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James Hannett @hannett.dev · 09/08/2026

Looking at Lego sets I had as a child on eBay. What level of mid life crisis is this?

James Hannett @hannett.dev · 27/07/2026

Phenomenal work. Just a really incredible amount of effort and skill to collate and then cleanly visualise something so complicated!

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James Hannett @hannett.dev · 27/07/2026

I don’t believe them. I’ve reported adverts on Instagram for removing the light from these things and they just don’t care

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James Hannett @hannett.dev · 09/07/2026

No matter what else happens this will almost certainly be the first election in which Count Binface gets his deposit back

Screenshot of Wikipedia page showing that Count Binface has received less than 5% of the vote each time

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James Hannett @hannett.dev · 02/07/2026

Crazy that fusion has gone from perpetually 20 years away to next year* but no one really cares because it will be more expensive than just some solar panels and a battery cfs.energy/technology/s... * yes, I’ll believe it when I see it too

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SPARC: Proving commercial fusion energy is possible | Commonwealth Fusion Systems

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James Hannett @hannett.dev · 29/03/2026

I got an advert on Instagram the other day for a service that removes the recording indictor from the Meta glasses so I reported it and they just got back to me to say they’re not going to do anything about it 🙃

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Jack Orchard @jarona7.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Just 2 days to go before 'Videogame Preservation: Practices and Approaches: An Online Symposium'! www.digitalscholarship.ox.ac.uk/event/videog...

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Videogame Preservation: Practices and Approaches, an Online Symposium

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James Hannett @hannett.dev · 05/03/2026

This has been sorted now. Another victory for whining on social media!

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James Hannett @hannett.dev · 02/03/2026

Logged in to my @octopus.energy account tonight to a very unpleasant surprise. This is the latest salvo in a billing dispute that’s been going on since October. I’m complaining on social media because after this I’ll have no recourse except to complain to Ofgem.

Screenshot of the Octopus Energy app showing an account balance of -£2725.89

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Kat @kaffarin.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Made a slightly ugly but very tasty birthday cake for my darling @hannett.dev 💕💕🥳

A carrot cake that has been iced untidily with butter cream and “40” candles

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James Hannett @hannett.dev · 07/12/2025

Just saw an advert for AWS on Channel 4. Dot-com bubble vibes complete. RIP pensions.

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Kat @kaffarin.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Tired: the Nintendo switch calculator Wired: the Austin Powers shagulator from the gbc game ‘Austin Powers: Oh, Behave!’

It’s a calculator but it says “shagulator” on it and there’s a silhouette of Austin powers dancing

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James Hannett @hannett.dev · 13/11/2025

This is incredible, especially those synth stabs that make it sound like someone’s watching Terminator in the other room.

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James Hannett @hannett.dev · 24/10/2025

I think this might be a sign that we are lol

Advert on the Financial Times asking if we’re in a bubble

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Kat @kaffarin.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Went to the replica bayeux tapestry today @readingmuseum.bsky.social and found the sections from my jumper 😌 🧶

In the background is the replica of the bayeux tapestry, I’m standing in front of it wearing a jumper with the same design on it looking really excited

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James Hannett @hannett.dev · 05/09/2025

My job this morning was to click a button 380 times because all the automation options were somehow more annoying

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James Hannett @hannett.dev · 23/08/2025

Why have they wojak’d him?

Photo of a kindle showing the author photo for Cixin Liu. The photo has been stretched so he has a short face and a wide head

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Kat @kaffarin.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

🧶 bayeux tapestry jumper is finished, blocked and sewn up! Please don’t ask me about weaving in ends I don’t want to talk about that right now. Probably my favourite thing I’ve ever knitted ever #showmeyourknits #knitsky #knitting

Beige jumper on a white background, the front panel shows harold holding a spear under an archway (scenes from bayeux tapestry)

Beige jumper on a white background, the focus is a sleeve with an image of a tower and halleys comet overhead in blue, gold and red

Beige jumper on a white background, a tree motif on a sleeve in blue, gold and red

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James Hannett @hannett.dev · 15/08/2025

Had to check activations too because I’m so old and decrepit now that my actual first purchases don’t show up there

Screenshot of my purchases on steam showing I bought RoboBlitz first, then Garry’s Mod, Psychonauts, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines and most recently The Deus Ex Collection

Screenshot of my license activations showing that the actual first thing I bought via Steam was Half-Life 2 Gold followed by Rag Doll Kung Fu (first 3rd party game available on Steam, inexplicably), Darwinia, Red Orchestra, Sin Episode 1, HL2: Episode 1, Defcon and then it catches up with my purchases at RoboBlitz

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci! ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.

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James Hannett @hannett.dev · 21/07/2025

People ascribing thoughts and motivation to the output of LLMs is like a cat puffing up at a reflection of itself in the mirror

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James Hannett @hannett.dev · 21/07/2025

Don’t do me like this, Journal app.

Push notification from the Journal app on my phone suggesting I might like to write a diary entry for “Eating at Burger King”

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Thew @amazingthew.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

god this fucking rules. perhaps the most a dude has ever rocked. world's most canadian man invented halo 3 in 1989

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James Hannett @hannett.dev · 11/07/2025

Going to make a prediction that within 5 years it will be possible to get a mobile phone plan that doesn’t include a telephone number from the major providers and within 10 years not having a phone number at all will be quite common.

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Matthewせいじ @matthewseiji.com · 24/06/2025

Fortunato (coughing): You’re certain the Criterion Closet is down here Montresor (picking up a trowel): Definitely. Have you thought about your picks yet

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James Hannett @hannett.dev · 18/04/2025

They may be gloating now but they have a sickness in their hearts that makes them miserable. Trans joy is inevitable 🏳️‍⚧️

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James Hannett @hannett.dev · 28/03/2025

The only reason Shopify wants this is to see what I’m buying from other companies. Bad taste. I just wanted order updates.

Screenshot of a permissions dialog showing that the app ‘Shop’ wants permission to read the contents of emails sent to my Gmail account

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nina matsumoto 🌸 @spacecoyote.com · 26/03/2025

Diorama-rama at Simpsons Trivia never disappoints!

Simpsons Trivia night at the Anza Club in Vancouver

Homer's power plant model from "Homer's Enemy"

One of two dioramas of "Stop The Planet Of The Apes, I Want To Get Off"

A model of Hitler's Car from "Bart Carny" but it's a Cybertruck

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James Hannett @hannett.dev · 09/03/2025

Fixed up my old penknife today. Cleaned it, oiled it, sharpened it and replaced some missing springs and bits. It’s over 25 years old now.

Penknife, oil and tools laid out ready for work.

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Nicky 2 @nickyflowers.com · 01/02/2025

in like 2015 i made this edit of James Twinpeaks because i like to disrespect him. i just saw it on tumblr in a new post. stupidly happy it's still going around

James Twinpeaks but i content aware scaled his head up real tall

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James Hannett @hannett.dev · 02/01/2025

Just made my first GDPR request to get some debt recovery firm that won’t stop emailing me to delete my records from their systems. I don’t have any debts to repay!

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Kat @kaffarin.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Death stranding 2 looks cool

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James Hannett @hannett.dev · 21/12/2024

Beyond thrilled to have my achievements officially recognised

Screenshot of one of my posts showing a ‘nepo baby’ moderation label applied. The label says ‘Blue Link (parent)’

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James Hannett @hannett.dev · 16/12/2024

US Government: please do not shoot hard drives with a gun to erase the data on them

Excerpt from NIST 800-88 advising that attempting to use a firearm to purge data from a storage device may not be successful

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James Hannett @hannett.dev · 04/12/2024

@parents.blue can I be on your list even if I’m a nobody (ie no wikipedia page myself)?

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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 29/11/2024

a website that reviews video games with just one criteria: if the handwritten notes in the game are actually handwritten (five stars), or if they use a handwriting font (one star)

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Birds Are Dinosaurs @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Dune has the same plot as the Westminster Dog Show: After generations of careful breeding, we have produced this perfect little freak of nature and now it has behavioral issues

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

oooooh, this looks real interesting. love to see a thing allowing normal people to accomplish a task previously too technical and arcane! www.graze.social

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Graze.social - Curate Your Bluesky Feeds

Design, deploy, and grow feeds of any complexity on Bluesky with Graze.social.

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James Hannett @hannett.dev · 27/11/2024

I wonder if firefighters get annoyed by the colloquial usage of ‘firefighting’. IIRC most of their job is preventative rather than crisis response #JiscSec

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James Hannett @hannett.dev · 25/11/2024

I really like being able to subscribe to a hashtag on Mastodon so I’m trying to recreate some of them here on BlueSky but it’s much clunkier. Here’s one for Oxford related posts bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

With a new Nosferatu on the horizon, here's a flashback to when I visited Orava Castle in Slovakia for work and recreated shots from the Murnau film on the sly...

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James Hannett @hannett.dev · 25/11/2024

On my way to #JiscSec. Trains are not having a good day!

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Kat @kaffarin.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Oxford is cute in the snow

The Sheldonian theatre with some snow on the roof, the statue heads around it also have little snow piles on them

A fence in front of a graveyard with snow on the ground

A wooden planter, the plants are covered in snow

The Christmas tree outside the Clarendon building in Oxford, it has snow on it

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