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Lee Benfield @benf.org · 14h

Only thing for it - get another copy - upside, more Dizzy!!! :)

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Lee Benfield @benf.org · 14h

Alas yes...... sad face.......

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Lee Benfield @benf.org · 14h

Anyone ACTUALLY restored a sticking/squealing tape? My original CPC Dizzy has lost it's mojo. I see reccomendations about using silicon lube, but also warnings not to! :( @breakintoprogram.co.uk ?

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Lee Benfield @benf.org · 15h

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 · 16h

Chap probably didn't expect the pegging.

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Madam, this is a Wendy's.

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Bad news is it's a lovely cup of necrotising fasciitis. Promise honoured.

Homophones not so much. Plausible levenshtein distance typos? (But not nearby keys, weirdly). All the time. Git fetch -> Gut fetch Git fetch -> Git felch (I promise its not because that word is in muscle memory!!) God knows.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steorn Link provided without comment.

en.wikipedia.org

Steorn - Wikipedia

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What with all the flock debacle going on over in the US, I do wonder to what extent UK average speed camera sets (anpr by definition) are mineable. We have a (generally) much better national relationship and trust with the police as a country (though of course issues exist).. and no VC involvement.

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Starting to see full blown meat puppet discourse. It's like the world's most screwed up version of Searle's Chinese Room, where the person is notionally conscious, but only serves to pass on machine dialogue. *screams quietly*

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Why do people bother plotting favourables and unfavourables? I can't remember seeing a graph in quite some time where they weren't direct x, 100-x.

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There's a definite bonus here for this class of story - either it's trained off published and therefore well known source(s) and guaranteed to be not novel, or guaranteed to be hallucinating - hurrah!

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Girl at work just described care bears as "wow this is like old white people labubu"

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Reposted by Lee Benfield

Public pressure works. The Cornell 7 drugged and raped a student for seven hours. They offered her up for “free” to their entire frat house and the school made them write an essay about it. They must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Jane Doe’s courage will help secure justice:

abcnews.com

District attorney reopens case of alleged Cornell University 'gang rape'

Prosecutors in central New York say they are reopening the case of alleged gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity.

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Can I put in an appeal for adding the name of the game in the comments? :)) intrigued to know what this one was.... fly spy?

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You better solve that captcha quick, there's oncoming traffic......

Lee Benfield @benf.org · 27/09/2026

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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People of Stroud worried that Stroud is not equipped to learn secret blend of herbs and spices.

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Lee Benfield @benf.org · 26/09/2026

Saw 205 today and mind boggled

Lee Benfield @benf.org · 26/09/2026

Speech. 88 or so. Mind blown. 0 utility :)

ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

Reposted by Lee Benfield

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.

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Lee Benfield @benf.org · 25/09/2026

The gameboy was brilliant in this aspect, you could buy so much bolt on crap you'd quadruple its size....

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Lee Benfield @benf.org · 25/09/2026

bsky.app/profile/pook... Had to come back and cross post this fun fact

cross.post

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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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Hah - don't know - I have a huge stack of them to avoid finding that out :)

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

Yes - you can get a 464 (64k tape version) 6128 (disk, 128k) or a rarer 664 (disk 64k) - the green screen was pretty popular with the 464 as a budget model.

Yup, the cpc version was Pretty Damn Good!

Manchurian candidate much?

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

A garmin chart showing i get bugger all sleep

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Clearly the EXTREMELY CURRENT headlines about DOGE basically pissing away more money than it saved for less result have really, really sunk in. Umm.

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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Llm training is completed

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If you happen to have a dog, de-hair the brushes very very very frequently, I've broken 2 with dog hair, silly me.

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Surely surely surely the AI bros will become Quantum computing bros

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I also did the lavish vom (hey, i was 18, morning after night before) all over the row in front of me in school chapel. Never touched crunchy nut cornflakes since. (Didnt put me off vodka though! :) ) What's always stuck with me is that the hymn I interrupted was "breathe on me breath of god"

Oh well we had enough death generators anyway

I think devs with half a clue have a few years yet......

Spent a while with claude yesterday tracing some 8 bit screen rendering. It got so amazingly confused. Patched an emulator to track instructions and then claimed "THE CODE IS WRITING ITSELF FROM NOWHERE, THERE MUST BE A HIDDEN MASTER PROCESS". No, it was... loading from disk?

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That's a damn fine cup of coffee.

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