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Lachlan Kingsford

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Lachlan Kingsford @kingsford.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Why is @microsoft.com #Outlook/#Exchange so awful at dealing with the volumes of email most of us in large orgs deal with? It's not unusual to need to do bulk operations with 1000s of emails, and it just farts a pathetic fart, filling the air with the stink of microfiche with vinegar syndrome.
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Lachlan Kingsford @kingsford.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Gulliver's Travels Agency
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Gingerspiced @gingerspiced.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*
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Lachlan Kingsford @kingsford.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
@xws.bsky.social Hey - listening to your discussion with SLOG (née Eggplant) - I think you'd love the work @lrlr.bsky.social had done with Minute cryptic (which is one of those rare puzzmo-y things I've done across) as well as some great writing on Cryptics which taught me the basics
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Lachlan Kingsford @kingsford.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Drawing my way through #Melbourne #Trains. Hey gunzels, can you pick anything inaccurate about this? I'm toying with making a lino cut and printing, but I'd rather know anything wrong whilst I'm on pencil before I grab the more permanent printmaking tools. #vline #art #drawing
Pencil sketch of the VR b83 b-class diesel locomotive with a semaphore style signal
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Lachlan Kingsford @kingsford.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
@lrlr.bsky.social Is WHO100%LE (4D) actually part of the clue, or the digital platform misbehaving?
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Lachlan Kingsford @kingsford.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Credit to Sarah and Jess Hendricx for this passage in 'Could I really be autistic?' I'd suggest that, given the target demographic, pointing at that 'If somebody gives this to you, they probably think you're #autistic' might not be too bad of an idea!
Relevant part from book: "We hope that this book will pique your curiosity at least; you likely wouldn't have bought it unless you had some suspicion of your potential autistic nature. If someone else bought you this book: they are trying to tell you something, and that something is that they suspect you may be autistic. Maybe give it a look, even if it's just to prove them wrong."
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Lachlan Kingsford @kingsford.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
OK - kinda proud of my second clue for this week's #CrypticCrossword #AOTW clue contest on r/crosswords 'A nat 20! See? Then, we slow down. (4)'
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Lachlan Kingsford @kingsford.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Making #Art is all well and good, but I keep being lost as to what I do with the finished products. #Printmaking #MelbourneTrains #Trams
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Brandon Williams @stupidartpunk.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Omph
okayayecee 21h
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Why do y'all have 2000 revisions for human designers but accept the first piece of trash A.l. spits out?
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Lachlan Kingsford @kingsford.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
It's amazing how restrained any other version of Classical Gas sounds after listening to wonderful #TommyEmmanuel versions. Glen Campbell does a great recording to, as obviously, is the Mason Williams original. #Guitar
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Lachlan Kingsford @kingsford.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Hot Take: the Trojan priestess Cassandra was not blessed or cursed. She just had #adhd.
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Lachlan Kingsford @kingsford.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
@thesaturdaypaper.com.au I've got a digital subscription... but kinda hate reading on my phone. Do you have any e-reader support, if I bought one?
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Lachlan Kingsford @kingsford.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
I don't know the mythology of the Black, Gold and White gates, but I feel like it's some #TwinPeaks style #horror. #lego
A red lego construction - lots of little edgy pieces, with a window in it.
A yellow lego construction - like two columns with a roof over a door and strange blackness behind.
A white lego construction - lots of little edgy pieces, with a window in itFocus on the yellow one, showing the symmetrical columns, and the weird black 'interior'A red lego construction - lots of little edgy pieces, with a window in it.
A yellow lego construction - like two columns with a roof over a door and strange blackness behind.
A white lego construction - lots of little edgy pieces, with a window in it
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Lachlan Kingsford @kingsford.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Every time Murray Lonie's name is mentioned, it should be like Brad being mentioned during a screening of Rocky Horror. #MelbourneTrains
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Lachlan Kingsford @kingsford.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Slightly increase a band The Velvet Ground Level
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Lachlan Kingsford @kingsford.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I recently got a joystick, and booted up #StarWars #TieFighter. That has got one of the best openings to a #game ever. That musical subversion right at the very start makes me almost laugh every time.
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Lachlan Kingsford @kingsford.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
@claireconnelly.bsky.social The little boy who never faced a consequence seems to continue along that line, but dragging down a global hegemony and Pax America in the process
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Masterful work, Mr Trump. You've smashed the Middle East, the global economy, cost thousands of lives and spent a billion dollars a day - all to give your enemy a toll both on the most important shipping lane in the world
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Lachlan Kingsford @kingsford.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
@patterned.bsky.social Hey - sorry for message out of nowhere, by somebody who doesn't follow you (... but I think I'm about to) - but any chance of me asking a couple of questions about linocut printmaking? Started lightly diving myself this week, but I'm trying to figure a couple of things out
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Lachlan Kingsford @kingsford.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
It's Saturday night, why not try yet another new medium? It's not perfect, but for the first time I've touched lino cutting since the year started with a 1, I'm actually really happy with how it turned out. #Art #Melbourne #MelbourneTram #Printmaking
Three prints of a tram. One is obviously not a great print.The best of the three prints of a tramLino board with the print carved out
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Lachlan Kingsford @kingsford.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Still deciding what I think of #SweetTransit. It's not really a #TTD clone, it's really not a #RailroadTycoon clone - it feels more like a settlement building game (maybe with a touch of Anno?) with Trains in it. It feels nice, and credit has to go to the team for their #SteamDeck input support.
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Lachlan Kingsford @kingsford.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Rat In A Stripy Sock by Frances Watts might have one of the greatest opening lines in #literature #PictureBooks #Books
Ink washed sketch of a city.

"The rain poured down like misery, washing the city in grey."
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Lachlan Kingsford @kingsford.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
@timharford.ft.com Hey - you're aware Cautionary Tales gets bundled with gambling ads to Australian IPs, right?
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Lachlan Kingsford @kingsford.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
I heard there was a power chord That David played when he was bored But you don't really care for metal, do ya? You play it fast, you play it quick, With 14 toms and double kick The screaming teen covering #Metallica #parody #music
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Lachlan Kingsford @kingsford.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Everything this #7drl season has gone badly. The timing just hasn't worked, and it's revealed some major bugs in my MCTS implementation I went in with (which is going to be helpful for other things). Still tempted to try to make the thing at the same limited scope. Maybe it'll be OK still.
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Lachlan Kingsford @kingsford.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Stuck in Emergency with toddler gave me my first chance to try learning #Bluey #drawing
Pencil drawing of the family from Bluey Bluey and Bingo dressed as Doctor and Patient 
'Quick! Nurse! I need my prescription pad! How do you spell amputate?'
'What's that mean?"Banjo dressed as Darth Vader 'No, Bluey - _I_ am your father!'
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Claire Connelly @claireconnelly.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
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Lachlan Kingsford @kingsford.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
What's Cpt Janeway's favourite punk rock song? Come out and play #StarTrek
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Lachlan Kingsford @kingsford.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I managed to include a reference to my favourite author in my #ddd talk. Come! If you're in #naarm/#melbourne, and you're in software engineering, you can see me let out of my cage to talk in public for the first ever time! www.dddmelbourne.com/agenda?sessi...
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Agenda - DDD Melbourne | 21st February 2026
DDD Melbourne agenda.
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Lachlan Kingsford @kingsford.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
@hollycummins.com Any hints for a first time tech speaker? You seemed extremely confident up there when I saw you in Melbourne, like a year ago.
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Lachlan Kingsford @kingsford.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
@ernerfeldt.bsky.social "egui is not a framework. egui is a library you call into, not an environment you program for." I don't think I can understate how happy this specific line in the readme makes me, particularly after the last few integrations I've had to do in my day job.
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Lachlan Kingsford @kingsford.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
@mode7games.bsky.social After your designer notes, I'm remembering how much I loved Cortex. Same part of my brain that loved Blood Bowl loved it. Gridiron adapts so well to turn based games.
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Kate Compton @galaxykate.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.
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Lachlan Kingsford @kingsford.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
The #music truth the world is not ready to hear is that #TheProclaimers could do a fantastic cover of Bad Romance
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Lachlan Kingsford @kingsford.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
We were at a fertility clinic yesterday for an IUI (that started as IVF :( ) and thought of some of the worst possible songs to play in a fertility clinic. My leading candidates were 'Billie Jean' and 'You can't always get what you want'. Any other suggestions? #infertility #music #GallowsHumour
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Lachlan Kingsford @kingsford.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Not every #Bowie song resonates well with me, but those that do are some of my favourite ever songs (and not just those recordings - Heroes is such a fantastic song, even when covered, and I've heard lots of them) #music
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Lachlan Kingsford @kingsford.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
You know that thing where your desire to help balance a board game results in learning a new language (Rust), a new algorithm in depth (MCTS), using it in a possibly novel way, learning how optimizers work...
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Lachlan Kingsford @kingsford.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Casus belli? #uspol
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Lachlan Kingsford @kingsford.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Reposting for any #Discworld fans - a little while back, I wrote a little bit of fan fiction in response to a question posed by the excellent #Pratchat podcast where the the origin of the Igors was raised. It's not perfect, but I'm happy with how it turned out. archiveofourown.org/works/59106043
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Lachlan Kingsford @kingsford.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
John Carpenter could have told the story of #StrangerThings in 90 minutes for each season, and at 1% of the budget
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Lachlan Kingsford @kingsford.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
#Cryptic #Crossword fans - got a clue for you from me. Nothing!? At least start! Just apply, don't just take the l. Early next year? I'm disappointed. (3,5,3)
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
If you are "moving at pace and breaking things" then I guarantee that 90% of the time you're creating issues for people further down the line to fix. This isn't the way to be operating as a human being unless you're knowingly choosing to be an arsehole.
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
If you run a business and get AI to design your logo, you are advertising to the World that you would prefer to have a shitty logo in order to save a few hundred quid and would be likely to cut corners elsewhere in your operation.
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Lachlan Kingsford @kingsford.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
I really loathe #Bunnings. If Mom from Futurama ran a hardware store, it would be Bunnings.
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Lachlan Kingsford @kingsford.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
@puzzmo.com Heya - ever considered an occasional cryptic crossword? I love the interface of your crosswords, but I'd love to see some of those weird wordplay clues in there. (But, I know that they're not for everybody, and they're a lot of work)
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Lachlan Kingsford @kingsford.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
There's a discussion on /r/crosswords to come up with some modern #cryptic clues - that aren't targeted at people over the age of 70. www.reddit.com/r/crosswords... I've made a couple of offerings. TBD if they're even solvable...
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From the crosswords community on Reddit: TOTW: Cryptics for the next generation!
Explore this post and more from the crosswords community
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Thomas “Scary” Fuchs 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 18/11/2025
It's fantastic how we technology people have managed to turn a network that's supposed to be resilient to a nuclear war into something so brittle it goes down when someone misconfigures like one file at Cloudflare
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Lachlan Kingsford @kingsford.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
ACL S18 (1): A person must not, in trade or commerce, engage in conduct that is misleading or deceptive or is likely to mislead or deceive. How the is the behaviour of #realestate agents acceptable? Every wall was stained, and the house physically stank.
Beautifully lit room, pristine white walls with mild gray aging.Actual photo of the same room, walls have a deep yellow stain
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Lachlan Kingsford @kingsford.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
The dirty secret that people who tell you you've just got to learn to accept change on it is that it's almost always bad. It's not always bad, but it's almost always bad. At the least, it's not good.
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