks.

It took six months... but it's finally done. Everything from SMTP & DNS, to using MJML with Razor, to sending production email at scale:

dometrain.com/course/from-...
From Zero to Hero: Sending Email with .NET
Learn everything you need to know to send production-grade emails in .NET
dometrain.com
April 10, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.
April 4, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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“Wait guys, P. Hegseth is typing…”
March 24, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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The books at Tesla are getting cooked like spaghetti.
Tesla (TSLA) accounting raises red flags as report shows $1.4 billion missing
Tesla’s (TSLA) accounting practices are raising red flags as a new report from the Financial Times shows that $1.4 billion...
electrek.co
March 20, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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Here is the PCBWay project to let you build your own "Griff", a way under £10 wearable 384kHz USB microphone for bat detection.

Just add an iPhone iOS 15.6 or higher and a cable for instant heterodyne / time-expanding / full-spectrum recording bat detector.

www.pcbway.com/project/shar...
"Griff" wearable 384kHz USB microphone for bat detection, with integral brooch pin - Share Project - PCBWay
The lowest-cost version of Griff, the wearable USB microphone.This one does not take a 3D print, it instead has a 38mm brooch pin (£4.99 for 50 from Amazon) directly soldered to the back using the hot...
www.pcbway.com
March 11, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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The great insight in the corporate and government push for RTO is that most organizations don’t know how to measure productivity or impact of knowledge work. Even Google.

So productivity boils down to hours spent in an office building.
March 9, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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March 3, 2025 at 6:36 PM
" The vertical clutch lever acts on the clutch pressure rod via a rounded , tempered tip of the screw that goes through the lever." unlike the one fitted to mine which is made of cheese #superalce #vintagemotorcycle
March 2, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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'Did you even say thank you?'
March 1, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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💥 BREAKING: At John Deere's annual shareholders meeting today, shareholders overwhelmingly rejected an anti-DEI proposal brought by the same group that targeted Costco and Apple. An anti-DEI proposal from the NCPPR received less than 1 percent of votes.

Deere shareholders: DEI is in. Bigots are out
February 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.
February 22, 2025 at 10:45 PM