If #CountBinface doesn't win, Clacton should get in the sea
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Alfred Pomeroy Jones
@drunkenmadman@aus.social
mastodon 4.7.2Expat Cymro living on Dharug Country, Sydney, NSW
ADHD Haver, possibly AuDHD.
Wannabe Welsh translator on training wheels.
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And nothing of value was lost
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/24/millionaire-hunter-dies-elephants-gabon
Huge if true
Pangolin: stringed instrument that rolls into a ball when threatened
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@Drayson@dragonchat.org @catsalad@infosec.exchange honestly could have left off the bottom row.
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Any of my #Melbourne Mastodon friends need furniture?
I've got
- A load of bookshelves I'm not taking to Sydney.
- Couple of workbenches (the kind with the pegboard back,
- a nice marble-topped kitchen island,
- a hydraulic sit-stand mini desk and an office chair
- a nice TV/entertainment unit
- a modular sofa
- a fabric bench seat
- Some 1080p monitors
- hydraulic monitor arms
- A giant cable drum coffee table
- Loads of other random bits and bobs.
All sorts of stuff. Some of it might end up at a charity shop or trashed if it's not taken away. I can't take it ALL to Sydney, and besides it won't all fit.
They're all going cheap or free.
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I have clearly reached a blood alcohol concentration of “philosophical”
Binface versus Farage in Clacton??
Oh please, Clacton, Please do it.
It won’t get you all forgiveness for Brexit, but it will stop me hating you all so much.
Being an adult is opening a packet of biscuits, bringing the biscuit tin out so you can put the rest of the biscuits in when you’ve had a couple of biscuits, then putting the biscuit tin back empty.
I keep getting emails from Indeed saying "this job matches your profile" then I click through and find it's for a specific stack I didn't even know existed.
I mean wtf even is the MERN stack?
(I looked it up, I have not got any of that mentioned in my profile anywhere)
Indeed's clanker be fucked yo.
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Paralegal: airdropped solicitor
#uxbridgeenglishdictionary
This is worrying on numerous levels, and not just because of the LLM agent. Also because of the humans intertwined with it.
People are using LLMs to do really dumb stuff.
Petition to rename Stockholm Syndrome to “Chronic America Brain”
Low stakes conspiracy theory that's possibly true:
Elon Musk is renaming all his stuff to X so that he can slowly make the serifs on the X bigger and bigger and slightly more hooked and then turn them to the full 90°, then finally put that logo onto a white circle on a field of red.
Just saying.
Vibe coding is ultimately always going to fail because of a truism in software development.
It is easy to describe *what you want* from a piece of software.
The trick is describing the near-infinite list of things you *don’t*.
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I’ve never mentioned who my current employer is on here right?
I guess a determined internet detective or someone who knows me personally could find out, but nevertheless… I’m probably anon enough.
We had a prod issue today, resulting in the complete inability to deploy our underlying IAM infrastructure via CDK.
Turns out a senior on another team had “asked Gemini” about bootstrapping CDK and ended up hosing the IAM roles that we need to deploy IAM roles.
The AI talked him into overwriting the basic infra.
Lots to unpack here but fuck me dead guys, honestly.
I wonder if British internet politics/culture commentator Tom Nicholas is aware that a search of his name on Reddit returns this?
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I mean, look at this fucking abomination. Only a sociopath could countenance this spoon.
Beware: Sheep Graziers
Kiwi: important, nay _pivotal_ urination
Nerdy Dad task for the afternoon
Dinosaur head drawer handles (3D printed) added to the tallboy in the boy’s nursery.
Went to a maternal health centre earlier. Amused by the sign that said “All deliveries via front entrance”
Religious zealots lie. News at eleven
Online polls can be gamed. NEWS AT FUCKING ELEVEN
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@Jaffa@social.linux.pizza @astro_jcm@mastodon.online came here to say similar. When I moved to Sydney in 2000 I was often lost and it took ages to figure out I subconsciously oriented by the sun.
Back to the WFH schedule today, after three days off with the new boy.
Feels a bit weird being downstairs in the home office, but my god I'm motivated...
Wtf?
My boy is coming home from the maternity ward today.
It is fair to say that this is when ADHD -related emotional dysregulation really pays off
Because I am high as a fucking kite right now.
In a sane universe, an “off the shelf software” polict might look like the sensible choice for a moon mission. Tried and tested, commercially supported, professionally built*
Unfortunately, we’re not in one of those so they had to fix broken outlook on what I presume to be the most remote support session ever.
*in the aforementioned sane universe
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@hmhbLyrics@mastodonapp.uk this is the track. It’s “tesco”.
Renault might be my take
https://youtu.be/oGzegfmggqs?si=k1hujUXtadTR9XZd
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@hmhbLyrics@mastodonapp.uk give me a minute to check. Meanwhile, enjoy this hoodie I bought at an Electric Ballroom gig last time I was in the UK
Baby musical taste update:
LOVED London Calling. Liked more XTC. Was intrigued by the smiths. Talking Heads ftw. Even good with Primus. ADORED Pink Floyd’s “Money”.
Cried again when King Crimson came on shuffle.
I think that’s gonna take work.
Regarding #CountBinface’s pledge to move the hand dryer at the Crown & Treaty pub in Uxbridge… may I urge you to look up the history of that particular pub?
Go on. Check Wikipedia.
Everything has a deeper layer than the surface joke. He would be a brilliant parliamentarian (but would retain kayfabe)
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@hmhbLyrics@mastodonapp.uk I thought I'd recorded that as "I shot a man in a Renault". Turns out I didn't.
https://youtu.be/7AyxWz_4rMg?si=ZxHr268ekNtbghiJ
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@hmhbLyrics@mastodonapp.uk that's the session
I would attempt to blow up a national assembly for a Wikipedia entry this fucking cool.
Ugh. Think I’m coming down with something. Not great timing given I’m in Melbourne at my old place without proper heating or anything.
So anyway, now I’m back in Sydney who wants to join my Half Man Half Biscuit cover band?
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@jamesbannan@aus.social I fear they may be
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@hmhbLyrics@mastodonapp.uk true. I'm sort of wondering if the "renault" version was on a rough version they shared ahead of the release, I think on a radio session. Wish I could find the bloody MP3
Must be a day with “y” in the name.
https://youtu.be/jFoxOqOk9rk
Scrolled insta and found a review of The Odyssey describing it as "a very bad commute" and now I want to watch it more than anything else in the world.
Look, I know the story very well. But I somehow want to watch a bunch of highly-paid people pretending to suffer through it in Very High Definition.
Strong start on today’s NYT crossword
Fuckin #usdefaultism from Duolingo, as per.
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To add depth… what IS home?
I still consider myself a Londoner. So many discussions I had while there affirmed “once you’ve lived in London, you’re a Londoner forever”.
But after leaving Sydney for the first time in 2017 I stopped being a Sydneysider. That might have contributed to my late 2019 “fuck it I’m going back to Victoria” thing.
I’m always going to be Welsh, always going to be a Londoner. Will I always be a Melburnian and a Sydneysider? I’m not sure.
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If you were wondering…
https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/star-trek-type-15-shuttlepod-40768