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gluefactorybound.bsky.social @gluefactorybound.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

No, because the information is public. Being able to pay for faster access isn’t insider trading, it’s an uneven playing field.

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gluefactorybound.bsky.social @gluefactorybound.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

For me this has a slightly magical feel to it. It’s not an image I’d usually make. I’m short white magic. It accidentally captured something I like about the Dales, the slight off kilter nature of it all.

Dales way, raining and it looks like snow on the photo. Track down to road. Barns and dry stone walls on hill behind. Dry stone wall to left of track.

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gluefactorybound.bsky.social @gluefactorybound.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Evergreen plantations are common in small areas in parts of the Dales. Everything underneath them is normally dead, and they don’t create much in the way of good habitat. Productive for generating wood though. Image is not good but heading in a direction I like. Needed more living trees at the top.

Evergreen forestry. Dead trees. New seedlings. Chopped down trees.

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gluefactorybound.bsky.social @gluefactorybound.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

The Dales is an artificial landscape that results from mass deforestation and widespread livestock farming. I like the explicit evidence of that. It’d have been more impactful closer.

Morning. Dales landscape. Fields and trees. Dark ridge in background. Agricultural burning on left, smoke drifts to the right

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gluefactorybound.bsky.social @gluefactorybound.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

tbf not really I guess. I do love a pigeon hole though :)

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gluefactorybound.bsky.social @gluefactorybound.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

I like the light, I like the receding lines, I like that the countryside is separated from the viewer by a window. I like the built railway which pushes through the landscape. I think the colours work. However, this isn't the Dales and it's very similar to other things I'd do.

Photograph from a train window of a yellow field of cut down crops. Dark skies, converging lines or railway, train carriage lights reflected in window. power cables. Rain in distance,

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gluefactorybound.bsky.social @gluefactorybound.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

This doesn't work. It's cliched. The lights ok. It doesn't say anything I want to say. Maybe because I don't know what I want to say.

Cam Gill Road in the Yorkshire Dales. Pale light. Tarmac road through fields. Wire fence on left. A few trees. Nothing else.

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gluefactorybound.bsky.social @gluefactorybound.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

This I did not know. Research mode enabled. This will be better than bad DIY mode.

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gluefactorybound.bsky.social @gluefactorybound.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Agree, not the only factor. Failing economy predated brexit. Brexit is another side effect. Wedge issues seem much more powerful when people are already angry. Perhaps. So far abortion rights have stood up, perhaps due to uk lack of strong catholic and evangelical base. UK not a nice place right now

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gluefactorybound.bsky.social @gluefactorybound.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

I always thought that over time liberal thinking wins. Now I realise that’s only the case when people feel they are doing better than others. As soon as the economy doesn’t deliver people revert to some shitty mean. (In both senses of that word).

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gluefactorybound.bsky.social @gluefactorybound.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

I've got value out of it producing javascript for front ends. I spent about 8 days building a .NET C# app with Razor Pages and a C# backend. The front end work was ok. The back end was poor. Over complicated, often incorrect, and integration (e.g. to Shopify) was a disaster.

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gluefactorybound.bsky.social @gluefactorybound.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

It does seem quite good as a "intelligent" grep.

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gluefactorybound.bsky.social @gluefactorybound.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

I had some decent success getting it to write unit tests for existing code or to perform basic refactoring. That begin said, it made a mess of converting C# verbatim strings to raw strings.

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gluefactorybound.bsky.social @gluefactorybound.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

I had some success using it for ansible, particularly when I've already established a working pattern, but even then it took 30 minutes to get it to provide a well structured role to add a new directory structure to an nginx config.

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gluefactorybound.bsky.social @gluefactorybound.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

If you’ve not read it then you might like www.theguardian.com/books/2023/o... maybe of interest. It’s on topic anyway. It has a fair few issues (as noted by numerous online commentaries) and it may not be right, but it presents a thought provoking view of the arguments in the area.

theguardian.com

Determined: Life Without Free Will by Robert Sapolsky review – the hard science of decisions

The behavioural scientist engagingly lays out the reasons why our every action is predetermined – and why we shouldn’t despair about it

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