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Örjan @cunobaros.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I taught myself PageMaker 6.5 and produced three books, one of which had Pratchettian amounts of footnotes, sometimes nested. I refuse to go through that learning curve again.

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Örjan @cunobaros.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I usually bought baby wipes for camping trips. I liked the aloe vera variety.

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Örjan @cunobaros.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This was at the Point Shop at Wheeler Street, for a gluten-free ruby ale. It was very nice, but not that nice

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Örjan @cunobaros.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I paid £7.50 there for a pint this summer.

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Örjan @cunobaros.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ten years ago, I was at a meeting of reenactment combat trainers (many manly men!) when one made a really inappropriate comment. I rolled my eyes, but another man said "That's a bit rapey, mate" and then changed the subject. It was as easy as that. And as hard as that. I try to follow his lead.

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Örjan @cunobaros.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I had a cheap no-name action camera mounted on top of a bike helmet for sword fighting practice. It didn't work, due to too much bobbing and dodging, but would that be feasible for you?

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Örjan @cunobaros.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you could lift your arms, someone would invent surf fencing. (Someone sent me a video of people fencing with Gemma HEMA swords while on roller skates.)

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Örjan @cunobaros.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I was in Madrid for work two weeks ago, and outdoor temperatures were well over 30°C. Quite horrible. Hopefully November should be more agreeable. (I'm being sent there again then, for more meetings, but won't have time to sneak off to cons, alas.)

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Örjan @cunobaros.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Pratchett defined the difference between erotic and kinky as using a feather or the whole chicken. I hesitate to ponder what a whole peacock would entail.

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Örjan @cunobaros.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

No, not unless some newspaper has been sitting on a bunch of time-out-worthy scandals until after the election. I don't think it will happen, but I think it would be amusing if it did.

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Örjan @cunobaros.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Would be amusing of SD's breaking of the not-a-formal-rule of standing an MP aside when the other side had one away comes back to bite them.

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Örjan @cunobaros.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Have you tried the tea spoon trick? Make a cuppa, stir it with a steel spoon, leave it in to get it not quite scalding, take it out and press the convex side of the bowl against the bite. The heat breaks down some of the enzymes causing the itching. (Other spoon heating methods available.)

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Örjan @cunobaros.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ah, you turned them into Birds!

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Örjan @cunobaros.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sorry, I only saw it then. They rebooted the anime a couple of times when they rebooted the game, but at least the first iteration was surprisingly decent for what it was.

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Örjan @cunobaros.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Tangent: I enjoyed the Cardfight! Vanguard card game, and since the anime was created to promote it, it showed the mechanics correctly. I used to go with my son to a game store in another town and play every other Saturday. Also, did you mean Fall 2026?

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Örjan @cunobaros.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ah, Jennifer Garner returns as Elektra

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Björn Friðgeir @bjornfr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Happy Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov Day to us all and now more than ever remember that the Computer Said Yes.

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Örjan @cunobaros.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Glad to hear it. One of these years I'll manage to get there and spend the weekend in the Viking camp.

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Örjan @cunobaros.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Son-in-law did the same on his Lenovo laptop with Mint rather than Ubuntu. And he's using it to play games with a PS4 controller.

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Örjan @cunobaros.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I mean, there's not much to say. Last winter I went to Ubuntu's website, got an install image, put it on an usb flash drive, plugged it into a dell laptop and chose install with default options. Soon after it was done and everything - including WiFi, sound, video, and Bluetooth - just worked.

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Örjan @cunobaros.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

With modern Linii? Definitely.

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Örjan @cunobaros.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

That's a school teacher who believes in physical punishment.

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Örjan @cunobaros.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A fair few people have made a "fan cut" of all three films into one. At least one improved the colour grading and lighting too.

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Örjan @cunobaros.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If I was cynical I would expect AI companies to continue to "accidentally hack third parties without being instructed to" until they are nationalised. That's the only way they could get off the tiger they're riding.

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Örjan @cunobaros.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Indeed. *waves from Sweden* I try to see glasses as half-full, though. Takes a bit more effort, since it doesn't come naturally to me, but I've found it makes my day-to-day life happier.

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Örjan @cunobaros.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Better than the day after midsummer, then it's almost a year until we have as much daylight again.

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Örjan @cunobaros.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's not a proper job unless it's male-dominated and the workers get bruised and dirty.

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Spook-ass, Christ oh boo! boo! @loukas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

In the night I thought a pile of clothes on a chair was one of my cats. This means there's a 10% chance that piles of clothes may one day replace all cats.

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Örjan @cunobaros.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

After the Incident these are no longer open to the public. A replica have been carved into the chalk of Royston Cave in Hertfordshire, which should be far enough away to be safe.

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Örjan @cunobaros.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The crusty old seadog slammed the door open and hopped over the threshold. "Yaarrr," he exclaimed, "that's where me pegleg be! Ask before you borrow it, ye scoundrel!"

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Paul Cowling @picowlo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"self-centred men who are argumentative, stubborn, disagreeable and unempathetic are much more likely to own a high-status car such as an Audi, BMW or Mercedes."

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Örjan @cunobaros.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Ja, det är definitivt skillnad mellan att se det som att spela spel eller se det som samtal med en person, även om loggarna för ett samtal med apparaten kan se likadana ut. Och i det förra fallet är det då mycket mindre av ett problem. Eller snarare: tecken på ett problem.

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Örjan @cunobaros.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Intressant! Jag undrar om jag gissade för att jag sett fler reportage om män med AI "flickvänner", och om det är bara för att det skrivs mer om män? Är den manliga ensamhetskrisen ett manligt fenomen eller studeras/rapporteras mäns problem mera (jfr medicinsk forskning som utgår från man=normal)?

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Örjan @cunobaros.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

O ja. Har för mig att det gjordes undersökningar på GPS navigationssystem när de först kom, att män oftare ignorerade anvisningar när de gavs med en kvinnlig röst, så det är ju inte nytt, men deprimerande att det kvarstår. Killgissar dock att fler män än kvinnor har en AI-partner "relation".

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Örjan @cunobaros.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Tjänstebotarna hade ju övervägande kvinnliga namn - Siri, Alexa, Cortana. Google var ju neutral där, och Samsung hade "Bixby" som väl ska låta som ett efternamn och därmed mer manligt. Men de nya autonoma assistenterna som vi ska lita på kan göra saker autonomt utan översikt har manligare namn.

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Örjan @cunobaros.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I'm playing this JRPG which takes place in both the distant past and the present, and one party member just went "Welp, I really like this girl we've helped here in the past and I feel I can make a real difference, so I'm staying here with her" and I went there in the present and found their grave.

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Örjan @cunobaros.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"No training needed!" they said.

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Örjan @cunobaros.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We've been watching Taskmaster on USAnian YouTube, and they have a lot of strange medicine ads. The most American one though was one that offered to make it easy for you to get a concealed weapon carry permit for your state, and convert it to a national one.

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Örjan @cunobaros.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Would be an interesting contrast to Flashman.

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Örjan @cunobaros.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I might be physically tired, but I still had mental energy in the evenings. Coding is the opposite, leaving me mentally rather than physically tired. You'd think keen AI users wouldn't get mentally tired, but the ones I see appear to be more dulled, as if they had less energy to begin with. 2/2

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Örjan @cunobaros.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

When I was a student, I worked as a hospital cleaner in the summers. It was quite active work, physically, but not something that taxed me intellectually. I used to joke that I came in, got changed, put my clothes and brain in the locker, did a day's work, and changed back, brain still fresh. 1/2

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Örjan @cunobaros.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"You're as good as 'armless, you are, just a vest with delusions of grandeur."

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Örjan @cunobaros.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Oh, I haven't read that since I was a teenager, and then I read it in Swedish translation. I should go and see if I can find an electronic copy in English.

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Örjan @cunobaros.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It's a classic, though I only have four or five albums. (In a box in the basement with a lot of other French/Belgian comic albums, like Spirou, Gaston, Yakari, Johan and Peewit, Blueberry, and Buddy Longway. They got boxed away before I moved to England in '99 and sat in a barn until a year ago.)

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