rrees.bsky.social
@rrees.bsky.social
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Christ on a bike, this is brilliant.
And disgustingly historically accurate. 10/10
December 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Carol of the Bells in #
Kyiv subway.

Voices of the Embassies of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom came together to perform Shchedryk in the Kyiv metro as a sign of solidarity with Ukraine.

Thankful to everyone who stands with us!
December 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.

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December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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If you ever get the chance to design, or redesign a public service/platform, please *start* with delegated authority user needs. It's *the* hard problem you can't afford to leave until later.
December 21, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Years ago I did a LION IN WINTER paper figure/diorama/paper theater set. You can still download it and print it to cut and display, if that sort of endeavor is as much your inclination as it is mine:
www.patreon.com/posts/paper-...
November 28, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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When equality legislation is under fire as ‘woke’, it is worth revisiting and the broader vision associated with the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.

By Nick O'Brien.
Liberalism and the New Politics of Disability
When equality legislation is under fire as ‘woke’, it is worth revisiting and the broader vision associated with the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.
politicalquarterly.org.uk
December 21, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Hey guys!

I highly awared about our finances for the next year (everything's REAL bad) so i'm starting to look for a big cool coloring gigs for the next year - call me NOW if you wanna work with me in '26!

Pages from a few last comics made with @simonroy.bsky.social
December 21, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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On both right and left, there's anger about the recent assessments of Russia's threat to the UK and the rest of Europe, and about the need for us to prepare to meet it. There's a lot I could say here (as my students know), but most of it boils down to two things. 🧵
December 18, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Be good at some point to have a technology approach that is not just about shaking the magic money tree, and instead addresses national capabilities and resilience and engages with the realities of modern geopolitics
December 16, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Happy birthday to Jane Austen, and to this very on-brand Economist chart
www.economist.com/christmas-sp...
December 14, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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The highlight of the upcoming Ewbank’s Comic Book auction this month is surely a page of original art by Jamie Hewlett, published in Deadline No. 1 in 1988, featuring the first appearance of…

https://downthetubes.net/tank-girl-first-appearance-art-offered-in-upcoming-ewbanks-comic-book-auction/
December 8, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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(the exchange which made me realise that it was not just an issue of resources and capacity, the British civil service really does have some serious problems of competence)
December 6, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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What I would really like to see from any of the so-called radicals in UK politics is to move from their comfort zones and actually home in on real unaddressed issues like the overwhelming government bias towards the largest companies - which could make a real difference.
November 30, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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if I've one wish for 2026 its for people to stop sucking their teeth at prices for short run and one off art, models, etc. the folks who make stuff for their living have the same rising costs as everyone and spending £££ on factory-produced stuff costing pennies but not on artists really ain't fair
November 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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You might not think you needed to see Kate Bush dressed as a bat today, but you were wrong.
November 22, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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This is very good from Peter - and basically shows how the British Polling Council rules are supposed to work.
kellnerp.substack.com/p/how-whiteh...
How Whitehall suppressed the truth about the doctors strike
The Times was fed a front-page story that misled its readers
kellnerp.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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For the last year I have been working on an indie game called CENTRIFUGED. I mainly worked on the look and stylization and I learned so much! The team just released the demo trailer, and you can find more info on Steam www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7g7...
Indie Game - CENTRIFUGED Demo Launch Trailer
YouTube video by Centrifuged_Game
www.youtube.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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This conversation between ChatGPT and the young man it encouraged to commit suicide is just...my god

www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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WE HAVE A WINNER! 🏆

Huge congratulations to @dalya.dev for creating the The Perfect Date Picker who takes home the shit trophy and a copy of @kevinpowell.co's CSS Demystified course!

perfectdate.relevant.space
The Perfect Date Picker
perfectdate.relevant.space
October 29, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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the rubygems and bundler projects continue to change hands with nobody having ever explained how they came to be in the possession of ruby central www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2025...
The Transition of RubyGems Repository Ownership
www.ruby-lang.org
October 17, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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people willingly spinning up a substack in big 2025. get a grip! get a hold of yourself! have a word with yourself! take a good hard look in the mirror! contemplate how your actions overlap with bad actors! pontificate on how much your personal morals may flex under the weight of willful ignorance!
October 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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We (OpenUK) are running a free unconference in London next week to discuss AI.
agentopenunconference2025.eventbrite.co.uk
Boosters and sceptics very welcome!

#Unconference #London #AI
Agent Open Unconference organised in partnership with the AI Alliance
Agentic technology will be explored in a day of technical and security discussions, with maybe some governance and ethics in an unconference
agentopenunconference2025.eventbrite.co.uk
October 14, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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Lotta people warning me about fascism while still getting that Substack coin.
October 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM