Kevin Marks

Bernard LaFayette, Selma voting rights organizer, has died Voting rights organizer Bernard LaFayette has died. LaFayette's son says his father died Thursday morning of a heart attack. He was 85.

Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died.

As I get older I'm coming to increasingly radical views like "you have to do things to get good at them" and "you have to think about problems to solve them"

Mary Shelley: i consent
Percy Shelley: i consent
Lord Byron: i consent
Gravestone of Mary Wollstonecraft: isn't there someone you forgot to ask?

A stacked area chart of the electricity generation mix on the island of Ireland with the following fuel types: battery, pumped storage, biomass, waste-to-energy, hydro, solar, wind, oil, and gas. There is also a black line showing electricity demand. Footnote reads: All-island figures. Excludes rooftop solar. Source: EirGrid, SEMO

A stacked area chart of the renewable electricity generation mix on the island of Ireland. There are eight fuel types: pumped storage, biomass, waste-to-energy, hydro, solar, wind, oil, and gas. The y axis indicates the percentage of demand being met by each source. Footnote reads: All-island figures. Excludes rooftop solar. Source: EirGrid, SEMO

🚨 A historic double-header for the Irish grid today with two major records broken:
- this morning, battery discharge reached almost 500MW, or roughly 8% of electricity demand 🔋
- just after 12pm, solar output exceeded 1GW (roughly 20% of demand) for the very first time ☀️

Much more to come!

Luxury! I had to go to university to get on the Internet in 1985, and had to stay up late to play Essex MUD when computer time was cheaper.

That's link has already expired, got a précis?

"I dread even saying this... but I think that we've ended up in the wrong place on trans, and we've done that by treading very self-consciously and not actually following our hearts, which is that trans people are on the margins, they are vulnerable. "If the Labour Party doesn't look after trans people, what are we about? "They're most likely to get beaten up. They're the ones who are most likely to have prejudice against them. We should not be indulging in anything that marginalises them even more."

Emily Thornberry’s words on Radio 4 in response to the Green win in Gorton and Denton.

This is why wins like this are so important, whatever you may think of the Greens (much like the immigration rebellion brewing).

This social-media campaign from UK Counter-Terrorism Police is misconceived, othering, and outright *harmful*

@terrorwatchdog.bsky.social
@zsk.bsky.social
@joetidy.bsky.social
@jamesrball.com

They call it a Commons but it's actually a Tragedy

Claiming that the test suite is not part of the work undermines your point here. Mark Pilgrim has always been a huge advocate of test-driven development, and his test suites reflect that and embody a lot of the domain knowledge that the code was built on.
Your slop of Theseus approach ignores this.

Linthorpe Road April 2022 being dug up to build the cycle lane

Linthorpe Road April 2022 being dug up to build the cycle lane revealing the old rails for the trolleybus

When they were building the bike lane originally, you could see the old trolleybus tracks under the tarmac

Century old photo of Linthorpe Road with an electric trolley bus and plenty of space for cars, pedestrians and cyclists in the roadway.

In the 1920s Linthorpe Road had 2 way trolley bus tracks down the middle and plenty of space for cars and bikes to coexist. The reason it is congested is the parking spaces (and lack of trolley buses).

Those useless politicians need to resurface the actually existing cycle lanes that connect up Middlesbrough that are unusable unless you have a mountain bike now because the tarmac is basically gravel. And build the Nunthorpe to Guisborough connecting path that has been in the plan for a decade.

i saw the interactive xkcd on hackernews and decided to make it render a real npm graph

it uses webcontainers to `npm i {pkg}`, then renders the bricks based on the dep tree scaled by disk size

forget about npmx. this is the browser for the npm registry we didn't know we needed

'Bathed in Gold' Taken shortly after sunrise this morning, walking down from Glastonbury Tor. I can never resist just one more photograph before I leave.

What about bridgy?

One Year On: 13 people on the ruling that changed their lives On 16 April 2025, the UK’s Supreme Court ruled that the legal definition of a woman is based on their biological sex assigned at birth. Forget the rage-bait headlines and attempts to divide us through...

my first piece (cowritten with Catriona Innes) in a print magazine comes out today: we interviewed 13 people, mostly trans women, about how the Supreme Court ruling has affected them for Cosmo UK

www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a...

Because the Internet is so new we still don’t really understand what it is. We mistake it for a type of publishing or broadcasting, because that’s what we’re used to. So people complain that there’s a lot of rubbish online, or that it’s dominated by Americans, or that you can’t necessarily trust what you read on the web. Imagine trying to apply any of those criticisms to what you hear on the telephone. Of course you can’t ‘trust’ what people tell you on the web anymore than you can ‘trust’ what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do. For some batty reason we turn off this natural scepticism when we see things in any medium which require a lot of work or resources to work in, or in which we can’t easily answer back – like newspapers, television or granite. Hence ‘carved in stone.’ What should concern us is not that we can’t take what we read on the internet on trust – of course you can’t, it’s just people talking – but that we ever got into the dangerous habit of believing what we read in the newspapers or saw on the TV – a mistake that no one who has met an actual journalist would ever make. One of the most important things you learn from the internet is that there is no ‘them’ out there. It’s just an awful lot of ‘us’.

Douglas Adams, 1999.
LLMs are even better at emulating the form while confabulating the content than people though.

I got sent an email thread between several different people that I wasn't included in by a friend's Apple Mail. I think it is buggy.

Century old photo of Linthorpe Road with an electric trolley bus and plenty of space for cars, pedestrians and cyclists in the roadway.

In the 1920s Linthorpe Road had 2 way trolley bus tracks down the middle and plenty of space for cars and bikes to coexist. The reason it is congested is the parking spaces (and lack of trolley buses).

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Those useless politicians need to resurface the actually existing cycle lanes that connect up Middlesbrough that are unusable unless you have a mountain bike now because the tarmac is basically gravel. And build the Nunthorpe to Guisborough connecting path that has been in the plan for a decade.

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a failure of sense making new book alert

"the crucial step in crisis engineering is to re-establish a common view which corresponds to reality – to restore sense-making. Once that step has been taken, actually solving the problem becomes a tractable task, and without it nothing is going to work" -- @dsquareddigest.bsky.social

This is a radically different idea than the advocacy I’ve seen for “data portability” and ”data sovereignty”. It’s a *restructuring* of power rather than small adjustments to existing structures.

atproto and local-first, both in their own ways, demonstrate what such a restructuring can look like.

I think I need to recheck it in 10 hours when the US is asleep

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You always deliver though

Newcastle boy injured in e-motorcycle hit-and-run Northumbria Police says the rider did not stay at the scene and is appealing for witnesses.

Wow so it is possible for the media to coreectly identify an electric motorcycle in a news rwport.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...