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Tim Featherstone-Griffin @timfg.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I love the fact that LLMs can answer all those nagging geeky questions that have been bothering me for years. I do hope I remember them all before they kill me.

AI response to question about whether ISO has any real meaning in a digital camera world.

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Tim Featherstone-Griffin @timfg.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The easiest of signals. Do the same, let's make it a story.

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Tim Featherstone-Griffin @timfg.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Reverse psychology masterstroke. He writes some excellent shit too @iandunt.bsky.social

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Tim Featherstone-Griffin @timfg.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

To sustainably draw £50k a year from a DC pension fund (using the oft-cited '4% rule) requires a pension fund of £1.25m at retirement. You cannot argue that successive govs that have urged people to save for retirement should now take those savings away to support people that didn't.

Image showing typical retirement pension funds at £86k for women and £156k for men

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Tim Featherstone-Griffin @timfg.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

It's incredible how often you see this nonsense. Basic GCSE level physics. Current = Amps Potential Difference = Volts Power = Watts

London railway quoting '740V of current'

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Tim Featherstone-Griffin @timfg.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Ah, right... the strategy, all along, has been 'Punishment Beating'. Glad we've finally cleared that up.

Trump tweet re Iran not yet having paid the price

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Tim Featherstone-Griffin @timfg.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Us too. This one is about 30 years old. In a pot that's about 150 years old

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Tim Featherstone-Griffin @timfg.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

We had exactly that this week. Phenomenal in-your-face example of nature doing its thing...

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Tim Featherstone-Griffin @timfg.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

So, Newsnight has the 'Deputy Political Editor' of GB News on to comment on the UK response to the Iran crisis. Guess what. It took me 15s to determine that he's an arrogant little culture-warring moron, of limited intellect. WHY IS HE ON THE BBC??

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Tim Featherstone-Griffin @timfg.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I cannot even download y 20 years of Facebook history.

Dialogue announcing 'Download Unsuccessful'

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Tim Featherstone-Griffin @timfg.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I think Facebook just disabled my account for regularly posting anti-Trump material (mostly fairly academic). I can see no other possible explanation. The image collects my thread at the time, as it happened. They now have excellent facial-recognition data to identify me. Please repost widely.

Bluesky thread, describing nonsense 'bot-detction' procedure, that ultimately results in my account being disabled

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Tim Featherstone-Griffin @timfg.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Mid-post 5 minutes ago, FB demanded I prove I'm human. Pass through a 'type the numbers in the pic' process, then was required to do a head-turn video. Once that was uploaded, I was presented with this. Are they having a bot-clearout? Or has Zuck decided he doesn't like my Trump-critical posts?

Facebook dialogue box advising that 'you have submitted an appeal'

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Tim Featherstone-Griffin @timfg.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Danielle Pletka, commentating on @channel4news.bsky.social Like watching an animated Instagram filter. Because, that's pretty much what it is. She is 62. Raises some interesting philosophical questions, people distorting their own physical presentation for television appearances.

Danielle Pletka clearly using some clever webcam tech to make herself appear smooth skinned and young

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Tim Featherstone-Griffin @timfg.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Not sure what you could possibly do with our much loved Lily, who passed away at the end of last year. The world's most laid-back cat :-)

A very relaxed tabby cat, lying on it's back on a sofa

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Tim Featherstone-Griffin @timfg.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

My sis-in-law's nativity scene sees the baby jesus kept warm on a bed of Ginsters pie

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Tim Featherstone-Griffin @timfg.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Like, guys, there's no way I can read this... @bsky.app

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Tim Featherstone-Griffin @timfg.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Nine tickets for the Warrington 'Neighbourhood Weekender' next year. £77 in additional fees for... what exactly? There is no 'service' apart from GUI and algorithm. No 'handling' whatsoever, all digital. And a 'facility charge'? This kind of unavoidable profiteering should be banned.

Receipt showing additional fees for concert tickets

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Tim Featherstone-Griffin @timfg.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

If I have an interest in it, want to improve it, need to better understand it... and I can get hold of (or generate) some data around it... Well, it's going into Excel. Obv. My friends think I'm weird. Because they lack insight.

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Tim Featherstone-Griffin @timfg.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I distinctly remember doing late-night, red wine, chocolate, when I first gawped over Twitter 15 years ago. Having the same with Bluesky now is a joy.

computer screens with wine and chocolate on desk

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Tim Featherstone-Griffin @timfg.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Not the first time I've opened this week's copy to find it's glued to the envelope, resulting in crumple and tear: you need to sort out your supplier @newstatesman.com Mind you, last week's envelope contained two copies. Would love to know how many people that happened to :-)

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Tim Featherstone-Griffin @timfg.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Right. No suggestion of going back into the SM & CU (which no-one actually voted to leave anyway) because the British people voted to leave the EU almost a decade ago, a decision which all polling suggests people recognise, in significant majority, to have been a mistake. Mel Stride is a moron.