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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 29/09/2026

Kimchi loves to chill under my chair when I'm working outside. Love this dog.

Picture of a short-haired border collie who is also so cute you could eat her, lying down on some grass and looking at the camera. She's underneath a chair. A hand is petting her face, and you can see my legs and sadly also socks in crocs.

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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 21/09/2026

Portable DVD players are a thing and are a pretty cool piece of retro tech now!

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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 20/08/2026

I saw this fellow on Vinted and impulse bought him. I have no use for it whatsoever, but its presence brings me joy.

Author of the post, smiling, outside, holding an artfully painted wooden duck.

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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 17/08/2026

It's 18ºC today. Acclimatisation is wild.

Screenshot of Jack from The Shining, where he has frozen to death.

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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 30/07/2026

Dogs are the best. They’re still there for me even if I feel like a shitty human having a shitty day.

Picture of a border collie and Australian shepherd, lying next to each other with mouths open, looking at the photographer. They’re in the partial shade on a field, with a filthy soft rabbit toy in front of them.

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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 30/07/2026

Okay what is happening? Who did this?

A screenshot of a GitHub repo on the web, where for some reason the hamburger menu does not have a hamburger icon but instead an emoji of pancakes.

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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 16/07/2026

Finally, the past and future of social media!

Screenshot of twinkl web app, with a new post "just setting up my twinkl"

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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 15/07/2026

Wait, what did my dog do to your family?

Short-haired black and white border collie named Kimchi.

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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 30/06/2026

This test is well put together. I think “skeptic” does describe my take on general, but it’s a bit more nuanced than the description. Raises interesting questions in any case.

Screenshot of my result in the linked test. Result is “The Skeptic”

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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 24/06/2026

Strangely, getting these vibes from the second panel.

A screenshot of mutant Tweetie from the classic Looney Toons episode, "Hyde and Go Tweet".

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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 24/06/2026

I'm a sucker for a suspicious mushroom.

Screenshot of a chat interaction.

🎲 You rolled a 9 — The fates stir.
👊 LOW-GRADE FIND!
You found: a suspicious mushroom 🍄

⚔️ Strength: +1
You are currently a Man of Laketown ⚔️ with Elven Rope of Hithlain 🧵

⚔️ Strength: +20
Reply STAY to remain a Man of Laketown ⚔️ with Elven Rope of Hithlain 🧵, or SWAP to become a Man of Laketown ⚔️ with a suspicious mushroom 🍄
[SWAP]
You swap your gear.
You are now a Man of Laketown ⚔️ with a suspicious mushroom 🍄

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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 23/06/2026

These skinny little mushrooms are standing proud and doing their thing this morning. More so than myself, given we're out of coffee.

A picture of two mushrooms with very thin, rather long stalks and thin, roundish conicalish caps. They stand in a meadow with dew on the cut grass. In the distance are trees, a house, some agility equipment, and greenhouses.

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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 13/06/2026

Last week, I found a tiny toad and shared it here to a surprisingly popular response. As if to ask "does Bluesky prefer frogs or toads?" I discovered a tiny frog today. It was mighty jumpy and looked a little grumpy. I hope I didn't hassle it too much!

A tiny frog, looking a little grumpy, perched on a human wrist.

Same tiny frog, cupped in a human hand which shows just how tiny it is. It looks even grumpier.

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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 12/06/2026

Pretty friend, meet fluffy friend whom I found in the garage recently!

A large, fluffy moth. Wings drawn back. On a white surface with sawdust everywhere.

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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 02/06/2026

Heard you folks like toads. This feller is apparently a common toad, but I think it’s unique and awesome.

A tiny common toad, perched upon a finger.

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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 02/06/2026

"We have FACOM at home" FACOM at home:

Nintendo Family Computer box, AKA the Famicom

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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 27/05/2026

WARNING! WARNING! YOU CAN CONFIRM YOUR ORDER HERE!

Another screenshot from the same process, next page.

"Order controleren en bevestigen".

A huge, red warning sign with an exclamation mark is on the left side. Text:

"On this page you can review your order, and when everything is to your liking, you can finalize the order. At the bottom of the page you can press the confirmation button to actually place the order."

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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 27/05/2026

Ah, I see this checkout process is in fact a doorway into UX hell.

Screenshot of a checkout item with the title "Gegevens opslaan" (save details).

There are two buttons at the bottom. Both have the same arrow-right icon on the left side of them.

The button on the left side says "Opslaan en verdergaan" (save and continue). The button on the right says "Annuleren en teruggaan" (cancel and go back).

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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 19/05/2026

You can just 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘥𝘰𝘨𝘴. A young Juno, sadly no longer with us, but a silly photo I found in the archives. Share with me your wonderful fluffers!

A black tri Australian Shepherd, blank expression. Two hands are propping her lips up to make her look sillier than she already does.

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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 15/05/2026

Dicey Dungeons spitting facts today.

Picture of a screen with dicey dungeons playing. It says “you have a game already in progress. Continue?”

Below that, the game name is “The inevitability of rust”

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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 11/05/2026

A coffee shop without a dog lacks a soul.

A picture of a dog, probably a golden retriever, looking up at the photographer sweetly.

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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 28/04/2026

Enjoyed watching this couple get it on yesterday.

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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 16/04/2026

The Dutch public transport app vastly overestimates my physical abilities.

Screenshot of an app stating that walking 1.3km will take 1 minute

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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 05/04/2026

I got a picture of it, by the way. No, the glove is not being worn (and never will be).

Picture of a garden glove, with a smooshed moth pupa inside. The pupa is leaking some white liquid.

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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 28/03/2026

Met a moor frog today. We had a moment before I let it go on its way.

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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 20/03/2026

“How can we express a negative potential outcome if the user does not take action, without alarming people too much?” Corporate: “Hold my my oat latte macchiato.”

App screenshot. Title is “Don’t miss out.”

Picture below title is of a handsome, greying stock model sitting down and calmly smiling at his phone. At the top-right of the photo is a line art warning sign.

Text below tells the user about them being automatically logged out for security reasons.

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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 10/03/2026

Probably my first time seeing this before. One UK and two European sockets next to each other on the Eng <-> NL Stena Line ferry. Extremely uninteresting unless it's interesting to you.

One UK and two European sockets side-by-side, under the same face plate.

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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 08/03/2026

If you're going to ask me for lots of information and provide a single line for text input, please make sure that shift+enter works as a line break.

Screenshot of booking.com customer service chat, where they request plenty of information. My response is simply "Hi,"

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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 05/03/2026

I’m thinking a lot about British food while I’m here. For example, how many daddies does it take to make a bottle of sauce, and how do they get the right consistency?