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Rob Pickering @rob.pickering.org · 17/08/2026

It's amazing what some people forget they have with them, although I've been pulled out for tick tweezers in the past. Seen in an actual international departure lounge.

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Rob Pickering @rob.pickering.org · 28/04/2025

100% AI generated. This really isn't hard.

Map of Europe with capital cities generated by an AI

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Rob Pickering @rob.pickering.org · 08/04/2025

The view from the top deck at "the most scenic bus stop in the UK", but are there any better? #LakeDistrict

View from a 555 bus at Low Wood Bay Bus Stop

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Rob Pickering @rob.pickering.org · 08/03/2025

Getting out for a walk is an incredible way to leave all the doom behind for a few hours and today was incredibly beautiful.

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Rob Pickering @rob.pickering.org · 12/02/2025

A cautionary tale about trying to get an AI agent to present a slide deck at FOSDEM this year: www.pickering.org/ai-presentat... Lessons learnt, but was it a good idea badly executed, or just a straight bad idea?

Slide deck being presented in the Real Time Communications room at FOSDEM by Rob Pickering.

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Rob Pickering @rob.pickering.org · 09/01/2025

Coming to the end of another wonderful day.

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Rob Pickering @rob.pickering.org · 02/01/2025

Another stunning day again today, could get used to the yellow thing in the sky.

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Rob Pickering @rob.pickering.org · 01/01/2025

This was the skeet as it seems I'm now blocked. I've obfuscated the handle as the person saying it doesn't matter and I don't want to cause them problems. Just highlighting my disagreement with their, to me, entirely illogical position.

Let's make something clear for 2025
There is NO ethical way to use AI gen.
You are using it? Ok, but don't try to gaslight people, explaining that
the way you do it isn't problematic, hurtful and wasteful. Cause that
is NOT a thing!
Happy new year!

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Rob Pickering @rob.pickering.org · 01/01/2025

Pushed on and sheltered for a bit to be rewarded with...

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Rob Pickering @rob.pickering.org · 01/01/2025

Until I could almost reach out and touch it... but got rather wet in the process.

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Rob Pickering @rob.pickering.org · 01/01/2025

What a day today. Storm over, I was enticed out by a rainbow...

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Rob Pickering @rob.pickering.org · 12/12/2024

I'm used to views with the tops of hills disappearing into the murk, but it is grim down south today. They've lost the tops of their buildings.

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Rob Pickering @rob.pickering.org · 16/11/2024

This place really does fill me with the same hope and wonder as the early Internet. I've been here 24hrs and blown away that 52nd Speaker of the US House of Representatives just liked my whimsical skeet about UK telephone boxes.

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Rob Pickering @rob.pickering.org · 16/11/2024

And a privatised phonebox, from that brief period in the 1980s when PTT was deregulated and everybody invested tons of money in a very short lived payphone splurge. Then we invented mobile and they all went bust.

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Rob Pickering @rob.pickering.org · 16/11/2024

Very early postbox. Deposit under the archway at St Barts out of the rain. Empties from roadside.

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Rob Pickering @rob.pickering.org · 16/11/2024

First use of postcodes on the planet

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Rob Pickering @rob.pickering.org · 15/11/2024

Here'a a K1 at Tyneham just for fun. That K2 and K6 are two of several along Grand Avenue, Smithfield Market. They are still there because they are all listed. Loads of them in there as I guess they would have been used by traders to take orders in the days before mobile.

A K1 Mk3 phonebox in the abandoned village of Tynham, taken in 2015.

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Rob Pickering @rob.pickering.org · 15/11/2024

One of these two has something in common with a mountain, but which one? (and where are they)

A picture of two old British Phone Boxes.

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