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Android dev at the UK's biggest liberal newspaper. 🏢 in London. 🐕🏊🏽🚴🏽‍♂️🏃🏽‍♂️ out and about near Guildford or Ambleside. [bridged from androiddev.social/@ab on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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Adi 🐾 (he/him) @ab.androiddev.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
@chadbourn.bsky.social burn down X and Grok, and fascist populists across the world would suddenly see a massive drop in popularity.
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Adi 🐾 (he/him) @ab.androiddev.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
@skinnylatte been 23 years since I visited it (and lived in Delhi), but Andhra Bhavan canteen used to be a great place for Andhra food - sambar, rasam, etc. I'm sure there are a lot more, lot better places now but your mention of South Indian food immediately brought back its memory (and smell)
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Nathan Nelson @nathannelson.co.uk · 11/09/2026
The apple harvest has started.
A view down to a bucket of apples on grass, a pair of feet in wellington boots, and a small dog. The apples are green and red.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
80 year-olds with pro-Palestine signs: arrested as terrorists. Greens planning to block a road, to highlight an existential crisis: sent down for years. Masked far-right thugs blocking roads and ports, using intimidation, obstruction & threatening behaviour: no arrests. The real two-tier policing.
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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Bro. People are cool as fuck.
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Humor Satire Memes @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
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Calling me "woke" and expecting me to take it as an insult is hilarious.  

"You're an empathetic well-informed person who is doing their best to ensure that everyone has an equal place in society."  

Oh, burn.  

Please don't also tell me how smart, hilarious, talented, and handsome I am. It would just hurt too much.
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I will be closing my web-shop and art-for-sale for the summer on Monday. So, if you'd like anything in the next month or so (such as the print shown) please order soon. www.tomgauld.com/shop www.tomgauld.com/art-for-sale
Two stick figures walk beside a lake, one asks "Do you ever worry that we are living in the reflection rather than the reality?"

They are reflected, upside-down, in the lake. The reflection of the second figure replies with an upside-down speech bubble reading "Sometimes".
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Four cartoons from the book...
A view of the International Space Station floating in the stars above the earth. A cat in a space suit floats outside. An astronaut within the station looks out of a window and says "In? But I just let you out." Text underneath reads: From 'Physics for Cats' by Tom Gauld - Order it at www.tomgauld.com
Panel one, labelled  "School Parents' Night": a girland her parents sit sadly in front of a teacher who is holding up the girl's grade, an "F".
Panel two, labelled "Astronomy Conference": the same girl, now an adult, is being awarded a medal by a professor. The teacher and the professor share a speech bubble which crosses both panels saying "This is for spending all your time staring into space"
Image: A scientist stands at the crossroads at midnight, he holds out a bowl to the devil who looks rather cross. Caption "Thanks to a typo in the contract, the professor gained complete mastery of all the knowledge in the heavens and the earth, in exchange for his soup." Text underneath reads: From 'Physics for Cats' by Tom Gauld - Order it at www.tomgauld.com
Title: Soren Kierkegaard, 1843 Image: A three panel comic strip that shows Mr Kierkegaard saying "Life can only be understood backwards" as he walks from right to left through the three frames (i.e. against the usual order in which these panels would be read) A dog walks from left to right, saying: "But it must be lived forward". Text underneath reads: From 'Physics for Cats' by Tom Gauld - Order it at www.tomgauld.com
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
My latest @newscientist.com cartoon
Title: My confidence in my understanding of the scientific theory. 

A diagram where the confidence is marked in red on an otherwise white figure


Panel 1
"Before I got a book about it."
The figure is red up to about his stomach

Panel 2
"While I was reading the book."
The figure is reading a book. He is red up to his forehead.

Panel 3
"When I had finished the book." 
The red level has dropped  to around his mouth

Panel 4
"One week later."
Now it is at his chest.

Panel 5
"When I try to explain it to somebody." 
The level is back at stomach level.

Panel 6
"When they ask a follow-up question."
The red is so low we can barely see it.
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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 06/07/2026
If England barely fights off the Norwegians, but then is too exhausted to resist France, you do realize we’re getting a tapestry about it
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Chee Aun 🤔 @cheeaun.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/05/2025
Finally got to build this. Quick UI toggles to see all possible permutations of a post. Previously was trying out Storybook.js but it's a bit too much for my needs (too many files, too many clicks). CSS view transitions are pretty cool. More permutations […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
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Adi 🐾 (he/him) @ab.androiddev.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/05/2025
Starting now, I'll post mostly at @adityabhaskar . It's a more active community with active sensible admins. Follow me there.
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Adi 🐾 (he/him) @ab.androiddev.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/05/2025
If the first episode is anything to go by then "Étoile", on Amazon Prime video in the UK is a gem. Brilliant cast, lovely dialogue, good music and dance, nice sets and lighting... I'm loving it. www.primevideo.com/detail/%C3%89toi…
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Prime Video: Etoile - Season 1
In an ambitious gambit to save their storied institutions, two world-renowned ballet companies in New York City and Paris swap their most talented stars. From the Executive Producers of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel comes a bold new series celebrating the beauty, humor, and unpredictability of a life devoted to the arts, both on stage and off.
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Adi 🐾 (he/him) @ab.androiddev.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/05/2025
Bought a Calvin and Hobbes set. Spent an hour laughing out loud this morning Wife got irritated and kicked me out to go do garden work. I'm still laughing. She's working from home today and I'm on holiday to let my brain mend itself. C&H and gardening - both help with healing the brain, as do […]
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Adi 🐾 (he/him) @ab.androiddev.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/05/2025
Did Gen AI calculate those per kg prices?
Screenshot of pricing for a product on Amazon.
A 2kg pack for £10.19 is listed as £1.02/kg instead of £5.10/kg.
A 3Kg pack for £10.99 is listed as £1.10/kg instead of £3.66/kg.

The per kg price is assuming all bags are 10Kg.
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Adi 🐾 (he/him) @ab.androiddev.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/05/2025
Working in XCode feels like working in Eclipse a decade ago. Cryptic errors, poor documentation, a mouse focused UI... probably good for insiders and long time users. Utter horror for anyone coming from IntelliJ or VS Code or any modern IDE.
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Adi 🐾 (he/him) @ab.androiddev.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/05/2025
[TLOU, gamers] @skinnylatte that sounds like game of thrones - everyone looking everyone all the time. (I haven't seen TLOU except the odd episode here and there with my wife)
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Adi 🐾 (he/him) @ab.androiddev.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/05/2025
That's an easy way to stop people displaying our flag - neo fascists announcing that's the only flag allowed. Now any sensible person will be wary of displaying them, to not be associated with the fascists. And the fascist sympathisers will display them all the time.
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Adi 🐾 (he/him) @ab.androiddev.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/05/2025
Yesterday, I saw three flags hanging from a bridge over A3 as we drove back home. It was the Union Jack, St George's flag, and the Surrey county flag. At first I thought it's probably someone's way of celebrating the VE day. Later I read about Reform announcing those are the only 3 flags […]
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Spocko @spocko.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 03/05/2025
My new morning ritual involves only watching funny videos or dance videos. This is why I also post #Funny things here. Or photos Io Grace Kelly.
Hey 6:00 cartoon the morning wishes was certain thing and it says a guy waking up saying waking up to a new day in bed and then it has him sending a table warm cup of Joe and he's walking outside it says a pleasant walk outside and it says the internet and shows a bunch of angry weird people holding pitchforks and torches and then Pig says so that's where my day goes wrong and rat says they're called Phones but they're really just portals to Darkness
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Adi 🐾 (he/him) @ab.androiddev.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/04/2025
First rose of the year in my garden. Surprisingly late given the weather we've been having.
A yellow rose bud informing.
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Adi 🐾 (he/him) @ab.androiddev.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2025
What's wrong with the Danes? vis.social/@infobeautiful/114415220…
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Information Is Beautiful (@infobeautiful@vis.social)
Attached: 1 image How To Say The Number 92 In Various European Languages Nice analysis: https://brilliantmaps.com/number-92/
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Adi 🐾 (he/him) @ab.androiddev.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2025
A single, deep purple tulip. 
In the background is a bird feeder with a tiny fountain, and green leaves and purple flowers from other plants.
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Adi 🐾 (he/him) @ab.androiddev.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/04/2025
Once everything starts breaking, they'll blame the immigrants for it. I mean this is exactly what the Tories did to the UK over a decade and a half. Stripped the government of anything valuable, starved the NHS, tore up the relationship with our closest neighbours and biggest trading partners […]
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Adi 🐾 (he/him) @ab.androiddev.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/04/2025
Eat cake and have it too? If production moves to the US (to escape tariffs) and provides jobs, where will the "external revenue" come from to pay for the income tax cuts? They'll leave a government with a deep hole in finances, its institutions turn to bits, and anything worthy sold for the […]
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Adi 🐾 (he/him) @ab.androiddev.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/04/2025
Smart ass pigeon!
A pigeon sitting in the spill tray under a bird feeder hanging on an apple tree branch. 
The bird feeder has a cage to prevent large birds from feeding in it. The spill tray is hanging outside the cage.
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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 25/04/2025
With this plugin you can enable South and Southeast Asian scripts for OpenStreetMaps rendered in Web GL github.com/wipfli/maplibre-gl-compl… #Maps #TootSea #India #Languages #OpenStreetMaps
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GitHub - wipfli/maplibre-gl-complex-text: Render complex text with Harfbuzz in MapLibre GL JS through the RTL plugin hook
Render complex text with Harfbuzz in MapLibre GL JS through the RTL plugin hook - wipfli/maplibre-gl-complex-text
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Adi 🐾 (he/him) @ab.androiddev.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/04/2025
Need far more grandpas with toolboxes but keep getting more techbros 😞 bird.makeup/users/tomgauld/statuses…
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My cartoon for this week's @newscientist
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Aure Free Press :verified: @free-press.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/04/2025
A billboard by The Telegraph, reportedly in Kent, England. #AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO
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Adi 🐾 (he/him) @ab.androiddev.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/04/2025
@olliethinks shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/04/reverse-ge…
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ollie (@olliethinks@mastodon.social)
23 Posts, 93 Following, 48 Followers · probably quite tired • software developer @FT • helps to develop & maintain @GBToiletMap • posts may (or may not) contain nonsense 🚽 📰 (he/him) I mainly post over on bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/olliethinks.bsky.social github: https://github.com/ob6160 site: https://olliethinks.co.uk
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Adi 🐾 (he/him) @ab.androiddev.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/04/2025
"The plant was removed from the Oval Office during the start of Donald Trump's second presidency in 2025 and replaced with a collection of gold objects." […]
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Adi 🐾 (he/him) @ab.androiddev.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/04/2025
@khalidabuhakmeh I'll ask the robins tomorrow
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Adi 🐾 (he/him) @ab.androiddev.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/04/2025
at least one pied wagtail has approved them.
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Adi 🐾 (he/him) @ab.androiddev.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/04/2025
I got a good deal on fat balls for bird feeders so ordered a large pack. It just got delivered and is really large! I hope the birds are very hungry!
A cardboard box with over 150 suet balls.
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Ian Robinson @ianrobinson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/04/2025
Carole Cadwalladr on the end of The Observer. broligarchy.substack.com/p/fuckity-…
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Adi 🐾 (he/him) @ab.androiddev.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/04/2025
Long weekend gardening Mowed both the lawns all the way down to 3 cm. Then hard raked them to loosen the soil, spread a lawn treatment+fertiliser mix. Finally overseeded them, putting down some extra layers on the bald patches. Finished just in time for some light drizzle to wet and bed all […]
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Adi 🐾 (he/him) @ab.androiddev.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/04/2025
I want sun. I need sun!
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David August ❌👑 @davidaugust.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 20/04/2025
Transmission error.
A comic strip titled "Erreur de Transmission" with seven panels. The first panel shows a soldier landing on a beach holding a rifle. The second panel depicts two allied soldiers celebrating holding a n*zi flag with an American flag in the background. The third panel shows a soldier being happily welcomed home by a woman under a "Welcome" banner. The fouth panel features the soldier, now a civilian, setting the rolled up n*zi flag in the corner of a room with a boy with him. The fifth panel shows the boy from the fourth panel grown into a man with his own boy at a grave for his dad, the soldier. The sixth panel depicts the boy from the fifth panel, now a man, seeing the rolled up n*zi flag in the corner. The seventh panel shows the man from the sixth panel with a baby of his own. The n*zi flag is displayed on the house behind them, the man is barbecuing with a kkk on his shirt, an ss tattoo on his arm, and the baby is wearing a swastika arm band. Both man and baby are doing a n*zi salute. The comic is signed Flock-17.
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Adi 🐾 (he/him) @ab.androiddev.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/04/2025
Everything in this thread starting with this post is what Modi & BJP have done to India. Modi learnt from Putin, Erdogan, Orban. Trump & co are now following on their path. No wonder they all get along so well, they see themselves in each other.
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Adi 🐾 (he/him) @ab.androiddev.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/04/2025
@designatednerd I made a one line change in our web front-end code today, then handed over the PR to my boss to finish (she was a front-end engineer and managed the web team before us). The change took 5 minutes. Installing and setting up all the tooling to test it would've taken the whole day! […]
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Adi 🐾 (he/him) @ab.androiddev.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/04/2025
This just sets the precedent for Trump to demand censorship as well. Once he does there isn't much difference between Bsky and X/Twitter mas.to/@osma/114346166890552471
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Bluesky didn't reach a federated stage where you could choose a service provider in a free country before they started to censor people based on authoritarian demands.
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Adi 🐾 (he/him) @ab.androiddev.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/04/2025
Not just leaders. The question for your boss is the same every time: do you want me to name fewer but better decisions/widgets/whatever or lots of poor ones? mastodon.social/@beastoftraal/11434…
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Karthik S (@beastoftraal@mastodon.social)
2/2 We need a LOT more leaders to talk proudly about adequate sleep. Consider Jezz Bezos' quote in the article: "As a senior executive, you get paid to make a small number of high-quality decisions. Is that [pay] really worth it [for the company] if the quality of those decisions might be lower because you're tired or grouchy?".
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Adi 🐾 (he/him) @ab.androiddev.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/04/2025
It's barely spring.
Young leaves on an Acer - yellow core and pink edgesYoung leaves on an Acer - yellow and redRed edged yellow leaves on an AcerBright pink young leaves on an Acer
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Adi 🐾 (he/him) @ab.androiddev.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/04/2025
I'm not far from looking for an iOS plugin for VS Code to write code with, and using XCode just to build and deploy.
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Adi 🐾 (he/him) @ab.androiddev.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/04/2025
Every time I'm working in XCode, it reminds me of Across development in Eclipse all those years ago. To be honest, even Eclipse was better than XCode.
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Adi 🐾 (he/him) @ab.androiddev.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/04/2025
WFH? WTF. designthinkingcomic.substack.com/p/…
A two panel comic strip.
In the first panel, the boss says to the worker, "So we're calling time on this Working From Home experiment and now I want you back in the office 5 days a week."
In the second panel, the worker replies, "Is that so I can justify my job, or so that you can justify yours?"
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Adi 🐾 (he/him) @ab.androiddev.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2025
Need better stickers for the new laptop
Two photos of laptops. At top, the old one with 8 stickers of different sizes. At the bottom, the new one with 4 entirely different stickers.
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Adi 🐾 (he/him) @ab.androiddev.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/04/2025
@marcin I've started using the screening tool built into Google's phone app. Makes it much easier to screen before picking up or hanging. I block numbers from it too.
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