Ben Nuttall@ben_nuttall

Software engineer at @BBC. Formerly at @Raspberry_Pi. Creator of gpiozero and @piwheels. mastodon.social/@bennuttall

 Manchester, England
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Ben Nuttall (@bennuttall@mastodon.social)

495 Posts, 112 Following, 216 Followers · Manchester based software engineer at the BBC. Formerly at Raspberry Pi. Creator of gpiozero, @piwheels and @pyjokes. Co-organiser of @pynw. Into Python,...

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Pastor Shapes@pastorshapes
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Replying to @MartinSLewis
Go and guard the Musée d'Orsay. You can be the Monet Saving Expert.
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Wrexham AFC
@Wrexham_AFC
Sep 17
Thanks to @firefox for keeping moles out of our Racecourse and data. 😉 🔴⚪ #WxmAFC
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Djuney@juneymb
Sep 9
The community note.
Redd
@ReddCinema
Sep 8
BREAKING NEWS🚨: Iran shoots down an F-15 with a man on a flying carpet 😱😱
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Terrible Maps
@TerribleMaps
Sep 7
Oops, wrong account
Iran Embassy in Sierra Leone
@IRANinSalone
Sep 6
Finally, Canada and Mexico solved the world's biggest problem.
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News from Google
@NewsFromGoogle
Sep 3
For the first time, scientists have mapped the complete brain and central nervous system of an adult male fruit fly — a key model organism in science. 🪰 Working alongside HHMI Janelia Research Campus and the scientific community, @GoogleResearch scientists and researchers used AI to combine millions of 2D images into 3D neural shapes, reconstructing a record-breaking 166,000+ neurons. This foundational map of the adult male fruit fly brain can help accelerate our understanding of the brain, and is a major milestone in neuroscience.
Vibrant 3D digital reconstruction of a fruit fly brain against a white background, displaying a dense, intricate network of multicolored neural fibers and cell bodies in shades of blue, cyan, orange, and purple.

ALT Vibrant 3D digital reconstruction of a fruit fly brain against a white background, displaying a dense, intricate network of multicolored neural fibers and cell bodies in shades of blue, cyan, orange, and purple.

A complex 3D visualization of a fruit fly brain, featuring a dense, symmetrical network of thousands of tiny, multicolored neurons and fine, interconnected fibers in shades of blue, magenta, orange, and green against a solid white background.

ALT A complex 3D visualization of a fruit fly brain, featuring a dense, symmetrical network of thousands of tiny, multicolored neurons and fine, interconnected fibers in shades of blue, magenta, orange, and green against a solid white background.

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Sonic Pi v5 is on the front page of Hacker News! Please join the conversation in the comments: news.ycombinator.com/item?id…
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DuckDuckGo just released what it's calling the world's most innovative anti-surveillance sunglasses: No camera, no microphone, no AI, no battery, $35 and matte black Knockaround frames whose spec sheet advertises "0% surveillance risk" and an infinite charge life. knockaround.com/products/duc…
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@DuckDuckGo
Jul 30
No camera. No AI. Just Normal Sunglasses. From DuckDuckGo x @Knockaround. (Yes, these are actually real. Get a pair here: knockaround.com/products/duc…)
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Armin Ronacher ⇌
@mitsuhiko
Aug 2
I’m really curious if people will comply with this.
European Parliament
@Europarl_EN
Aug 2
From 2 August, EU rules require disclosure of the professional use of generative AI if: 🔹Content can be mistaken for real people, places, events 🔹Text on matters of public interest had no human review 🔹User is interacting with a chatbot 📷AI Modified-©nejdetduzen/Adobe Stock
Illustration titled "Spot the difference" showing two nearly identical images side by side, labelled A and B. Both depict a scenic countryside landscape under a blue sky, with clouds star-shaped and arranged in a circle resembling the EU flag. Image A is labelled 'AI Modified'. Image credits and a disclaimer are added underneath, reading "Some content was AI generated with Gemini – © nejdetduzen / Adobe Stock." The European Parliament logo in the bottom right corner.

ALT Illustration titled "Spot the difference" showing two nearly identical images side by side, labelled A and B. Both depict a scenic countryside landscape under a blue sky, with clouds star-shaped and arranged in a circle resembling the EU flag. Image A is labelled 'AI Modified'. Image credits and a disclaimer are added underneath, reading "Some content was AI generated with Gemini – © nejdetduzen / Adobe Stock." The European Parliament logo in the bottom right corner.

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🫡 The BBC's World Cup 2026 montage is utterly sensational. x.com/alexewing_/status/2078…
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Ros Atkins
@BBCRosAtkins
Jun 25
Is the UK worse off because of Brexit? Ten years on since the Brexit referendum, we've looked at this question in detail. The video is produced by Katerina Karelli - and it's longer than our usual explainers. I hope you find it helpful.
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Deltapoll@DeltapollUK
May 21
Reform UK currently lead by 8 points, but when asking about a hypothetical Burnham leadership, Labour pull ahead of Reform to lead by 1 point. Lab 28% (+8) Reform 27% (-1) Con 15% (-2) Green 10% (-3) Lib Dem 9% (-2) Fieldwork: 15th - 18th May 2026 Sample: 1,921 GB adults
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Pamela Fox
@pamelafox
May 17
The pydantic team released a fork of httpx called httpx2: github.com/pydantic/httpx2 "Our aim is to honour the original project's design, keep it stable for everyone relying on it, and continue evolving it carefully." I was able to easily upgrade, just :%s/httpx/httpx2

GitHub - pydantic/httpx2: A next generation HTTP client for Python. 🦋

A next generation HTTP client for Python. 🦋. Contribute to pydantic/httpx2 development by creating an account on GitHub.

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BBC Breaking News
@BBCBreaking
May 15
Andy Burnham allowed to go for selection as by-election candidate in Makerfield, UK, Labour's ruling body says bbc.in/4uh9Hfx
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RT @lisanandy: I’m pleased that, at the end of such a turbulent season, there is light at the end of the tunnel for Sheffield Wednesday’s l…
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Sheffield Wednesday
@swfc
May 2
Today's attendance is 33,750. The highest Sky Bet Championship attendance of the season 🦉 Incredible support 👏
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Rob Staton@robstaton
May 2
Statements here from the football regulator David Kogan and the EFL following today’s news that Arise Capital have concluded a takeover of Sheffield Wednesday #SWFC
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Sheffield Wednesday
@swfc
May 2
SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY REBORN

SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY REBORN

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Sheffield Wednesday
@swfc
May 1
Big day tomorrow... 🥂
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Chris McClure@chrismcclure86
Apr 30
Let’s hope for brighter times ahead #swfc 💙
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Getting Claude to extract data from a 1997 football manager game bennuttall.com/blog/2026/04/…

Getting Claude to extract data from a 1997 football manager game

There's a football manager game I got for my birthday when I was nine years old: FIFA Soccer Manager 97. I spent countless hours playing it as a child, trying to win the league, the cup or just avoid...

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