This is the best product review I’ve read: samhenri.gold/blog/2026031...
It doesn’t matter if you’re interested in the MacBook Neo or not; this is the kind of essay that makes you think about the potential of technology and the joys of exploration.
The simplest way to win any war… give up and declare victory.
“If you want to look at the economics, then look at all of it. For example, I've never seen a calculation of how much capacity, how much GDP, a poorly-paid immigrant working in a care home frees up for the family and relatives of all the people there, by taking on their caring responsibilities.”
Not available on the UK.
‘Mystic Mountain’ captured by Hubble in the Carina Nebula
Photo of a mural depicting three dinosaurs, wearing running shoes and red neck kerchiefs.
Run!
Tram No. 21, Manchester, painting by Arthur Delaney (1927-87). #NorthernArt
Greens.
A Cricket Match, 1938, painting by L.S. Lowry. Scene in Salford.
I wrote something about feeling like a guest in a country that is my home.
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Liverpool to Manchester railway, world's first inter-city passenger service. opened on this day 1830. Tragedy struck when politician William Huskisson stepped down on to the parallel track and was hit by a locomotive. Taken to nearest place on the line, Eccles, but died later that day.
Apple rolls out the Brit to say “ aluminium”.
Channelling Jony.
RMT says pay, fatigue management, extreme shift patterns, and a reduction in working week, among other things.
www.rmt.org.uk/news/rmt-wil...
A photo oof a Macintosh SE on a Macintosh Table, a wooden stylised kind of 80s looking table, with a glass vase of blue purple (irises?), external drive, mousepad and a pen & writing folder next to it, and an actual clock. to the lower left is a cabinet attached to the inside of the desk with books, probably real manuals, standing up in it. The whole scene is in front of a stonewashed denim looking photographic backdrop.
This is as far as computing should have ever been allowed to get.
People are struggling.
Our NHS is collapsing.
Reform are organising.
There’s no time to waste.
Join @greenparty.org.uk Now.
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Time to go on a space odyssey.
Enjoy.
#scifi #scifiart
Photos. Music. Books. My whole media world is Apple. Trying to manage photos from an Android device would be annoying. (Not impossible, just annoying.)
Messages. Being able to message with family from anywhere without worrying about SMS or WhatsApp is worth it.
There’s an obvious way to challenge Nigel Farage. But Keir Starmer won’t do it | Rafael Behr
L.S. Lowry walking through the back streets of Salford, August 1957. In the background are Oldfield Road Dwellings.
Milltown, painting by Manchester-born Geoffrey Key, b.1941. #NorthernArt
Jackpot.
This episode is an eye-opening review of the UK’s defence capability. Improvements needed, urgently.
NEW: Nothing has changed. Everything has changed.
EMERGENCY🌜EPISODE
🇪🇺 @andrewlewinmp.bsky.social's UK-EU summit reaction.
📊 @pimlicat.bsky.social's quick deal takeaways.
🐟 @sturdyalex.bsky.social's rarely-told fish truths.
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“Starmer needs to start governing. Labour need to stop triangulating and start running the country. They are wasting the term they were given, worrying about a second one. They can do a lot of good, if they stop being terrified of losing power in 2029 and start using the power they have in 2025.”
An image of a foggy bluebell woodland with a luminous green beech tree spreading its branches. © Damian Ward 2018
I am the Resurrection, Oxfordshire 2018.
I fought I would share an old bluebell image, as there are a few going around at the moment.
#photography
#monochrome
#blackandwhite
#woodland
#landscapephotography
