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ændra. @aendra.com · 25/09/2026

The bells? The bells!

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ændra. @aendra.com · 25/09/2026

Weird happenings in my neighborhood

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ændra. @aendra.com · 10/09/2026

Never change, LinkedIn

A connection invitation on LinkedIn:

Hey Ændra! I saw your PR on Hubot and thought you'd be perfect for a new project I'm running where we collaborate with top oss devs to push the capabilities of leading LLMs. Want to hear more?

That Hubot PR in full. It's from 2013 and I removed a single "S" character from a regex.

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ændra. @aendra.com · 12/08/2026

Amazing quote that summarises Starmer's turn as PM exceptionally well.

Screenshot of text:

Sir Keir “thanked him for his presentation but said he wasn’t interested in hope and change”, according to a source.

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ændra. @aendra.com · 10/08/2026

That last one; oof! Absolutely cracking work by @londoncentric.media

Screenshot of story —

We asked:

What checks Criterion carried out on Chowdhury before letting shops to her newly-formed companies? Did it verify she existed at the addresses provided?

Why it rented the Edinburgh shops to her new company, given Criterion had previously had to deal with her Leicester Square gift shop going bust over unpaid taxes?

Whether Criterion received rent on the shop units, even if the tenant was not paying its taxes?

Whether Criterion is concerned it is being targeted by an organised group leasing its properties to run tax-evading gift shops, given we have now identified more than twenty such businesses that have operated out of Criterion-owned buildings in the last four years?

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ændra. @aendra.com · 27/07/2026

If you see this, quart a pic of yourself in sunglasses

Me wearing sunglasses, green nails, straw hat

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ændra. @aendra.com · 21/07/2026

Wake me up when something actually changes

Bluesky mute dialog, the word "Burnham" is typed in

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ændra. @aendra.com · 20/07/2026

Stg @middleearth.quest is just trolling me at this point

Bot: An old Dwarvish door stands ajar in the mountainside. Beyond it, on a stone pedestal, something gleams.

Reply OPEN to enter.
Thu 30 April at 17:05

Me: OPEN

Bot: 🎲 You rolled a 1 — 💀 A cursed roll...

The chest was a trap! In the chaos, you lose what you were carrying.

You lost: a Dragon-helm of ancient make 🛡️

Me: OH NOOOOO

Me: /SMASH CHEST

Bot: By the side of an ancient road, a traveler's pack lies abandoned. It looks like it has been here for years.

Reply OPEN to search it.
Tue 12 May at 19:53

Me: OPEN

Bot: 🎲 You rolled a 1 — 💀 A cursed roll...

A curse falls upon you as you open the chest. Your belongings scatter into the darkness.

You lost: the Map of Thrór 📜

Me: NOOOO NOT AGAIN!!!!

Me: I AM SO CLUMSYYYY

Bot: A trader's wagon lies overturned on the road. Among the scattered goods, one lockbox remains intact.

Reply OPEN to open it.

Me: Open

Bot: 🎲 You rolled a 1 — 💀 A cursed roll...

The chest snaps shut on your hand. In the struggle, you drop everything.

You lost: a mighty crossbow 🏹
😢

Me: Clumsiest warg rider undefeated

Bot: The roots of a great Mallorn tree have grown around something. You can just make out the edge of a wooden chest.

Reply OPEN to dig it out.
Today at 13:27

Me: Open

Bot: 🎲 You rolled a 1 — 💀 A cursed roll...

The chest was empty — and cursed. Fortunately, you had nothing to lose.

Me: HA HOW FORTUNATE I HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE, CURSED D20!

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ændra. @aendra.com · 17/07/2026

Finally got a reply to my letter to @rushanaraalibgs.bsky.social and to say I'm disappointed in her response is an understatement.

Dear Aendra Rininsland,

Please accept my apologies for not being able to write back to you sooner.

Thank you for contacting me about the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s updated Code of Practice for services, public functions and associations, which includes guidance on single-sex spaces.

I would like to begin by stating that I passionately believe trans people deserve safety, dignity and respect. Everyone should be able to be themselves and live their lives free from intimidation or abuse.

As you highlight, last year the Supreme Court ruled that sex in the Equality Act 2010 refers to biological sex. After careful consideration and scrutiny by Ministers, updated guidance from the Equality and Human Rights Commission was laid in Parliament on 21 May to reflect this.

I know that trans people and organisations have expressed concerns about the new guidance. I think it is very important to emphasise that neither the Supreme Court judgment, nor the new code, alter the fact that trans people remain a protected group under the Equality Act 2010 and should be able to live their lives free from harassment and discrimination.

The guidance, while reflecting the findings of the Supreme Court in terms of access to single-sex spaces, also emphasises that service providers should make sure that trans people have access to essential services, such as toilets. It says they should consider if and how trans

people may be disadvantaged and suggests a holistic approach to service provision by providing a mix of services which may include both separate or single-sex services and mixed-sex services. Specialist legal advice should be taken, if needed.

Parliament now has to consider the guidance. It is extremely important to note the Supreme Court warned against reading its judgment “as a triumph of one or more groups in our society at the expense of another”. As it explained, transgender people are protected by the Equality Act 2010, passed by the last Labour Government - not only against discrimination through the protected characteristic of gender reassignment - but also against direct discrimination, indirect discrimination and harassment in substance in their acquired gender. These protections are available to transgender people regardless of whether they possess a Gender Recognition Certificate or not.

Thank you once again for contacting me about this important issue.

Yours sincerely,

Rushanara

Rushanara Ali
Labour Member of Parliament for Bethnal Green and Stepney

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ændra. @aendra.com · 15/07/2026

Like just look at this cutiepie

Black and white mu.social kitty looking upwards sitting upright

Black and white mu.social kitty sleeping curled into a cat bun

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ændra. @aendra.com · 11/07/2026

Honestly more hyped about this than when Rachel Maddows liked the News feed

"The official pulpit of cult of the dead cow liked your post", Bluesky screenshot

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ændra. @aendra.com · 08/07/2026

Love 2 pay £2550 a month for a flat where shit is literally glued to the walls

A giant mirror that has fallen and shattered

As you can see this massive heavy mirror was attached via GLUE to the wall

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ændra. @aendra.com · 08/07/2026

Love 2 pay £2550 a month for a flat where shit is literally glued to the walls

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ændra. @aendra.com · 07/07/2026

I really question whether I'll still live in the UK a year from now.

In one case, a trans intersex woman described using the male toilets during a work party as she was not out to her employer, “which was in accordance with the gender I was presenting as, the gender I was assigned at birth, and EHRC guidance”. However, security staff believed she should be using the female toilet as they presumed she was a trans man and ordered her to leave the event altogether.

In another case, a tall, flat chested cis woman with short hair described being surrounded by a group of women in a toilet at Victoria station, who threatened to call the police and told her “don’t you know you’re not allowed in here anymore” in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling.

“Before the ruling any challenges had been gentle, like ‘oh by the way this is the ladies’,” she was quoted as saying, “and people were embarrassed or apologetic when I said ‘it’s okay I’m a girl’, but now it’s aggressive and horrible.”

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ændra. @aendra.com · 28/06/2026

The single stupidest thing about 3rd labellers continues to be the fact it's impossible to prevent them from using labels not in their service record. It's the very first thing I'd change about them at this point, tbth — it's actively preventing me from recruiting new help for XBlock.

An "adult content" label applied to one of my own pieces of content by XBlock as a test. N.b., XBlock has no "adult" labels.

A "!hide" label applied to one of my pieces of content by XBlock. I shouldn't be allowed to do that, nor should my moderators!

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ændra. @aendra.com · 27/06/2026

Like why did this take me so long to make lol

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ændra. @aendra.com · 22/06/2026

This is razor sharp in a way I've not read from any other writer on the topic. So many lines I could quote. It's absolutely excellent. Go read it.

The queer vote, the, for lack of a better word, ‘internationalist’ vote, are invariably going to be core pillars of any modern centre-left party’s coalition. They’ll put up with a certain amount of performative moderation, given how frightening the alternatives are, but their patience is not infinite. People will not cast ballots for a party that is actively oppressing them, removing longstanding rights, or describing them in dehumanizing terms.

The actual centre-left coalition is bartenders, supermarket shelve stackers, and waitresses. People who live in a big city in a small rental with roommates. Nurses, teachers, office staff. Young aspirational couples in the suburbs. Students and recent grads. Progressive professionals and, yes, academics.

To those who are baffled by the hatred of Starmer from the left, ask yourself, if you were to be prevented from using a toilet, would it matter to you if it was done directly, or through an intermediary? Ask yourself also how people who work service roles might feel about those who outsource ugly, discriminatory conversations to them, in order to keep their own hands clean, to maintain their self-image as ‘decent’ people.

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ændra. @aendra.com · 17/06/2026

This is so well put.

Screenshot of article:

This all leads to a disastrous political outcome for the government. It suggests a human rights case on Article 8 rights, which it will lose, followed perhaps by a ruling in Strasbourg, which it will also lose, all just in time to coincide with the next general election.

All of that is preventable. None of it has to happen. But what is required, as ever, is the one commodity that we do not seem to possess, which is courage. Politicians need to show they have the conviction to grapple with this issue. No-one else can do it really: not the courts, not the EHRC, not the campaigners on either side.

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ændra. @aendra.com · 05/06/2026

If you hijack one of my posts to do this kind of shit, your ass is immediately getting blocked.

Some dipshit quote-posting my Graze donation callout with some American politics bullshit

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ændra. @aendra.com · 15/05/2026

Managed my daily German language challenge (getting my nails done at a salon in Berlin) 💪🏼

Me showing off my new nail set, they're very yellow green

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ændra. @aendra.com · 25/04/2026

Oh gosh nothing that exciting, Niquitin is the brand of patch I have

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ændra. @aendra.com · 19/04/2026

Like you say that, and I know in my heart it's true, but then I look at them... 🫣

Neon green open-toed calf-length 7" heels

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ændra. @aendra.com · 16/04/2026

The best type of notifications

Bluesky screenshot, notifs page, all tab. There's a red bar saying "forbidden"

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ændra. @aendra.com · 31/03/2026

There's a great exchange in it, where the quiet engineer CEO begins conflicting with the shouty nontechnical CEO he hired to navigate the company (performed brilliantly by Glenn Howerton) Rent-free in my mind as we navigate the next few years:

Imdb screenshot:

Mike: So, there's a reason why your intercom is emitting white noise. It's because it was manufactured in China by engineers who didn't care, and now every office in the world has to suffer an annoying hiss, a blinking red light, fifteen different power cords that are utterly incompatible with one another. So, uh. We are not doing that. We are not just adding to the hiss. I will build a prototype, but I'll do it perfectly or I don't do it.

Jim: Mike, are you familiar with the saying "Perfect is the enemy of good?"

Jim: Well, "Good Enough" is the enemy of humanity

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ændra. @aendra.com · 31/03/2026

I learned a new term this week!

Google AI overview screenshot:
"Sherlocking" refers to when a platform owner (typically Apple) introduces a new native feature that replicates the functionality of a third-party app, making that app obsolete. Coined after Apple’s "Sherlock" software supplanted the popular "Watson" app in 2002, it now serves as a cautionary term for developers facing competition from operating system updates.

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ændra. @aendra.com · 30/03/2026

The talk by @knotbin.com about ATProto interoperability was awesome and it's so cool they're open sourcing @sprk.so bsky.app/profile/sprk...

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ændra. @aendra.com · 30/03/2026

@kandake.africa's talk about private data was a highlight, she's done some amazing work with Stratos. And check out these amazing docs! stratos.zone

Evelyn discussing Northsky and the new Stratos private data system

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ændra. @aendra.com · 29/03/2026

I could listen to @dame.is talk about moths all day; delightful presentation. @anisota.net is super cool and more people should check it out!

Dame.is presenting, a bunch of moths are on screen

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ændra. @aendra.com · 29/03/2026

Got a lovely shout-out in @devingaffney.com's phenomenal talk earlier. 😊 Always a joy to hear Devin speak; few people have their finger on the pulse of this ecosystem like he does. Probably my favourite talk of the conference so far.

Devin Gaffney discussing custom feeds, Trending News is shown as an example

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ændra. @aendra.com · 28/03/2026

Attie seems to really like my posts 😅

Paul's Attie demo, two of my posts are in the feed

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ændra. @aendra.com · 28/03/2026

Debuting at #atmosphereconf just now: @sebastian.eurosky.social showing off the new @eurosky.social portal Honestly this is such a cool approach by Eurosky: become an infrastructure layer instead of a competitor social media app

Photo of Sebastian demoing the Eurosky Portal

More Eurosky Portal. Bluesky and Flashes are recommended apps

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ændra. @aendra.com · 28/03/2026

I really love how the @eurosky.social folks just absolutely understand the stakes involved and why indiesky is important. Brilliant talk. 👏🏼 @ivansigal.eurosky.social at #atmosphereconf

Photo from Ivan Sigal talk. Text from slide:

Potential to offer a structural response to primary levers of control

Coercion -> resistance

Cooption -> exit

Persuasion -> algorithmic agency

Tools for resistance

Shared truths and public data

Information and identity provenance

Data ownership

Decentralization offers resilience

Cooperative models and shared resources

State sovereignty and strategic depth for resistance

Other affordances?

What could be built?

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ændra. @aendra.com · 28/03/2026

Trending News mentioned! 🎉 This talk by @mmccue.bsky.social is awesome: "We see feeds as building blocks" Yes! This!!! #atmosphereconf

Mike McCue discussing Surf at #atmosphereconf

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ændra. @aendra.com · 27/03/2026

And like check out this entirely sensible and absolutely brilliant feature for tracking your discussions with a user! What an absolutely phenomenal feature, this should be everywhere

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ændra. @aendra.com · 22/03/2026

Today was stunning, went to the top of Grouse Mountain and watched the sun set. 10/10

Sunset photo atop Grouse Mountain. Vancouver Island is visible in the distance, and there's about a dozen ships in the Burrard Inlet.

Sunset photo atop Grouse Mountain. Lions Gate Bridge is in the frame and the lights of Vancouver are just starting to blink on. Half a dozen ships are visible in Burrard Inlet.

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ændra. @aendra.com · 19/03/2026

It's really easy to remix the feed using @graze.social and I actively encourage people to do so! www.graze.social/feeds/396

Screenshot of the News feed on @graze.social, the "remix" button is highlighted

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ændra. @aendra.com · 19/03/2026

If you scroll through the tabs on my profile you can see all of them, I have a bunch!

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ændra. @aendra.com · 14/03/2026

This is so dang cool omg

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ændra. @aendra.com · 06/03/2026

Like look at this absolute legend, there's a frickin' cassette tape audio recorder skeuomorphism in a signal combiner app, where has this been all my life

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