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I feel like this is a round of Only Connect "I'll take twisted flax, please Victoria"

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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Andy Toone @lockfarm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

By all accounts she was a powerhouse, who genuinely cared for people. A sad loss.

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Andy Toone @lockfarm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In the AI goldrush, Nvidia are selling the shovels. But companies are now being given high valuations *because they've got a huge back order of shovels* "Trust me, bro. We're going to have so much gold the moment those shovels arrive. Some time next year. Bro, I need your money now."

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Andy Toone @lockfarm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I find this frustrating - what exactly would give you control? This is like the many leaders saying that Mandani couldn't make changes in New York. Brexit may have been a shitshow, but our politicians have had many choices to at least make things better. "Oh we couldn't do anything" is a lie.

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Andy Toone @lockfarm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

As someone who lived through the 90's London clubbing scene in all its excess (IYKYK), it's depressing to me that twenty something years later the supposed smartest of the next generation do not understand basic respect and consent. Maybe they missed that class in college

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Andy Toone @lockfarm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Chrissie Hynde doing her stuff on TV and damn she's a legend. The world can do what it wants, and she's just going to keep on playing her music the way she like.

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Andy Toone @lockfarm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I once travelled for three hours to get to an interview (the recruiter badly misled me about how 'close' it was). The interviewer sat me in a windowless office, and offered me a drink. "Yes, please"... he returned a minute or two later with a plastic cup of water. No, I didn't take the job.

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Andy Toone @lockfarm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A few years ago I said Google was changing search to keep users within its platform rather than handing them over to websites. That was even before AI took off. Many IT professionals told me I was wrong and search was "better than ever". Now we're getting this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaZU...

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Google Is Killing the Internet Entrepreneur's Dream

YouTube video by Neil Patel

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Andy Toone @lockfarm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Well, this looks good. Brad Bird clearly having fun. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL-x...

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Ray Gunn | Official Trailer | Netflix

YouTube video by Netflix

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Andy Toone @lockfarm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

OK, so I've sorted out tax and finances for now, so I can pay bills. That means I can hopefully pick up a bit of VideoBeast development after having to hold my breath for a couple of months. If I could just arrange to win the lottery, this would be a lot easier...

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Andy Toone @lockfarm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm outside of the games industry looking in and... oh boy. I've read articles stating the claims of collapse are overblown, and just as many people are employed now as ever... But to me it looks like a slow running car crash, with any sort of small or independent studio being eviscerated.

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Andy Toone @lockfarm.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I'll watch SNL just for Ania Magliano and Paddy Young killing the news section. The rest feels weaker to me, I'm not a fan of sketches that don't know how to end - there's a feel of "this is a funny thing to do, so let's do it until people laugh". But then they hit a note and off we go again..

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Andy Toone @lockfarm.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Enshittification - convince everyone they can provide a service purely supported by adverts, then collapse the advertising market so that they earn no money. Then watch as people convince themselves that endlessly hopping from one failing free service to the next is normal.

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Andy Toone @lockfarm.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

What's this? You can't have enough Z80 computers in your life! youtu.be/lX_Jb-KYo8o?...

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Z80/Z180 Retro computer overview 2026

YouTube video by Custom PC Hardware

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Andy Toone @lockfarm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Half of this is down to requirements for consumer protection, but... yeah.

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Andy Toone @lockfarm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Hmmm.. Question Time is going to be filmed locally next week. To be in the audience, you have to submit two questions. So, hive mind - what questions would you want asked?

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Andy Toone @lockfarm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Well, that's a depressing read. Why is it apparently so hard to be normal? Or... conversely, why is it so profitable to be an asshole?

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Andy Toone @lockfarm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Not just nice to hear - vital to hear. This is what those "legitimate concerns" seek to conceal - families being driven out of their homes by bigots.

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Andy Toone @lockfarm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I've just realised that a portion of the enthusiasm for AI comes from the same people who evangelically embraced the Filofax. There's a dream that your life is so full of *stuff* that if only you could organise it you would be efficient, successful and one of those cool guys with a digital watch.

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Andy Toone @lockfarm.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I'm based in the UK, but Mitch McConnell keeps turning up in my timeline... like a ghost. Gotta say though that the little bit of video of him recently seems to show a guy with an expression that says, "You have no idea how much drugs they've pumped into me. I can taste the colour of music!"

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Andy Toone @lockfarm.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Ah. The penny drops. Of course they want to talk up dangers of catastrophic AI. It's the obvious step to banning local AI models ("they could destroy the world!") which would otherwise be an existential threat to the guys who're spending trillions on datacentres. "Trust us to run it, we're safe!"

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Andy Toone @lockfarm.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This might be going against the grain, but the accounts excitedly talking up the devolved nations leaving the UK seem to be wilfully ignoring the mess they've made of devolved matters, and the global problems we face. How about we fix the house before we try annexing the bedrooms?

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Andy Toone @lockfarm.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Hold music that keeps on cutting out and pausing as though your call has just been put through, only to replay the same "Thanks for waiting" message every 20 seconds or so... National government service can't even give a waiting time estimate.

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Andy Toone @lockfarm.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Jo Pasquale just made Grace Dent make a noise I don't think I've ever heard on national TV. I like a good burger, and clearly so does she. #celebritymasterchef

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Andy Toone @lockfarm.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Does my network know any authors that do book tours who could chat about an idea?

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Andy Toone @lockfarm.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

A common feature of all of the abusive individuals, politicians and corporations we currently seem to be surrounded by is that there is absolutely no consequence to them whatsoever for their abuse. Our legal, financial and political systems have calcified into immobility.

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Andy Toone @lockfarm.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The irony here being that the BBC strenuously attempts to "both sides" nearly every debate, resulting in them giving a disproportionate amount of time to cranks, activists and liars who've built an entire industry around legitimising niche viewpoints.

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Andy Toone @lockfarm.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I (briefly) mixed in a niche slightly celebrity group, which for a decade or so was a weak claim to fame. These days though I'd have to prefix every other story with "Of course, he's been accused/convicted of awful things since then." And I wouldn't dare vouch for the others because what do I know?

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Andy Toone @lockfarm.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Amazon's market dominance has actually destroyed adjacent industries, as well as inflating prices across entire market segments and destroying our ability to comparison shop and effectively find the best product for our needs. Here's how:

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Andy Toone @lockfarm.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The extent to which the UK has destroyed its mobile workforce is insane. In the war against contractors, a contractor earning the same salary as the equivalent senior role is likely paying double the tax. Double. And most of that is passed on to the employer as a cost. We're taxing expertise.

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Andy Toone @lockfarm.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I can't think of a better way to "encourage" bullying than preventing teachers from being able to talk about differences between pupils.

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Andy Toone @lockfarm.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Panic's handling of Playdate is the way consoles and games should be done - players and ecosystem, not specs and tariffs.

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Andy Toone @lockfarm.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Despite challenging times, I still have the ambition of getting the Beast platform to Gamescom one day - there is a roadmap! But now I've found out I need to take a tractor as well? Would a beaten up old Massey Ferguson do?

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Andy Toone @lockfarm.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Facebook is almost entirely populated by people who go to great lengths to justify terrible opinions with astonishingly incorrect information. ..and my family. And various old friends and colleagues. The network effect as an anchor to bullshit.

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Andy Toone @lockfarm.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Wait, what?! (ILC1-1/7 VFD display - officially now the thing I want most).

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Andy Toone @lockfarm.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The colour known as "bathroom avocado".

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Andy Toone @lockfarm.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

It always fascinates me that the most enthusiastic boosters on LinkedIn are also the ones most vulnerable to AI doing a passible impression of a white collar knowledge worker.

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circuitbenders.co.uk @circuitbenders.co.uk · 27/08/2026

Yeah, i know the new EU PPWR packaging recycling rules completely decimating millions of small businesses worldwide is tedious, but normally when the EU commision invite comments on an initiative they get 20-30 maximum. This one is currently on 6440! Leave feedback here: ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...

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European Commission - Have your say

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Mark Janello @markjanello.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

You fuckers made me do it. The Racist Academicals Patter Song.

[RACIST ACADEMICAL]
I am the very model of a racist academical,
With footnotes and citations to make bigotry seem credible,

I traffic in ideas that have long since been discredited,
Like human races being real and IQ is inherited!

I’ll sign an open letter that legitimates my bigotry,
My gender ideology is thuggery and piggery,

If criticized it’s academic freedom I will hide behind,
My high and mighty principles shan’t be questioned by your tiny mind!

[CHORUS OF CHUDS]
His high and mighty principles shan’t be questioned by your tiny mind!

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Andy Toone @lockfarm.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

These rules are just one part of a dire situation for innovators and small enterprises selling in or into the EU "For a French micro-entrepreneur, it makes more sense to ship products to the US than to ship to neighbouring Germany or Belgium,[..]. This is true even with any US tariffs in place."

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Andy Toone @lockfarm.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

If you look up the definition of satire in the dictionary, you just find this URL. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cowI...

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Blame Canada!

YouTube video by Jonathan Pie

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