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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Oct 16

At this point, what you make at home is almost certain to be better than what you would eat at pretty much any of these chains.

Any cooking skill, at all, will produce better results.

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the Juice Media @thejuicemedia.com · 19h

The Government of New Zealand has made a new tourism ad and it's surprsingly honest and informative!

Honest Government Ad | Visit New Zealand!

YouTube video by thejuicemedia

www.youtube.com

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Stephen @sp.degabrielle.name · 3d

Hello!👋

Rhombus has a lot built-in now, and the guide has a chapter for Using Racket Tools and Libraries:
docs.racket-lang.org/rhombus/rack...

You can access this and the rest of the Rhombus information via rhombus-lang.org

Questions welcome on #rhombus channel discord.gg/Dqb4wcGnKX

11 Using Racket Tools and Libraries

docs.racket-lang.org

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Conor Mc Bride @pigworker.bsky.social · 4d

PL folks! Write a text editor once every ten years to see if we've made it any easier. I promise youse, we have!

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Racket @racket-lang.org · 4d

Hope everyone had a great RacketCon. Many thanks to the presenters, participants in-person and remote, the organisers and UMass Boston for hosting us.
Please send feedback to the team at [email protected]

Racket

Videos about or related to the programming language Racket, mostly drawn from RacketCon presentations. This channel publishes videos from Racket events and may also re-publish video from other places.

www.youtube.com

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Racket @racket-lang.org · 4d

If you are keen to watch (or rewatch) the presentations, they will be made available on the Racket Youtube channel www.youtube.com/c/racketlang... - but it will probably be a few weeks.

Racket

Videos about or related to the programming language Racket, mostly drawn from RacketCon presentations. This channel publishes videos from Racket events and may also re-publish video from other places.

www.youtube.com

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Racket @racket-lang.org · 5d

RacketCon Day 2 starts with 'Advanced Macrology: 5 Macro Programming Patterns You (No Longer) Need to Know' at 9:00am EDT (13:00 UTC)
watch at con.racket-lang.org

(fifteenth RacketCon)

con.racket-lang.org

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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 6d

It’s not only playgrounds that are important, but Tom Hayes is right to underline the critical value of play in children’s lives.

Tom Hayes MP @tomhayesmp.bsky.social · 6d

Play is instinctive, natural, and essential. But it’s being eroded.

❌ 800 playgrounds closed in the last decade
❌ 2 million children live >10 mins from one
❌ In Bournemouth East, only 35% of children live within reach of a play area

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 6d

If you are uncritically reporting on a new event, comedy festival, app, or virtual museum that notes that “Funding for the project was provided by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia”—then you are not doing it right. They are laundering their reputation for killing journalists.

ARTnews
Visitors wear VR sets for exhibitions at the Wei and Jin Dynasties Ancient Tombs Site Museum in Kuqa City, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, July 15, 2024.
XINHUA NEWS AGENCY VIA GETTY IMA
On Monday, UNESCO, the cultural arm of the United Nations, launched the world's first virtual museum of stolen cultural objects, which lists thousands of artifacts that can be viewed in 3D form.
The initiative was launched at UNESCO's World Conference on Cultural Policies and Sustainable Development in Barcelona. The virtual museum was designed by the architect Francis Kéré in collaboration with the Ir'ernational Criminal Police Organization (Interpol). Funding for the project was provided by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Racket @racket-lang.org · 6d

42 min till RacketCon starts
FREE live stream at con.racket-lang.org
we have a #racketcon chat channel on the racket discord at discord.gg/UCFKsryPkW

If you can afford it: please register for $10 USD to help support the livestream www.eventbrite.com/e/racketcon-...

(fifteenth RacketCon)

con.racket-lang.org

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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 6d

Blustery day, isn't it? Here's the National Grid: Live generation data. Wind and solar are generating 74.2% of our electricity. Gas is generating 13.1%. And yet our household electricity prices are pegged to... the volatile price of gas. Which is the basis on which the right attacks... renewables.

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Shriram Krishnamurthi @shriram.bsky.social · 8d

OOPSLA 2026 deadline is just a week away! Can you please help us get the word out by sharing? Thanks!
2026.splashcon.org/track/oopsla...

SPLASH 2026 - OOPSLA - SPLASH 2026

Welcome to the website of the SPLASH 2026 conference. We are working hard to fill the website with all related information. Please check back soon! In the meantime, please consider this overview of th...

2026.splashcon.org

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Marcus Baw @marcusbaw.com · 8d

A new episode of Everything Digital Health just dropped:

The Fall Of The Faculty Of Clinical Informatics - an overview with Mark Bailey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Udh1kqODn4

Apologies for the poor sound quality on this episode - I was trying out a new way to record our s...

The Fall Of The Faculty Of Clinical Informatics - an overview with Mark Bailey

Apologies for the poor sound quality on this episode - I was trying out a new way to record our s...

www.youtube.com

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Marcus Baw @marcusbaw.com · 9d

An interesting post from veteran Interoperability expert Kevin Mayfield on openhealthhub.org today.

openhealthhub.org/t/two-tier-t...

A "Two Tier Technical NHS" is how he describes it.

wonder what people think of the article and whether they have views to contribute, here or on OHH itself.

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Racket @racket-lang.org · 9d

Happy Birthday Eiffel 🎂

October 1986 (at OOPSLA!)

www.eiffel.org

Eiffel Community

Welcome to the community portal for Eiffel, the programming language for tackling tomorrow’s problems today.

www.eiffel.org

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Kev De Faoite @kevjusdorange.bsky.social · 10d

So impressive

Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 10d

Tonight at midnight: Will Zack Polanski win over Gary Stevenson on the Green Party?

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Racket @racket-lang.org · 10d

Built-Package Catalog
The package-build service archives the most recently built form of each package at pkg-build.racket-lang.org/server/built...
Built packages can install much faster than the original source packages!

pkg-build.racket-lang.org/about.html

Racket: About Package Builds

For every package that is registered at https://pkgs.racket-lang.org/, the package-build service starts with the current release, periodically checks for package updates, and attempts to build each package...

pkg-build.racket-lang.org

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Racket @racket-lang.org · 12d

RacketCon is on Saturday!
con.racket-lang.org
If you watch the livestream, please consider supporting with an remote participant ticket ($10): www.eventbrite.com/e/racketcon-...
The livestream is expensive and is how a significant proportion who can't attend in person participate in RacketCon.

(fifteenth RacketCon)

con.racket-lang.org

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Marcus Baw @marcusbaw.com · 12d

Here a thing you can do to stay turning the tide:

Make sure everyone you know who is a gig worker, member of a union, or involved in running a union reads this report:

www.etuc.org/sites/defaul...

HT the awesome Cory Doctorow, whose email newsletter is the single best source in my inbox

www.etuc.org

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Grumpy Dad @gatzreborn.bsky.social · 12d

He just makes sense! Don’t wait until something is perfect before getting involved. Get involved to help make things better!

Pod Save the UK @podsavetheuk.crooked.com · 13d

Want to hear more about what the Green Party is offering?

Watch the full interview with @zackpolanski.bsky.social on our YouTube, or listen wherever you get your pods.

#PodSaveTheUK #Politics #UK #Socialism #YourParty

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Retro Computers @retrocomps.bsky.social · 14d

CARDboard Illustrative Aid to Computation - CARDIAC

The Cardiac - "CARDboard Illustrative Aid to Computation", a blue cardboard computer resembling a calculator wheel. Device left is the output strip. In the left half is the 'accumulator', which is altered by three cardboard strips; a flowchart gives instructions on how to interpret the 'command' at any given step. On the right half is the memory, which is able to be written to by the human operator's pencil; to the left of each slot is a space for the operator to put a 'bug' which acts as the instruction pointer

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Stephen @sp.degabrielle.name · 13d

I still don’t understand how the smart people in Labour are turning victory into defeat and selling out the most vulnerable in our communities. Maybe it is structural.

Stephen @sp.degabrielle.name · 14d

My cats

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Conor Mc Bride @pigworker.bsky.social · 15d

No to ID. Our rights derive from our perceptible humanity.

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Conor Mc Bride @pigworker.bsky.social · 15d

Watch what's just about to happen to the legal principle called "Gillick competence", named after the person who tried to stop it heppening. Bigoted parents will demand the right to control their children. We must not let them!

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