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Alex R @alexreid.org · 04/10/2026

@aphyr tfw you're trying to get a comfortable water temperature and accidentally release this guy from a book

Sirrus from Myst, trapped in a book and a low-res QuickTime movie

Alex R @alexreid.org · 22/09/2026

Back on my No Man's Sky bullshit and spending way too long building my beautiful son, the good ship _Asterion Swims in Starlight_ #nms #nomanssky

A spaceship flies in front of a planet surrounded by astroid debris and a teal blue dust cloud

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Alex R @alexreid.org · 15/09/2026

I wasn't expecting much, but it does sound like Valve really nailed it with the Steam Frame

Screenshot of a Wired article headlined 'A New Headset to Help With Depression is Now Available in the US'.

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Alex R @alexreid.org · 21/08/2026

Went to the Ulster Museum's last night and coloured in a dress to look like a bumblebee. I can fully recommend going to a museum and doing this

Photo of three identical colouring sheets of a woman wearing a ruffled dress. On the left is a gold and dark brown one with blue accents, lipstick, and a necklace that says 'save the bees'. In the middle is one with green and yellow teardrop shapes, and on the right is a vibrant peach-coloured ombré

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Alex R @alexreid.org · 20/08/2026

I tracked these down out of curiosity. Here's the proposed packaging and receptacle labels to be used EU-wide (and in Northern Ireland) from 2028. Apparently everybody agrees that colour is useful, but nobody wants the same colours, so this is the current […] [Original post on tech.lgbt]

An array of colourful rectangles with black and white pictograms, depicting waste material categories. Cardboard and paper are dark blue, glass is green, plastic is yellow, composite materials are orange, metal is dark grey, compostable materials brown, textiles magenta, ceramics light blue, wood and cork tan, hazardous waste red and residual waste purple

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Alex R @alexreid.org · 09/08/2026

An oíche deireanach na Fleidhe!

Antaine agus mé le an focail 'Fleadh' sa culra

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Alex R @alexreid.org · 07/08/2026

@repeattofade can't believe they haven't simply created their own data centre

Lucille Bluth saying 'it's one data centre, Michael'

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Alex R @alexreid.org · 03/08/2026

RE: post.lurk.org/@sean_ae/117031646713… okay fellas but the robot hellbeast centaur does look pretty damn dangerous as it is

A nightmarish black robot centaur stands in a doorway, ominously, next to text that says 'this robot is more dangerous than it looks'

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Alex R @alexreid.org · 02/08/2026

Craic ar dóigh sa Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann le @antainemacaoidh #mastodaoine

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Alex R @alexreid.org · 30/07/2026

@kvetch.gay The UK has a very similar concept in 'primary destinations', which I'm guessing might be explicitly inspired by the US system (which was one of the comparator systems when the UK's was being designed). Though we also have 'regional destinations', which […] [Original post on tech.lgbt]

A roundabout sign that shows, among other directions, 'The North' and 'The South'

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Alex R @alexreid.org · 30/07/2026

it's called bisexuality (by ShaneValShane on YouTube)

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Alex R @alexreid.org · 29/07/2026

@dkub and clouds.bmp is kinda essential

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Alex R @alexreid.org · 29/07/2026

@dkub forest.bmp was my go-to, ideally centred on the deafault teal background colour

A low-res image showing fir branches in a square light brown frame

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Alex R @alexreid.org · 28/07/2026

people fear she may be ricing again #niri #noctalia

Screenshot of a desktop showing with a vertical combined taskbar and dock on the left. The wallpaper shows Tokyo tower reaching up into blue skies with wispy clouds. The UI elements are using shades of blue from the wallpaper as accent colours. A terminal window shows that the computer is running Bluefin 44.

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Alex R @alexreid.org · 24/07/2026

As a Sign Nerd, it's very nice to see that the Department for Infrastructure in Northern Ireland has gone with the Scottish model for bilingual traffic signs, and is using colour to differentiate languages. The initial mockups used italics (in the wrong typeface!) […] [Original post on tech.lgbt]

A blue bus lane sign showing symbols for buses, motorbikes, and cycles, plus the Irish text 'Tacsaithe atá ceadaithe' in yellow, and the English text 'Permitted taxi' in white

A yellow urban clearway sign, with four plates. All Irish text is green, and all English text is black. The first plate shows a no waiting symbol with the Irish 'In am ar bith ar an chosán' and the English 'At any time on footway'. The second plate shows a no waiting symbol with the Irish 'Glanbhealach uirbeach / Luan go hAoine' and English 'Urban clearway / Monday to Friday'. The remaining two plates show 'a.m. 8.00 – 9.30' and 'p.m. 4.30 – 6.00'.

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Alex R @alexreid.org · 23/07/2026

Inside you get to play find-the-drive, plus free storage for up to 215 more

A single SSD sits in a pile of black plastic trays that hold up to 36 NVMe drives each

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Alex R @alexreid.org · 23/07/2026

This is how Micron ships one (1) warranty replacement NVMe SSD. €1 coin for scale.

A very large box, about 0.5 m on its longest side, containing four smaller boxes. Three are marked 'empty', while one is labelled 'partial'. A one-Euro coin sits on top looking very small.

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Alex R @alexreid.org · 11/07/2026

Brighton Bear Weekend with @antainemacaoidh. Not sure who thought to schedule a bear weekend in the middle of a heatwave

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Alex R @alexreid.org · 29/06/2026

Sainsbury's really came for beetroot with these descriptions

The back of a pack of salad with the contents listed with flavour notes: Bull's Blood Chard (sweet and earthy), Lamb's lettuce (mild and nutty), red chard (earthy, with butter notes), and beetroot.

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Alex R @alexreid.org · 22/06/2026

Getting my desktop set up on an old laptop while I navigate RMAing the SSD from my Framework, I figured I'd give #Noctalia's v5 alpha a go alongside my usual #Niri, since Quickshell might be a bit hard on this slightly more mature hardware. I've gotta say, it's […] [Original post on tech.lgbt]

Screenshot of a Linux desktop showing a translucent top bar and dock, and desktop widgets. A terminal is open showing fastfetch displaying system info, showing Niri running on Bluefin 44 on an 8th gen Intel Core i5

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Alex R @alexreid.org · 19/06/2026

Monzo convinced that I teleported to Denmark for an hour when I bought some tea at Søstrene Grene in Belfast

A screenshot showing 'Denmark 🇩🇰 – you spent £6.26 in total', plus a map of Denmark

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Alex R @alexreid.org · 17/06/2026

trying no to wake the neighbours but these ermine moths are just too c*nty

An ermine moth with yassified Patrick Star's long acrylic nails, filler'd lips, and false eyelashes overlaid on top. The moth is white with black specks and has a fluffy white collar around its head

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Alex R @alexreid.org · 14/06/2026

Found this in Cologne last month because of course we did

A rolling shutter with a bear doing a double bicep pose painted on it above the word 'bearzone'. I'm copying the pose in front.

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Alex R @alexreid.org · 12/06/2026

The way I Eurogasped at the frequency categories for Canadian intercity rail

A map key showing frequencies each way of 2 trains per week, 3 trains per week, 6-7 trains/week, and 'greater than or equal to 2 trains/day'

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Alex R @alexreid.org · 01/06/2026

And Finland patterns theirs on the 'home zone/living street' signs found across Europe that I'm very much trying to resist doing a deep dive thread on

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Alex R @alexreid.org · 01/06/2026

For completeness, here's the sign used in Germany (Austria's is similar). This one doesn't make as much sense to me, since it would suggest to me that motor vehicles (and horse drawn vehicles, I suppose) are banned rather than just deprioritised

A white rectangular sign containing a bike silhouette in a dark blue circle, with the legend 'Fahrradstraße' underneath

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Alex R @alexreid.org · 01/06/2026

Interestingly, Ireland already has a design using UK-style symbols (the same ones are used, more or less), but the UK didn't decide to go with this approach.

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Alex R @alexreid.org · 01/06/2026

Here's what that looks like:

A painted blue rectangular sign on a red road. It says 'Cyclestreet', and shows a white silhouette of a person riding a bike in front of a red silhouette of a car

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Alex R @alexreid.org · 29/05/2026

Just migrated the first actual application to the new home server. Or are we calling these 'homelabs' now?). There's something pleasing about the old-school HDD blinkenlights on the DAS and the sounds of the drives seeking occasionally as music is streamed off it

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Alex R @alexreid.org · 18/05/2026

Okay, it's finally time for a #NewProfilePic after many years, and I couldn't be happier with my comission by the extremely talented and handsome @yesjohn! It's giving bara utility cycling under Dreamcast-worthy deep blue skies and I love it :pic2_heart: (I can […] [Original post on tech.lgbt]

An anime-style illustration of me pushing a light blue city bike across a pedestrian crossing. I'm wearing a cute pink vest and green shorts. In the background, fluffy clouds float in a blue sky above an even bluer sea

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Alex R @alexreid.org · 14/05/2026

if my external HDD were in a movie it would have just coughed and then said not to worry about it

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Alex R @alexreid.org · 30/04/2026

[EC, photo of me] Heute haben wir auch Wuppertal besucht

Me standing in front of a suspended monorail, a train-like thing hanging from a track over a river

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Alex R @alexreid.org · 30/04/2026

[EC, photo of me, alcohol] Altbier in der Düsseldorfer Altstadt ist leckerer (ich habe auch extrem viel Spargel gegessen)

Me holding a small glass of dark brown Altbier in a Düsseldorf brewpub

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Alex R @alexreid.org · 25/04/2026

I hope this is a _big_ text box

Settings search results showing the option to 'Send feedback about time'

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Alex R @alexreid.org · 24/04/2026

[Selfie, EC] 17° means it's time to try and whip the legs back into shape!

Me, a bearded white man with long brown hair, wearing bright yellow cycling kit in front of a sandy beech with Belfast Lough in the background

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Alex R @alexreid.org · 20/04/2026

Not Zork making @YouAreCarrying get all political

You Are Carrying post saying 'You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.', auto CW'd as USpol by timeline filters

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Alex R @alexreid.org · 27/03/2026

Stena Line clearly forgot that their Irish Sea ferries have BS 1363 sockets, and decided to use the Cursed Europlug Trick to plug in their in-cabin entertainment devices

Two BS 1363 (three pronged, rectangular holes) sockets on a wall, with a Europlug (two pronged, round pins) jammed into the live and neutral terminals at the bottom of the socket

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Alex R @alexreid.org · 01/03/2026

RE: chaos.social/@Natanox/1161541241648… I'm starting a campaign for a Catgirl Living Wage

Window from RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 showing that Catgirl 1 is being paid €55 per month

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Alex R @alexreid.org · 16/01/2026

Tom Nook on his way to your island's Marine Conservation Area #animalcrossing #acnh

A speeding cement mixer lorry being driven by a t-posing Tom Nook

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Alex R @alexreid.org · 05/12/2025

don't speak to me before i've had my MINMO

A poster for cat food on a tiled wall in a 3D video game. The poster's naive graphic design gives a charming effect, and all text is in Comic Sans. It says:

'Growing Strong and Healthy .....Minmo!'

'cat foods Minmo'

A photo of a cat taken with a flash sits under the text, looking upwards for his Minmo.

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Alex R @alexreid.org · 30/11/2025

Belfast restaurant shoots for French luxury; misses

A screenshot of a menu advertising a 'pre-fix meal'

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Alex R @alexreid.org · 26/11/2025

@kvetch.gay I immediately looked for this but Ulster Says No (to gay hockey)

Screenshot of a search of Libraries NI showing no results for a search for 'game changer reid'

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Alex R @alexreid.org · 21/11/2025

[Selfie, EC] The increasingly traditional rainy ferry selfie

Me, a white bearded man with long hair in a bun, in front of nighttime city lights over water on the deck of a large boat. Rain has just started to speckle my jacket.

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Alex R @alexreid.org · 20/11/2025

@yatil Google's approach to this (afaik using actual artists and some templating code rather than gen AI, surprisingly) gives much nicer result. That exact combo doesn't exist, but there's a great range of exasperated masked emoji-style stickers

A screenshot showing an array of emoji showing masked emoticon-style faces signing, huffing, frowning, crying, and so on

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