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alex jegtnes @jegtnes.com · 04/09/2026

rumours have it he's been going overboard on bandcamp friday again

My email inbox, showing my card account being blocked, immediately preceded by seven Bandcamp purchases from Honeyblood, Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers, Brutalligators, and Million Moons

alex jegtnes @jegtnes.com · 04/09/2026

I cannot believe that it's eight days until my wedding and the 1password chuds are making me add "change my password manager" to my bloody todo list. outrageous

An email from me to business@1password.com:

Hi there,

Been subscribed since 2019. Loved your product.

Just to add to the numbers of people who are cancelling because 1Password is now sponsoring Omarchy. While your PR bods may insist this is only to support the technical work involved in the project, and make no personal endorsement of its figurehead, Mr. Heinemeier Hansson, or his views, you know that’s nonsense. He is very publicly the face of the project and makes no effort whatsoever to separate his personal views from his work.

If you want to give money to organisations whose leader calls for ethnic cleansing, you’d have been wise to follow other tech leaders and make those donations on a personal level, so there’s at least a paper-thin veneer between their views and that of their organisation. I cannot in good conscience maintain my 1Password subscription knowing that part of that money goes directly towards supporting the spread of fascism.

Kind regards,
Alex

A list of 1Password subscription billing line items ($35.88/year) from 2019 until 2026 and a trial in 2018

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alex jegtnes @jegtnes.com · 09/06/2026

a whole substation? envious, over here we just have a bin

A large metal bin full of rubbish, tagged with "let women bark" and the trans symbol

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alex jegtnes @jegtnes.com · 29/04/2026

it was a very civilised, pleasant, and scenic way to see the region; despite what the potato-quality video might suggest. 10/10 the world should have more schwebebahns

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alex jegtnes @jegtnes.com · 29/04/2026

indulged my inner dork today and went on a day trip to Wuppertal primarily to go on the Wuppertal Schwebebahn — one of the world's very few suspended monorails

A suspension monorail over a river with a pedestrian bridge crossing it. The monorail is light blue.

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alex jegtnes @jegtnes.com · 26/04/2026

at Heathrow, imminently off to Düsseldorf for my first ever #btconf, an occasion I've said "I really should go next year, it sounds wondrous" about at least six times. finally, we're doing it ✨

A view of an airport from inside the terminal. There are a few BA aircraft parked at jetbridges, and on the runway a Virgin Atlantic A330 is landing.

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alex jegtnes @jegtnes.com · 06/01/2026

heathrow is so incredibly sorry to hear that your flight is delayed. truly, a tragedy. but did you know there are many ways in which to spend money at heathrow? heathrow is delighted to announce this. but they're also, like, so sorry your flight is delayed. awful, really

A screenshot of my flight info on the Heathrow website, where my flight to Oslo shows it's delayed by 70 minutes. Further down, Heathrow chimes in with a "haven't you people heard of spending your goddamned money" by offering direct links to the restaurants, shops, and lounges at Heathrow. Thanks Heathrow. Love you.

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alex jegtnes @jegtnes.com · 24/12/2025

thought it wasn't going to happen but we just managed to eke out a white Christmas here on Norway's south coast. god jul to any and all fellow heathens who celebrate on the best day of Christmas, the Eve 🎄❤️

A view down a hill in a suburban neighborhood full of one- and two-story detached houses. The lawn has patchy snow on it with some green tufts sticking out. The sun is setting with a pleasant glow behind some mountains.

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alex jegtnes @jegtnes.com · 17/12/2025

'tis the season for homemade liqueurs and boozes mirabel cherry plum liqueur, 2x sloe gin, 2x quince gin, rhubarb gin, peach liqueur not pictured: mulled sloe gin, sloe "port" with the used berries from the sloe gin, blackberry + sloe + rosehip liqueur, blackberry and bay liqueur

Seven glass bottles of varying sizes on a kitchen counter, each containing the liqueurs in the skeet. Cherry plum, peach, sloe, and rhubarb are a light red-orange, quince is strikingly yellow in contrast

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alex jegtnes @jegtnes.com · 27/11/2025

won't somebody please think of the retired corporate financiers sitting on a large pile of unearned wealth

Older homeowners, or those who have owned their property for a long time and watched its value soar over the years, are expected to be hardest hit by the changes.

This is the case for Nick Miller and his wife, Carolyn, who have lived in their detached home in East Sheen for three decades.

After putting the house on the market in summer 2024, a sale fell through this spring and they have subsequently reduced the price several times to the current £2m asking price, meaning it remains within the surcharge bracket.

"It won't help our case - it's just more burden for buyers," said Miller, a
retired corporate financier. "We may have a better chance if interest rates come down again in December."

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alex jegtnes @jegtnes.com · 12/10/2025

can't be in bristol without going to the cat pub

A mackerel tabby cat sits in a shallow box on a pub bar, surveying their domain

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alex jegtnes @jegtnes.com · 10/10/2025

thank you to my favourite vape lad @alexolder.com (and @lurkmoophy.bsky.social I guess) for putting it on xoxo

alex older being caught mid-vaping, with a fifth of a pint in one hand, a cheesy grin on his cute little face, and a big thumbs up with the other. look at this lovable little scamp. what a great guy.

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alex jegtnes @jegtnes.com · 05/10/2025

cats, cartoons, and nature photography, largely what I expected!

A screenshot of the Instagram Discover page, containing a masonry layout of various things that have been recommended to me personally. It is largely cats, cartoons, and nature photography.

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alex jegtnes @jegtnes.com · 26/09/2025

I have finally fulfilled my lifelong dream of eating a ragù alla bolognese in Bologna and I can now die a happy man

A plate of tagliatelle enveloping a rich, dry meaty sauce

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alex jegtnes @jegtnes.com · 20/09/2025

I'm a simple man, can't see a Manhattan and not want a Manhattan; I think that's actually how they market Manhattans

A Martini glass with a Manhattan cocktail in it, it has a warm and inviting amber colour with two Maraschino cherries in it. In the background, blurred, are its constituent ingredients: Angostura Bitters, Wild Turkey 101 bourbon, Carpano Antica vermouth, and Rittenhouse rye whiskey

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alex jegtnes @jegtnes.com · 15/09/2025

It's New Fuji Lens day today for me - 27mm 2.8. (desperately missing the pocketability of the X100 series)

A retro rangefinder-style digital mirrorless camera, Fujifilm X-T30II, with a small pancake lens that's thinner than the camera itself.

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alex jegtnes @jegtnes.com · 23/08/2025

haha yeah, and even better there's a (not very common) even shorter A318 😅 it's adorable

A photo of a British Airways Airbus A380 and an A318 facing eachother. The A380 has two full decks and the A318 looks comically small next to it. Photo credit Malcolm Nason

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alex jegtnes @jegtnes.com · 01/08/2025

pov: you're going camping for the weekend at your girlfriend's family farm

A rural farm landscape with grassy hills, scattered trees, and a partly cloudy sky. A dirt path runs through the valley.

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alex jegtnes @jegtnes.com · 24/07/2025

PSA, if you're in the UK and have an Android device I strongly encourage you to download and install the Bluesky 1.104 APK from Bluesky's GitHub, and turn off auto-updates for it in the Play store when you're done 🫡 github.com/bluesky-soci...

A screenshot of Bluesky on the Play store with the top right kebab menu open and the enable autoupdate box unticked

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alex jegtnes @jegtnes.com · 06/06/2025

🏙️🛬 not gonna lie, when I looked up ten seconds prior to taking this photo my lizard brain panicked and thought we'd have some jet fuel melt some steel beams imminently

The Shard, a skyscraper that tapers towards a single point like a very tall pyramid, against blue skies dotted with clouds. An Airbus A380 aircraft with two floors and four engines, is flying past it

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alex jegtnes @jegtnes.com · 16/05/2025

I know it's an error trace, but suddenly reminded of this gem 😅

A tweet with a photo attached. The tweet reads, in all caps
"! ! ! THE BELOW MESSAGE WAS
DISPLAYED ON SOMEONE'S TV.
CODE WAS DISPLAYED, MIXED WITH
THE WORDS "KILL PROCESS OR
SACRIFICE CHILD" ! ! !
!! ARE YOU ALL SEEING
THIS ! !"

The photo is a software error stack trace including phrases such as "out of memory: kill process [...snip] or sacrifice child"

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alex jegtnes @jegtnes.com · 10/05/2025

and this is beans! she's a shy gal! but not too shy to skip dinner :)

a very fluffy white cat looks hesitantly and slightly sassy at the camera, as though she is demanding to know why there hasn't been food dispensed yet. her floofy tail is curled upwards in a really cute manner

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alex jegtnes @jegtnes.com · 09/05/2025

will always remember the first time I flew to heathrow after having moved to england for uni, seeing "westward ho!" on the coach departure board, and thinking someone must be trolling me. nope, real place. ridiculous nation

a list of coach departures from heathrow, going to real places like taunton, oxford, and london, but then also "Westward Ho, exclamation mark"

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alex jegtnes @jegtnes.com · 09/05/2025

everybody please say hi to wigglet

A small adult black cat standing on a sofa, with green eyes and a tail curled at the tip, looking inquisitively at something to the right of the camera

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alex jegtnes @jegtnes.com · 28/04/2025

whenever I'm back in Norway after an extended period away, my immediate priority is sourcing, depending on mood: 1) a convenience store hot dog (they hit different here) 2) good licorice (#2 won today. still contemplating a hot dog tho)

A 1kg tub of Haribo Matador Mix containing a mix of gummi sweets and licorice, in front of an airport luggage conveyor belt

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alex jegtnes @jegtnes.com · 11/03/2025

bee you are going to love this t-shirt my girlfriend got me for my birthday

A white t-shirt featuring an illustration of a majestic goose wearing near-raffish cowboy boots and a resplendent cowboy hat. The caption reads "Silly goose on the loose", with "loose" in a stylish hand-writing-esque typeface.

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alex jegtnes @jegtnes.com · 28/01/2025

90 minutes later but we finally got there. clown shit

A chat transcription of me and Google support:

Me:
Okay, so it is the official position of Google that Gemini features in
Workspace services are enabled by default, and in order to *disable*
Gemini features in Workspace services, I need to upgrade my plan?

Google Workspace Support:
Yes, you're correct! Once you have upgrade the plan to enterprise
standard or plus, you can follow the below steps to disable the
Gemini feature for the Google workspace services:

To turn on or off Gemini in a Google service:

In your Google Admin console>>In the Admin console, go to Menu
and then Generative Al > Gemini for Workspace>>
(Note: Available only with Enterprise Standard and Enterprise
Plus)>>Click the Feature access panel>>
Click Edit next to the service you want to enable or disable>> Click
On or Off, and then click Save.

Me:
Okay, thank you for helping me today. Please can you forward me to
a supervisor so I can register a complaint? This isn't about your
customer service, but about Googles stance on the matter.

Google Workspace Support, 2:47PM:
Alex, I completely understand how you feel in that way, we have
taken your valuable feedback on the above issue, however let me
quickly go-ahead and update with our management team about
this.

Me:
No problem, take your time

Google Workspace Support, 2:48 PM:
Please allow me another 5 minutes while I check this for you.

I appreciate for being on hold and thank you for your patience, Alex.

I checked with my internal team and we made some changes from
the backend. Could you please refresh the admin console to disable
the option for Google workspace services?

Me:
That's worked, and the setting worked immediately. Thanks a lot for
your help

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alex jegtnes @jegtnes.com · 27/01/2025

the foundation of modern capitalism is somehow even less serious than as depicted by vincent adultman

An image of a the top child in a two children in a trenchcoat, wearing a top hat, eating an ice cream, who says "I went to the stock market today. I did a business"

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alex jegtnes @jegtnes.com · 08/01/2025

lifted weights today after a long time off and every time I do this I want to kick myself because I ENJOY it so much, it is satisfying and makes me feel great (even though I've had to deload by, like, 50%)! nobody conspires against me like depression brain conspires against me, man

meme: a simple-looking wojak-esque figure, with a single tooth and some drool from his mouth, intended to look like a caveman, superimposed on top of a photo from a gym, captioned "lift heavy stone, make sad head voice quiet"

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alex jegtnes @jegtnes.com · 27/12/2024

without downloading any new pics, what's your energy going into 2025

Meme, captioned "when you thought you were going to have a bad day and then your best friend rolls up". The image is of a person from behind being bamboozled by a skeleton on a tricycle-like device saying "Beep beep you sad fuck"

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alex jegtnes @jegtnes.com · 25/12/2024

envious! I only got this extremely legitimate Emma Watson.

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alex jegtnes @jegtnes.com · 20/12/2024

well my girlfriend is home and it's after 5pm so we can have a cocktail, as a treat ✨ (praecocia: 45ml bourbon, 22.5ml vermouth, 7.5ml apricot liqueur, dash of Angostura)

A golden brown cocktail in a martini glass with a lemon peel garnish

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alex jegtnes @jegtnes.com · 19/12/2024

this post made me reminisce about cicchetti and Select spritzes in Venice. dreamy. UK spritzes are indeed desperately sad in comparison

a plate of four mini sandwiches topped with generous amounts of various cured meats, resting on top of my thigh, with a dark-red fizzy spritz in my hand

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alex jegtnes @jegtnes.com · 04/12/2024

I can tell January was a turbulent time for my group because the "idle" playlist I put on during breaks or when somebody had to unexpectedly go AWOL got Spotify thinking I was suddenly really into elevator music

Spotify Wrapped slide showing that my January had "Frutiger Aero Jazz Organ Elevator Music" vibes, apparently.

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alex jegtnes @jegtnes.com · 03/12/2024

the 2nd december 2020 in the middle of covid, living at home and self-isolating, I set up my home dialysis machine, unbeknownst to me, for the last time, and four years ago today I got my kidney transplant! he's still a healthy little guy ✨ forever grateful to my donor and his family ❤️

The author, a Nordic man with chest-length hair and wearing a blue jumper, holds up a series of tubes in front of his dialysis machine, a rectangular grey box with some buttons on it, the screen saying "initial drain". I look exhausted and pale.

The author, a Nordic man with blonde hair tied back, in a hospital gown with oxygen tubes in his nostrils, a bandage on his neck, is winking at the camera and giving the thumbs up as though he is excited to have a working kidney (he is!)

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alex jegtnes @jegtnes.com · 03/12/2024

as an example taken very up-close at basically minimum focus distance to show off the distortion, it's _there_ but not at all bad for such a wide lens - after pic has a +8 remove distortion lens correction applied in PS :) hope that helps, I do like this little lens, fantastic value for a 10mm

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alex jegtnes @jegtnes.com · 01/12/2024

very gorgeous short domestic flight before my connection home. please behold the majesty of Mjøsa, Norway's biggest lake and Europe's fourth deepest. anyways this is what IKEA named a fucking rubbish bin after, if you ever wondered why I distrust the Swedish

A clear deep blue lake with a forested shoreline, as seen from above with an airplane wing in the shot. A few gently fluffy clouds are scattered in the sky

A screenshot of the IKEA website showing off the product page of the Mjösa dark grey cylindrical pedal bin, at 30 litres setting you back £50.

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alex jegtnes @jegtnes.com · 25/11/2024

have been running lolcommits (github.com/lolcommits/l...) on my side projects for a while to take a snapshot from my webcam every time I make a commit, and having been away for this one for eleven months it's fun to look back at the state of me last time I touched it

Me, looking very exhausted, taking a drink from a martini cocktail glass containing a dark, likely whiskey-based cocktail, with a cherry, captioned with my last commit "Maths is hard let's go shopping"

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alex jegtnes @jegtnes.com · 20/11/2024

these adorable little guys are called ring-tailed coatis, I came across this one in Iguazu, Argentina. please sign my petition to rename them ring-tailed cuties instead thx #photography

A ring-tailed coati sits in a tree where the branch splits into a Y shape, but you can't see much of its tail. It looks almost like a European badger with brown/auburn fur, but without the stripey markings, and a longer snout, which is mostly all black. He looks friend-shaped with small round ears, but also like he wants to steal your food if you turn away for a second.

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alex jegtnes @jegtnes.com · 19/11/2024

please enjoy what Qatar Airways thinks are Points of Interests in the UK there are going to be some very miffed tourists abound if they take this advice

A list of points of interests overload on an in flight map, containing Northampton, Reading, Luton, Swindon, Milton Keynes, and Peterborough

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alex jegtnes @jegtnes.com · 14/11/2024

this was the best shot from basically my first ever attempt at astrophotography and I'm pretty pleased with it 📍 atacama desert, chile 📅 2nd sep 2024 📷 fuji x-t30ii + ttartisan 10mm f/2 ⚙️ 10mm, f/2, 30s, ISO 1600 #astrophotography #photography

The Milky Way in the southern hemisphere sky at a 45 degree angle across the horizon, from the bottom left to top middle, with a blue/purple tint to it. There are gentle mountains in the foreground but they don't dominate the shot.

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