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·J Mopp @jmopp.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 20h

The Invisible hand giveth, and the invisible hand taketh away. Sometimes the invisible hand puts up an invisible middle finger, and sometimes the invisible hand punches you in the face.

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·J Mopp @jmopp.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

@uastronomer Yep, when I had to type my password to log into the office printer I had to first make the motions on a keyboard before entering it on the touch-screen because I couldn't actually remember it

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·J Mopp @jmopp.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

@0xabad1dea Let me join you, so that when you're done talking to them I can talk to them too

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·J Mopp @jmopp.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

The year is 2009. Satoshi Nakamoto publishes the Bitcoin paper. Eighty percent of all bitcoins are mined in a week as countless time travellers try to get in early

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·J Mopp @jmopp.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

@JessTheUnstill Mine is that the world ended on 21 December 2012 and we've been in purgatory ever since

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·J Mopp @jmopp.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Saw a video about the open-source fly brain that was like "This fly is being tortured inside the internet" as if we don't already breed flies with no eyes, with extra sets of wings, and with legs where their antennae should be

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·J Mopp @jmopp.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

The word NOS used for the recent plague fatality in Siberia was 'pestdode', which on first read my mind translated as 'death by being bullied'

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·J Mopp @jmopp.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

It's called Ladbrokes because it makes a lad broke

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·J Mopp @jmopp.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

One of the things I like is seeing the vast array of languages and alphabets people use in this very international city. From the kid who's graffiti tag is his name in Berber, to the Syriac signage in front of that church on Keizersgracht. Today's Fun with Scripts was a car I saw that had old […]

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·J Mopp @jmopp.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

@raven "You're absolutely right. Vulcan is at heading 36, not 54. I used arccos instead of arcsin when computing the heading. Apologies, this was an oversight on my part"

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·J Mopp @jmopp.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

LLMs are bad for search, example 67: I tried searching "keeping your children's teeth" and the next-word predictor went with "keeping your children's teeth healthy" as opposed to what I actually wanted, which was to read about people who keep their children's teeth

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·J Mopp @jmopp.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Reject modernity (SI) Embrace tradition (klunky regional units of measurement based on the Pharaoh's forearm)

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·J Mopp @jmopp.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

In today's episode of Do Not Build the Torment Nexus, I just made the connection between OpenAI's Dots and the Doctor Who episode Dot and Bubble

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·J Mopp @jmopp.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Corporate Memphis implies the existence of Corporate Nashville

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Allen but one of the bad ones, woooo @uastronomer.mastodon.monoceros.co.za.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

If you ever want to explain the concept of Technical Debt to a linguist, just tell them "It's like why English is the way it is"

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·J Mopp @jmopp.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

@GrahamDowns @uastronomer Yep, it's "Hmm, it doesn't get as cold as it used to" and "I need to get an air conditioner" and not "Welp, parts of the tropics might become uninhabitable" and "What happens when crops in the Middle East and North Africa start to fail?"

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·J Mopp @jmopp.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Cursed thought for today: what would L. Ron Hubbard have thought about generative AI?

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·J Mopp @jmopp.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

What the fuck is Google's spellchecker smoking that it thinks "disadvantageising" is a word

A screenshot from an email draft. The text reads "...while disadvantaging smaller players". Google's spellchecker has a line under 'disadvantaging' and is suggesting the word 'disadvantageising'

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·J Mopp @jmopp.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

On this Heritage Day I'm wearing a shirt with a hadeda on it because Haaaaaa!

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·J Mopp @jmopp.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

The thing I miss most about being a kid is having an eidetic memory

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·J Mopp @jmopp.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

@michaelgraaf I still remember Santa's address: PO Box 1, North Pole

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·J Mopp @jmopp.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Separated by a common language: I say 'plum' but because I speak Seth Efrikan my teammate hears 'plem' and doesn't know what I'm on about

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·J Mopp @jmopp.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

People who contribute more to open-source than I do: Is there a licence that says "you can basically do what you want with this, except train AI"?

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·J Mopp @jmopp.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

git config --global alias.shove 'push --force'

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·J Mopp @jmopp.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

VOC (Volatile Organic Compound) mentaliteit

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·J Mopp @jmopp.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

Ran out of turpentine? Did all the paint thinners end up in your lungs instead of the cleaning bucket? You can also clean paintbrushes with cooking oil! Sign up to my newsletter for more arts and crafts tips

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·J Mopp @jmopp.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

"Fried Tofu with a Hint of Tyre Fire" is gonna be the title of my memoir

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·J Mopp @jmopp.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

One of the strangest scents I encounter whenever I walk around the city is the smell of cut grass mulching, which for some reason smells like tofu being fried with a hint of tyre fire

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·J Mopp @jmopp.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

"Piddington" doesn't sound like a real place. It sounds like a made-up name from an ordinary dystopia

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·J Mopp @jmopp.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

@feijoa I love Mark Wildman's exercises. The way he teaches is especially helpful for someone like me who has zero bodily awareness

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·J Mopp @jmopp.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

"Coalition wants an open marriage; Opposition wants monogamy" has to be the most 21st-century way of describing minority-government budget issues. #NLpol

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·J Mopp @jmopp.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

The dream of European Integration will be complete once I can return a German statiegeldfles in the Netherlands

A German 1l water bottle. In frame is the barcode, the German text 'Pfand-flasche'- literally 'deposit bottle', and a label saying the deposit is 25 cents

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·J Mopp @jmopp.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

@GrahamDowns @uastronomer One thing I like about South Africans is the tendency to ignore unjust laws en masse in order to force the government to change tack. Look at what happened with e-tolls. I expect any sun-tax would end up the same

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·J Mopp @jmopp.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

@kimvanwyk I would love the sort of place that would sell one all those in a single go. I was briefly considering joining mg friend in the dodgy fish foodstuff projectand making bokkoms, but I figure I had better make biltong first before giving that one a try

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·J Mopp @jmopp.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

I did a bunch of Good Things™ today: I went on a hardware store/paint/fish-heads-to-turn-into-garum adventure with my friend, I helped a stranger with some CAD, and I worked a bit on the horn headband that I'm making for Elfia. A few more days like this and I'll klap depression straight into orbit

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·J Mopp @jmopp.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

One of Ten Plagues sent to ravage Egypt was frogs. The original Hebrew has 'frog' in the singular. Rashi wrote that a single frog was summoned, which then split into two frogs when it was struck, and each of those frogs split in two when struck, and so on

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·J Mopp @jmopp.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

On a scale of 0 to Blatant Misinformation, how inaccurate is it to describe PLA as 'basically polymerised yoghurt' in an attempt to justify my 3D printing obsession

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·J Mopp @jmopp.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

I love a sea robin. Little fishy with creepy spider legs, ready to give an unsuspecting diver a jumpscare

A sea robin: an orange fish whose pelvic fins resemble spider's legs that it uses to walk on the reef

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·J Mopp @jmopp.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

@GrahamDowns There's a legend (not sure how true it is) that the Mercator map was encouraged for classrooms during the Cold War in the United States because it made Russia look extra big and menacing

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·J Mopp @jmopp.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

@GrahamDowns Yep, the mistake was indeed putting it on a classroom wall. The Mercator projection is for navigating in straight lines, nothing else

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·J Mopp @jmopp.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

@GrahamDowns I love 'little-endian' and 'big-endian' for the long and short scale

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·J Mopp @jmopp.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

@chris__martin It's true. I wanted to see the pillars of creation up close and now my cold corpse is floating through interstellar space

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·J Mopp @jmopp.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

The thing I really love about Virgil Donati's music is the way he uses rhythm in the same way that other musicians use melody. It's not just a single rhythm, or a polyrhythm, or 5 bars subdivided in the most beautifully off-kilter way. Those 5 bars tell a story: there's build-up, climax, and […]

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·J Mopp @jmopp.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

Economics is sometimes called the dismal science, owing to the very doomer view of early economists, that there's basically no way in improving the lot of the majority of people, and the masses are destined to live in an eternal state of squalor. I wonder whether this is because early economists […]

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·J Mopp @jmopp.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

Fun discovery of the day: Bern uses the same Combino trams that Amsterdam uses

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·J Mopp @jmopp.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

If I do come and live in Zermatt it would be to run a coffee place that opens at 6am. I mildly dislike that there's basically nowhere in Europe to get nice coffee soon after I wake up

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·J Mopp @jmopp.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

I love Swiss German because it's nice to be able to mumble a bunch of Afrikaans-accented German and still be understood

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·J Mopp @jmopp.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

RE: hachyderm.io/@datarama/117214107554… Ever printed a Dymaxion map and assembled it into an icosahedron? It's a fun exercise and you have a little d20 globe at the end of it

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·J Mopp @jmopp.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

@leoncowle @kimvanwyk Yep, I actually like South Africa, despite being an emigrant with mild Karen tendencies. I would like to keep open the option of taking my Dutch pension to South Africa when I retire. If the law does not in fact pass within the next few decades, one of my contingencies […]

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