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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 4h

Glasses simply were not designer enough or something.

Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 4h

I swear it's deliberately arcane from the outside. I couldn't ever understand what the accountants produced in terms of the management accounts I had supplied them to produce them.

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 4h

Skill issue. Shoulda called the director general your big homie or whatever.

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 6h

Yes or it might just be as simple as they simply never resource their dev teams properly to have a real go at making this work well. It's probably harder than we think given it seems to be every platform because surely someone would say "let's just make ours good" as a USP Vs their competitors.

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 7h

If this is media speak for "what if algorithm tailored recommendations, only it works" then I am listening. Not sure that's even AI just a database management problem.

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 11h

The beak is a little bit iconic I suppose

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 11h

Important <> iconic. Sewers are important. Tarmac is important.

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 11h

Can't have elegance without vulgarity.

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 12h

Due to a very complex and unlikely set of circumstances I spent a couple of hours trying to track down an acceptable dance or hip hop remix of this but it doesn't exist as of last summer.

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 12h

This is legit. Kingfishers are rare and hard to see and have good colours and Curlews are common.

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I can shape an idea much better in a dialogue with a hallucinating flawed inhuman partner than I can on my own. If I was writing it down I would have already done 90% of the thinking.

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I think you view it totally differently if you are dyslexic. I didn't hate writing, but it was always much harder to me than STEMy stuff, which I found easy. There is this idea that writing is how you think. No! That's just you! Possibly a large group, it isn't everyone. Talking is how I think!

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A system that moves by sea and can do intercepts? So a warship then? Do the navy know they are getting 10bn for new ships?

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Also unrelated that gambling den was less than a mile from my house.

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It is better than it was to be fair, but it's still got a long way to go.

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Although on another occasion doing the water safety for the Rhyl airshow was actually brilliant I had a spitfire using my powerboat as it's turning point as it buzzed the crowd. I didn't actually have to go to Rhyl that time though we drove there in the powerboat.

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I've worked in Rhyl. It's true. All of it.

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Like Culloden was in 1746! Well after the act of union!

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yeah John C's comment is definitely off. That it happened much earlier and written sources are patchy didn't mean it didn't happen. You really wouldn't want to live through the creation of England (and there is a good chance you wouldn't!)

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

There isn't a specific penalty for unaccounably climbing the opponents goal posts or asking the ref for salmon so we'll let those slide but you are supposed to not eat peopleso that's a red.

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The scrum collapsed because the opposing hookers face got eaten.

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

James responsible for "Britain's Pearl Harbour" latest

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Von Clauzwitz said "he who defends everything defends nothing" so we are required to be choosy.

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Very suspicious of anything which requires the public to enthusiastically participate without paying attention - it always ends up with cranks - but you obviously do need them to participate at some level.

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I think you do have to wrestle with the Churchill quote when iterating on the Westminster system "worst possible system apart from all the others we tried" - a lot of stuff has to survive contact with reality before you nail your colours to the mast on it.

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If you are OK with screwdrivers you can generally replace the cone if you can find a replacement. Have a look on YouTube there may be a guide to replacing that exact one it's easier than you think.

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

No I am not sure that is true. That first big Chinese model took everyone by surprise because they had done it differently and much cheaper than the Americans.

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The stakes are low I can get cross without annoying anyone real.

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My top meta prompt is under no circumstances ever compliment me.

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The alternative is for it to abase itself and it's so unattractive I tell it off. "You are right to call it out John, you deserve better"

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My brother with occasional success talks me into geeky board games but I did actually enjoy this one.

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Learning from Truss saying that Javier Melei was her most admired leader for him to say "who?"

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

He has had plenty, so many, chances to nip this in the bud with tactical expulsions and suspensions, but he's let it roll on to this point making all the same mistakes we saw Labour make, so why are we surprised? The stakes will just keep growing till they grapple with it.

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yeah this will be it probably but I am never clear if this is a bit of a cover for how good their inertial stuff is or if it's actually their main system, or if there is something else too. I just know the accuracy is very high either way.

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Also I have literally never been canvassed in N Wales much too rural so I am not sure what the expectation is. You get Jehovah's Witnesses about once every three years that's it.

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There are recognised opt outs - as a man of the mountains I think "I've just had a coffee thanks" is a bit of a push but "can I have a small glass of tap water" is acceptable. I don't think it's normal in Cardiff though it's just people recognise it.

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You are allowed to make an exception for sales people which I guess would include canvassers but I don't.

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I think it's a N Wales thing but it's not so alien in Cardiff that people can't cope with the concept like when I lived in England. Everyone gets a brew when at your house for any reason. It's rude not to offer, not to accept, or to get to business before small talk over the brew.

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

(I only do this to parties I am relatively sympathetic to, Reform don't get a brew)

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Scroll forward to them seeing how fast they can drink it.

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's *such* a joy! They think the cup of tea means they are doing well!

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So I am unclear whether there is more to it than very accurate inertial measurement or if they are doing something funky with local gravity or something

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

(I asked my submariner brother how subs do it and actually it's quite secret he wouldn't tell me!)

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