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Stuart Langridge
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Builds stuff for computers, advises other people how to do so, plays PBP D&D, makes the occasional solo game, eats sandwiches. Part of Open Web Advocacy. Runner of the Critical Role transcript search. In the People’s Republic of Brum. https://kryogenix.org
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A picture of George Clooney and Noah Wyle in medical getup from the show ER, in the mid 90s, looking young and fresh-faced and captioned with a snippet recognisably taken from a github issue reading "stuart langridge opened on Oct 29, 2013". Below is another picture of Clooney and Wyle taken recently in 2025; both look older, greyer, and less fresh-faced and Wyle has a full beard. It is captiioned with a recognisable github snippet reading "github-actions closed this as not planned now"
January 18, 2026 at 4:06 PM
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A fancy Bugs Bunny stands in a tux with a red flower on his lapel on a black background. He says "I wish all CLIENTS a very PICKING UP IN THE NEW YEAR THE PROJECTS THAT “WE’LL PICK UP IN THE NEW YEAR”
January 15, 2026 at 9:18 AM
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It took me three weeks to get to making these, but that gave the panettone a chance to go stale.
Delicious. Great work on the recipe! And it's fun mixing it all up with your hands, isn't it?

www.nigella.com/recipes/pane... for anyone else who wants to try them
Nigella's panettone stuffing squares; like savoury brownies artfully displayed on a black patterned plate on a fire-engine red table mat
January 12, 2026 at 7:48 PM
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Be careful today. It’s quite slippery outside.
Gravel outside on which rests a pair of slippers
January 3, 2026 at 9:06 AM
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Well done Yorkshire Heart for Quaffer. A very easygoing beer, which I suppose is exactly the point given the name. My dad would have been well pleased with it and the strength of it, and I’m enjoying it a bunch.
A tap badge for Yorkshire Heart’s Quaffer, a session pale ale at 3.4% abv
December 31, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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A woman walks down a shadowy staircase, between dark shadows and blazing lights; the whole scene is tinted blue. It is the cover of Dummy by Portishead
December 28, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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Name an actor who you think has an iconic voice.

Eartha Kitt.
Eartha Kitt, sharp-featured black woman with high cheekbones, wearing a hair wrap and a cocktail dress with her arms crossed her long-nailed fingers spread
December 8, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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Excellent chance for 2000AD to do the Punisher thing and make it clear that this ain’t the way.
A page from the Punisher comic. Some cops meet the Punisher, Frank Castle, and show that their squad car carries his logo because they seek to emulate him. Castle is coldly contemptuous in condemning this attitude in law enforcement, and finishes with “YOU BOYS NEED A ROLE MODEL? HIS NAME IS CAPTAIN AMERICA AND HE’D BE HAPPY TO HAVE YOU.”
December 4, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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hugely missed opportunity in The Mighty Nein animated series, in my opinion
Still from The Mighty Nein animated series. A dark-skinned woman with a dark topknot and wearing a blue gi over athletic clothing (Beau) is searching a bed of lichen. A scruffy-looking pale-skinned man wearing a ragged overcoat and long scarf (Caleb) is holding a flaming torch and facing her. Beau: You ever been to a Cobalt Soul library? Caleb: Nein. Beau: Nine? We haven't got nine, we've only got seven.
November 26, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Today’s cooking experiment: honeyed figs stuffed with nuts and pepper. Cheers to @tastinghistory.bsky.social for the recipe. I should really be watching gladiators fighting while eating these.
www.tastinghistory.com/recipes/roma...
A plate of figs covered in sticky honey and stuffed with ground nuts.
November 22, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Bit too much of a heel, but www.office.co.uk/view/product... are fifty quid
November 21, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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A man entirely covered in post-it notes, in a room the same (still from Bruce Almighty)
November 21, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Huh. You know Troy? One of the great cities of antiquity, wooden horse, Helen and Paris, the Trojan War, all that? One thing I did not realise until reading a KJ Parker essay is that this city that bestrides history like a colossus was, in fact, about the same size as the Bullring in Birmingham.
A map of ancient Troy (all nine versions) labelled "Historic Troy" and a snippet from Google Maps showing the Bullring and labelled "The Bullring, Birmingham". Maps are approximately the same scale, so as to be comparable, and Troy and the Bullring are indeed about the same size. Troy (showing Troy I - Troy IX) is from https://archaeology.org/travel/interactivemap-troy/.
November 18, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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ot a cup of tea, so time to sit and read my newly arrived copy of @mattround.com’s excellent magazine of typing in programs like the 1980s, DOCTYPE.
V proud to have been a part of this. Look, there are pyramids on the cover which are from the thing I did!
You can still buy a copy at vole.wtf/doctype
A magazine resting on top of a keyboard, with a cup of tea off to one side. The front cover reads DOCTYPE, over an artistic image of an angular spaceship blasting across a reddish landscape with pyramids. Elsewhere on the cover are the legends “10 AMAZING WEB PAGES” and “GAMES + TOYS + PUZZLES + UTILITIES”
November 17, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Main screen at #TechMids being compered by @brucel.bsky.social with a very strong hat and jacket game
Bruce Lawson, white man wearing a spangly Pearly King-style hat and a black and gold jacket
November 14, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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Mandani-style poster reading MONTRESOR for THE LOVE OF GOD
November 9, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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I have just been informed that the typewriter sounds at the beginning of Dolly Parton’s 9 To 5 were actually her tapping her acrylics together, which I did not know. Hilariously, Wikipedia credits her as “lead vocals; nails”.
A clipped result from a Google search reading Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org 9 to 5 (Dolly Parton song) The song was featured in "After Hours", the first episode of The Penguin. Personnel. edit · Dolly Parton – lead vocals, nails · Jeff Baxter, Marty Walsh ...
November 7, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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sigh. A quick search for "pork steak pasta salad" (I've got some pork steaks and was looking for inspiration) and near the top of the (Qwant) search is a recipe website. With a weird insertion.

"Emma, culinary professional" is just one more LLM making things rubbish, I see. Please just stop.
A recipe website showing "Herbed Pork Filet Creamy Pasta Salad". An introductory paragraph reads: Pork filet marinated with fresh herbs and lemon, roasted to juicy rosé, paired with a creamy yogurt pasta salad studded with green beans, olives, and a fresh herb kick. Substituted mint with basil, feta with ricotta salata. Added toasted pine nuts to salad for crunch and swapped garlic for shallots in marinade to mellow pungency. Revised cooking times slightly, emphasized texture cues, and reordered steps for efficiency. No em dashes, commas and semicolons guide. Balanced cool creamy salad against warm punchy pork; texture and taste layers. Recognize when pork skin just tightens, pasta still a bite away from mush. Always rinse green beans fast in ice water to keep snap; pasta rinse only if salad served cold, else toss warm. A dish to trust if you measure aroma, color, touch. The phrase "No em dashes, commas and semicolons guide" in the middle of this description has been highlighted.
November 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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And four more.
The Anomaly by Michael Rutger (Michael Marshall Smith) Johannes Cabal: The Fear Institute by Jonathan L. Howard The Man Who Was Thursday by GK Chesterton The Dungeons & Dragons Dungeon Master's Guide
October 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Four books to get to know me.
The Secret History by Donna Tartt Storm Front by John Sandford The Dragonlance Chronicles collected edition by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman Hexaflexagons and Other Mathematical Diversions by Martin Gardner
October 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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“Our priority is growth!”
“How do you imagine you get growth, Minister?”
“By letting trillion dollar American tech companies do what they want!”
“Should we drop the pledge to have them penalised for scams?”
“Yes”
“Tell the regulator to dial back?”
“Yes”
“Bend over in the worship of ‘AI’?”
“Yes”
POLITICO Banks furious as UK shies away from making Big Tech pay for fraud Prime Minister Keir Starmer pledged before the election to put tech giants on the hook for fraud. Pinsent Masons OUT-LAW UK seeks growth via Al 'lab' and regulatory bonfire = Bird & Bird Where is the CMA headed: A strategic shift towards growth and investment 2025 has marked a directional shift for the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) in the way it approaches competition and consumer protection and enforcement in the UK.
October 24, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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October 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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The latest news: Heavy street protests in beleaguered North American state
A mockup newspaper called "The World", with an image of people marching in New York and main story reading: Heavy street protests in beleaguered North American state In Columbia today, a republic sharing borders with Canada and Mexico and with a history of civil unrest, millions of protestors took to the streets. The protests, the largest in the country's 250-year history, were under the banner of "No Kings", and sought to express widespread popular discontent with the extra-judicial kidnapping of citizens by the regime's secret police and the enrichment of high-powered members of the government subsequent to the return to power this year of a previous leader, oligarch Donald J. Trump. Columbia's generally overlooked legislative and judicial branches, which have largely rubberstamped the new president's orders, have in the last few months seen rumbles of dissent, with many legal challenges made against the regime's orders. However, the top-down nature of Columbia's governmental system makes such challenges difficult to sustain, because they may continue for many years before a resolution that comes too late to rectify the issues. The strongman leader and billionare Trump released a faked video of himself dumping excrement on citizens from a fighter plane while wearing a crown, a move that surprised even loyalist commentators. The republic has several exports important to global trade, but has in recent months enacted punitive tariffs on importers to the country in an attempt to disrupt trade agreements. Columbia also recently withdrew monetary support for humanitarian causes across the globe, causing consternation across communities worldwide which relied on the funding. International aid and civil liberties organisations have said they are monitoring the situation closely in the event of a further collapse of this strategically important republic.
October 19, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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choices. If there's anything you would have expected me to add to this list and I haven't, then I probably missed it (there are a lot of proposals!) so let me know
Ranked proposals (top = most important) Customizable/stylable <select> Not including <select multiple>. Web Bluetooth API Payment Handler API A standardized set of functionality for web applications to directly handle payments, rather than having to be redirected to a separate site for payment handling. Improve interoperability of the view transition API Web Share API Invokes the device's native sharing mechanism and passes text, links, files, and other content to share targets. Web NFC API Cross-document CSS view transitions @view-transition sets whether a document opts-in to transitions between documents in a multi-page application. CSS ::before and ::after on replaced elements Such as <input>, <img>, and <video>. Allow CSS transitioning/animating display between none and other values Useful for delaying display: none until an exit animation completes. CSS interpolate-size property and calc-size() function Allows animating to height: auto and other intrinsic sizing keywords. CSS Typed OM CSSStyleValue and its subclasses represent CSS values as distinct types instead of only strings. Resolve CSS scroll snap differences across browsers JavaScript top-level await Largely supported, but some implementations have race conditions in simple cases that cause modules to fail to load. JavaScript Temporal A modern and extensive date/time API to replace Date. Improve interoperability of the HTML <details> element Permissions Policy Similar to Content Security Policy but controls features instead of security behavior.
October 10, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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I rolled 6-1-8-7, so here's someone new!
Phanias of Halicarnassus obituary Natural philosopher of Doric Hexapolis best known for the alchemical construction of the tomb of Mausolus When the Hekatomnid monarch Artemisia II of Caria (praise her name) ordered construction of an enormous tomb for her deceased husband and brother Mausolus in year 13 of Poseidon II, the creation of her vision seemed impossible to the architects of Halicarnassus. Fortunately, a once-exiled native son of the city came to the rescue with an invention that may fundamentally change the way sacred buildings are constructed long into the future. The invention was vis solis, the culmination of the life's work of Phanias, son of Aristomenes of Halicarnassus. Born in the garden district of that city, Phanias was the elder of the two children born to Xantha of Lesbos and Aristomenes. His father was an influential alchemist in his own right, being the first to render augmented silver from the pure metal, and Phanias's childhood was one of comfort and privilege alongside his sister Adora. He studied his father's profession and was considered a “hard-working but not brilliant” student according to tutors, and had begun a relationship with Myroneus, second cousin to Hecatomnus himself, ruler of the city. Tragedy struck when, in an unauthorised experiment, Phanias attempted to distil the rays of the sun into an energising force and caused a fire which destroyed the family house and gardens, resulting in the death of his sister Adora, his collaborator and partner Myroneus, and severe burns to Phanias himself, who from that point frequently kept the left side of his face hidden beneath a mask to hide the scarring. The death was considered by the council of assessment to be reckless manslaughter (reports at the time suggested that the severity of this punishment owed a lot to Myroneus's kinship to the king) and Phanias was condemned to exile. He settled in Cnidus and there continued alchemical research. Reports of this period of Phanias's life are fragmentary: what is known is that his experiments with capturing sunlight continued, but with little success. Herodotus has theorised that Phanias deliberately turned away from his fellow citizens and toward obsessive research to justify the terrible accident with discovery, but none such was forthcoming. An unconfirmed rumour that he received money from his mother Xantha (an act unlawful in Halicarnassus, where communication with exiles is forbidden, although this is a law frequently bent) may explain how he survived this period with no income; in later life, Phanius refused to confirm or deny this, being reluctant to speak of his unsuccessful years of research in Cnidus at all. But the final culmination of his life's work came at the age of fifty-six. After the death of Mausolus, the rediant monarch Artemisia II required the construction of a wonder, a tomb for herself and her much-loved brother and husband. Two years passed during which little progress was made; the queen was told that her vision was simply not possible with contemporary building materials. Many sacrifices failed to remedy the impasse, before Phanias appeared at the gates to claim that he could make the tomb possible. He was granted an audience: none can say exactly what exchange took place but Artemisia gave orders that Phanias was to assist the construction (it is thought that his status as an exile was not revealed until later, which surely helped acceptance, although the truth of this may never be known). He provided a way to elevate the great stones from the ground to heights, which did not require the force of men: he named the vital essence of this way to be "vis solis", a name of his own invention, "the power of the sun". At first Phanias was met with much scepticism from the established construction industry of the city, but disbelief quickly became triumph as his vis solis techni…
October 7, 2025 at 4:31 AM