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Simon De Meyere
@simondemeyere.bsky.social
Software developer; father; geography-nerd
WOW, indeed! If you're into any kind of puzzle, this is a must-try sudoku variant puzzle. It is one of the most enjoyable puzzles I've solved in a long time. It takes you on a journey through a dungeon that will keep you on the edge of your seat until you finish it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu3H...
One Of The Best Constructed Puzzles We've Ever Seen
YouTube video by Cracking The Cryptic
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January 20, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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What a memorable line:
...and the line I may quote forever more to anyone who says climate reporting is too doomy:
"The problem is that the problem is so big that to even describe it factually sounds like scaremongering"
January 11, 2025 at 12:38 PM
There are some amazing gift ideas for former boy scouts in here.
"Before we learned to make fire, before we rolled the first wheel, before we polished the first axe, we learned how to make knots." Kanya Kanchana invites us down the rabbit hole to enjoy six stories on our fascination with knots.

longreads.com/2025/01/07/k...
Knotty Business: A Delightfully Tangled Reading List on Knots - Longreads
Six stories on our fascination with knots.
longreads.com
January 12, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Entrepreneurs aren't made to be good politicians. One of the defining characteristics of successful entrepreneurs is that they need to be contrarian and challenge the status quo of the industry, which, in the sphere of politics, makes them gullible to fringe ideas.
January 11, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Meanwhile, in the fractured multi-language media landscape of the EU, where bold statements championing the common people have no reach and don't pay off at all, online safety has probably already been sold without us knowing.
January 11, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Bad design is frustrating, but no design? Even worse. We swing from overdoing to underdoing—where’s the balance? Watch @simonbrown.je ’s 2024 talk & join him live at Agile meets Architecture 2025!
January 9, 2025 at 12:41 PM
This is precisely why I am much more effective at home. I can do some actual thinking work without having to keep clicking through emails and scrolling through random bits of code to make it seem like I am productive.

agileotter.blogspot.com/2014/09/prog...
Programming Is Mostly Thinking
Pretend you have a really great programming day.   You only have to attend a few meetings, have only a few off-topic conversations, don'...
agileotter.blogspot.com
January 11, 2025 at 8:12 PM
We elected someone with the very open ambition of being an autocrat, so we shouldn't be surprised that the ultra-rich are reinventing themselves as oligarchs.
January 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
It's hard to miss this trend, even for the untrained eye. I really think we must try to counter this.
New Working Paper: Teenage boys and girls in Norway are more ideologically polarized than ever. Using data for 130,000 high-schoolers over 34 years, I find that a surge in anti-feminism among boys is driving much of the recent trend.📈

Read: osf.io/preprints/os...
Findings 🧵👇
January 10, 2025 at 11:45 AM
People have never tried to cure my left-handedness, but they have tried to cure my autism. I wonder if one day my psychological report will be similarly received as the title of this book.
Fantastic illustration of the topic of social construction of pathology -- and of medical progress, since we no longer pathologies this. #socy126 #nosology #lefties #southpaws
January 10, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Ah yes, Trump administration, famously always vigilant against contagious diseases
Breaking News: President-elect Trump’s advisers are said to be trying to identify a disease that could help them justify closing the U.S. border with Mexico. They have spent months trying to find the right disease to build their case.
Inside Trump’s Search for a Health Threat to Justify His Immigration Crackdown
President-elect Donald J. Trump’s advisers have spent months trying to identify a disease that will help them build their case for closing the border.
www.nytimes.com
January 10, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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The topic of the first playable female protagonist isn't as cut-and-dried as folks might like to think. There are many flavors of first, which trips people up. Who was the first on arcade, computer, home console? In the US, Japan, Europe? I'll try to unravel it for you here in a thread. 🧵
January 9, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Why have I never seen this guy before? This is awesome! (Andrey Averyushkin Jr.)
www.youtube.com/shorts/TV1EH...
A clown playing drums with balls. [Andrey Averyushkin Jr.]
YouTube video by Galactic Melodic Vibrations
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January 10, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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New study found eating #Camembert cheese could improve memory & protect the brain during aging (at least in mice)..

Camembert uses #Penicillium camemberti in its fermentation, which produces fatty acid amides that are rarely found in other cheeses.

www.connexionfrance.com/news/eating-... #MicroSky
Eating Camembert improves memory (at least in mice), new report says
The research study focused on chemicals created in the cheese’s fermentation process
www.connexionfrance.com
January 5, 2025 at 7:52 PM
It's worrying that one man can just randomly notice a fan in the crowd, snap his fingers and make him a member of parliament on another continent entirely.
Cypriot MEP Fidias Panayiotou has gone from an Elon Musk superfan to one of the tech billionaire's closest allies in the European Parliament.

🔗 www.politico.eu/article/elon...
January 10, 2025 at 10:04 AM
I love the free choice of feeds and feed providers on Bluesky. This is the most crucial aspect of a healthy free speech environment that has been missing entirely from the social media age.
January 10, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Lost 800 followers on Threads this week. Gained a few hundred on Mastodon. Gained a few thousand on Bluesky. But hey, who could have predicted that creating unnecessary AI bot accounts, eliminating fact checkers, and making users rely on an unpredictable algorithm would have negative repercussions?
January 9, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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ABC, NBC & CBS dedicated about 16 minutes of airtime last night to the California wildfires without once mentioning climate change.

Since the news failed do it's job, here's a short summary of the role of climate change and wildfire risk:

www.noaa.gov/noaa-wildfir...
Wildfire climate connection
Climate change, including increased heat, extended drought, and a thirsty atmosphere, has been a key driver in increasing the risk and extent of wildfires in the western United States during the last ...
www.noaa.gov
January 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM