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Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 21/10/2026

gondoltam, most már megnézem magamnak, merre is van pontosan matolcs

Wikipédia részlet Matolcs (Tunyogmatolcs) szócikkből:

1436-ban a király elvette a Matucsinayaktól (immáron másodjára, hűtlenségük miatt) a birtokot, és a Báthoryaknak adományozta.

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Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 15/10/2026

this is my most typical word and ... yeah, i'll take it

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Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 09/10/2026

on desktop this came through formatted to perfection if this was deliberate, that's pure genius

Screenshot of the opening post, showing that the line breaks between "he" and "brides", making the hyphen a natural part of the flow.

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Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 06/10/2026

i can't speak for everyone but in hungary we do this for example

Photo of a bowl of "csülkös babgulyás" (bean goulash with smoked ham hock).

The bowl is white with a deep blue rim and inside it there's a stew/very thick soup with beans, bits of meat, carrots, parsley and of course lots of paprika. Next to it is a thick slice of fluffy white bread, as is right and proper

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Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 20/09/2026

JEWS BEHOLD! (for some reason i feel like @samwhyte.bsky.social may enjoy this)

Youtube video of the Everton-Ipswich game from this afternoon, the auto-subtitles read:

"Jo Barry to Jews behold. Back to Barry again. Little layoff for Harrison"

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Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 19/09/2026

when even commentators give up on modern football

Screenshot from the BBC live feed for this afternoon's football.

"Newcastle 2-1 Hull

Hull assistant boss Dean Holden was booked a few minutes ago for something or other on the bench."

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Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 13/09/2026

broke: pig-faced helmet woke: chicken helmet

Illustration of a pig-faced helmet.

This is your classic knight's bascinet, with a visor featuring narrow eyeslits and a pointy face covering with breathing holes on the side, a bit like a conical pasta strainer.

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Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 01/09/2026

the marketing division of the sirius cybernetics corporation defines a robot as “your plastic pal who’s fun to be with” the hhgg defines the marketing division of the sirius cybernetics corporation as “a bunch of mindless jerks who’ll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes”

Screenshot from the Android Studio website:

Android Studio

The official IDE for Android app development now accelerates your productivity with Gemini in Android Studio, your AI-powered coding companion.

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Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 22/08/2026

p.s.: there is now a second livestream about the ramping up but it looks like this, so i won't post through it great 1980s office vibe tho

Shot of an office interior, on the back wall we see brown cabinets, on the left brown cabinets but also some shelves with rows of thick binders, in the foreground we see six blokes, one of whom is the prime minister, standing around a desk with a computer screen on it, the only thing that gives it away that we're not in the late 80s, cos it isn't CRT.

They're all staring at the wall to the right, where out of shot, there's a display grid that shows the current status of the whole plant.

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Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 22/08/2026

church organ in the cathedral of the nuclear gods

Shot of the wall of the turbine hall with a row of pipes running mostly vertically, although some take a horizontal turn. From the perspective it looks like even the smallest is more than a foot across. The largest you could probably walk through.

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Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 22/08/2026

turns out bearded guy is indeed in charge of monitoring everything to hit the emergency shutdown of the turbine should anything look even slightly off presumably he is also on santa duty at the company christmas do for the workers' kids

The bearded guy from earlier on, now we can see his moustache as well, and to his left (the picture's right) some plumbing and a high-pressure end plate of something or other, it's a metal disk with 12 screws around its perimeter.

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Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 22/08/2026

according to this display we're up to 600 rpm (i'm watching this on replay but i won't spoiler the end for you) note the plate on the left with some presumably quite important text in russian, judging from the fact it begins with a single word followed by an exclamation mark

More gigantic industrial machinery with a little seven segment display in the middle and the aforementioned plaque with what I presume are safety instructions in Russian.

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Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 22/08/2026

these are the steam condensers underneath the turbine

Two green contraptions on the floor below, they must be the size of a bus each, really they're just large pipes that carry the used steam and idk compress and cool it until it becomes water again?

I'm a software engineer, this is way out of my comfort zone.

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Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 22/08/2026

fuck me, these are the electric "wires" that the turbine feeds it's difficult to tell the scale but they must be about 2 metres across

Three massive pipes leading from somewhere beneath the camera to the wall across. They are enormous and each of them has a coloured ring around it (red, yellow and green), presumably to identify which phase is which.

Makes sense, you absolutely do not want to cross these wires.

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Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 22/08/2026

i bet you didn't think the operation was this high-tech

Another mechanic in a blue overall and a blue hard hat is inspecting the spinning end of the turbine, protruding from the housing. He's a slightly portly man intently checking something out on the axle with a pen-sized LED torch.

The turbine itself is absolutely monstrous, at least 4 metres in diameter (don't know how long, we see it end on, but i reckon at least 20 metres) and is also blue. The part that is beyond the housing is surrounded by a guardrail that of course is highlighted in black and yellow paint.

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Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 22/08/2026

this is exactly the kind of guy i was hoping to be in charge of the operation we're in good hands

Screenshot from the livestream video mentioned above, showing a shitton of plumbing, and two guys in t-shirts and hard hats talking to someone on a handheld radio.

The guy on the left looks young, although he has his back turned to the camera, but the guy on the right gives off proper "mechanic who's seen it all" vibes with his magnificent white beard.

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Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 15/08/2026

still the best "tsa do not like funnies" story

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Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 14/08/2026

ngl, i'm not entirely sure this statement really needed 3 separate citations

Snippet from the wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_of_the_Dutch_fleet_at_Den_Helder:

"A capture of ships by horsemen is an extremely rare feat in military history.[4][5][6]"

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Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 04/08/2026

7/8 have the same answer, it's Ég és Föld (Sky and Earth), a seemingly simple question and answer book for kids about the world was there a beginning of time? will there be an end to it? where do rivers come from? how is a star born? where to dig for gold? that last one was particularly exciting

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Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 27/07/2026

this map that is floating around on some corners of the social media space is as good a reminder as any, that maps aren't neutral conveyors of objective facts that exist in a vacuum: every map comes with an assortment of various assumptions that you're supposed to accept knowingly or unknowingly

A map of Europe with the caption "WHEN WAS YOUR COUNTRIES CAPITAL CITY FOUNDED?", with a date written over each country.

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Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 19/07/2026

but don't take my word for it, let's have a quick check on wikipedia

Wikipedia snippet from the page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substitute_good

Economic theory describes two goods as being close substitutes if all three following conditions hold:

1. products have the same or similar performance characteristics
2. products have the same or similar occasion for use
3. products are sold in the same geographic area

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Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 19/07/2026

wow, it hasn't created competition, i wonder why that could be surely it can't be because...IT IS PHYSICALLY FUCKING IMPOSSIBLE

Snippet from BBC News talking to Labour deputy leader Lucy Powell.

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Powell added that "the privatisation of water hasn't worked".

"It's not created competition.

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Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 11/07/2026

which is the perfect excuse for me to trot out one of my favourite wikipedia snippets

Personal life

Necrobutcher is an atheist. He has a daughter and a grandson.

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Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 11/07/2026

not for nothing do we say in software development that naming is not a science but an art

$Snippet from the React source code: /** * Different release channels declare additional types of ReactNode this particular release channel accepts. * App or library types should never augment this interface. */ interface DO_NOT_USE_OR_YOU_WILL_BE_FIRED_EXPERIMENTAL_REACT_NODES {}$

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Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 15/06/2026

it's never not time to remind ourselves when we learnt that the guardian has no scottish people in the newsroom

Screenshot of a Guardian headline:

Would you like a jobbymoon?

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Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 14/06/2026

ok folks, what the hell is going here? i am heating a 1:1 (per mass) ratio water and sugar mixture (for elderflower cordial), it's still some way from boiling, i gave it a stir about 30 seconds ago, which made this white foam collect on the top which i expected but then this happened

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Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 13/06/2026

and you'd think as a respectable modern engineering company they'd gently gloss over the founder's crackpot theories (other things they didn't need to because luckily hanns himself died in 1931, before the nazis came to power) but no in the incredibly detailed* chronicle they published they write:

An excerpt from the company chronicle:

Hanns Hörbiger

Johann Evangelist “Hanns” Hörbiger was born on November 29, 1860, in Atzgers dorf near Vienna. After completing an apprenticeship as a blacksmith and mechanic and studying at the School of Construction and Mechanical Engineering in Vienna, he began his professional career as a technical draftsman and designer.

In 1895, he laid the foundation for HOERBIGER as a company with his in
vention of the steel plate valve. In 1900, he and Friedrich Wilhelm Rogler founded the engineering firm “Hörbiger & Rogler” in Budapest, which later moved to Vienna.

Hörbiger gained international renown for his technical inventions, particularly in the field of valve technology. In 1906, he patented the second generation HOERBIGER plate valve, which is still considered the
standard today and formed the basis for the company’s later success.

From 1925 onwards, he increasingly withdrew from practical engineering work and devoted himself to his passion for astronomy.

From 1894 onwards, he developed the pseudo-scientific world ice theory, also known as glacial cosmogony. Hanns Hörbiger died on
October 11, 1931, in Mauer near Vienna.

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Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 10/06/2026

i really should've put money on it, shouldn't i

Excerpt from the wikipedia page for the Swahili language:

"With the Germans controlling the major Swahili-speaking region in East Africa, they changed the alphabet system from Arabic to Latin. After the First World War, Britain took over German East Africa, where they found Swahili rooted in most areas, not just the coastal regions. The British decided to formalise it as the language to be used across the East African region..."

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