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The thing is I don't think executing people behind closed doors is actually significantly less barbaric than executing them in public

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☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 08/10/2026

the first photo out of my camera didn't even turn out terrible

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☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 08/10/2026

If you don't know the series and you like grown-up books with a bit of magic you should definitely check out Ninth House

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☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 08/10/2026

Finished Dead Beat by Leigh Bardugo yesterday. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This book rips. With a third book in a series you never know, but Dead Beat has everything you could want. Magic. Mystery. Grief. Intrigue. Politics. Romance. DEMONS. If you've read Ninth House and Hell Bent, this part 3 will not disappoint! 📚💙

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Software engineering could and should be done with the same care as any other type of engineering. This is a post in honor of Margaret Hamilton (and also a subtweet of all vibe-coders everywhere).

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"“I fought to bring the software legitimacy so that it — and those building it — would be given its due respect, and thus I began to use the term ‘software engineering’ to distinguish it from hardware and other kinds of engineering, yet treat each type of engineering as part of the overall systems engineering process,” Hamilton told El Pais in 2018. “When I first started using this phrase, it was considered to be quite amusing. It was an ongoing joke for a long time. They liked to kid me about my radical ideas. Software eventually and necessarily gained the same respect as any other discipline.”"

Source: https://news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 07/10/2026

brought my first roll of film to the lab, lab had run out of chemicals smh

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Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darrencullen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends towards Jeremy Clarkson spending decades denying global warming only to sink his fortune into a farm just as global warming really starts to kick in

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☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 06/10/2026

Got two lenses, only used one so far

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☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 06/10/2026

advance warning - I recently bought a photo camera so I'm at risk of becoming insufferable in a new and interesting way

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☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 04/10/2026

The music would be all wrong

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☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 03/10/2026

How does this thing look so much like a rhino 📍Hvítserkur, Iceland, 10/8/2026

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☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 02/10/2026

Well it's unusual for them to have a fact to discuss

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☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 02/10/2026

aaaaand they delivered it at a different parcel point that closes at 5 rather than 6

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☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 02/10/2026

Das sind die Sankt-Georgs-Pfadfinder auf dem Weg zum Besuch beim Bürgermeister

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☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 02/10/2026

don't they know that I need my coffee

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☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 02/10/2026

DHL are really making a meal of this delivery The distance from the sender to the destination parcel locker is about 8.4 km as the crow flies

Screenshot from the DHL website showing the history of a parcel, processed at the sorting centre on 28 Sept, delivery postponed three times, "arrived in your region" three times (what does this even mean) "out for delivery" twice

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

theguardian.com

Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender

The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals

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Dominic Stucki @dominicstucki.ch · 01/10/2026

Man kann da von ennet der Grenze wirklich nur noch kopfschüttelnd zuschauen.

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☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 01/10/2026

I will never understand how the British can be so opposed to one of the best, most visible parts of EU membership (open, hassle-free internal borders)

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Karl-Franz @karlfranz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

CAT or BIRD???? 😁

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 30/09/2026

GOAT OR BIRD????

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Simon Phipps @meshed.cloud · 30/09/2026

Google now has satellite imagery confirming that Rafah has indeed been intentionally demolished. maps.app.goo.gl/nRVDu8LNUMh6nV3M8

google.com

Google Maps

Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps.

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☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 28/09/2026

Maybe the first time I've managed a boat one #travle_challenge #139 +0 ✅✅✅✅🟩✅ travle.earth/challenge

travle.earth

travle_challenge

Travle Challenge: Weekly bonus Travle challenges

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☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 25/09/2026

I don't think I ever had an interview where I wasn't offered coffee right away...

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Velvety @velvety.northsky.social · 18/09/2026

Me when I invite my friends to go on a bike ride (ran as fast as I could to my pc to make this image when I saw the thumbnail align like this)

A heavily cropped comedic image from the thumbnail of Ed Zitron's interview with ABC News Live on the 18th of September 2026. The upper half of the image is a close-up of Ed's grin, and the bottom half of the image is a crop from the broadcast headline "IS A.I. ALARMISM PART OF A TECH HYPE CYCLE?", but only the word "CYCLE?" is shown.

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☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 18/09/2026

congratulations to Damira Dental Oxford Brookes (formerly Studental) for getting a new IT system that sends reminder emails

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☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 18/09/2026

I just got a reminder email to book my next regular dental check-up ... from a dentist I haven't been to in 11 and 8 months

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☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 18/09/2026

who could have predicted that letting computers perform randomly generated actions unsupervised could turn out to be hard to insure www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/20...

theregister.com

AI risks make some insurers wary of corporate liability

RAND wants better data to price machine-made mishaps, apocalypse not included

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☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 17/09/2026

Absolute geniuses in the crowd at the Longest Johns show in Amsterdam

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☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 17/09/2026

We could tell from you being on bluesky

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☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 17/09/2026

The three-year-old is now deeply in debt. This is considered a valuable and character-building life lesson. The child is destined to go far, whether their chosen path is finance, communism, or homelessness.

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☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 17/09/2026

Starting looking through my holiday photos yesterday, and this was one of the first ones to stand out to me. Dyrhólaey, south coast of Iceland, 5 Aug 26.

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☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 16/09/2026

The proof of the cat is in the posting #proofofcat

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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Scotland: We want to leave the UK BBC: Huh? Wales: We want to leave the UK BBC: What? Northern Ireland: We want to leave the UK BBC: Lolz Some shithole in Oxfordshire: We want to leave the UK because racism BBC: REPORT THE HELL OUT OF THIS #Piddington

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☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 15/09/2026

Items from 1989, 1998, 2003, 2011, 2014, 2017, 2020, 2023, 2026, and 2029

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☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 15/09/2026

finished the cup without even thinking about the fact that it was decaf. It was good

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☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 15/09/2026

what do you mean windows explorer can't sort

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☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 15/09/2026

It's a nice cup. Interesting fruity flavours, undoubtedly coffee. There's just a faint aspect of the flavour that I can't put my finger on

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☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 15/09/2026

Aeropress working hard

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☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 15/09/2026

bought a bag light roast specialty decaf from a local roaster, so it should be fun

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☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 15/09/2026

First time trying decaf, wish me luck

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☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 15/09/2026

Wenn die „KI“ wirklich so revolutionär wäre, wie sie sagen, müssten sie nicht die ganze Zeit darüber reden, wie mächtig und gefährlich sie sei... bsky.app/profile/tant...

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☆ thomas @freezombie.net · 14/09/2026

brb adding stuff to my bookwyrm To Read list

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