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Will Thames @will.thames.au · 16/09/2026

8000 billion is off by a factor of 1000!

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Will Thames @will.thames.au · 15/09/2026

Thank you for bringing this important matter to my attention, they are all very fine cats

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Will Thames @will.thames.au · 07/09/2026

Here is my photo of five wood ducks, taken next to the local swimming pool, they like to hang out there

Two adult wood ducks and their three nearly grown up babies

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Will Thames @will.thames.au · 04/09/2026

you also don't have to show a boarding pass, which means that you can accompany passengers to the gate, or meet people straight off the plane

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Will Thames @will.thames.au · 26/08/2026

passionfruit creme patissiere filled profiteroles was going to be my recommendation

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Will Thames @will.thames.au · 29/07/2026

Booktopia seem to think it'll be available in January 2027 - not sure if there's anyone you or your publishers can prod there: www.booktopia.com.au/setting-the-...

booktopia.com.au

Setting the Land Free

Buy Setting the Land Free, Visions of a Rewilded Ireland by Eoghan Daltun from Booktopia. Get a discounted Hardcover from Australia's leading online bookstore.

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Will Thames @will.thames.au · 28/07/2026

I'd say 20C (68F) was shorts and t-shirt weather in London, but it's more like at least 25C (77F) in Brisbane

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Will Thames @will.thames.au · 21/07/2026

Two ducks and their four babies at the swimming pool was the highlight of my day yesterday! (They were just outside the pool but occasionally I've shared the pool with a duck!)

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Will Thames @will.thames.au · 21/07/2026

$23 is a bargain, right, as long as you ignore the $800 shipping!

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Will Thames @will.thames.au · 20/07/2026

Milly Alcock is also excellent in Upright

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Will Thames @will.thames.au · 16/07/2026

Ibises are similar, but I feel that if you can't keep enough of an eye on your sandwich to stop an ibis from nicking it, then maybe the ibis deserves it more than you

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Will Thames @will.thames.au · 07/07/2026

Humans don't write things like "The mental model that makes this click:" I think you're arguing on the wrong side here - I agree that it's easy to over index on use of em-dashes - but it's not hard to detect real AI slop in this post - of which Dan's paraphrase is just one example

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Will Thames @will.thames.au · 25/06/2026

As token prices become more in tune with the actual costs, those numbers will become less realistic (especially as people waste tokens on things that might be achieved in a much more efficient manner) www.404media.co/the-tokenpoc...

404media.co

The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI

Leaked audio from Accenture says a big source of AI token ‘chewing’ is people just converting PDFs to presentation slides.

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Will Thames @will.thames.au · 22/06/2026

Took me a while to parse the first line of that graphic (it might make more sense in context) - I read it as "the main reason was that the jobs were miles away!"

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Will Thames @will.thames.au · 19/06/2026

I asked @peta.thames.au last night whether ad companies made ads specifically so that they appear on Gruen - looking forward to watching the discussion of that one!

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Will Thames @will.thames.au · 10/06/2026

In our internal projects we have the inverted code review process, so that the AI reviewers comments have to be fixed or dismissed before any human is asked to spend cycles reviewing. It makes mistakes, but also catches some very subtle bugs for us

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Will Thames @will.thames.au · 21/05/2026

What is PJM? Looking at the record categories and seeing ERCOT, I guess it's a (very large?) regional grid?

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Will Thames @will.thames.au · 14/05/2026

I feel like Scotland should be Sad, Drunk and Wet

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Will Thames @will.thames.au · 13/05/2026

And also by someone who appears to struggle with basic reading comprehension

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Will Thames @will.thames.au · 23/04/2026

Also, is that Escher's toll barrier?

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Will Thames @will.thames.au · 15/04/2026

I found it took about three months for my sleep to become normal. Lots of 4am wake ups in that period. A year or so on, and I often get up at 6am feeling fully refreshed having had a proper 7 or 8 hours. It definitely gets better, I just don't want people to worry if it takes longer than a week

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Will Thames @will.thames.au · 25/03/2026

If like me you're wondering where this button is, it only appears on pages that support reader view (which doesn't seem to be many of the pages I look at, sadly) An example that does work is Mozilla's documentation of the feature: support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/fir...

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Will Thames @will.thames.au · 10/03/2026

As I've got older I've ensured that I do my left side then my right side so that if I have a heart attack midway through shaving, I will not have a Chaplin moustache

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Will Thames @will.thames.au · 26/02/2026

I can't speak for the whole of Europe, it's a big place, but in the UK at least it's one of the most trusted forms of ID (used for proof of age, voter ID, among many others)

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Will Thames @will.thames.au · 09/02/2026

Also - a higher than usual number of short sentences, plus "it's not X, it's Y" framings.

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Will Thames @will.thames.au · 03/02/2026

I was pleased with 8 minutes today, a great time for me! 3:44 is phenomenal!

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Donna Benjamin @kattekrab.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Fraser Tweedale is seeking source code for the MyGov app - he needs to raise 20k in 6 days to fund his case at administrative review tribunal - he's halfway there. Can you chip in? Or amplify the call? www.pozible.com/project/mygo...

pozible.com

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Adam Leventhal @ahl.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

@sunshowers.io summed it up wonderfully: "Code that uses LLMs better be the best freakin' code on the planet. If you're doing this, all your code should be extremely tight. Slow down: don't just spit out as much code as possible." [1:17:55] youtu.be/fmFt4-jjEc0?...

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Will Thames @will.thames.au · 12/01/2026

Do you happen to know of any good resources for learning about best native plants for erosion control? We've been using Lomandras based on suggestions from our Land for Wildlife officer but keen to learn more.

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Will Thames @will.thames.au · 27/11/2025

And you've managed to get your hands on a copy of High Noon!

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Will Thames @will.thames.au · 11/11/2025

I think you have the default bsky setting that only users you follow can message you (bsky.app/messages/set...)

bsky.app

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Will Thames @will.thames.au · 16/10/2025

I mean, it's just not though. It's 70 days.

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Will Thames @will.thames.au · 18/09/2025

QLD for once isn't as bad as the other eastern states as we don't have daylight savings - so worst case would be 11am start six months of the year

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Will Thames @will.thames.au · 04/09/2025

I stopped following Zitron a while back because his entire shtick seems to be being angry at things, mostly AI, rather than right about things (even though some of his points are valid)

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Will Thames @will.thames.au · 04/09/2025

Your first few paragraphs are a great description of Jevons Paradox in action (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_...)

en.wikipedia.org

Jevons paradox - Wikipedia

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Will Thames @will.thames.au · 02/09/2025

I did think $600 seemed pretty good value for a berth of that size but it's actually $600000

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Will Thames @will.thames.au · 25/08/2025

@bcantrill.bsky.social @ahl.bsky.social I feel that this must be related to following you two somehow:

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Will Thames @will.thames.au · 21/08/2025

That is very pretty, but what is it?

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Will Thames @will.thames.au · 18/08/2025

It also allows great people to choose to be support engineers (which can be a super fulfilling role) without a salary cut (often the only way to get a salary bump in support is to find a different role)

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Will Thames @will.thames.au · 04/08/2025

Went on a hunt for the article, which is at www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... (amazing original title, I must note) But that's only the *second* hit for dump opinion pieces in the guardian, there's also www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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Will Thames @will.thames.au · 10/07/2025

This was a great reminder to cancel Prime, thanks!

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Will Thames @will.thames.au · 09/07/2025

Probably should have used a disjoint qualifier there.

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Will Thames @will.thames.au · 11/06/2025

I haven't been getting through course.fast.ai as fast as I'd like but it's very good. I've also used mathacademy.com to get me back up to pre-uni-level maths, I've nearly finished Math Fundamentals III and plan to do Machine Learning next.

course.fast.ai

Practical Deep Learning for Coders - Practical Deep Learning

A free course designed for people with some coding experience, who want to learn how to apply deep learning and machine learning to practical problems.

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Will Thames @will.thames.au · 11/06/2025

I realise this might be too late (and also maybe not relevant to the book), but chook can also be uncooked but not alive (or it least it can be in our butcher!)

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Will Thames @will.thames.au · 29/05/2025

What changed in March? That's a big difference!

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Will Thames @will.thames.au · 28/05/2025

This lines up with Atlassian's remote work research in www.atlassian.com/blog/distrib... > Our research shows that these intentional team gatherings lead to a 27% increase in feelings of connection, especially among new graduates and new hires, and that this boost lasts for 4-5 months.

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Will Thames @will.thames.au · 06/05/2025

It does seem like a massive gamble that could just lead to another Liberal seat loss!

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Will Thames @will.thames.au · 22/04/2025

Steve Irwin Way is a bit bigger than a street! (it's about 30km spur off the Bruce Highway through the Glass House mountains, passing Australia Zoo on the way)

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Will Thames @will.thames.au · 08/04/2025

What does the bit after Graphic even mean? Would people who need Alt text understand it (if so they're smarter than me!)

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