Very happy with today’s Israel arms sale news, but it’s also mostly a gesture. We should stop far more than we are. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2np2l5mlko

Attention to detail - October 1582 on iPhone misses days for the transition from Julian to Gregorian calendars.

Rich people having yacht accidents suddenly seems more likely https://news.sky.com/story/bayesian-yacht-everything-we-know-so-far-about-luxury-vessel-sunk-by-tornado-off-coast-of-italy-13199753

As much as I love Docker, can’t help thinking that the number of times I redownload all the libraries each day must be costing the repo hosting sites a fortune in bandwidth

Japanese sakura blossom records go back to 812AD and make a great tracker for climate change.

There needs to be a centralised subscription service for news. It’s completely broken at the moment - no way you can subscribe to the FT, WaPo, NYT, Economist, etc etc.

The wonderful resignation letter from Mark Smith, FCDO Diplomat.

@SteveClough @randahl 100% agree with you. The success of democracy is balancing in the middle between the extremes of two dangerous ideologies (when taken to the extreme). But the successful weaponisation of “communism” by the right has broken that balance down in recent decades.