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Bike geek and computer toucher living in Oxford, UK. Will boost puns. Inception date 1976, fediverse since 2016. Alt: en.osm.town/@achadwick Originally […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ ohai.social/@achadwick, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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AndrewC @achadwick.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 2h
Setting up #SojuIRCBouncer, and a random version of the Kicks Like a Mule track comes up on the internet radio jeh
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AndrewC @achadwick.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 11h
Me: *gets bored of flat design and symbolic icons, thinks maybe a few gradients and bits of colour would provide a bit of skeuomorphism and visual affordance* Monkey's paw: *twitches* Every icon designer, in unison: here, everything's now a flat silhouette with the same pink-purple-blue […]
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AndrewC @achadwick.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026
I made a thing: codeberg.org/achadwick/micro-autocd It's a plugin for micro (the text editor) to automatically >cd you into the right project folder as you open files and switch between tabs. Just something I've been missing since switching from Vim (and vim-rooter). Anyone want to […]
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eepy august [0x08] 🏳️‍⚧️🇲🇰 @august.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
a sentence will always look like poetry if you hit enter a lot
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AndrewC @achadwick.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
Software guys (type of guy): restricting OSC 52 to copy-only is a mega fussy imposition! Total security overreach, man! I know what software *I'm* running always, and I check every pore and crevice of its code and every escape sequence it sends by hand too. No I never copy sensitive data or cat […]
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
[Top tip for injured hairy men] If your plaster/bandaid is the sort that's more clothy/fabricy than plasticky/rubbery then rubbing/isopropyl alcohol will wick right through the fabric to the adhesive underneath and dissolve it damn near instantly. Put a dab on your fingers and rub the cloth and […]
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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
does this programming language support tables?
a print copy of "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" supporting one leg of a table on uneven ground. 

(I took this photo myself at a picnic hosted by a compiler engineer in 2018)
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Juan F. Ramírez @juanfr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
Brand new Spectrum game: Mind The Drains, by orbit-leisure. Download: orbit-leisure.itch.io/mind-the-drai… #zxspectrum #retrogaming
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AndrewC @achadwick.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
cardinal sin ordinal sin real sin imaginary sin
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AndrewC @achadwick.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
Little list of local Oxford UK organisations on the Fediverse that I know of. Any more? Sadly, all are just bridged from that Bluesky place, but it's a start Cyclox 🚴‍♀️📈 @cycloxoxford.bsky.social Badly Parked Oxford 🚗💩 @badlyparkedox.bsky.social The Clarion 📰🎺 @oxfordclarion.bsky.social […]
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AndrewC @achadwick.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
Just reached out to CoHSAT by email to try and get them onhere. They've got an unbridged Bluesky already, so I'm selling them #BridGy as the easiest approach and #FediGarden as explainer and pointer to the full-strength brew cohsat.org.uk #Oxford #CoHSAT
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Home - CoHSAT
CoHSAT OXFORDSHIRE The Coalition for Healthy Streets and Active Travel (CoHSAT) is a group of voluntary and campaigning organisations working across Oxfordshire to create attractive, accessible and people-friendly streets. We do this by encouraging efficient, active, low carbon and sustainable travel, which will reduce traffic, air pollution and noise, and enable healthy and thriving communities.
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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Way before Red Bull, the H. Long Fils tire company was giving people wings Les Pneus H. Long Fils Donnent des Ailes (H. Long Sons Tires Give You Wings) ca. 1900 🎨H.C. Roowy
Advertising poster featuring an illustration of a Mercury-like figure in a forest, but instead of having wings on his feet, he's got a rope attached to the hub of a bicycle wheel, and the has wings. He's flying through the forest on it.
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AndrewC @achadwick.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026
Pronouncing nginx as /ŋɪnx/
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sverx🗩 @sverx.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026
Super Mario Bros finally released for the #SEGA #MasterSystem - and it's even better than what you could imagine!!! 🤩 Go check out the *incredible* work done by 'Lack of Track' and friends. 👏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRrioabZZwM #videogames #8bit #mario #homebrew #SEGAMasterSystem […]
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michael @proseandpassion.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026
meet Bob, the battery-supported #trolleybus in #Solingen: www.flickr.com/photos/michaelgrr/55… #flickr #photos
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Solingen: botanic garden and city centre. This is Bob - the Batterie-Oberleitungs-Bus. Apparently Solingen has the largest of the three surviving trolleybus systems in Germany, and has modernised it by adding batteries so the buses can also skip across gaps in the electricity lines. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberleitungsbus_Solingen
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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026
I think wikipedia does this intentionally to taunt people with adhd. Like hold on tell me about the cat
United States Treasury security

"Treasury Bill" redirects here. For the cat, see Rufus of England.
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AndrewC @achadwick.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026
Currently switching away from both Vim (slop) and NeoVim (fash lead dev). I've been keeping an eye on the Micro editor for a while, just messing around with its configs and its Lua plugin dialect, but it's beginning to feel comfy enough for a stock quick editor now if not quite an IDE. I dig the […]
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AndrewC @achadwick.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026
Needed some new tyres for the car, which I don't want, but which I'm stuck with for family health care reasons. Two hours of my weekend and 400 quid down the bog. Solidly mid-range Kumho ones, not to be confused with kumiho tyres, which would be very different🦊
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Misinformation-Superhighwayman @damienwise.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026
The problem of fascists in Open Source Software projects has become so bad that some vim users are considering using emacs. #Neovim #fascism #OSS #OpenSourceSoftware
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Quixoticgeek @quixoticgeek.v.st.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026
RE: c.im/@BBC/117144240968313104 And yet people say my distrust of QR codes is not rational. Qr codes are not a secure system. Stop using them.
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Space Hobo @spacehobo.teh.entar.net.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026
@quixoticgeek And the reason the pride flag has the colours it does was to make it easy for everyone to make one in 1976. Originally it had a pink stripe, but finding pink fabric suitable for a flag was hard back then!
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AndrewC @achadwick.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026
LB "Details correct at time of printing and may be subject to change; please visit our website or social media channels for the latest updates" → I know, I know, but who uses social media or looks at websites these days, not me I guess
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michael @proseandpassion.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026
#Oxford #recycling RedZone: turns out that the year plan we printed in April contained an error offsetting the cycle from the first week of August onwards. Council quietly corrected it online without telling us […]
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AndrewC @achadwick.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026
Privacy frontend redirect forwarder farside.link has closed down. RIP, it was good for a while. farside.link Looks like LLM data trawl mitigation on the services they forwarded to stopped their automated checking from working in the end
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Swift @swift.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026
The difference between #heat exhaustion and heatstroke explained Worth a read. theconversation.com/the-difference-…
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The difference between heat exhaustion and heatstroke explained
Heat exhaustion and heatstroke can both happen when the body overheats, but they are not the same. Here’s how to spot the difference and what to do.
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mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) @atax1a.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026
`git blame`, or as they say in france, `g'accuse`
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AndrewC @achadwick.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026
"Never share this code with anyone, including us", insists the payment form that's asking for the exact same verification code
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AndrewC @achadwick.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026
Dear lazyfedi. I'd really love a feature for Miniflux to automatically sort feeds into bins of how frequently they update on average - something it must already track for POLLING_SCHEDULER = entry_frequency (or, why are all my most interesting feeds the least frequently updated ones?; or, why […]
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[object Object] @zzt.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026
believe it or not here’s what the people want: - an e-bike commuter or laborer tells you how to do daily tasks on a bicycle in ways that probably aren’t obvious to most people, like loading cargo onto the bike so it won’t fall off - a grizzled bicycle mechanic shows how to repair and modify […]
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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026
Okay, we have a new contender for Most AI Thing to Ever Happen 1) July 25th: someone messes around with an LLM and posts a proof of the Collatz conjecture that does, in fact, verify in the theorem prover. (The AI use is not disclosed on the github page) github.com/xrchz/CollatzLean 2) […]
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Leah Price @leahprice.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026
I'm moving to Oxford. Where I will teach book history and build a manual humanities makerspace AKA book kitchen -- please come visit and advise.
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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026
A reddit post from r/linguisticshumor imagining if english was written like japanese, with latin standing in for kanji and greek for katakana. It even has furigana glosses above the latin words. If you’ve ever tried to learn japanese at all it’s extremely funny
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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026
The No-AI list: A list of projects that pledged not to use AI or are disrupting it. noai.starlightnet.work/list.html
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Starlight Network No-AI List
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David Weir @davidjamesweir.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026
My partner’s sibling has left a Commodore 128 in the garage for me to play with. What cool things can I do with it that won’t turn into an enormous time sink? (assuming it still turns on, that is - replacing capacitors isn’t something I have time for right now) #Commodore128 #Commodore64 […]
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2 Spoopy 4 You @jcrabapple.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026
🦌 Arctic reindeer are the only mammals whose eyes change color seasonally - gold in summer, deep blue in winter. They physically restructure a nanoscale photonic mirror inside their eyes to match Arctic twilight wavelengths, boosting night vision during months of polar darkness. #science #nature […]
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Nature Punk @naturepunk.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026
ffs, you had one job, don't be a tory. www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c935yx2…
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AndrewC @achadwick.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026
Portable Any Map Portable Arbitrary Map Portable Whatever Man Map Portable Eh Good Enough for Government Work Map
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Space Hobo @spacehobo.teh.entar.net.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026
Is it just me or does LLM-generated imagery have the same vibe as like those velvet paintings that were A Thing in the 70s?
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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
The sign says "RIDER STOPS!" and Boaks wasn't kidding. He was notorious for holding up traffic in order to let pedestrians cross. He would push a shopping cart or pram filled with bricks back and forth in zebra crossings, and reinforced his bicycle with a 140-pound iron bedstead.
Photo of the back of Bill Boaks' campaign bicycle, which has posters indicating that he stops for pedestrians.
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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Sure you've got your Count Binface, but when it comes to eccentric British candidates, retired Royal Navy officer Bill Boaks was a force to contend with. By all accounts Boaks was a terrible campaigner, but his single-minded dedication to the cause of road safety was a force to be reckoned with. 🧵
Photo of a man posing on a bicycle contained inside a box with street safety posters displayed on it.

Photo by Julian Brown, 1979,
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AndrewC @achadwick.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/07/2026
Pronouncing the Slough of Despond like it's about 5 miles east of Maidenhead
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AndrewC @achadwick.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026
"Catnip lotion as effective as Deet at repelling mosquitoes, study finds"- did a cat write this? www.theguardian.com/global-developm… A joint Welsh and Ugandan study has shown a 6% catnip oil based […]
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michael @proseandpassion.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026
#Oxford #Clarion checks up on local #climatePolicy oxfordclarion.uk/its-an-emergency-d… #science #climateCatastrophe
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
It feels like if you resign from a post and immediately announce your decision to apply for that post your resignation shouldn’t be accepted in the first place.
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AndrewC @achadwick.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026
*struggling to recall a face* ah you must be Fönstiv of the Hamburge Vons
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AndrewC @achadwick.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026
And as if by magic, the hosepipe uncorks. Thanks, @ohai!
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2 Spoopy 4 You @jcrabapple.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026
Trilobites saw the world through lenses made of actual rock - and solved an optical problem 400 million years before humans did. Their eyes were built from calcite, the same mineral in limestone and marble. Every other animal that ever lived uses soft protein lenses. Only trilobites evolved […]
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AndrewC @achadwick.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026
"Cool URLs don't change". Guess this bookmark wasn't a cool URL then
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