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For BBC Micro fans, the mode 7 teletext Acornsoft loading screen is iconic
So I've been adding customised versions to some of my more sophisticated Elite hacks
That's better - I should have done this ages ago!
See https://elite.bbcelite.com/hacks/ for more hacking goodness
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#PaintByWords #Acorn
Technically this isn't an actual acorn; it's a eucalyptus seed pod, but it looks very similar in size and features.
#ECK #Eucalyptus #ClassicMono #Texture #Macro -
#PaintByWords #Acorn
Technically this isn't an actual acorn; it's a eucalyptus seed pod, but it looks very similar in size and features.
#ECK #Eucalyptus #ClassicMono #Texture #Macro -
ACORN names Lambeth candidates who fail to back its housing policies
Councillors and election candidates in Lambeth have been challenged by ACORN to back a series of housing pledges…
#London #Britain #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #England #Headlines #News #Europe #EU #Lambeth #Acorn
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Acorns of Pin Oak
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I set a weekend coding challenge, and that motivated me to write a thing in BBC Basic for the Beeb. It shows what you might see next Wednesday during the partial eclipse, from Birmingham UK.
See
Weekend coding challenge: Solar Eclipse (this week)
at
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More Electron coding, and this time we get going with Modes and Colours, looking at the 6 screen modes available on the Elk.
Also look at some commands that help with coding too. Ooh… 😮
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The Programmer’s Fulcrum 17 July, 2026
This post originally appeared on The Fulcrum. Welcome to this week's The Programmer's Fulcrum. It's your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Open Social development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism. As usual, we aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional benefit of weakening authoritarianism. IMHO, the best way to do that is to use tools from the Techno […]https://newsletter.mobileatom.net/the-programmers-fulcrum-17-july-2026/
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#Blacksky : “The focus on #smallcommunity is what's keeping people in, not artificial walls.
Now, they're extending all of that experience to folks who want to run communities on the #opensocialweb in the same way.
With #Acorn, the team is helping other communities drop #drawbridges out of #Bluesky into smaller, community-owned and maintained spaces just like Blacksky.” -
Chimney Creek
6-link #Rengay
@extraspecialbitter
@NaraMoore
Photos: Chimney Peak Recreational Area, Calif. by Nara Moore Copyright 2026#Poetry #詩 #Tanka #短歌 #NMPoetry #Haiga #俳画 #DailyHaikuPrompt #Photography #マストドン写真部 #写真 #詩 #NMPhoto #ChimneyCreek #ChimneyPeakRecreationalArea #California #Oak #Acorn #Trees #Summer
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Just the occasional reminder that for over 15 years now I‘m a happy customer and user of Flying Meat‘s great Acorn image editor.
Gus Mueller and his family are a prime example why you should support indie software shops. -
from 2007: "Well, given that the Acorn ARM chip and Symbian operating system are both British inventions, why don't we even have a leading mobile phone company?"
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2007/jun/26/psionthelast
Didn't Sinclair design an early digital mobile phone (pre-GSM)?
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I got a camera 2day, first photo i take with it
I like camera :3Camera: nikon D3200
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#RISC_OS folks: New #MerlinProject YouTube video update with 3D Graphics API and RISC OS Merlin booting via #GRUB on #x86 and #KVM! More details and link to the video here:
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Circling Exoplanet 48539 is the -now defunct- experimental FTL (Faster Than Light) technology centre. With a circumference of over 85 kilometres, this particle accelerator helped to prove the underlying principles of how my ship works. Don’t ask me to describe it, it’s something to do with particles repelling, attracting and opposites together on the other side of the galaxy, all at the same time. But then again, it’s not complicated at all, I just push this button and it jumps.
#scifi #exoplanet #MicroFiction #acorn #spring #nature #photography
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Repórter Retro 126
https://retropolis.com.br/2026/06/24/reporter-retro-126/
#ReprterRetro #3DO #acorn #AcornElectron #ActionRetro #AmstradPPC640 #AppleLisa #BASIC #cartuchos #CommodoreAmiga #CommodoreVIC20 #CreativeLabs #Emuladores #FbioNMI #hotbit #IBM #KonradZuse #Laptop #leiles #LGP21 #Macintosh #MarcosFelisberto #microsoft #os2 #panasonic #RetroRio #Spriteworx #TechNibble #TimBernersLee #TimexSinclair #TrashToTreasure #UsagiElectric #VCF #VCFMidwest #VeimDosGame #VictorTrucco #VisualBA
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I hope you’re well and thanks in advance! Please boost!
If you have a little bit of money left over at the end of the month. Please consider donating up to 10% of it to https://gracefoodbanksheffield.org.uk/donations/
I can vouch and explain it is very much well used on providing food for those who cannot afford to buy their own.
Please share and be generous
#mutualAid #charity #donate #themeFromShaft #acorn #sociology
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Might anyone be able to find the BBC Basic source of "A Meagre Demonstration" which is a Boing demo for the Archimedes - from back in the day? Asking for a friend.
As seen on the BBC’s computer news programme Micro Live. Broadcast on BBC One, 14 December 1987, presented by Fred Harris and Lesley Judd. Also repackaged in Micro File 2, episode The Generation Game.
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Had a good day with my eldest. We went to the National Museum Of Computers at legendary Bletchley Park. I've been before, but he hadn't.
Despite his anxiety, he lasted a couple of hours which was better than I expected.
Photos attached.
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Holm oak acorn as a new functional Mediterranean food
Acorns of the Holm oak (Quercus ilex) have been part of the landscape of Mediterranean forests and traditional agroforestry system…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #MediterraneanFood #Acorn #foodmicrobiome #functionalfood #glutenfreediet #Holmoak #Mediterranean #mediterraneanfood #Mediterraneanforests #Nutraceuticals #polyphenols #Quercusilex #starch
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KITCHENER INTRODUCES RENOVICTION BY-LAW
On June 23, 2025, Kitchener city council directed their staff to draft a renoviction by-law. Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) delegates pushed the council to end bad faith evictions, or renovictions. These are due to a landlord’s desire or need to renovate, thus leading to residents moving out of apartments they can afford.
Similar bylaws were introduced in London and Hamilton this year to protect residents after being served a N13 eviction notice, given when a landlord intends to renovate or demolish a rental property, or convert it to a non-residential use.
“The Region of Waterloo’s Building Better Futures Plan supports the creation and preservation of affordable housing, and we work collaboratively with all levels of government to advance affordable housing in our community,” Scott Cressman, Senior Communications Advisor for the Region of Waterloo, said.
The London by-law came into effect in March 2025. It requires landlords to apply for a license within one week of serving a tenant with a N13 eviction notice.
The bylaw forces landlords to submit a report that is certified by an engineer or architect proving the renovations need the unit to be temporarily vacant. The City of Kitchener council is considering a similar format.
In January 2024, Hamilton became the first city in Ontario to adopt a renoviction by-law. Setting the precedent for the Kitchener bylaw, it will require a landlord to apply for city renovation license within seven days of issuing a N13 eviction notice. The license fee will be $715 per unit, and $125 to renew per annum.
“In Ontario, tenant displacement and eviction protection policies fall within the jurisdiction of the province or local area municipalities. This includes rental replacement by-laws related to the renovation, conversion and demolition of rental housing,” Cressman said.
Bill 97, The Helping Homebuyers, Protecting Tenants Act, Subsection 50 [3] was re-anacted so that landlords are to give notices of a termination of tenancy when they require the possession of a rental unit to do repairs or renovations. This, however, has left many tenants in the Waterloo Region still vulnerable to renoviction.
“This was a provincial law that happened, made it so basically any new builds or renovated builds had no cap on rent that could be charged. And then certain amoral landlords saw that as an opportunity to falsify renovations or minor improvements or whatnot, to get tenants out,” Linda Vos, a leader for the 250 Frederick ACORN tenant union, said.
Vos became involved with ACORN in November of 2023 when one of her neighbours at 250 Frederick St. reached out to ACORN with concerns about their new landlord. ACORN helped them thoroughly when news of the landlord’s history of renoviction spread. Willing tenants of the building were signed up for mailing lists pertinent to their situation, and planned marches to City Hall immediately.
“We are hoping that Kitchener and Waterloo both come back with in their drafts that have these strong renoviction protections for tenants, ACORN has been fighting for specific features in the renovation by laws for years now,” Vos said.
#ACORN #Bill97 #CityOfKitchener #Hamilton #HelpingHomebuyers #HelpingHomeownersProtectingTenantsAct #housingCrisis #kitchenerCityCouncil #LindonVos #London #ProtectingTenantsAct #Renoviction #SangjunHan #scottCressman #seniorCommunicationsAdvisorForTheRegionOfWaterloo #waterlooRegion
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Scenes from Oroville, CA
The indigenous California peoples harvested acorns and ground the meal on stone mortars using stone pestles. One of the saddest stories is Ishi, the the last known member of the Native American Yahi people. In 1911, aged 50, he emerged at a barn and corral, 2 mi from downtown Oroville. The rest of the Yahi were killed in the California genocide in the 19th century. #NativeAmerican #indigenouspeople #indigenous #Oroville #California #acorn #ButteCounty #history -
A nostalgic review of #8bit computers from a Spanish computer #magazine back in 1985.
It included well-known computer models from classic brands such as #Sinclair, #Atari, #Oric, #Commodore, #Acorn, and #TexasInstruments, along with other fairly obscure ones like #Sord, #ColourGenie, #Lynx, or #NewBrain.
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Sadly, the new screen I got for my #Acorn #PocketbookII developed some corruption while it was in transit. Also, when I put the spring back on the button bar, the plastic broke. I need to get some epoxy to make it strong enough, because the glue alone didn't hold.
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I'm a big enough girl to admit that my knowledge of linux isn't strong enough to get networking working when it appears to be lacking some really important bits (like, y'know, being able to detect the built in wired connection) and it also doesn't seem to have much in the way of network tools installed.
Hopefully I'll get back to this tomorrow and maybe get further, but tomorrow I might be doing the #Psion3 (#Acorn #PocketbookII), since the screen arrived.
