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Kristian Glass @doismellburning.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Not saying that I don’t know how to party but I’ve ordered some Kilner jars for our dried pantry staples and it’s so exciting to be able to sort them all out nicely

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Kristian Glass @doismellburning.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

It feels bloody ridiculous that in 2026, when a doctor at hospital B wants to see the imaging from an emergency MRI at hospital A, apparently the only way to do that involves invoking the DPA/GDPR and filing a subject access request and waiting for up to 30d www.cuh.nhs.uk/patient-priv...

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Kristian Glass @doismellburning.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

The Jupiter’s Legacy show feels like Book 9 of the Wheel of Time I’m really enjoying the characters and plot, but my gosh it moves so slooooowly I can see why it didn’t make it past S1 😬

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Kristian Glass @doismellburning.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I appreciate password strength requirements but if your system rejects `qEAE6bMDBNyTCAJn77R4m` because "two consecutive characters" then I feel that is a problem with your system

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Spork loves you @strivingally.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Semi-related: There’s a concept we talk about in health care - particularly disability, mental health and aged care - known as Dignity Of Risk. Simply put, it’s about allowing someone opportunities to do things that might carry some degree of risk, and not coddle them bc of their age/disability.

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Mark McIntyre @markjmcintyre.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I don't remember seeing an image of Earth before that captures the (thin, fragile, tiny layer of) atmosphere so clearly. I mean, look at that.

Zooming in on the photo of Earth taken by astronauts on Artemis II on their way to the Moon, you can clearly see the Aurora Borealis and thin layer of atmosphere wrapping around the planet.

Zooming in on the photo of Earth taken by astronauts on Artemis II, you can clearly see the thin layer of atmosphere wrapping around the entire planet.

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Kristian Glass @doismellburning.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

It would be nice if all the “children’s safety glasses” on Amazon that didn’t specify their EN 166 rating would ever so kindly get lost

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Kristian Glass @doismellburning.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

The downside of watching TV as it’s released-ish is having to wait for the next season - I need more Bridgerton!

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Mark Pack @markpackuk.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I'd hate to see what not caring looks like.

Huffington Post privacy notice saying they share your data with 987 partners.

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Kristian Glass @doismellburning.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Encanto is an absolute banger But it’s very weird to think about it being Rosa Diaz

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Kimiko Shibata @eslfairy.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Just in case you need some good news today: researchers at U of W have figured out how to turn plastic waste into acetic acid (primary ingredient in vinegar) using the sun. This has the potential to really help us reduce plastic waste. uwaterloo.ca/news/media/w...

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Waterloo researchers turning plastic waste into vinegar | Waterloo News

Researchers at the University of Waterloo have discovered a way to turn plastic waste into acetic acid, the main ingredient of vinegar, using sunlight. The breakthrough offers a promising new approach...

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Kristian Glass @doismellburning.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Home from day 1 of #MonkiGras 2026 and it was such a joy as ever So many beautifully thoughtful and thought-provoking talks, wonderful people, and fantastic food and drink

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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 13/03/2026

I'll just open the hellgates: look, there *is* an argument that for everyone who can now "make apps" thanks to agentic coding, SOME people will take a look at what's been generated out of curiosity for how it works and SOME of them will end up actually learning how to code... and that is good!

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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

i use this line all the time about writing code

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

NEW What the Palestine Action judgment means - and what it does not mean How the High Court ruled against the government, but not with enthusiasm By me: emptycity.substack.com/p/what-the-p... (A follow up to my Prospect post this morning.)

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What the Palestine Action judgment means - and what it does not mean

The High Court rules against the government, but not with enthusiasm

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Kristian Glass @doismellburning.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. “Ok but have you told them that directly and explicitly?”

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qdot @buttplug.engineer · 04/02/2026

inspired by CLAUDE.md, I’ve started putting markdown files named after coworkers into work code repos so I can remind them to stop doing shit to the codebase that annoys me for some reason they’re all mad at me now, which means ill be adding commands to JEREMY.md for an attitude adjustment

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Seems unfair that you only get to use the bouncy slide to get off a plane when things have gone wrong. The bouncy slide should be a treat they give to the best passengers who did the flight correctly.

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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

I left university in 2019 with £49,600 of debt. A few months later, I became an MP and have since received a salary that puts me in the top 5% in the country. 6 years on, the repayments from my salary have brought this total to down to £48,600 - just £1,000 less.

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Kristian Glass @doismellburning.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

My copy of Felix Danczak’s “Market-led growth” arrived! I’d already got and started the Kindle version when it came out, but I much prefer a physical book for this sort of thing so I can easily refer to bits as needed!

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Kristian Glass @doismellburning.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Loved jml's writeup of "How I've been using LLMs at work" (as an SRE) - jml.io/posts/llm-us...

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How I've been using LLMs at work

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Kristian Glass @doismellburning.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

It turns out it’s much easier to solder on banana plugs when you remember your soldering iron goes up to 350C

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Kristian Glass @doismellburning.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Happy Smallpox Eradication Day folks en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox

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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

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Adam Johnson @adamj.eu · 01/12/2025

📚🧵 It’s Cyber Monday, the last day my books on Git, GitHub and Django will be 50% discounted. Here’s a quick thread to give you a taste of what’s inside each of them. #Git #GitHub #Django

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Kristian Glass @doismellburning.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

For the Americans out there this week: Eat, Fry, Love: A Cautionary Remix youtu.be/Z4Qxqmhqj1A Have fun and stay safe! Do you know where your dingle dangle is?

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Eat, Fry, Love: A Cautionary Remix (REUPLOAD)

YouTube video by Dingle Dangle

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Goku Missile Crisis @babadooknukem.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

"Malort advent calendar" is already such an unhinged concept but every little window just having Malort in it really pushes it over the edge into something transcendently funny

yep it's a Malort advent calendar alright

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 11/11/2025

yes yes we all know about the Edmund Fitzgerald, rest her soul, but did you know about the ship laden with explosives that sank in the mouth of the Thames in 1944 and could explode at any minute and which attempts to disarm keep failing

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 11/11/2025

I will restate my modest proposal to save the BBC: ban the BBC from covering itself. Every BBC scandal goes huge, because every BBC News show wants to assert its independence by covering it prominently, even if several other shows already did. So it gets blanket headlines.

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Kristian Glass @doismellburning.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

It is hard to beat the ROI of buying a super-king size duvet for your double bed

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Kristian Glass @doismellburning.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Aviva, August 2024: "Thank you for telling us about your new address. I've updated these details on our records and this is the last letter we will send to your old address." Aviva, November 2025: <mails pension statement to old address> 😱

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Kristian Glass @doismellburning.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Inspired by a general love of garlic, and @oldenoughtosay.com’s tweets, I made chicken with ~200 cloves (20 bulbs) of garlic last night Was it good? Yes Are we suffering slightly this morning? Also yes…

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Kristian Glass @doismellburning.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Happy Dependabot day to all who celebrate

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Kristian Glass @doismellburning.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

I am proud to be a Fellow of the Python Software Foundation

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Kristian Glass @doismellburning.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

@incident.io Hey qq please - when speaking, is the . (canonically) pronounced or not? “Incident dot io” or “incident io”? Thanks!

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Lawrence Jones @lawrencejones.dev · 23/10/2025

So much goes into this. For any internal tool nerds, we’ve written a bunch about what we’ve had to build here: incident.io/building-wit...

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Building with AI | incident.io

Behind the scenes: Building an AI incident responder

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Kristian Glass @doismellburning.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

At @incident.io SEV0 watching @lawrencejones.dev show some of the internals of their AI SRE The product itself looks absolutely fantastic and incredibly powerful But the other thing that is a joy to see is the sheer quality of internal tooling they’ve built to learn and improve and monitor 😍

Photo of Lawrence on stage in front of a large slide showing an internal dashboard timing trace of a multi-agent AI run

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Jacob Gifford Head @giffordhead.co.uk · 23/10/2025

A nice piece of level trivia is the characteristically conservative judges involved with the High Court of Chivalry rejected 1189 and set time immemorial as before 1066 instead!

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Internet Dad @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 21/10/2025

Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.

STEREOGUM: People my age, we talk about how we were lucky that we didn’t have social media growing up, and there’s no record of all the dumb shit we said and did. You didn’t have social media, but everything you said and did in those years is on record, and you’ve got to live with it now. That’s tough.

VIOLENT J: And the amount of gay Juggalos out there is really surprising. I think about them doing their research and getting the old records, getting excited about it, and getting their hearts broke or something, you know? I tell my daughter, “For the rest of your life, when your friends ask why your dad said that, say it’s because your dad was a fool. Don’t defend me. Say I was a fool then, but I’m not now.” There’s no excuse. I was going with the flow, and that’s the very thing we preach against — being a sheep. And that’s what I was doing.

https://www.stereogum.com/2083804/icp-interview-juggalos/interviews/weve-got-a-file-on-you/

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Tube Mapper- Luke Agbaimoni @tubemapper.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Under Over Over - West Hampstead So it's taken a while, but I've finally found a location where you can clearly see London Underground trains traveling over London Overground trains. The vantage point is at West Hampstead Overground station at the end of the platform.

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