Julian Browne
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A chance to watch, admire the distance
A bit more than just the first computer program, she conceived the mp3
This is Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron and considered to be the first person to write a computer programme which was for Babbage's Analytical Machine. She died in 1842
In her honour, today is Ada Lovelace Day and is all about encouraging women and girls in mathematics, science and engineering.
In her honour, today is Ada Lovelace Day and is all about encouraging women and girls in mathematics, science and engineering.
October 8, 2025 at 8:01 PM
A bit more than just the first computer program, she conceived the mp3
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If you all hate the Riyadh Comedy Festival so much why don’t you tell it to go to it’s local consulate, ambush it using 15 special troops, strangle it, dismember it and dispose of it so its family can never have a proper funeral.
September 28, 2025 at 9:49 AM
If you all hate the Riyadh Comedy Festival so much why don’t you tell it to go to it’s local consulate, ambush it using 15 special troops, strangle it, dismember it and dispose of it so its family can never have a proper funeral.
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Magnificent Ancient Roman Mosaic Floor Unearthed in Verona, Italy
Magnificent Ancient Roman Mosaic Floor Unearthed in Verona, Italy
One often hears about renovation projects that tear up linoleum, shag carpet, or some equally unappealing flooring to discover a pristine (and now much more attractive) layer of hardwood or tile benea...
www.openculture.com
September 29, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Magnificent Ancient Roman Mosaic Floor Unearthed in Verona, Italy
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i will never forgive the techbros for ruining computer
computer was the only thing i liked
computer was the only thing i liked
September 6, 2025 at 2:49 PM
i will never forgive the techbros for ruining computer
computer was the only thing i liked
computer was the only thing i liked
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Okatsuka posted the censorship rules for the controversial comedy festival, noting how many "You can’t say anything anymore!" comedians have signed on.
www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...
www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...
Comedian Atsuko Okatsuka posts contract after turning down Riyadh Comedy Festival
Comedian Atsuko Okatsuka posts contract after turning down Riyadh Comedy Festival
www.avclub.com
September 27, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Okatsuka posted the censorship rules for the controversial comedy festival, noting how many "You can’t say anything anymore!" comedians have signed on.
www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...
www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...
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🇬🇧👀🇺🇸 UK ready for Trump visit!
September 16, 2025 at 9:54 AM
🇬🇧👀🇺🇸 UK ready for Trump visit!
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No.
You say you were whatever you like but you are racists.
You say you were whatever you like but you are racists.
September 16, 2025 at 5:41 AM
No.
You say you were whatever you like but you are racists.
You say you were whatever you like but you are racists.
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The existence of Betty Boo doing the do implies the existence of Betty Boothroyd doing the doothroyd
September 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
The existence of Betty Boo doing the do implies the existence of Betty Boothroyd doing the doothroyd
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no matter your politics it’s disrespectful to joke about someone’s death. don’t say charlie kirk died from a grand piano falling on his head and his mouth turned into piano keys and then a flower pot fell on his dick and it honked like a bike horn. don’t say stuff like that
September 10, 2025 at 10:48 PM
no matter your politics it’s disrespectful to joke about someone’s death. don’t say charlie kirk died from a grand piano falling on his head and his mouth turned into piano keys and then a flower pot fell on his dick and it honked like a bike horn. don’t say stuff like that
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Please, the U.S. Open asked us not to share any video of the president being booed heavily by an entire stadium, please respect their wishes, please
September 8, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Please, the U.S. Open asked us not to share any video of the president being booed heavily by an entire stadium, please respect their wishes, please
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If you are at the US Open and in the audience while Trump is there:
1. Please BOO him. Boo him like you're from NY, even if you're not.
2. Record it. Record all of it.
3. Post it to every social media platform you can think of.
1. Please BOO him. Boo him like you're from NY, even if you're not.
2. Record it. Record all of it.
3. Post it to every social media platform you can think of.
What the actual fuck.
US Tennis Association: “We ask all broadcasters to refrain from showcasing any disruptions or reactions in response to the President’s attendance in any capacity, including ENG [Electronic News Gathering] coverage.”
US Tennis Association: “We ask all broadcasters to refrain from showcasing any disruptions or reactions in response to the President’s attendance in any capacity, including ENG [Electronic News Gathering] coverage.”
U.S. Open Orders Broadcasters to Censor Reactions to Trump
An email obtained by Bounces includes instructions from the U.S. Open on supporting Trump's planned stagecraft during the National Anthem.
www.benrothenberg.com
September 6, 2025 at 9:52 PM
If you are at the US Open and in the audience while Trump is there:
1. Please BOO him. Boo him like you're from NY, even if you're not.
2. Record it. Record all of it.
3. Post it to every social media platform you can think of.
1. Please BOO him. Boo him like you're from NY, even if you're not.
2. Record it. Record all of it.
3. Post it to every social media platform you can think of.
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Imagine the message it would send if Gary Lineker won 'Presenter of the Year' at this year's National Television Awards
Standing up for compassion & the right to speak out
And, the feathers it would ruffle
My lovely followers, you know what to do:
nationaltvawards.com/vote
🗓️ Deadline: 12th Sep
Standing up for compassion & the right to speak out
And, the feathers it would ruffle
My lovely followers, you know what to do:
nationaltvawards.com/vote
🗓️ Deadline: 12th Sep
Vote | National Television Awards
Choose your winners in this year’s National Television Awards
nationaltvawards.com
September 1, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Imagine the message it would send if Gary Lineker won 'Presenter of the Year' at this year's National Television Awards
Standing up for compassion & the right to speak out
And, the feathers it would ruffle
My lovely followers, you know what to do:
nationaltvawards.com/vote
🗓️ Deadline: 12th Sep
Standing up for compassion & the right to speak out
And, the feathers it would ruffle
My lovely followers, you know what to do:
nationaltvawards.com/vote
🗓️ Deadline: 12th Sep
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Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
August 31, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice*
*you may have to temporarily put up with some embarrassing racist assholes with a job-lot of poundshop flags on their hands along the curve.
*you may have to temporarily put up with some embarrassing racist assholes with a job-lot of poundshop flags on their hands along the curve.
August 31, 2025 at 1:44 PM
The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice*
*you may have to temporarily put up with some embarrassing racist assholes with a job-lot of poundshop flags on their hands along the curve.
*you may have to temporarily put up with some embarrassing racist assholes with a job-lot of poundshop flags on their hands along the curve.
Which fucking water overpowers crab?
We’re done with the pisse d'âne now thanks, please bring a bottle of welsh tears. And fresh glasses please. These are a touch mulish.
We’re done with the pisse d'âne now thanks, please bring a bottle of welsh tears. And fresh glasses please. These are a touch mulish.
Meet the water sommeliers: they believe H₂O can rival wine – but would you pay £19 a bottle?
Meet the water sommeliers: they believe H₂O can rival wine – but would you pay £19 a bottle?
A restaurant in the English county of Cheshire has launched a water menu, as have a number of US establishments. Is it really possible, though, to tell one terroir from another?
www.theguardian.com
August 28, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Which fucking water overpowers crab?
We’re done with the pisse d'âne now thanks, please bring a bottle of welsh tears. And fresh glasses please. These are a touch mulish.
We’re done with the pisse d'âne now thanks, please bring a bottle of welsh tears. And fresh glasses please. These are a touch mulish.
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A BARGAIN BANK HOLIDAY £3.50 gets you Sensitive – The Film. Indiepop Wrecking Crew plays house band to singers from The Sea Urchins, Talulah Gosh, Soup Dragons, Altered Images, Weather Prophets, June Brides, Waltones & Jetstream Pony – playing 100% #indiepop smashes. www.sensitivealbum.com/the-film
The Film – Sensitive
www.sensitivealbum.com
August 23, 2025 at 11:35 AM
A BARGAIN BANK HOLIDAY £3.50 gets you Sensitive – The Film. Indiepop Wrecking Crew plays house band to singers from The Sea Urchins, Talulah Gosh, Soup Dragons, Altered Images, Weather Prophets, June Brides, Waltones & Jetstream Pony – playing 100% #indiepop smashes. www.sensitivealbum.com/the-film
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I have watched this video more times now than I’d like to admit, but it has made me laugh every single time.
[sound most definitely up]
[sound most definitely up]
July 6, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I have watched this video more times now than I’d like to admit, but it has made me laugh every single time.
[sound most definitely up]
[sound most definitely up]
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Watching German Shopping cart archery can be very satisfying.
August 15, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Watching German Shopping cart archery can be very satisfying.
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RIP Ray Brooks. A voice of my childhood and just brilliant in Big Deal.
August 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
RIP Ray Brooks. A voice of my childhood and just brilliant in Big Deal.
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Hayao Miyazaki is tired. He longs to retire, to rest, to sit on a porch and watch the trees. Suddenly he has an unbidden idea for a poignant coming of age story set in a world of magic and whimsy. He groans and reluctantly starts drawing the world’s most beautiful cartoon
September 9, 2023 at 12:19 AM
Hayao Miyazaki is tired. He longs to retire, to rest, to sit on a porch and watch the trees. Suddenly he has an unbidden idea for a poignant coming of age story set in a world of magic and whimsy. He groans and reluctantly starts drawing the world’s most beautiful cartoon
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Holy shit. This guy saved a PNG to a bird.
(he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...
(he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...
I Saved a PNG Image To A Bird
YouTube video by Benn Jordan
www.youtube.com
July 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Holy shit. This guy saved a PNG to a bird.
(he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...
(he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...
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Really enjoyed this tale observer.co.uk/news/first-p...
I knew the axe we’d found was old ... but that old?
When her husband picked up a stone axe in a flint-strewn field near their home in Dorset, Emily H Wilson experienced a rare ‘woo-woo’ moment. Could ...
observer.co.uk
June 8, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Really enjoyed this tale observer.co.uk/news/first-p...
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If you watch only one video today, let it be this one.
Watch NYU Stern School of Business Professor Scott Galloway’s outstanding commentary on what prosperity and wealth should mean in America.
His words could not be more on point and timely.
Please pass it on.
Watch NYU Stern School of Business Professor Scott Galloway’s outstanding commentary on what prosperity and wealth should mean in America.
His words could not be more on point and timely.
Please pass it on.
June 5, 2025 at 11:25 PM
If you watch only one video today, let it be this one.
Watch NYU Stern School of Business Professor Scott Galloway’s outstanding commentary on what prosperity and wealth should mean in America.
His words could not be more on point and timely.
Please pass it on.
Watch NYU Stern School of Business Professor Scott Galloway’s outstanding commentary on what prosperity and wealth should mean in America.
His words could not be more on point and timely.
Please pass it on.
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"A story of love, loss, breakups and breakdowns. Everything you'd expect from a Wedding Present song really." David Gedge introduces Reception: The Wedding Present Musical.
22 Aug - 6 Sep at the Warehouse in Holbeck (Slung Low) Leeds. Tickets from £16.90.
Book: www.weddingpresentmusical.com
22 Aug - 6 Sep at the Warehouse in Holbeck (Slung Low) Leeds. Tickets from £16.90.
Book: www.weddingpresentmusical.com
April 8, 2025 at 10:41 AM
"A story of love, loss, breakups and breakdowns. Everything you'd expect from a Wedding Present song really." David Gedge introduces Reception: The Wedding Present Musical.
22 Aug - 6 Sep at the Warehouse in Holbeck (Slung Low) Leeds. Tickets from £16.90.
Book: www.weddingpresentmusical.com
22 Aug - 6 Sep at the Warehouse in Holbeck (Slung Low) Leeds. Tickets from £16.90.
Book: www.weddingpresentmusical.com