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Oops - fixed it now - I'd set it to private while developing, but it works enough to play now.

I loved Sinclair Basic back in the day despite its limitations - it was my gateway drug into software and systems. When I discovered Boriel Basic a few weeks ago it allowed me reli…

Missing the bigger picture? The need for food banks exists precisely because capitalism fails to provide basic necessities to all people despite abundant resources. Celebrating mor…

Tim Maughan's award-winning dystopian / utopian sci-fi novel, Infinite Detail is set in Stokes Croft. It's not hard to imagine it one day it becoming the small anarchist post-colla…

Yes, it wants to replace Neoliberal Capitalism with ... Oligarchic Capitalism ... so still Capitalism!

Looks like they already resolved it - https://www.thebookseller.com/news/bloomsbury-reaches-new-lo...

Neoliberalism propaganda https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Pencil https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48383050 https://crookedtimber.org/2011/04/16/i-pencil-a-product-of-t... https:…

Five European countries have just produced guides to help people prepare for war. Here's a version for Brits.

We seem spoilt for Spectrum remakes lately - This ESP32 one is perhaps a more 'pure' example in terms of the user experience, and is similar to the PicoZX in some regards: https://…

Hiya, I was looking for something like this, and am finding it fun to play with. I just have one question ... How do I add a book to it?

It seems appropriate on May the 4th to look into the radical political origins of Star Wars … * Did Vietnam inspire Star Wars? * Is America the Empire? * Is Darth Vader Nixon? * Is…

Contrast this with - https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/04/28/natalism-c... & https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/04/first-thing-...

I didn't mean to shoot the messenger. I'd like to think the site was a joke, but if it is the joke stops too short for it to be very funny.

Really? Blaming the victims of poverty? I kept expecting it to say "Just kidding!" but it didn't. Being poor just takes one sad accident, one unexpected health problem, the circums…

Really? * https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/The_Heritage_Foundation * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heritage_Foundation Also worth reading - * https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Voter_f…

Is it your extensive research into anthropology that leads you to call this a "garbage essay"? Or could it be your resistance to some experts (admittedly not all, but many do agree…

There are several different attempts at Solar Punk Manifestos: (As there should be in a decentralised non-hierarchal philosophy) * From the short - https://www.solarpunkstudio.com/…

When I wrote this article I would have never expected anyone beyond a few friends to notice it. My blog has been mainly a place for me to think through ideas I'm interested in by w…

Undoubtedly prompted by this well-received drama - https://www.itv.com/watch/mr-bates-vs-the-post-office/10a046...

Is anyone meant to take such articles seriously from a well known conspiracy theory source? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UnHerd https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/UnHerd

Love books that teach coding in new and novel ways.

Its almost as if being on the precarious end of a precarious system lets down the most vulnerable.

I'm not sure of the value or veracity of this theory, as one of the few real life cases that was said to have supported it was inaccurately reported & the real events may have made…