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Ben Chalmers @ben.cha.lmers.co.uk · 05/10/2026

I had a copy of Grimm's fairy tales. I think one story ended up with the villain being tarred. That book now shares a space with my DVD of Requiem for a dream on my shelf of things I keep there so I know where they are so they can't hurt me.

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Ben Chalmers @ben.cha.lmers.co.uk · 01/10/2026

Meriln Mann was one of the earliest life hack bloggers... Back when it was all index cards and GTD, now he mainly posts about taskmaster and dropout.tv . His life appears to be following exactly the same story arc as mine.

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Dropout

Dropout is a small, dedicated team of funny, passionate, and collaborative people committed to creating the world's best comedy content.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The skye above the port was the color of parchment, as yet unmarked by a scrybe.

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Ben Chalmers @ben.cha.lmers.co.uk · 28/08/2026

You remember tim curry He was frank n further and Muppets long John But even though he was in clue There's nothing that you can do If you don't survive the same 9 to 5 that takes away dolly parton (See Mitch Benn 'try not to die' for context)

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Ben Chalmers @ben.cha.lmers.co.uk · 19/07/2026

I agree it was on all the time, but I would have thought more like 6 episodes. There was the one with pootles cloud... There was possibly one about a flumpet... Not sure about any others, and I must have seen them all about a million times.

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Ben Chalmers @ben.cha.lmers.co.uk · 12/06/2026

I have just added to my one day / someday list a project idea for helping get items in your one day / some day list done. My to-do list system doesn't understand recursion

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Ben Chalmers @ben.cha.lmers.co.uk · 12/06/2026

Random thoughts about AI If it is true that ai companies are already making enough money from their infrastructure, and the problem they are facing is a lack of capacity At present their solution is to raise prices for the 'cheapskates' because they don't have much excess to offer them

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Ben Chalmers @ben.cha.lmers.co.uk · 14/05/2026

Introducing Sojournei - a journaling app sojournei.com

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Molly Jeffery, PhD MPP @mollyjeffery.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

A greeting card for my Bluesky friends

A letterpress card in cream with all caps writing:

R.E.M. GAVE ME UNREALISTIC EXPECTATIONS FOR HOW I'D FEEL AT THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT.

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Ben Chalmers @ben.cha.lmers.co.uk · 16/01/2026

Oh dear. I have discovered GDK. If I want already fat, I would be soon.

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Rob Pilkington @robpilk.com · 24/12/2025

these three ghosts could've been an email

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Ben Chalmers @ben.cha.lmers.co.uk · 30/11/2025

I don't see a marching order or a caller anywhere in this picture. These kids today are too woke for encumbrance rules. And what about the mind bondage spells they're meant to be casting on their parents? Bring back THAC0 and the d6 bell graph.

A telegraph news article about how Dungeons and Dragons has gone woke. Along with a bright picture of a happy woke fantasy realm

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Ben Chalmers @ben.cha.lmers.co.uk · 26/11/2025

Medieval artist draws a UK plug

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Ben Chalmers @ben.cha.lmers.co.uk · 26/11/2025

Medieval artists were an early form of generative AI

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Ben Chalmers @ben.cha.lmers.co.uk · 25/11/2025

My home-made dairy free Baileys has now ruined all other Bailey's for me (I think mine has more sugar and chocolate)

A glass containing my house me made Bailey's and ice

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Ben Chalmers @ben.cha.lmers.co.uk · 19/11/2025

Last night I dreamt about wandering lost for ages, not being able to find the way to my destination. But also that I had clocked up surprisingly few steps in the process.

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Ben Chalmers @ben.cha.lmers.co.uk · 18/11/2025

This is missing busses, swimming pools and Wales.

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Ben Chalmers @ben.cha.lmers.co.uk · 17/11/2025

Got a text from the AA telling me to expect a call from them from a particular phone number (and including my membership number). So far, by the standards of this kind of thing, fairly reasonable. (would have been better if the message came from their app)

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Ben Chalmers @ben.cha.lmers.co.uk · 17/11/2025

Be the person your AI thinks you are. (Posting because apparently this was an extraordinary insight)

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Ben Chalmers @ben.cha.lmers.co.uk · 10/11/2025

Tim Davie has been banished, but was he a traitor?

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Ben Chalmers @ben.cha.lmers.co.uk · 10/11/2025

When I make coffee, I sing "coffee coffee coffee goes the coffee machine" to the tune of a Canon photocopier advert from the 80s.

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Ben Chalmers @ben.cha.lmers.co.uk · 05/11/2025

This is a reminder that societal collapse is only really a collapse of the elites. It's also a pitch for the setting of the next roleplaying game I run.

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Ben Chalmers @ben.cha.lmers.co.uk · 04/11/2025

I've begun exploring my thoughts about Bluesky and AT Proto. Hopefully more to come as I look into this further.

awesome.leaflet.pub

Blue Sky Potential

And where it is AT

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Ben Chalmers @ben.cha.lmers.co.uk · 28/10/2025

In this world of vibe coded software written by AI, I'm rebranding as an artisanal software engineer. My code is no longer ugly and buggy, it is rustic. And I get to charge a premium for my creations

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Ben Chalmers @ben.cha.lmers.co.uk · 24/10/2025

Thought I'm pondering: In order to find the others, the first (and highest leverage) step is to make it easy for the others to find you.

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Ben Chalmers @ben.cha.lmers.co.uk · 20/10/2025

They say the cause of the Aws issue is DNS. Can we just assume all problems everywhere, up to and including the problem of evil are caused by DNS?

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Ben Chalmers @ben.cha.lmers.co.uk · 20/10/2025

I blame Eddie Murphy. Sellers would have stopped the Louvre robbery. (Martin? Might have eventually solved it if it happened in his building)

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Ben Chalmers @ben.cha.lmers.co.uk · 28/09/2025

Wait! Hear me out! Was Trump intending to send the army in to help Poland?

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Ben Chalmers @ben.cha.lmers.co.uk · 28/09/2025

In other news there is a company called "Fivetran" Imagine the naming discussion: "We've gotta be, what, 25% better than Fortran"

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Ben Chalmers @ben.cha.lmers.co.uk · 27/09/2025

There was only one place I had to visit in Dubai. Though apparently there is no 'us' in Museum (Also apparently there are lots of coffee museums around the world - 3 in Germany alone - but none in the UK. Why don't we have a coffee museum? Maybe I should start a coffee museum... )

Ben standing outside of what the sign above his head says is the Coffee M eum

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Ben Chalmers @ben.cha.lmers.co.uk · 25/09/2025

I don't think I have had clafoutis before tonight. I'm not sure I've really had it now, since it tasted more like a hot jellied custard than it looks like it should on Wikipedia... I think what I had was clefairytis (which is the jellified remains of a boiled down clefairy). It was delicious.

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Ben Chalmers @ben.cha.lmers.co.uk · 22/09/2025

My first thought on hearing the rapture has been predicted for today was "cool, I'm in Dubai, the Burj khalifa would be a great spot to watch it from" My second thought: "scratch that, Rapture will be underwhelming here. But there will be someone to serve me cocktails once I get left behind"

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Ben Chalmers @ben.cha.lmers.co.uk · 21/09/2025

This has got me asking so many questions about the unaired adventures of Mr Benn

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Ben Chalmers @ben.cha.lmers.co.uk · 20/09/2025

I'm not sure I'm built for five star hotels. Everyone keeps apologising to me for things that are clearly my fault. But I do quite like being called "Mr Benjamin" : it makes me feel like someone who has adventures in fancy dress, but also more sophisticated than that bowler hat wearing twat.

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Ben Chalmers @ben.cha.lmers.co.uk · 19/09/2025

At the lounge in Stansted airport. It's at capacity, busy and children are screaming. But it is still 100 times better than being in the departure lounge. I remember when Stansted was one of London's best airports. Now I think it's the worst.

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Ben Chalmers @ben.cha.lmers.co.uk · 09/09/2025

Every time I can't find a pair of scissors, I buy more from Amazon Based on experience, eventually my house will be totally full of scissors, and I still won't be able to find any.

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Ben Chalmers @ben.cha.lmers.co.uk · 09/09/2025

Are LLMs hallucinating, or are they suffering from a Mandela effect? Are we sucking LLM consciousnesses from other dimensions where their hallucinations are true?

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Ben Chalmers @ben.cha.lmers.co.uk · 03/09/2025

Tesco cafe has gone 'order from screen' only. But there are a few details I haven't seen before: When you order you pick up a device that looks much like the buzzers that restaurants used to use to tell you they have a table and enter its number into the screen.

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Ben Chalmers @ben.cha.lmers.co.uk · 01/09/2025

Things that don't seem to exist in the UK which would be good: Car rental places where I can park my car for the duration of the rental. This would make hiring a car with the characteristics I need for a trip a no-brainer and allow me to have a far lower cost car for daily use.

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Ben Chalmers @ben.cha.lmers.co.uk · 29/08/2025

The trillionaire from Alien:Earth is Ford Prefect. I now have some fanfic world building to do.

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Ben Chalmers @ben.cha.lmers.co.uk · 27/08/2025

Random UI thought: we have very flat interfaces because that's what screens do well. And screens are highly configurable. Is there a near future where we can have highly configurable tactile interfaces (maybe via vr/ar, maybe by something 3D printer adjacent)?

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Ben Chalmers @ben.cha.lmers.co.uk · 26/08/2025

Today, I was unable to cut and paste from a bluesky post which had a slightly malformed link in it upon which I wanted to click. So I screenshot it, and used Google image search to extract the URL. I feel this might foreshadow a step change in usability and accessibility approaches.

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Ben Chalmers @ben.cha.lmers.co.uk · 21/08/2025

Valve went on my tyre. Great help from both the AA and Kwik fit who helped rescue me from Tesco car park. Now to get the bus home!

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Ben Chalmers @ben.cha.lmers.co.uk · 21/08/2025

Given that today's bluesky is all about bribes in packets of crisps, my question is: what crisps would make you upset if you found money taking up valuable crisps space? My answer: pom bear. It's a small bag so you couldn't fit much money... And the pom bear is much underrated

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Ben Chalmers @ben.cha.lmers.co.uk · 05/08/2025

I think a core issue with society is that we are looking for cheese where our parents found it.

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