Richard Dalton
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Richard Dalton
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· Jan 28
I've been reading Code The Classics
magpi.raspberrypi.com/books/code-t...
Volume 2 is now also available.
I've started work on a new version of my favourite Atari 2600 game. Combat.
Maybe I'll be done in time for the 50th Anniversay in 2027
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combat_...
magpi.raspberrypi.com/books/code-t...
Volume 2 is now also available.
I've started work on a new version of my favourite Atari 2600 game. Combat.
Maybe I'll be done in time for the 50th Anniversay in 2027
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combat_...
Starmer: OK Listen. I've an idea.
Lammy: This'll be good.
Starmer: Refugees right? While waiting for leave to remain. Are only allowed to vote for Reform.
Mahmood: That'll be 20 years? Won't that be good for Reform and bad for Labour?
Starmer: Will it?
Mahmood: Oh 4d Chess. Nice one Gaffer.
Lammy: This'll be good.
Starmer: Refugees right? While waiting for leave to remain. Are only allowed to vote for Reform.
Mahmood: That'll be 20 years? Won't that be good for Reform and bad for Labour?
Starmer: Will it?
Mahmood: Oh 4d Chess. Nice one Gaffer.
November 19, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Starmer: OK Listen. I've an idea.
Lammy: This'll be good.
Starmer: Refugees right? While waiting for leave to remain. Are only allowed to vote for Reform.
Mahmood: That'll be 20 years? Won't that be good for Reform and bad for Labour?
Starmer: Will it?
Mahmood: Oh 4d Chess. Nice one Gaffer.
Lammy: This'll be good.
Starmer: Refugees right? While waiting for leave to remain. Are only allowed to vote for Reform.
Mahmood: That'll be 20 years? Won't that be good for Reform and bad for Labour?
Starmer: Will it?
Mahmood: Oh 4d Chess. Nice one Gaffer.
I think we can all agree that pouring soup on a painting behind some protective glass is exactly equivalent to pouring hundreds of millions of gallons of oil into the see, killing wildlife and destroying livelihoods.
So the just stop oil criminals should be punished like oil CEOs
Give them $$$$$$$
So the just stop oil criminals should be punished like oil CEOs
Give them $$$$$$$
November 19, 2025 at 10:43 AM
I think we can all agree that pouring soup on a painting behind some protective glass is exactly equivalent to pouring hundreds of millions of gallons of oil into the see, killing wildlife and destroying livelihoods.
So the just stop oil criminals should be punished like oil CEOs
Give them $$$$$$$
So the just stop oil criminals should be punished like oil CEOs
Give them $$$$$$$
People wondering what has caused this sudden change in fortunes for the Irish football team.
What's changed?
Well.....
youtube.com/shorts/IvDXJ...
What's changed?
Well.....
youtube.com/shorts/IvDXJ...
Catherine Connolly's keepie-uppies and basketball skills
YouTube video by The Journal
youtube.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:03 PM
People wondering what has caused this sudden change in fortunes for the Irish football team.
What's changed?
Well.....
youtube.com/shorts/IvDXJ...
What's changed?
Well.....
youtube.com/shorts/IvDXJ...
Britain:
Oh Labour, please rid us of these evil Tories.
To
Labour are evil but at least they’re not Reform.
To
Labour are evil, they might as well be Reform.
To
Oh Reform, please rid us of this evil Labour.
Oh Labour, please rid us of these evil Tories.
To
Labour are evil but at least they’re not Reform.
To
Labour are evil, they might as well be Reform.
To
Oh Reform, please rid us of this evil Labour.
November 17, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Britain:
Oh Labour, please rid us of these evil Tories.
To
Labour are evil but at least they’re not Reform.
To
Labour are evil, they might as well be Reform.
To
Oh Reform, please rid us of this evil Labour.
Oh Labour, please rid us of these evil Tories.
To
Labour are evil but at least they’re not Reform.
To
Labour are evil, they might as well be Reform.
To
Oh Reform, please rid us of this evil Labour.
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A study finds that deep sleep rewires the brain to eliminate anxiety.
My own study suggests that anxiety rewires the brain to eliminate deep sleep.
My own study suggests that anxiety rewires the brain to eliminate deep sleep.
November 16, 2025 at 2:06 AM
A study finds that deep sleep rewires the brain to eliminate anxiety.
My own study suggests that anxiety rewires the brain to eliminate deep sleep.
My own study suggests that anxiety rewires the brain to eliminate deep sleep.
I didn’t get to see the game because …helping kids study’s
But you have to hand it to Troy Parrot
5 goals in 2 games to drag Ireland into a playoff they had no right to expect.
This beats any one off magic from Houghton or Keane or Duff.
It’s staggering.
Delighted for him.
But you have to hand it to Troy Parrot
5 goals in 2 games to drag Ireland into a playoff they had no right to expect.
This beats any one off magic from Houghton or Keane or Duff.
It’s staggering.
Delighted for him.
November 16, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I didn’t get to see the game because …helping kids study’s
But you have to hand it to Troy Parrot
5 goals in 2 games to drag Ireland into a playoff they had no right to expect.
This beats any one off magic from Houghton or Keane or Duff.
It’s staggering.
Delighted for him.
But you have to hand it to Troy Parrot
5 goals in 2 games to drag Ireland into a playoff they had no right to expect.
This beats any one off magic from Houghton or Keane or Duff.
It’s staggering.
Delighted for him.
Dear Universe,
Please show me a metaphor for the governance of the UK, that’s so on the nose nobody would believe it if it were a movie.
…
Please show me a metaphor for the governance of the UK, that’s so on the nose nobody would believe it if it were a movie.
…
they did it
they actually managed to kick the can down the road again. amazing
www.politico.eu/article/fina...
they actually managed to kick the can down the road again. amazing
www.politico.eu/article/fina...
Final decision on fate of crumbling UK parliament delayed to 2030s
It’s a fire-hazard that’s prone to tumbling masonry — but fear of a public backlash is again delaying repairs to the world famous building.
www.politico.eu
November 16, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Dear Universe,
Please show me a metaphor for the governance of the UK, that’s so on the nose nobody would believe it if it were a movie.
…
Please show me a metaphor for the governance of the UK, that’s so on the nose nobody would believe it if it were a movie.
…
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I'm not religious, but this Pope seems like a really good dude.
ground.news/article/pope...
ground.news/article/pope...
Pope returns 62 artifacts to Indigenous peoples from Canada as part of reckoning with colonial past
The Vatican on Saturday returned 62 artifacts to Indigenous peoples from Canada as part of the Catholic Church’s reckoning with its role in helping suppress Indigenous culture in the Americas. Pope Le...
ground.news
November 16, 2025 at 5:46 AM
I'm not religious, but this Pope seems like a really good dude.
ground.news/article/pope...
ground.news/article/pope...
The most tiresome thing about the whole Trump era is the endless stream of people who can’t seem to grasp that he will never be punished. Never be ousted.
They keep going on about his lies and crimes as if that will bring him down.
His lies and crimes are why he succeeded.
They keep going on about his lies and crimes as if that will bring him down.
His lies and crimes are why he succeeded.
November 16, 2025 at 11:31 AM
The most tiresome thing about the whole Trump era is the endless stream of people who can’t seem to grasp that he will never be punished. Never be ousted.
They keep going on about his lies and crimes as if that will bring him down.
His lies and crimes are why he succeeded.
They keep going on about his lies and crimes as if that will bring him down.
His lies and crimes are why he succeeded.
Minidisc deserves a revival far more than vinyl. It just doesn’t have enough people with nostalgia to sell it.
For anyone trying to cut ties with streaming Minidisc beats vinyl for reliability and convenience. And it beats CDs and Tape for portability.
While maintaining the physical media “feel”
For anyone trying to cut ties with streaming Minidisc beats vinyl for reliability and convenience. And it beats CDs and Tape for portability.
While maintaining the physical media “feel”
November 16, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Minidisc deserves a revival far more than vinyl. It just doesn’t have enough people with nostalgia to sell it.
For anyone trying to cut ties with streaming Minidisc beats vinyl for reliability and convenience. And it beats CDs and Tape for portability.
While maintaining the physical media “feel”
For anyone trying to cut ties with streaming Minidisc beats vinyl for reliability and convenience. And it beats CDs and Tape for portability.
While maintaining the physical media “feel”
We’ve fallen a Looong way from the great days of May, generating 60kWh.
Not unusual to be 90% less this month.
Combined with the heating and other electricity use being higher.
Not unusual to be 90% less this month.
Combined with the heating and other electricity use being higher.
November 15, 2025 at 6:50 PM
We’ve fallen a Looong way from the great days of May, generating 60kWh.
Not unusual to be 90% less this month.
Combined with the heating and other electricity use being higher.
Not unusual to be 90% less this month.
Combined with the heating and other electricity use being higher.
I start reading and think The US really has gone completely.
Then slowly realise it’s not the US.
Then slowly realise it’s not the US.
If the government really intends to seize jewellery and other valuables from refugees,
either
- it is staggeringly ignorant of the historical precedents
or
- it's aware of the precedents, and thinks, yeah, we'll have some of that.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
either
- it is staggeringly ignorant of the historical precedents
or
- it's aware of the precedents, and thinks, yeah, we'll have some of that.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
No 10 tells Labour MPs it expects support for tough new asylum policies
Some backbenchers already opposing planned immigration crackdown seen as ‘economically and culturally illiterate’
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:45 PM
I start reading and think The US really has gone completely.
Then slowly realise it’s not the US.
Then slowly realise it’s not the US.
I remember when this box set came out. I used to go to the record shop and look at it on the top shelf behind the counter. The vinyl version.
I can’t remember what it cost but it seemed like a fortune.
I had just bought my first LP. Born in the USA.
I can’t remember what it cost but it seemed like a fortune.
I had just bought my first LP. Born in the USA.
November 15, 2025 at 11:12 AM
I remember when this box set came out. I used to go to the record shop and look at it on the top shelf behind the counter. The vinyl version.
I can’t remember what it cost but it seemed like a fortune.
I had just bought my first LP. Born in the USA.
I can’t remember what it cost but it seemed like a fortune.
I had just bought my first LP. Born in the USA.
The kind that lose?
November 15, 2025 at 11:08 AM
The kind that lose?
I’ve was always curious about the cover of Making Movies.
It was only when I got it on vinyl that I realised the inner sleeve matches the illustration on the cover.
Long after vinyl finally dies that album art will be around.
It was only when I got it on vinyl that I realised the inner sleeve matches the illustration on the cover.
Long after vinyl finally dies that album art will be around.
November 15, 2025 at 11:06 AM
I’ve was always curious about the cover of Making Movies.
It was only when I got it on vinyl that I realised the inner sleeve matches the illustration on the cover.
Long after vinyl finally dies that album art will be around.
It was only when I got it on vinyl that I realised the inner sleeve matches the illustration on the cover.
Long after vinyl finally dies that album art will be around.
If Beach Boys 45s have taught me anything it’s that they could get away with putting out some fucking shit B Sides.
November 14, 2025 at 9:30 PM
If Beach Boys 45s have taught me anything it’s that they could get away with putting out some fucking shit B Sides.
This suggests that far from using tariffs to improve the lives of Americans.
He used them to pay for a Ballroom.
That he claimed was being paid for by Donations.
He used them to pay for a Ballroom.
That he claimed was being paid for by Donations.
November 14, 2025 at 7:13 PM
This suggests that far from using tariffs to improve the lives of Americans.
He used them to pay for a Ballroom.
That he claimed was being paid for by Donations.
He used them to pay for a Ballroom.
That he claimed was being paid for by Donations.
Dammit.
Somebody recently pointed out that America is built on an old Indian burial ground. And that might explain why it’s cursed.
And I can’t find their post to give them credit.
But that’s been stuck in my head for a while now.
Somebody recently pointed out that America is built on an old Indian burial ground. And that might explain why it’s cursed.
And I can’t find their post to give them credit.
But that’s been stuck in my head for a while now.
November 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Dammit.
Somebody recently pointed out that America is built on an old Indian burial ground. And that might explain why it’s cursed.
And I can’t find their post to give them credit.
But that’s been stuck in my head for a while now.
Somebody recently pointed out that America is built on an old Indian burial ground. And that might explain why it’s cursed.
And I can’t find their post to give them credit.
But that’s been stuck in my head for a while now.
Jesus Christ they’re so bad at politics.
Doing the right thing can sometimes be unpopular.
Doing the wrong thing can cause long term damage.
They keep finding ways of combining long term damage with short term unpopularity.
Doing the right thing can sometimes be unpopular.
Doing the wrong thing can cause long term damage.
They keep finding ways of combining long term damage with short term unpopularity.
Today’s Budget speculation is that yesterday’s Budget speculation was wrong bit.ly/3XfQmfX and will be replaced by other speculation, probably- or maybe not
Rachel Reeves scraps budget plan to increase income tax
Chancellor was considering breaking Labour’s manifesto pledge but has backed down over fears it would anger mutinous MPs and voters
bit.ly
November 14, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Jesus Christ they’re so bad at politics.
Doing the right thing can sometimes be unpopular.
Doing the wrong thing can cause long term damage.
They keep finding ways of combining long term damage with short term unpopularity.
Doing the right thing can sometimes be unpopular.
Doing the wrong thing can cause long term damage.
They keep finding ways of combining long term damage with short term unpopularity.
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I never want to wait for a post credit scene again for the rest of my life. If you want me to think it's part of the movie, put it in the movie.
November 13, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I never want to wait for a post credit scene again for the rest of my life. If you want me to think it's part of the movie, put it in the movie.
I’m a Liverpool fan.
I don’t buy this idea that they were robbed of the VVD goal last week.
It was a rehearsed set piece.
So either he messed up what they rehearsed and was offside.
OR
The set piece involved him being offside and hoping to get away with “not being involved”
Both stupid.
I don’t buy this idea that they were robbed of the VVD goal last week.
It was a rehearsed set piece.
So either he messed up what they rehearsed and was offside.
OR
The set piece involved him being offside and hoping to get away with “not being involved”
Both stupid.
November 14, 2025 at 12:06 PM
I’m a Liverpool fan.
I don’t buy this idea that they were robbed of the VVD goal last week.
It was a rehearsed set piece.
So either he messed up what they rehearsed and was offside.
OR
The set piece involved him being offside and hoping to get away with “not being involved”
Both stupid.
I don’t buy this idea that they were robbed of the VVD goal last week.
It was a rehearsed set piece.
So either he messed up what they rehearsed and was offside.
OR
The set piece involved him being offside and hoping to get away with “not being involved”
Both stupid.
The next Democrat president if there ever is one, should demolish the ballroom on literally day one. Like diggers ready as the inauguration is happening.
Reinstate the Rise Garden.
Rebuild the East Wing.
Demolish any monument or statue erected in the next few years.
The symbolism matters.
Reinstate the Rise Garden.
Rebuild the East Wing.
Demolish any monument or statue erected in the next few years.
The symbolism matters.
November 13, 2025 at 7:14 PM
The next Democrat president if there ever is one, should demolish the ballroom on literally day one. Like diggers ready as the inauguration is happening.
Reinstate the Rise Garden.
Rebuild the East Wing.
Demolish any monument or statue erected in the next few years.
The symbolism matters.
Reinstate the Rise Garden.
Rebuild the East Wing.
Demolish any monument or statue erected in the next few years.
The symbolism matters.
Why do some parents bring students to parent teacher meetings?
November 13, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Why do some parents bring students to parent teacher meetings?
Point: Old cassette players weren't reliable.
Counter-Point: They probably still work, maybe need a new belt. That little black mirror you run spotify on cost hundreds (maybe a thousand euro or more), and you'll buy a new one in 3 years for even more.
Counter-Point: They probably still work, maybe need a new belt. That little black mirror you run spotify on cost hundreds (maybe a thousand euro or more), and you'll buy a new one in 3 years for even more.
November 13, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Point: Old cassette players weren't reliable.
Counter-Point: They probably still work, maybe need a new belt. That little black mirror you run spotify on cost hundreds (maybe a thousand euro or more), and you'll buy a new one in 3 years for even more.
Counter-Point: They probably still work, maybe need a new belt. That little black mirror you run spotify on cost hundreds (maybe a thousand euro or more), and you'll buy a new one in 3 years for even more.
Welcome to the 21st Century Y’all.
Keep your CDs.
Keep your CDs.
November 13, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Welcome to the 21st Century Y’all.
Keep your CDs.
Keep your CDs.