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James Laverack @jamesl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

IDK Amazon, is my six year old Mac mini “high-performance?”

Home & Family
Probably has high-performance computer
setup

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James Laverack @jamesl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

At least you can print storage boxes for all your new reels of filament.

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Kybosh @kybosh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I like seeing the dev of the SNES core on the Pocket actually telling one of these dudes off. Holy shit.

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Experimental MSU-1 streami. #123
nasonliu wants to merge 2 commits into a
agg23 commented yesterday
If it works, that's pretty cool; I didn't think
would ever see this implemented (I also didn't
expect LLMs to exist).
However, this is not something you can PR
here, or anywhere. You sent me a nearly 50k
line diff, unasked for, completely LLM built, and
you somehow expect me to review it. There is
SO MUCH unrelated garbage here. Never
minding all of the docs and Python, you've
somehow touched basically all of the upstream
HDL, which already had MSU1 support, so idk
what in the world you're doing.
This kind of behavior is not acceptable. You are
infringing on the time and brainpower of people
by pushing "your" content that little/no of your
brainpower went into; completely unrequested.
I hope for the sake of all responsible
maintainers that you do not do such a thing
again.
Again, I think it's cool that you and your LLM
supposedly got this to work. It has no place in
my world.

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Ellory @thelocalmuffin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm horrifically disappointed to see people hopping into a harry potter art trend after all the heinous garbage jk rowling has done to multiple communities Not so friendly reminder that she's using this as free advertising and you ARE supporting her indirectly for this.

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VƎX Werewolf @vexwerewolf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I do not think it is much of an exaggeration to say that British media is one of the least trustworthy institutions on the planet.

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James Laverack @jamesl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Anyway it’s Temple Way stood next to what was the Bristol Post office, the church is on the other side of the underpass.

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James Laverack @jamesl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Oh hey I used to walk that underpass to work every day. It’s extra fun when it rains a lot and floods a little bit.

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

there is no sensible reason why a 5 year spouse visa cost us a little over fourteen grand. none whatsoever. and that's before you break it down to the addition of renewals every 30 months, the health surcharge, the endless price hikes, the final kick in the teeth for ILR (three grand! to settle!)

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I sorta soft-launched it, but I'm not going by Alex no more. I am Katie now.

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Mike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Bluesky hired a head of communications six months ago and still has staff popping onto their official personal profiles, with their faces and everything, to say "Thanks for asking... Yes! Here, you can wish out loud for every trans person to die! That, specifically, isn't against our rules."

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James Laverack @jamesl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Expensive and inconvenient, mostly. 😜

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James Laverack @jamesl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Do I buy a medium format film camera… 🤔

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James Fleming @jamesfvfleming.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Bristol is a beautiful city ruined by landlords. Hopefully this kind of thing results in something.

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James Laverack @jamesl.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I got to photograph the World Riichi League event in Bristol the weekend before last. 😀🀄️📷 flic.kr/s/aHBqjD4BQU

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WRL Bristol September 2026

European World Riichi League Bristol September 2026

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James Laverack @jamesl.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Riichi Mahjong tournament #blackandwhite #filmphotography 📷 Canon EOS 3 🎞️ Ilford HP5+ 35mm 🗺️ Bristol, UK

A black and white photo of a hand in a Riichi Mahjong game. Visible tiles are 2p 3p 5p 5p 4s 3s 2s 2s with the rest obscured in shadow.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

So convenient, every dev and publisher you need to block on one page

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

sorry, but torturing the omelas kid is just a smart move, polling-wise. i personally wish there wasn't a kid in the omelas hole--of course i do!--but let's not get distracted by purity tests, here.

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James Laverack @jamesl.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

brennan.day/normalized-f... There is no ambiguity here. DHH doesn't claim his words were taken out of context, there is no charitable reading possible. He's a racist calling for ethnic cleansing. The purpose of Omarchy is to create a space where people like him can be openly racist.

brennan.day

Normalized Fascism in Open Source: $12 Million Given to DHH

Open source has become a safe harbor for far-right politics, from David Heinemeier Hansson's white-nationalist rhetoric and the Omarchy Foundation's $12 million in patron funding to so-called apolitic...

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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

If you're not using asbestos yet, you are being left behind. Everyone is using asbestos, there's no point in trying to fight it. Asbestos is the future.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 29/08/2026

…that means that YOU CANNOT PROMPT ENGINEERING YOUR WAY OUT OF THE FUNDAMENTAL ARCHITECTURE OF THESE SYSTEMS. They are GOING to output bullshit, because they are Bullshit Engines.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I have never seen a moral panic grip a country so quickly or thoroughly

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ᴄᴀʟᴜᴍ ᴀʟᴇxᴀɴᴅᴇʀ ᴡᴀᴛᴛ @calumalexanderwatt.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

kiss me, you're beautiful - these are truly the last days

Lyrics from Godspeed You! Black Emperor's The Dead Flag Blues 1997

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tante @tante.cc · 24/08/2026

DHH is a racist and fascist. Tobi Lütke as well. There are so many Linux distros out there. I will never understand why people want to use (and fund) the half-baked config files of a known racist and fascist. Fuck DHH and all of his collaborators. Bella Ciao.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 22/08/2026

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” Frank Herbert, Dune

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kat cosgrove @kat.lol · 21/08/2026

Before you say positive things about DHH because of Omarchy, a reminder that it's been like 3 weeks since he published a blog that compares Roma people to the wolves Denmark eradicated in the 1800s. He's an open, virulent racist and always has been. Everything he touches should be radioactive.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 21/08/2026

The most crucial part in each "AI Winter," & the thing that I genuinely think cannot come soon enough, is when we as a culture remember that we're able to disambiguate the term "AI" & we go back to actually descriptively naming the process(es) we mean. Really can't wait for that to come around again

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James Laverack @jamesl.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

A moth decided to go to sleep on the handle of my gate this morning. 📷 Canon EOS 5D Mark IV 🔭 Canon EF 24–70mm f/4L IS USM

A closeup of a moth sitting on the iron handle of white painted wooden gate.

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Boxo McFoxo @boxobark.ing · 21/08/2026

If you think that local models fix it then you don't understand what the problems are.

Mike Masnick
@masnick.com
And the thing that tipped me over the edge to posting this here is that three of the people who told me things along these lines are all working on very real solutions to some of the problems of AI (i.e., building more decentralized, user-controlled options that *should* resonate here).
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James Laverack @jamesl.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

If you saw it, ADHD UK have a template you can use to submit a formal complaint to Ofcom. adhduk.co.uk/challenging-...

adhduk.co.uk

Complain to Ofcom - ADHD UK

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James Laverack @jamesl.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Channel 4 have purposefully made a child suffer to try to support a fringe medical movement, failed to get the evidence they wanted, and then broadcast his suffering for the world to gawk at. It's disgusting, and everyone involved in this farce should be ashamed of themselves.

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James Laverack @jamesl.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Worse, the "experiment" they ran is beyond cruel. Preying on a parent worried about their son, admit that the medication is helping, then force him to go off of it draw the conclusion it's a myth, then admit at the end that he had to go back on it and improved again.

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James Laverack @jamesl.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

One of the presented experts openly calls for the removal of ADHD as a diagnosis and the stopping of all medication of it. This is horrific, discriminatory, and inhumane in the extreme. The point of this show is not to "start a debate," but to push for the withdrawal of ADHD treatment nationally.

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James Laverack @jamesl.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I watched the Channel 4 ADHD program. It's hard to describe quite how horrible it is. Even the framing is fake, when the show opens with a bunch of people you're introduced to as experts saying ADHD is a myth with absolutely no counterargument you know it's utter bullshit.

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Honestly, making a child a symbol for how Our Kids are Over-Medicated and not even having the decency to stop using him that way when it turns out he did, actually, benefit from and need the medication is horrible, dishonest behaviour.

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Paul Lomax @paullomax.co.uk · 18/08/2026

The two people quoted are not ADHD experts. And given the point of the documentary seemed to be that non-medical interventions work best (against all evidence, based on a sample of one child), I’m not sure what they’re arguing against here. This is pure culture wars shit.

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Anthony B, @swearyanthony.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Anyone who thinks the Guardian is different to the rest of the UK's garbage media are just lying to themselves. They are quite happy to buy into the latest obviously bad faith bullshit culture war, every time.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 15/08/2026

If you’re worried about a watermark outing you as violating customer policies or compliance requirements, the watermark might not be the problem here

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Matt @itsmattagain.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Man without ADHD tries uppers for the first time: I mean honestly we're scraping the barrel on this now surely. I'm not diabetic. If I took insulin the affects would be far worse.

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James Laverack @jamesl.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I think so yes. Although note that by default Cilium will not apply IP-based policy to in-cluster IP addresses (e.g., pod or service IPs).

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James Laverack @jamesl.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

No but it makes it run faster.

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James Laverack @jamesl.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

🗺️ Bedminster, Bristol, UK 📷 Canon EOS 1000 🔭 Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 STM 🎞️ Kodak Ultramax #FilmPhotography #Bristol

Decorative ornate stonework above a door

A black door in a white wall with waste bins on the right and a tree on the left.

A red stone archway with an open gate beyond

A man walks infront of a boarded up building covered with scaffolding. A worn sign says “Apple Tree” and a CD player sits on the windowsill.

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 11/08/2026

And furthermore, when we talk about writers being "influenced" by the work of other writers, we are describing a process that is in no way analogous to generative model training, and to suggest that it is is just shows that you don't know piss about the subject matter here.

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 11/08/2026

last night i played a round of "blood on the clocktower" for the first time which, as a long time fan of social deduction games, might be one of the best i've ever played. immediately i could tell that it has VERY good meat on its bones and solves a lot of the genre's most common issues.

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absolute horses @jcoglan.com · 05/08/2026

one day this will be recognised as an utterly shameful campaign to purge trans people from society, and we will have to ask how the views of a tiny fringe of extremists became the consensus of our press, government and regulatory bodies

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