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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

That time someone dumped a toy house on the cemetery wall and, when I crouched a bit, some ✨ Hollywood Magic ✨ occurred.

A plastic dolls house sitting on a wall, taken from an angle which makes it look as if it might be one of the houses on the street.

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nemo @nemo20000.bsky.social · 19h

meteorology; limnology; history; herpetology; palaeontology or archaeology... <long pause> ...but I think... <long pause for laughter> ...what if a dinosaur had got in the lake?"

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nemo @nemo20000.bsky.social · 19h

"A lot of people think the Loch Ness Monster doesn't exist, don't they, actually? Now, I don't know anything about <slowly> zoology; biology; geology; geography; marine biology; crypto-zoology; evolutionary theory; evolutionary biology;

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Buitengebieden @buitengebieden.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This took me a second.. 😅

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nemo @nemo20000.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Maybe I already have, built my secret base there and carefully removed it from all modern maps?!

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Roll Safe: Goodnight Okkurr

Alt: Captain Nemo cleverly disguising his Indian heritage

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nemo @nemo20000.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Unfortunately, it's not where it's supposed to be (and the detailed sea-bed scan shows that somebody really checked!) goo.gl/maps/DxHRVH5...

The official location of Lincoln Island is invisible to modern technology.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This a million times. People of colour being dragged on to debate maniacs about imaginary labels & race science is an abomination. proper ‘how German are you’ Nazi shit Note that people like me with white migrant parentage never asked to defend our identity Englishness. Is. A. Made. Up. Thing

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

If you think a distinct sub category of human exists because some medieval warlords agreed that the border of England should be on the River Tweed, you are, Im afraid, an absolute maniac bsky.app/profile/theh...

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nemo @nemo20000.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

[from the packet in the freezer] They're very tasty, and good for elderly relatives whose teeth are largely decorative.

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nemo @nemo20000.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I'll have you know that 19% of 38% is porkish. 😋

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 10/10/2026

*touches finger to ear* I'm hearing now, from sources familiar with federal regulations, that you absolutely can not do that

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nemo @nemo20000.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

As if an additional 1% would make any detectable difference to costs. This is about supporting Russia and coercing Ukraine. Time to announce sanctions on the US.

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

holy shit!! artists!!! you guys!! pinlite.app someone made a pinterest facade site that just strips away all the dumb bullshit and gives you only the images this is AMAAZINNNGGGG. Not to mention the web 1.0 grey and blue link vibe lol

screenshot of PinLite, a skin of pinterest that's just taken away all the bs and only shows the images, on a grey web 1.0 background

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nemo @nemo20000.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"If you're not paying for the product, you are the product"

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nemo @nemo20000.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It's also diagnostic of the kind of people who work on this stuff - I'm polite to LLMs for the same reason that I'm polite to cats - not because they're human but because I am.

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nemo @nemo20000.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

ie the "audio" we comprehend has been highly abstracted and analysed already - we hear "person over there" not "two people saying the same thing with a tiny delay and different volume". See Haas Effect for an example.

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nemo @nemo20000.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Makes no difference *unless* there's competing speech in the other ear, in which case 90% of people would use their right ear (left brain) to pay attention to the desired speech. Left-brain analysis versus right-brain sensing is normally irrelevant as the audio is internally routed to both.

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nemo @nemo20000.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

IIRC it goes wrong if its Dynamic Area has a negative address. I think I patched it in my copy.

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nemo @nemo20000.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The only escape is the observation that little-artistic-content means small-margin-of-similarity.

Morecambe and Wise "Andrew Preview" sketch, with Eric grasping André Previn by the lapels and admitting "...but not necessarily in the right order".

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nemo @nemo20000.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

In that although it concerned screenshots of the original software, it's not the *mechanism* that infringes, it's the pixels - by any mechanism.

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nemo @nemo20000.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

THJ v Sheridan is wider than it appears, isn't it. 🫤

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nemo @nemo20000.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I do love it when a Judge gets exasperated with the Claimant's legal team. "I told you this would not work, yet here it is, not working" 🤭

4. I have previously referred you to these two documents. It is clear that for whatever reason, notwithstanding both common sense and those unequivocal concessions, that your clients do not formally disavow their Defence to the copyright... claims.

[THJ Systems Ltd & Anor v Sheridan & Anor [2023] EWCA Civ 1354 (20 November 2023)]

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nemo @nemo20000.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Well, nobody actually *watches* the adverts. As long as they're advert-shaped they'll fill-in the increasingly-cheap advertising holes adequately. The expensive ad slots will still have expensive ads in them. [I worked in the advertising industry until the Internet arrived and ruined it]

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nemo @nemo20000.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

That's so evocative of an era without being derivative or a pastiche. So well judged.

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nemo @nemo20000.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"And as for those Auks, they're not even British! They're Pelagic."

A pelagic auk... a Puffin, to be precise.

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nemo @nemo20000.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

In 2026 there's no excuse for manufacturers failing to provide localised documentation! 😡 I get cross when stuff uses American English instead of the more widely used British/International English spelling, so I can only guess how aggravating it is for your whole language to be omitted. 🫥

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nemo @nemo20000.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Brian Blessed is 90 tomorrow. The embodiment of Tom Bombadil - on but not of this Earth. Guardian tribute:

archive.ph

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nemo @nemo20000.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Regardless of taste, it's unaccountably cramped inside. They've described it as a 2+2. I don't know how they got from the i-Pace to here without being kicked in the head by a horse.

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

How sheepish is Europe? This map shows the distribution of sheep across Europe. Source: buff.ly/dSfHDOe

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Ian Goggin @iangoggin.com · 07/10/2026

After a very long delay while I waited until I had a free evening, I have added most of the MPs in that list. I've omitted any who haven't posted at all, just as adding them is fairly manual (I need to match the theyworkforyou data and their bluesky id by hand atm). Updates should appear tonight.

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nemo @nemo20000.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I appreciate the work you've done on these labellers. They're a fine extension to the functionality here.

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Keanu Reeves: You're Welcome Pleasure

Alt: Keanu Reeves bowing

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nemo @nemo20000.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

UK ANSI would usually have £ on 3, but programmers love their #. ISO is superior for wider alphabets - hence Europe and South America, but note that 🇳🇱 is an exception for some reason. No idea why.

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nemo @nemo20000.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

[And it was a UK ANSI layout rather than US - it had a small backspace and extra £ key]

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nemo @nemo20000.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It was going to have an ISO-esque keyboard, but the shift to Arthur and "BBC compatibility" pushed to a more Beeb-like keyboard, red function keys and all. Yeah, RiscPC switched to the more conventional layout, though Delete handling was a bit odd until RO4.

chrisacorns.computinghistory.org.uk

Chris's Acorns: A500 Keyboard

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nemo @nemo20000.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

That's certainly a disqualifier.

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nemo @nemo20000.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Cancelled my Sky subscription and it only took 42 minutes of replying "No, please cancel" to every question to do so! I'm sure if they tried they could have made it a full hour. Make me earn my not-paying-you-anymore freedom!

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nemo @nemo20000.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I was chased by a police helicopter with a Nightsun once. But they weren't on traffic duty and switched it off once I slowed down. Oops.

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Lord Arse! 🕹️ @lordarse.com · 05/10/2026

DOOM... on a Vectrex.

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nemo @nemo20000.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The first five verses came to mind, especially 4 & 5. 😡

Slough
John Betjeman

Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough
It isn't fit for humans now,
There isn't grass to graze a cow
Swarm over. Death

Come, bombs, and blow to smithereens
Those air-conditioned, bright canteens,
Tinned fruit, tinned meat, tinned milk, tinned beans
Tinned minds, tinned breath.

Mess up the mess they call a town
A house for ninety-seven down
And once a week for half-a-crown
For twenty years,

And get that man with double chin
Who'll always cheat and always win,
Who washes his repulsive skin
In women's tears,

And smash his desk of polished oak
And smash his hands so used to stroke
And stop his boring dirty joke
And make him yell.

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nemo @nemo20000.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Probably RAF Tempsford related, and there were three more airfields up that line before Peterborough.

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nemo @nemo20000.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

He stood alone from dawn to dusk, Unheard in his attempt to busk: His half-cooked notions all obfusc- ated. Hated bloated mollusc.

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nemo @nemo20000.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You've reminded me I wanted to know more about the Hoon Rings. Who built them? Hoons hewn by whom?!

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