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@TomEllul.kind.social.ap.brid.gy
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TCM Student, Herbal Dispenser, Qigong Instructor, Kung Fu Nerd, Jack-of-many-trades, Neurodivergent 🌉 bridged from ⁂ kind.social/@TomEllul, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Zero @tomellul.kind.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/04/2026
got my suit for my brother's wedding. the place I got it from had it altered. except they forgot to do the trousers. now I have to go back and have them do that. ugh.
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Zero @tomellul.kind.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/04/2026
my car proper broke down. it's either a spark plug or the injector. either way, not great.
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Zero @tomellul.kind.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/04/2026
been taking a break from social media. pretty stressed lately from a bunch of stuff and it wasn't necessarily helping. in the meantime, after years of throwing mostly pens or other small objects, I finally bought some real throwing darts
a pair of tuo shou biao throwing darts with grey cloth tied to the back, both embedded in a colourful, straw archery target
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Zero @tomellul.kind.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/03/2026
I keep forgetting to put on a watch in the mornings because I'm rushing around ;_;
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Zero @tomellul.kind.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/03/2026
one of my classmates asked me for a book from my digital archive, so he could give it to a friend, and apparently he's been calling me 大哥 (big brother, in this context basically sempai) to her which is super cute
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Zero @tomellul.kind.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2026
my car just fucking stopped in the middle of a main road
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Zero @tomellul.kind.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/02/2026
some photos from the festival I remembered my camera this year 新年好
lion dancers with banners unfurled whilst confetti rains down around themdragon parade, pink dragon chasing pink pearl, with red horse decorations hung aroundgreen and orange lion dancers walking down the streeta little girl in a green hat and bone amplification hearing aid in front of a throng of people lining the street for the festival
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Zero @tomellul.kind.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/02/2026
still no furries, but there are a bunch of people absolutely dripped to fuck
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Zero @tomellul.kind.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/02/2026
no fursuits yet, but federal mp penny wong is here
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Zero @tomellul.kind.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/02/2026
local spring festival stuff today I wonder if those fursuiters will be back
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Zero @tomellul.kind.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/02/2026
as much as I love wearing linen, I'm well ready for summer to be over. bring back coat weather
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Zero @tomellul.kind.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/02/2026
So a new Mothica EP dropped last night The drop in the chorus of Somewhere in Between makes my brain so happy
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Zero @tomellul.kind.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/02/2026
My eldest niece asked what my favourite song is today. How does one explain Red Star by The Birthday Massacre to a 4-year-old? I did my best
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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 17/02/2026
PSA: If you block the `claude` user on GitHub, you'll get a warning every time you view a repo with that user in its commit history. This allows you to, the moment you look at a repo, immediately adjust your expectations. You may do so here: github.com/settings/blocked_users
A github screenshot showing a repo with the message "a user you've blocked has previous contributed to this repository"
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Zero @tomellul.kind.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/02/2026
tin of mackerel, bag of crisps I also got kippers and sardines but it's not like I'll be eating all the crisps in one go so they'll last
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Zero @tomellul.kind.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/02/2026
fuck it, I'm off down the shops yes it's almost 3am
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Zero @tomellul.kind.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/02/2026
it's 2am and I have a desire to go to the 24-hour supermarket and grab a tin of fish and a pack of crisps to eat them with but if I do: which fish?
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Allister Jones 🍃🐦アリスタ 🔜 KinshokuCon @allisteranim.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Kinda Fucked Up that in our lifetimes we've gone from "never share personal info on the internet" to "hand over your identity to the most incompetent corporations imaginable".
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Zero @tomellul.kind.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/02/2026
is "phwoar" performative? in saying "phwoar" does one DO "phwoar"?
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Zero @tomellul.kind.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/02/2026
people will say shit like "oh, why'd you study English in uni? what good will that ever do you?" and then 15 minutes later be all "omg ur so smart lol"
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Zero @tomellul.kind.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/02/2026
you know you're a martial arts nerd when you can identify a martial art in an anime after 2 moves
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Zero @tomellul.kind.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/02/2026
I enjoy that the Spider Man (no, the one you're thinking of is Spider-man) in Tojima Wants to be a Kamen Rider uses the alias equivalent of calling himself Eric Nidd-Webber
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Zero @tomellul.kind.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/02/2026
the other week at work I made a mistake with the post. yesterday someone else did the same. I'm glad I work for an organisation that tolerates failure.
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Zero @tomellul.kind.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/02/2026
wonder how it's going for all those celebrities who were ride-or-die for rowling probably actively shitting themselves
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Zero @tomellul.kind.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/02/2026
a close-up of a smoking pair of shoes is never not funny
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Zero @tomellul.kind.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/01/2026
if nothing else my journal is making me real good at knowing the days of the week in Japanese
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Zero @tomellul.kind.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/01/2026
it's half 5 in the evening
weather app says the temperature is 43°C
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mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) @atax1a.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 25/01/2026
🍦 Normal people 🔭 Don't write like this 🥡 Nobody 🦙 Likes 🍿 Reading 🐜 It 🛜 Either
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Zero @tomellul.kind.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/01/2026
alone in the dispensary today ama
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Zero @tomellul.kind.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/01/2026
forgot my watch and bracelet, then had to run to carch my bus without having my inhaler on me. great start.
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Zero @tomellul.kind.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/01/2026
guy in discord server: weather's crazy *links screenshot of weather app showing huge temp variance* me: yeah same * links screenshot of weather app showing huge temp variance* second guy: YEAH WELL IT'S -12°C HERE UPHILL BOTH WAYS IN DRIVING SNOW
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Zero @tomellul.kind.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/01/2026
I think I could maybe make a dark green suit work. Maybe plum. I dunno, I wanna do something Not Boring at my brother's wedding. Don't wanna show anyone up, but he and his party will all be in black and it's BORING
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Zero @tomellul.kind.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/01/2026
Christopher Nolan writes films like dumb people write smart people
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Andraste Sideyr @andraste.fuckbgp.com · 11/01/2026
art
a text post that says:

I installed switches on my car's dash that don't do anything.
When someone gets in my car I look them in the eye, say "buckle up," and start flipping switches in what appears to be a purposeful order.
Then I'll drive like a grandma while refusing to answer any questions about the switches

over a picture of a bank of 6 toggle switches with safety covers over a manual shifter in a car
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Zero @tomellul.kind.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/01/2026
"why don't you just use bluetooth?" because listening to my music as a .flac with good headphones is like when I put on glasses for the first time and could see leaves on a tree
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Zero @tomellul.kind.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/01/2026
"ai is the future"
a screenshot of a youtube ai summary featuring the phrase "transforming a violin into a musical instrument"
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Zero @tomellul.kind.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/01/2026
I'm not a mega fan of her music, but I absolutely adore Ado, and find her vocal style and and control ability fascinating.
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Zero @tomellul.kind.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/12/2025
babe wake up new year just dropped
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Zero @tomellul.kind.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/12/2025
look what arrived today never been much a journaling or planner type, but I thought this might be nice. the spaces for writing are small, so I can be brief.
a protective cover and outer label for a Midori 5 year diary.
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Zero @tomellul.kind.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/12/2025
My mother is slowly being radicalised by facebook. She keeps bringing up things that are based on a kernel of truth but with enough lies and subtle nudges to become an ideological poison.
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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
The only thing ChatGPT ever does.
Andrew Kadel @DrewKadel@social.coop

My daughter, who's had a degree in computer science for 25 years, posted this about ChatGPT on Facebook. It's the best description I've seen.

Something that seems fundamental to me about ChatGPT, which gets lost over and over again:

When you enter text into it, you're asking "What would a response to this sound like?"

If you put in a scientific question, and it comes back with a response citing a non-existent paper with a plausible title, using a real journal name and an author name who's written things related to your question, it's not being tricky or telling lies or doing anything at all surprising! This is what a response to that question would sound like! It did the thing!

But people keep wanting the "say something that sounds like an answer" machine to be doing something else, and believing it *is* doing something else.

It's good at generating things that sound like responses to being told it was wrong, so people think that it's engaging in introspection or looking up more information or something, but it's not, it's only, ever, saying something that sounds like the next bit of the conversation.
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Zero @tomellul.kind.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/12/2025
merry christmas (my immediate family do presents on boxing day)
A copy of Astrid Falls: a Legend of Vancouver by Andy Cownden
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Zero @tomellul.kind.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/12/2025
rereading Consider Phlebas (in fact, the whole cycle), and damn I should do this more often these books absolutely slap
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Zero @tomellul.kind.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/12/2025
painted a little christmas ornament, fox with a cup of tea. at some point it became a challenge to only use a number 2 brush, which was difficult but worth it
a small painted figure of a sand-coloured fox on a green cushion, holding a blue mug with a gold star
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Zero @tomellul.kind.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/12/2025
dry-fried a scorpion before I boiled up the last batch of this formula, the verdict: much better fried than boiled. nice and crispy, can really taste the salt cure, kind of bitter but not unpleasantly so, probably a pretty decent snack
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Zero @tomellul.kind.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/12/2025
why did I trust this year not to fukken kick me in the teeth right at the end?
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Zero @tomellul.kind.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/12/2025
as thanks for my work thus far in archiving his late father's clinic notes, my boss gave me one of his father's un-opened huang ni yixing teapots I'm floored by this
a small xi shi-style huang ni yixing teapot with writing in black on the lid and sides
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Zero @tomellul.kind.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/12/2025
it's now a year to the day that my ex-wife left me. I've accomplished so much in these 12 months, but it still hurts.
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Zero @tomellul.kind.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/12/2025
the silent hill f at home
a screencapture of Pokemon Legends: ZA, featuring a female player character clipping through a Delphox
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