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newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social @newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It’s interesting how being no longer able to afford replacements for broken items forces you to be resourceful and to find ways to fix them.

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newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social @newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Some days I’m not sure if I hate AI music more or lazy remakes of 90s songs

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newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social @newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

*sigh*… a TikTok was explaining the history behind the current the Drumcree crisis but started off claiming the Penal Laws, Plantations, and Potato Famine were methods used by the British to weaken the Irish population and replace them with British settlers.

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newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social @newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

And now for some ramblings about anime I’ve watched.

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newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social @newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Tried to keep it to the games that introduced me to a series, but I sunk so many teenage hours into Blops and Medieval II that they just had to be mentioned. my9games.net/en for those interested!

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newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social @newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A nice touch to Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood: On one part of the map you can see NPCs with sledgehammers hitting a ruin, a nod to how Ancient Roman buildings were recycled for materials

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newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social @newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

There should be a law making it illegal for your mic to be off of mute when you don’t realise it is. Silly details like enforcement, practicality, and implementation should not be a concern with this law.

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newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social @newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Commentary on Northern Ireland and the Good Friday Agreement over the last few weeks has been funny. Burnham says a Border Poll is off the table in contradiction of the GFA, but when Trump says there should be a United Ireland they’re suddenly committed to the GFA.

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newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social @newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Occasionally I think back on how great Game of Thrones was and how it was my whole personality for 6 years. My nostalgic self longs for that hype and cultural grasp, then feels sadness at how irrelevant the last season made it. I refuse to watch anything in the same universe because of it.

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newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social @newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Part 12 of music archive ramblings: Over a month ago I had another look at my YouTube history and discovered it then only went back to May instead of March 2015. It then occurred to me that the history viewer may just be a rolling window and that maybe Google held the rest of the data elsewhere.

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newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social @newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

After weeks of training with ghost pepper hot sauce, I’ve managed to eat an entire vindaloo curry without breaking a sweat

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newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social @newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Watched the Avatar Aang movie, enjoyable story and beautiful animation, however once I realised that Tagah’s VA seemed familiar because it’s Dave Bautista, I then could only see Dave Bautista.

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newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social @newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

An issue of having developed an interest in the Great Famine is that I now avoid content online about it because I just get annoyed at how badly people understand the history. An unrelated video caught me half way through when it dropped in.

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newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social @newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Saw The Odyssey last night, great watch but as with most of Nolan’s movies, it’s better when you don’t think about it too much. I thought “Our age of bronze is collapsing” was just a meme. It has also kicked off an interest in Mycenaean Greece for me.

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newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social @newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

One moment I think I’m coping well with the newborn sleep deprivation. The other I’m questioning how a tshirt I’m currently wearing got into the washing machine (it was a different shade of green).

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newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social @newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Part 11 of music archive ramblings: The Mac HDD hasn’t been as much of a dead end as I thought. I made a brilliant discovery buried in there of iMessages from 2014 stored in a .db file. Though only a short window from the 24th March to the 18th May, they’ve still turned up a number of song dates.

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newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social @newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I wish to confess. When I was 14 I tried to download RAM. That PC didn’t last long.

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AskHistorians @askhistorians.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I LIKE HISTORY, U LIK HISTORY? COME SEE US?!

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newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social @newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Part 10 of music archive ramblings: Life commitments interrupted this project for a while but I was able to find time to get back into it. Most of my pre-2014 music has dates assigned and I’m in the process of making playlists with some adjustments along the way to fit a vibe or event.

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newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social @newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

If “there’s no use crying over spilled milk” does that mean it’s acceptable to do so for other spilled liquids? (I spilled ice coffee over my keyboard and it’s ruined my day)

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newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social @newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Question on r/AskHistorians asking “Why are so many people obsessed with Byzantine empire?”. Reminds me as a child being interested in the Roman Empire and having my mind blown that it actually lasted longer. It was like a What If scenario actually being real. www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

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newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social @newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Mild Irritation No. 38: People that repeatedly try to finish your sentence for you but are so off it breaks your train of thought.

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newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social @newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I’ve been speaking what Irish I have to our baby from Day 1 and it’s been great to help me improve and add new words and sentences. Today I asked one of my relatives to speak to them in Irish and they didn’t seem interested in doing so. So this is what minority language struggle feels like.

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newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social @newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Been long enough since I finished The Expanse that I’ve decided on a rewatch, although it had a bad ending imo. It seemed to finish out of nowhere with questions left unanswered, but I did also miss the announcement of it being the last season.

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newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social @newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Just finished watching The Boys. I had heard the last season being compared to that of Game of Thrones and that fans weren’t happy, but I thought it had some pretty decent conclusions.

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newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social @newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Part 9 of music archive ramblings: I’ve come down to 311 songs unsorted, 92 of which I’ve assigned dates with strong confidence. I did make the assumption that since I was prolific at checking new releases at the time that I can just use the release date as the “discover date”.

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newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social @newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

The funnest part of moving from pharma to software development is that instead of working on drugs with random boring names like “Bronceptus” or “Zilatrium” I now work with tools with exciting names like “BananaGobbler” or “PraiseBeToShrek”

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newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social @newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Part 8 of music archive ramblings: This has been really satisfying for my inner historian. Searching Facebook actually brought results, got some dates and also turned up some more songs I’d forgotten about.

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newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social @newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I wonder how frustrating it must be for historians engaging in primary sources when there’s a gap in knowledge because people assumed there would be no need to write it down.

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newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social @newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Part 7 of music archive ramblings: Attempting one last collection of records, I had an idea that maybe I made screenshots in September 2014 but alas if I did they’re gone now, and I’m pretty sure I did just use the iPod as a record of my music.

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newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social @newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

IRISH SUMMER IS HERE FOR ONE WEEK ONLY GET YOUR VITAMIN D WHILE YOU CAN!!!

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newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social @newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Part 6 of music archive ramblings: I’m disappointed that the Mac hard drive didn’t turn up anything and I’m very confused as to where all the MP3 files went. I spent a couple of hours prodding Claude to find an answer but reached a point where it started going in circles so I gave up on it.

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newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social @newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I regret to announce I had the 4th coffee today and can no longer concentrate on work.

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newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social @newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Part 5 of music archive ramblings: There’s a follow up questions to a previous write-up I did on r/AskHistorians so this is going to be paused until I answer that. First year college playlist is pretty much done now with some surprising results in the order.

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newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social @newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

My little project reminds me of a quote I heard before: “We are, each of us, a product of the stories we tell ourselves” Going through old messages to help pinpoint dates and events has surprised me by how social I was when I always had the idea I was fairly solitary in that time period.

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newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social @newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Part 4 of music archive ramblings: The overwritten dates are still a headache, I’ve noticed they’re the only ones with album names which makes me think I manually entered album names to get album artwork, but that put them into folders and I later took them out overwriting the dates.

“Sure grandma let’s get you to bed” meme

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newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social @newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

In the process of my music archive project I found a video I uploaded to YouTube in 2012 of the first time I got caught by an en passant titled ‘BULLSHIT!!’, description “Most bullshit move ever made in chess”. I honestly thought the computer decided to break the rules of chess to take my pawn.

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newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social @newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Part 3 of my music archiving project ramblings: I remember now the last time I sat down to this that I put my first year music into an unordered playlist because the Date Added were the same. Finding the Date Modified has finally allowed me to get my first semester music in sequential order.

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newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social @newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Yes it’s 11°C and forecast to rain all day but I’m still drinking iced lattes because my hubris insists it is summer.

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newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social @newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I’ve finally had motivation to sit down and start trying to piece together my old music, I remember now the situation I was in with it. (Skeeting into the void about this project is part of the motivation so please ignore me… unless you’re interested in my rambling?)

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newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social @newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Don’t care much for Eurovision, but I do listen to the entrants each year for any good songs. Germany’s entry this year absolutely slaps.

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newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social @newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I am once again confronted with the urge for a 4th coffee. I must resist.

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Jonathan Dean @hergrim.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I was trying to see if the h264ify plugin would let me play YouTube videos on my old netbook, when this video came up. I didn't realise that Robert Pattinson was an ancient historian as well as an actor. Or maybe they just mixed him up with @roelkonijn.bsky.social and called him in by accident?

A screenshot of YouTube that was definitely not modified by an unskilled hack using GIMP, a program they have almost no familiarity with.

The taskbar of the computer resembles that of Windows XP, as it's a Linux distro known as "FreeXP", and it shows both Firefox and Htop running.

The putative video screenshot has a disheveled looking Robert Pattinson looking at a laptop screen in the lower left corner, taking up approximately a third of the screen, with a blue background on a vertical top-to-bottom gradient (light to dark), and a still from the movie "The 300 Spartans" extending from the top right corner to a third of the screen from the right, and approximately half the screen top to bottom.

The still from "The 300 Spartans" has the Spartans in a hollow "wedge" formation, advancing cross rocky terrain towards four single lines of "Persian" infantry, with the sea to the right hand side and some small trees and rocks on the left.

The title of the video, which is not full screen or in theater mode, is "Ancient Warfare Expert Rates 10 Battle Tactics in Movies and TV | How Real Is It? | Insider", and on the right hand side of the screen are an ad and other Insider videos.

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newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social @newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Silent stress has a funny way of revealing itself. Today I twice forgot how roundabouts work and yielded to the left instead of the right. I suppose those drivers must have thought I was just being very polite.

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newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social @newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Every day I feel tempted by a 4th cup of coffee. Every day that I give in I regret it. Every day I feel tempted by a 4th cup of coffee.

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newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social @newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Excuse me while I ramble into the void for 20+ posts about how my music library has been making me feel like some sort of archaeologist or archivist.

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newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social @newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I’ve been on and off typing up a 20+ chain of posts rambling about trying to piece together my old library of music. My latest stint of typing wasn’t saved in the draft. Either I accidentally pressed discard draft or a 20+ chain is too much for it to handle.

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newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social @newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

The Stories tab on Snapchat hasn’t been relevant to me for the last decade but sometimes I look anyway for the 2 friends that still post there. Every single time there’s a click bait post under the Discover section about the Hawk Tua girl and I don’t know why.

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newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social @newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Someone decided it would be a good idea to put an AI generated photo on r/IrishHistory of people queuing for soup during the Great Famine and they were immediately and rightfully shit on before it was removed by the mods.

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newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social @newtonianasspoundr.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

“I’d love some dates right now” *Opens the fridge while considering a skeet about how tasty dates are* *The dates are gone*

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