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Chris Boyd

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Award winning security researcher | 7 time Microsoft MVP | Google Hall of Fame | Music and video | UK Immigration (family reunion) https://soundcloud.com/umawing

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 26d

i spent way too long drawing this and i'd do it again

the "i think we're gonna have to kill this guy steven" panel where steven universe meets hitler, except it's a drawing of wonder woman saying it to captain america who says "damn"

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 18m

the hyperactive camerawork is driving me to distraction. at least they didn't throw in a starwipe

EU Council @consilium.europa.eu · 18h

Today, the entry/exit system gets underway.

This new digital border system will streamline travel, enhance security, and improve the efficiency of border controls for non-EU nationals entering or exiting the EU.

Full implementation is planned for 10 April 2026.

More info → link.europa.eu/mnYbcy

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 14h

Boss, we’ve got a problem. Users don’t want this stuff! They keep wanting to turn it off, even when we keep turning it back on!

Boss: I have an idea

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 16h

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 11h

"my last job was with liam neeson"

yeah but have you considered that i can do this

me breakdancing in front of a crowd. my head is photoshopped onto the breakdancer's body. i'm wearing an xmas beard and a banana colander hat

Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 12h

me at the game audio meetup surrounded by a professional trailer composer, a professional voice actor, and a professional orchestral score writer

a four panel comic. 2 cartoon characters ask a small weird creature "what do you do?" the second panel is the creature smiling while wearing a banana hat. the third panel is the two characters looking confused. the fourth and final panel is the same as the second.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 16h

Who had “self-swatting” on their dystopia bingo card.

Police are asking kids to stop pulling AI homeless man prank

The AI #homelessmanprank has gone viral, causing headaches for law enforcement.

www.theverge.com

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 16h

am currently telling the gamedev audio meetup gang my ears have exploded

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 16h

yep, i know quite a few people on the route who aren't chinese nationals (whose applications would've gone nowhere if not also HK residents)

Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 16h

brian, we need to talk buddy

"The applicant:
• is a BN(O) status holder or the eligible family
member of a BN(O) status holder
• is ordinarily resident in Hong Kong (overseas
applications)"

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 17h

thanks for the reply and block, brian. anyway here's 57 pages describing the hong kong british national overseas route, whose 11,804 june 2025 grants you specifically referenced. why are people like this assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/67efd3...

"The BNO route isn't only available to people from Hong Kong.The clue is in the name.It's a safe & legal route.Others exist too - I literally just helped someone arrive legally via one (not from Ukraine).Your reply is disingenuous in the extreme & intended to mislead."

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 21h

The whole piece is great and full of moments like this that illustrate what a terrible idea using LLMs on dating apps is on every level

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 23h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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James Bowes @jamesbowes01.bsky.social · 19h

They have of course closed the Afghan resettlement scheme and refugee family reunification, and banned Ukrainians from ILR after 10 years.

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 19h

if you're going to point to labour offering "safe routes" for refugees, please don't cite the BNO which is a) for specific people from hong kong only, b) is an expensive paid visa with no guarantee of settlement, and c) is (so far) included in the consultation for extending ILR from 5 years to 10

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 20h

this is essentially like pointing to the ukraine route, which is also a visa and currently offers no route to permanent residency at all. in fact labour actually blocked the possibility of settlement via the 10 year route too:

Permission under the Ukraine Schemes will no longer count towards the 10 year long residence route

The Home Office has announced that as of 18 December 2024, time spent in the UK under one of the Ukraine Schemes will no longer be permission that can be counted ...

www.turpinmiller.co.uk

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 20h

I suspect ferelden has a home office

Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 20h

? that's 11,804 people who applied for the BNO route, which is a) only available to people coming from Hong Kong and b) costs a small fortune, because it's a paid visa - and is also included in the consultation with regard to extending the path to ILR from 5 years to 10

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 20h

tfw you went out and left the living room light on all day

my wife with her eyes closed looking annoyed

Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 20h

me: we've missed bins day
jovi:

my wife looking incredibly annoyed in front of a blue/green night sky

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 20h

i've never seen my wife looking so thoroughly annoyed as she does in dragon age veilguard. every other scene she's about to strangle someone, it's incredible

my wife looking very annoyed, in front of some snow

my wife looking at someone with annoyance inside a building

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 20h

also it's incredibly funny to me that he ends all of those posts with the kind of close-out you get on an email to the council over a missed bin collection

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 21h

thank you mister domald, sir

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 21h

The upshot is this is that I need to spend some money on a Skype replacement because haha hoo boy

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 22h

a man is smiling in front of a sign that says ' zinzi ' on it

Alt: Kiryu smiling

media.tenor.com

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 22h

how much is a call to a +1 number likely to cost from the uk? i haven't called a number in about a thousand years and am not pushing any buttons if i can help it

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jon rosenburger @jonrosenberg.bsky.social · 1d

They're spinning this as a marketing fail but I think the real story is just that people are stupid as fucking rocks now fortune.com/2025/10/10/p...

Lay's drastically rebrands after disturbing finding: 42% of consumers didn't know their chips were made out of potatoes | Fortune

New bags—matte-ified and designed to look like wood planks (like a potato crate)—will hold the chips with revamped ingredient lists.

fortune.com

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 1d

what's really bizarre is that this is played more authentically than the actual send up in strange new worlds S3, which instead plays out as someone doing a parody of a parody

archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 1d

The Two Ronnies (and Sally James) boldly tackle a Star Trek sketch (11th October 1973).

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