Chris Boyle
@chris.boyle.name
Oxford-based software engineer, amateur pilot, and singer. He/him or they/them.
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I think the European Union just killed off the concept of the infinite scroll (and with it, most apps that you use on a daily basis) www.reuters.com/business/med...
TikTok hit with charges of breaching EU online content rules, app may have to change
Social media app TikTok was charged by EU tech regulators on Friday with breaching EU online content rules through its addictive features and was told that it may have to change the design of its app ...
www.reuters.com
February 6, 2026 at 11:22 AM
I think the European Union just killed off the concept of the infinite scroll (and with it, most apps that you use on a daily basis) www.reuters.com/business/med...
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An attempt to disconnect our gas connection earlier today👇
SSE Airtricity’s AI chatbot is going a little out of scope 😬
SSE Airtricity’s AI chatbot is going a little out of scope 😬
February 6, 2026 at 1:04 PM
An attempt to disconnect our gas connection earlier today👇
SSE Airtricity’s AI chatbot is going a little out of scope 😬
SSE Airtricity’s AI chatbot is going a little out of scope 😬
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Not all heros wear capes
January 29, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Not all heros wear capes
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Oxford Mutual Aid (O.M.A.) have tallied up their 2025 in their latest newsletter: With the help of more than 500 volunteers, they packed and delivered more than 10,000 food parcels in Oxford last year. An eye-opening 885 of their more than food parcel recipients were children under 12.
January 14, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Oxford Mutual Aid (O.M.A.) have tallied up their 2025 in their latest newsletter: With the help of more than 500 volunteers, they packed and delivered more than 10,000 food parcels in Oxford last year. An eye-opening 885 of their more than food parcel recipients were children under 12.
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Got meself a wee project which took up my whole evening, I think people call this kind of thing a "timeline cleanse"?
January 14, 2026 at 11:45 PM
Got meself a wee project which took up my whole evening, I think people call this kind of thing a "timeline cleanse"?
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how many very large and long term studies have there been on this now, that everyone who's "just concerned" is free to ignore? but their feelings are all that ever matters, over any number of lives
If this was any other set of medical treatments, the entire medical community would be scrambling to study how they could improve their own treatments.
January 14, 2026 at 9:09 PM
how many very large and long term studies have there been on this now, that everyone who's "just concerned" is free to ignore? but their feelings are all that ever matters, over any number of lives
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Luckily VPNs haven't been invented.
X Safety have posted that they have now made some changes to operate within the law.
This includes "geoblocking the ability of all users to generate images of real people in bikinis, underwear, and similar attire via the Grok account and in Grok in X in those jurisdictions where it’s illegal".
This includes "geoblocking the ability of all users to generate images of real people in bikinis, underwear, and similar attire via the Grok account and in Grok in X in those jurisdictions where it’s illegal".
January 15, 2026 at 7:59 AM
Luckily VPNs haven't been invented.
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DPD, Undefeated international Knock Down Ginger champions, 1977-2026.
January 15, 2026 at 12:30 PM
DPD, Undefeated international Knock Down Ginger champions, 1977-2026.
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A genuinely appalling response from the BBC, arrogantly contemptuous of the legal detail in favour of whatever misleading narrative their 'gender critical' friends have peddled them over lunch.
The BBC is nakedly peddling fake news - and refusing to apologise for doing so - in furtherance of its transphobic agenda. 🧵
January 15, 2026 at 11:35 AM
A genuinely appalling response from the BBC, arrogantly contemptuous of the legal detail in favour of whatever misleading narrative their 'gender critical' friends have peddled them over lunch.
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The labour government folks
Peaceful protest is against the law
Genocide is fine
Animal cruelty is fine
If you do those youll be fine
Protest against those, you are going to prison
Peaceful protest is against the law
Genocide is fine
Animal cruelty is fine
If you do those youll be fine
Protest against those, you are going to prison
A dark day for animal justice UK MPs have voted to criminalise peaceful protest at animal testing facilities with up to 1 year in prison & unlimited fines! 😡
Please read & sign the petition this can still be stopped
www.dogdeskanimalaction.co.uk/p/a-dark-day...
#DefendPeacefulProtest 🐾✊
Please read & sign the petition this can still be stopped
www.dogdeskanimalaction.co.uk/p/a-dark-day...
#DefendPeacefulProtest 🐾✊
January 15, 2026 at 11:01 AM
The labour government folks
Peaceful protest is against the law
Genocide is fine
Animal cruelty is fine
If you do those youll be fine
Protest against those, you are going to prison
Peaceful protest is against the law
Genocide is fine
Animal cruelty is fine
If you do those youll be fine
Protest against those, you are going to prison
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Thank you CNN for pointing out that everyone opposed to this regime has normal, pro-social links to the organizations that make up a liveable society where you can do normal shit.
Next article you can talk about how the vice president, by contrast, is in nazi groupchats with minors
Next article you can talk about how the vice president, by contrast, is in nazi groupchats with minors
The woman killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis last week served on the board of her son’s school, which linked to documents encouraging parents to monitor ICE and directing them to training. https://cnn.it/49yoNEa
January 14, 2026 at 6:37 AM
Thank you CNN for pointing out that everyone opposed to this regime has normal, pro-social links to the organizations that make up a liveable society where you can do normal shit.
Next article you can talk about how the vice president, by contrast, is in nazi groupchats with minors
Next article you can talk about how the vice president, by contrast, is in nazi groupchats with minors
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This dude is intense and correct
January 15, 2026 at 9:05 AM
This dude is intense and correct
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It's depressing how much UK political messaging relies, not on promising better services, but by planting the suspicion that someone, somewhere, is getting something you didn't. We're told to expect next to nothing from the state, to the extent that supporting vulnerable children is framed as theft.
Third time in not much more than a week for the "falconry, ski-ing & horses" anonymous brief on SEND. What's worse: the Westminster insiders who put this toxic, nasty crap about or the journalists who blithely repeat it? PS ask an OT professional about autism, dyspraxia, core stability & horses
January 11, 2026 at 12:19 PM
It's depressing how much UK political messaging relies, not on promising better services, but by planting the suspicion that someone, somewhere, is getting something you didn't. We're told to expect next to nothing from the state, to the extent that supporting vulnerable children is framed as theft.
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i beg people who use computers to actually understand how computers work. a survey opened in chrome cannot grab your account from the discord client.
the survey was legitimate, hosted by discord's customer experience platform, connected to their official internal SSO portal. it was a real survey.
the survey was legitimate, hosted by discord's customer experience platform, connected to their official internal SSO portal. it was a real survey.
hey so this is blatant false information punishing people for doing the right thing. no, it was not a "grabber". it was a reputable survey site that discord has used previously for limited surveys.
nothing can """grab""" information if you dont provide it, which an anonymous survey didnt ask for.
nothing can """grab""" information if you dont provide it, which an anonymous survey didnt ask for.
January 11, 2026 at 12:26 PM
i beg people who use computers to actually understand how computers work. a survey opened in chrome cannot grab your account from the discord client.
the survey was legitimate, hosted by discord's customer experience platform, connected to their official internal SSO portal. it was a real survey.
the survey was legitimate, hosted by discord's customer experience platform, connected to their official internal SSO portal. it was a real survey.
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Banning X would have loads of upsides and really not many downsides for the government. The argument for shutting it down (distribution of CSAM) is incontrovertible, the people who are its most avid users hate the government anyway, and it would address threats to social cohesion and public order.
January 9, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Banning X would have loads of upsides and really not many downsides for the government. The argument for shutting it down (distribution of CSAM) is incontrovertible, the people who are its most avid users hate the government anyway, and it would address threats to social cohesion and public order.
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IMPORTANT NOTICE 📣
If you are an Equity member who was recently engaged as a performer or stage management on Squid Game: The Experience by Luna Cinema/Luna Entertainment, please contact Equity with a copy of your contract at [email protected]
If you are an Equity member who was recently engaged as a performer or stage management on Squid Game: The Experience by Luna Cinema/Luna Entertainment, please contact Equity with a copy of your contract at [email protected]
January 5, 2026 at 12:38 PM
IMPORTANT NOTICE 📣
If you are an Equity member who was recently engaged as a performer or stage management on Squid Game: The Experience by Luna Cinema/Luna Entertainment, please contact Equity with a copy of your contract at [email protected]
If you are an Equity member who was recently engaged as a performer or stage management on Squid Game: The Experience by Luna Cinema/Luna Entertainment, please contact Equity with a copy of your contract at [email protected]
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Oh good. More time for gambling adverts.
January 5, 2026 at 9:46 AM
Oh good. More time for gambling adverts.
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i made a helpful reference
September 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM
i made a helpful reference
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Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 29, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
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Louder for the people in the back: parents are not forcing trans identities onto kids. There is no trans 'epidemic'.
We have fought to make it a bit less terrifying for kids to tell their parents they're trans.
That's the difference. That's the only difference.
Trans kids have always been trans.
We have fought to make it a bit less terrifying for kids to tell their parents they're trans.
That's the difference. That's the only difference.
Trans kids have always been trans.
December 29, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Louder for the people in the back: parents are not forcing trans identities onto kids. There is no trans 'epidemic'.
We have fought to make it a bit less terrifying for kids to tell their parents they're trans.
That's the difference. That's the only difference.
Trans kids have always been trans.
We have fought to make it a bit less terrifying for kids to tell their parents they're trans.
That's the difference. That's the only difference.
Trans kids have always been trans.
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it will never stop being funny that this post *still* gets new people to discover or remember the game
Happy one year anniversary to this banger tweet that got so ridiculously blown out of proportion that it got us 70k wishlists in like a day
December 29, 2025 at 10:50 AM
it will never stop being funny that this post *still* gets new people to discover or remember the game
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Sometimes my phone is somewhere else and I'm on my laptop.
Sometimes I have spoons for one kind of interaction but not another.
Sometimes my brain just does that because it is broken.
Sometimes I have spoons for one kind of interaction but not another.
Sometimes my brain just does that because it is broken.
Is there a term for when your friend isn't texting you back but is posting on social media
December 28, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Sometimes my phone is somewhere else and I'm on my laptop.
Sometimes I have spoons for one kind of interaction but not another.
Sometimes my brain just does that because it is broken.
Sometimes I have spoons for one kind of interaction but not another.
Sometimes my brain just does that because it is broken.
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it was one of the worst parts of Twitter & there was an impulse to not do it back in Bluesky Before Times but now if you tell people "actually this sucks" they'll tell you it's praxis to quote-dunk trash takes & that shitting up the timeline is Good, Actually and "exposes bigots to sunlight" or w/e
Love you all, but I don't know about this trend of quote posting garbage takes to dunk on them. It ends up giving the OP all the attention in the world—and yeah, a lot of it is negative but you know what they say about all publicity being good publicity. This is what sub(posts) were invented for 👀😂
December 28, 2025 at 7:58 PM
it was one of the worst parts of Twitter & there was an impulse to not do it back in Bluesky Before Times but now if you tell people "actually this sucks" they'll tell you it's praxis to quote-dunk trash takes & that shitting up the timeline is Good, Actually and "exposes bigots to sunlight" or w/e
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David Attenborough [whispering]:
“Like a grain of sand in a vast desert, the predator blends seamlessly into its environment, nearly imperceptible to the naked eye.”
“Like a grain of sand in a vast desert, the predator blends seamlessly into its environment, nearly imperceptible to the naked eye.”
December 28, 2025 at 3:38 PM
David Attenborough [whispering]:
“Like a grain of sand in a vast desert, the predator blends seamlessly into its environment, nearly imperceptible to the naked eye.”
“Like a grain of sand in a vast desert, the predator blends seamlessly into its environment, nearly imperceptible to the naked eye.”
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Remember:
When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.
When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.
ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.
When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.
ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
i don’t see how any of the benefits of chatgpt and other consumer-facing LLMs can possibly outweigh their incredible ability to induce suicides
Adam Raine’s life hurtled toward tragedy soon after he began talking with ChatGPT about homework. Analysis of his ChatGPT account shows how the chatbot became a confidant as he planned to end his life.
December 28, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Remember:
When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.
When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.
ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.
When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.
ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.