Pete Birkinshaw
@binaryape.bsky.social
Hat-wearing devourer of chickpeas, Manchester vegan, manager of identities, developer of obscure software, Green inactivist, Elixir & Ruby coder, watcher of K-dramas, daft-apeth.
Alignment: Quixotic-Good
https://binary-ape.org
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Pete Birkinshaw
@binaryape.bsky.social
· Jul 30
I'm going to list Korean romcoms I've watched so far [copied from my old thread elsewhere]
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Previously, I posted that Na-ion batteries were likely to reach Li-ion battery energy density faster due to the prior advances and experience from Lithium work. Well, that’s appears to be the case. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 www.uh.edu/news-events/...
Breakthrough New Material Brings Affordable, Sustainable Future Within Grasp
Researchers have developed a new material for sodium-ion batteries, sodium vanadium phosphate, that delivers higher voltage and greater energy capacity than previous sodium-based materials. This break...
www.uh.edu
December 25, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Previously, I posted that Na-ion batteries were likely to reach Li-ion battery energy density faster due to the prior advances and experience from Lithium work. Well, that’s appears to be the case. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 www.uh.edu/news-events/...
About 10 years ago I was very short of money and realised the only broadcast TV programme I had watched for years was Doctor Who, and that wasn’t worth £140 or whatever for the license fee so I stopped. I think it’s got worse.
Lmao look at the state of linear television
Christmas Day ratings (according to BBC)
December 26, 2025 at 6:37 PM
About 10 years ago I was very short of money and realised the only broadcast TV programme I had watched for years was Doctor Who, and that wasn’t worth £140 or whatever for the license fee so I stopped. I think it’s got worse.
I just opened up my diagraming app for the first time in six months, saw this, and thought "What the hell was I working on before I got ill!?" (Eventually remembered I was trying to work out how many different sides were murdering each other in grim K-drama Dear Hongrang
I started trying to actually map this out and it is too much
December 26, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I just opened up my diagraming app for the first time in six months, saw this, and thought "What the hell was I working on before I got ill!?" (Eventually remembered I was trying to work out how many different sides were murdering each other in grim K-drama Dear Hongrang
"It held up well"
joining the "cybertruck owners only" group on fb is one of the best decisions i've ever made. every so often when i'm scrolling through fb getting pissed off, i get to see a little treat like this
December 26, 2025 at 4:20 PM
"It held up well"
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"we showed our granny who has dementia fake AI pics of her meeting ozzy" should, I think, get you sent to prison
December 26, 2025 at 11:27 AM
"we showed our granny who has dementia fake AI pics of her meeting ozzy" should, I think, get you sent to prison
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They also, for all they’ll claim to defend Christianity, hate pretty much all the Churches as they actually exist. They’ll sometimes use the RC Church as a stick to beat the C of E because it’s (even) more conservative on sexuality, but they hated Pope Francis and they’ll hate Pope Leo too.
December 26, 2025 at 9:43 AM
They also, for all they’ll claim to defend Christianity, hate pretty much all the Churches as they actually exist. They’ll sometimes use the RC Church as a stick to beat the C of E because it’s (even) more conservative on sexuality, but they hated Pope Francis and they’ll hate Pope Leo too.
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Quite revealing of the way these supposed defenders of British traditions actually hate pretty much everything about it, *including the King.*
Harrison Pitt accuses the King of treachery. Pitt is a Senior Policy Fellow for Rupert Lowe's Restore Britain, who also regularly co-hosts podcasts with his ally Tomlinson (who advocates banning all ethnic and faith minorities from public office). Like Lowe, Pitt is keen to dissolve boundaries/norms
December 26, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Quite revealing of the way these supposed defenders of British traditions actually hate pretty much everything about it, *including the King.*
Absolutely this. Hunts are violent rural gangs that frequently literally ride roughshod over local communities. Trespassing, killing pets, blocking roads, causing damage, harassing & beating people up. I think that lawless bullying aspect is part of the fun for them.
This paints all rural communities as loving the Hunt when there are so many people who hate it. Rich farmers love it. The aristocracy loves it. I wish journalists would talk to other people in rural communities.
Sir Keir Starmer has been warned he has a long way to go to rebuild trust with rural communities as Boxing Day hunts meet in the shadow of a looming crackdown
December 26, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Absolutely this. Hunts are violent rural gangs that frequently literally ride roughshod over local communities. Trespassing, killing pets, blocking roads, causing damage, harassing & beating people up. I think that lawless bullying aspect is part of the fun for them.
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Oh FFS, Today Christmas guest editors, tax dodger James Dyson an ex Tory PM and head of AI from Microsoft…. Why not get some genuinely interesting people? Someone who volunteers in a food bank, a doctor who works in a&e, a Welsh hill farmer…. BBC has completely lost its way.
November 24, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Oh FFS, Today Christmas guest editors, tax dodger James Dyson an ex Tory PM and head of AI from Microsoft…. Why not get some genuinely interesting people? Someone who volunteers in a food bank, a doctor who works in a&e, a Welsh hill farmer…. BBC has completely lost its way.
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me: you boy what day is it today?
boy: nonces shout out of the window day.
me: oof you’ve absolutely done me there.
boy: nonces shout out of the window day.
me: oof you’ve absolutely done me there.
December 25, 2024 at 7:57 AM
me: you boy what day is it today?
boy: nonces shout out of the window day.
me: oof you’ve absolutely done me there.
boy: nonces shout out of the window day.
me: oof you’ve absolutely done me there.
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So this is Christmas
And what have we done?
We chased down Ceausescu
Shot him with a gun
And what have we done?
We chased down Ceausescu
Shot him with a gun
December 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
So this is Christmas
And what have we done?
We chased down Ceausescu
Shot him with a gun
And what have we done?
We chased down Ceausescu
Shot him with a gun
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When decimalisation occurred in 1966, the Australian government compiled an 81 page file on dangers of using decimal coins in Christmas puddings. There was a media campaign warning people not to use the new coins in their cooking. The file is now digitised.
recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetri...
recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetri...
December 25, 2025 at 9:22 AM
When decimalisation occurred in 1966, the Australian government compiled an 81 page file on dangers of using decimal coins in Christmas puddings. There was a media campaign warning people not to use the new coins in their cooking. The file is now digitised.
recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetri...
recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetri...
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"We saw you from across the bar and thought you should be deported."
December 25, 2025 at 9:07 AM
"We saw you from across the bar and thought you should be deported."
I’m a big fan of Invader. I bought his Manchester map and went around trying to find them. Many have gone now, I’m hoping Invader returns and adds more.
Alex DeLarge d’Orange Mécanique est apparu à Londres il y a 10 jours, dans une nouvelle vague de 27 mosaïques de l’artiste Invader. C’est une immense et superbe pièce, regardez son oeil, son buste ou son pied. #invaderwashere #streetart
December 25, 2025 at 9:37 AM
I’m a big fan of Invader. I bought his Manchester map and went around trying to find them. Many have gone now, I’m hoping Invader returns and adds more.
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If you’re lonely today and want someone to talk to in the U.K.:
• Call Samaritans 116 123 – 24/7
• Text SHOUT to 85258 – free, 24/7 text support
• 55+: The Silver Line 0800 470 8090 – friendship and listening, 24/7
• Under 19: Childline 0800 1111 or chat online
We are here on bluesky too🩷
• Call Samaritans 116 123 – 24/7
• Text SHOUT to 85258 – free, 24/7 text support
• 55+: The Silver Line 0800 470 8090 – friendship and listening, 24/7
• Under 19: Childline 0800 1111 or chat online
We are here on bluesky too🩷
December 25, 2025 at 9:05 AM
If you’re lonely today and want someone to talk to in the U.K.:
• Call Samaritans 116 123 – 24/7
• Text SHOUT to 85258 – free, 24/7 text support
• 55+: The Silver Line 0800 470 8090 – friendship and listening, 24/7
• Under 19: Childline 0800 1111 or chat online
We are here on bluesky too🩷
• Call Samaritans 116 123 – 24/7
• Text SHOUT to 85258 – free, 24/7 text support
• 55+: The Silver Line 0800 470 8090 – friendship and listening, 24/7
• Under 19: Childline 0800 1111 or chat online
We are here on bluesky too🩷
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This is proper #Brummie: the Sikh Langar Seva Society feeding the homeless in New Street station: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
New Street Station hosts 300 homeless people for annual meal
www.bbc.co.uk
December 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM
This is proper #Brummie: the Sikh Langar Seva Society feeding the homeless in New Street station: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Want to hear about my worst ever Christmas Day? Sure you do.
20-ish years ago, my then-girlfriend said her brother had invited us to spend Christmas day with him and his girlfriend at said girlfriend's mum's house. Sounds cosy, right? Nope. 1/
20-ish years ago, my then-girlfriend said her brother had invited us to spend Christmas day with him and his girlfriend at said girlfriend's mum's house. Sounds cosy, right? Nope. 1/
December 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Want to hear about my worst ever Christmas Day? Sure you do.
20-ish years ago, my then-girlfriend said her brother had invited us to spend Christmas day with him and his girlfriend at said girlfriend's mum's house. Sounds cosy, right? Nope. 1/
20-ish years ago, my then-girlfriend said her brother had invited us to spend Christmas day with him and his girlfriend at said girlfriend's mum's house. Sounds cosy, right? Nope. 1/
One of my in-development Phoenix apps is hard-crashing with malloc and SIGABRT or SIGTRAP errors, I *think* since I updated MacOS to either Tahoe 26 or 26.2. I'm baffled. Is it Erlang or is a C or Rust NIF somewhere doing it? It worked fine a few months ago. Grrrr.
#ElixirLang
#ElixirLang
December 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
One of my in-development Phoenix apps is hard-crashing with malloc and SIGABRT or SIGTRAP errors, I *think* since I updated MacOS to either Tahoe 26 or 26.2. I'm baffled. Is it Erlang or is a C or Rust NIF somewhere doing it? It worked fine a few months ago. Grrrr.
#ElixirLang
#ElixirLang
NHK has a series about 100-year old Japanese businesses (I am now craving Nori Tsukudani) that for some reason uses Danny Boy as the background music. My attempt to sing it Club Singer style led me to look it up, and I learned that the anthem of Irish Americans was written by an English man.
December 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM
NHK has a series about 100-year old Japanese businesses (I am now craving Nori Tsukudani) that for some reason uses Danny Boy as the background music. My attempt to sing it Club Singer style led me to look it up, and I learned that the anthem of Irish Americans was written by an English man.
UK universities have been pushed* into outsourcing key IT services to Microsoft and deskilling their staff, and Microsoft is apparently happy to follow the whims of Trump’s gang of lawless fascists, and I feel this might become a problem.
This sort of thing was still seen as silly quite recently, but now that Trump is actively blocking foreign enemies in Europe (people who follow laws, or don’t like fascism, etc) from accessing US-based services I can see it happening again across Europe. There’s a rumbling noise of slow big changes.
Denmark Begins its Exit from Microsoft — and This is Just the Beginning
The move is part of a government-wide effort to reduce dependency on Microsoft software. The traffic department's move is just the beginning.
itsfoss.com
December 24, 2025 at 11:38 AM
UK universities have been pushed* into outsourcing key IT services to Microsoft and deskilling their staff, and Microsoft is apparently happy to follow the whims of Trump’s gang of lawless fascists, and I feel this might become a problem.
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Monarchists constantly tell me that the Royals are subject to the same laws as all of us, but when you see how little is done to hold scumbags like Andrew to account says otherwise. If Parliament won‘t act, and the police won‘t act, then the fact that they could act if they wanted is meaningless.
December 24, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Monarchists constantly tell me that the Royals are subject to the same laws as all of us, but when you see how little is done to hold scumbags like Andrew to account says otherwise. If Parliament won‘t act, and the police won‘t act, then the fact that they could act if they wanted is meaningless.
This sort of thing was still seen as silly quite recently, but now that Trump is actively blocking foreign enemies in Europe (people who follow laws, or don’t like fascism, etc) from accessing US-based services I can see it happening again across Europe. There’s a rumbling noise of slow big changes.
Denmark Begins its Exit from Microsoft — and This is Just the Beginning
The move is part of a government-wide effort to reduce dependency on Microsoft software. The traffic department's move is just the beginning.
itsfoss.com
December 24, 2025 at 11:29 AM
This sort of thing was still seen as silly quite recently, but now that Trump is actively blocking foreign enemies in Europe (people who follow laws, or don’t like fascism, etc) from accessing US-based services I can see it happening again across Europe. There’s a rumbling noise of slow big changes.
I just saw a post here about a care home in the USA that blew up, probably caused by a gas leak, and there was an explosion last week in the UK - its really weird that people accept gas as a normal safe thing. One of A’s colleagues ended up in hospital after a carbon monoxide leak last month.
December 24, 2025 at 10:27 AM
I just saw a post here about a care home in the USA that blew up, probably caused by a gas leak, and there was an explosion last week in the UK - its really weird that people accept gas as a normal safe thing. One of A’s colleagues ended up in hospital after a carbon monoxide leak last month.