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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 13h

@jfmezei @chris Yeahbut he's got to do what he's told ... the pee tapes, remember ...

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 18h

@funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social Sounds like a modern version of the Hitler Youth. Why would anyone tolerate such a thing?

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 19h

@gottalaff.bsky.social Eh? I thought the alcohol was the whole point of the gripe water. My mother said (and she's not around any more for me to check this) that she stopped using it when she put a baby tooth into a glass of gripe water and it had completely dissolved by morning.

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 20h

The "High Street" again. I wasn't really expecting the little local shop to still exist, despite the vestigial web presence, but I cycled into town anyway (the exercise is good for me) to find that indeed it did not exist any more. So I will be ordering online from a national organisation. As […]

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

@dasgrueneblatt I had to dispose of a camera because a switch wasn't working. The switch wrongly detected that one of the covers was open when it wasn't such that the camera refused to take pictures. Nobody was able to repair the switch, or obtain a replacement, or even short it out so that it […]

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

@bagder Once Upon A Time, before usable version control systems, we put version numbers in filenames. Which gave us three digits, filenames being eight characters long and us having other uses for the other five. What happened when a particular file got to version 1,000? - our theory was that if […]

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

@se_davidobrien One #brexshit benefit is that when my wife renewed her Irish passport for the first time it took little more than a week from filling in the online form to the passport arriving in the post. On the wider issue, the punter has "renew passport" as a single item on their to-do list […]

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

@paninid IT'S THE GUNS. If Americans didn't have guns they wouldn't shoot anybody.

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

@bestforbritain.org Wot happens when you get amateurs to cobble together spreadsheets rather than professional software engineers.

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

So the USA are going into government-sponsored livestreamed snuff movies. Do they not have the remotest clue what that looks like to the rest of the world?

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

@gottalaff.bsky.social "If you find yourself having to respond to the other side's agenda that means you've lost."

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

@jerasikehorn.bsky.social Only if he was lying with his election promise that "vote for me just this once and you'll never have to vote again". He has a mandate from the American people to cancel the mid-terms - we just don't know how he's going to do it yet.

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daniel:// stenberg:// @bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

"The people holding up the internet" A good-looking but somewhat depressing exposé about the people holding up current digital infrastructure as a hobby. sheets.works/data-viz/holding-up-th…

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Four billion phones ask one text file what time it is. One lecturer keeps it in his spare time. We counted the rest.

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

@arclight Yeah. Found a number I didn't understand in my own code the other day (in a #HomeAssistant automation). Mind you, it helps if the language you're using allows you to write comments ...

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

@Ruth_Mottram Wot, you need an app in Germany? You can't just wave a contactless card at the machine?

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

@juliette We reckoned that the thing about being first time parents is that the baby can tell that you don't have a clue what you're doing. Either this frightens it, or it reckons it can get away with taking the piss; no idea which.

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

@paco The difference is that if the taco operator screws up they can lose their truck and their business, but the AI stuff is a one way bet - either they'll one day make money, or they'll one day be bailed out by a government that's into corporate socialism.

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

@elfin I *can* write good code, and did when I was being paid to. But this was the PHP behind my web site, dating back to last century with random subsequent hacks.

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

@elfin Yeah. I've had requests for some of my code which I've turned down because I didn't want people to see how crap it was - I might one day have been applying to them for a job!

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

@quixoticgeek @fak Any party which takes itself seriously will have hundreds, quite likely thousands, of pages of policy documents.

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

@servelan We've had most of that stuff since the #brexshit vote. Not the power bank, though: if the world is that broken you're not going to get much of a response calling 999 anyway, and no other use of a phone is all that important.

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

@VeroniqueB99 We came across one of those on a Greek island. It met us as we go off the ferry, accompanied us for a mile or so along the coast path until we got to our destination taverna, where it settled down as if it owned the place. We reckoned that probably it did, and it just didn't like […]

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

@hannah Or four different high street shops. Should have stayed at home and ordered online in the first place.

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Token Sane Person @tokensane.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

@TimWardCam @FSonder The marketing is key. Not just because it gets your book in front of potential readers, but because it acts as an unforgeable signal that someone other than the author thinks that this book is saleable, and therefore probably worth reading.

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

@goldstein.latinsky.app Surely with AI embedded in pretty well every application these days all that anybody can answer to that question is "I don't know"?

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

@FSonder I have read a few self-published books, mostly because I've known the author and am interested in what they're going to say. The books have all been to a greater or lesser extent crap. This is particularly disappointing where the author clearly has something interesting to say but just […]

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

@selfe.bsky.social Well, councillors can prefer some reporters to others. At one point our local rag had two journos who reported on council things. One of them would print exactly what you said (so when it was garbage you only had yourself to blame!), whereas the other would make stuff up […]

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

@ulrichkelber Yeah. Some petrolheads don't seem to be aware of Kirchhoff's current law.

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

@FSonder Well, these days writers have the option to self publish, if they don't want to use the editing and marketing services of a publisher.

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OpenTech(AUC) @opentech-auc.social.edu.nl.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

De #NRC, one of the main newspapers in the #Netherlands, set up its own Mastodon server! Journalist @MarloesdeKoning played a key role in this development. We believe ournalists and academics have a special responsibility to start building the alternative networks of the future. Step by step […]

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

@FSonder Wouldn't worry about that last one - the final say on the title is with the publisher anyway, so you can blame them.

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

@VeroniqueB99 Well yes, that makes sense from the petrol company's point of view. Otherwise the punters will buy an electric car instead and stop buying petrol.

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

@bestforbritain.org Because millions of people's lives have been fucked up - #brexshit has worked perfectly as designed. Sounds like a "stunning success" to me.

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

@oxfordclarion.bsky.social Ah! - the article does acknowledge that Oxford is following Cambridge's lead: "It’s no coincidence that the other city in Britain with a Greenways programme is Cambridge." The Oxford programme does look impressive - good luck!

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

@thias @juliette And when you can't use the sun to try the laundry - try a dehumidifier. It burns *lots* less carbon than a tumble drier.

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

@thejessiekirk @Lazarou I wasn't giving an opinion - I was observing the existence of a plausible argument, not saying whether I agree with it.

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

@Lazarou There *is* a plausible argument for the death penalty. It requires (a) the perp is so dangerous that they have to be locked up or they'd kill someone else (b) the cost of keeping the perp locked up through the winter, given the poverty of the society as a whole, is such that other […]

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

@VeroniqueB99 In the UK it'd be "Have you got a postcode for that?" But sometimes you get operators who do know what they're doing. Like the last time I called 999: Them: "Which service do you require?" Me: "I don't know - there's a cow in the river." Them: "OK, I'll call the pinder. Which […]

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

@bestforbritain.org When I see people advocating "growth" without qualifying it as "sustainable growth" I'm afraid it reads to me as "hey, I've got a good idea, let's burn more carbon".

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

@iandunt.bsky.social #brexshit was never about "national glory", that was always known to all to be a fig leaf. Putin's 17.4m #brexshitters voted to fuck up other people's lives. For them, #brexshit has been a resounding success.

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

@TerribleMaps I call fake - the giveaway is no Wurzels in Zomerzet.

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

@simonzerafa Oh, or, you could say "I was legally required to wipe the phone - it had GDPR protected data on it".

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

@simonzerafa "I told you what would happen if I turned it on. You still told me to turn it on." But I gather that at the US border you're not a person and don't have any rights and they can do WTF they like to you regardless. (On my one visit to the Lower 48 there was this big guy in the […]

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