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  • Doom Bar maker Sharp’s Brewery in Cornwall to be closed by US owner

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  • Molson Coors said it was exploring potential deals with other producers to keep making the beer, including brewing in other parts of the country. But Stainer added that any plans to produce the Cornish beers outside the region “would be a disgrace”.

    I think many real ale drinkers would say the site is part of the product. If it's made in a different place by different people, it's a different beer. Shame this company doesn't seem to understand that.

  • Green Party takes Gorton and Denton from Labour in first ever Westminster by-election win

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  • Nowhere near as close as most of the polls were saying!

  • good lord....

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  • I would also like feathers on my pet dromaeosaurid please

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    How could we go about making a jurisdiction where advertising is illegal?

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  • I find this idea very interesting even if it might seem kind of wacky and unrealistic in our current world.

    I can see it being possible to make a somewhat-convincing "moral" case for banning advertising. The argument would go that advertising is manipulating the consumer, preventing them from making an unbiased decision. It provides an unfair advantage over the competition, since a company that spends on advertising can get more sales without improving their product or lowering prices. And it creates an environment where the competition has to respond with advertising of their own, with the end result being large advertising budgets when those resources could be used to improve the company's products or services. The case would be much weaker when it comes to small businesses, charity fundraising, political adverts and government campaigns. To be clear this is a thought experiment, no criticism of anyone involved in advertising in real life.

    You can make a distinction between paid and unpaid advertising, for example a community noticeboard or directory where businesses can post for free is more acceptable because they're not gaining any unfair visibility over competitors, and consumers would only go there when they're looking for something. Like a few other people have said it would be essential to propose alternative ways that consumers can discover new products. Sadly there are probably people whose only source of information is advertising and you need to somehow give them a way to stay informed.

    More realistically, limitations on advertising are either going to take the form of making specific places ad-free like you mention, or restricting advertising of certain products, kind of like how many places already ban adverts for things like gambling, tobacco, alcohol or adverts targeting children. I could easily see this being extended to anything remotely controversial, like social media or fast food.

  • Oof

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  • How have you made art with code?

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  • In case you weren't aware, there is actually a whole mastodon instance dedicated to this subject! Take a look at https://genart.social/tags/genuary2026 for some recent examples. Many posters include details of what software they are using or links to their code

  • What's up with the vehicles? By orb of meat

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  • The bit with the fully upgraded tank going top speed and plowing through biter nests made me laugh, it's not a strategy I've tried myself. It's even better when you realise the tank can go that fast because of all the extra legs that have been added to it.

  • Biter spawn blocking fixed for 2.1

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  • Not surprised this is being changed. I wonder how it will be done though. Will the biters spawn on top of the nest, or will there be space between the nest and blocking structures? Or will they teleport to the nearest empty square which could be very far away?

  • it's not actually like email

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  • This is funny but it's a very unfair comparison. That neighbourhood is fully abandoned with exactly 0 residents, and you know it would probably be shit even if it was finished as planned. The fediverse has at least some real people and is actually a fun place.

  • Version 2.0.74 released

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  • Amazing how someone, somehow, is still finding bugs in this game and they're all getting fixed. I don't think I've ever seen one

  • Oh this is GLORIOUS

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  • Wait, does this mean that they are both eating normal biscuits and not the big sweet doughy things?

  • New Objective Unlocked: Convince an astronaut to use the Fediverse from space

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  • Sure. The SETI account is https://mastodon.social/@setiinstitute

    This looks like it might have been the NASA account, but I can't verify whether it was official: https://mstdn.social/@NASA (The unofficial one that is active and more popular is https://social.beachcom.org/@nasa)

    Some people working in space, e.g. astronomers and astrophysicists. There are many more, these are just some examples

    These people appear to be current or former nasa employees:

    And here are some other space-related organisations:

    This is just what I found looking around, I think it shows there's a strong space community on the fediverse.

  • New Objective Unlocked: Convince an astronaut to use the Fediverse from space

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  • This might be more achievable than it sounds: there is quite a bit of space content on Mastodon already. Seti have an official account along with several astronomers, observatories and astrophysicists. Nasa possibly used to have an official account that has gone inactive. I can't see any astronauts there at the moment but that could easily change

  • The obvious criticism of Newton that everyone avoids

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  • Tesco sorry for putting up Welsh bilingual signs in Cornwall

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  • I enjoyed this video, it's funny because the Cornish accent is the same in Cornish as it is in English

  • CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant

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  • It would be interesting to know where your friend works and what kind of application it's on, because your comment is the first time I've ever heard of this level of automation. Not saying it can't be done, just skeptical of how well it would work in practice.

  • I built a custom Vulkan engine to fix single-threaded rendering bottlenecks (C + C#)

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  • This sounds very cool! Can we see what you've made?

  • The lithium boom: could a disused quarry bring riches to Cornwall?

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  • If it creates some jobs then that's good regardless, but of course you're still right and I saw in the article the quote from the local MP was along the same lines:

    "Mining is more capital intensive than it used to be, and not as labour intensive. Part of the challenge is sharing the prosperity"

    Personally I really hope this takes off as it could be great for Cornwall. The big challenge will be whether it can compete with international markets if it gets to that point.

  • Green Party leader Zack Polanski has defiant response as Katie Hopkins attempts to throw shade

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  • The Hopkins tweet is somehow way worse than I expected, and I already knew how awful she is. No joke, no argument, just literally listing minorities and reacting with disgust. I don't know how anyone can stand her.