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Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 19/09/2026

But would Road Runner beat Max Verstappen?

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Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 13/09/2026

It feels good to play around with making ontologies again.

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Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 07/09/2026

I had this series of books!

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 07/09/2026

"I don't know the answer myself, but I asked a blowhard I know and he took a wild guess, here's what he said: " How I interpret pasted replies from an LLM in online conversations

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Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 06/09/2026

literally me every time I think I might be a techie and can have a go at any self-hosting projects

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Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 05/09/2026

I ended up walking from the Southbank to Maida Vale, via Regents Park. Now I need food.

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Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 05/09/2026

Three hours to kill on a Saturday afternoon in Central London..

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Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 05/09/2026

Today's entertainment - different crowd from Thursday!

A photo of the stage for the Football Clichés live show at the Southbank Centre

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Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 04/09/2026

.. all of which means, when comparing vs traditional tech ways of doing something, or advocating to use a proven technology instead, it's difficult to argue against <the thing which unknowably just seems to work>. You can't prove it isn't doing what is claimed.

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Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 04/09/2026

Just because the output seems to resemble what you wanted, doesn't mean it's doing that thing you claim it's doing. And without going into detail about the underlying tech, it's impossible to prove that it *isn't*.

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Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 04/09/2026

This isn't anything particularly insightful, but one of the things that gets me about <The Technology Everyone's going Mad over> is (at least in general, every day discussions) how unfalsifiable a claim that it does something, is.

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Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 02/09/2026

Booked a ticket for the @footballcliches.bsky.social live show on a whim, because why not.

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Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 01/09/2026

Sitting next to a football agent on the train, on transfer deadline day 👀

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Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 29/08/2026

Finally managed to fix it. Some kind of hidden saved preferences file, lovely 🙃🫠

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Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 29/08/2026

Spent an hour trying to fix the issue. No joy. FFS.

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Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 29/08/2026

Well, after feeling good about managing to set up various instruments in Ableton Live, I'm now left baffled and frustrated *yet again* by the Push 2 just not... working in the way it's apparently mean to. And doing this solo means I'm stuck. Trying to learn music is truly frustrating.

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Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 28/08/2026

Definitely! Abbots Langley

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Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 28/08/2026

Good news, everyone! I've found a really nice Neapolitan pizza place near me that does takeaway and delivery at a reasonable price and distance! The year is saved!

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The BBC have gone too far employing Sith weather presenters.

A bbc weather presenter Chris Fawkes stands in front of the forecast screen which is showing a photo of lightning over a field. His hands are outstretched and it looks like the lightning is coming out of his fingers

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Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 26/08/2026

I really need an animated GIF of the "Machines will do the heavy work, men will supervise the machines" line from several @psbhq.bsky.social songs. Mostly because of the 'plus ça change'-ness of it.

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Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 22/08/2026

The End of Oak Street with one of the most unique shot types (split diopter, apparently) I've seen in cinema in a long time.

A still from The End of Oak Street featuring a split diopter shot of Anne Hathaway in the foreground on the left, and Maisy Stella in the mid distance on the right

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Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 22/08/2026

Taking myself to the cinema tonight, because why not. End of Oak Street it is, then!

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

My graphic design has really caught fire, without anyone really knowing, ever since I started using the typeface Inspector Sans.

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Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 22/08/2026

This is quite a neat timeline of events to show a story developing. Make the player, date and clubs clickable, and I'd be in love.

Another screenshot of the Athletic's transfer window tracker, showing three event stories connected together.

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Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 22/08/2026

Fascinated by The Athletic's transfer window taxonomy

A screenshot of the Athletic's transfer window tracker, with clear labels for the type of transfer activity happening

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Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 21/08/2026

Thanks :) Much appreciated!

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Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 21/08/2026

Possibly needs descaling again, though I’m pretty sure I did that about a month ago… Not sure about the water quality, just using tap water with the filter then in the machine.

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Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 21/08/2026

Coffee nerds, assemble! I have a Sage/Breville Barista Express Impress. Lately, it's been slow to start building pressure, which should happen about 6-7 seconds into the brew. I've changed beans and tried finer grinds. What's going on?

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Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 20/08/2026

The Detectorists, but for a group of modular synth enthusiasts

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Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 16/08/2026

What are people using these days, instead of Meetup, for finding events?

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Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 14/08/2026

Was that really necessary?

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Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 13/08/2026

@ollybenson.uk apparently an overhead signal failure at Mill Hill. They were telling folk to go to Euston & get the train to St Albans Abbey (via Watford Junction, &, ironically, the nearest station to me), but I assumed that would be rammed, so got the Northern line to Edgware & bus back instead.

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Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 13/08/2026

Left the office, no problem with Thameslink. Got to St. Pancras, whole thing down. Luckily, I should be able to route around...

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Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 11/08/2026

A more than fair choice :)

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Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 11/08/2026

Alternatively, lore tweaks for TV shows announced formally between seasons: "we've decided Billie Piper as the Doctor was officially a dream after all"

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Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com · 11/08/2026

Listening to @footballcliches.bsky.social talk about law tweaks for the upcoming Premier League season, and now I can't stop thinking about lore tweaks instead. We've decided the pizza throwing incident was actually Papa John's, not Domino's.

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