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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

In thr future, everyone will be Trump's Press Secretary for 15 minutes. #trump #uspol

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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

@bagder possible devices with curl in them vs devices with curl sticker on them graph? some catching up to do

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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 · 08/10/2026

@geomannie not booked anything yet, but This is The Kit and Emma Pollock jump out at me

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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

@helenkennedy.com that looks double the size of the original? A distressed leather folder is about 1/10 of that, a second hand leather bound book 1/10 of that again-then just print the whole thing (available online) on heavy paper and distress it with tea

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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 · 01/10/2026

@gazza-d.bsky.social well, NI has had the R plate since 1968! Long before the current devolved assembly - it was the old Parliament of Northern Ireland, dissolved in 1972 after making a mess of things. The change is extending it from 1 to 2 years.

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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

@Edent I didn't wear a watch for decades and only got one for running, so it could play music and tell me split times from GPS. Both of those are just audio, I don't look at the screen or go online; I don't wear it unless I'm running and don't use it to tell the time

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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

@simonvarwell.bsky.social I'm more like 50%. Yes, my eyes are square. Surprising to see Happy Valley get a nod in NYT (but yes it was very good)

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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

@pikesley well, it's either 100,000 jobs or a bouncing dead cat, it's impossible to tell until you open the box

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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

@sarahjeong.bsky.social my experience has been they don't fight. I used to always pick the second last BA flight home from london on fridays because if you could take the later flight they would *always* pay you to do it. And this summer they cancelled my flight from Madrid and contacted me […]

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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

@hannah but that was one of the best games on the SNES

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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

@simonvarwell.bsky.social btw this may be up your street maxcooper.bandcamp.com/album/fabric… "fabric presents" are remix albums, this one Max Cooper does 35 tracks including some Boards of Canada, Rival Consoles etc. There's a listening party link too for next week

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fabric presents Max Cooper, by Max Cooper

35 track album

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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 · 16/09/2026

@publicvoit there's a couple of films - The Flying Scotsman (starring Johnny Lee Miller - available for the next couple of weeks on Amazon Prime) and Battle Mountain - a documentary about his attempt at the human powered vehicle record (full disclosure: I'm in the credits, one of dozens of […]

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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Hey...it's Brian - long time no see? I think I lost touch when we all left the bad site. I'm on mastodon, not bsky, but if you follow @ap.brid.gy it'll let me follow you from over here (also that film could be both Royal Tannenbaums and 80s horror, Society)

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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

@helenkennedy.com yes, they were movie-length and they filmed the first 6 books (which were also Danish). They aired here in the UK on Netflix a decade or so ago

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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

@helenkennedy.com I really enjoyed it but it seemed very familiar and all the names seemed oddly Nordic; then I realised I'd seen it before...in Danish. I liked the Scottish version better tho; and the fact they've been made before gave me hope we'd get a sequel

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

Just watched Ryan Reynolds vehicle Mayday on Prime; actually Branagh has much more fun in the movie - but was surprised by the attention to detail on the very last shot; a drone view rising in Washington DC in 1987 around 5th St SE looking to the Washington Monument. The film was set in 87, and […]

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

RE: fediscience.org/@tksst/117240970009… The Kids Should See This is well worth a follow. I was smiling at this one, and realised I'd been left smiling by a post of theirs most days recently.

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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

@simonvarwell.bsky.social I can't see the thing that prompted this, but in science we have "Science progresses one funeral at a time", Samuelson's pithy version of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck's_prin… true of much change; and on the other side, while Ignatius of Loyola apparently […]

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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

@lynneguist.bsky.social in my head I mispronounced Reading as I read that, I've a friend visiting from there today. But also, an in-law of mine, an English teacher, only realised in his 40s that misled wasn't pronounced my-zelled

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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

@lynneguist.bsky.social a running gag in Pratchett is 'eldritch' means 'oblong'. eg Feegle Glossary: "Eldritch: Weird, strange. Sometimes means oblong, too, for some reason."; Vetinari works in the Oblong Office, and I guess it's not clear which was meant.

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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

@emptywheel.bsky.social have only used them to make tea. And only when camping in the wilds when frankly, anything warm was bliss. You've reminded me tho, I was always curious about dulse recipes - our local chinese supermarket has a wide selection of seaweed 🤔

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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

Man is hired to take care of a group of terminally ill four year olds, and they go running around in Los Angeles.

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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title. Seven crew and the ship's cat stop to pick up some eggs on the way home, at the end cat curls up to sleep with one of the crew.

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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

@AllyD or Thomas Telford. For Maxwell, I'd have gone for "started a wave of innovation", "electrified the scientific community", or "lit up a spectrum of fields" 🧀

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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

@AllyD also went with paved the way twice in one article due to the ongoing cliché shortage as they are all used up by AI

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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

Trump is going to rename Earth to Planet Trump and then command NASA to send a rocket from Trump to the Trump that orbits it; then choose some trumps with the Trump Stuff and mount a trumped mission to the Red Trump, and return safely to Trump, where they will be feted as the first Trumps on […]

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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

@carltonreid.com I did wonder about Hetchins but the typography doesn't match at all and they never had that crown but... stating the obvious: BIANCHI had a winged logo with a crown? Googling I see very early logos didn't have the "EDOUARDO BIANCHI" but just the second name and would fit that.

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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

@jacobtlevy.bsky.social and completely forgot "that's a perfectly cromulent word" which I say alllllll the time

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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

@jacobtlevy.bsky.social The five Simpsons lines I’ve uttered most: 1 me so hungy 2 Damned Scots, They Ruined Scotland! (possibly number 1) 3 So I Tied An Onion To My Belt, Which Was The Style At The Time 4 Am I out of touch? No, it's the children who are wrong. 5 Aurora Borealis? At this time […]

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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

@lynneguist.bsky.social I had 'tron' - which unfortunately wiktionary says is obsolete; but is it really obsolete when every town up here has a place named after one? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron_(Scotlan…

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Tron (Scotland) - Wikipedia

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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 · 20/08/2026

TIL: when the UK adopted the Gregorian Calendar in 1752, they also shifted the new year in England&Wales to 1st Jan from 25th March. Why March 25th? It was Lady Day (the annunciation), a traditional "quarter day" when taxes were due. And because the calendar change shifted dates by 11 days, that […]

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

@lynneguist.bsky.social also HOYDEN, but I'm guessing that's excluded for being archaic not BrE. Searching the Guardian it's used regularly, but I wouldn't call it common

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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 · 14/07/2026

@helenkennedy.com I usually stayed round Poble Sec because I like going running on Montjuic; the nicest hotel I've stayed there was the Hotel Brummel. It's a boutique hotel, the small penthouse has a bath on the roof overlooking part of the city, downstairs has an honesty bar with vermouth in […]

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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

@helenkennedy.com oh and get yourself a souvenir caganer. (it's a christmas nativity scene figurine...of a kind. they make them as parodies of all kinds of celebrities as well as the traditional version)

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bazzargh @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

@helenkennedy.com will be there from the end of the month; for a few years I worked remotely there for a month at a time...I don't like the tourist crush in Las Ramblas or the queues in Parc Guell; however - get a barcelonacard, for access to museums/transports are good to catch all that, they […]

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

I mute browser tabs when ads in videos play, but that leaves the annoying pictures up too. So I finally cracked and generated this extension github.com/bazzargh/ad-ender - now muting a tab in firefox also severely blurs that tab, so I can see just enough to know when to unmute. #firefox

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GitHub - bazzargh/ad-ender: Firefox plugin to blur a page when it is muted, obscuring ads

Firefox plugin to blur a page when it is muted, obscuring ads - bazzargh/ad-ender

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