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@mswalker.im
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Retro programmer. Bug archaeologist. Biscuit muncher (pro). Previously web dev @Mandrake Linux. SAP HANA/Linux/server performance guy. No-AI here. Nothing I say concerns my day job or employer. Nothing I post to be used to train AI models 20251231

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0 OK, 0:1 @mswalker.im · 15h
Walldorf here I come. Again
A picture of a train taken from another train about to leave a station
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0 OK, 0:1 @mswalker.im · 24/09/2026
Oh yes! @lkcreations.art
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0 OK, 0:1 @mswalker.im · 12/08/2026
Best I could do
Shadow of a tree during solar eclipse. All the branches are curved
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0 OK, 0:1 @mswalker.im · 11/08/2026
Nothing screams "trustworthy website/app/product" quite like an ad posted by X, talking about Y, linking to Z. "Hi, I'm SAM, and I just opened 'Bob's best grill'. Have a look now, just go to tom.com" FFS
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0 OK, 0:1 @mswalker.im · 01/07/2026
Occasionally I attempt to do something intelligent on my hols. Not often, but sometimes So yesterday I took the boy to see Charles
The tombstone of Charles de Gaulle, in Colombey-les-deux-Églises, France
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0 OK, 0:1 @mswalker.im · 24/04/2026
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0 OK, 0:1 @mswalker.im · 02/03/2026
Somehow, windows never fails to disappoint
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0 OK, 0:1 @mswalker.im · 19/02/2026
Andrew?
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0 OK, 0:1 @mswalker.im · 02/02/2026
Nature’s been drawing on the cars again!
Ice formations on the roof of a black car
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0 OK, 0:1 @mswalker.im · 07/01/2026
This is Ava. A bit skittish - she's a rescue. But coming round slowly
An orange cat sat in a ray of sunshine on a snow-covered driveway, looking back at the camera
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0 OK, 0:1 @mswalker.im · 24/12/2025
It’s only 3 degrees out, but right now i can’t think of a better way to start the day
Coffee and croissant on a table outside in the dark with Christmas décorations in the street in front
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0 OK, 0:1 @mswalker.im · 10/12/2025
When I put my Spectrum next to my laptop
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0 OK, 0:1 @mswalker.im · 29/11/2025
Posted without comment
A picture of me with my rescue cat sleeping over my shoulder
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0 OK, 0:1 @mswalker.im · 19/11/2025
Traumatised I tell you. She’ll never recover Admittedly it took me a while, but
A golden cat, fast asleep on the sofa.
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0 OK, 0:1 @mswalker.im · 16/11/2025
Some pictures I took on my Sunday-morning walk this morning, in a Japanese-style park It was actually quite a lot darker out than the pictures show, and the phone was very good at hiding the thick fog, too
À small pond with shrubbery around, at sunriseA red Japanese-style wooden bridge spotted through shrubbery. Trees are bare. It is autumnA glimpse of a red wooden Japanese-style tori gate
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0 OK, 0:1 @mswalker.im · 04/11/2025
My ressue cat that wouldn’t even come out from under the bath for two months and wouldn’t let us approach her for over a year. At least I’m doing something right
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0 OK, 0:1 @mswalker.im · 01/11/2025
Well since these plants have been made illegal in France, and after breaking one fork trying to uproot the bigger, I have very nearly overstrained my farting strings getting this out of the ground. But it is out. I’ll leave it to dry off wit a while and take it to the tip next Saturday
One uprooted pampas grass plant. Diameter of the root portion around 75 cm. Ish. Bloody heavy bugger it was too
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0 OK, 0:1 @mswalker.im · 17/10/2025
Quiet walk before work this morning
Tree-lined leaf-ridden path
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0 OK, 0:1 @mswalker.im · 07/10/2025
So there I was, all proud of myself for coming to Heidelberg (again) and going to Lamy (again) and NOT buying another fountain pen (not again, believe me) Then I wandered round some back streets and came across a fountain pen ink store And one thing led to another and
Two bottles of fountain pen ink. Tariff teal from Diamine and Grey Fox from Octopus fluids, a German ink maker
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0 OK, 0:1 @mswalker.im · 02/10/2025
Don’t see them come up very often. Especially in France!
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0 OK, 0:1 @mswalker.im · 27/09/2025
Saw this for sale today. An Apple II for 400€. Can’t figure if I have to buy it, if I must buy it, if I should buy it or if I want to buy it Help!
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0 OK, 0:1 @mswalker.im · 09/09/2025
I came across one in the Fnac in Granada in Spain. Just there on the shelf. Couldn’t resist!
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0 OK, 0:1 @mswalker.im · 26/08/2025
The early bird, and all that
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0 OK, 0:1 @mswalker.im · 25/08/2025
All I have is this sorry
Screenshot which says “this nmon supports only 1536 cpu threads and this system appears to have 1920”
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0 OK, 0:1 @mswalker.im · 23/08/2025
It was my birthday on Wednesday (yes, I’m even older than I was before). My son bought me a present which arrived yesterday. I suspect (strongly) he has extra brownie points for the foreseeable
A photograph of the Lego LOTR Balrog set with Gandalf facing the balrog on the bridge
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0 OK, 0:1 @mswalker.im · 19/08/2025
Just got served this slop. I can't be the only person who hinks this is the absolute total worst? Surely? This is just an ad for some shitty eh-aye "tool" written by...a tool (product name redacted because i don't want to promote it)
"just one moment can make everything clear.  Building my personal brand was tough.  No one could hear my real voice online.  I started (redacted) I wanted a tool that let me show my real self, every tme I posted.  Now my posts sound like me again.  Read my journey".  An ad for some ai "tool"
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0 OK, 0:1 @mswalker.im · 17/08/2025
Well nobody’s ever said that to me before
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0 OK, 0:1 @mswalker.im · 17/08/2025
“Oh Vlad your hands are so soft!” “Aww stop Donnie, you’ll make me blush”
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0 OK, 0:1 @mswalker.im · 14/08/2025
Don’t want ads on iOS apps? Use screen time to limit the time you can spend on pagead2.googlesyndication.c o m to zero seconds a day
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0 OK, 0:1 @mswalker.im · 09/08/2025
Well that’s the first time I’ve ever seen an article about the SAM Coupé in France. In fact it’s the first time I’ve seen the words. Even eBay France doesn’t know what I’m talking about
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0 OK, 0:1 @mswalker.im · 04/07/2025
Well well well look what I found. In Spain
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0 OK, 0:1 @mswalker.im · 31/05/2025
Today’s job. This has to go. To be gone. To begone. To disappear. To leave. To shoo. To bugger off. To get out of my yard. Looks like my magic isn’t working again. *sigh* Bucket and shovel it is then
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0 OK, 0:1 @mswalker.im · 21/05/2025
That….isn’t my cat (who was fast asleep at my feet)
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0 OK, 0:1 @mswalker.im · 14/05/2025
Quote post this with a picture of the aircraft you’ll accept as a bribe
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0 OK, 0:1 @mswalker.im · 07/05/2025
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0 OK, 0:1 @mswalker.im · 07/05/2025
Like that?
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0 OK, 0:1 @mswalker.im · 07/05/2025
Abl-100we
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0 OK, 0:1 @mswalker.im · 05/05/2025
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0 OK, 0:1 @mswalker.im · 04/05/2025
Just came across my old Casio TV-100 in a drawer. My mum bought it for me when I went to Uni so I’d be able to watch Star Trek. Still works great - except there’s no UHF signal any more. Damn shame
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0 OK, 0:1 @mswalker.im · 01/05/2025
There are advantages to living in France
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0 OK, 0:1 @mswalker.im · 22/04/2025
Nature finds a way. Quite how the flowers managed to grow from a crack in the wall a metre and a half up, I’ll never know
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0 OK, 0:1 @mswalker.im · 02/04/2025
At my local supermarket whileninwas buying a nice balanced (*) meal Some very strange flavours there * pizza and wine
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0 OK, 0:1 @mswalker.im · 24/03/2025
Just came across this. Never seen a French QL before
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0 OK, 0:1 @mswalker.im · 24/03/2025
Post a ship that's not Star Wars or Star Trek
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0 OK, 0:1 @mswalker.im · 14/03/2025
Yup (in a pub in Heidelberg, Germany, this week)
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0 OK, 0:1 @mswalker.im · 11/03/2025
Not the world’s best photo, but this morning I didn’t mind getting up early for my train finally
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0 OK, 0:1 @mswalker.im · 10/03/2025
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0 OK, 0:1 @mswalker.im · 09/03/2025
So for lunch I made Korean Bibimbap Without the egg, because I was hungry at the end… Quite happy with that tbh
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0 OK, 0:1 @mswalker.im · 06/03/2025
Christ for that money I’ll come piss on your bloody cat (travel costs included!)
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0 OK, 0:1 @mswalker.im · 03/03/2025
Not my home, but I know my way around.
Map of Middle Earth
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