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James Smith 💾 @floppy.org.uk · 10/10/2026

Anyone know of any student-led anti-GenAI campaigns in UK schools? My daughter hates the amount it gets used *by the school itself* and wants to do something…

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Joshua Byrd 🐀 @phocks.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Gratuitous photo of myself 🥳

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Joshua Byrd 🐀 @phocks.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

WE WON AGAIN!!!!!! 🏆🎊🏆

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

@Unixbigot @projectgus this just makes sense. All computers should be spherical.

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

@tj I'm guessing that the 'since the start of time' figure. We've had it since 2022 and used it more in the earlier years, so *maaaaybe* it adds up. Not bothering to go back that far and check though.

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Woolies claims in their Delivery Unlimited renewal notice that we've saved $2,264. But that didn't seem right so I just counted it up. We've had 13 deliveries in the past year. At $15 a pop, that's $195. And at $149/year for the subscription, that'd make a saving […] [Original post on bne.social]

A feedback form asking: What's your main reason for cancelling today?
Quality of fresh produce
Delivery experience
Substituted or missing items
Subscription cost
Minimum spend per order
Delivery times or options
Other reason
Other reason is checked with the note: Honestly? All of the above. But what tipped the scales is deceptive marketing in the renewal email.

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

I think the main thing I've learned so far from having a car with an internet connection and companion app is how often we forget to lock the doors. Please don't rob us.

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Looks like I'm shopping for mobile plans again. Belong just bumped the price of the one I'm on by 20%.

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

I'm drafting a set of rules for sorting #Lego. Give me your feel-pinions (or, full on beautiful-mind systems).

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

@tj as is your right. personally, I would have skipped the cup and gone direct to mouth ;-)

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

@tj is 'more' best measured by weight or item with nerds? i concede they'd tend toward the same measure as volume increased, but at that level, it could be significant. (this post is really advice for your children who are probably looking for a vaguely plausible argument to make/have anyway)

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

[bad news; e-bikes] This is awful news, but good job to the Guardian for correctly assigning the actions to the rider (not to the inanimate object they were riding, as too often happens). #cycling

News headline: Australia news live: five-year-old seriously injured after being struck by an e-bike rider in Sydney.

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Ben Werdmuller @ben.werd.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

"Trump's new AI website confirms he lost the 2020 election." I just don't care. Children are being deported, alone, without due process. People are being held in terrible conditions. Protesters are being shot. Protections are being eradicated. Wars are being waged. Elections undermined. Yes […]

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

There's not enough #woodworking in my feed. Any recommendations?

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Just walked past one of the ambient TVs at work that just plays loops of promo sizzle reels and had to double take to check that the reporter on screen wasn’t Philomena Cunk.

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Out tonight seeing the kid in another show. She’s a guitarist but has been talked into filling in on the bass. Has never played bass before. I’m somewhat nervous on her behalf.

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

The great Lego resorting is well underway.

A bird’s eye view of a young boy sorting a large pile of lego.

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

@wragge @sizzle This does seem pretty bad. I assume this is an ill conceived attempt to fix squatting issues (which is a genuine problem)?

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Not exactly what I'd call high quality visits though. No complaints though, I still think it's a cool idea and very much like that it exists, thanks @kagihq. And to be fair these stats aren't much worse than the non-kagi referrer visits.

Graphic showing bounce rate is 99% and average visit duration is 5 seconds.

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

elvery.net seems to have been added to Kagi's small web index (kagi.com/smallweb). 😳

A table from a website stats interface showing 92% of referrals coming from kagi.com

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

I'm testing out some options for self-hosted photo sharing (that are quicker than rolling my own, which is what I really want to do). Any opinions? So far Immich seems ... okay? photos.usabilityproject.com/share/1…

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Public Share

1 shared photos & videos

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

@phocks as The Beatles well know, there's money to be made in the long tail.

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

RE: bne.social/@simon/117294848319547433 We've had some really great audience feedback on this piece! It's awesome to hear about people (men in particular) having conversations in their workplace about how work culture and employment agreements are setup for a two parent, one […]

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

@phocks Seems plausible — it's just been faded out so much that most of humanity can no longer hear it.

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

How did The Beatles end Hey Jude when they played it live because I'm pretty confident they didn't loop na na na na na na na for like 15 minutes?

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Terrible Maps :bot: @terriblemaps.zpravobot.news.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Which Australian capital city is closest to you

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

When both parents work, we're short 814 hours a year, on average. New from our team: there literally aren't enough hours in the day ... and women still get a raw deal (though the share of care is slowly, slowly moving closer to equality) […]

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Ugh, this is higher than ideal. I wish it were possible to fund the purchase of new storage without first screwing over millions of people to become a billionaire.

A notification saying that a NAS storage pool is 95% full.

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

@tj nah, but I found three of them unexpectedly the other day.

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

@tj probably a spotlight index issue. I haven’t been able to find Outlook via search in my iPhone for ages, even though it’s installed and working. Weird shit.

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Just tried to book my car in for a service by *shock* calling the service centre. "Did you reply to the SMS with your preferred dates?" "No, but I'm calling to book it in now." *audible sigh*

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

@timrichards Surely you have a stop in SIN on the way?

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

@wragge I misread that as 'aggressions by PM', glanced at the chart and thought, yeah, that tracks 😂

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

I wonder if a fine sprinkling of salt and cashew dust is good for my keyboard. I assume so.

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

A bunch of websites I run now have Singapore as the top country for visitors and this curious pattern. I wonder where the bots live (and what time they're awake)? (This is from whatdoyousuggest.net — I can't imagine what the bots want with it, tbh.)

A chart showing day of week and time of day statistics for web traffic. There's a clear pattern of visits at 2am, 8am, 2pm and 8pm.

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

I have been successfully annoyed by the needful (online training).

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

I used to routinely hit up the random article link on Wikipedia. But now my favourite way to discover new things on Wikipedia is to just watch this stream go by for a bit until something catches my eye. elvery.net/prototypes/wikipedia-edi…

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sw'as

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

RE: elvery.net/links/1843228614 Spent the weekend listening to Simon & Garfunkel thanks to this.

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

I'm opening Microsoft Teams again. How's your day going?

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

@josh The etymology of 'third world' is one of my favourite facts. It obviously meant something quite different by the time we were kids (and still does), but it didn't originally mean what most people think it does. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_World

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Third World - Wikipedia

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

dear lord, i'm hunting disk space again. is this normal?

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

Okay, I've gone with vanilla js. Things I learned (at great length) last night about Safari 9: - trailing commas are a syntax error and will break *everything* - none of the useful methods of FormData are supported — not even sure what you'd use it for without them - "template literals" aren't […]

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

@phocks sore does make me want to listen to the originals. 😳

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@fesshole/117200231… I wish I could initiate this competition in my house. We currently have at least four unfinished tubes. It's like the second a new one appears in the house someone opens it.

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

I continue to find normal words that are straight up missing from the macOS Dictionary.app. Unintuitively, the word unintuitive doesn't get a red underline even though it's not in the dictionary.

A search for the word 'unintuitive' with "No results"

A screenshot of the composition of this post showing 'unintuitively' getting a red underline to suggest it's misspelled while 'unintuitive', despite being missing from the dictionary, is deemed fine.

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