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Fraser @fraser.yt · 15/04/2026

This is, and will remain, the only mog in my vocabulary

Meg and Mog book cover. A cartoon witch flies in a broom with a black and white cat at the rear and a cauldron hanging below. The background is blue and the words Meg and Mog are in big friendly red letters

Fraser @fraser.yt · 20/02/2026

50 years ago: One day, everyone will own a computer Today: We need all the computer components for our spicy plagiarism machine, but we'll sell you limited access, to fund it

Jeff Bezoar claims that in the future, you will not buy a gaming pc.

You will only rent computing power from the cloud to play games online.

He called it inefficient and predicted it won't last, saying people will instead rent computing power from the cloud, much like buying electricity today.

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Fraser @fraser.yt · 29/12/2025

English style banger

Cover art for the Blue Monday 1988 single by New Order

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Fraser @fraser.yt · 27/12/2025

THIS university challange?!

A very 1970's looking university challenge panel from. St Andrews. Despite, presumably all being students, they look like 50 year old geography teachers.

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Fraser @fraser.yt · 12/12/2025

Who could have guessed that Whitburn, of all places, would fall for the lies of the frog faced fascist?

A damp, dreary Whitburn street, up which an orange walk progresses. In the middle of the photo a creepy looking lodge member smiles at the camera

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Fraser @fraser.yt · 07/11/2025

Everyone is rightly disgusted about the Tesla payout news but honestly, he's never seeing that money. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Musk will also be required to bring the company to $400bn in actual earnings for four consecutive quarters. Tesla’s actual earnings for the third quarter of 2025 were $4.2bn, down 9% from the year prior.

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Fraser @fraser.yt · 26/09/2025

The Beta Band's first gig in 20 years blew the roof clean off! Great to have them back

Photo of the beta band on the Barrowlands stage.

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Fraser @fraser.yt · 18/09/2025

Less of a nod to Jackie O, more of a nod to Alfred E

A collage of images showing Alfred E Neuman and Spy vs Spy from Mad magazine. The hats the spies are wearing are identical to that worn by Melania in the preceding photo

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Fraser @fraser.yt · 31/08/2025

Ok, hear me out. A Lord of the Rings remake, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor

Disco Elysium artwork, showing Harry Du Bois and Kim Kitsuragi. Harry is holding a Molotov cocktail

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Fraser @fraser.yt · 13/07/2025

It's almost like terminating all moderation and allowing people to post extremist views on twitter was a bad idea with negative repercussions

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI has issued an apology after its chatbot Grok made a slew of antisemitic and Adolf Hitler-praising comments earlier this week on X.

On Saturday, xAI released a lengthy apology in which it said: “First off, we deeply apologize for the horrific behavior that many experienced.”

The company went on to say: “Our intent for @grok is to provide helpful and truthful responses to users. After careful investigation, we discovered the root cause was an update to a code path upstream of the @grok bot. This is independent of the underlying language model that powers @grok.”

xAI explained that the system update was active for 16 hours and the deprecated code made Grok susceptible to existing X user posts, “including when such posts contained extremist views”.

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Fraser @fraser.yt · 26/06/2025

It's 13 years today since we stayed in a hotel in Crete with this incredible artwork on the wall. I still haven't worked out it's meaning

A painting in 16:9 depicts (from left to right) a dark cabin in the woods, a blue fairy (angel?) floating and overseeing two children. A boy and a girl. The girl has flowers and the boy has a ball. They look happy except that they are staring into a deep abyss. In the background is a yacht. The other side of the ravine continues with more trees

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Fraser @fraser.yt · 21/05/2025

What in the name of Nigel Farage's flag-shagging wet dreams is this jingoistic bollocks which has replaced the, previously politically neutral, EHIC?

A (redacted) Global Health Insurance card, which has replaced the European Health Insurance Card. It is festooned with more union flags than a Gerri Halliwell lookalike contest.

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Fraser @fraser.yt · 18/05/2025

Cutbacks in Police Scotland are getting ridiculous

A blue and white childs BMX emblazoned with the word 'Police'

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Fraser @fraser.yt · 16/05/2025

I know a lot of people can't comprehend paying for a search engine but *gestures in Google's direction* One surprising perk since ditching Google for Kagi, apart from clean, quality, uncluttered search the way Google used to make it is that Kagi Maps also looks really nice!

A screenshot of a clean stylish 3d map of Central Glasgow

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Fraser @fraser.yt · 08/05/2025

Early start, sniffing around Calais at 5am, before getting on the Eurotunnel

A black and white whippet cross struts past a cracked wall. The plaque on the wall proclaimers "PALAIS DE JUSTICE"

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Fraser @fraser.yt · 05/05/2025

Great thread, but...

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Fraser @fraser.yt · 08/04/2025

On 2nd of April the Copernicus satellite captured an (almost) entirely cloud free image of the British isles

A cloud free satellite image of the British isles

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Fraser @fraser.yt · 07/04/2025

Fixed that headline for you @theguardian.com

Screenshot of a headline which reads "Abigail Disney: Every billionaire who can't live on $999m is kind of a sociopath". Some words have been scored out so it reads "...Every billionaire is a sociopath"

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Fraser @fraser.yt · 05/04/2025

They're selling Nine Inch Nails t-shirts in H&M

A scene from the film Withnail and I. A gentleman relaxing on a couch and holding a large joint. A caption reads "They're selling hippie wigs in Woolworths, man"

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Fraser @fraser.yt · 26/03/2025

Welcome back Darth! Roxy has been patiently watching the Skyline, awaiting your return

A black and white whippet-cross stairs intensely at the camera

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Fraser @fraser.yt · 20/03/2025

I'd like to see someone try scraping Facebook's user data to build an AI powered contact and address book, to see how far Metas lawyers would extend that unique interpretation of fair use

Meta and OpenAI have both argued in court that it’s “fair use” to train their generative-AI models on copyrighted work without a license, because LLMs “transform” the original material into new work.

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Fraser @fraser.yt · 19/03/2025

What perfect albums came out when you were 16

Manic Street Preachers - Generation Terrorists

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Fraser @fraser.yt · 22/01/2025

The first page every S25 owner will visit

The uninstall page from the android Gemini app

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Fraser @fraser.yt · 21/01/2025

Incredibly, this is a real thing.

Image series taken from the wikipedia page on Suffrajitsu

Edith Garrud and a volunteer dressed as a policeman demonstrate a number of positions garrud teaches as an instructor

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Fraser @fraser.yt · 15/01/2025

Our street had some visitors this morning 🦌🦌🦌🦌

A wet road with a fence in the background. Against the fence walk four roe deer.

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Fraser @fraser.yt · 22/12/2024

Due to a close encounter with the shears, which went a chunk closer than intended, the beard has now gone, meaning I have to face Christmas with a cold chin. Here it was last week though, in all it's salt and pepper glory

The OP (a bearded, bald middle-aged man) looks at the camera, wearing a green hoodie. His black and white whippet-cross (Roxy) rests her head on his shoulder. Both of them show signs of aging via smatterings of white hair through the black. Behind them is Roxy's rainbow blanket

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Fraser @fraser.yt · 20/12/2024

A few years back there was a Harryhausen exhibition in Edinburgh and it was an inexplicably profound feeling to see all the models close-up from films I had loved as a little kid, 40-odd years earlier

The Talus model, from Jason and the argonauts

The seven headed Hydra model from Jason and the Argonauts

Three of the skeleton warriors from Jason and the Argonauts

The Medusa model, from Clash of the Titans

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Fraser @fraser.yt · 17/12/2024

Some liminal space from yesterday's early morning dog walk

A long-exposure photo of a road, running horizontally across the photo, in the dark. In the background is a forest, in the foreground, a partially silhouetted tree and lamppost. The lights of a passing car are streaked into a line.

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Fraser @fraser.yt · 28/11/2024

Not my favourite place in the world but Edinburgh this time of year already makes me feel Christmassy

Edinburgh Christmas attractions, viewed from Waverley

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Fraser @fraser.yt · 17/11/2024

I have only just now (thanks to @kermodeandmayo.bluesky.social) learned of Nick Cave's script, commissioned by Russell Crowe, for a Gladiator sequel, called "Christ Killer". Good god damn, I would watch this!

Screenshot from a Little White Lies article: "...so he goes to purgatory. There’s this Christ character down on Earth who is gaining popularity and many of the Gods are dying so they send Gladiator back to Earth to kill Christ and all of his followers. I wanted to call it ‘Christ Killer’.”

If Cave’s descent into the mythic Greek underworld sounds a bit too far out, his wild ideas didn’t stop there, with Gladiator 2: Christ Killer culminating in an epic, era-spanning climax. “In the end you find out that the main guy was his son. So he has to kill his son and he’s tricked by the Gods and all this sort of stuff,” teases Cave. “He becomes this eternal warrior and it ends with this twenty minute war sequence that follows all the wars of history, right up to the Vietnam war. It was wild.”

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Fraser @fraser.yt · 08/11/2024

I can't possibly imagine why a random 18 year old film is suddenly trending again

A screenshot from Google TV showing that Idiocracy is included under current bestsellers

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Fraser @fraser.yt · 05/11/2024

Distracting myself from all that America this evening with They Might Be Giants in Glasgow

A brightly coloured stage with a large band (they might be giants) playing in front of a crowd

John and John from they might be giants, on stage playing, respectively electric guitar and accordion.

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Fraser @fraser.yt · 02/11/2024

Live drumming the drums from Flim by Aphex Twin like it's no big deal.

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Fraser @fraser.yt · 21/10/2024

More than that, back when Bluesky was originally conceived, the plan was that what you're describing would eventually happen to Twitter. But that plan was scrapped, because Elon. www.forbes.com/sites/digita...

Parag Agrawal, about to become CEO of Twitter, offered her a job leading a startup called Bluesky, conceived by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey to allow users of the microblogging site to move their accounts, their messages and their followers to competing social networks. The idea was to give users complete control of their online identities. Dorsey, the departing Twitter CEO, promised his social network would be compatible with Bluesky when it was ready.

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Fraser @fraser.yt · 11/10/2024

The Robovan looks like a cross between a 4-berth caravan and the Trans Europe Express, so it had to be done.

A mockup vaguely resembling the Kraftwerk album cover for Trans Europe Express. The illustration of the TEE has been replaces with a render of the Tesla robovan. The album title has been changed to "Transphobic Express"

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Fraser @fraser.yt · 11/10/2024

There are lots of photos of last night's aurora on the timeline. This is mine

A photo of the night sky with the silhouette of some trees on the horizon, to the left. The sky shows some red and green aurora.

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Fraser @fraser.yt · 11/10/2024

"We're going to make this, and it's going to look like that"

A side by side image of the concept illustration of the cybertruck with a 'stylish' tent attachment Vs the reality which looks more like a dumpster on wheels, with a bin bag caught on it

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Fraser @fraser.yt · 08/10/2024

Me, turning up to the weekly Zoom call when my heating is busted like

Photo of a bald eagle wrapped in a towel

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Fraser @fraser.yt · 06/10/2024

Whatever you are up to today, remember that Roxy believes in you.

An extremely cute, black and white sighthound stares directly at the camera. Between her front paws, she has an assortment of chews.

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Fraser @fraser.yt · 01/10/2024

Also, in searching for that picture, I came across this which is something I hadn't thought about in 30+ years

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Fraser @fraser.yt · 01/10/2024

Our first family computer was the entirely offline zx81, but a few years later, we connected to Prestel's Micronet in style, like this, so dad could text chat with his mate who lived 2 doors up, more slowly than if he just walked up the street.

A battered old rubber-keyed ZX Spectrum sitting on top of a Prism vtx 5000 modem

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Fraser @fraser.yt · 27/09/2024

Some days, you just get lucky with timing. Pretty happy with this one!

A brindle sighthound in a green jacket stand on a forest path, facing ahead and looking to the left. The focal point of the path ahead has the golden glow of morning sunlight.

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Fraser @fraser.yt · 12/09/2024

Now we have video, here's a shaky-cam clip of a squirrel burying brambles in my garden

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