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Dan @dantheother.bsky.social · 15h

There's a guy here who looks like Andrew Tate and it's annoying me

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Dan @dantheother.bsky.social · 21h

Gack, that's exxy! 545 for a footlong 😱

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Dan @dantheother.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ugh. Teacher sent a video yesterday and today. There's more water today than yesterday. Even though it's stopped raining, there's still SO MUCH water coming down the Chao Phraya. And then teacher sent another message saying "School is closed until further notice" :/

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Dan @dantheother.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I spotted this at my local Lotus's Go Fresh last night. Only the big bottles, not the small bottles, so it was lucky I even saw it - I rarely look at the big ones. Not bad. Very sweet, strange mouth feel, they've nailed the heavy coconut feeling.

Ad for Mamuang Cotton Candy Est soft drink - a mango and coconut soft drink in Thailand

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Dan @dantheother.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Lucky I remembered to check the school Line group. They announced the granddaughters school is closed for 2 days this morning at 6am. I wonder how many parents/grandparents won't have checked and will front up to school 😱

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Dan @dantheother.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"Trump renames AI" Hahahahahahahahahaha Ha Hahahaha What a FUCKING MORON. We were learning about AI last century in uni and this cunt thinks he can just rename the entire field? Hahahahaha America. What the fuck did you do, unleashing this clown and his posse onto the world?

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Dan @dantheother.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I think Claude might be a better coder than me. He's certainly way more thorough and methodical than I ever am. Does all the things I go "I really should..." but then skip because I'm a meat sack operating on human time.

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Dan @dantheother.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Heh, what's the chances of that. Ordered something from Shopee at 10:28am on Friday, it got delivered 10:28am on Saturday.

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Dan @dantheother.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Did I jinx it? It started bucketing down on the school run tonight. Turns out the poncho's don't fit over the helmet. She's not a headless horseman! (I thought it might rain, so I had the poncho at the ready, chucked it on her at the lights, she stayed dry)

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Dan @dantheother.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I am "yes, good idea to gladwrap* the TV Remote" years old * Glad are the major clingfilm brand in Australia. You don't put clingfilm on something, you gladwrap it

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Dan @dantheother.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I know it's the official RTGS transliteration, but dang, "Chud Thai" does not sound flattering at all. I wish they'd take a bit of liberty and transliterate it "Choot" (reading some articles about how there's a big push to show off the Thai style to the world, every time I see Chud I shudder)

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Dan @dantheother.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

How bizarre Cafe Amazon fizzspresso carbonated coffee with fruit, peach flavour. Definitely got dirty drip coffee in it, bubbles, and peach flavour. How bizarre. I'll not be rushing to get another.

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Dan @dantheother.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

New Lays chips! Durian. Coriander. I'm excited!

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Dan @dantheother.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Whoever makes the cookies for my local shop is changing up their recipe I think. The last two I had have hit me like a freight train. First one I thought was just an oddity, it was the last one left in the shop a few weeks ago. Got some more yesterday, same thing with the first one of them.

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Dan @dantheother.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

This rain feels personal. I pick up granddaughter from school about 5:30. It starts raining invariably about 5. Today I'm picking her up from Saturday school at 4pm. It's going to start raining about 3:55. 🖕😠🖕

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Dan @dantheother.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I picked up granddaughter from school and had a hankering to listen to Astronaut In The Ocean by Masked Wolf. We were both grooving out to it and I asked: "Do you know this song?" "Yeah, I remember it from when I was a kid" "You're 9..." (she's 8, but she does the Thai thing of saying the next bday)

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Dan @dantheother.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Barely a day goes by where I don't read about some new creative way of bending the rules. It never fails to amaze me just how good we are as a species at finding loopholes or unfair advantages. I present: bra-maxxing/boobgate www.thenewdaily.com.au/sport/2026/0...

thenewdaily.com.au

Tour cyclists face extra checks amid padded-bra cheating claims

Riders in the Tour de France Femmes are facing extra clothing checks amid claims some may be using bra padding to gain an advantage.

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Dan @dantheother.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This tells me that I actually got a chance to put headphones on and rock out a lot during July. FFDP do tend to come up in a lot of the auto generated playlists though - the moment I put anything heavy on, it'll lead back to some FFDP.

YouTube Music badge/award saying:
"Top Listener of Five Finger Death Punch.
I was in the top 0.5% of their audience of 6.6 million in July"

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Dan @dantheother.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I watched Ladies In Black on Netflix and really liked it. Very easy watch. www.imdb.com/title/tt6684...

imdb.com

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Dan @dantheother.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Wife and I went for lunch. Bill came, 950 baht. Wife asked me to take a photo of it, which is odd, she doesn't normally care. We got back to the car and she wanted to see the bill. She thought it was a bit expensive for two people, this wasn't a fancy joint.

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Dan @dantheother.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Reckon the eggs are cooked? I think that is 5611 hours, 18 minutes and 31 seconds. Which is December 2025. WTF windows?

A windows timer, which normally counts down to zero. This one has mysteriously counted down past zero and has gone well into the negatives

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Dan @dantheother.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

"Science is hard when cheese is involved." Ain't that the truth. (discussing edibles, dosing, the effects of food, etc, with Gemini and it dropped that gem on me)

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Dan @dantheother.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Haha, I named the admin user God. This is in the activity log

Screenshot of an activity log
God is online from Chrome
God has disconnected from Chrome

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Dan @dantheother.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Heh, wow. Turns out we've been paying some sort of government fee for the house that we didn't need to, for the last 4 years.

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Dan @dantheother.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Wife wanted a new blender a few weeks ago, so we got one. She's used it once or twice. I've used it every day to make smoothies/thickshakes/milkshakes 😆

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Dan @dantheother.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Woo, there's a solution. Sort of. YT Music has been dragging their heels adding a block, so there's a Chrome/Firefox/MS extension called ytm-block that adds a block option to the web UI. Which, given I'm running the web option "installed" as a PWA, works a treat for me. github.com/Labreo/ytm-b...

github.com

GitHub - Labreo/ytm-block

Contribute to Labreo/ytm-block development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Dan @dantheother.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Fuck adulting. Fuck it so much. Can I go back to eating crayons?

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Dan @dantheother.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Rode past this joint last week. Thought it was a new ice cream shop. Checked google maps this morning to see what time they close, thought I might take granddaughter after school. I was most surprised to find out it's a mobile phone shop 😆

The worlds most ice-cream shop looking mobile phone shop! It's got rainbows and little cartoon characters that looked like ice creams to me.

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Dan @dantheother.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

It's been A Week for the last couple of weeks. Finally got a chance to relax, put headphones on and get some work done this arvo. Mother in law is visiting at the moment to help wrangle grandson. She's part of the reason I can relax.

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Dan @dantheother.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I don't reckon I ever watched this video back in the day. 30 years later, it looks like ai slop. The Offspring were pioneers 😆 www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iNb...

youtube.com

The Offspring - The Kids Aren't Alright (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by OffspringVEVO

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Dan @dantheother.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

The accents and the dot on the j combined in "Déjà vu" tickle my brain. Is the j broadcasting the same thing over and over, so we get the sense that we've seen it before?

The word Déjà vu. The accent on the e, the dot on the j and the accent on the a all combine to make a very pleasant shape, like the j is broadcasting a message or something.

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Dan @dantheother.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Nice I didn't buy this, I couldn't justify 69 baht for 5 tiny slices of pepperoni and cheese. I was damn close though.

Packet of 5 slices of pepperoni and 5 slices of some sort of white cheese, 69 baht, 7-11 Thailand.

That's 3 Aussie dollarbucks or 2 'Merican freedom dollars.

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Dan @dantheother.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Not me getting angry at the LLM, then apologising. There's probably a metaphor or simalie or somethingsomething for life just there.

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Dan @dantheother.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

This might be a problem. I "discovered" these Tawandang White Spirit 80 proof at CJ tonight. Very similar taste to Black Cock which I actually love. Only 70 baht for a 330ml which will absolutely knock your socks off. At least it might stop me buying weed cookies - the munchies are not good.

A bottle of 40% white spirit. Surprisingly tasty, cheap as shit.

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Dan @dantheother.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I just asked my vibe coding bud "do you have to deal much with drunk typos" and: "Re drunk typos: only when the variable names start looking like setStauts and handelClik. “Lighter saturation” was clear" I know the finished code is never going to be as good as Hand Crafted, but it's nice sometimes

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Dan @dantheother.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Ha, spotted in Big C. A normal pack of Shin Ramyun is 45 baht, these special Jay Fai ones are 60. Pretty on brand for Jay Fai 😆

Shin Ramyun Jay Fai special edition. Tom Yum Flavour

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Dan @dantheother.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Price of living in one neat graph. We regularly buy the same brand of rice, 15kg bag, from the same rice shop. Sometimes I go to a more expensive shop, they're not on this chart though. This is purely comparing apples to apples. Low of 510 baht, high of 615 baht, 2 or 3 years of data points.

A graph showing the price of rice over 3 years

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Dan @dantheother.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Grr. I was hoping that YouTube Music wouldn't be as prone to AI slop as Spotify was. Nope. futurism.com/artificial-i... Every time there's cover art that looks AI generated, if I've not heard of the artist I google them. Sadly this one is AI. FFS, there's enough real artists out there!

futurism.com

Record Label Claims That Bizarre AI-Generated "Viking Rappers" Garnering Millions of Views are Real People

An "independent label" is cranking out AI slop of "viking rappers" and Christian rockers — and raking in millions of follows and listens.

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Dan @dantheother.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Ugh, that was a bit of a failure. Any cheap charlies who can't cook out there wondering if a Knorr Tom-Yum stock cube would be nice broken up and mixed with rice: No, no it is NOT. The roof of my mouth has a coating now that is unpleasant. And the flavour wasn't very good either.

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Dan @dantheother.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I'm waiting at the mechanic for some repairs. A guy just offered me a beer or a water. I took the water. 40 year old Dan is giving me a look, 20 year old Dan isn't speaking to me

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Dan @dantheother.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

@linipnilson.bsky.social with your fancy new Thai ID card you could register for the new 60/40 scheme the government is running 🎉 My wife remembered about 8am and sprinted to the phone to get it done 😆

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Dan @dantheother.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Thanks to "Leo The Wildlife Ranger" I just learnt I've been pronouncing Tapir wrong forever. I confidently said "That's a tap-ear" when granddaughter asked what one animal is, only for the show to say "It's a taper" 🤦‍♂️😆

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Dan @dantheother.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Can't breathe, wheezing. The poor little thing 🤣

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Dan @dantheother.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Pleated skirts are bollocks

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Dan @dantheother.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

You know, I was just saying the other day that I hate it when my pencil case up and does a runner. Glad the boffins at the lab picked up the vibes I was putting out and brought out this Stationary Box.

A clear plastic box for putting pencils, pens, etc in. It should be a Stationery Box, but Stationary Box has ended up on the label.

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Dan @dantheother.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Woo! Found some genuine Blu Tak!

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Dan @dantheother.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

While I was driving I remembered my favourite nerdy joke: A physicist gets pulled over by a cop. "Do you know how fast you were going?" "No" "117 in a 100 zone" "Great, now I'm lost 😡"

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Dan @dantheother.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Weird one this morning. Put some petrol in. I said 1000. She started it, then washed the windscreen. Came back and said it was full, 880 baht. Pigs arse it was full, it would have taken 1500 to fill.

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