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Richard Bairwell @rbairwell.bsky.social · 2h

All cars can fly: most only manage once off the edge of a cliff.. At least those cars are "road legal" and so can be driven as cars.

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 8h

£10 spent on benefits isn't just £10 lost, it's £10 that will then be spent on food, or rent which keeps circulating in the economy. £10 given to big businesses in a tax cut just ends up in a profit margin, or a millionaire shareholders pocket. Its likely never spent again.

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Amanita Design 🔧 @amanita-design.net · 7h

Machinarium turns 17 today! Still got the moves 🎂💃

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Richard Bairwell @rbairwell.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Good to hear catalogue shopping is still a thing.

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Richard Bairwell @rbairwell.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

First time all week I felt like I had the energy to be at my computer... "Windows Updates needed..." *sigh*

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Richard Bairwell @rbairwell.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Especially if you've got to draw the numbers in a time limit and let OCR "interpret" them.

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Richard Bairwell @rbairwell.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

What existing unsolved problem/issue is LLM-driven AI meant to fix?

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Richard Bairwell @rbairwell.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

That makes it sound like "I'll reach the menopause tomorrow so I'll schedule a party. It's a good thing it's such a one-day thing and not years of hormones playing up again".

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Richard Bairwell @rbairwell.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

You only managed to reach benevolent status.

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Remember every pearl-clutching journalist and commentator who insisted it was in the public interest to know every single detail of a Cambridge academic's life, even after he resigned his position, because he did some sloppy copy-and-pasting as a post-grad student?

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Richard Bairwell @rbairwell.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I can still remember when Gnasher went missing for a while and came back with Gnipper and the other Gpuppies.

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Richard Bairwell @rbairwell.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I still remember when @ashens.bsky.social got @nerdcubed.bsky.social a cheese advent calendar for their YouTube series. It would have been okay apart for the fact they filmed opening+eating all 24 in one day. Nerdcubed is now lactose intolerant....

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Richard Bairwell @rbairwell.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Google Assistant then "set an alarm for 15minutes. Alarm set for 5.25pm". Google Gemini now "set an alarm for 15minutes. Here's some search results for setting an alarm for 15 minutes..."

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Richard Bairwell @rbairwell.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I read Crichton's Airframe on a flight and "A slow death: 83 days of radiation sickness" whilst my wife was getting Xrays.

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Richard Bairwell @rbairwell.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

So, character.ai, zavvi, Getty Images and Poundland going bust: quite the strange collection.

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Richard Bairwell @rbairwell.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Even better if it can be shown that Johnson et al were previously told about it.

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Richard Bairwell @rbairwell.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I found just pressing the "Start" button on ours adds 30 seconds each time (without having to do anything else).

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Richard Bairwell @rbairwell.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I know ours allows, by just twisting/knocking the dial slightly to the wrong direction, a setting of 99minutes.

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Richard Bairwell @rbairwell.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Same with Forrest Gump: allegedly Winston Groom (the original author) was on a profit-share agreement and the studio argued that the $678m takings movie which cost $55m to make never made a profit so they didn't have to pay him. They were surprised when he wouldn't then sell the rights to the sequel

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Kathryn de Tomb 🪦 @kathryndeplume.com · 12/10/2026

Haha.. NTs: "fuck the manual I don’t need that shit" Us: "give me ALL the manuals, even the esoteric stuff, I need to deep dive for every waking moment before the thing arrives!"

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Richard Bairwell @rbairwell.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Mrs Merton voice: "So Micheal, what attracted you to the 26 years younger than you child porn possessing Lola Salem?"

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 11/10/2026

Hi, I’m a sighted alt text user! Here are some reasons I use it: - Slow Internet on an airplane - I’m over 40, I have no idea who that celebrity is - Bluesky broke images again - My vision sucks and that text is too small to read otherwise - Conveys further context and authorial intent

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 11/10/2026

Elon just blasted his home address to his 240 million followers along with his order number and last 4 of his Amex charge card while shilling grok bot. Someone else canceled his order.

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Richard Bairwell @rbairwell.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Good quality ice cream and good quality vanilla is lovely. Otherwise chocolate flavouring so you can't tell how bad quality the "frozen soft scoop treat" is.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

"ADHD label risks lifelong harm to children." If you don't label the disorder, then what we will be labelled instead is "Lazy." "Underachiever." "Doesn't live up to their potential." "Bad student." Those labels come with pain, shame, and abuse. The ADHD label comes with a chance for support.

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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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Richard Bairwell @rbairwell.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I think if it goes ahead,either Hesketh or Trump themselves should have to pull the trigger.I doubt either of them would actually have the "will" to do so. I wonder if we could goad Trump into bottling it in front of the cameras "which will have high viewers which you don't want to miss out on sir!"

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Richard Bairwell @rbairwell.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Congratulations on a rare Googlewhack. The words "Piers Morgan is the greatest newspaperman" have never appeared in known media before now.

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 10/10/2026

Excellent typo

Wife's Scottish family gift me with a small single male once a year. I am not really into that and it burns my throat but keep it down out of politeness, because I know that's how they do things. Thinking of quitting alcohol entirely to not hurt their feelings.

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Richard Bairwell @rbairwell.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Did you sing the motto "1 2 3 Time To Make Steam, If You Don't"?

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Richard Bairwell @rbairwell.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I went off watching the 8-bit guy when he came out in favour of open-carry. I now find out he's brought a Tesla and made an AI film: I'm just surprised the "ick factor" wasn't apparent earlier.

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Richard Bairwell @rbairwell.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Same on Taskmaster with Mae Martin in 2023.

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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 08/10/2026

This is a good example of why I am not a fan of the pivot to podcasts/audio articles. It says it takes 6 minutes to read (actually about 3 mins max), but 9 minutes to listen to. Audio is just such a SLOW way to consume words.

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Richard Bairwell @rbairwell.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

At one company, I really pushed for my job title to be Group Operations Developer but the boss knew me too well...

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

In the 1985 Doctor Who serial Vengeance on Varos, an authoritarian regime run by a weak man keeps the downtrodden population in line by broadcasting public executions to distract from the fact that it has tanked the economy through a combination of incompetence, arrogance and institutional cruelty.

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Richard Bairwell @rbairwell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Makes a change for the cat having to watch: I can still remember our old tom cat with his girlfriend right in front of the tv...

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Eddie Bowley @eddache.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Another reason Gromit shouldn't talk.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 09/10/2026

My wife’s brain is less internet-poisoned than mine.

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Jake Kanter @jakekanter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Revealed: Royal Mail used an AI voiceover in a Christmas ad about human connection. We only know this because a startled viewer thought she heard the voice of her dead Dad: Paul Vaughan, the mellifluous BBC host and Paddington narrator. A cautionary tale. deadline.com/2026/10/paul...

deadline.com

Did Royal Mail Revive BBC & 'Paddington' Voiceover Star With AI?

Daughter of Paul Vaughan, an acclaimed BBC and 'Paddington' voiceover artist, accuses Royal Mail Christmas ad of resurrecting her father using AI.

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Richard Bairwell @rbairwell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Yeah, whatcha going to do to me now hooman?"

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Richard Bairwell @rbairwell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

/me looks for the @obviousplant.bsky.social logo and gets worried when it is not found.

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Richard Bairwell @rbairwell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Either he's got extremely consistent handwriting or he's trying to deceive people that that's handwritten and not a font.

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Richard Bairwell @rbairwell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Well, fixed after a reboot. Most odd.

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Richard Bairwell @rbairwell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

wtf? my "shift" key has stopped working so i cant type upper case characters. i'm on my phone! (and yes, if i switch the android keyboard to numbers/symbols, it'll work then but not on letters).

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zoë @zo-e.xyz · 07/10/2026

okay so this anecdote in Margaret's obituary has me crying because this is exactly what it's like being in tech and trying to anticipate failures and having men basically tell you you're being hysterical and then you have to fix it later

"the Lauren error": One day, her daughter Lauren, then four years old, was playing with the command module simulator at the
Instrumentation Lab when she somehow activated a pre-launch program, called P01, while the simulator was in midflight - which
crashed the simulator altogether. Hamilton created a program add-on in the technical documentation warning users not to launch P01 during flight.
She also proposed a software fix to prevent the error happening during a real mission, but she was overruled on the grounds that the highly trained astronauts were never going to make that same mistake. Yet during the Apollo 8 mission in 1968, that's exactly what happened: Jim Lovell inadvertently launched P01 during the flight, causing the on-flight navigational data to vanish. Hamilton and her team were called in to solve the error, and after that her proposed changes were integrated into the program. This was an early example of "defensive" programming, the

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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