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Philip Bragg @synx508.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We can never move, Elsinør loves it here.

A tabby and white cat nestling in fallen leaves by a field boundary and ditch.

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 29/09/2026

Less of a joke and more of a question: How many BT engineers does it take to change a lightbulb because I stopped counting at 30 vans 🤔🧮

Photo. Lots of BT openreach vans parked around a suburban street with a park in the middle

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Philip Bragg @synx508.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I've found a way to stop time indefinitely using something many of us have in our own homes already. Admittedly it only stops washing machine time and it's really inconvenient but it works.

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Philip Bragg @synx508.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Voted at the parish council by-election.

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Philip Bragg @synx508.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

All the talk about the vampire game has me earwormed with this jazz.

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Philip Bragg @synx508.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There are infinity AI generated Larry the No 10 cats on Facebook currently, which is a milestone for copying an account where even the real thing is fake.

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Philip Bragg @synx508.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Q: Where do funny smells come from? A: The olfactory LOLfactory.

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Philip Bragg @synx508.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Another 15 minutes of my life gone on free support for HP's multifunction "printer" Torment Nexus belonging to neighbour. It has only printed about 10 pages in its life. It's nearly out of black but doesn't register this. It eats paper and holds it deep inside FOREVER. He hasn't subscribed to "ink".

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Philip Bragg @synx508.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The perfect tomato mouthful turns out to be one third of a tomato, for these tomatoes I'm eating. I had to sharpen the knife to achieve this.

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wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Arguably the greatest song to be recorded 4 times by 3 iterations of a band under 3 different names and in 2 languages, and then remixed once before it reached number 2 (eventually scoring a number 1 when it was covered by my mate's little brother's band a decade and a half later)

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Philip Bragg @synx508.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Retrieved the stripy cat from her country retreat, much to Bella's annoyance.

The back of the head of a black cat glaring at a tabby and white cat lying near some playground apparatus.

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Rich @hoxtonrich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Suggested ground rules for the ‘debate’ on 'bad' cycling 🧵: 1) Cyclists or cycling advocates are not collectively responsible for the bad behaviour of individuals. What’s your actual point? You want less cycling or rules that have that effect? Be clear.

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Philip Bragg @synx508.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Just had to tell Google to Google something, which actually worked, but perhaps it should've just given me the non AI results rather than telling me it was drawing a blank just above the exact result I'm looking for. Just weird.

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Philip Bragg @synx508.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The best UI. A Gould SSG200 signal generator with levered thumbwheels. The levers are geared so the lever movement from top to bottom spins the full 0-9 range for each digit.

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Philip Bragg @synx508.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Just returned from a trip to find the cat.

Airtag showing up in the middle of a lake.

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Philip Bragg @synx508.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

As a result of the "what frightened you" chat here I watched the whole of Sapphire & Steel Railway Station in one go and now I'm convinced that so did Thomas Dolby and that's what "One of Our Submarines" is about.

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Philip Bragg @synx508.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Trying to keep up with the "UK" versus "GB" talk on here, it seems that the "US", which is no more united than the kingdom, should switch to Great America, which could then spawn Make Great America Great Again or M'GAGA, which seems so much more suitable, you could almost excuse the inevitable drool

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Philip Bragg @synx508.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Apple's pushing a sly subscription package named LogicPro dot app into the Applications folder, even if you have Logic Pro. Two packages with the same name, one's effectively an ad for their subscription creator suite, the other is the app you've paid for already.

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Philip Bragg @synx508.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

There’s something happening here…

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Philip Bragg @synx508.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Who knew that the stereo pilot levels of the BBC national FM network stations were all over the place? Not me until I hacked together this gnu radio pilot level checker. Next step, make it show me pilot frequency.

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Philip Bragg @synx508.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I've made a .grc file for GNU radio that allows me to do broadcast measurements with more accuracy than my lab equipment. It needs a little more work but the bones of it seem good.

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Philip Bragg @synx508.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Spotted this near Gerrards Cross.

Google maps screenshot of Natural Hole placemark

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Philip Bragg @synx508.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Looking through my photos of signs and this one still annoys me more than anything should. www.flickr.com/photos/synx5...

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Someone used a zero in B0X to make the lettering fit onto the sign. Awful.

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Philip Bragg @synx508.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The SpottedOnRightmove subreddit has just turned into "The Cellar Show" in the same way that the Hell on Earth urban explorer videos turned into "The Cave Show". I haven't watched them since they started doing boring car videos but they gave me some big laughs over the years…

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Philip Bragg @synx508.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Rev. George C. Dobbs here, inviting radio amateurs to explore alternatives to the mainstream of their hobby, in 1983, when mass produced radios from Japan were very popular and increasingly expensive.

Part of the "QRP Philosophy" is about saving money in the hobby. So try to find the components from the cheapest sources. Why not join that exclusive group of radio amateurs who boast about how little their equipment cost rather than how
much it costs.

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 01/09/2026

Guardrails are a figleaf and machines cannot make a choice. This is going to get very bad very quickly and I do not think that HMG has any idea of the implications. They still see AI as the economy saving monorail.

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Philip Bragg @synx508.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Nately Scures is a ridiculous place name. Also…

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Philip Bragg @synx508.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Here's the dining room table of my first home, maybe a year or two before me. www.flickr.com/photos/synx5...

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The table, Queens Road, Chesham.

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Philip Bragg @synx508.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This not very good bench DMM has piano key switches that sound like gunshots, it also has GPIB. I have never seen one before, seems to be a cousin of Solartron 7045

Weston 6400 serires bench multimeter. It has a 4.75 digit display and no auto range selection.

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Philip Bragg @synx508.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

After over 45 years of soldering I've finally bought myself a proper soldering station, but only because it was really, really cheap.

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Philip Bragg @synx508.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Flex FM silent on 101.4, again.

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joe @joeyp.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Anyone got any electronics repairs people in Dublin? Need someone to diagnose something on a subwoofer's PCB, probably a blown amp but I don't have a multi-meter to check

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Philip Bragg @synx508.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Wonder what's cooking at the house tonight… looks like my old brown shoe.

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Philip Bragg @synx508.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Seeing a lot of discourse that might be more suitable for ratemyreaper.com if it existed.

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Philip Bragg @synx508.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I have cleared out the gutter at the back and neighbour's back gutter without incident. I can intermittently do heights, but I've had moments in the past when I switched from can to can't in bad places and it's the stuff of nightmares.

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Philip Bragg @synx508.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Nobody needs new data centres. Have you tried deleting data? It works. No more data. Delete something today!

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Philip Bragg @synx508.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Bella the cat decided to impede industry-leading transformational change in the big kitchen cupboard by staging a sit-in on one of low-order stacking boxes.

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Philip Bragg @synx508.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Behold, a clock wearing a sombrero. www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...

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Philip Bragg @synx508.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Enjoying feeding the stripy cat various different small servings of cat food on multiple bowls and watching her head swivel as she creates an itinerary for her evening meal.

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Philip Bragg @synx508.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Considering a move to Tnotland.

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Philip Bragg @synx508.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I have repaired my mother's Wallace and Gromit alarm clock.

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Anders @derzquist.net · 31/05/2026

If I thought a new piece of technology was a net gain for society I would simply not let people widely viewed as untrustworthy, arrogant, and morally repugnant be the most prominent advocates.

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