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Graham Cox @grahamcox82.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So, am I able to send our petrol expenses to Trump yet? I've just been to the shop, and petrol was £1.799 per litre. That's USD 10.83 per gallon! The last time I filled up it was £1.569, and the time before that it was £1.40-something.. So that's gone up about 35p (about 20%) in the last 2 months!

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Graham Cox @grahamcox82.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Personal opinion, but I feel that "Power Ballads" should engineer l encompass both Power and Ballad. Magic Radio, it seems, has a different opinion on the matter...

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Graham Cox @grahamcox82.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

So, it turns out that a fundamental part of the security model for Passkeys is just incompatible with using most OIDC Auth providers. Passkeys are domain locked. That is, a passkey created from domain A can *not* be used to authenticate on domain B. That's what makes them phishing resistant.

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Graham Cox @grahamcox82.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I feel like the government controlling which news outlets are allowed to publish which news stories is a step on the way to something, but I can't quite put my finger on it...

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Graham Cox @grahamcox82.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'm doing it again... Passkey support in Clerk doesn't work very well. I've managed to get my app to support adding a passkey to your account - it's a bit of an awkward API but it works - but then logging in won't use it for some reason! So I've gone back to considering building my own CIAM...

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Graham Cox @grahamcox82.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Question for screenreader users. How much additional context for the screenreader is good vs too much? For example, I've got this screen. (Screenshot with alt text to describe it) Does the button saying "Remove passkey" being in the same list entry as the passkey name give enough context?

Screenshot of an area of a web page. It has the title "Passkeys" followed by the text "Sign in with your device's fingerprint, face or PIN. Your device does the checking, so nothing extra is needed here.".

Below this are two list entries - "MacBook Touch ID" and "Android Phone", each with a button to the side labelled "Remove passkey".

Below this is a form for adding a new passkey, with an input box labelled "Add another passkey" and a button labelled "Add".

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Graham Cox @grahamcox82.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It's still too warm to close the windows. But it's also now so wet that the insects don't want to be outside. Which is the worst possible combination...

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Graham Cox @grahamcox82.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

How is it, after all these years, I've only just realised that Grand Nagus Zek is the same actor as Vizzini?

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Graham Cox @grahamcox82.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Apologies in advance if we have another sudden heat wave, but I've just put the Aircon and big fans away...

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Graham Cox @grahamcox82.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I'm finally doing it. This book scares me a bit, but I've been excited to read it for a few years now...

The book "Gardens of the Moon", book one of "The Malazan Book of the Fallen" by Steven Erikson.

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Graham Cox @grahamcox82.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

So, Trump is really leaning into posting memes of himself as Green Lantern. I'm curious if DC are going to sue for copyright infringement? Or if they're endorsing his use of their IP?

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Graham Cox @grahamcox82.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I, for one, think the new world map should have had the artic in the center and Antarctica around the outside. (Or vice versa) Purely to see the flat earthers try to continue arguing that the world governments are keeping the ice wall a secret...

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Graham Cox @grahamcox82.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Whenever people say there's no way to be a good billionaire, this is what's meant. Dolly Parton could easily have been a billionaire. But instead she chose to use the money to benefit everyone around her. She deliberately put effort into spending the money on others instead of hoarding it...

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Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social · 26/08/2026

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Graham Cox @grahamcox82.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Well, what do you know The Daily Mail are reporting as headline news that the wildfires in the UK are caused by "rewilding eco-dogma" caused by Labours environmental policies. Not by, you know, climate change or anything like that...

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Graham Cox @grahamcox82.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

@ AndyBurnham. Can we please make this weather illegal? Thank you for your consideration...

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Graham Cox @grahamcox82.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

We've just had our garden renovated. Today we're getting our new patio set delivered. Today is windy and raining. For the first time in weeks...

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Graham Cox @grahamcox82.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

There was a time I actually enjoyed the challenge of getting various tools working together... I've just been playing. Typescript 7 is out now. Eslint doesn't support it, and actually can't until at least TS7.1 in October because they removed the programmatic interface. ☹️

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Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 30/07/2026

AI company Anthropic secretly bought millions of rare and out-of-print books to train its Claude AI model. They used a hydraulic-powered cutting machine to remove the pages for scanning before destruction.

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Graham Cox @grahamcox82.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I've been tinkering for a while with building a webapp for PbP RPG games. So many of them these days just use Discord (which is awful) or sites that feel 20 years old. And there's just been a thread on Reddit where someone else has built one and almost all the replies are how nobody needs it... ☹️

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Graham Cox @grahamcox82.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Excerpt from "Yumi and the Nightmare Painter" by Brandon Sanderson, for no particular reason at all... (Good book btw. Well recommended)

He nodded. "You're wrong about one thing though," he said back softly. "You said the machine would replace you. It can't."

"But-"

"It can summon spirits," he said. "But it can't create art. Art is about intent, Yumi. A rainbow isn't art, beautiful though it might be. Art is about creation. Human creation. A machine can lift way more than Tojin can - doesn't make it less impressive when he lifts more than almost any human being."

He smiled at her. "I don't care how well a machine piles rocks. The fact that you do it is what matters to me."

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Graham Cox @grahamcox82.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Just seen one of those quizzes "Tell Us What Games You Played On The Family Computer, And We’ll Guess Your Age". Question 1 - in which decade did your family first get a computer. And it only went back to the 90s... Guess I'm just old...

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Graham Cox @grahamcox82.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The Daily Mail are inadvertently making Andy Burnham sound even better as they've run a front page headline about how he "plans to roll back Thatcherism"...

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Graham Cox @grahamcox82.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

All I'm going to say is that bad news often comes in threes. And the death of Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell are both very bad news for MAGA...

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Graham Cox @grahamcox82.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Today has been a very long month...

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Graham Cox @grahamcox82.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I'm getting dangerously close to just giving up and writing my own CIAM service. Which is a very bad idea. I know full well that it's a bad idea. And yet, every single existing service (seemingly) without fail is awful. Most of them are just broken, missing important features, or too expensive.

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Graham Cox @grahamcox82.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Maybe it's just me, but DS9 Episode 1 looks a lot more dated than most of TNG did, even though it's actually newer than most of it...

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Graham Cox @grahamcox82.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Since actual air conditioners seem to be rarer than unicorn poop, does anyone have any recommendations for air coolers that will actually work in the UK #heatwaves? I know they work by evaporation so the more humid it is the less efficient they are, so not sure if any are any good...

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Graham Cox @grahamcox82.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

So, apparently both Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage are already criticising Andy Burnham, which - in my mind - means he's doing something right...

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Graham Cox @grahamcox82.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I'm very nearly at the end of my #ßtarTrek #TNG watch-through (I'm on S7 E23 right now). Do I go straight on to #DS9? Or watch something else first? Not sure which way to go...

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Graham Cox @grahamcox82.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

What's the temperature again? #Heatwave (This was outside in the sun for about an hour)

Thermometer showing a temperature of 47.9⁰C and a humidity of 21%.

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Graham Cox @grahamcox82.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

There's a clip on YouTube of Farage asking "What do you want?". Someone really needs to edit that into Babylon 5 in place of Morden asking the exact same question when trying to recruit followers of the Shadows...

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Okay, UKsters, the media is useless re: extreme heat, so let’s do this. I’m from Southern California, spent the last ten years living outside Seattle, which has a similar climate to Scotland, where I am now. Here’s what I know. 1. Heat exhaustion and sickness are no fucking joke. Do not tempt them.

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Graham Cox @grahamcox82.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Is anyone else having problems with exceptionally large moths this year? Or is it just us?*shudders*

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Graham Cox @grahamcox82.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

It's 2026. I got a brand new 11"tablet recently. Last year I got myself a Bluetooth controller that works with Android. I've just spent the last hour or so getting Quake 3 Arena running on it. Turns out I'm not as good as I was 25 years ago!

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 16/06/2026

I know you lot aren’t the ones who need to hear this, but: all a ban does is make the banned thing less safe, ever. Kids are gonna keep going online and now they are going to meet a predator who’s going to be able to threaten them with “you’ll get in trouble if you tell anyone”

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Graham Cox @grahamcox82.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Let me guess. This proposed ban on under 16s using social media is going to mean the social networks need to prove your age in order to let you use them. Which will mean they need to do that whole thing of sending your ID to the lowest bidder to prove who you are... This country sucks sometimes... ☹️

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Isobel_Starling @isobelstarling.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The Authors Guild are in partnership with an AI Licensing company. They're trying to funnel members to this company in the guise of 'earning more' from their books. But even if an author is paid for a 3 year licence, their books are in the meat grinder for good. There's no way to extract titles.

createdbyhumans.ai

Created by Humans Partners with The Authors Guild

We're excited to partner with The Authors Guild to help authors control and monetize their content.

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Graham Cox @grahamcox82.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Anyone who openly proclaims that Russia is not an enemy of Britain is, quite clearly, an enemy of Britain themselves. And almost certainly a Russian asset as well.

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Graham Cox @grahamcox82.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Looks like our local far right council are starting down the book banning line. I'm surprised it took them this long, but they did have a lot of important work to do making sure that only the right flags were on display... 😡😡 leamington.nub.news/news/local-n...

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Finch promises ‘comprehensive policy’ for libraries after ‘contested gender ideology’ concerns raised

Cllr George Finch vows to create a 'comprehensive policy' for Warwickshire libraries to ensure neutrality and safeguard children, addressing residents' concerns

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Graham Cox @grahamcox82.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

So, according to the daily mail, the BBC is accused of bias because Desert Island Discs won't have Farage on because "his presence makes staff feel unsafe". But no accusations of bias when they disproportionately give Reform more airtime than they fairly deserve given the number of MPs they have...

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Graham Cox @grahamcox82.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

My starting routine on #StardewValley is pretty much always the same. I spend my starting money on parsnips and plant 40 of them. Then use the money from that to buy other crops. I often lose 1 to crows, but it's not unusual to not lose any. This game I lost 3! ☹️

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

💥 70,000 signatures! 💥 ...and the petition closes on June 8th. Imagine if we can get it over 100,000 before then - and open a Parliamentary debate in time for the 10th anniversary of the Brexit vote on June 23rd 2026. That'd be powerful. All hands to the pump! Sign and share, share, share! 👇

petition.parliament.uk

Petition: Apply to Rejoin the EU as soon as possible to increase growth in the UK

We believe Brexit's not working. The OBR judges that the UK economy is smaller and trade is weaker because of Brexit, and it will just get worse. 10 years after the Brexit vote, let's apply to rejoin ...

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