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Neil de Carteret @lumphammer.com · 24/08/2026

No cheating. Post the last photo of the sky from your camera roll.

A colobus monkey clambering along the top of rope in the treetops. He has a black body, with a fringe of white fur that rings his back, and a majestic in tuft of white fur at the end of his tail. He looks like he’s maybe heading off to get lunch.

Neil de Carteret @lumphammer.com · 23/08/2026

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Neil de Carteret @lumphammer.com · 22/08/2026

Just to be a fun ruiner, the left one is is entirely fake AI-generated ragebait

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Neil de Carteret @lumphammer.com · 19/08/2026

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Neil de Carteret @lumphammer.com · 19/08/2026

Yeah, exactly. Creates two separate entries in their todo list, as it were.

Neil de Carteret @lumphammer.com · 19/08/2026

My rule for sending emails is that if I need them to do two things, I send two emails.

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Neil de Carteret @lumphammer.com · 17/08/2026

You have to add “Father. Husband. Dad. Hubby.” to your profile text

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Neil de Carteret @lumphammer.com · 17/08/2026

Some of these replies are very Bluesky.

Neil de Carteret @lumphammer.com · 17/08/2026

Having enough money that you never worry about it removes a whole load of unhappiness. Thiel and Musk are just wealth addicts, like people who spend too much time hooked on a mobile game, but instead of points it’s money. Rowling is not in that league financially but just loves causing misery.

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Neil de Carteret @lumphammer.com · 10/08/2026

Agreed. You’d put delicates on a shorter, cooler cycle and consider them clean when they came out. Why would a polycotton shirt be different? Better for the clothes too.

Neil de Carteret @lumphammer.com · 26/07/2026

Sure, but it’s a very specific technique. If you went to a regular tattoo artist and asked them to draw eyebrows on you with a tattoo gun it would not look the same.

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Neil de Carteret @lumphammer.com · 10/07/2026

Oh weird, me too. Like late 90s or early 2000s. I wonder if this is a common Mandela effect.

Neil de Carteret @lumphammer.com · 08/07/2026

My theory is that it costs the studio $0 to have the performers say “step-brother” at the start and after that it’s 100% vanilla porn. That way they get the kinkies hooked and the rest of us can fast forward the first few mins.

Neil de Carteret @lumphammer.com · 06/07/2026

I guess crowds are kinda fungible

Neil de Carteret @lumphammer.com · 02/07/2026

The short version: Stop posting […] online. Just stop. […] It's really bad […].

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Neil de Carteret @lumphammer.com · 02/07/2026

Alright, but that includes adults dressed up as professional football players in public.

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This just came up on my feed so I don’t really have the context of what you’re pro or anti, but yeah, I do hate when things are named with empty words like utility/service/data/info/helper. Don’t get me started on “BaseWhatever” in OO langs.

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When the Simpsons began, the idea of one working person being able to support a partner and three kids was totally viable.

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Yeah I don’t get it. It was a trope before fesshole too. Must just be a bodily reaction that some people get. Even when I’ve been blackout drunk, shitting myself wasn’t a risk.

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And I feel sorry for the pixel artists, but you have to acknowledge that pixel art is extremely niche.

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The best solution for websites that want you to able to download images is to serve as webp, with a menu option to get the original file

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No, sending PNG is not a solution. PNGs are lossless, which means they’re HUGE.

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No, webp does not “look worse”. JPEG and webp both have sliding compression scales and webp is generally accepted to look better at a given file size (or be smaller for a given quality level) than jpeg.

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You have understand that websites are paying for bandwidth, not to stock your photo library. Sending JPEG by default for everyone is going to cost more.

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Why is there so much animus against .webp? The only reasons I can see are 1. you’re nicking images off websites and you don’t have tools to handle webp, and 2. Pixel art get smushed more by webp than jpeg.

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FWIW I think you’re right on average though

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Hi I’d like to introduce you to me

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This is a fantastic story and I’m going just ignore the bit where the optician would have had to dust your face with luminol, which I don’t think is standard practice these days. And for those who know, yes I’m putting myself on the fucking list right now.

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I’ll listen to an audiobook on shuffle, me.

Neil de Carteret @lumphammer.com · 16/06/2026

I’m not in football fandom at all. What’s going on when a football fan does something like this? Is it a genuine belief that a supporter of a rival team must be bad/talentless/whatever? Or the sense of tribal belonging is its own reward, and listening to music by a supporter of a rival is betrayal?

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If they were separate tracks, shuffle mode would be wild.

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Neil de Carteret @lumphammer.com · 15/06/2026

Absolutely knew the music bores would be in the comments on this one.

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Neil de Carteret @lumphammer.com · 14/06/2026

I’ll send you a PR to implement llanfairpwsh()

Neil de Carteret @lumphammer.com · 13/06/2026

I’m home dumping my kids

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Neil de Carteret @lumphammer.com · 12/06/2026

For medical professionals, it’s because you, the very smart and worldly anon, may understand the medical terms, lots of people don’t. Children, people with learning disability or who have English as a second language. And nothing is lost because you also understand “poo”.

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Neil de Carteret @lumphammer.com · 08/06/2026

Shoutout to anyone who clicked on Tom’s name in @geofftech.bsky.social ‘s post to see if Tom was on here bsky.app/profile/geof...

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Neil de Carteret @lumphammer.com · 05/06/2026

Two super kings, separate bedrooms. Numberwang.

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Neil de Carteret @lumphammer.com · 04/06/2026

King size bed, two single duvets. This is the even better way.

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Neil de Carteret @lumphammer.com · 16/05/2026

And to your second assertion: bandwidth bills are a huge headache for website owners. WebP gives equivalent quality to JPEG for fewer bytes, which means lower bills. That’s why it was created.

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Neil de Carteret @lumphammer.com · 16/05/2026

I mean, it’s supported by a *lot* of software these days. iOS, Android, Windows, MacOS, every Linux desktop I’ve used in recent years. Affinity Studio. In fact it was Adobe who were the laggards, it took ages to get WebP support in Photoshop. Where are you seeing it not supported?

100%. That CVE was a buffer overflow, perfect territory for a Rust port. It was a mark against that particular decoder, not against the format as a concept.

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Atrocious typing there, sorry. The security argument is rubbish too - there was a CVE in 2023, but, like, decoders for other formats have had CVEs too. That’s how software works.

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Im also guessing that none of them pay the hosting costs for a website, because of they did they would turn into zealous preachers of the church of WebP.

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