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Tom dB

@deadlyhifi.com
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Why am I here? I’d rather be riding my bike. Web stuff - I like CSS the best. Propagandhi salesman. Punk, ska, reggae, music.

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Tom dB @deadlyhifi.com · 27/09/2026
Hey @theslackersband.bsky.social Remember this, Leicester 2010 with Ranking Roger? Of course you do! See on Tuesday at the Brudenell. Maybe you’ll play this tune ;)
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Content warning: Multiple men violently assault a female protester at Reform's conference at the Birmingham NEC, to the visible delight of Nigel Farage.
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Tom dB @deadlyhifi.com · 21/05/2026
Look at the state of this. Approaching being a trillionaire and gets fined less than nothing.
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 17/05/2026
Immigration make Britain brilliant
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Kevin Nguyen @knguyen.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
we finally reached the end of this calendar event i accidentally made 12 years ago
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Tom dB @deadlyhifi.com · 08/02/2026
An EU based social network called W, built on ATProto (and initially a fork of Bluesky?)… cybernews.com/tech/europe-...
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Bye, X: Europeans are launching their own social media platform, W
European organizations may soon launch their own social media platform, W, requiring user identification and photo verification to prevent bots.
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Tom dB @deadlyhifi.com · 08/02/2026
A great article about the EU digital fairness act on addictive design and the big tech industry’s 900 Brussels-based lobbyists fighting against it. corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/a...
corporateeurope.org
Addicted to the algorithm: how Big Tech lobbies to keep us hooked on social media | Corporate Europe Observatory
As the EU prepares the Digital Fairness Act to tackle the addictive nature of social media design, big tech aggressively protects its business models. With Trumpists and far-right allies likely to joi...
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 06/02/2026
i'm sorry that happened to your bite coins :(
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 30/01/2026
"I am my own original sin. One someone is always willing to forgive. Until enough of you demand that I be better."
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I’m Still Your America
Hey, patriot. It’s been a week. As ICE spreads terror through the streets, and Teacup Eichmann presided over the murder of yet another innocent civ...
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Tom dB @deadlyhifi.com · 10/01/2026
The real world of being a software engineer and working as part of a team. These are some valuable lessons. 21 Lessons From 14 Years at Google - addyosmani.com/blog/21-less...
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21 Lessons From 14 Years at Google
Lessons learned from 14 years of engineering at Google, focusing on what truly matters beyond just writing great code.
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Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
call me crazy but it really feels like “World’s Richest Man Creates AI Chatbot That Generates Child Porn” would’ve been a huge international outrage requiring a governmental crackdown not even 24 months ago
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Tom dB @deadlyhifi.com · 02/01/2026
Hi, I’m lymphoma.
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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
some things i’m taking into the new year.
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Kris Straub (كريس) @krisstraub.com · 21/12/2025
please let “bugs bunnying” become the slang for manipulating an LLM into ignoring its guardrails, i have never seen a more succinct and evocative term for it
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.
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Jim Nielsen @jim-nielsen.com · 17/12/2025
Me using a vibe-coded UI:
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Andy Carvin @acarv.in · 13/12/2025
Anyone wanna buy Jello Biafra's '89 Toyota Celica? 212k miles, runs fine.
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Punk Legend Jello Biafra's 1989 Toyota Celica GT Convertible
Owned and driven by music legend Jello Biafra since 1995, this 1989 Toyota Celica GT Convertible has impeccable punk rock credentials. As Jello’s daily driver for decades, this T160-generation...
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Tom dB @deadlyhifi.com · 10/12/2025
Behavioural sink, quite fascinating. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...
smithsonianmag.com
This Old Experiment With Mice Led to Bleak Predictions for Humanity’s Future
From the 1950s to the 1970s, researcher John Calhoun gave rodents unlimited food and studied their behavior in overcrowded conditions
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Tom dB @deadlyhifi.com · 10/12/2025
Wordle 1,635 4/6* ⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛ 🟨⬛🟩⬛🟨 ⬛🟩🟩🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Look at the symmetry.
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Tom dB @deadlyhifi.com · 07/12/2025
Endless Spite 2 fest. Onlooker (from Teeside) “Don’t be a flag fucker” — Onlooker “I think he’s the greatest frontman I’ve ever seen” — Carl Glover.
Onlooker band performing on stage. In shot is the singer holding a mic stand and screaming aggressively with the bass player also in view.Onlooker band performing on stage. 5 piece band of two guitars, bass, drums, singer.Onlooker band performing on stage. In shot is the singer holding a mic stand and screaming aggressively.Onlooker band performing on stage. In shot is the singer holding a mic stand and screaming aggressively with the bass player also in view.
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Tom dB @deadlyhifi.com · 07/12/2025
Endless Spite 2 fest. Fast Blood (from Newcastle)
Fast Blood band performing on stage. 4 piece band. Singer, guitarist, bassist, drummer.Fast Blood band performing on stage. Singer and guitarist in view.
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Tom dB @deadlyhifi.com · 07/12/2025
Endless Spite 2 fest. Hidden Youth (from Leeds)
Hidden Youth band performing on stage. A singer, two guitarists, a bass player, and drummer.Hidden Youth band performing on stage. A singer, two guitarists, a bass player, and drummer.
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Tom dB @deadlyhifi.com · 06/12/2025
Well this blows my tiny mind. How? How‽ youtu.be/qlrpeYdm9Ec?... Now heading down a beatbox 🐰🕳️
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WING - Dopamine (Official Video) (BEATBOX)
YouTube video by BEATPELLA HOUSE
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Tom dB @deadlyhifi.com · 06/12/2025
Or is it. I’m going to Endless Spite festival later - yorkshire-gig-guide.com/news/endless... I can post a few shots. Check out Onlooker, from teeside, they’re awesome live.
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Endless Spite 2 Comes to Shipley this December - Yorkshire Gig Guide
Endless Spite returns to Shipley on 6 December with cult punk and hardcore acts including And None of Them Knew They Were Robots.
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Tom dB @deadlyhifi.com · 06/12/2025
That’s your lot.
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Tom dB @deadlyhifi.com · 06/12/2025
I’m also really interested in Authentication Transfer Protocol (ATP) and have been working on understanding it in my free time. I’ve got authentication working and I can post to both Bluesky and other schemas. I’m now thinking about designing the schema I need for the app I am working on.
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Tom dB @deadlyhifi.com · 06/12/2025
Maybe I’ll write more things here. Maybe. I’m getting better at chess.
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Tom dB @deadlyhifi.com · 16/11/2025
Hello whirled. This is a test post from my ATP app
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Sandwich man leaving court
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Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Was this the best use of my time today? No. Is it the most amusing way I could have spent the last 90 minutes? Absolutely. Pattern is free here: bit.ly/4nGGCGc
Crosstitch guide image reads “this machine kills fascists” with clipart images of an onion, a sub and a bottle of mustard
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Thomas Fuchs 🫯 @thomasfuchs.at · 31/10/2025
Meme showing six logical operators illustrated with jack-o'-lantern images. 

trick OR treat 
trick AND treat 
trick XOR treat 
trick NOR treat 
trick NAND treat 
trick XNOR treat
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Tom dB @deadlyhifi.com · 19/10/2025
A fantastic piece on how the open philosophy of the web has been eroded and what we can do about it.
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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Its more of a saxophone solo than a question really
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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 16/08/2025
This is owned by a LANlord
An apartment block where the windows and Juliet balconies look like network ports
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Tom dB @deadlyhifi.com · 06/08/2025
GitHub advocating for a European Sovereign Tech Fund to ensure critical open source software is funded and maintained. github.blog/open-source/...
github.blog
We need a European Sovereign Tech Fund
With a new feasibility study, GitHub’s developer policy team is building a coalition of policymakers and industry to close the maintenance funding gap.
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 01/08/2025
I kinda think the way people use ChatGPT is sort of aspirational because it seems to emulate the way rich people have sycophants lying to them all the time until they lose touch with reality and also their entire minds
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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Artist Marcel Duchamp poseswith his "readymade" sculpture Bicycle Wheel #BicycleBirthday July 28 (1887-1968)
A man smoking a cigarette sits next to a bicycle wheel mounted on a stool.
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Beatgrrrl @beatgrrrl.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Carol Moseley Braun, first black female senator: ’Sexism is harder to change than racism’
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Carol Moseley Braun, first black female senator: ’Sexism is harder to change than racism’
Trailblazing Illinois Democrat reflects on political career and says party is ‘in a daze’ about how to combat Trump
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Mezentine @mezentine.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
We don’t talk often enough about the Superman issue where, fed up with pedestrian deaths from car collisions, he sets out to try and destroy every car in the city.
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Tom dB @deadlyhifi.com · 05/07/2025
Top tip. If you’ve got those little black flies in your houseplant soil pop some spiders in for a buffet. It seems to have cleared the problem up.
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zeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
STOP USING AI FOR ALT TEXT. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
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Tom dB @deadlyhifi.com · 14/06/2025
I saw David Gest in Kings Cross station struggling to get his ticket to open the barrier. He looked at me, I looked at him, then gave him a little nod of recognition. The barrier opened and he ran for his train.
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ETSC - European Transport Safety Council @etsc.eu · 03/06/2025
Study on London 20 mph limits shows: - collisions ⬇️ 35% - casualties ⬇️ 36% - fatal/serious injuries ⬇️ 34% - child casualties ⬇️ 46% - child deaths ⬇️ 75% - walkers, cyclists, motorcyclists killed/seriously injured ⬇️ 28% etsc.eu/20mph-limits...
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20mph limits in London linked to sharp fall in road injuries and deaths, new report finds
A new study published by Transport for London (TfL) has shown that the introduction of 20mph speed limits and zones on local authority-managed roads in London between 1989 and 2013 led to significant…
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
I'm biased, but this report is a must-read for anyone looking to understand the state of AI in 2025. It explains how AI is entrenching power for big tech and the oligarch class, speeding deregulation, dislodging human expertise and threatening workers—and how there's still time to refuse all that.
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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
A reminder of how these assholes behaved when we stole THEIR shit. They came for kids’ MP3s. House raids. Absolute terror. So no, we’re not gonna let you steal OUR shit.
80s logo that says HOME TAPING IS KILLING MUSIC. AND IT’S ILLEGAL. image of a skull and crossbones, but the skull is a cassette tape.
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Hidde @hidde.blog · 25/05/2025
🔗 “Our brains, evolved for tribal politics and campfire stories, are ill-equipped for the moral ambiguity of a system with no soul to save or damn.” —Tina He on how AI dehumanises us, it doesn't know what it's doing, drawing a parallel with Arendt's banality of evil substack.com/home/post/p-...
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AI, Heidegger, and Evangelion
Our brains, evolved for tribal politics and campfire stories, are ill-equipped for the moral ambiguity of a system with no soul to save or damn.
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