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Luis @lbruno.org · 13/09/2026

lane keeping in tesla is a per-month subscription also, the UI goes fully distracting mode

Tesla dashboard in an Irish car showing what they call level 1 automation: lane keeping, on a active UI w/ a literal scrolling rainbow road to distract the driver

Luis @lbruno.org · 12/09/2026

this below could form part of the solution

Luis @lbruno.org · 22/08/2026

did yous see that charlie murray author of the bell curve was trying to get to be a signatory too

Luis @lbruno.org · 21/08/2026

here's he in the company of others he's in communion of ideas with [Hanania and moldybug] racists of a feather flocking together

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Luis @lbruno.org · 21/08/2026

... that bottom margin on the actual text inside each box is 99% right i have a long history of finding typos in printed marketing material after it came back from the printers and tri-folded etc [Firefox, Android]

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Luis @lbruno.org · 20/08/2026

if you don't know who these other two are, it's probably best if i don't explain

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Luis @lbruno.org · 18/08/2026

``` but look, you found the notice, right? yeah, yes i did, at the back of a disused wall in tiny font, behind a pair of extinguishers emblazoned with “beware of the leopard” ``` this is how a place in town meets their GDPR obligation to notify people that there's CCTV in operation

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Luis @lbruno.org · 17/08/2026

gotta be the height of hypocrisy to write a fiction book about a Britain paralysed by the incompetence of the those with more breeding than objective merit -- and then does that and you must have stumbled on his sprout current Lord Young on twitter, @toadmeister and probably blocked him too

Luis @lbruno.org · 12/08/2026

Google knows this number as being the Central Statistics Office but they had been marking it as spam automatically, and didn't show any info until I manually clicked “not spam” now it confesses that the number was known to be the CSO cc @csoireland.bsky.social i didn't pick up your calls

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Luis @lbruno.org · 10/08/2026

proud of my birth country for having the wherewithal to create a digital vaccination record system and back filling in everyone's data

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Luis @lbruno.org · 09/08/2026

how dafuq is polio coming back, the last American on an iron lung just died mid July this year ““Wastewater Detections in Developed Nations: In recent years, health authorities detected traces of poliovirus in sewage systems in major metropolitan areas like London, New York, and parts of Germany”””

As of August 2026, Martha Ann Lillard was the last known American to rely on an iron lung, having passed away on June 26, 2026, at the age of 78. Lillard contracted polio in 1953 at five years old, leaving her paralyzed with severely limited lung capacity. For over seven decades, she relied on the negative-pressure ventilator to breathe. Her death from chronic pulmonary failure and post-polio syndrome followed the breakdown of her vintage machine and a battle with long-haul COVID-19.

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Luis @lbruno.org · 07/08/2026

slightly different manifestation of the same “i'm an auld one” topic -- me at chapters earlier looking very giggly w/ my find in the second-hand desk

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Luis @lbruno.org · 04/08/2026

look at all this anti-social housing built up here in Dublin 1, >17 stories, with even further hidden behind these, and at least 3 new whole blocks being built to the right we can't have that in this little country that couldn't -- i may be extra salty today re: planning objections

Luis @lbruno.org · 02/08/2026

alt text: google are a shower of chancers who sent me the wrong way i'm sure AI would solve this ofc /s

Luis @lbruno.org · 30/07/2026

will you look at that, famous enabler of neil's depredations also has only good words to say about the deceased groomer i haven't checked if gaiman himself also has similarly rosy and carefully edited opinions re: grooming, but then again i don't need to check

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Luis @lbruno.org · 30/07/2026

symmetrical 200Mbps w/ 100ms rtt is pretty nice for hotel WiFi

Luis @lbruno.org · 30/07/2026

i can recommend the kallax from ikea over their standard billy: the former has enough depth to stack two rows of books the extra few centimeters pay off

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Luis @lbruno.org · 21/07/2026

in relative terms the USA is also ripping off its citizens, electricity-wise [see below] but that's still 0.18eur/kWh, vs the 0.29eur/kWh rate i'm on, before the yearly standing charge, PSO levy and sales tax

Luis @lbruno.org · 14/07/2026

the eejits in the group just ahead of us threw a lighter with fluid still remaining

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Luis @lbruno.org · 12/07/2026

didn't find video of that, but saw this pic

Luis @lbruno.org · 12/07/2026

the local fire brigade today recommended that everyone should test their smoke alarms

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Luis @lbruno.org · 07/07/2026

heh, so my item is being prepared for delivery again uh ;)

Luis @lbruno.org · 06/07/2026

wouldn't more books [to displace the tchotchkes] solve this? btw my better half found that the IKEA Kallax has enough depth for two layers of books, so you can put shorter ones on cardboard "pedestals” at the back to have them peek above shorter ones in the front [or tall ones in the back, etc]

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Luis @lbruno.org · 26/06/2026

one would hope that, after 14yrs, someone would've explained how that's the whole exact point: the last note from the titular song in The Phantom of the Opera is meant to be a blood-curdling scream

Luis @lbruno.org · 23/06/2026

ah, the experience of having to deal w/ mygovid's “verification failed” “you can get a PSC online, just use the app!” said app's welcoming screen on first run: “this page is not available -- retry” [endless retry loop ineffective]

Luis @lbruno.org · 10/06/2026

[correction to the above: lockups are in fact earlier, i forgot that they also didn't abide by the usual 6 months so i'd expect any wave to end no later than early Dec, but the first 10-Q is in early Q4, and lockups start opening as early as August note also how they don't do blackout windows!!]

Luis @lbruno.org · 06/06/2026

lol, my blood pressure is off-by-1 from the reference 120/80 values ;) the resting heart rate on the other hand? oh my

Luis @lbruno.org · 30/05/2026

i hate this pattern Substack uses: big-arse banner on their web layout saying “read distraction-free on [the app] ➡️” you put the distractions in your own layout arses

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Luis @lbruno.org · 29/05/2026

cue the guy telling me that deepseek is not suitable because it's beholden to gov restrictions

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Luis @lbruno.org · 24/05/2026

it's when they start talking about automating lawyers and >accountants< that you can just assume “eejit” and not worth listening to then again, the eejit was moaning about Portugal the other day, because customs forced him to open his bags off his private jet -- here's what he had to say:

Luis @lbruno.org · 23/05/2026

how did Netflix stretch a 17sec fight into 3 whole hours?!

Luis @lbruno.org · 17/05/2026

shittier version of that Sistine painting

pictures of drunkard pete hegseth and papa don trump, juxtaposed pointing at each other

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Luis @lbruno.org · 11/05/2026

just realised that this building has these girders outside, placed after the fact a literal hack around

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Luis @lbruno.org · 08/05/2026

there's no objective in Taiwan which China needs to win by destruction, when all they have to do is just sit back and wait for the USA to piss people off essentially the theme behind this cover

cover of The Economist: meme of Xi in focus looking at Trump [out of focus] from behind, carelessly smirking --with sun tzu's famous dictum: “never interrupt your enemy when he's making a mistake”

Luis @lbruno.org · 04/05/2026

ah apologies i see now that i was unclear: i hadn't meant turn back as in return to departing airport, but the 270-ish degree turn to the Hudson deff shows both bridges

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Luis @lbruno.org · 03/05/2026

here's example food, in the off chance you hadn't seen the shoe-sole spam [the small portions -- all those empty holes -- were apparently also a problem]

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Luis @lbruno.org · 29/04/2026

what works make a pedestrian more visible to a driver at night? missing the option “have the driver's eyes not in their phone” here

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Luis @lbruno.org · 24/04/2026

zooming in at this picture of a matador taking a bull's horn straight up the arse i think i'd make a much wider pain faced if i had been uh faced with this situation first-hand looks like yer man is indrawing his breath like someone who's thinking “yikes!”

Luis @lbruno.org · 18/04/2026

re-watching Stargate SG-1, their depictions of a black hole don't include the grav effect that lets us see the far-side, tilted upwards they still show it as a flat disk: which it is, just not visible as such to us in our frame of reference cc @kweenmedb.bsky.social our Irish science correspondent

Luis @lbruno.org · 16/04/2026

anyway, more background info: the breakers [or MCBs] are over-current protection, or in other words: to protect the wiring itself if there's a short that allows a ton of current to flow, causing sparks and eventually a fire MCBs won't trip if the current is passing through a person here's my board

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Luis @lbruno.org · 13/04/2026

```Taoiseach accuses Opposition parties of supporting blockade``` our prime minister here, gormless as can be

Luis @lbruno.org · 11/04/2026

it's much worse than that

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Luis @lbruno.org · 11/04/2026

personally i think it's deeply offensive to be held for ransom by the sort of thick-mince brainef arse who thinks Papa Don Trump has nothing to do with this

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One person in one group asked if protesters should blockade Donald Trump's Doonbeg hotel, to which someone replied: “He's got nothing to do with it so no”

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Luis @lbruno.org · 04/04/2026

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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Luis @lbruno.org · 24/03/2026

i hadn't realized that the parking people would move people's cars somewhere else before putting the boot on them it kinda makes sense in hindsight