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Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO @jmaris.me · 17/10/2026

Give the people what they (really) want. #c15 #tesla #ElonMusk

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Zivan - Childless Cat Guy @zkrisher.tweesecake.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

I've got a new student, he is blind and requires voiceover to use his iPhone but his hands tremble quite harshly and he has fine control issues. He keeps double tapping accidentally and when he tries to tap voiceover often reads it as a swipe. I understand that touch accommodations are still […]

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Kim @kim.fedi.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

@quixoticgeek@social.v.st This is generally the difference between subtitles for the deaf ('SDH') and foreign language subs that only translate the dialogue. Doing them well (especially where music or comic timing is involved) is an art form.

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Kim @kim.fedi.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

[AI map of NYC that broke my husband] @futurebird@sauropods.win I mean, I say 'geographically plausible', assuming you discount the weird perspective, the bridges that don't make sense and whatever happening in New Jersey.

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Kim @kim.fedi.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

[AI map of NYC that broke my husband] @futurebird@sauropods.win Can confirm. My knowledge of NYC is entirely from popular culture, and it looks geographically plausible, if ugly as hell.

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Kim @kim.fedi.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

@fooflington@infosec.exchange Maybe you could write them a letter? :clippy:

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Kim @kim.fedi.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

@futurebird@sauropods.win Aren't they all?

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

A remake of They Live but the glasses replace AI slop with the prompt.

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Kim @kim.fedi.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

@Edent@mastodon.social Ooh, that looks nice. I love the scroll ring on my Expert Mouse one.

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Kim @kim.fedi.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Achievement unlocked: COVID-19 vaccine, with bonus free flu jab.

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Challenge: wrong answers only My guess: "Not bloody Liz Truss again!!"

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Queen Elizabeth's Final
Diary Entry Contained
Only Five Words

(Photo of Queen Elizabeth II)

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Kim @kim.fedi.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

@quixoticgeek@social.v.st Yeah, and in those days even Canterbury to London wasn't a trivial journey: Real risk of hypothermia, tweenagers signing Craig David for three hours and, on a bad day, having to change at Faversham.

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SpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Happy "Charles Darwin is poorly today" Day to those who celebrate 165 years ago today, Charles Darwin was having a rough one

Photo of Charles Darwin's hand-written journal entry from 1 Oct 1861 and digitized text of same

"But I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything."

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Kim @kim.fedi.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

@MikeFromLFE@cupoftea.social At some point in the early 1990s I accidentally discovered that TOTP was broadcast with full teletext subtitles of all the song lyrics. It immediately became essential family viewing, as we found out what the words to whatever we'd been hearing on the radio that week […]

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Kim @kim.fedi.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Bit of a long shot, but is anyone else seeing the @octopusenergy@bird.makeup REST API return consumption in a random order when used with the `order_by=period` option? This appears to be what's broken my stick-meter-readings-into-rrdtool script. (It returns them correctly in reverse […]

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Kim @kim.fedi.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

@futurebird@sauropods.win @davidgerard@circumstances.run surprised they used 'women' rather than 'females'...

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Kim @kim.fedi.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

@jezhiggins@mastodon.me.uk I think they're merging, presumably into winter-een-mas.

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Kim @kim.fedi.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

@MikeFromLFE@cupoftea.social That venue is always a bit stressful as an organiser, but I think it was worth it. Everyone seemed to have fun, and a few riders, especially our juniors, were going really well.

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Kim @kim.fedi.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

Absolutely knackered after a successful weekend of #BHPC racing at #Betteshanger. There are a couple more bumps in the track surface than I remember from riding un-faired two years ago. Also, someone appears to have tightened up the bends. Came a resounding second in everything, and managed to […]

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Kim @kim.fedi.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

@TimWardCam@c.im @quixoticgeek@social.v.st Unless the train crew have used it as a bin.

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Kim @kim.fedi.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

@quixoticgeek@social.v.st Ah yes, the magic of buying two of them...

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Kim @kim.fedi.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

All packed. How do we have so much kit? I didn't even bring an emergency backup Ethernet switch or a stepladder this time...

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Kim @kim.fedi.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Still time to register for the #BHPC racing at #Betteshanger this weekend. Looks like it might stay dry, so the main enemy will be wind... www.bhpc.org.uk/race-day

shop.bhpc.org.uk

BHPC Shop. Race Sign-on

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Kim @kim.fedi.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

@MikeFromLFE@cupoftea.social @b0rk@social.jvns.ca It's what people who are too nerdy to have anything to do with SharePoint use to accidentally destroy their data.

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Kim @kim.fedi.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

@Edent@mastodon.social This could be a game changer for some disabled people. Hopefully it'll catch on enough to become a viable option for those who need it.

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Kim @kim.fedi.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

@quixoticgeek@social.v.st @mjr@masto.bike Yeah, they're the ones that make me cough it out if I try to take two doses back-to-back. Never got that with the CFC ones. I think they're going to push me to powder inhalers soon, which I hope are better than the ones I had in the 80s.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Your feel-good story of the day: This 12-year-old kid who went viral at the 2021 Tour of Britain has signed for a Dutch grassroots club and development team that's a feeder partner of Team Visma-Lease a Bike (the team of the rider who gave him the bidon). www.cyclingnews.com/pro-cycling/...

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Kim @kim.fedi.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

@futurebird@sauropods.win www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYFcTWKcuQM shows this strategy scaled to its logical conclusion. (Also, the goal keepers are hilarious.)

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Kim @kim.fedi.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

TIL that Frontier Psychiatrist has a video, and it's everything that you'd hope it would be. RE: mastodon.social/users/jwz/statuses/…

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Kim @kim.fedi.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Fellow non-Americans: How old were you when you realised that "Lewis and Clark" was nothing to do with Superman?

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Kim @kim.fedi.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

@suearcher@toot.wales Good thing the exception handler didn't throw an exception, or you'd never have got that message...

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Kim @kim.fedi.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

@quixoticgeek@social.v.st Presumably some Harry-Tuttle-style guerilla silicone-appliers.

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Kim @kim.fedi.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

@mhoye@cosocial.ca @gabrielesvelto@mas.to @dalias@hachyderm.io I've previously suggested that 'screen time' is about as meaningful as 'chair time'.

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Xamanismo Coletivo @eliasulrich.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

"One guy in #Sweden built a #searchengine to fight Google, and it works. It's called #MarginaliaSearch. It runs its own #crawler and builds its own #index instead of borrowing Bing's. It has no ads, no investors, and no loans. What it does differently: it ranks for text-heavy, non-commercial […]

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Kim @kim.fedi.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

@sheddi@mstdn.party @quixoticgeek@social.v.st I think a fair amount of it would have been about regulating pressure: With a local header tank, the pressure at the taps (and, unlike with combi boilers, hot water temperature) stays more or less the same, even if someone else in the house uses […]

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Home Improvement Saturday New artwork for the guest bathroom

Photo of a bathroom wall above the toilet. A black-framed painting of a cat peering in from the right side of the frame, with text above and below it that reads "Welcome to the Bathroom A Cat will be with You Shortly"

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Kim @kim.fedi.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

There's another one of it sitting on a toilet with the lid down, reading a book cross-eyed. And one of it in a bath having a shower with perspective problems.

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Kim @kim.fedi.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

This campsite has framed slop of a cutesey highland coo eating bogroll in the toilet block. I have no idea why.

Generative image of a cute Ewok-like highland cow, sitting on its back legs on the floor of a bathroom with mutant toilet/sink hybrid plumbing. The cow appears to have been caught naughtily nibbling a toilet roll, with sheets hanging out of some unseen orface in the fur behind its mouth/nose. Gills, perhaps? Another toilet roll lies on the floor in front, because our naught cow is also a greedy cow.

This has been colour printed, framed and hung in the toilet block of a campsite, where you would normally expect to find adverts for Camping and Caravanning Club member benefits, or Boomer memes about caravanning.

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Kim @kim.fedi.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

The problem with the Cotswolds from a cycling perspective, apart from the Ranger Rover drivers, is that they do an awful lot of upping and downing with nothing much to show for it.

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Kim @kim.fedi.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

Back in cycle-camping mode with the ALC at Chipping Norton, which I can confirm is still at the top of a bastard hill. It was finally cool enough to use my long-suffering Akto, which is considerably easier to fit on the bike than the three-person Decathlon blackout tent I used on the last trip […]

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Kim @kim.fedi.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

@MikeFromLFE@cupoftea.social Note that when an LLM does this you're not actually catching it out and getting it to admit to anything. It's doing the only thing it ever does, and generating some text that looks like an appropriate response to a prompt: A response to a challenge of bias might […]

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Kim @kim.fedi.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

@futurebird@sauropods.win To be fair, I do that too.

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Kim @kim.fedi.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

@quixoticgeek@social.v.st No, none of the BHPC streamliners are. Even the ones with landing gear (which solves about 90% of the starting-and-stopping) problem, have a very restricted view, limited turning circle, gearing for a nominally flat race track, no redundant braking (Notso's unusual in […]

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Kim @kim.fedi.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

@quixoticgeek@social.v.st Bomb-bay doors let your feet touch the ground, but limit how wide apart you can spread them. Can just about hold the bike upright in still air if you don't try and do anything else like fiddle with the lid. Standard procedure is to have someone ready to catch the bike […]

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Kim @kim.fedi.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

@quixoticgeek@social.v.st Racing the _Notso_ (Leaper "Not-So-Low") streamliner for the last couple of seasons. At some point at the start of this year I stopped falling over due to general n00b bike-handling incompetence and started crashing due to racing too hard for the conditions.

A cream (with white patches, where repairs have been painted with non-matching paint) streamliner bicycle, viewed from the front.

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