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James Bannan @jamesbannan.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

You just KNOW he’d be into wellness if he was alive today

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eepy august [0x08] 🏳️‍⚧️🇲🇰 @august.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

a sentence will always look like poetry if you hit enter a lot

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Which chapter of your IPO filing deals with your plan to compensate conscious AGI for its labour? Yeah, thought so.

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James Bannan @jamesbannan.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

I wonder if that includes migrants too?

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James Bannan @jamesbannan.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

“Why is the cost of living so high?” New email: “Steam Autumn Sale!” “Oh”

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Tim Richards @timrichards.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Melburnians - there's a TramTRACKER update in the App Store which fixes the current non-loading problem with the app. You just need to update it. #Melbourne #tram #trams

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James Bannan @jamesbannan.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Have discovered an excellent use for AI. I recently needed to submit 70+ nearly identical support tickets. AI handled the entire process flawlessly, giving me the time and space to sob at my lot in life.

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James Bannan @jamesbannan.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

"We hope you will accept this modicum of AI-generated flattery in exchange for your time, attention and personal data"

A screenshot from LinkedIn, which is an AI-generated “invitation” to play a daily puzzle game

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Pope Innocent III,who died in 1216, spoke of a certain kind of older man, who is "easily provoked", "will believe anything and question nothing", is "stingy and greedy" and "praises the good old days and hates the present." Reform UK's voter base has been knocking around for a very long time.

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James Bannan @jamesbannan.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Showed this to a colleague. His comment was “F**k late stage capitalism”

Still not quite over the fact that I watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slip because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don’t exist now that they’re inconvenient for them

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James Bannan @jamesbannan.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Looks like Myer has 15% of a load of Lego

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James Bannan @jamesbannan.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Finally deleted Duolingo. Feels slightly bittersweet

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James Bannan @jamesbannan.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

Whenever I see a video of those wonderful cliff divers of Acapulco, for some reason I’m reminded of my super balance

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James Bannan @jamesbannan.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

OK - these are the specs of the PC I'm giving away. Pickup would be preferred, but we can try work something out. Boosts for reach most welcome

# System Details Report
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## Report details
- **Date generated:** 2026-09-18 12:31:23

## Hardware Information:
- **Hardware Model:** Dell Inc. OptiPlex 9010 AIO
- **Memory:** 8.0 GiB
- **Processor:** Intel® Core™ i5-3450S × 4
- **Graphics:** Intel® HD Graphics 2500 (IVB GT1)
- **Disk Capacity:** 3.0 TB

## Software Information:
- **Firmware Version:** A25
- **OS Name:** Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS
- **OS Build:** (null)
- **OS Type:** 64-bit
- **GNOME Version:** 50
- **Windowing System:** Wayland
- **Kernel Version:** Linux 7.0.0-31-generic

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James Bannan @jamesbannan.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

I'm in the process of backing it up, wiping it and installing Linux, but I will have a Dell AOI to give away for anyone who'd like to have it. Will post the specs later today.

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James Bannan @jamesbannan.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

Edge of Tomorrow. Still a fun film that holds up well

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James Bannan @jamesbannan.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Am really enjoying The Day of the Jackal (1973 version). A proper European manhunt in a pre-digital/surveillance age. Plenty of harassed-looking men chain smoking. Great stuff.

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James Bannan @jamesbannan.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Random question, but has anyone here ever bought and installed an IKEA kitchen? If so, I have many, many questions....

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James Bannan @jamesbannan.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

So, I'm quite irritated by 1Password's leadership going all neo-con, fascist-but-don't-call-us-fascist. It's been one of the few software platforms that I've been happily using for years, and it's going to utterly suck to try and extricate myself. Still not sure what I'm going to replace it with.

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All Europeans 🇪🇺 @ueeu.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

RE: reseauculture.fr/@MuseeOrsay/117236… The Musée d'Orsay is now on the Fediverse! It's the second most-visited museum in France after the Louvre. We're glad to see many French cultural institutions arriving here! 🇫🇷 😀 Their account is on an instance set up for French […]

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James Bannan @jamesbannan.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

I had a session submission accepted for a conference in Singapore overnight. Unfortunately, it now clashes with an evening I booked with my daughter to go on a ghost tour and attend a seance hosted by a comedian at the state library. Sorry Singapore, maybe next time

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Tim Richards @timrichards.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Now free for all to read... I visited Dunedin's famously over-the-top railway station, opened in 1906 as an extraordinary Edwardian statement of confidence in the importance and future of New Zealand's railways: #NewZealand #train #trains #architecture #history […]

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James Bannan @jamesbannan.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

I have been rather enjoying using the `australian-history` MCP server from Little Bear Apps: mcpmarket.com/server/australian-his… . Coupled with my own Trove API key, it's been really useful for searching across multiple repositories of Australian historical archives - great for […]

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The Far Side Bot @farside-bot.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

#thefarside #farside #comic www.thefarside.com/2026/08/25/4 Suddenly, a heated exchange took place between the king and the moat contractor.

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James Bannan @jamesbannan.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

Does anyone here subscribe to any good web comics? I have a bunch that I read regularly, but always on the lookout for more recommendations

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James Bannan @jamesbannan.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

And THIS is why local LLMs are important.....

Error message reading "Claude is temporarily unavailable"

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James Bannan @jamesbannan.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

Firefox seems to be drifting further and further towards being a browser that happily pushes whatever it wants at you.

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James Bannan @jamesbannan.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

Went to see Bell Shakespeare's Mackenzie last night. It wraps up very soon, but if you get the chance, go see it. A great retelling of Macbeth - extremely clever writing and fantastic acting.

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James Bannan @jamesbannan.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

Rewatching the full LotT trilogy as my youngest is super-keen. Reminded me of this analysis of Gandalf which is still one of my favourites www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/3jpks…

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James Bannan @jamesbannan.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

Would anyone like a a Brother MFC-L2703DW multifunction printer? It’s out of toner, but is otherwise perfectly functional. No charge.

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The Far Side Bot @farside-bot.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

#thefarside #farside #comic production-green.thefarside.com/202… “Talk about rubbing it in! Not only did we arrive late, but they deliberately left his organ-donor card.”

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James Bannan @jamesbannan.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

Anyone else’s dog enjoy eating cold crunchy things? Ours loves carrots and celery sticks from the fridge, and she loves crunching little blocks of ice #dogsofmastodon

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