Simone Deponti

Web developer, amateur actor, and not very active tweeter.

M: @[email protected]

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The story of Tom Brown, the retired engineer that became 'apple hunter', rescuing over 1,000 'lost' varieties in the last 25 years

[read more: https://t.co/ZVjgS24mhI]

[Selvaggia Lucarelli @stanzaselvaggia]

W la figa!

[The Bee Guy @the_beeguy]

Mornin’ folks.

We’ve had a lot of people enquiring about and commenting on #bumblebees asleep on #flowers, especially at this time of year, so here’s a quick (long)🙄 thread explaining what’s going on.

Please retweet so more are more informed.
Thanks good people.
#bees
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[Aleksandr Volodarsky @volodarik]

Sunday read.

This is hilarious. Engineers are competing who creates the worst UI on Reddit.

I think the winners are:

1/ Enter your phone number

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Weather in Antarctica is generally classified with 3 levels

The most severe is 'condition 1': windspeed over 102 km/h, temperature < −73 °C, visibility less than 30 m.

In other words: hell

[📹 Tomasz Kurczaba: https://t.co/CnLcIEuP7l]
https://t.co/C8aYDHcS40

[Lorenzo Green 〰️ @mrgreen]

The Lord of the Rings by Wes Anderson.

The casting is perfect!

Featuring:

- Bill Murray as Gandlaf
- Jeff Goldblum as Elrond
- Willam Dafoe as Gollum
- Owen Wilson as Sauron.

(by curious_refuge on Reddit)

[Nicholas Whithorn  @NickWhithorn]

As 25 April nears &amp; fascists in the Italian government go into a collective sulk as they seek excuses not to attend official celebrations of their defeat, I'm reposting my (long) thread on Mussolini's final hours. Weekend reading for more recent followers.
https://t.co/MVk4y9MsTY

[𝕃𝕒 𝕊𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕚𝕒 𝓮 𝓵𝓮 𝓘𝓭𝓮𝓮 @lastoriaeleidee]

Il 5 ottobre 1973 Egitto e Siria invadevano i territori occupati da Israele nel Sinai e nel Golan.
Era la guerra dello Yom Kippur.
Per ritorsione contro l'appoggio USA ad Israele l'OPEC decretò l'embargo del petrolio.
A fine anno il prezzo da 2,90$/barile arrivò a 11,65$. 1/16

[Chloé Mikolajczak @ChloeMkljczk]

🧵I spent 50+ hours in #trains in past few weeks travelling to/through Belgium, Austria, Germany, France &amp; Italy - here’s what I learned ⤵️

1. Italian trains are by far most comfortable (space, socket &amp; food) but also most punctual, followed by French and last Deutsche Bahn ❌

[Zac Bowden @zacbowden]

Lol, my fellow brits using Windows 11 with en-GB in the Insider Program might have noticed that MS has mistranslated ZIP files as "postcode" files in the latest builds.

[andrea pennacchi @Pennacchiiiii]

Io non...

[licia troisi @troisi_licia]

https://t.co/JyTnw3vOcn

Dato che sembra stia diventando una tendenza generalizzata, forse vale la pena tornarci su.
Ovviamente, ci sono due ordini di discorsi da fare: il primo è quello capitalistico. (1/13)

[Chris Bakke @ChrisJBakke]

GPT-5: can perfectly build any website

GPT-6: can build and run a company

GPT-7: passes Turing test

GPT-8: overthrows world governments

GPT-9: fails to understand how Jira is supposed to work, gives up, asks humans for help

[Ben Coates @bencoates1]

In Paris, a new “Everything Is Fine” gif is born https://t.co/LbYYHW72hV

[gaut @0xgaut]

Microsoft released copilot in Excel, and it is officially caught up with Google on the AI race.

Fantastic to watch.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

𝗘𝗺𝗼𝗷𝗶 𝗟𝗼𝗴𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗺𝘀 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀

log(👀) = log(👁️) + log (👁️)

log(🧇 / 👨‍👨‍👧‍👦) = log(🧇) - log(👨‍👨‍👧‍👦)

log(🏇) = log(🏃🏻‍♂️) - log(🐎)

log(🌩️) = log(☁️) - log(⚡️)

log(😅) =💧log(😄)

log(💕) = ❤️log(❤️)

log(🙃) = - log(🙂)

log(👨‍🦽)=🚶‍♂️log(🦽)

log(😎) = 🕶️log(🙂)

log(😴)=💤log(🥱)

[Rowan Cheung @rowancheung]

RIP website designers.

This new tool is ChatGPT for UI design.

What's even more amazing: it's all editable in Figma. 👇

[c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance]

In 2018, "Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jumping from aircraft: randomized controlled trial" was published in the British Medical Journal.

It sought to determine if wearing a parachute when jumping from a plane had any impact on survivability.

It did not.

[Luigi Marattin @marattin]

Ho pensato che prima di aprire bocca sull’argomento del giorno (il blocco della cessione dei crediti) occorresse prima capire bene di cosa parliamo. Qui - in 15 domande e risposte - la spiegazione più semplice possibile. https://t.co/lESFj5EYbm