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Notes from Poland @notesfrompoland.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A sign installed to warn the public about damage caused by beavers has been destroyed by the beavers themselves, according to the Polish foresters who erected it.

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Beavers destroy sign warning about beavers

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Kai @blueskai.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026

Folk som fortsatt er på X gir generasjon X et dårlig rykte. #ikkeallegenxere

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Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It's such a tediously small difference as well. Just enough to be annoying but not enough to raise any meaningful revenue.

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Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

That sounds like the UK rail system overall, except that TOPS is nearer 60 years old than 30. Obsolete is just a word marketing interns tend to use about any language which existed before them, particularly Cobol, which in reality won't be obsolete for at least another another 30 years yet

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Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

For years I couldn't read much at all, and I only really got back into it through non-English stuff I read most historical fiction. Fantasy only really stuff from when I was a kid, though I do read a fair amount of dumb young adult stuff and a bit of general fiction. Can't face literature anymore

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Adrian Mouat @adrianmouat.com · 11/09/2026

When using AI I keep coming back to this Peter Drucker quote: "There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all"

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Notes from Poland @notesfrompoland.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A moose caused major train delays after wandering into Warsaw Central Station and lying on the tracks. Services were resumed after the animal had been tranquilised, removed and taken back to the forest

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Moose on the loose at Warsaw's main station brings trains to a standstill

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Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

What's that you say? You've totally finished the work, but I can't look at it for five hours? And that's because you used the last of your allotted time checking that `echo` still works? Ground-breaking stuff

Screenshot of a conversation with Claude where it claims to have totally finished the work, but doesn't share the output, and then uses the last of its free credits running an "echo" command

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Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

"Please pay to view our subscription page". Got to admire website design from people who have a gun pointed at their own foot and aren't afraid to fire.

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Notes from Poland @notesfrompoland.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Researchers investigating an unusual 17th-century burial in Poland, in which the remains of a teenage girl were found with a padlock on her toe and a sickle across her neck, believe the "anti-vampiric" measures may have been intended to stop her returning from the dead.

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Polish "vampire" burial sheds light on 17th-century efforts to keep the dead in their graves

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Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

There is no evidence to suggest Liz Truss was even in the country at the time

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Edinburgh Bus Users Group @edinburghbug.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Look, we don't know why this hasn't been published, but as CEC gave it to c50 stakeholders in June it's not a secret. Yes, we should do ALT, but in this case it's beyond Our Curator's Basic Computer Skills (Level 1: failed). Sorry.

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Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Ahh, det vanskelig tredje albumet vårt. På den tiden var det litt for mye hash, litt for mye med munchies. Soft cheese på tallerkene, soft cheese på platene. Vi snakker ikke så mye om det

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Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I think Keir might have to stay on for a few months. Politics has been booked for the summer

Comment: Looney party voters may want to vote tactically for binface as to not split the vote

Reply: Imagining me 10 year ago reading this

Reply Imagine you 10 days ago reading this

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

my kind of Jubilee, the Japanese national team vs. 100 kids

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Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

8 years out of date is fine for instant coffee right? I mean I'm struggling to see how it would manage to go off

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Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I love 7-11 pizza slices and Narvesen Kanelbulle, so no need for fancy coffee. Though personally I'd also go to the library or opera house roof rather than spend time in the station. There's plans afoot to completely redo the 1980s bit, but probably a couple of years before they get started.

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Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I'd say it's fairly normal, and probably more so amongst people who make TV. It seems slightly over-represented on-screen, but I'd guess that's because it's an easy cliche to convey that the character has had a rough day. If it was big alcohol they'd probably be pushing expensive spirits

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Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

We all (by which I mean "I") used to do this all the time with code reviews anyway. AI just comes around faster with the next pathetic attempt if you say no.

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Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Nettsteder ha tilgang til e-post adressen for alle brukerer, så er det ganske lett å sende ut koden på den maten. Det er selvfølgelig bedre å bruke app koder, men da må brukere installere appen, skanne QR koden osv. Det er bra for sikkerhet og lett for meg eller deg, men kanskje ikke for alle.

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Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I find it a bit boring, but I always found even peak Twitter to be boring in much the same way. I'm here for visibility more than I am to read, and I get the impression everybody else basically is as well.

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Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

It's really frustrating trying to get from Eurostar to German ferry ports when you don't especially want to spend a night in Germany

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Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I was trying to plan a trip Amsterdam Hamburg the other day and I never found this train. Don't know if that's because it's not on bahn.de or because it doesn't actually go to Hamburg, but not knowing about it definitely stopped me from booking it.

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Viz Comic @vizcomic.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

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CLEAR nail varnish makes
an excellent Tippex substitute
for when you haven't made a
mistake.
John Dickinson, Southport

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Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

It doesn't matter what those mean people on the internet think anyway. We all still love you, in spite of your filthy LLM habit

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Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Are you supposed to aim for positive number of votes then? I've never really got Reddit

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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Grammar is important.

Dundee Courier: DRUNKEN POLICE CHASE TEEN IN COURT.

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Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

It would be best if they just forced operators to provide cross-operator journey guarantees and stranded passenger assistance. Either way you really need a way to access all sane ticketing combinations whether you want to travel quickly, cheaply or fuss-free

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Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

The problem isn't with showing everybody's trains, it's with the DB booking engine not being flexible enough to show anything other than the fastest journey. Entur showing all trains and buses in Norway is a good thing, so why wouldn't you want the same elsewhere?

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Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Never! you'll have to pry my precious printf from my cold dead hands.

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Viz Comic @vizcomic.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

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I'M GLAD nature gave up
on its idea of evolving birds
from fish after a sparrow flew into
my window yesterday. Imagine
if that had been a whale or
something. Absolutely ridiculous.
Peter Wheelbarrow,
Barrow on Furness

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Notes from Poland @notesfrompoland.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

A large wooden cross in Warsaw, under which Polish Pope John Paul II famously celebrated mass in 1979, has been destroyed in a fire. Preliminary findings indicate the fire, which took place on Good Friday, was caused by candles placed beneath the cross. polskieradio24.pl/artykul/3669...

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Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

One of the most important sociological studies of our time: documenting the cat ladders of Switzerland brigitteschuster.com/swiss-cat-la...

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Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 20/03/2026

Google is running a “small” experiment in being a colossal piece of corporate shit.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 18/03/2026

More cameras and microphones mean "more eyes and ears are available to adversaries, regardless of the original intention,” EFF’s Samantha Baldwin told @ArsTechnica.com. “Creating a dystopian world full of computerised eyes and ears is not the solution.” arstechnica.com/tech-policy...

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Users hate it, but age-check tech is coming. Here's how it works.

On-device face scans and cross-platform age keys decrease privacy risks, but trust issues abound.

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Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

I'm not taking tips from somebody who misses a patch that big when shaving. Get a mirror man.

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Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

The trouble is that there isn't any consideration of going over bridges. It would be irritating to not be offered a 7 minute connection in the other direction, since that's only a few yards down the same platform.

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Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Might just be me, but this seems like an incredibly odd selection

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The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Awful news about Glasgow Central, I'm still hoping the station itself escaped serious damage. But while we're here, can anyone spot the problem with the news photo below, from thetraveler.org/glasgow-cent...? We've really got to STOP using AI to fake things.

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Glasgow Central Fire Sparks Travel Chaos Across the UK

A major fire beside Glasgow Central has shut Scotland’s busiest station, triggering nationwide disruption and raising urgent questions over UK rail resilience.

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Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

I've seen it every so often around the bottom of Newington. I suspect it happens more at night. It's not optimal, but if you were in a wheelchair then the crap quality of pavement surface is likely to be more of an issue, and it even may act as little speedbumps to put off pavement-cyclists

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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

How does he sleep at night?

Irish Independent: Man stole three coffee machines in a week from Monaghan department store.

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Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

This allowance is more luggage than I ever travel with. I'm not saying I particularly like the restriction, but if you decline to include the train then it makes your guide less useful. Vy Oslo-Gburg is also bad for luggage, since it's a smallish commuter train can often be standing room only

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Oh god Frost has discovered Ayn Rand. A mediocrity explosion.

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Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Don't let rust analyzer discover all your Rust projects - set the list you want to work on in the settings, and just swap them in and out as you need.

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Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Weird. It's a completely unfeasible and pointless railway running in a loop, and yet it isn't a hyperloop

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Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Anyway, here's the game of the story. It isn't good, maybe worse than the story. I actually wanted to control the hundesoldatene from "Trygg og Kattfri Oslo", not the cat, but Claude jumped to the wrong conclusion, and I really couldn't be bothered to correct it conversationswith.uk/katt-spill

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Mjau-Stein Landet i Oslo!

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Chris Stafford @takta.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Which I did. It knocked out something passable in seconds, with an explanation (in Bøkmal) of Glasgow-Edinburgh rivalry. I'm now picturing a machine with 7-day stubble, drinking Scotch and smoking, staring at its in-tray with the cold dead eyes of somebody who has just written _enough_ for today.

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