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Stephen @sp.degabrielle.name · 12/08/2026

Partial eclipse taken with phone and eclipse glasses #Partialeclipse #eclipse

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Stephen @sp.degabrielle.name · 13/07/2026

YES I HAVE MY ROCK It has a lovely stripe and I found it in North Devon a couple of years ago.

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Stephen @sp.degabrielle.name · 10/07/2026

mu.social renders backtick enclosed code as code 🏆🎉

mu.social app rendering backtick(`)-enclosed code as code🏆

bsky.app rendering backticks in backtick(`)-enclosed code without rendering it as code. 👎

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Stephen @sp.degabrielle.name · 25/06/2026

Orlando loves the fan (It is hot here)

Orlando the cat on his side directly in the airflow of a table fan

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Stephen @sp.degabrielle.name · 25/06/2026

She’s old, but she’s still good

This is Purdy she is a sweet old tabby and we all love her very much

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Stephen @sp.degabrielle.name · 03/04/2026

Ahhh London £6.95 for a pint😅

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Stephen @sp.degabrielle.name · 17/03/2026

I’m here a little early

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Stephen @sp.degabrielle.name · 03/01/2026

My loaf tin is a bit small because it is a terrine I found cheap secondhand on eBay

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Stephen @sp.degabrielle.name · 03/01/2026

Go for it! If you have a suitable oven you might also consider a mixer that supports a bread-hook.

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Stephen @sp.degabrielle.name · 14/11/2025

The permissions seem excessive but I signed up anyway

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Stephen @sp.degabrielle.name · 06/11/2025

Why does my cat flick her paws when drinking?

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Stephen @sp.degabrielle.name · 21/08/2025

"XXXX, while historically important and technically very interesting, is an excellent guide for how not to design a language." Hindsight is a wonderful thing. I'm sure this is true for any language. @stylewarning.bsky.social

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Stephen @sp.degabrielle.name · 16/08/2025

The closest thing for me as a young person learning about computer science was ‘The Turing Omnibus’ with its bite-sized chapters and categories. My memory is chapters would tell you what was next so you could follow the automata or cryptography ‘paths’. I only have the ‘new’ version.

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Stephen @sp.degabrielle.name · 14/08/2025

The right thing and the thing I always choose.😰

Gary Larson cartoon
In classroom: Student with small head asks teacher:
“mr osborn, may I be excused? My brain is full.”

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Stephen @sp.degabrielle.name · 03/08/2025

Vonnegut timequake 1997

an architect, had committed suicide after a nearly identical blow to his self-respect only a month earlier. Yes, and Frank Pepper would eventually be popped out of his grave by the timequake, so he could blow his brains out while his wife and three kids watched a second time.
Here's the thing: Frank went to the drugstore for condoms or chewing gum or whatever, and the pharmacist told him that his sixteen-year-old daughter had become an architect and was thinking of dropping out of high school because it was such a waste of time. She had designed a recreation center for teenagers in depressed neighborhoods with the help of a new computer program the school had bought for its vocational students, dummies who weren't going to anything but junior colleges. It was called Palladio.
Frank went to a computer store, and asked if he could try out Palladio before buying it. He doubted very much that it could help anyone with his native talent and education. So right there in the store, and in a period of no more than half an hour, Palladio gave him what he had asked it for, working drawings that would enable a contractor to build a three-story parking garage in the manner of Thomas Jefferson.
Frank had made up the craziest assignment he could think of, confident that Palladio would tell him to take his custom elsewhere. But it didn't! It presented him with menu after menu, asking how many cars, and in what city, because of various local building codes, and whether trucks would be allowed to use it, too, and on and on. It even asked about surrounding buildings, and whether Jeffersonian architecture would be in harmony with them. It offered to give him alternative plans in the manner of Michael Graves or I. M. Pei.
It gave him plans for the wiring and plumbing, and ballpark estimates of what it would cost to build in any part of the world he cared
to name.

So Frank went home and killed himself the first time.

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Stephen @sp.degabrielle.name · 11/06/2025

The animated version for those of you who aren’t lucky enough to be using DrRacket today

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Stephen @sp.degabrielle.name · 29/05/2025

P229 Fig. 2 Scenarios of endangerments of life and support systems at key thresholds of global warming. (Adapted from UNEP, The Adaptation Gap Report 2021)

Fig. 2 Scenarios of endangerments of life and support systems at key thresholds of global warming. (Adapted from UNEP, The Adaptation Gap Report 2021)

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Stephen @sp.degabrielle.name · 19/05/2025

Wood pigeons taking a bath

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