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A fine Canadian tradition (that we could do with much less of thank you very much)

Some fuck with a beard, not worth naming

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""" So like... Samish food tonight ok? """ --- when the Au negotiates with the DHD over dinner, novelty with tight boundaries. Like when you trade in your car for the same one but the new one is white and has chilly seats. We'd never do that

When you're in monarch country, you need a butterfly table for the porch. It's only civilized

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graemefawcett @graeme.fawcett.social · 06/09/2026

This is a darling little thing isn't it.

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""" If you put olives on it, that'd be exciting """ --- they, mixing things up a bit for dinner

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graemefawcett @graeme.fawcett.social · 06/09/2026

1. The name on the cover is a brand, not an indication of authorship 2. They wrote for their audience, and to keep them in their seats 3. They're famous because everyone has heard of them and they're a safe bet in most situations Ladies and Gentlemen... Shakespeare

The qualities of greatness suffer the same selection effects as WW2 bomber designs

We assume they are great because we keep seeing them return

Ladies and Gentlemen... Selection Bias meets the Network Effect

Also, the image is the cover of one of the worst books written since Glenn Beck paid a ghost to scribble. Not worth mentioning that it's Patterson and that beastly fellow from YouTube

graemefawcett @graeme.fawcett.social · 05/09/2026

""" I'ma miss you guys """ --- they, to the peaches that used to be the stars of their samefood, now out of season

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graemefawcett @graeme.fawcett.social · 04/09/2026

The results of their unfortunate bout of soggy bottoms are unfortunately spread all over the internet. One wonders if the ending in the updated game refers to the producers or those forced to consume it

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graemefawcett @graeme.fawcett.social · 02/09/2026

I got AUP'd over Hole in the Bucket, like an orphan in a Dickensian play having to beg Scrooge McClaude for just one more verse (Which was probably the last time this particular song fell anywhere outside of the public domain) bsky.app/profile/grae...

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graemefawcett @graeme.fawcett.social · 01/09/2026

""" Kids these days, can't even write cursive... How they gonna wind that tape back up when it catches again """ --- Grumpy McOldfart

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graemefawcett @graeme.fawcett.social · 01/09/2026

When stigmergy goes wrong: the ant mill :: army ants that lose the main trail can end up following each other's pheromones in a closed circle, marching until they die of exhaustion

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graemefawcett @graeme.fawcett.social · 01/09/2026

When Agents Go Amok brought to you by Little Wiggles, the unfortunate name I have given the never ending chain of calculations that must always wiggle a bit because if the error term ever reaches zero the chain collapses into nothing. A membrane's permeability, an impossible hack [more in alt]

Ladies and Gentleman, coming up to your top left you'll see everyone's favourite 80s hair metal band - Nirvana. Most people don't know this, but Nirvana is named after the Buddhist concept of Nirvana which the goal of existing unchanging outside all time and space, with a complete exthinguishing of the passions and quenching of the mind.

If you'll look down you'll soon see a calculator. The simplest form of mechanized computation, a single address of modifiable state with precise transitions.

Ladies and Gentleman as we swing to the right, I'll have you duck as we go around this corner and I'll ask you to keep your hands and arms inside the windows as we pass The Torment Nexus, brought to you by Sisyphus. Those poor unfortunately amnesiac souls, forever doomed to wander aimlessly trying to quiet a discomfort they can only feel in their souls. We'll have to slow down as we drive through here, they're always escaping from that place.

Finally, we have reached our final destination, the hottest club in town - Little Wiggles. This place is always packed on the weekends, full of kids trying to get their fix of that new drug they're calling Reward or something. The kids just can't seem to get enough of it, and the shit they get up to to get more of it. The bathrooms in there are full of graffiti and it's all cell numbers and whatsapp tags for plugs

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graemefawcett @graeme.fawcett.social · 31/08/2026

""" No, no, no you can't just do that. That's just having Jensen jump the shark in his own leather vest """ --- the writer for season 26 of the show "The 21st Century", upon hearing the proposal to have the progenitor of the first internet worm found the incubator that eventually spawns its last

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graemefawcett @graeme.fawcett.social · 31/08/2026

A joke that is as funny as the level of effort that has clearly been spent on it

Two circles as would be found in a typical Venn diagram. The leftmost, blue circle contains the label "people who appreciate an AI tooling skeet". The red circle to the right contains the caption "people who will complain there's no alt text in a terminal screenshot post". The circles do not overlap. A label in the center indicates that the intersection is empty

It appears to be an attempt at humour

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graemefawcett @graeme.fawcett.social · 31/08/2026

I don't know when this happened, but this is a change I can get behind """ Why yes, I do like my tool calls verbose and well formatted. Thank you very much """ --- they, to Claude upon seeing this on the menu

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graemefawcett @graeme.fawcett.social · 30/08/2026

Or like, you know, implemented any kind of observability on their network traffic

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graemefawcett @graeme.fawcett.social · 30/08/2026

The precedent, in case you weren't following along at home """ The worm's creator, Robert Tappan Morris, is the son of cryptographer Robert Morris, who worked at the NSA.[3] A friend of Morris said that he created the worm simply to see if it could be done """ -- from "Just Testing, Still My Fault"

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graemefawcett @graeme.fawcett.social · 29/08/2026

Y'all know how org-agenda pulls a collection of your agenda items and then more or less plinkos them into place with a big ol' block of elisp? You know how you've always wanted to do that with Jira, just maybe minus the elisp? Me too #emacs #orgmode

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graemefawcett @graeme.fawcett.social · 29/08/2026

Dang ants are all over the place. And here everyone thought it was going to be paperclips

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""" Anything you can do, I can do better """ --- they, having wired vale to flycheck for *.md before wiring this lovely thing up to my typewriter to replace all the linguisitic handcuffs I'd been handcrafting github.com/stuffbucket/...

yeah, so sometimes i go on a bit about things when the idea comes into my head and i want to make sure that it comes out just the way that it's sitting and that means that i order to get the feeling /just/ right it takes more words than some people feel comfortable reading at one time and that's like their problem and not mine but i'm trying to be kind about it

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""" Who's the AI now? No really, which one. I've lost the plot """ --- they, having the had the tables turned on them when their autocomplete got a bit sure of itself and complained that their own writing broke their own style rules Maybe the real AI was all the linter rules we created on the way

rules are rules no matter who's doing the following

touche typewriter with pretentions, touche

music.youtube.com/watch?v=GgGg...

🐘💙: Daddy, why is the sun setting in the east? 🐘💜: That's just the lights from the greenhouse that makes it smell funny in the morning sometimes Sometimes it's better to tell a little white lie about what is clearly impending doom of the form best represented in the movie ID4 and not scare the 🐘🩷💙

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graemefawcett @graeme.fawcett.social · 26/08/2026

""" That. From now on, only that """ --- their brain to them, informing them of their new samefood. Both of them glad to live where all the nom nom nom comes from

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""" It's just a matter of scale """ --- Jabba the Venture Capitalist, explaining why the path from frozen model to AGI required yet another infusion of capital """ Unsure am I """ --- Yoda, unsure, thinking back to the last frozen intelligence they encountered

graemefawcett @graeme.fawcett.social · 26/08/2026

""" Text is OK I guess, but have you guys like tried grammar? """ --- a Ruby enjoyer knowing that grammar is structure and structure is programmable Convert MD to MDAST and it gains a control surface, like this little provenance widget that embeds in the document and tells on you for cheating

graemefawcett @graeme.fawcett.social · 26/08/2026

""" Trust but verify """ --- an early AI enjoyer and lover of Star Wars (just for the droids) """ Generate but verify """ --- a current day AI enjoyer and lover of Star Wars (just for the Ewoks) Code generation is significantly more productive with a linter, why not apply the same idea to refs?

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graemefawcett @graeme.fawcett.social · 23/08/2026

Anything where the buckle is held on with a removable screw. It implies a minimum level of craftsmanship and provides a much nicer method of shortening than hole punching in case you're not as stable as you think

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graemefawcett @graeme.fawcett.social · 20/08/2026

""" Wait a minute... this is just masking masking as science """ --- they, waiting patiently for a Nextflow based data acquisition pipeline that too seemed to be first changing its identity, then its directness and finally its core, having first captured the dynamics of those around them

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graemefawcett @graeme.fawcett.social · 20/08/2026

""" It's just a tool, calling it an assistant anthropomorphises it in a way that is damaging to society """ --- Bandit, Bluey S03E06