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pete twentythree

@pete23.com
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software person proud to be an ally 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ autoblock for odd follows, no posts, fascists, vibes, etc

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pete twentythree @pete23.com · 8h
shelts
a blue merle sheltie charging around a field as if it were on fire
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pete twentythree @pete23.com · 18/09/2026
wherr i poast from
an amstrad cpc-464 with COLOUR MONITOR. luxury.
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pete twentythree @pete23.com · 15/09/2026
Lovely evening calling in on @avantgardening.pl, chatting about existence over a couple of AFs, and making the acquaintance of Marmite who is as beautiful and soft as her pictures suggest. I’m also always surprised by how green Krakow is.
the river in Krakow from a bridge
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pete twentythree @pete23.com · 09/09/2026
couldn’t qt last time but this time let me say: read book 1, was excellent fun, now book 2 at least is 99p on amzn uk. cheers @soundingline.bsky.social
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pete twentythree @pete23.com · 07/09/2026
this technology changes the nature of humanity
a stripy ginger tomcat sits behind a SCREEN (my technology of choice for humanity - seeing is believing etc) this SCREEN shows a close up of his derpy mlem head. so it looks like the cat body has a giant head screen.

tell me humanity can survive this.
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pete twentythree @pete23.com · 04/09/2026
my cats have formed a band apparently
the small and tiny cats
FEED US FATHER

black and whtr image of tortie, ginger, void cat on a ted background. they look like a band. they sing meows.
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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 02/09/2026
The way that “computer software” is treated as being an ontologically neutral, fungible, and undifferentiated object of unspecified use in the discussion of the impact of LLMs on software production reveals a profound lack of critical and reflexive thinking on their part—being hallmarks of expertise
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Encephalophatass (Any pronouns) @encephalophatass.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
No amount of neurodiversity awareness training will ever make up for the fact that the average person takes it personally when you want to have lunch alone.
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pete twentythree @pete23.com · 31/08/2026
introduce yourself with five artists you’ve seen at least twice COIL @dj-surgeon.bandcamp.com The Caretaker Whitehouse BT
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pete twentythree @pete23.com · 27/08/2026
poor Lucy not doing well. we’ve smashed injections of antinausea and antibiotics into her and i’m hoping she’ll eat. daughter cancelled holiday so she can stay with her cat to the end. i’ve been off sick with manflu all week, apparently aching eyes latest covid? www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCU9...
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The Number To Heaven
YouTube video by Jason Eisener
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pete twentythree @pete23.com · 24/08/2026
we’ve had Lucy Fur for 15 years. she’s not been well recently, and disappeared, I expected her to have gone to die somewhere. I happened to see her curled up in the rhubarb patch, and she’s had 32 hours on IV fluids, antibiotics, antinausea, and seems eager for more food. and her nose is pink again.
tiny lucy the tuxedo kitten contemplates the mad whirl of existence and laser bees15 years on this cat is pissed off because can’t an old lady die in peace? tuxie on her blanket.she might be dying but she’s up for escape. tuxedo cat tries for the windows at the vet’s office.tux looks much perkier, although a little like Hannibal Lecter sitting neatly with her little paws “hello clarice”
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pete twentythree @pete23.com · 23/08/2026
can’t repost or quote @soundingline.bsky.social but his first paladin book is on kindle for 99p in the UK as well. i’m going to give it a go… after i finish binge reading M W Craven.
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pete twentythree @pete23.com · 22/08/2026
this morning’s activities have been cancelled and replaced by dandling the void gently.
a decent sized black cat on a lap. she’s got her paws out quite long, a decent chop dinner if one was so inclined.
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pete twentythree @pete23.com · 18/08/2026
Fundamentally, I need to be able to retire so I can spend the rest of my life tweaking my .emacs (this post inspired by @hillelwayne.com’s buttondown.com/hillelwayne/...)
buttondown.com
Vim wants you to control, VSCode wants you to consume
The two sides of the editor divide, and why I'm on the losing side.
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pete twentythree @pete23.com · 18/08/2026
Slay the Spire 2. In about 100 runs I’ve got to the architect twice. Modal death is being eaten by the second act sandworm without ever drawing an escape card. Guess the quarter yard is safe.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Philosophers often bring up the "principle of charity": a willingness to assume good faith in an interlocutor and treat them accordingly. It's good to do in many circumstances. But it is worth formulating a principle of not being a fucking mark. If not during the rise of fascism, then when? 12/
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pete twentythree @pete23.com · 16/08/2026
describe your music taste in 3 artists no genres? hard! 1. COIL 2. Skinny Puppy 3. Aphex Twin (see another attempt at triangulating the untriangulable at pete23.com/albums/)
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10 albums - pete23.com
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
@london.gov.uk
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pete twentythree @pete23.com · 13/08/2026
trauma
neil is a black void cat who chose to come up on my desk for snuggles then snooze. no trauma afaics. just zzz.
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pete twentythree @pete23.com · 14/08/2026
trap
a ginger stripy boi, Mephistopheles, lies on a bedsheet offering his furry tummy for tickling. please ignore paws and teef they are entirely innocent and not connected to that soft soft belly.
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pete twentythree @pete23.com · 11/08/2026
@steveaylett.bsky.social’s headproduct is attempting to inspire me, but my talent is unmeasurable and so hard to amplify without heterodyne
keyboard of a sequential prophet rev 4
three tarot cards on the black keys
THE POPE - they built churches but would later concede that god had eluded the cordon
THE PRESENT - should i assert anything in bones so temporary?
THE LOOKOUT - through our answers runs the pest of truth
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pete twentythree @pete23.com · 08/08/2026
not dave demands a chord to herald her cosmic entry
a tortoiseshelled cat
on a minilogue xd
in front of a black hole’s accretion disc
in space
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pete twentythree @pete23.com · 07/08/2026
As long as I still get all the SPH options.
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NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇱🇪🇺 @avantgardening.pl · 06/08/2026
#NFWHealth OK. I've tried and I've tried, but I just can't do it alone. I'm afraid I have to beg for financial help as I'm struggling with spiralling medical costs and simply can't pay my bills. Any reposting or donations would be greatly appreciated. 4fund.com/6r2d5e
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Support Me: Help with Medical and Food Needs – Donate on 4fund.com
HiI'm Robin Gill, and I'm a terminal cancer patient. I'm working as and when I can, but that's not often due to health problems and chemotherapy.My medical costs are spiralling and I am simply unable ...
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kif @kroker42.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
26 August 2025, 07:49. BT Tower.
Dramatically overcast sky. Houses. Head of BT Tower, generating a golden vortex of energy that lights up the clouds and the sky. If anyone still doubted what powers the sun, the answer is clear for everyone to see: the BT Tower.
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pete twentythree @pete23.com · 03/08/2026
lovely of him to sleep atop a well-labelled pedestal PURRING MEAT? no! -
a stripy ginger cat is snoozing in a loose curl atop a wooden thing, in front of this is a poster it reads THROBBING GRISTLE
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pete twentythree @pete23.com · 02/08/2026
i can stretch out a foot, wiggle it, lose a toe. that work for you?
a stripy ginger cat at the far bottom corner of the bed. he has been flash photographed but is facing away from is. his stripes are gorgeous.
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pete twentythree @pete23.com · 31/07/2026
wankers.
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words @words.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
drag the field to feed it
opposite.city
belousov–zhabotinsky
Three coupled species diffusing on a torus. Drag the field to feed it.
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pete twentythree @pete23.com · 28/07/2026
what’s your sign?
don’t want to see trans people? pluck out your eyes

picture of a hand attached to a wrist with a dark shirt holding a scorpion holding an eyeball
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pete twentythree @pete23.com · 25/07/2026
not quite @kevlin.bsky.social territory, just an intraday oops reboot and recovery sequence. didn’t catch the trigger:-/
departures screens

lhs screen is showing a login for FIDSuser
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pete twentythree @pete23.com · 24/07/2026
oh god Bendik Giske i am nominally straight but he is stunning and he bares his heart through his sax and i nominally hate sax as well but this is an exception and wow @gluefactorybound.bsky.social knows what i mean
bendik giske is a topless buff man with a lovely kilt and platform shoes and a saxophone
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pete twentythree @pete23.com · 23/07/2026
convocation of feline and canine
a tortoiseshelled cat approaches a blue merle sheltie to say hellothe tortoiseshelled cat has awoken the blue merle sheltie and now both of them are on their way to ask about lunch
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pete twentythree @pete23.com · 23/07/2026
convocation of feline and canine
a tortoiseshelled cat approaches a blue merle sheltie to say hellothe tortoiseshelled cat has awoken the blue merle sheltie and now both of them are on their way to ask about lunch
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pete twentythree @pete23.com · 21/07/2026
jesus is here, look busy, have a cat dump
a ginger cat head in extreme close up his eyes are screwed shut and he is dreaming. whiskers bush around his silly pink schnozz.lucy fur is a slightly out of focus twitchy tuxedocat here pictured atop a bookshelf where she feeds.Neil is a large void atop the feeding bookshelf. Peeping out behind her is Not Dave the tortie. Behind her, Mephistopheles the ginger tomcat awaits. These cats are very hungry. But they are also soft and beautiful.close up of not dave the tortoiseshelled cat on some bare board stairs. her whiskers are white and beautiful.
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Siavash Amini @capgrasman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Fuck everyone with the slightest bit of power to change this who are sitting on their asses letting an army of rabid psychopaths destory this country.
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pete twentythree @pete23.com · 13/07/2026
Happy Ninth Birthday to the best dog in the world: Fenris!
two shelties in a boarded hallway. one further away from camera in a doorway is DA WONJA a blue merle, closer to camera and next to a couple of shoes he has collected is FENRIS a fine sable floofoid.a sable sheltie likes flat on a bed, this is a candid snoot shot taken horiztonally. because he is lying down you get only half a face.sheltie is SCARY DOG here we can see Fenris’ amazing bite inhibition. the top half of his snoot is visible and his scary fangs where they rest on my hand. you can’t see this but he was making grrrrr noises whilst playing.fenris is ofc also deeply evil. here we see that manifest in the woods, where he is sitting down, majestically floofy, his eyes are glowing red and white.
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pete twentythree @pete23.com · 10/07/2026
Petition to ban Zuckerberg Creep Glasses for UK peeps, petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76... via Pivot to AI @pivot-to-ai.com.web.brid.gy
petition.parliament.uk
Petition: Introduce an immediate ban on the sale and promotion of smart glasses
The government should immediately ban the sale and promotion of glasses that contain recording capability. The government should explore using existing laws, such as RIPA, GDPR, DPA to take immediate ...
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pete twentythree @pete23.com · 29/06/2026
Free idea: clothes and shoe retailers, add a top level filter for my 3XL and size 12 feet, then just show me the stuff you are going to sell me. Signed, the guy who just blocked your website after 5x 7 second clickthroughs to T Shirts you don’t usefully stock for me.
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pete twentythree @pete23.com · 27/06/2026
One Leg on Eye. Irish singing, pipes, hurdygurdy, modular, wall of noise. Final number of repeated 4 bar pipe motif got me to a trance state and a Yeats sample, its hour come round at last, slouching toward Blackpool to be played. Great stuff.
two men on a stage, light from a window to the right. both men are bearded. lhs man is captain modular and mpc, rhs man is captain hurdygurdy, irish pipes, occasional singing. together they fight crime (is this right? -ed.) because they are One Leg On Eye
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pete twentythree @pete23.com · 26/06/2026
harrowing nostalgia and ballroom dancing courtesy of The Caretaker, up close and personal. excellent performance, the dancers added an extra dimension, haunted ballroom and real ballroom overlapping @avantgardening.pl
The Caretaker, James Leyland Kirby, stands in front of a microphone. Behind him two well stuffed armchair, a bottle, glasses, a drinking companion.two ballroom dancers in the blackpool ballroom dancingBRING ME DISCOURSE, I WILL ENCHANT THINE EAR

the motto of the ballroom i guess, picked out with laser light and a long exposure
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pete twentythree @pete23.com · 18/06/2026
Fenris and Not Dave lie ready to take your call!
a sheltie lies on his side on the bed, the main feature of this photo is his massive snoot.a tortoiseshelled cat on a blue duvet with her front paws extended.
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pete twentythree @pete23.com · 18/06/2026
#nowplaying FSOL - Cascade EP. This and Lifeform and Lifeforms defined the mid nineties for me. Also will always remember wandering at 4am onto the empty chillout floor of an illegal warehouse rave just as the DJ dropped Cascade:-) Listening in the dark with my dogs ftw.
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pete twentythree @pete23.com · 18/06/2026
Excited to be going to #xt26 today, very pleased to be off the stage and enjoying the talks:-) Last year was great but extremely draining… Good luck @addiebenyehuda.bsky.social @jonpither.bsky.social @hendroid.io et al youtu.be/A3yR4OlEBCA
youtu.be
'Taking Control of your Trading System' by Peter Windle
YouTube video by JUXT — A Grid Dynamics Company
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pete twentythree @pete23.com · 15/06/2026
oooh @warringtonruncorn.com all-dayer on Saturday! something nice to look forward to, only 4 and a half working days to the weekend, let’s ‘ave it.
Lucy Fur the Tuxedo Cat sits on the kitchen island looking deadly. She is.
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pete twentythree @pete23.com · 12/06/2026
Cats exist.
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Adrian Chills @adrianchills.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
#69: Soap
A screenshot of a headline to a Guardian column by Adrian Chiles. It reads 'Pump-action soap dispensers are a disgrace - and I won't put up with them any longer.'Son

By the time you read this, I will be planetside, in the midst of the fighting, with my men beside me. Though I wish the battle to be short, I know that our foe is both relentless and merciless. It has been three long years since I last saw you at your graduation from the military academy. I hope that the war is treating you well and that our name is not too much of a hindrance, or a burden.

Our current campaign has been a long and bitter one. Each time I return to the ship and wash the filthy Sca’alin blood from my body I pray that the end is near. I’m not sure how much longer we can hold this front, though I know that to lose this planet would give the Sca’alins a valuable beachhead for an assault upon Earth itself. The fear of that outcome feeds my resolve.

Our supplies of soap (do you call it that? I’ve heard that in the Delta Sector, the younger recruits have taken to calling it meltjuice) are running dangerously low. But seeing as it’s the only thing known to dissolve a Sca’alin footsoldier’s carapace, we have no choice but to employ it. A new shipment has been promised within the week (though we have been hearing that same report for a month already).

The alert has just sounded for the shuttle embarkation, so I”m afraid I have to go. If you speak to your mother, tell her that I love her and that I’m sorry she’s had to spend so much of her life worrying about an old warhorse like me. If I don’t come back from this mission, tell her I died protecting the whole world. And my whole world is—and always has been—her.

One last thing—these new pump-action soap dispensers that the military are rolling out? They’re no use to man or beast. I’ve told my platoons and I’m telling you—stick with the standard issue rifles and your side-piece. Nothing will serve you better in the field.

Stay safe, son. Proud of you boy.

See you on the other side, wherever that may be.
Your loving father,
A
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pete twentythree @pete23.com · 06/06/2026
a story in two parts 1/2
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pete twentythree @pete23.com · 03/06/2026
Hmmm. Went to the bathroom and came back to discover a post.
a void and a tortie atop a bookshelf they have NEVER been fed
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pete twentythree @pete23.com · 31/05/2026
#sablesunday you say? only one here but he’s a good one!
a sable sheltie relaxing on a blue sofa in the background, a blue merle sheltie as big as a border collie stands in the foreground. no cats on the cat tree sadly.
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