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Look at Nicolas Cage. He made many horrible movies. Snake Eyes, 8mm, Gone in 60 Seconds, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Windtalkers, Ghost Rider, Family Man, Weather Man, Wicker Man, Bangkok Dangerous. But the he nailed it, Stan! With National Treasure 2, the greatest movie of all time!

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Lee Benfield @benf.org · 28/09/2026

No cheating. Share the last photo of the sky from your camera roll.

A blue sky with a wooden bridge in the foreground. The middle span of the bridge is missing.

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Lee Benfield @benf.org · 25/09/2026

Followed a link, ended up on the other place, and I can't get this advert out of my head.

An advert. A woman is playing a sudoku rip off. The phone's screen is facing away from her so we can see it, therefore she is playing agains the back of her phone.

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Lee Benfield @benf.org · 24/09/2026

... and if you're unfamiliar, the disk versions use a very cool 3" flippable disk. (Next to 3.5 for reference)

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Lee Benfield @benf.org · 24/09/2026

Sleep not good needed. \o/ (Tbh weekdays are not my forte)

A garmin chart showing i get bugger all sleep

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Lee Benfield @benf.org · 24/09/2026

NGL, one thing LLMs in language are good for are the questions I wouldn't bother a teacher with....

Why does italian flip at 17? Were the Romans secrethexadecimalists?

No, the Romans weren't hexadecimal. The boundary comes from word erosion in late Latin, not from any base-16 counting.

Classical Latin built its teens

differently. From 11 to 17 it put the unit first and fused it with -decim: undecim, duodecim, tredecim, quattuordecim, quindecim, sedecim, septendecim. But 18 and 19 were subtractive, duodeviginti ("two from twenty") and undeviginti ("one fı wenty"). So

Latin had its own oddity at the top of

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Lee Benfield @benf.org · 21/09/2026

It's all changed since I were a lad.

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Lee Benfield @benf.org · 20/09/2026

I'm finding AI assisted language learning is quite entertaining, because I can ask all the stupid questions which interest me, and I wouldn't normally raise....

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Lee Benfield @benf.org · 18/09/2026

Sorry, now I have to share BEST LIFE DOVE.

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Lee Benfield @benf.org · 14/09/2026

Question : Am I the only person who had to give up on metaphor:refantazio because I got so pissed off with being told about the age of a new king drawing near?

Pawn shop meme with the two guys fighting about the age of a new king drawing near

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Lee Benfield @benf.org · 13/09/2026

I have never seen so many astronauts in one place. (And a WHOLE LOT of fox jumpers!) #comiccon winchester #rocky These guys were particularly dedicated.....

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Lee Benfield @benf.org · 12/09/2026

Needs massive queue for realism :)

A huge queue in front of the aventine keyhole

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Lee Benfield @benf.org · 11/09/2026

Ummmmm isnt this how independence day started?

A bold purple cloud in a dark but sparsely cloudy sky

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Lee Benfield @benf.org · 09/09/2026

Pets of all kinds are of course splendid :) The noble setter waves. But I've long lusted after a PET since school had one back in the very very early 80s.... alas (perhaps due to integrated screen leading to higher failure rate, and just veing bulky to store) they're hen's teeth and ££££!!!!

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Lee Benfield @benf.org · 08/09/2026

If I can buy it and it doesnt work without an Internet connection to "install required game files", it's not a physical..... Or to rephrase, when the shop has gone offline in 30 years, can I still play it? These guys will.

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Lee Benfield @benf.org · 08/09/2026

Got it wrong on purpose here, honest :) But don't have ginocchia or labbro, so thanks!

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Lee Benfield @benf.org · 07/09/2026

So Claude just dissed me.....

Yeah, this is a great terrible idea. Let me lay out how I'd ......

Feasibility

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Lee Benfield @benf.org · 07/09/2026

I got fed up with DuoLinguo hardly ever having any hard mode questions, which means not enough practice, which means consistently being wrong, so I dun dis to help me get my Italian endings right. leibnitz27.github.io/ittutor/ (Pairings are often nonsense, but I believe grammar is accurate!)

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Lee Benfield @benf.org · 04/09/2026

For amusement. I have to be honest, I was expecting to unlock the secret "Ah, you're actually English" ending. I guess I know which bits I could hide out in.

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Lee Benfield @benf.org · 02/09/2026

Dogpiling can be dangerous. Take a friend.

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Lee Benfield @benf.org · 02/09/2026

Unrelated but have to post best dog toy marketing ever.

A dog toy marketed with "make fetch happen"

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Lee Benfield @benf.org · 01/09/2026

Well played Paul Smith, though an 8256 rather predates windows......

An amstrad 8256 in a window display at a Paul smith shop with window text stuck on that says "windows update"

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Lee Benfield @benf.org · 01/09/2026

Daisy is a triple threat.

Dizzy and Daisy from title screen of fantasy world dizzy

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Lee Benfield @benf.org · 31/08/2026

Fair - I never got into pascal...... mind you I tell you what WAS around then..... reaches for bookshelf....

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Lee Benfield @benf.org · 31/08/2026

But but I might need ps2->at

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Lee Benfield @benf.org · 31/08/2026

Hmm 256k cable modem can maybe go

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Lee Benfield @benf.org · 31/08/2026

Starting to think I may need to admit a problem

About 3 cubic foot of cables. Many ancient.

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Lee Benfield @benf.org · 28/08/2026

I was watching Miss Congeniality recently and suddenly it occurred how offensive these lyrics are.....

Anywhere USA

PYT

Anywhere USA

No matter where we go

London, Paris, Rome, it feels like

Anywhere USA

It never feels too far away from home

From home, oh, anywhere

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Lee Benfield @benf.org · 25/08/2026

Every now and then I think a pilgrimage is called for.....

The label from the bottom of a dragon 32 (mine)

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Lee Benfield @benf.org · 25/08/2026

The 5 simpsons lines I've said the most oh no! Beta The goggles they do nothing! Thats unpossible Mmmmm sacrilicious Money can be exchanged for goods and services

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