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9:51: 🔗 I recently posted about how Europe needs to liberate itself from US tech https://thetangent.space/2026/infrastructure/. But in the UK we're signing new defense contracts with Palantir https://archive.is/0DKtb

Check out https://www.ianbetteridge.com/ten-blue-links-featuring-peter-thiel-again-edition/ for a link to the original article (and more on digital sovereignty in Europe)

19:48: 🖥️ I've been recording some video for some computing cover lessons. DroidCam is great! No webcam, no problem — just use your phone and stream it directly into OBS over WiFi.

19:35: ✒️ Subscribed to Presence, a British haiku journal. As Trump raises tariffs on Europe it's more important than ever to buy British haiku

11:24: 💼 Actually so stressed with work right now. Colleague is off so I'm setting/doing a lot of cover. I know I don't/shouldn't have to but to do otherwise would leave a GCSE class for several weeks without a teacher

22:10: My wife texted me at work today to let me know she'd adopted fish

7:06: Mr Three has named them Clement and Clam.

His approach to naming things is to start with a C- or Cl- and improvise from there. We also have Cocono the invisible horse, and one time woke to the news that Cocono was having a baby. Called Clobe.

13:37: 🔗 Scientists discover women like tall, athletic men with large wangs https://www.404media.co/scientists-got-men-to-rate-penises-by-how-intimidating-they-are-this-is-what-they-found/

17:45: Latest issue of Unch Crosswords just arrived https://unchcrosswords.com/. Yet to look at a puzzle but beautiful design, type, and quality, as we've come to expect

21:57: Love Unch's editors are totally fine with cluing "X" as "far right platform"

8:18: First Unch puzzle down: Catnip. A couple of clues I don't fully understand but there were some clever definitions and surfaces

13:34: Sending both boys to sleep at their grandparents tonight for the first time, our first night of actual freedom in... almost four years!

9:15: Went out for lovely Japanese meal

11:44: 📖 Finished my rereading of Non-things by Byung-Chul Han.

17:41: 🖥️ Packaging up my Pocket Reform to send it off for repair again. I love the design of the device, its size, reparability, ortholinear keyboard, etc. But its reliability has left a lot to be desired... two issues now, intermittent boot failure, it sometimes takes up to five attempts to boot. And the keyboard/trackball keeps disconnecting. Sometimes it reconnects by itself after a few seconds, sometimes it reconnects after resetting the keyboard's controller device, and sometimes it won't reconnect at all after many resets, requiring a full reboot to reconnect.

18:31: 📖 Started reading The Circle by Dave Eggers. Trying to pick up a new reading habit of looking up everything I'm unfamiliar with. About 8 pages in, and I've learned about two designers (Calatrava and Calders), and learned a new word (burlap).

22:26: 🥘 Cooked Rasta pasta https://thehiddenveggies.com/vegan-rasta-pasta/

22:28: I guess this is me signing off for the week, and fingers crossed that my script successfully puts out a digest tonight.