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Stephen May @idhrendur.com · 06/09/2026

This is the correct number for Jerry.

Jerry as #13 in the influential bluesky poll.

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Stephen May @idhrendur.com · 06/09/2026

Meh, it pretty much just noticed I'm from the West. I've seen ones that nailed the region.

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Stephen May @idhrendur.com · 03/08/2026

I created a simple and lightweight textual analysis tool: textanalysis.idhrendur.com It looks like this if I put in the text of On Fairy-Stories:

A basic web page with a text area where the essay On Fairy-Stories has been entered. Below it is a button reading Analyze. Below that is the text:
There are 2145 unique words.

The longest sentence is:
It is the mark of a good fairy-story, of the higher or more complete kind, that however wild its events, however fantastic or terrible the adventures, it can give to child or man that hears it, when the “turn” comes, a catch of the breath, a beat and lifting of the heart, near to (or indeed accompanied by) tears, as keen as that given by any form of literary art, and having a peculiar quality.

The shortest sentence is:
On the contrary.

The mean sentence length is 24.374025974025972 words.

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Stephen May @idhrendur.com · 02/08/2026

It turned out to be easy enough: textanalysis.idhrendur.com It looks like this if I put in the text of On Fairy-Stories:

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Stephen May @idhrendur.com · 26/07/2026

I'm not much of a collector, but this makes me happy.

A collection of Tolkien, Lewis, Chesterton, MacDonald, and Williams books.

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Stephen May @idhrendur.com · 26/07/2026

Except charisma is one of my dump stats and, like, his core one.

It claims my most compatible personality is Zohran Mamdani.

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Stephen May @idhrendur.com · 26/07/2026

12axes.vercel.app As with all such things, the questions are a little simplistic to really capture my views, but

A political quiz results claiming my views are 95% 'radical liberalism'

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Stephen May @idhrendur.com · 25/07/2026

If you see this, quote post a pic of you in glasses. This is me leaving work.

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Stephen May @idhrendur.com · 23/07/2026

Gotta love an insomnia night.

A chart of sleep debt over time. It had been progressing downward from five hours to just above two hours, before increasing back to five hours in one day.

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Stephen May @idhrendur.com · 19/07/2026

I'm not made for sports watching.

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Stephen May @idhrendur.com · 19/07/2026

Just watching the world cup game with a Willow flopped and snuggling.

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Stephen May @idhrendur.com · 28/06/2026

Quote with a game you're currently playing.

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Stephen May @idhrendur.com · 25/06/2026

Someone got groomed today.

A white dog sitting in a tub wearing a pink scarf covering her ears tied in a bow atop her head. She is wet and soapy and looks sad about it.

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Stephen May @idhrendur.com · 13/06/2026

Tempted to make my profile pic situation confusing again with a throwback pic.

A childhood photo of Stephen, age six or seven

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Stephen May @idhrendur.com · 11/06/2026

I'm not a baker, and imagining myself as some of these grain aspects hurts my AuDHD brain, but

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Stephen May @idhrendur.com · 10/05/2026

I'm making something and branching out in my skills. But I think I'm in trouble.

A Google search for 'how to center a div'

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Stephen May @idhrendur.com · 01/05/2026

Oh no, what have I done? I don't want to be perceived this much.

A threads post of mine with over 2000 likes.

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Stephen May @idhrendur.com · 19/04/2026

Looking up when Peter and the Wolf was written and getting my regular reminder that life in the Soviet Union was bleak.

"By that time, Sats was serving a sentence in the gulag, where she was sent after her lover, Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky, was shot in June 1937."

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Stephen May @idhrendur.com · 10/04/2026

155 years ago, women dealt with issues we still haven't fixed. And George MacDonald saw what was going on.

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Stephen May @idhrendur.com · 08/04/2026

I'm rereading a little George MacDonald, and I had forgotten how he just works in these bits. This was from 1879, and he knew to push back hard on our traditional narrativez

A page from "The History of Photogen and Nycteris". The following text is highlighted: "No, of course! - you can't be a girl, girls are not afraid - without reason. I understand now: it is because you are not a girl that you are so frightened."

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Stephen May @idhrendur.com · 31/03/2026

Them: ADHD is a superpower. Me: There was a box of oranges on the counter. Where did it go?

A kitchen counter with a cutting board, a jar of wooden spoons, and a bowl full of oranges.

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Stephen May @idhrendur.com · 26/03/2026

Using paper craft to understand and explain some 'bugs' was pretty fun actually.

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Stephen May @idhrendur.com · 02/03/2026

I've made a terrible mistake (I cordially dislike coconut).

A bag of granola, containing coconut as one of the primary flavors.

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Stephen May @idhrendur.com · 13/02/2026

Similarly in this household (two cysts, three teeth).

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Stephen May @idhrendur.com · 01/01/2026

So yeah, I did a fair amount of reading.

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Stephen May @idhrendur.com · 19/11/2025

And while it's not quite the same gap here, note which OS is on top:

2024 Annual C++ Developer Survey "Lite"
Q5 What platforms do you develop for?
Windows desktop is most popular, with over 60% of developers developing for it.

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Stephen May @idhrendur.com · 19/11/2025

Just look at the gap before javascript:

The top 8 programming languages in the TIOBE index:
1. Python - 23.37%
2. C - 9.68%
3. C++ - 8.95%
4. Java - 8.54%
5. C# - 7.65%
6. JavaScript - 3.42%
7. Visual basic - 3.31%
8. Delphi/Object Pascal - 2.06%

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Stephen May @idhrendur.com · 05/11/2025

California's feeling a way, clearly

Voting results for California's prop 50. 65% yes, 35% no with 58% of the votes in.

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Stephen May @idhrendur.com · 14/09/2025

There's a car ad that says how the car is good for visiting California, from Big Sur to the Bay Bridge. And while I'm always happy when people remember that the Central Coast exists, uh

A screenshot from Google Earth showing all of California and with the span from Big Sur to San Francisco marked - just 1/7th of the length of the state along the coast.

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Stephen May @idhrendur.com · 13/09/2025

I did a reading several years ago. Enjoy!

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Stephen May @idhrendur.com · 10/06/2025

Post a ten year old pic of yourself Well, I'm not one for self photos, but there was a bit of a special occasion ten years ago that led to lots of pics of me.

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