Dan Davies

dsquareddigest.bsky.social

19 October 2026 15:48

(back in the olden days, people used to claim that you shouldn't download data from Bloomberg because you didn't really understand it unless you had typed it all in yourself, and that this was an essential stage to catch errors. I may indeed even been one of those people).

Conor

c0n0r.net

14 October 2026 15:13

Well obviously, Batman didn't get bitten by a bat.

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)

doctorow.pluralistic.net

12 October 2026 12:48

Front cover to Flatland (1884) by Edwin Abbott Abbott, who died #onthisday in 1926. Read Ian Stewart’s introduction to the strange tale of A. Square’s geometric adventures, the first ever book that could be described as “mathematical fiction” publicdomainreview.tumblr.com/post/8302683...

James

thasceles.bsky.social

01 October 2026 10:10

The film's pretty good.

Richard Littler

richardlittler.bsky.social

01 October 2026 10:09

"Cheering myself up" by reading On the Beach, Nevil Shute's post-apocalyptic novel about mankind's final months.