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Simon Baynes @bayn.es · 30/09/2026

We used to buy all our fruit and veg in lbs. The EU forced us to standardise on grams and kilos. We also used to use stones and lbs for discussing our weight.

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Simon Baynes @bayn.es · 18/09/2026

Make sure you visit the salt mine. Also every human should go to Auschwitz at least once. If only just to be reminded what low humans are really capable of.

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Simon Baynes @bayn.es · 18/09/2026

Why didn't they shoot him in the fingers?

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 10/09/2026

Job applicants are using AI to write resumes and prep interview answers. Companies are using AI to screen those applications and conduct initial interviews. We’ve officially automated both sides of a process meant to measure human connection. The irony is genuinely unreal.

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Simon Baynes @bayn.es · 12/09/2026

I'm less upset and the candidate side of this, as applying for a job is hard (especially at the moment). Usually the pre-interview part is assessing skills that are not necessary for the actual job. Using AI to screen candidates is horrendous.

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Simon Baynes @bayn.es · 12/09/2026

I always hated Stackoverflow. It was only good to find the answer to an easy question, that you happened to not know the answer to. If you asked anything challenging or abstract, you either got crickets, told you were wrong or told it was a duplicate.

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Simon Baynes @bayn.es · 12/09/2026

The fundamentals of this declaration could be applied to any field. Often, the journey is the thing of value, more than the destination.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)

You cannot conduct a fair match when one side is playing with a ball and the other with bombs and, if democracy is to survive, it must be conducted according to definite and recognised rule. One of them is that no political party should resort to any weapon other than reason and argument. The introduction of private armies, as I see it, strikes at the root of democracy. I know it is contended that the Blackshirts are not armed and, therefore, are not an army, but I do not think that argument can be upheld. … Uniformed men in military formation suggest, and are meant to suggest, the idea of force. It is no argument to reply that at this or that demonstration no force is intended. It is an inescapable fact that a uniform in politics symbolises force, to be used either now or in the future.

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Simon Baynes @bayn.es · 06/09/2026

This is great. I am going to print this out and put it on my wall.

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Simon Baynes @bayn.es · 05/09/2026

I thought they'd retired. Such a great band.

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Simon Baynes @bayn.es · 04/09/2026

I'm pleased to announce v8 of Html2Markdown. github.com/baynezy/Html... This is a major release, and conversion is done via graph traversal (no more RegEx). It also has OpenTelemetry signals. The version 7=>8 migration guide github.com/baynezy/Html... #dotnet #csharp #html #markdown #otel

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Release 8.0.0.21 · baynezy/Html2Markdown

Added Added optional GitHub-Flavoured Markdown table conversion with alignment and span support (#612) OTEL support (#72) A GitHub release is now created automatically when a release or hotfix is ...

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Simon Baynes @bayn.es · 04/09/2026

Agreed. I used an LLM to fix a bug I found in an Open-Source project I use, that's written in F#. I don't know F#, but that 3 line change didn't introduce any regressions, all the tests passed, and the owner merged it. It resolved about 5 related issues in other repos. That's a net positive.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026

If buying isn't owning then piracy can't be theft. Any reasonable corporation knows that.

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Lee @leech47.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

If you could devise a policy that meant big business could absorb most of the work, overcharge for it, send many of those roles abroad — and maybe the profits too — while passing business costs onto the worker on a fixed term zero rights basis You’d have thought the left would be against it! #IR35

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Simon Baynes @bayn.es · 28/08/2026

For all the contractors on here. This is a really good opportunity to make sure your experiences are heard. You have until the 9th September, so don't delay! www.reddit.com/r/Contractor... #contractors #contracting #ir35

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Simon Baynes @bayn.es · 28/08/2026

That would be very appreciated.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

One shall stand. One shall fall.

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simoncropp.bsky.social @simoncropp.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Verify now supports inline snapshots github.com/VerifyTests/...

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Simon Baynes @bayn.es · 28/08/2026

Optimus Prime is dead. Noooooo

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Simon Baynes @bayn.es · 27/08/2026

It's wild to me, that a peaceful protest ended his sports career.

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Simon Baynes @bayn.es · 22/08/2026

Software fundamentals are the main thing I test candidates on in job interviews. It means I know I can trust you'll be effective straightaway, and not need me to rewire your brain.

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Simon Baynes @bayn.es · 19/08/2026

After about 2 hours they came back to life. There must have been some outage at Google.

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Simon Baynes @bayn.es · 18/08/2026

All my #Google Homes are just a black screen, and restarting doesn't fix anything.

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Simon Baynes @bayn.es · 17/08/2026

I remember seeing this in the cinema with my Grandfather. He wanted to see it, but my Grandmother didn't like violent movies. So he asked me. I knew nothing about it. To this day, I remember looking over at him during the reveal at the end and the excitement on his face. God I miss him.

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Simon Baynes @bayn.es · 15/08/2026

Crazy financial manipulation.

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The Guardian once asked me 'what one change would you make to achieve Black equality in Britain?' and it feels appropriate to share my answer again

Athena Kugblenu: Allow Black people to be mediocre too!
Athena Kugblenu
I would like to replace #blackexcellence with #blackmediocrity. True equality is when our talent:recognition ratio is allowed to be as broad as white people’s. Lewis Hamilton had to win two Formula One titles before he bagged BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 2014; Greg Rusedski only had to get battered by Pat Rafter to win his. Kwasi Kwarteng steered the economy towards an iceberg and got sacked. Jeremy Hunt drove the NHS over a cliff, now he’s chancellor. Don’t get me started on how many football clubs get ruined by freshly retired white footballers while very qualified Black managers are overlooked. When the arc of the moral universe bends towards Black people failing upwards as their peers do, we will be in the promised land.

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Simon Baynes @bayn.es · 06/08/2026

This guy has some baked in opinions he's not moving from. That was an exhausting exchange.

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Newham Bookshop @newhambookshop.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Please read and share widely.

Newham Bookshop facing 32% rent increase with £20K due immediately.

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Simon Baynes @bayn.es · 04/08/2026

My life in a nutshell!

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Brawlcats @brawlcats.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027

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Simon Baynes @bayn.es · 01/08/2026

It needs to optionally send a choppy reply to the other recipients to buy you time to answer as well.

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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

If Sov AI is going to continue investing UK taxpayers' money in AI companies, it is imperative that it introduces simple due diligence into whether companies exploit creatives' work without permission. 9/10

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Dave Farley @davefarley77.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

AI makes teams with strong, human-led engineering practices do better, and teams with weak practices do much worse. If you want to build truly great software, you have to stop treating your people like replaceable machinery and start setting them up to succeed. 7/8

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

In 1975, three men in a grotty London flat started a games company. It brought D&D to the UK, then redefined wargaming. This week on Untitled History Podcast, it's the history of Games Workshop with @jordansorcery.bsky.social. On Youtube or your pod app of choice! open.spotify.com/episode/3iSn...

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Episode 24: How Games Workshop changed the world with Jordan Sorcery

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Simon Baynes @bayn.es · 26/07/2026

As someone who met my three life long friends playing war games in Games Workshop. I'd like more of these please.

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Simon Baynes @bayn.es · 21/07/2026

The afternoon commute went completely to shit. I had to take a tube to a different location and get a taxi. The #GreatNorthern line is still a disaster six years later.

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Simon Baynes @bayn.es · 21/07/2026

The morning commute went a bit wobbly.

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Simon Baynes @bayn.es · 20/07/2026

I'm back commuting into London for the first time in over six years. It's going to be a bit of a change.

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Simon Baynes @bayn.es · 20/07/2026

Are they all running in the Clacton by-election?

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Simon Baynes @bayn.es · 19/07/2026

Congratulations Spain. Poor game though. Took over 3 hours. Which is nearly as long as the Superbowl.

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Simon Baynes @bayn.es · 17/07/2026

When I worked for the Telegraph, the number 1 reason someone cancelled their subscription was they had died, and the number 2 reason was that their eyesight had deteriorated so much, they could no longer read.

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Simon Baynes @bayn.es · 17/07/2026

Amen. I was selling a dining table and chairs once. I had uploaded several photos and pretty detailed measurements. One buyer drove all the way to my house to collect them. When he arrived he said he wouldn't buy them as they looked smaller in the photographs.

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