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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"

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 · 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

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 · 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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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 · 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 · 26/01/2025

Well, that is an experience.

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

It was so beautiful outside today. Blue skies, whispy clouds and water as still as a mirror. Even had to lose the coat for a while. Not normal for January in the UK but I tried not to think about that too much whilst enjoying the sunshine.

Still water reflecting the sky over emsworth

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 16/01/2025

This has been my office all week. Last day today and as good as it will be to be home, the view from my garage conversion office isn't going to feel the same

Winter sun rising over misty hillsides in the Porto region of Portugal

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 12/01/2025

Popped in to see my Mum and entranced by the view as always

Big sky view of the sun setting over a calm Solent

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 12/01/2025

I saw these two legends on the beach near my house yesterday. Fat-tired electric bikes carving across the sand, piloted by a couple who's peers are probably more likely to be on electric scooters than electric bikes. Grinning like happy kids. Age disgracefully. Love it

Fat tired electric bikes bombing along the shoreline of a Hampshire beach, silhouetted against a bright winter sun

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 09/01/2025

I thought this one went pretty hard on symbolic imagery

Tesla cybertruck ablaze outside Trump building

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 06/01/2025

Oh nice. Musk currently pushing a poll on his platform floating the idea of going to war with the UK. All that money you think he'd be able to get some support for his mental health issues

Twitter poll asking is America should "liberate" the uk

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 02/01/2025

This peace lily was doing fine before Christmas. Now it's suddenly a pathetic mess that can barely support its own weight. Plants really do pick up your vibe don't they?

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 25/12/2024

My son insisted on us buying monopoly this year. What's with the pieces now? Duck? Penguin? Cat?

New monopoly pieces. Cat penguin duck hat ship Thimble car dog

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 15/12/2024

I'm feeling somewhat judged by the product navigation of this online store

Faceted navigation of an e-commerce store with choice for sex being female or bad

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 07/12/2024

This feels like an unusual response from Claude AI. The anthropomorphic "I have seen" was a little unexpected

Screenshot of Claude response reading: For context - I've seen many users report 5+ years of regular use without any meaningful deterioration..

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 06/12/2024

Not sure how I feel about seeing ads for murderer merch.

Ad for t-shirt with deny defend depose design

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 01/12/2024

There is a setting to make it compulsory if you want

Screenshot showing compulsory alt text setting

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 30/11/2024

When the floods come and humanity has been taken by the rising tide, the last evidence of the before-times will be a soft glowing beneath the waves from my surviving "coastal weather proof" lights

A galvanised steel wall light with 4 gaskets and pumped with silicon sealant

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 28/11/2024

Lazy Claude AI prompt from me. Showed it some quick snaps of my bookshelf and asked for recommendations of what to read next Some interesting suggestions I wouldn't have thought of.

Screenshot of a claude AI prompt including photos of a bookshelf for a quest for Claude to look at books and recommend what comes next. Claude AI then suggests a number of books

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 20/11/2024

How I feel after the first night back under the heavy winter duvet

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 12/02/2024

Yeah, totally within my realms of knowledge.. what could go wrong?

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 31/01/2024

Sometimes I wonder who Amazon thinks I am

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 07/01/2024

Sometimes this world just feels like a weird cheese dream

Screenshot of a Pro Palestinian demonstration being held within the game Roblox

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 01/01/2024

There's a film in this Steve

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 31/12/2023

Roof repairs or just hiding in the attic? You decide... But I will say that its lovely and quiet up here

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 28/12/2023

I'd quite like to bug report this, but my German isn't good enough to work out how. Half of my UI is in German today, but oddly not all of it

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 28/12/2023

Is anyone else's bluesky app suddenly talking them in German?

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 25/12/2023

Executive Chef continues to oversee proceedings

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 14/12/2023

This is the news you need in the morning... Someone has sent me fine cheese!

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 19/11/2023

Having just returned from family in Yorkshire, I strongly suspect the cause to be pies

Headline: Life expectancy lower in north of England than the south, study finds

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 17/11/2023

This badly written headline gave me a delicious moment of imagining Tories deporting themselves to Rwanda

Headline: Cleverly ‘determined’ to get removal flight to Rwanda before general election

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 15/11/2023

Best use of chatGPT data analysis is solving my teenagers homework problems so I can pretend I remember how to do it.

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 11/11/2023

We all have a friend this could happen to

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 07/11/2023

Dual 5.25s are ideal for a lightweight portable device. Had them in my first portable (which I admittedly could barely lift at the time, but the sticker definitely said "IBM Portable Computer ")

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 31/10/2023

I assume I'm not the only person out there who can't pick up a bottle of this stuff without belting out a bastardised version of a certain Neil Diamond classic?

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Mat Bennett @matbennett.com · 30/10/2023

Here are the images that made me dwell on this today (although there have been many others). Which do you prefer?

Midjourney prompt: dramatic image of a blue Volkswagen transporter t6 camper van racing up a motorway being chased by dark clouds and lightning storms

ChatGPT / Dalle prompt : give me a dramatic image of a blue Volkswagen transporter t6 camper van racing up a motorway being chased by dark clouds and lightning storms

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