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@timbones.bsky.social
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Software engineer, living and working near York, father of two. Messes about with heat pump performance data "for fun". Reposts are other people's opinions.

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Timbones @timbones.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Turn an Avenger into a mundane household Avenger. Ironing Man
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Timbones @timbones.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Quote with a fictional band that isn't Spinal Tap. "I'm your back door lover" youtu.be/TxMAY0dJWkA?...
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DuJour - Backdoor Lover (Music Video) 1080p HD Remaster
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Timbones @timbones.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Quote with a fictional band that isn't Spinal Tap. "I'm your back door lover" youtu.be/TxMAY0dJWkA?...
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DuJour - Backdoor Lover (Music Video) 1080p HD Remaster
YouTube video by 311sucks1
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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 19/05/2026
I'm not excited by what AI can do. I'm excited by what I can do.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 14/05/2026
Results Age xkcd.com/3245/
Comic: Implications of the age of the posts you see when you Google an error message. [Grayed out error code with unreadable post. Post date of 3 years ago is enlarged with a text bubble. Table with three columns for age of post, what it means, and probability of a fix. 2 hours ago: There’s an infrastructure outage; very high–just wait. 5 days ago: A recent update broke something big; high, but you might have to wait for a patch. 3 months ago: A new product isn’t working for some users; decent chance of a solution in the replies. 2 years ago: You’ve run into an edge case; low, but maybe the replies can help with troubleshooting. 13 years ago: You’re the only person with this problem; very low–post is likely not relevant. 24 years ago: Oh god how is the internet this old; maybe whoever posted this message has kids who can help you.
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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 14/05/2026
The Ice Crusades
The Ice Crusades
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Timbones @timbones.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Slightly increase a band. 5 Non Blondes
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Meet the academics refusing to use generative AI Researchers say they have their reasons for avoiding AI tools — and they’re sick of arguing about it. www.nature.com/articles/d41... h/t @maartenp.bsky.social
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Meet the academics refusing to use generative AI
Researchers say they have their reasons for avoiding AI tools — and they’re sick of arguing about it.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 09/05/2026
This website shows you what your browser is leaking about you. sinceyouarrived.world/taken
sinceyouarrived.world
taken.
A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.
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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
I AM sick and tired of ticking the "I am not a robot" box on internet sites. It should be changed to "I am a robot", so that only robots need to bother with it, saving humans valuable time. It's why we built the bloody things, after all.
Toby, Swindon
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BitterOldPunk @bitteroldpunk.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Etch-A-Sketch is the most Goth toy
Quote from the Etch-A-Sketch Wikipedia page reading “The black line merely exposes the darkness inside the toy”
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Jay Foreman @jayforeman.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Episode 1 of Map Men was uploaded TEN years ago today!!! 🎂 🎉 Why not celebrate by watching all 37* episodes in a row right now? youtube.com/playlist?lis... (*33 if you don’t count the ones that don’t count)
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MAP MEN - YouTube
Buy MAP MEN MERCH from http://www.mapmenmerch.com Follow us on twitter: http://www.twitter.com/jayforeman http://www.twitter.com/markcooperjones
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Timbones @timbones.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Post your warning sign
Warning. This is not a signpost.
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Susaga @susaga.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Georgia Tennant is the Doctor's daughter, who went to school with the Doctor's daughter, went on Doctor Who and played the Doctor's daughter in the episode "The Doctor's Daughter", then married the Doctor and had the Doctor's daughter.
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Jeffw @jeffw.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
If this time travel experiment works, I should be able to go from here and now and reappea—
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Timbones @timbones.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
My contribution to conversation about using AI at work: "When your tool is AI, every problem looks like a nail"
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
In the UK we call them lifts but in the US they call them elevators, because we’re raised differently.
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Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
This made national news yesterday but I figure it's worth sharing to ensure maximum exposure. Time to take down our bird tables, folks: they're spreading diseases that are decimating bird populations. www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen...
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Our latest guidance on what and when to feed garden birds: Feed Safely, Feed Seasonally
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Natalie Gray @natgrayy.es · 10/04/2026
Artemis II is about to return to Earth: Here's how NASA tested their Orion capsule for re-entry before even sending one to space! www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvA21...
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Did NASA Crash-Test Artemis‽
NASA showed me how they tested their Orion space capsule for atmospheric re-entry as part of the Artemis program, before one ever went to space! Matt Gray | http://mattg.co.uk | @MattGrayYes This video has no adverts or sponsors, and my Patreon supporters helped cover the costs. I'll be posting some extra clips from this visit on my Patreon, which is completely free to join! https://patreon.com/MattGrayYes 📱 Follow Matt elsewhere on the internet 📱 All my social links are at https://mattg.co.uk https://chaos.social/@MattGrayYes (Mastodon) https://patreon.com/MattGrayYes https://instagram.com/MattGrayYes https://www.tiktok.com/@MattGrayYes https://twitch.tv/MattGrayYes 📋 Credits 📋 Producer: Alex Bate @alexjrassic Thank you to everyone at NASA Ames Research Center for giving us this amazing opportunity! https://www.nasa.gov/ames/ Captions to follow in the next hour. 💷 Advert 💷 This video has no adverts or sponsors. Want to contribute towards my videos? Sign up to my Patreon: https://patreon.com/MattGrayYes Want to sponsor a video? More detail here: https://mattg.co.uk/contact/ 📺 Video Footage 📺 Several Clips from Scott Manley's three videos of our day at Ames The Biggest Gun In The West! NASA's Hypervelocity Free Flight Test Range: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3alzHF8TPM Why NASA Is Making Air Explode Using Electricity - The Electric Arc Shock Tunnel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEl6M8L8ULc NASA's Most Powerful Supercomputers & One Billion Pixel Display https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDWQHZ4Fy6I Car Crash Testing from NHTSA (public domain) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_NHTSA_frontal_oblique_overlap_crash_test-2017_Honda_Ridgeline.ogv All other video footage is from NASA, including: Hypervelocity Free-Flight Aerodynamic Facility: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPXLIliuFy0 Astronaut Matthew Dominick Flies Through The International Space Station: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FKsghZt8bLs Meet Artemis Team Member Matthew Dominick: https://youtu.be/3jQuovAcUm4?si=pF6enQvgEcUCIWas&t=107 💸 Full Disclosure 💸 💷 My Patreon supporters' help meant I could work on this instead of other paid work 💷 All Amazon links are affiliate links which give me a small percentage of what you pay them as a tip for sending you their way. It doesn't cost you more. Hi, I'm Matt Gray. You may know me from my work with Tom Scott, The Technical Difficulties, Matt Gray is Trying, or even as a broadcast engineer working in radio and TV.
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Timbones @timbones.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
If you see this, post a character from Spaced.
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a man wearing a yellow hat is standing in front of a store .
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Andrew Steele @statto.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Artemis II just set a new record: the furthest any human has ever been from Earth. But how far is that? I made a to-scale diagram of the Earth–Moon system to try to make sense of it. 🧵
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Timbones @timbones.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Government looking at decoupling electricity and gas prices to bring down bills news.sky.com/story/ed-mil...
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Government looking at decoupling electricity and gas prices to bring down bills
Ed Miliband spoke to Labour MPs about possible action after the chancellor faced questions about how she plans to help households if the war in Iran continues to impact their finances.
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Tollytb🇮🇪🇪🇺🇨🇦🇬🇧 @tollytb.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
It has been discovered that Charles Dickens 'A Tale of Two Cities,' was serialised in a couple of local newspapers. It was the Bicester times It was the Worcester times. 🐢💨
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Natalie Gray @natgrayy.es · 04/04/2026
As a bit of a space nerd, it's fun to see Artemis getting people excited about spaceflight again. But what happens after you've launched a satellite, with no astronauts on board to drive it to its new home‽ I visited the European Space Agency to find out. youtu.be/0i1Xz-xiYSU
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Meet the people who fly spacecraft, without ever leaving Earth!
The European Space Agency invited me to their mission control centre in Germany to find out what it takes to be a Satellite Operations Engineer working on their new Earth observation satellite, BIOMASS. Matt Gray | http://mattg.co.uk | @MattGrayYes 📋 Credits 📋 Series Producer/Director: Cambria Bailey-Jones Camera Operator / Editor: Jamie MacLeod | https://www.jamiemacleod.co.uk Sound Design: Dan Pugsley | https://www.cassinisound.com Captions: Jacob Salas | caption.plus Executive Producer: Guy Larsen A Matt Gray & Penny4 Production https://www.penny4.co.uk Special thanks to Elia, Jakob, Maya, Nicola, Lucy and Daniel at ESA and ESOC along with all of our contributors for this episode! @EuropeanSpaceAgency 📱 Follow Matt elsewhere on the internet 📱 All my social links are at https://mattg.co.uk https://chaos.social/@MattGrayYes (Mastodon) https://patreon.com/MattGrayYes https://instagram.com/MattGrayYes https://www.tiktok.com/@MattGrayYes https://twitch.tv/MattGrayYes 🌍 Extra Info 🌍 ESA: Biomass satellite returns striking first images of forests and more https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/FutureEO/Biomass/Biomass_satellite_returns_striking_first_images_of_forests_and_more More about BIOMASS: https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/FutureEO/Biomass People always ask about my t-shirts. I bought my white one from https://thespark.company. And the ESA one was a gift from ESA. 💷 Advert 💷 This video has no adverts or sponsors. Want to contribute towards my videos? Sign up to my Patreon: https://patreon.com/MattGrayYes Want to sponsor a video? More detail here: https://mattg.co.uk/contact/ 💸 Full Disclosure 💸 💷 My Patreon supporters' help meant I could work on this instead of other paid work Hi, I'm Matt Gray. You may know me from my work with Tom Scott, The Technical Difficulties, Matt Gray is Trying, or even as a broadcast engineer working in radio and TV. Previous video titles These EXPERTS show what it takes to FLY A SATELLITE at the European Space Agency What actually happens after launch‽ (at the European Space Agency!) What hapens in the European Space Agency's Mission Control?
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 03/04/2026
This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
That's home. That's us.
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TechnicallyRon @technicallyron.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Posting your favourite tweets without this in there is a CRIME.
A screenshot of a tweet that says

*airhorn sound*
*second airhorn sound*
Me: This isn't my deodorant
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CosmoQuest @cosmoquest.org · 02/04/2026
There are now 10 toilets in Space International Space Station: 4 Crew Dragon Docked at ISS: 1 Soyuz Docked at ISS: 1 Tiangong Space Station: 2 Shenzhou Docked at TSS: 1 Artemis II on way around Moon: 1 This will be the first time a toilet has left low earth orbit!
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Gary Brannan @garybrannan.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
On their way to the moon, but they’ll have to stop at a space service station every 90 mins for a wee and a quick stretch, wondering why, even in the depths of the inky endless firmament, the WH Smith’s are always trying to sell them wetsuits and neck pillows.
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Amanda @pandamoanimum.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
April Fool’s Day. A day where you shouldn’t trust anything you read or anything anyone says. So basically the same as every other day then.
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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
It's Trans Day of Visibility, but a shout out to the invisible trans people - the ones who haven't realised, the ones who haven't shared it, and, sadly, the ones for whom it's just too dangerous to be yourself in public. I might not see you, but I know you're out there.
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Simon's Cat @simonscatofficial.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Mocked by birds. 😜
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Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
In return for information about the thieves, Crimestoppers are offering a large bounty.
Ronnie Barker
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Every sentence brings something new to the madness. Stick it on CEEFAX.
"Sex slave' woman wanted for burglary
A WOMAN who had five pitbull puppies cloned in South Korea is wanted in Tennessee on burglary charges, lawyers there said today. Joyce MeKinney, 58, was accused of telling a 15-year-old boy to burgle a house to raise cash to buy a false leg for a horse. She fled Britain in 1977 to avoid a trial for allegedly abducting a Mermon missionary and making him her sex slave.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
These people have a funny way of saying "Environmentalists have been proved right yet again."
"The oil crisis is exactly what the net zero brigade wants"
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Kip Conlon @kipconlon.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
First, the good news. The bathwater has been disposed of.
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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
The Jetsons lied to us
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Cllr Owen Burbidge 🔶 @oburbidge.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
independent.co.uk/news/health/... Yet another reason we should be doing absolutely everything in our power to get people off gas and electrify everything.
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‘Eye-popping’ levels of carcinogen found in UK gas supply, researchers warn
Cancer-causing substance benzene was found in all 72 domestic gas samples collected in the UK, the Netherlands and Italy
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Jaap Burger @jaapburger.eu · 24/03/2026
It’s funny how specifically LIDL is mentioned. Discount supermarkets and balcony plug-in solar (“Balkonkraftwerk”) – the German export successes that help ordinary people keep money in their pockets.
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Government to make “plug-in solar” available within months
“Plug-in” solar panels to be in shops within months, offering households chance to significantly cut energy bills.
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
This is an excellent summary of the US War on Iran current situation. I’m an existentialist and borderline absurdist and even I struggle with the current moment. This summary is just fantastic.
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March, 19-21: God is a comedian
A stiff drink is recommended
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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
I have a linguistics joke but it gets lost in translation.
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👻 Saavik ‘Spooky Season’ Ford 🎃 @saavikford.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I have a black hole joke but I’m not sure you’d get anything out of it
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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
I can't get exercised by what is on bank notes but this is very amusing. Apparently euros feature fictional bridges so they don't offend anyone (and they do, we checked!). So a Dutch town built the bridges that are on the notes and now all euros feature that town. 😂 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurobri...
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Eurobridges Spijkenisse - Wikipedia
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Timbones @timbones.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. "...it works fine for me"
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Timbones @timbones.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Share some of the best eyes in movies. 🎥 👀 🖤 #filmsky 📽
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a man wearing a mask is sticking out his tongue while holding a stick .
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Timbones @timbones.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Renewables
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Heat pumps are the most efficient heating technology ever invented. They harvest and compress pre existing heat in the air, ground or water and transport it where it is needed. That energy is all around us. It does not have to pass through the Strait of Hormuz or any other geopolitical chokepoint.
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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Two things kept me going through the long dark night that I spent watching over my dying grandmother. The example of Granny Weatherwax, who provided a much-needed guide in uncertain times, and my battered copy of Going Postal. A man's not dead while his name is still spoken. #GNUTerryPratchett
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Timbones @timbones.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Renewables
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Nicholas Jackson @njj4.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
"I'd far rather be happy than right any day." "And are you?" "No. That's where it all falls down, of course."
Slartibartfast (an award-winning elderly Magrathean planet designer with long white hair and beard, dressed in long white robes) talks to Arthur Dent (an ape-descended earth man wearing a plaid dressing gown) in front of a large model of Earth mark 2.
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