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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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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 · 19/11/2025

Fair enough, I interpreted your post to imply that it was Cloudflare's AI usage that led to the crash when it was an, all too human, bad 'WHERE' clause (and who hasn't done that, allbeit not on production with such catastrophic results). :-)

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Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @fras.xyz · 19/11/2025

Struggling to associate this outage, with AI. Unless you're linking it to the fact that most large bot nets may be AI driven. And this module was for BOT mitigation. As I read it, a SQL error returned too much data per query resulting in all instances of the app using that data crashing.

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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 · 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 · 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 · 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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Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @fras.xyz · 09/09/2025

Meh, I don't really agree with you. Obviously, I do use my Subscriptions feed, but I also find a lot of good material from outside that bubble surfaced on the Home feed. Stuff I don't like, I flag to YouTube and the channel is never seen again.

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Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @fras.xyz · 08/09/2025

Wow, an easy reckoner on which companies to boycott.

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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 sun

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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 · 30/07/2025

UK home products store "the Range" has it's Halloween displays set up already. #unbelievable

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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 · 26/06/2025

And then they announce that Jodie Whittaker is to be the new Bond. :-)

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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 · 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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