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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 18/04/2025

Can someone on Bluesky reassure me that I'm not the only person who can't see a bottle of sweet chilli sauce without breaking into Guns n Roses. (It's been a very long standing issue at home... And in supermarkets)

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 16/04/2025

Best use of a Bluesky thread ever here by one of my local museums

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Know your parasites

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 29/03/2025

If someone made a browser extension that warned you when a retailer uses Evri I'd install that in a heartbeat.

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 27/03/2025

I just had a very unexpected innuendo laden encounter with a delivery guy after commenting on the unexpected size of the package he delivered 😲

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 21/03/2025

My new favourite noise is the back and forth pecking between the two woodpeckers that have set up home in the trees outside my home office.

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 17/03/2025

Step 1 of these instructions to build a bench seems to be "1. build a bench"

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 17/03/2025

Sorry Donald. We can't send you eggs. We're stockpiling them for your visit

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 10/03/2025

I'm currently waiting in for a rag'n'bone man to arrive. Apparently I'm now Dickensian.

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 09/03/2025

It's that weird season in the UK where you walk down the street and pass two people in flip-flops and shorts followed immediately by one in a puffer jacket and a knitted beanie

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 08/03/2025

Oh, the fun of being in your 50s. I somehow just managed to put my back out and send myself into writhing agony by operating a kitchen tap. If anyone wants me I'll be laying on the living room floor

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Richard Branson @richardbranson.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 05/03/2025

Does anyone else put fruit & veg on top of the food in the fridge to hide it from their ravenous teenage son?

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 04/03/2025

People seemed to enjoy the beach photo I shared here the other day, so I thought I'd share another. This one is the beautiful West Wittering Beach, photographed on a warm sunny February walk with Mrs B last Monday. #photography #westwittering #coastal #teampixel #westsussex

Low winter sun throwing grounds into silhouette on a sandy beach

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 03/03/2025

Beautiful on our little stretch of beach today. Warm sun and soft breaking waves. All without the summer crowds #photography #mobilephotography #beach #hampshire

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 03/03/2025

Any Bluesky geeks out there, or in fact anyone who wants to share an opinion. I'm getting back into photography, and thinking about using Bluesky for my photo sharing. Would it be best to use a separate dedicated account for this, or my main one? Anyone have opinions either way?

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 03/03/2025

May you all be blessed with the confidence of the total stranger just addressed me as Peter and continued to do so after I had told him I wasn't Peter for the third time

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 03/03/2025

It's the first week of march and I'm mowing the lawn in a t-shirt. I'm going to try not to ponder the long term implications of this whilst just enjoying some welcome sun and warmth

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 02/03/2025

Episode 7 of Paradise just went surprisingly hard for a show I thought was going to be streaming filler. Well worth a watch

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 01/03/2025

I love that my eldest inherited my awesome taste in music and we get to do things like this together. Jack White has been a dream gig for me for a while, and it was absolutely worth waiting for

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 01/03/2025

It should definitely be legal to eject people from moving trains when they play music on loud speaker

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 01/03/2025

I had a birthday beach walk yesterday along the beautiful beaches of West Witterings and East Head. It was so nice to be out in the sunshine, walking without bedding a coat. Spring is coming

Tranquil scene. Lone market post at low tide. Minimalism

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 28/02/2025

I find it very strange when TV programmes start using very visible podcast mics, when TV has worked without them for decades.

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 26/02/2025

I've bought a new phone and for some reason the LinkedIn app won't work on it. This feels like the greatest undocumented feature.

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 24/02/2025

Just wow. I guess this means the USA is officially a Russian ally and supporter now

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Friedrich Merz, Germany's new chancellor: "The interference in the German elections by Elon Musk and Trump's Washington was no less radical and outrageous than that of Moscow." #GermanElections #CDU

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 22/02/2025

I've heard that people now give their chatGPT cute names. Mine seems to want to go in a different direction . Another reason I mostly use Claude

KILLBOT . Keeley Intelligent, Ludicrously Logical But Ominously Troublesome

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James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

if you're trying to understand Microsoft's latest quantum headline grab, I would recommend skimming Nature's peer review docs. opinion was split to say the least, with 2 of the 4 referees recommending that the paper not be published at all static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10...

"On a technical level, I already acknowledged a certain level of advance, but I estimated it well below the bar for publication
in a high-impact journal like Nature. I pointed out that reflectometry technics are a standard practice in solid-state qubits. Let
me add that the present work is not even the first one where dispersive reflectometry readout is applied to hybrid
superconductor-semiconductor devices expected to provide a path to topologically protected qubits. See e.g.: Ramadze et
al., Phys. Rev Appl. 11, 064011 (2019); Nguyen et al., Phys Rev B, 108, L041302 (2023) ; Hinderling et al.,
arXiv:2307.06718. Surprisingly, none of these papers is cited.
Due to the above reasons, I am firmly convinced this work should not be published in Nature or any other high visibility
journal."

"Given my overall impression and comments above, I cannot recommend the paper for publication in Nature."

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

List of UK politicians/political figures who have declared support for Trump: • Boris Johnson • Liz Truss • Suella Braverman • Andrea Jenkyns • Jacob Rees-Mogg • Nigel Farage • Lord Frost • John Hayes • Robert Jenrick • Sammy Wilson • Ian Paisley • Jake Berry • Kwasi Kwarteng • Tim Montgomerie

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 20/02/2025

I recently decided to try 35mm photography again. I'm 4 rolls in and haven't developed one yet. I think I might just enjoy looking intently at things.

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 20/02/2025

I'm not usually a big fan of these clout type scores, but this one by @cred.blue is pretty cool. It makes me want to look now at some of the decentralisation options cred.blue/matbennett.com

cred.blue

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 20/02/2025

I had a personal day booked today and spent 2 hours of it making a kick-arse spreadsheet. Don't judge

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 18/02/2025

Sorry, did Trump really say with regards to Russia's invasion of Ukraine that "Ukraine should have never started it"? Insane

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 18/02/2025

Working from home during half term makes me want to rig up a decibel meter to an automation the pings my son on Discord about the noise he makes whilst playing games

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 18/02/2025

When you do a big rebrand, but sacked everyone who understands websites. ads.twitter.com/getstarted It's like bumping into an old friend

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 16/02/2025

That has to warrant a follow

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 15/02/2025

If any electronic manufacturers have noise cancelling headphones they want to stress test, I will be trying to block out the noise of a teenage girls at my house today.

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 14/02/2025

I've realised that I now own a printer for 2 things: 1. Printing vinted postage labels for my daughter 2. Printing , signing, photographing then immediately shredding forms to be emailed to companies who refuse to adopt electronic signatures

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 13/02/2025

Cool find : quickchart.io Build nice charts with just a URL string. Free to use with no watermarks. These just got me out of a hole when I realised how poor the native charting is in a no-code tool I am using.

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 13/02/2025

My AI buddy and I have developed useful shorthand for our feedback loops

AI response "I understand the concern about it sounding "wanky" - it does lean towards lifestyle business guru territory"

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 11/02/2025

State sponsored propaganda from Google Maps. As a UK user I should not be seeing the Gulf of Mexico mislabeled like this any more than I should see the English channel labelled as La Manche

Google maps labelling The Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America in the UK

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 10/02/2025

On a little side-quest this morning learning more about my local, and much maligned, Brutalist landmark The Tricorn Centre 1966-2004. Looking at it today I can see it's DNA in later architecture like the Barbican, Brunswick Centre and Preston bus station. Mad that is was demolished not protected

Brutalism on the South Coast : Portsmouth's Tricorn Centre. Wide view

Space age spiral into the Tricorn Car Park

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 07/02/2025

I've recently reported scores of scam posts on tiktok. These are all the same obvious scam: a fake news story about free money directing people to an obvious scam site. 80% of my reports come back "no violation". Half of those that result in action get overturned on appeal. Awful moderation

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 07/02/2025

I'd use my local local library so much if they'd just start selling coffee. I can see me getting complaints if I rocked up with an aeropress

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 27/01/2025

How do events get away with such opaque pricing? Victorious festival just hit me with a £30 booking fee then still added another £1 basket fee. (Whatever that is) There is no other way to order. Just be honest with your pricing

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 26/01/2025

Well, that is an experience.

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 23/01/2025

I just uploaded an 18m whatsapp chat to NotebookLM (with participants permission) & had it generate one of its podcast summaries as a fun experiment. It got a few things wrong, but it also came up with some cracking insights into the people in the chat. Really fun, but definitely not sharable!

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 21/01/2025

Bluesky became more important this week. Users on tiktok, Instagram and Facebook are reporting censorship of political posts, trump criticism and Free Luigi content. Reddit mysteriously has very little discussion about it, but there is more here in the BlueSky free world.

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 20/01/2025

I really thought it'd take at least a couple of days before we got to nazi salutes on stage

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