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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

I've been using github.com/28allday/jellyfin-on-ste… to run jellyfin on my Steam Machine, but it's a lot less polished than (say) steam itself. I got to wondering about exposing movies directly in Steam... and did it […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

The "non-steam games" section of a steam library, but it's all movies

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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Arrived today - "What have I said now?", 3rd volume of Tales From The Wedding Present. Covers the Tommy/Bizzaro/Seamonsters years - they only need another 9 books or so to get up to the present day? #TheWeddingPresent

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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Trump demonstrates how his new Battle Arch will work #uspol #trump

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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

I've been working remotely for global companies for 15 years so I'm used to software omitting timezones annoyingly. But this takes the biscuit. I just resolved a ticket in Jira and wondered how I'd missed it being opened. These timestamps come from the ui […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Created 20 August 2026 at 17:16
Updated 21 August 2026 at 16:05
Resolved 21 August 2026 at 16:05

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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

@lynneguist.bsky.social another denial by the #nytspellingbee today: NODDY. There's 4 meanings listed (tropical tern, simpleton, tv filler shot of interviewer, and simplistic), the last 2 came up as BrE in Collins; simplistic is the usage I'd find common-but you be the judge

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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026

@mmrobins honestly that Panda is superdeluxe compared the one I drove in the 80s (it was my Mum's). Found this pic online, it's almost right - this one has pleather seats where ours were just fabric, but it did have that all-black-plastic dash (that's not a […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2026

I was one of thousands who turned out in #Glasgow for the #ReclaimOurStreets rally to protest the recent violence against immigrants. A couple of dozen masked saddos turned up to try to disrupt the event, but they were easily boxed in by the police. Eventually […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Glasgow Buchanan Street Galleries. Thousands turn out with anti fascist flags. At the front, a small group of masked racists are surrounded by police

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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 07/06/2026

I did not know this place (La Galerie de Paléontologie et d’Anatomie comparée, in the Jardin des Plantes) existed in Paris until I saw it on the map while I was booking a hotel and now it's maddening that it's shut until 2027 #paris

Galerie de Paléontologie et d’Anatomie comparée - appears to be many large whale skeletons

Galerie de Paléontologie et d’Anatomie comparée - what looks like many, many large quadruped skeletons

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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2026

Just heard Marjane Satrapi died; that's way too young.

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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2026

@hannah top rocking chair game. I got me a Lena Larsson one (identical to the one in the pic). Yours was a bargain tho!

Lena Larsson rocking chair, mass-produced in sweden in the 1950s.

Hank Worden in The Searchers, my inspiration

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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2026

@lynneguist.bsky.social on google books it seems old uses are mostly in the sense of 'struggle' (as used in Burns' "To cheer you thro' the weary widdle O' war'ly cares") but it did pop up in a Michael Frayn play - I've seen Noises Off, but not this Fawlty-Towers-esque scene

Jamie on a Flying Visit ; And, Birthday
Michael Frayn, 1990
FOUND INSIDE - PAGE 101
To STUDENTS . I'll be back in a moment . I'm just going for a widdle . FIRST STUDENT ( attentively ) . What you
want ? A weedle ? Sit down - | get it service . ) Waiter ..

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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2026

@lynneguist.bsky.social oh hey, same board contains WIDDLE. To pee. en.wiktionary.org/wiki/widdle Wiktionary has it "Chiefly UK" and "Childish" which seems accurate.

WIDDLE, rejected by the nyt spelling bee

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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 24/05/2026

@simonvarwell.bsky.social but the whole thing is ragebait driven by a faked reciept. The restaurant isn't on that street, tax isn't 0, their real receipts are always itemised, etc. Also checking what the receipt should look like, I get many others coming back […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

fake del friscos receipt for the same bill

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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 19/05/2026

@williamnb.eurosky.social @gazza-d.bsky.social they are dressed as characters from "Black Cat Detective", a popular cartoon of the time. The other characters are the cat police and Detective White Pigeon. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Cat_Det…

Black Cat Detective and Detective White Pigeon

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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 09/05/2026

@lynneguist.bsky.social and another! (There's GITE too but already on list). Taig is a derogatory term for an irish catholic. Unfortunately heard often. en.wiktionary.org/wiki/taig #nytspellingbee

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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 09/05/2026

@lynneguist.bsky.social another BrE word today: HAEMATITE. en.wiktionary.org/wiki/haematite#En… "chiefly British" and perfectly common: "a common iron oxide compound...widely found in rocks and soils" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haematite #nytspellingbee

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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 02/05/2026

holiday weekend so back in the oul country and ran out to st johns point. glorious day out there. #ardglass

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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 30/04/2026

I know #github is bad this week but I still remember the horrors that came before...

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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 30/04/2026

@bagder I'm not sure about "we should soon only be fixing bugs we introduced very recently". curl shows what looks like fairly constant growth in LOC while increasing churn (lines replaced) curl.se/dashboard1.html#source-code… . Suppose we add N […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

modelling bug age as just the age of randomly removed lines, with a constant growth rate and increasing churn

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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 18/04/2026

Had a notion to write a metal band logo generator for @bbcmicrobot (after seeing that there's dozens of AI sites doing this now). Made a 14-segment display font (fits in 66 bytes), distorted coordinates, made the lines jaggy... and it kinda works? Prototyping in […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 13/04/2026

@lynneguist.bsky.social so seeing your post I checked spelling bee ... and spotted LOCHAN (a small loch). it's common enough to hear or see it here, as a scots gaelic word. But, wiktionary says it's loaned into English. en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lochan […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Spelling bee rejects "lochan", a small loch

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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 09/04/2026

@evandahm.bsky.social "The consummate character actor Corn Candy appeared in many westerns of the early 60s, uncredited"

Corn Candy appears as an extra in "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"

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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/04/2026

Melting snow and blazing sunshine now

Snow melting in the sunshine, Dumbarton Road, Glasgow

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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 28/03/2026

@lynneguist.bsky.social I found another today - MANK, slang for disgusting. Definitely a common term of abuse up here!

The word "mank" isn't in the NYT spelling bee words. British slang for disgusting, smelly, unwashed etc (I would use it as "you mank" (verb) or "you're a mank" (noun))

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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/03/2026

I've got 3 entries up in the Basic 10 Liner 2026 competition, that first appeared on @bbcmicrobot; I had no idea this was a thing till last weekend. gkanold.wixsite.com/homeputerium/ga…. My game entry is a joke, but I think the two artworks […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11/03/2026

@theghostmonk.bsky.social my books as a kid had the N.C.Wyeth illustrations (1911 edition). The publishers spoiled us with both Wyeth and Peake.

N.C.Wyeth's illustration "Israel Hands" for Treasure Island, 1911

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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/03/2026

Following along @RonJeffries series on his dungeon generator (where the process is the point, not the dungeon; not criticising what he's doing at all), here's a different take on the problem, which is generating a dungeon of "interesting shapes, and very few […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 18/02/2026

Alan Turing as a Turing Pattern (a Gray-Scott reaction; the feed rate is scaled 0.07-0.003 based on the input grayscale image, kill rate 0.06, Db is 0.25). Made with #p5js, webgl. #creativecoding

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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/02/2026

@lynneguist.bsky.social a better one today; barmbrack, an irish fruit loaf...I'm from an irish family and it's very tasty. This time, Collins lists the BrE but not AmE; but listed as Irish not British in Websters?

"barmbrack" isn't accepted by the NYT spelling bee

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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 13/02/2026

@lynneguist.bsky.social my first guess today-a pangram-was denied by nyt and really surprised me. I know it from speech synthesizers.I thought it jargon but US too, Collins says British English!

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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/02/2026

Floor is lava? I intended to do this for #tilingtuesday inspired by @csk 's effort which made me think of this carpet. However, it took me way too long to draw the geometry, come up with some animations, calculate the homography to project the points correctly […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 31/01/2026

#genuary #genuary2026 Day 30: It's no a bug, it's a feature. But it's also kind of a bug? Generating a voronoi diagram by flooding radially from some coloured points, and somehow ending up with a bad picture of a Monarch butterfly. Made with #p5js, which didn't […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 26/01/2026

#genuary #genuary2026 Day 26: Recursive Grids The painting is La Jioconda, a copy of the Mona Lisa by one of Leonardo's students. It is recursively subdivided by 4, and each time, 1/4 that area of the image is shown at double the size, giving a wonky but converging version of the original.

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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 25/01/2026

#genuary #genuary2026 Day 24: Perfectionist’s nightmare. Yet again, came up with an idea that needed too much effort; this is an adversarial sudoku grid generator - none of the puzzles it shows can be solved. After a couple of false starts wondering if I could […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/01/2026

#genuary #genuary2026 #p5js Day 22: pen plotter ready So, a bit unfinished, but I made a thing that generates random octopi (or at least, randomizes their tentacles. Since this is for a pen plotter, I can't use 'fill' to hide lines and not really 3d either, so […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

A bad line art drawing of an octopus with squiggly tentacles

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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 21/01/2026

#genuary #genuary2026 Day 20: Bauhaus Poster. I chose to ignore the rest of the prompt, and do the band not the art movement. I spent _way_ too long reading about how to simulate viscous fingering (the original album cover is an ink dendrite pattern); in the […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

It's a generative version of Bauhaus' album cover, The Sky's Gone Out, done in the form of a poster.

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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 21/01/2026

Seeing @ComicContext toot this while I am sitting in the cold dark outside a bar because my whole area has a power cut is a bit on the nose

A comic panel featuring a character named Maximus, dressed in red. He stands in an outdoor setting with tropical plants and a building in the background. He boasts "I am not without power!"

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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 20/01/2026

#genuary #genuary2026 Day 20: one line A tree of Apollonian gaskets. If you look closely you'll see there's a pixel gap where each circle connects to its parent. Sometimes this may be unclear, but it is all a single line. Stupidly, I set out to do something […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

A tree of nested Apollonian gaskets; some areas are unfilled at random

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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 20/01/2026

@bruces.bsky.social I recall reading an article in the late 80s on "artificial stupidity" in chess - they wanted to figure out how to emulate the mistakes people made, in order to better understand how people play chess (as opposed to how to solve it). (I dug it […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

"The machine plays chess,
generally speaking, in a totally different way. If it succeeds in
producing better results than a human, that is no evidence of
intelligence. If a computer played bad chess in the same way that a
weak human player played, that would be a significant achievement
in the programming of artificial intelligence."

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