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Alex Awoos @alex-awoos-backup.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I feel like more people should be talking about this part

Screenshot from the article that reads, The Stud, San Francisco's oldest gay bar, was only able to have its Meta pages restored because of the bars popularity among gay tech executives with connections to Meta

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Jamie And Lion (aka, SpacedOutSmiles) @jamieandlion.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It’s not a suprise as there’s a huge amount of neurodivergent folks in the kink community. Or to put it another way, neurodivergent sex is often called kink by neurotypical people… But clothing is clothing. For me it’s just my regular PJs & tshirts. Bright, cute, fun & sensory heaven. :)

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Jamie And Lion (aka, SpacedOutSmiles) @jamieandlion.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Still makes me giggle a lot that the very best sensory clothing I’ve worn… … comes from a random kink company… not a ‘special needs’ supplier. ODU onesies and PJs pretty much doubled my sleep quality. Good materials, perfect fit and just the right amount of squeeze. onesiesdownunder.com/en-gb

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Onesies Downunder // Ageplay Apparel

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Jamie And Lion (aka, SpacedOutSmiles) @jamieandlion.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Been relearning a whole bunch of database optimisation stuff while building my Bluesky client thingy :) It’s really satisfying when I make a few tweaks & stuff gets 10-20x faster… The data grows pretty quickly too. About 4 million posts & about a million images tagged in just over 3 months!

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Jamie And Lion (aka, SpacedOutSmiles) @jamieandlion.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Another thought on this one is the hidden energy expended is rarely appreciated by other folks. As a kid, I often spent vast amount of energy on little things like shoes, complex uniform, getting places safely & handling loud environments. Grown ups congratulating me on it would have helped a lot.

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Jamie And Lion (aka, SpacedOutSmiles) @jamieandlion.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This x100. It was a challenge for a really long part of my life. These days I do laces once & slip shoes on & off :) I wish I’d been able to learn about energy accounting / spoon theory way earlier. Some stuff is ‘normal’ but just not worth the huge amount of energy it takes for me to do it.

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Jamie And Lion (aka, SpacedOutSmiles) @jamieandlion.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I see this a lot with things like coercion. Being in a situation where we don’t feel safe enough to say no. Super common in neurodivergent community to find ourselves in situations where we’re manipulated into things we don’t want. It can take a long time to come to terms with it & name it as SA.

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Some of this series will have lighter episodes but I am trying to make conversations about important subjects - abuse, mental health, bigotry etc which are not sensationalised though we will also deal with love and creativity

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Lisa Manic @lisamanic.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you used to listen to @robinince.bsky.social on The Infinite Monkey Cage then give his new podcast series a go. This episode with @chanda.blacksky.app was very interesting and enlightening. It also added a few more books to my To Be Read pile! tinyurl.com/374udvz8

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Chanda Prescod Weinstein in LIBERATION CONVERSATIONS | Robin Ince

Chanda is a scientist and science populariser I adore - whether it is "queering the universe" or explaining how Star Trek has rocked her w

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Jamie And Lion (aka, SpacedOutSmiles) @jamieandlion.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My custom local agentic tools have a lot of little wins which don’t seem like much but add up to a huge accessibility impact. Today’s example… building a tiny custom content editor for some config files we use… Built with the exact accessibility features i need & optimised for my specific phone :)

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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Clearleft @clearleft.com · 24/09/2026

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Craig Abbott @craigabbott.co.uk · 28/09/2026

I’m looking forward to seeing all the companies who are replacing juniors with AI, complaining in 5 years time that there is a lack of senior talent in the industry. As they say, “you reap what you sow”.

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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Jamie And Lion (aka, SpacedOutSmiles) @jamieandlion.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’ve been slowly working on my own custom Bluesky client. It’s read only, very basic & visual first. Sorta like instagram. My favourite feature is a little scanner that keeps images of gore & violence off my feed It also blocks reposts unless i enable them for someone Makes Bluesky way nicer :)

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Jamie And Lion (aka, SpacedOutSmiles) @jamieandlion.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Chilling out under a large radiation detector for a bit. See if my insides work the way they are suppose too :)

Jamie’s view looking up at the underside of a large format gammer ray detector.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Child: This is my first time meeting a mayor. Mamdani: Wow, have you ever met a prime minister? Child: No Norway PM Jonas Gahr Støre: *walks over*

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Jamie And Lion (aka, SpacedOutSmiles) @jamieandlion.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This pretty brutal. One of the base rules I have for using Hermes is to assume it’s an insecure & hostile environment. It sits on dedicated hardware, has named accounts with defined limits & no access to root Even then, I don’t trust it with anything sensitive. It’s not ready for mass adoption

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Jamie And Lion (aka, SpacedOutSmiles) @jamieandlion.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There’s a deep nerdy joy when something I’ve built scales up and all the tasks fan out and run in parallel :) I built my own task distribution & scheduling tool for a project and it just passed a million completed tasks. It’s about four times as fast wirh the same hardware as a month ago :)

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Jamie And Lion (aka, SpacedOutSmiles) @jamieandlion.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Good. They deserve all the support they get. The right wing nutcases have lost all sense of themselves when they started targeting the RNLI. I’d like to believe they feel shame but it’s unlikely :(

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Jamie And Lion (aka, SpacedOutSmiles) @jamieandlion.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

From what’s published about the SMART system it’s ‘AI’ in the same way the weather app is. It’s using amachine learning tools to glue together a lot of data & identify potential issues, then a schedular to suggest resolutions. This is pretty standard tech really. It’s not ‘AI ATC’. Just a tool.

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Jamie And Lion (aka, SpacedOutSmiles) @jamieandlion.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Sometimes the small wins really add up. I sat in the blue chair all day yesterday and i didn’t get crazy sore :) 5-6 weeks of being exceptionally careful with my seating / positioning and injury management paying off. It sucks I managed to hurt myself again, but the recovery is going well.

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Jamie And Lion (aka, SpacedOutSmiles) @jamieandlion.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This seems like a fundamental baseline. There should be exceptions for disabled folks where they are acting as an accessibility tool… Such a dangerous technology. Glad to see it’s not getting a free pass.

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Tara Voelker @tarav.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

So this is terrifying and maybe a terrible idea, but what’s the worst that happens? I lay myself off?

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Jamie And Lion (aka, SpacedOutSmiles) @jamieandlion.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Heck! The tooth fairy left 50p to £1 when I was a kid. Inflations so bad it’s getting the metaphysical fairies!

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Jamie And Lion (aka, SpacedOutSmiles) @jamieandlion.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Not sure folks know… but if you buy an iPad via the Apple Store as a student… you get a discount AND an £80 gift card. Helping a friend get ready for Uni and he a nice surprise :)

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Jamie And Lion (aka, SpacedOutSmiles) @jamieandlion.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Woke up perfectly on routine day… did meds and slowly booting in a nice floaty way. Starting the day in a lovely sensory bubble, comfy bed, plushie snuggles and the projector covering the ceiling in gently moving blobs of colour :)

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Jamie And Lion (aka, SpacedOutSmiles) @jamieandlion.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Really impressed with this little thing :) It’s been buzzing along tagging all the photos in my giant photo backlog. Finding all my bike pics, adventure photos and whatnot :) It’s doing ~35 images a minute for basically the same power my gaming PC idles at… Clever helpful little box :)

Screenshot from Jamie’s energy monitoring app. It shows info cards for two computers.

Card one is Jamie’s ‘Gaming PC’ in the playroom. The picture shows a black open test bench on an Ikea bookcase. It’s currently idle and using 96.6w of power.

The second is Jamie’s BlueyBox in the bedroom. It’s a DIY computer built in a plastic Bluey storage tub sat on an Ikea cube shelf. It’s using 105.1w of power.. but it’s running full power analysing Jamie’s photos for him.

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

With AGI overwhelming the news again, I repeat: There is no path to intelligence via LLM. But an LLM botnet choking the internet, or someone using a local model to attack aging infrastructure, are both real risks and too late to prevent. Pay no attention to the bogeymen, the harm is here today.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

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Jamie And Lion (aka, SpacedOutSmiles) @jamieandlion.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I built a thing!! Meet the BlueyBox. A cute little shelf sized 1080p gaming PC for my bedroom :) We built it from the HP mini server. Trimmed the case down, added a super small graphics card & then worked out how to fit it in the box. Runs with the lid on but gets warm, will debug that today :)

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Eric Bailey @ericwbailey.website · 11/09/2026

now that's what I call WCAG, vol. 3

A disclosure in an expanded state whose title reads "Plain language summary of 'Introduction'". Immediately below it is the text, "This summary is non-normative. Cropped screenshot from the latest WCAG 3.0 draft.

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Derek Lieu - Game Trailer Editor @derek-lieu.com · 11/09/2026

I need to interview someone who knows a ton about game optimization—esp. if they have AAA experience! I’m making a video about why it’s impractical to wait until the game is finished to start making trailers (especially for AAA). This is one angle I want to explain it from. Reposts appreciated! 🙏

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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The change reportedly meant 47% of CERN’s specialized control computers would need replacement for RHEL 9, with another 17% affected by RHEL 10 despite the machines still being fully functional. Rather than replace thousands of working scientific computers, CERN is shifting to Debian Linux 👍

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Jamie And Lion (aka, SpacedOutSmiles) @jamieandlion.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Very happy Jamie… i’m logging the solar power from the shed using a 14 year old Mac mini :) Every 2 minutes, it collects a reading £ updates a database. Every half an hour it renders a little chart and sends it via Telegram. It’s happily running the latest version of Ubuntu Linux :)

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Jamie And Lion (aka, SpacedOutSmiles) @jamieandlion.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Injury stuff is improving nicely. Now we’ve got the ‘flat by 7:30pm’ routine in place it’s working well. 10-12 hours flat every night is hard but effective Slowly more able to sit on things. Sitting down for food in town has been good. Short car journeys are doable. Just gotta keep at it :)

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Jamie And Lion (aka, SpacedOutSmiles) @jamieandlion.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The whole situation is shocking… well not that shocking… OpenAI have already shown themselves to be ethically void many times before. It’s not even a new low. One of the reasons I build my tools around local AI is the privacy aspect. No one can train or expose the data that flows through the system

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Jamie And Lion (aka, SpacedOutSmiles) @jamieandlion.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Been hiding from my emails for a week… gotta get em done today. ADHD meds can help with a lot of things but emails remain super tricky even wirh meds helping. Doing it first thing so it’s done and out the way :)

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Sam Rose @samwho.dev · 06/09/2026

Weird request: we’re looking for a specific monkey teddy. We got this one when our eldest was born and he didn’t care about it until a few months ago and now he can’t exist without it. But we only have one and we want a backup. We have searched everywhere and can’t find it. Any leads appreciated 🙏

A photograph of the monkey teddy in question.

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Jamie And Lion (aka, SpacedOutSmiles) @jamieandlion.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This is what happened to me. I had my injury when I was 32. I thought I’d reached the peak of my life & future wouldn’t be as good. It only took about 2 years for my post injury life to be better than my pre-injury life. 37 now & thriving in ways I’d never have imagined 5 years ago :)

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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The image is of a four panel comic.
The title above the first two panels reads, "Dog Toys".
The first panel shows Sarah, the protagonist, holding a bone shaped dog toy. She says, "Look!"
The second panel shows a dog wagging its tail. There is a speech bubble leading back to Sarah saying "It squeaks!"
The title above the last two panels reads, "Cat Toys".
In panel three we see Sarah again. She says "Come, child."
Panel four shows a cat raising its paws in glee. We see Sarah's hands holding cat nip. We see a speech bubble leading back to Sarah saying "It is time to do drugs".

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Steve Morton - 🔜 AdvX, London, 7-8 November @pvbuk.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

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Twitter post by
Socialist Planning Beyond Capitalism
@beyond_capital
“THIS is what the great John Lewis would call "GOOD TROUBLE" - Protesters in Minneapolis have reportedly been dressing up in jeans, body armor, and masks and then walking into groups of ICE agents and accusing 1 or 2 of them of being imposters until they all start fighting each other. Then the protesters sneak away.
And now, it's happening nationwide.”
Below the text is a photo of several men dressed like a military video game shooter, in stab/armour vests, etc.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This guy wanted to charge the ICE cop who blindly fired his gun into a house with a child inside, then lied to justify the shooting. DHS also tried to deport a witness, and publicly slandered the man who was shot. Trump's people blocked the prosecution, then fired the prosecutor for going public.

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Jamie And Lion (aka, SpacedOutSmiles) @jamieandlion.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I wonder if they’ve been caught in a lie and kept it going cause they don’t want to admit the lie Even if he’s not dead, he’s clearly not working or representing his constituents effectively What an utter shambles. I’d like to believe this wouldn’t happen in the UK… but I’m less sure these days.

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Jamie And Lion (aka, SpacedOutSmiles) @jamieandlion.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Is it me or is the Bluesky iOS client layout borked? Scrolling doesn’t account for the keyboard. If I have a long post or a thread I can’t see what’s being typed or move focus to the other posts. It’s all hidden behind the keyboard. Anyone else getting this?

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Jamie And Lion (aka, SpacedOutSmiles) @jamieandlion.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Getting ADHD meds right js so so so contextual. Accidentally did then at 2am yesterday. Loved having more quite morning time before the world needed me for things… slept great around 10pm. It worked so well I did em at 2:30am today on purpose… see if this works as a pattern. My life is weird.

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Jamie And Lion (aka, SpacedOutSmiles) @jamieandlion.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Not sure what is says about me… but the more I lobotomise my coding model… the more it codes like me. My code style is painfully, painfully simple. I don’t use any super complex patterns and most of my code is really mundane and boring. I’ve reduced it down 75% (16bit to 4bit) & it works great.

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

That Reform Exposé is one of the funniest things I’ve seen. Dumb rich blokes who have managed at least 40 years consequence free and don’t expect that situation to change any time soon absolutely showing their whole arse hole

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