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Justin Bird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @justinjbird.com · 17h

Yeah which is how I ended up posting into the Bluesky crowd. What a time to be alive...

Justin Bird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @justinjbird.com · 17h

I was convinced that I read a thing saying PBIP had moved to general availability but now I can't find the thing. Am I imagining it??

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Justin Bird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @justinjbird.com · 29/09/2026

So tired of this shit. PSR, amortisation, leveraged buyouts, academy pure profit, inflated transfers fees, cross company asset sales. A fucking sport driven by creative accounting.

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Justin Bird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @justinjbird.com · 26/09/2026

A party responsible for Wales that has the interests of Wales at heart is such a refreshing change 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 ❤️

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Justin Bird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @justinjbird.com · 25/09/2026

RetroData is tomorrow! TEN HOURS of free practical learning. 16:00 UTC+1 Jean-Pierre Riehl on what agentic analytics can learn from decades of BI semantics. 17:00 UTC+1 Edward Pollack closes the day with parameter sniffing, and why the quick fixes hurt later. swfta.uk/retro-beta

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Retro Data Beta, Sat, Sep 26, 2026, 8:00 AM | Meetup

Our agenda is live! 📅 Saturday, September 26, 2026 📅 🕜 8:00 am ⭐️ SUPERCHARGE YOUR DASHBOARDS WITH POWER BI We’ll explore advanced techniques for optimizing data models

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Justin Bird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @justinjbird.com · 24/09/2026

It is RetroData week! Saturday brings TEN HOURS of free practical learning. 14:00 UTC+1 Daniel Patkos on Power BI and GitHub - PBIP, TMDL and CI/CD from a real five person BI team. 15:00 UTC+1 @kleegeek.bsky.social on SQL Server indexes and statistics, from the ground up. swfta.uk/retro-beta

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Retro Data Beta, Sat, Sep 26, 2026, 8:00 AM | Meetup

Our agenda is live! 📅 Saturday, September 26, 2026 📅 🕜 8:00 am ⭐️ SUPERCHARGE YOUR DASHBOARDS WITH POWER BI We’ll explore advanced techniques for optimizing data models

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Justin Bird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @justinjbird.com · 23/09/2026

I thought etl was dead, it's all so confusing 😆

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Justin Bird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @justinjbird.com · 23/09/2026

It is RetroData week! Saturday brings TEN HOURS of free practical learning. 12:00 UTC+1 Kristyna Ferris on turning OLTP data into a star schema Power BI actually likes. 13:00 UTC+1 Joanna Hryniewicz on the questions worth asking before anyone opens Power BI Desktop. <https://swfta.uk/retro-beta>

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Retro Data Beta, Sat, Sep 26, 2026, 8:00 AM | Meetup

Our agenda is live! 📅 Saturday, September 26, 2026 📅 🕜 8:00 am ⭐️ SUPERCHARGE YOUR DASHBOARDS WITH POWER BI We’ll explore advanced techniques for optimizing data models

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Justin Bird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @justinjbird.com · 23/09/2026

That is fair, my skim read didn’t get past “Unify systems with AI-powered integration”

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Justin Bird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @justinjbird.com · 23/09/2026

Ok, but what is Azure Integration Ser…OH FK NO!!!

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Justin Bird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @justinjbird.com · 22/09/2026

It is RetroData week! Saturday brings TEN HOURS of free practical learning. 10:00 UTC+1 @2meterdba.bsky.social on picking an Azure SQL DB tier - real projects, real costs, and a test script you can take away. 11:00 UTC+1 @marcorus.bsky.social goes inside the VertiPaq engine. swfta.uk/retro-beta

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Retro Data Beta, Sat, Sep 26, 2026, 8:00 AM | Meetup

Our agenda is live! 📅 Saturday, September 26, 2026 📅 🕜 8:00 am ⭐️ SUPERCHARGE YOUR DASHBOARDS WITH POWER BI We’ll explore advanced techniques for optimizing data models

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Simon Späti 🏔️ @ssp.sh · 22/09/2026

You can drop DuckDB into a static webpage with one script tag. www.ssp.sh/brain/run-d...

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Justin Bird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @justinjbird.com · 21/09/2026

It is RetroData week! Saturday brings TEN HOURS of free practical learning. 08:00 UTC+1 Shubhangi Goyal on Power BI dashboards - models, DAX and performance tuning. 09:00 UTC+1 Bas Land on building medallion architecture in Fabric. www.meetup.com/retro-data/e...

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Retro Data Beta, Sat, Sep 26, 2026, 8:00 AM | Meetup

Our agenda is live! 📅 Saturday, September 26, 2026 📅 🕜 8:00 am ⭐️ SUPERCHARGE YOUR DASHBOARDS WITH POWER BI We’ll explore advanced techniques for optimizing data models

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Justin Bird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @justinjbird.com · 18/09/2026

A significant amount of my brain power goes towards keeping the calendars of my many personas in sync. Whoever solves this problem will get all my money.

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Justin Bird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @justinjbird.com · 17/09/2026

Prince Charles raising concerns about AI being in the wrong hands feels about 3 years too late...

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Jhey ʕ·ᴥ·　ʔ @jhey.dev · 17/09/2026

one does not simply reveal a password 👁️

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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 16/09/2026

I've got a lot of work to do today but I'm getting absolutely nerdsniped by the new Flock dataset. You can download it here. It's all of the Android partitions extracted from a Flock device ddosecrets.org/article/floc...

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Flock ALPR camera - Distributed Denial of Secrets

Filesystem images of the partitions on an in-use Flock ALPR camera, including custom Android APK files installed on the device, as well as its recorded media. The data reveals how the devices track bo...

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Justin Bird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @justinjbird.com · 14/09/2026

Where does this goal sit in the history of most iconic Manchester derby winners...?

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Justin Bird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @justinjbird.com · 12/09/2026

You have a doctor’s subsidy being a prime member?

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Justin Bird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @justinjbird.com · 12/09/2026

I stopped using Amazon entirely and my life is unchanged 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Justin Bird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @justinjbird.com · 05/09/2026

The audio sensory overload was too much. Some sort of weird zombie-with-verbal-diarrhoea apocalypse.

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Justin Bird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @justinjbird.com · 05/09/2026

Sheesh this freaked me out. I just turned it on, show me all the people, really naive click click click. Stand up from the camp fire, suddenly lots of feed people running towards me all talking at once, started running, people are running after me blurting out their feed, had to shut it down 😂😂

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Justin Bird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @justinjbird.com · 05/09/2026

It’s become very fragmented hasn’t it. Twitter was the place, now there is no place.

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Data centers

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Justin Bird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @justinjbird.com · 03/09/2026

Until Apple released macOS Yosemite, and someone heard me say it out loud and looked at me funny 🤔 I pronounced it that way 🫣 I also grew up on Looney Tunes, including Yosemite Sam, and just never joined the dots!

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Justin Bird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @justinjbird.com · 31/08/2026

To qualify, wasn't just a random point at YouTube, watched it a few weeks back. Equal parts interesting research / disturbing insight.

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Justin Bird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @justinjbird.com · 29/08/2026

PERSERVERANCE Because today is the day that my hooman will let me lick the plate.

Maple, our golden poochon in focus to the right of the photo. She is laying down on the floor, looking up at me. Out of focus to the left of the photo and on my lap is my plate.

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Justin Bird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @justinjbird.com · 29/08/2026

Even that makes no sense, almost convinced myself that the CAPITALS WERE ALPHA or it was regional but then POWYS is in there

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Elmo Shrug

Alt: Elmo Shrug

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Justin Bird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @justinjbird.com · 29/08/2026

Taken me a stupid amount of time to find Newport, because Walsall, Portsmouth, THEN NEWPORT, Antrim & Newtownabbey, Bradford. I almost think I worked out some weird pattern, and then...

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Justin Bird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @justinjbird.com · 29/08/2026

The @microsoftlearn.bsky.social cert registration page must have THE most baffling list I have ever seen. Hmmm where is Cardiff? Not in the Cs...it's next to North Licolnshire (5 hours NE of me) and Somerset (40 mins S of me). Sometimes alpha sort, sometimes entirely random.

The county drop down which lists (in order):

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE
NORTHUMBERLAND
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
Orkney Islands
OXFORDSHIRE
POWYS
RENFREWSHIRE
Scottish Borders, The
SHROPSHIRE
SOMERSET
Cardiff
North Lincolnshire
Sheffield
STAFFORDSHIRE
Stirling
SUFFOLK
SURREY
Newcastle upon Tyne
WARWICKSHIRE
Swansea

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Justin Bird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @justinjbird.com · 27/08/2026

Or maybe it's the extensions in Edge, or maybe it's both, but everything is just so slick lately.

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Call for Data Speakers @callfordataspeakers.com · 27/08/2026

Call for speakers: Fabric February 2027 sessionize.com/fabric-february-2027…

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Justin Bird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @justinjbird.com · 26/08/2026

Presumably you want to ask how to set up a decent quiz AMIRITE @phlaimeaux.bsky.social

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Justin Bird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @justinjbird.com · 26/08/2026

What is going to take longer to get used to is bobbing up and down in teams meetings. Especially when most of the time I look at myself. Understand that that is a focus / distraction thing, not a narcissist thing!!! But now even I am distracting 😂

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Justin Bird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @justinjbird.com · 26/08/2026

Yep, aching feet, niggles in the calves, lower back...I am ramping up slowly with max 60 min on, the at least 60 min off etc but yes I got totally engrossed in a coding thing one of the days and yes when I came up for air I had been walking for over 3 hours 😂🫣

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