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Hollytron

@hollytron.bsky.social
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BSc Public Health with background in graphic design. Interested in science, popular and unpopular culture.

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Hollytron @hollytron.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I miss when UI/UX design was in its fun era.
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Hollytron @hollytron.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Thank you for your dedication to this very important research 🙏
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Hollytron @hollytron.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
This would be amazing on a t-shirt? Just saying.
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Eugene Alvin Villar @seav4f.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Because today is the June #solstice, here is my 2020 animated map of this solstice’s day-night cycle rendered using the Cahill–Concialdi map projection, which is my most favorite. Grab the file here: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ca...
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Alex Elizabeth Byrne McMillan @undeniablyalex.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK
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Monster Girl Ellie 🐍 🎄 @noelle.monster · 14/05/2026
Short version: yes, buttons are getting worse. Long version: by and large, apps and programs and websites these days are effectively dumb terminals -- when you click a button they do no processing on their own, and instead send the data to a central server, which sends a response back. (1/4)
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Irish News 🇮🇪 @news-flows-ir.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Rare fish with links to doomsday lore returned to sea after washing up in Co Clare Group of Brazilian friends found 2.5m oarfish on Fanore beach on Tuesday
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Rare fish with links to doomsday lore returned to sea after washing up in Co Clare
Group of Brazilian friends found 2.5m oarfish on Fanore beach on Tuesday
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Hollytron @hollytron.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Oh I’ve had to cut back, I’m down to the occasional social sconce.
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Hollytron @hollytron.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
“I wonder what the comments section will be like for this one” it did not disappoint
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Hollytron @hollytron.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Happy birthday, from someone who also spent an entire precious school holiday playing downloaded NES ROMs on an emulator. I recall Where’s Wally got a lot of play time, as did one involving penguins and with an 8bit rendition of the skaters waltz. No regrets 🥂
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Hollytron @hollytron.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
And The lad who beat the previous record but not the 2h mark is the… (checks Wikipedia) …Michael Collins of marathon runners.
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Gerry McDied 10 years ago, on a night just like this @gerrymcbride.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
You’d be sick if you were the second lad. The Buzz Aldrin of marathon runners.
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Aidan Fitzmaurice @fancyvegaspro.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
The great snookering has begun, happy snooker day to all who celebrate
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
me knew that
a piece of luggage behind a sign that reads "It Luggage"
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Rachel W. Martin @rwmartin.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Cite the deep magic to me, witch. I was there when it was written and I think it’s important to credit our sources.
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Tim Feinstein @timnfeinstein.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
May Teh be appeased by this humble offrig
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Francisco González @grundislav.games · 16/03/2026
Rosewater seems to have a slight exposure problem. Great reviews, discounted 25%, and yet sales have been minimal. If you’ve played it and enjoyed it, please help spread the word! store.steampowered.com/app/1226670/...
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Save 25% on Rosewater on Steam
A thrilling Western adventure in the alternate 19th century world of Lamplight City! Embark on a harrowing journey across the frontier with Harley Leger and her ragtag posse, encountering bandits, reb...
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Hollytron @hollytron.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
I feel like it was used as a catchall term for non-violent, low pressure games, but As soon as the marketers got a hold of the term it became useless as a descriptor.
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Hollytron @hollytron.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
This would explain so much about the Cork Butter Museum
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Goblin Mode Kobolde Style Bugbear Gestalt Hobgoblin Whole Deal Githyanki Modus Operandi Mindflayer Epistemologye Ogre Magus Grande Scheme of Thinges
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
We didn't bastardise the English language into "ye", "yiz", "youse" and "yousins" to have Irish people unconnected to the US or other places it's used in saying "y'all", unless you're referring to the town in Cork we've PERFECTLY ADEQUATE second person plural pronouns at HOME
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 24/02/2026
Plums xkcd.com/3209/
Comic. [Person is sitting at a desk with a laptop, turned toward voice coming from off-panel.] VOICE FROM OFF-PANEL: I got you the ingredients for dinner tonight. Oh, and the plums in the fridge drawer are for my yogurt tomorrow; you should just leave them. Be back later! PERSON’S THOUGHT BUBBLE: Oh no. [caption] Help. It actually happened. I shouldn’t. But how can I not!?
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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
This is basically my villain origin story. "How old are you?" (unique responses)
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James Batchelor @jamesbatchelor.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Me in every RPG ever
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internet bird @shoebill.moe · 23/02/2026
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Hollytron @hollytron.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Years ago there was a mobile provider advert that mocked a girl for posting “OMG Broccolis!!” on social media and I think a lot about how wrong they were.
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Chris Smith @levin86.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
This is one of those things that makes me so angry about this stuff. We are at an amazing level of technological progress and we can’t even actually appreciate because almost everything they claim it can do is a lie even though what it can do is amazing.
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DcTurner @dcturner.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Cory Doctorow explains how (I'm paraphrasing) "The internet became 5 giant websites filled with pictures of the other 4" How Enshittification Conquered the 21st Century, and How We Can Overthrow It www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ai-...
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Cory Doctorow at CF 25: How Enshittification Conquered the 21st Century and How We Can Overthrow It
YouTube video by CloudFest
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Kelly Turnbull @coelasquid.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑
Frustrated little dude gripping a pencil saying “how do I pack this down into something I can actually share?” While swirling rainbows labeled “INFINITE POTENTIAL” float around them.

Little dude frowns at a tiny grey box, exclaiming “all that work for THIS?!”

Little dude shoves the grey box into another little guy’s hands; Frowning, stomping off, and saying “Here you go, I made this, it sucks.”

Second little dude cracks open the box, swirling rainbows project out onto their face.

Second little dude stares in awe at all the swirling rainbows now floating around them.
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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 05/08/2025
Everyone knows that "Preferences" should be found under Edit (because you edit them), under Tools (because they control the parameters of your tools), under General (because they are categorically broad), & under File (because a preference is a 'filing off' from a marble block of possibility)
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Growing older is realizing everything he said was right
Calvin's dad from Calvin and Hobbes
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No Escape from the Tyranny of Virtue 🏴🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @noescapevg.com · 06/07/2025
Y'all I literally just use Wordpress dot org and pay 15 bucks a month to host the fucker at Bluehost, been doing that for six years running now and it's been fine. you don't need to use substack
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Hollytron @hollytron.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
A) spot on analysis, absolutely correct B) my dog has a “must visit” patch of grass where she found half a beef burger one time 3 months ago, why are dogs like this 😂
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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
I have done the small task I was avoiding since April It took under 10 minutes Why are brains like this
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Emmet Ó Briain @emmet.quiddity.ie · 06/06/2025
Thank you to reddit poster N1ghthood for articulating so succinctly the case against replacing skilled workers with LLMs: "Currently, the only way to reliably use LLMs is to know the answer to the question before you ask it." (which sort of undermines the entire business case)
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Hollytron @hollytron.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Oh hey look, it’s statista is being bad at epidemiology again
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a close up of a pikachu with its mouth open
Alt: a close up of a pikachu with its mouth open
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Hollytron @hollytron.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Telling on themselves that they’re not asking, you know, Ghibli to be part of the team up 😒
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Ale @alepresser.com · 31/03/2025
"to democratize art is not every person having a cute drawing made in seconds, to democratize art is every person having time and health to learn and make art if they chose to, and mainly to have the means to think and relate introspectively with art."
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Hollytron @hollytron.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
I signed up and did precisely one 😄 but that’s a good shout, especially coming into the summer months! Now to find my Barcodes…..
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Hollytron @hollytron.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
15k is amazing!! I’m due to finish my bash at second couch to 5k in April, and mentally sidling up to the idea of a 10k… so nice to know there’s some hope 😂😂
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Hollytron @hollytron.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Mr.Kumar657 raises a very valid point 👏👏
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Hollytron @hollytron.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Thank you Blindboy, finding out someone shares my feelings about “gotta get thru this” has honestly made my week.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
You want to see an octopus riding a shark. 🎥: University of Auckland www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/s...
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Jane Eyre Jane Watir Jane Erthe Jane Fyre Long ago, the four Janes lived togethir yn harmonye... Until the Fyre Janes attackid.
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Hollytron @hollytron.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
pivot-to-ai.com/2024/12/07/a... might be a case of this?
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A polite disagreement bot ring is flooding Bluesky — reply guy as a (dis)service
On the Bluesky social network, you may notice a lot of drive-by responses from accounts that rarely or never post — they just reply to other accounts. The reply pattern starts with a phrase like “I…
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Hollytron @hollytron.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
No no, it’s the one with DOTS instead of lines that will do the trick!
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Elyse Willems @elysewillems.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Missed opportunity to call it the "Switcheroo"and retroactively rebrand the original the "'Ol Switch(eroo)." #Switch2
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