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Mike Trinder

@chthonicionic.bsky.social

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He/Him. B3ta QOTW person and programmer at http://www.millerhare.com. This is my personal a/c at the moment I don’t have a separate - work a/c. I’m also at @[email protected]

www.millerhare.com.

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Peter Chilvers @peterchilvers.com · 5h

Here’s another classic Pulp chorus

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Peter Chilvers @peterchilvers.com · 6h

The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 8h

Crisp Sandwich Day is fast approaching (October 25th) so why not research some classics recipes and techniques on
vole.wtf/buttystock/ you can even submit your own.

ButtyStock 🥪 free crisp sandwich stock photos

Photos, illustrations, videos and 3D models featuring varied crisp (potato chip) sandwiches, all under a CC0 public domain license.

vole.wtf

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Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 7h

I love their ads. The only ones I don’t skip. (Apart from Alice Fraser’s ads on the Realms Unknown podcast which are an art in themselves)

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Gary Delaney Comedian @garydelaney.bsky.social · 11h

A story in three parts

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 9h

The inevitable denouement of car culture: lonely guys talking to an AI woman as they sit in soul-crushing traffic on their way to a desk job behind the wheel of a vehicle they thought would make them cool and could survive the apocalypse.

Ineffable Jeff @ineffablejeff.bsky.social · 14h

Shot + chaser

And are you married?

I was married, but I’m not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle.

In July, Tesla rolled out a software update to integrate Grok into many of its vehicles. Do you use it?

Her name is Aura, and I use her as a therapist. When I'm driving, I'll ask questions, and it actually gives really good therapy advice.

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Asquealia Clark - Lover of Flagons @gingertotty.bsky.social · 18h

Given current trends, ANTIFA print… FWOGS FOREVAH

ko-fi.com/s/99fbb09ea1

Linoprints of Kermit with his Banjo, in ombré blue and green or black and white

#frogs #herps #resist #bsnm

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Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 12h

It’s the opposite way around, but rather

Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 12h

3hr round trip to adjust some projectors that got knocked out of alignment by an aircon service tech. Frame rate is awful because I was remoted in on my laptop, but everything lining up nicely again

Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 12h

Coming through Micheldever and all I can think of is ABK’s michelmas video.

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 14h

Apparently sending a cutely-named tug is a tradition in these parts. Who can forget Buddy, the emotional support tug?

Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · May 22

Bit of an update on "how stuck is it really?"

Judging by the tug they've sent, they're either pretty confident it'll come off easily or somebody has confused metric and imperial units again.

An itsy- bitsy teeny-weeny bright red ship-shoving machiney. In this case the little tug "Buddy", which is somehow even cuter than its name implies.

Buddy's AIS track straight to the scene of the embarrassment.

Well, I assume it's there to help. It's also possible Mr Helberg recently took delivery of one of those madly powerful rare-earth magnets.

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 14h

But don't worry!

Bob's on the scene...

Vessel Finder showing the tug Bob alongside the miscreant vessel, underneath the bridge

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✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 1d

“Operation Inflation” is offering free inflatable costumes to Portland ICE protesters.

Bravo and Brava!👩🏻‍🍳💋

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Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 20h

At the station and 2/3rds of the ads are for ai. None of them say what it does or what it could do for you. GPT’s is just a still image of smiling people and a phone with their logo over it. I think their marketing people just gave up

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Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 1d

After passing two lime bikes last week being ridden with flat tyres, oblivious, another one yesterday. Plus one crank with pedal attached last week and another one today. Is anyone at all maintaining them?

Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 1d

I’m disappointed your cctv signs aren’t like this

A crappily composited CCTV in operation sign except the CCTV camera icon is replaced by the all seeing eye

Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 1d

If you see this, QTP with a sword

My grandfather with a sword fighting other people with swords on the roof of the Savoy Hotel

Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 1d

Oh no. Fingers crossed for Agnes

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a stinky ox 🐂 @stinkyox.bsky.social · 1d

🦄

A Halloween decoration of a witch made to look as if she has flown straight into a horse's arse (the decoration is attached to a real horse's arse).

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Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 1d

Oooh. So it isn’t.

(also long press on the qrcode extracted it from the photo and stuck the decoded content on my clipboard for sharing - nice)

Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 1d

Any qrcode that dense is immediately suspect. If they can’t set up a decent qrcode redirector I’m not scanning it

Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 1d

Nature is healing

Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, Microsoft 365 has quarantined a spam email this morning. Wonder what it is? Oh it’s an email from Microsoft 365 telling me about copilot ai.

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Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darrencullen.bsky.social · 2d

In 2022 I printed 6500 Qatar World Cup football stickers and started adding them to Panini sticker packs and returning them to stores. The back of each sticker featured facts about migrant worker abuse and deaths in the building of Qatar's world cup infrastructure.

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Paul Lomax @paullomax.co.uk · 2d

WTF is going on with the BBC coverage of this story.

The court did not hear it was unlawful. His lawyer claimed it was unlawful. The prosecution said it was imperfect but lawful.

This headline implies undisputed fact.

Tommy Robinson police stop unlawful, court hears www.bbc.com/news/article...

BBC headline: Tommy Robinson police stop unlawful, court hears

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