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fraggle @fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 5h

[Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor] Okay the guy ought to be in jail I know, but it's at least slightly amusing to me that every BBC article about him now always seems to include that in unflattering photo of him in the car looking completely deranged

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fraggle @fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

I realized today that the reason my MacBook's webcam lens is always smeared is because the industrial design encourages the user to put their finger on it every time they open the lid. Another piece of amazing design from Apple's genius designers

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fraggle @fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

can't believe that ice cube won a nobel prize

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fraggle @fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

I can't even keep track of the names of these themed months any more. It's "Orctober"? What the fuck does that even mean

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fraggle @fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

"Why do Swiss Army knives have a hook attachment?" youtu.be/PVEZl-32iTE

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fraggle @fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

TIL vim has built-in encryption. If you type :X it prompts you for a passphrase and after saving the file it will be stored in encrypted form. When you reopen the file in vim it detects the encrypted format and prompts you for the passphrase to decrypt, so it's completely transparent. It uses […]

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fraggle @fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

i heard they made a digger movie, is tom cruise the nobbin or the hobbin

Screenshot of 1983 DOS game Digger. Left is an empty high score table. Right shows the in game objects:

[Monster] nobbin
[Monster] hobbin
[Player] Digger
Gold
Emerald
[Cherry] Bonus

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fraggle @fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

If SI stands for "super intelligence" maybe I should start abbreviating my name

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fraggle @fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

This one weird trick to replace your SRE team with packets of coconut-flavoured puffed corn snacks

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fraggle @fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

So I guess instead of "the model is so powerful it escaped containment" it looks like the new trope is "release of new model cancelled because it's too dangerous to release"

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Eric G. @ericg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

I was about eight years old. A friend of my father's showed me his work. I don't remember the name of the company. At his desk were dozens of reels of paper tape wound on spools. Some contained only a few inches of tape, others contained more. He ran a short reel through a reader. The reader […]

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

british airways chatbot, british airways email, and british airways SMS: one always tells the truth, one always lies, and one

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fraggle @fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

‘Love and respect’ or ‘a cash grab’? The furious battle over the final album by the Fall www.theguardian.com/music/2026/sep/…

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fraggle @fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

"It's not just another AI chatbot" - advertising for every new AI chatbot

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fraggle @fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Hollywood are full steam ahead making their stupid "Hunt for Gollum" movie but all we really want to see is a chill soap opera set in the Shire, just hobbits going about their daily lives with occasional bits of romance and scandal

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fraggle @fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

News reporting on Canada potentially becoming an "associate member" of the EU and I'm just bothered that they'll have to make the venn diagram even more complicated commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sup…

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File:Supranational European Bodies-en.png - Wikimedia Commons

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fraggle @fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Wonder who came up with the genius idea of making an ATM where you have to insert the card sideways and how that meeting went

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William Pietri @williampietri.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

I really hope "may not realize" is one of them.

Screenshot of news headline from HuffPost: 6 Common Phrases You May Not Realize Are Condescending

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Title:
Who is Haunting The Library of Forbidden Tomes?

Image: five panels showing characters in a gothic library

22% - tormented souls, frozen between life and death (a ghost reading a book)
4% - dank, fetid horrors from the icy depths below (a black slug like creature with a single eyestalk reading a book)
15% - cold, lifeless bones possessed by a corrupt sorcery (a skeleton reading a book)
11% - frigid and malevolent ectoplasmic vapours (a shapeless apparition reading a book)
48% - regular readers happy to away from the heatwave
(A mother, small child and toddler in buggy, all reading books)

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fraggle @fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

I hate to say it, but iTerm2 might be a better terminal emulator app than any of the options that are available on Linux. The thing even does in-place upgrades without you losing your open tabs

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fraggle @fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

who named it casu marzu and not mag & cheese

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fraggle @fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

And so Billie Joe Armstrong enters his annual month-long hibernation, as has now been decades long tradition. One month from now he will wake from his sleep and if he sees his shadow, winter will be six weeks longer

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

Wow. "AI adoption raises homework scores by 18% and reduces completion time by 30%, but lowers monthly exam scores by 20% within six months. High-stakes entrance-exam scores fall by 18 and 24%, with the full penalty emerging only after about two years. " […]

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fraggle @fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

Andy "Burn 'em" becomes prime minister and within weeks the country is burned to a crisp, satellite maps showing it looking like a literal desert, houses on fire and people fleeing their burning homes. Who wrote this shit because it seems like the JK Rowling school of lazy character naming

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fraggle @fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

Github really pushing the limits of "how unusable can we make our product and have people continue to use it?"

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Bodil @bodil.lol · 13/08/2026

Good morning and happy Bindependence Day! If you're eligible to vote in the Clacton by-election, please make your vote COUNT today!

Count Binface, rampant, in front of the Palace of Westminster.

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fraggle @fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

who let the owls out? who? who? who?

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mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) @atax1a.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

`git blame`, or as they say in france, `g'accuse`

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fraggle @fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

Some people are aware that Sandy Petersen has this week been endorsing a cryptocurrency scam. Petersen is one of the original level authors for Doom II. As a Doom fan it's really disappointing to see

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fraggle @fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

Spent the weekend just watching and rewatching Jazz Emu videos. They're all amazing youtu.be/6l92DCikvpI

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fraggle @fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

"Fake 9/11 footage" is the new low we're at now on the AI slop front: www.reddit.com/r/isthisAI/comments/…

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fraggle @fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

`git commit --signoff` is just "simon says" for copyright law

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fraggle @fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

Amused that laptop shipping box not only includes a warning that there's a battery inside but also a warning that there's a coin cell battery inside, in case anyone gets tempted to disassemble the laptop and eat the BIOS battery

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fraggle @fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

best part of ms comic chat being open sourced is the illustration screenshot for the wikipedia article now had its quality restored (they reverted the stupid "destroy image quality" bot) so now I can impress people again by telling them I'm in the screenshot

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