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Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@fras.xyz
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Amateur Photographer, IT Consultant, Web developer. UK based. #155,550

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Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @fras.xyz · 14/08/2026
Tonight, somebody bought me a pint of Jeremy Clarkson's lager. It was cold and tasteless. So, quite reminiscent of the man himself.
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Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @fras.xyz · 06/04/2026
I'm late to the party, I know, but, Project Hail Mary in IMAX, one of the best movies I've seen in a long time. Probably since Oppenheimer in the same IMAX.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Another proud day for America.
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Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @fras.xyz · 15/12/2025
Screengrab reading"

George Clooney is an actor.

Put him in the role of a surgeon in front of a camera, and he will do and say things the average non-surgeon viewer will agree are surgeonish. After an hour of that, we are, as average non-surgeon viewers, satisfied and entertained. 

Put him in an operating theatre, and the patient will fucking die because he's not a surgeon and knows nothing about really doing surgery. 

This is a post about LLMs.
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Sir Ted Trumpet @sirtedtrumpet.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
TANKER WANKERS
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Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @fras.xyz · 11/12/2025
Note to self: Don't make breadcrumbs in the airfryer. #AirFryer #Fail
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Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @fras.xyz · 10/12/2025
Nerdy news of the day: I've just realized that I can see the top of the Bovingdon hold from my window. #AVGeek #Aviation #LHR #EGLL
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Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @fras.xyz · 08/12/2025
"Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars, LOTR, or Marvel."
Still from the movie "2002 A Space Odyssey showing planets/moons in alignment, plus "the monolith" visible only through its reflection of the planet below
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Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @fras.xyz · 08/12/2025
Number two daughter pissed with @Amazon today. Ordered some hair dye yesterday for delivery before 1pm. I buzzed the driver in at 9:30am and they promptly "delivered" it to a random resident in the buliding lobby. It's still MIA.
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Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @fras.xyz · 06/11/2025
Beautiful sky over the High Street
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Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @fras.xyz · 06/11/2025
Beautiful sky over the High Street
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
They said I shouldn’t do it. They said there was no point. But I’ve done it. I’ve proved them wrong. I’ve reinvented the wheel and it’s FUCKING AWESOME
Drawing of a sort of hemispherical blob with a face  and lots of little legs.
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Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @fras.xyz · 30/10/2025
Autumn's last stand #RicohGRiiiX #Snapseed
Autumnal tree limbs, the leaves glowing in their last bloom of colour before fallling
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Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @fras.xyz · 25/10/2025
A Shot in the Park #Nothing2a+ #BlueHour #RedFilter #Snapseed
Backlit tree during blue hour with heavy red filtration in post
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Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @fras.xyz · 22/10/2025
This justifies EV ownership for me. Two wind generators, plus batteries. Off grid, half the price of on grid charging stations. #forEVer #Fuuse #CheckleyWood
Wind generator silhouetted against a cloudy sky.
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Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @fras.xyz · 14/10/2025
This is doing my head in. #AlphabetTime
A clock face but with the numbers sorted alphabetically
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Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @fras.xyz · 13/10/2025
Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you'll never watch again, and one song you can't stand. Winter Melon (it's a Chinese thing) Star Wars (though technically, I've never seen it) Anything by Coldplay
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Nik Butler -- Next stop DragonMeet London Excel Centre @awittyremark.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Thanks to AI there are not even more people on the internet today who are wrong. xkcd.com/386/
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Duty Calls
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Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @fras.xyz · 08/10/2025
theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art
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A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal
This is a comic about AI art.
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Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @fras.xyz · 07/10/2025
Effing Tesla driver. Parking in a charging bay, no intention of charging (he's the wrong way round) even though there are plenty of parking spaces. Plus, when he left, he turned right against a "no right turn" sign. Are Teslas the new BMWs? #tesla #BadDriving
Image of a Tesla EV using a charging stand as a parking space.
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SirSteven @steven.eurosky.social · 08/09/2025
tech CEOs take turns praising Trump to his face www.wsj.com/politics/tru... a truly abject sight
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Tech CEOs Take Turns Praising Trump at White House Dinner
Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai and Sam Altman saluted the president’s leadership on innovation at an event that underscored the industry’s desire for his favor.
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Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @fras.xyz · 19/08/2025
Glencoe, back in character. #Glencoe #Scotland #RicohGRiiiX
A rugged hillside is silhouetted in front of the sun trying to shine through ominous clouds
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Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @fras.xyz · 18/08/2025
Handy for the beach. #Arisaig #Scotland #JeepAvenger #ev #Sand #RicohGRiiiX
A view from a white sandy beach at Arisaig, looking up at a Jeep Avenger silhouetted against an assure sky with light wispy clouds
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Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @fras.xyz · 17/08/2025
So far we've visited signal rock view point, with no view, Hagrids Hut with no hut and entered the forbidden forest without a problem. Glencoe is not all as it seems. #Glencoe #Scotland #HarryPotter #FilmLocations
Sign pointing to Hagrids Hut (but no longer there)Sign pointing to signal rock viewpoint pointing out that that's isn't a view.
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Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @fras.xyz · 17/08/2025
Glencoe Sunset. I walked up the hill a little bit too catch the last of the sunset before the midges caught me. #Glencoe #Conifers #RicohGRiiiX #Sunset
Conifers silhouetted against the setting sunConifers silhouetted against the setting sun
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Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @fras.xyz · 17/08/2025
Chaffinch. #Chaffinch #RicohGRiiiX #GRWorld #RemoteTrigger #Glencoe #Scotland
Close up of a male Chaffinch eating crunchy crumbs
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Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @fras.xyz · 16/08/2025
More shots from Glencoe. #RicohGRiiiX #Glencoe #Scotland
Monochrome shit of a lone tree in GlencoeA great in a dry stone wall in GlencoeMountains and blue skies in Glencoe with a slightly retro colour balance
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Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @fras.xyz · 16/08/2025
The neighbours joined me on the veranda for breakfast. #RicohGRiiiX #Chaffinch #Bird #Glencoe #Clachaig
A chaffinch eyes the camera suspiciously from a wooden rail.
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Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @fras.xyz · 16/08/2025
Glencoe sunshine. There was a time when I would have interpreted "Glencoe sunshine" as a euphemism for rain. Not today. #Glencoe #Sunshine #Rays #RicohGRiiiX
Morning sunshine streams over the mountains in Glencoe.
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Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @fras.xyz · 04/08/2025
I lived in China for over 15 years, so using a VPN was an inconvenient fact of life. I didn't expect to be dusting off that tool again, less than a year after returning to the UK.
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Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @fras.xyz · 01/08/2025
FFS Google. Using AI to categorize movies now? #GoogleTV #AI #Slop
Image of a TV screen where the movie "How to Train Your Dragon" has been labelled as "A new martial arts movie"
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Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @fras.xyz · 30/07/2025
UK home products store "the Range" has it's Halloween displays set up already. #unbelievable
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Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @fras.xyz · 25/07/2025
Some peace after a hectic week. #Parody #EleanorMorton youtu.be/R0t_OGli0jg...
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Scottish Tour Guided Meditation For Inner Peace With Craig
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Richard Hall @richardhall.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
A blog post about my tinkering with a #RaspberryPi Zero. Written with tongue in cheek, so it's not to be taken entirely seriously. (It's all true, though!) revrichard.github.io/2025/07/15/d...
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DeckZero-Alpha: The Journey to a Portable Command-Line Companion
hesitantly blogging while learning in the terminal
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 16/07/2025
It's hilarious that they genuinely don't seem to understand the difference between "the entire body of scientific research into quantum physics" and "what I've kind of passively absorbed through pop culture over the past twenty years"
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Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @fras.xyz · 11/07/2025
Family outing. #NothingPhone2a+ #Snapseed #Caldicotte #Swans #Monochrome
Mono shot of a calm lake on a hot summer's day. Small clouds are reflected in the surface and a family of swans approaches.
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That weird guy with the beautiful dog @lucky-ears.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
The new Arriva service is here. #photography #Rhosonsea #Cymru #NorthWales #RicohGR #GRist #Tractionengine #ArrivaBuses
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Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @fras.xyz · 23/06/2025
After the Pub Crawl. We may need to have some coffee to aid our recovery. How better to find a coffee shop than Cafe Moi. glenelg.io/cafemoi #Just4Fun #Coffee
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Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @fras.xyz · 20/06/2025
I made a thing. Based on a site I read about in Tom Scott's newsletter this week, I decided to build on that code and create the UK Pub Crawler. You can try it here at glenelg.io/pubcrawl The original Steak Bake Spider, for finding branches of Greggs is here. alastairrae.github.io/steakbakespi...
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Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @fras.xyz · 18/06/2025
On the train.
Panorama, in monochrome, of an almost empty train.
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Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @fras.xyz · 11/06/2025
The more I think about Apple's #WWDC keynote, the more I think that Craig Federighi's part was totally AI generated. Prove me wrong #Apple #WWDC #AI #GenAI #UncannyValley
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Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @fras.xyz · 11/06/2025
N|XT #RicohGRiiiX #CMK #Snapseed
High contrast mono shot inside MK shopping centre.
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Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @fras.xyz · 11/06/2025
Casting shade. #RicohGRiiiX #CMK
Hi contrast mono shot of pillars and shadows
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Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @fras.xyz · 11/06/2025
Think Different. #CMK #Chairs #Monochrome #Snapseed #Lightroom #RicohGRiiiX
A row of deck chairs by a pool in Central Milton Keynes shopping centre. One chair is at 90⁰ too the rest.
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Amyville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
shorter WWDC: we added a transparent gradient! please clap
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Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @fras.xyz · 10/06/2025
A few weeks ago @openvibe.social added persistence, so it always starts up where you left off in the timelines. This is great, but it really needs to have a cut off point or a switch. If I don't open the app for a few days, I really don't want to scroll all the way through multiple days of posts.
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Daytripper @daytripper72.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
First time I’ve felt like painting since the election. #bloomscrolling #watercolor
Watercolor painting of 3 rudbeckia
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Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @fras.xyz · 05/06/2025
My new favourite livestream www.youtube.com/live/03P6cS2...
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Watch as thousands of puffins come to the Farne Islands to nest and raise their chicks this spring and summer. The best time to view is morning, before the birds go off to feed, and evening before they settle down for the night. And check out our second live camera at https://youtube.com/live/DAUaAs0xjyY. The National Trust has been caring for the Farne Islands for 100 years this year, and during that time bird numbers have soared, making it one of the best places to see seabirds in the UK. Puffins nest in underground burrows and typically rear one puffling chick each year. Live footage is streamed from this camera close to the puffins' nesting-burrows, off the coast of Northumberland (UK) round the clock. If you want to follow this stream every day tuntil the end of the nesting season, bookmark this URL https://camstreamer.com/embed/CCgQWqbz2xTft7lr03FlntHQ3V6svrTOMvPw9ybc There's a second livestream at https://camstreamer.com/redirect/IqKv8XEbpjjTJXqa5PG4gBDyICrNAbOVI5F9AHjc While we monitor the birds closely, we have a non-intervention policy and cannot enter the colony once nesting has begun. Please note, due to the remote location, breaks in the streaming service due to power failure may occur. If you want to visit the Farne Islands in person, the best way to do this is by joining one of the boat trips from Seahouses harbour. Tour boats leave the harbour each day whenever weather permits. We protect and care for places so people and nature can thrive. Everyone can get involved, everyone can make a difference. Nature, beauty, history. For everyone, for ever. You can donate to us at https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/support-us/appeals/farne-islands-appeal Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com@nationaltrustcharity/subscribe Find things to do near you: https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/search?type=event Follow the National Trust Podcast on Apple, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts https://podfollow.com/national-trust-podcast Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nationaltrust Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nationaltrust Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@nationaltrust Follow us on Threads: https://www.threads.net/@nationaltrust
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Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @fras.xyz · 02/06/2025
Taking advantage of new freedoms to have a swift pint. Those who know, know. Apologies to those who I could have mentioned it to, it was a very last minute decision. #Chill #Decompressing
Hard monochrome image of a pint of beer.
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Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @fras.xyz · 23/05/2025
Today's recycling warehouse fire in Rushden, Northamptonshire, clearly visible from Milton Keynes, around 30kms away. #Rushden #Fire #MiltonKeynes #RicohGRiiiX
View over Campbell Park in Milton Keynes. The light pyramid is visible, as is the plume of smoke from a warehouse fire in Rushden, approximately 30km away.
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