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World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social · 4h

Listen to that CRUNCH. Absolutely delicious. #WorldBollardAssociation

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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 4h

No spoilers (also I haven’t decided)

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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 6h

I have started planning my crisp sandwich for Crisp Sandwich Day.

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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 6h

I'm going to break the tofu chain because I had some mock duck with spinach and tomato on rice.

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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 8h

The ideal authentication is none at all but at this rate everyone will have to log in to everything, it's such a waste.

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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 8h

I do academic access management for living, and a few years ago it looked like the growth of open access meant much less need for federated logins. That's completely changed now, everything is getting hammered by lazy greedy AI bots and sites that had no need for logins now need to keep the bots out

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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 9h

I'm sure there are other reasons but she shouldn't be executed tomorrow because absolutely nobody should be executed tomorrow. I don't care what she did or didn't do. Governments should respect basic human rights and not murder people.

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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 9h

You'd think that you wouldn't, but sooner or later you'd plug that tape in and press play

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Cube @prototypecube.bsky.social · 9h

SBOMs, SBOMs, adopt SBOMs make your network stronger for when problems come along

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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 9h

This isn't even all @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social 's fault, I spent a few months in a bedroom that only had an 8-track player and a Tom Jones 8-track tape

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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 9h

A serious work email vs my brain's reaction

Text saying: "Action: adopt SBOMs and dependency controls, and strength network resiliency" SBOMs are Software Bill of Materials, a list of the software used inside, or by, your software.

Tom Jones on an old Sony CRT TV singing "Sex Bomb"

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ka92 @ka92.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

つぼ

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ka92 @ka92.bsky.social · 12h

ｵｰｶﾐ

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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 15h

There are already Canadians yearning to club that thing to death and take its shirt

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 18h

Best part: "'My wallet was stolen and my Italian ID was inside,' she said. With a looming holiday, she contacted the Italian embassy to ask what she needed to do, but to her frustration quickly realised that it would be faster to gain Belgian citizenship than to wait for a remade Italian ID."

brusselstimes.com

Why so many Italians are getting Belgian nationality

Belgium appears to be an easy place for Italians to come and be themselves. Many of those who do, love it and choose to formally become Belgian. But why?

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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 17h

And that's just how many are planted, not how many survive to become trees.

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Metal Gear Solidarity @mgearsolidarity.bsky.social · 17h

i solved infinite personal music by taking loads of ecstasy in my 20s and now i can dance to the sound of a reversing lorry

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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 18h

When will Go Comics understand timezones? Well not today (BST)

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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 18h

He now looks like The Dry Devil in Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, both are psychopaths, but obviously Dry Devil isn’t permanently wet or oily like Thiel

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 19h

Yesterday Google Gemini told my brother in law that Andy Burnham was not the PM. Very super, much intelligence.

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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Kagoshima is also the friendliest place I’ve been to in Japan. Nice Sri Lankan restaurant too.

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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’ve been there! People on the volcano grow huge round turnips, and the schoolchildren have helmets as part of their school uniform because it sometimes rains rocks.

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just saw folk who join the uncritical rush towards AI referred to as "LLMings", and I am stealing that.

static.klipy.com

Vintage Pixel Game: Lemmings

Alt: Vintage Pixel Game: Lemmings

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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Plot involves a search for keys, an agent working in the background, and a well known port

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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Scotland reintroduced 50 wild cats into the Highlands marking an important milestone for their conservation work.

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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This looks great - how did you present the graph UI, is it an existing JS package?

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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Do you remember at most 21℃ in September?

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Joël Reland @jreland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What's that Andy? You want to look at the different options for the UK's relationship with the EU? If only someone had set them out already... ukandeu.ac.uk/introducing-...

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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Evri are testing delivery robots in Barnsley

A photo (I assume) of a two-legged, wheeled robot with a blue box on top heading towards a suburban house

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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Also why do they think everyone wants to win the "AI" revolution or whatever? Most real people don't like it, or don't really care about it. No pension for you but wow we won the slop competition doesn't butter any parsnips.

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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

An anarchist exploring "What if Tolkien's elves were far too British?"

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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Although The Witcher is quite clearly literally another version of Elric, like Corum and Hawkmoon, just unlicensed.

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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And Andrzej Sapkowski for Geralt of Rivia

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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There really is a foreign actor planning bombing atrocities at RAF Fairfield, he appeared in Home Alone 2

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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Birmingham should have a huge music/art festival called Birmingman in the West Midlands' equivalent to Black Rock Desert

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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Or Ministry of Defence number: I thought it was reported as a terrorism number early on, I've just read it was MoD, I suppose my point about the state pretending they already knew still stands.

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sexy baba yaga @beardynoise.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As a subject matter expert I'd like to say that it's only dogging when straight people are doing it. If they're all dudes then it's cruising

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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What *should* be big news is that someone called an anti-terrorism hotline, nobody answered it, and then, it seems, there was a conspiracy to pretend the authorities were already on the case. OTOH I'm on Team Oil Thieves and it looks like we're going to beat Team Doggers and Team Flytippers

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

God, yeah, whatever could lead you to speculate that they might be fuel thieves?

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Birmingham Green Party @brumgreens.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

These threats are not regarded as some far-off or remote contingency: disastrous impacts, for instance on the UK’s food supply, could be expected as soon as 2030, it warns. One person who had seen the whole report described it to the Guardian as “apocalyptic”. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Why is the UK’s suppressed climate national security report significant?

Warnings about the catastrophic effects of vital ecosystems collapsing were not published under previous prime minister

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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's not meant to be but if enough people enjoy it that way I'd be open to doing an OnlyFans, I need the money and I could put the tofu down as a business expense.

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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

OK now I've realised which university it was I'm going to upgrade the amazing to something like astonishing. Flabbergasted.

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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

That's not just cool, it's amazing.

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

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