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Why are immigrant businesses being targeted by large-scale investigations…over fire code violations? – MPOP An Avalanche of Bullshit (#976) If your raid can’t find evidence of any real crime, just punish your victims with “code...
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We’re onto the third instalment of my Commodore 250466 series. In the first post I explained how and why I bought the last C64 longboard, and in the second I explored the board in more detail and confirmed it worked! Today, it’s time to...
Monday Sunrise: 5:40am Pay last weekend’s sunshine tax with a litter pick. A row of stationary cars builds steadily beside me as they wait for temporary traffic lights to change. I feel self conscious. Am I weird? This is weird. I hold...
I spent the last two months running a Polymarket order-book collector. The collector runs on a small VM, subscribes to the public WebSocket feed, and writes one Parquet file per UTC hour. By 2026-04-15 the archive had grown to 1,262...
From France 3: Un feu de végétation a provoqué l’incendie de l’église de Montenach en Moselle à la frontière Luxembourgeoise ce jeudi 30 avril 2026. Une partie du clocher s’est effondrée, la charpente a été entièrement brûlée, 60...
Weekly round up of Discord discussions, blog posts to read, projects to download, reports on what I'm working on or playing, and a poem for you!
why firsthand observation beats secondhand knowledge
Our illustrious Chairman takes us through a recent game of Chain of Command. Picture the scene, Linton Village Hall on a sunny Saturday morning, a gathering of War Gamers at one of the oldest clubs in the UK and a game of big CoC. Me,...