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The Lone Coder 🇦🇺🖇️ @lonecoder.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The absolute codswallop I have to read as part of my regular mandatory training/assessment. I have yet to see a non-suspicious survey that doesn’t show the opposite to be true. Chatbots have been absolute pants for me, in anything but the most trivial of customer support issues.

A snippet from training material, point 5, with the title “Provides a Better Customer Experience” and the text “AI-powered chatbots and virtual assistants enable faster responses, personalised support, and improved customer satisfaction.”

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The Lone Coder 🇦🇺🖇️ @lonecoder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Watching Conan Gray on stage in Sydney tonight, I could almost forget how America has changed.

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The Lone Coder 🇦🇺🖇️ @lonecoder.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I know, Duolingo, I know. No need to rub it in.

A screen snippet of a notification from the Duolingo app, stating that a connected user (a friend/follower) named NoOne believes in you (me, in this case, being the recipient of the notification) and that you (I) should protect your (my) friend streak (the consecutive number of days both you and your friend have logged in and completed an exercise).

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The Lone Coder 🇦🇺🖇️ @lonecoder.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Simba, who controls me far too much, looks similar. @mariska100767.bsky.social mentioned that, so I had to find this image.

A ginger/white cat, face close to the camera, lying on a person who is stroking it with their left hand.

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The Lone Coder 🇦🇺🖇️ @lonecoder.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Reservation Dogs. I’ve seen every episode at least twice, and I will watch it again. It makes me happy. If you ever try it, please, give it two episodes. If you don’t feel anything at the end of episode two, fair enough, but I think you will though.

Four Native American teenagers sitting on the edge of a flat-roofed building, of which the facing wall is painted orange with the words Reservation Dogs painted on it in black.

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The Lone Coder 🇦🇺🖇️ @lonecoder.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Sunset in South Australia on a Friday evening. Almost peaceful and beautiful enough to forget about the state of the world. Almost.

Sunset in South Australia, over a waterhole, at the Monarto Safari Resort.

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The Lone Coder 🇦🇺🖇️ @lonecoder.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Looks good, Bruce. Pretending to be in the land of the free (Oklahoma, specifically), I was able to add it to my bag (it’s my bag, baby).

A screen snippet of the Avon website, showing a cologne, Mesmerize, that has been added to the bag (shopping cart).

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The Lone Coder 🇦🇺🖇️ @lonecoder.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

A new mural in Newtown, Sydney, Australia, by street artist Scott Marsh. Island Boys.

A mural entitled Island Boys, featuring Jeffrey Epstein in his underpants, standing next to Donald Trump in a suit. Other individuals are seen alongside them: Bill Gates, Prince Andrew (UK), Bill Clinton, and Gislaine Maxwell.

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The Lone Coder 🇦🇺🖇️ @lonecoder.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I derive far too much satisfaction from setting the colour of LED game controllers to match the game I’m playing. I love these controllers. Hollow Knight is the best gaming experience that I have ever had, and I’ve been playing video games for around 40 years. The little things that make us happy.

Two Nintendo Switch gaming devices, one above the other, with LED control pads. The Hollow Knight game is shown on the top Switch (with blue lighting) and the Hollow Knight: Silksong game is shown on the bottom Switch.

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The Lone Coder 🇦🇺🖇️ @lonecoder.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

I couldn’t agree more. I don’t believe that most Australians want to be aligned with that, no matter how much our politicians fawn over him.

A photograph of Anthony Albanese, Prime Minister of Australia, with Donald Trump, President of the USA, standing together in front of navy blue drapes.

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The Lone Coder 🇦🇺🖇️ @lonecoder.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

I remembered this comic book cover from my childhood when I saw your post.

A Sgt Rock comic cover featuring a soldier saying that he can’t hold out any longer and Sgt Rock saying that living is hard and dying is easy. There is a burning German Tiger tank in the background.

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The Lone Coder 🇦🇺🖇️ @lonecoder.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Nice. This is my go to, from The Man Without a Face. It had an impact on me when I first saw it and it has only become more true as the years rolled on.

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The Lone Coder 🇦🇺🖇️ @lonecoder.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

I saw them in Sydney last year, in a wonderfully small theatre — one of my favourite venues. I took this photo after the show (I had a late dinner across the road afterwards). Just after I took it, staff came out to change the marquee. That made me feel sad.

A photo of the closed entrance of the Enmore Theatre, in Newtown, Sydney, Australia, at night.

The Jesus and Mary Chain are on the marquee.

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The Lone Coder 🇦🇺🖇️ @lonecoder.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Alphaville: Forever Young. Or any album by The Smiths and some by The Cure.

The cover of the album Forever Young by the band Alphaville. It feature a face that appears to be cast or sculpted, like a statue or a bust.

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The Lone Coder 🇦🇺🖇️ @lonecoder.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Did my preparation for Halloween. Don’t get many kids coming around in my neighbourhood (out of the city in Sydney, Australia) — only 5 last year. Yeah, no healthy food. I’m a bad man. I grew up in the 80s. You come to my place, you take your chances — there will be sugar.

A table on the patio of a home with three bowls of Halloween treats on it. From left to right, chips, assorted chocolates, and packets of Oreos. Behind them, also on the table, is a replica of Freddy Krueger’s glove, in its packaging, from the horror film A Nightmare on Elm Street.

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The Lone Coder 🇦🇺🖇️ @lonecoder.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

America has produced the Trump administration, which is sad and frightening and sickening. It has also produced the series Reservation Dogs. There is clearly an abundance of heart, strength and goodness there. It’s not lost. I have just finished the series and I am going to miss it so much.

Four characters from the television series Reservation Dogs, sitting in and leaning against the back of a pickup truck. From left to right: “Cheese” (Chester), Elora, Bear, and Willie Jack.

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The Lone Coder 🇦🇺🖇️ @lonecoder.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Life down under. Sharing breakfast with cockatoos.

Two cockatoos enjoying breakfast on a table at an island resort in Australia.

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The Lone Coder 🇦🇺🖇️ @lonecoder.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

First day of a week in the Whitsundays. Will be nice if I can forget what’s going on in the world.

A photograph of the pier at Hamilton Island, Australia, with palm trees and hills in the background.

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The Lone Coder 🇦🇺🖇️ @lonecoder.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Grace Hopper, US Navy Rear Admiral, mathematician and computer scientist, gave us COBOL, the first programming language I learnt.

A photograph of Grace Hopper, US Navy Rear Admiral, mathematician and computer scientist.

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The Lone Coder 🇦🇺🖇️ @lonecoder.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

I am sure that you are too smart to be caught by this, but, just in case they catch you when you’re tired or distracted, if you get a DM like this, please ignore it, and please block the person who sent it to you. It is a heinous account takeover scam.

A screen snippet of a scam message that has the following content:

Hi, can I ask you for a favor of voting for me? I am applying to be a co-host for a podcast organized by Spotify in partnership with Google in all countries and l am one of the few participants from United States. The maximum number of valid votes is 450 and every vote counts. So far I have reached 312, l am only 138 short of reaching the milestone. I would really appreciate it if you would vote for me. Here is the voting link:

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The Lone Coder 🇦🇺🖇️ @lonecoder.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

I was going to follow up. Looking into it, it seems this guy may be using that doctor’s profile for cover. There are reports going back at least three months, about the same comment, saying that it’s not the same person. What a despicable thing to do.

A series of comments regarding an apparent doctor making horrible comments about Donald Trump’s assault of E. Jean Carroll.

It includes:

Amanda Doyle:
WE WANT ANSWERS! DO YOU EMPLOYEE MORE DOCTORS LIKE THIS ONE???
***WOMEN BEWARE****

Catriona Clarke:
Amanda Doyle, two different people. Stop spreading these lies.

Amy Lopez:
I dont think this man should be alone with women.

Catriona Clarke:
Amy Lopez, not the same person.

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The Lone Coder 🇦🇺🖇️ @lonecoder.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

You win, in my opinion. I bought this t-shirt because of that show:

A photograph of a black t-shirt with the words Navajo Police and the Navajo Police emblem from the 1970s.

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The Lone Coder 🇦🇺🖇️ @lonecoder.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Well, two, actually, but only one shows them in the water. Here’s another:

A photo of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and family members at Rock Creek, showing him in the water.

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The Lone Coder 🇦🇺🖇️ @lonecoder.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

🤣 This is all I recorded. I wish I had recorded him talking about 34.

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The Lone Coder 🇦🇺🖇️ @lonecoder.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Saw Chris de Burgh at the Sydney Opera House last night. I think it says something that the part I most enjoyed was when he made a little joke about Trump, and then said, “What a moron!”

A photograph of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, at night, taken from the Sydney Opera House.

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The Lone Coder 🇦🇺🖇️ @lonecoder.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

9:42 AM on a Saturday in Sydney. Just got home, after voting to keep Trump wannabees/clones at bay in federal elections. Got warm bread rolls from the bakery, a dozen extra large free-range eggs for $6.60 ($4.26 USD), and rare roast beef. And just flicked the kettle on. Must be the good life.

A photo of bread rolls, a dozen eggs and rare roast beef.

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The Lone Coder 🇦🇺🖇️ @lonecoder.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Congratulations, Canada! And thank you, from down under, and from the bottom of my heart, for not allowing Trumpism to dominate in your beautiful country. Hopefully, we will do the same this weekend, with our federal elections. I pray that we reject nastiness, as you have, for a better world.

The Canadian flag diagonally overlayed on the Australian flag.

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The Lone Coder 🇦🇺🖇️ @lonecoder.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Absolutely. It reminds me of a scene in A Few Good Men, which I really like.

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The Lone Coder 🇦🇺🖇️ @lonecoder.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

I don’t mention sport often, but I was feeling really glum tonight, and then I found an old clip on my phone of my favourite player ever, Steven Gerrard that cheered me up. He could do this:

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The Lone Coder 🇦🇺🖇️ @lonecoder.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Federal elections are coming up in Australia and this is a real party. They just had to work “Trump” into their name. Some of their blurb: The world is changing. In the USA, government waste and corruption is finally being exposed. Enough is enough! We will drain the swamp! This timeline sucks.

Trumpet of Patriots

Commonsense policies for all Australians.

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The Lone Coder 🇦🇺🖇️ @lonecoder.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

I have a similar feeling about places in the Aussie-made video game, Hollow Knight.

A screen shot from the video game, Hollow Knight, showing one of the characters, named Quirrel, sitting in a cave with a large number of blue butterflies fluttering around.

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The Lone Coder 🇦🇺🖇️ @lonecoder.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Scammer alert (unless you believe the BS). Fits a pattern. I have encountered a few of these already. @jessicanicholas12.bsky.social

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The Lone Coder 🇦🇺🖇️ @lonecoder.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

The great eyes never blink. They are ever watchful. There is evil there that does not sleep.

A photograph of the face of Kash Patel, Director of the FBI.

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The Lone Coder 🇦🇺🖇️ @lonecoder.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Put some Canadian maple syrup on my oats (I swear they’re there, under the banana slices) to try to feel a little better, reminding myself that there are still some fighters out there (they have their elbows up).

A photo of a bottle of Canadian syrup next to a bowl of oats with banana slices spread on top, on a wooden table.

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The Lone Coder 🇦🇺🖇️ @lonecoder.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

So, to war in Yemen. All the times he mentioned his “good friend, Hannibal Lector”, and we speculated what he might mean.

A photograph of Pete Hegseth, the United States Secretary of Defence, smiling unnervingly.

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The Lone Coder 🇦🇺🖇️ @lonecoder.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I taught him to fan cards. He’s a natural.

A photograph of a large Star Wars stormtrooper action figure, holding a fan of cards in his left hand.

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The Lone Coder 🇦🇺🖇️ @lonecoder.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Okay, I suspect I am being trolled now, but I’ll take the bait and try again, just in case I’m wrong about that. I coloured the cat yellow and drew a green line around it. Its tail is bottom left and its head is top right.

A painting of a woman in a pink dress, holding a cat. The painting has been modified to make the cat yellow and a green outline has been drawn around it.

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The Lone Coder 🇦🇺🖇️ @lonecoder.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

You made me look for it. 🤣 It’s not hard to find, just unexpected that it’s not a different colour to the dress.

A painting of a woman in a pink dress with a cat on her lap.

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