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Worried I may have been coerced into doing the Gloucestershire cheese roll run and then giving a serious business talk about it #monktoberfest

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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 29/09/2026

Definitely going to a completely legitimate tech conference with serious business people on a boat / in a brewery #monktoberfest #foliage

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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 29/09/2026

Stayed in a fancy shed, Biscuit approved

A wooden panelled shed made into a tiny house with a pointy roof, surrounded by grass with sunrise mist in the background

Imagine a dog that's like a golden retriever but the size of a rabbit and you've just told it a really great joke so he's really happy and totally giving you eyes that say "great joke dude". He's sitting on a sandy beach with a grassy hill in the distance

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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 21/09/2026

Also shout out to 100mg caffeine gels, the garys of ultra running 🙏

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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 21/09/2026

I very rarely race as I really don't need hundreds of other running dickheads spoiling the view but I'm sure I wouldn't have finished this weekend so strong without the aid station volunteers. Having a stranger call you by your first name & ask what you need when you're 9 hours deep is pretty great

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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 19/09/2026

Ran my first 50 miles, saw George Michael's (former) house, big day all round

A map showing an 80.71km route through Berkshire and Oxfordshire, with 1643m of elevation, taking 11 hours and 6 minutes.

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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 17/09/2026

I feel like fingerstyle guitar x Autechre is a venn diagram that encompasses at least a few of you shaneparish.bandcamp.com/album/autech...

shaneparish.bandcamp.com

Autechre Guitar, by Shane Parish

10 track album

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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 13/09/2026

It took 14 months but I finally found the last one. Touché, brother-in-law

8 purple plastic 3D printed dachshunds lined up on a table that are no longer secretly.hidden around my house

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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 06/09/2026

Any Bristol/SW crew wanting to see Smote tonight I have 2 tickets available. Last night of their tour in a tiny pub yet I am forever doomed to miss them when they play locally,

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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 05/09/2026

"Nothing new on race day" also "Our aid stations are stocked with 6 cheese lasagna, our mothers homemade casserole, 4 kinds of tiramisu, power cake and dust" Shoutout to the race organisers putting on a great spread but where can I train with these mobile buffets?

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Computer𝔍𝔞𝔪𝔢𝔰 @computerjames.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

the only video worth rescuing from my deleted twtter

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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 22/08/2026

Got out early for a long run along the Pembrokeshire Coast Path. It is really quite something

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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 07/08/2026

It's 10am and all the computer things appear to be broken at once, would like to go back to cow issues please

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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 06/08/2026

There's around a dozen cows in our garden. Fairly normal countryside procedure except we live on what is essentially a cliff and they are likely stuck. Spot the cow

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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 09/07/2026

@monkchips.com what was service you used at the most recent monkigras for automated captioning?

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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 26/06/2026

It's nice when you spend 6 months building a thing and then you start wondering if actually it was premature and maybe it's not needed and then the literal next day your planet size customer asks "would you happen to have a thing that looks exactly like the thing you've just spent 6 months building"

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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 15/06/2026

Encarta the unstoppable sex machine

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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 12/06/2026

Quite a lot of cow negotiation on this morning's run, including this belty who was busy reading a Laurie Lee poem in front of the gate I needed to go through

A large black and white belty cow stands in front of a gate next to a post with a Laurie Lee poem inscription

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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 09/06/2026

No lies detected. I am a temple of thought where color, science, and cosmology converge. graduate.rice.edu/news/current...

A text screenshot which reads "At first glance, the inside of Duncan Hall may look like a temple transforming you to another world"

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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 29/05/2026

Four years. Amazing what grows if you just hit everything with a crowbar.

Remnants of an ancient chicken shed, having been slain with a crowbar, lying in a patch of dirt

A lawn bordered by wild oxide daisies on one side, with delphiniums and various other perennials on the other

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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 26/05/2026

Get an e-bike so you can ride over the hills to the next village and do The Weird Machine Pilates and then ride home with this view

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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 19/05/2026

The weather in Pewsey this weekend is suddenly looking absolutely phenomenal for those that like crop circles etc

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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 16/05/2026

Finished reading the Lord of the Rings books yesterday for the first time. This Tolkein guy is quite good it turns out, keep an eye on that name. Ran to one of the highest points in Gloucestershire this morning, extremely middle earth vibes.

Painswick Beacon - a stone pillar on top of a grassy hill, overlooking woodlands with more hills in the distance

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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 13/05/2026

I can't read the name Joseph Pilates without thinking it's a joke name like Brian Karate or Sarah Physiotherapy

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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 07/05/2026

I just don't think you've listened to enough pumpkins

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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 03/05/2026

Gwennifer Raymond plays harder than you

Gwennifer Raymond playing guitar in Sat Laurence Church, Stroud

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Raltz Klamar @raltzklamar.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

You're telling me a vibe coded this website?

Hitachi magic wand (a vibrator) on a keyboard

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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 02/05/2026

Slowly building back running distance means I get to see places I haven't been to for almost 2 years. Been looking forward to doing this route again for a long time

Selsley common, a chalk path winding up a grassy hill

Woodchester valley, wild garlic under tree canopy

Woodchester lake, a long dead tree sticks out into the water

Woodchester valley, tall pine trees surrounding a clearing

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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 01/05/2026

The only day of the year I look forward to getting up at 4:30am. Walk up the hill, find the 8ft suave pig and the fiddle player; a wee pagan jig until the sun comes up, oh look the pub is open.

Morris dancers morris prancing around Jackie while a sheep plays the fiddle

A very tall and suave pig with a resemblance to Mick Jagger, dancing against an orange sunrise

A surprisingly large number of strangers on a hill at sunrise

A Cotswold stone pub in the morning sun, serving pints, sandwiches and pagan sing songs at 6am

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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 30/04/2026

Just a friendly otter in the sunshine doing laps in the canal on this morning's run, totally fine, didn't lose my shit at all

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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 22/04/2026

Songs to rush in the bath to

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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 20/04/2026

Sometimes 'techno fascism' is a bit hard to tie down exactly but Palantir have just fully come out said "We are fascists. We like fascism. We are building technology to do a fascism".

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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 14/04/2026

I, a 40 year old person, have passed my driving theory test. Will be going to lazer quest and bowling to celebrate later. Ask your dad if he can drive us

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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 10/04/2026

I get a surprising amount of satisfaction from creating (extremely sick) architecture diagrams. It's the kind of technical drawing I wanted to do as a kid but I didn't hear the term "distributed systems" until after I'd started (and quit) an actual physical Architecture degree.

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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 10/04/2026

First wild orchid of the year

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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 10/04/2026

I have made a complicated spreadsheet with lots of colours which means long distance running must be happening again

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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 08/04/2026

I am slowly building a running habit again, which means more time by the canal at surprisingly early times of the day. Had a short race with a Herron this morning which I did not win

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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 01/04/2026

@monkchips.com as per your suggestion/stern request, I have paid real money to replace the Portland copy. Looking forward to it

A copy of the book Progressive Delivery- build the right thing, for the right people, at the right time

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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 20/03/2026

It's nice when the tech conference is actually a people conference

Heidi Waterhouse and Kim Harrison presenting "Resilience in Community, lessons from occupied Minneapolis and rural Oaxaca"

Adam Zimman reminding us to listen to our children

Matt LeMay buys second hand suits and makes them look good

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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 20/03/2026

It's nice when you meet people from the internet

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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 17/03/2026

@toni.bsky.team Hi Toni, apologies for the direct approach but I'm sort of out of options. I raised a bug *15 months ago* that prevents me from unfollowing people. It's quite a fundamental feature of bsky to choose who you follow - but I can't. The bug was acknowledged but nothing has been done.

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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 15/03/2026

Picking up a side project I have been building on-and-off for 12 years. Looking at the commit history, it's always this time of year when I decide to delve into it again. I even appear to have made the *exact* same commit almost precisely 3 years apart. Definitely going to finish it this time eh?

A screenshot of git commits. On the 17th of March 2023 I committed "Update IP". On the 15th March 2026 I committed "update Ip"

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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 10/03/2026

I was once laughed at by a bar lady in a 'rock bar' in Brussels for requesting smashing pumpkins Mayonnaise because "it is too soft", yet here it was in this morning's Peloton session bar lady so who's laughing now? (It is still her).

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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 14/02/2026

Have you ever been threatened by a pudding menu?

A large cleaver is fixed permanently into a board with the word "Puddings" on it. The cleaver face is a menu with items written on it, including "banoffee".

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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 29/01/2026

Science mountain, painted church, wooden bums, cosmic pig

Mauna Kea observatory above the clouds, mad telescopes on a mountain

A small wooden church, ceiling painted in muted tropical colours with a faux vaulted ceiling above the altar. Painted in 1899 with lead paint and never needed a touch-up

Suns out bums out, at the place of refuge

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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 13/01/2026

Tops off bbqs out it's happening

A purple crocus emerges from some soggy grass, indicating summer is just days away

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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 13/01/2026

One of my favourite gigs from last year was watching a local duo dressed as sweetcorn playing bangers with a recorder and a lot of vocal loops. They've got various tour dates this year, you should go and see them. mermaidchunky.bandcamp.com/album/slif-s...

A very pinkly lit room with a group of people in a circle around 2 giant sweetcorns playing bangers

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