Adam Gripton
@dradam676.bsky.social
Norfolk-bred Scot, software engineer, passionate about maths, maps, better public transport, and xkcd references. Bluesky now my main source of witterings, with occasional drip-feed of migrated content such as maps I'm pleased with.
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I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.
January 8, 2026 at 12:31 PM
I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.
BAN. THEM. NOW.
Smart glasses: 'I was secretly filmed and trolled online'
Smart glasses: 'I was secretly filmed and trolled online'
Are you being secretly recorded? The privacy concerns around smart glasses.
www.bbc.com
January 8, 2026 at 7:20 AM
BAN. THEM. NOW.
This took me far too long. But very satisfying to get it with no hints.
(no matter how much I willed "Meon" to become a word, it steadfastly refused)
I played squaredle.com 01/06:
*32/32 words (+7 bonus words)
📖 In the top 35% by bonus words
🔥 Solve streak: 1
(no matter how much I willed "Meon" to become a word, it steadfastly refused)
I played squaredle.com 01/06:
*32/32 words (+7 bonus words)
📖 In the top 35% by bonus words
🔥 Solve streak: 1
Squaredle
Squaredle is a daily word building game. Swipe letters in the grid to test your vocabulary every day and rise to the top of the leaderboards!
squaredle.com
January 6, 2026 at 10:11 PM
This took me far too long. But very satisfying to get it with no hints.
(no matter how much I willed "Meon" to become a word, it steadfastly refused)
I played squaredle.com 01/06:
*32/32 words (+7 bonus words)
📖 In the top 35% by bonus words
🔥 Solve streak: 1
(no matter how much I willed "Meon" to become a word, it steadfastly refused)
I played squaredle.com 01/06:
*32/32 words (+7 bonus words)
📖 In the top 35% by bonus words
🔥 Solve streak: 1
Via @cheerynihilism.bsky.social on Instagram
January 5, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Via @cheerynihilism.bsky.social on Instagram
The Microsoft 365 Online version of Word has an actual File menu. Is... is this new?! Or am I very unobservant?
January 5, 2026 at 2:59 PM
The Microsoft 365 Online version of Word has an actual File menu. Is... is this new?! Or am I very unobservant?
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In what's now become an annual tradition, I've written another piece for The Gist about how and why I hate A.I.
On a bubble about to burst, a future rotted to its core, and the limits of the Mrs Doyle Theory of artificial intelligence.
www.thegist.ie/guest-gist-2...
On a bubble about to burst, a future rotted to its core, and the limits of the Mrs Doyle Theory of artificial intelligence.
www.thegist.ie/guest-gist-2...
Guest Gist: 2026, Our Already Rotting Future
Seamus O'Reilly warns of AI maximum bubbledrive this year.
www.thegist.ie
January 2, 2026 at 10:25 AM
In what's now become an annual tradition, I've written another piece for The Gist about how and why I hate A.I.
On a bubble about to burst, a future rotted to its core, and the limits of the Mrs Doyle Theory of artificial intelligence.
www.thegist.ie/guest-gist-2...
On a bubble about to burst, a future rotted to its core, and the limits of the Mrs Doyle Theory of artificial intelligence.
www.thegist.ie/guest-gist-2...
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The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.
January 5, 2026 at 1:10 AM
The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.
I hear the European HQ of Threads is in Bielefeld.
January 5, 2026 at 8:26 AM
I hear the European HQ of Threads is in Bielefeld.
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The Government coming off X is the bare minimum and realistically at this point I think we should seriously be looking at taking enforcement action against the company, in line with the Online Safety Act and VAWG Strategy. I will be pressing the Government on this when Parliament returns next week.
January 2, 2026 at 9:26 PM
The Government coming off X is the bare minimum and realistically at this point I think we should seriously be looking at taking enforcement action against the company, in line with the Online Safety Act and VAWG Strategy. I will be pressing the Government on this when Parliament returns next week.
BBC *technology reporter* failing to properly capitalise RAM. Sigh.
January 2, 2026 at 10:23 AM
BBC *technology reporter* failing to properly capitalise RAM. Sigh.
Roses are red
Soldiers are brave
Soldiers are brave
Can Motörhead's Lemmy Kilmister save hometown Burslem from beyond the grave?
Can Motörhead's Lemmy Kilmister save hometown Burslem from beyond the grave?
The statue of the Motörhead frontman appears to have caused a renewed sense of optimism in the town.
www.bbc.com
December 28, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Roses are red
Soldiers are brave
Soldiers are brave
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The only thing ChatGPT ever does.
August 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
The only thing ChatGPT ever does.
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He isn't "losing" this money. This is called "paying tax like a responsible citizen and not hiding your money offshore" and we need to start recognising and applauding it.
December 24, 2025 at 8:10 AM
He isn't "losing" this money. This is called "paying tax like a responsible citizen and not hiding your money offshore" and we need to start recognising and applauding it.
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suspect a big reason why many academics and others who work in areas where getting facts RIGHT is key are disinterested in using LLMs for research:
they’ve tried it, they keep noticing major errors in output, and they conclude that having to verify all that doesn’t actually save them time.
they’ve tried it, they keep noticing major errors in output, and they conclude that having to verify all that doesn’t actually save them time.
December 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
suspect a big reason why many academics and others who work in areas where getting facts RIGHT is key are disinterested in using LLMs for research:
they’ve tried it, they keep noticing major errors in output, and they conclude that having to verify all that doesn’t actually save them time.
they’ve tried it, they keep noticing major errors in output, and they conclude that having to verify all that doesn’t actually save them time.
Boo fucking hoo. Join the club instead of whining to the newspapers.
Who commissions this rubbish?
Who commissions this rubbish?
December 19, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Boo fucking hoo. Join the club instead of whining to the newspapers.
Who commissions this rubbish?
Who commissions this rubbish?
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Absolutely nobody asked for this BUT
English Anglican cathedrals that have burned down, fallen over, and sank into the swamp: a thread.
English Anglican cathedrals that have burned down, fallen over, and sank into the swamp: a thread.
December 18, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Absolutely nobody asked for this BUT
English Anglican cathedrals that have burned down, fallen over, and sank into the swamp: a thread.
English Anglican cathedrals that have burned down, fallen over, and sank into the swamp: a thread.
Tell me you're a miserable, joyless little turd without telling me.
![My attempt to make this intuitively make sense, as a point of curiosity for the interested. It has 10 likes.
Text reads: "So the 3, 4 and 5 [=60] get us to a minute
180 minutes (3 hours) is one-eighth of a day, so the 2, 9 and 10 get us to three hours, then the 8 gets us up to a day.
Finally the 7 gets us to a week, then the 6 is the six weeks "](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ovz52bntcwmw5azuvo5xvrab/bafkreib2zvl7rpqj6253nbwugajp7swunhceq3eakjhjhjdfga7pesmsgy@jpeg)
December 18, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Tell me you're a miserable, joyless little turd without telling me.
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I'd hoped normal service might resume today. I woke up with a tight 600 words mentally typed out on the suspension of the US-UK technology deal. The subject line included a terrific pun.
Then, I went for a walk in Sydney.
Then, I went for a walk in Sydney.
I'm exhausted
And this was a fairly light day
www.linestotake.com
December 17, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I'd hoped normal service might resume today. I woke up with a tight 600 words mentally typed out on the suspension of the US-UK technology deal. The subject line included a terrific pun.
Then, I went for a walk in Sydney.
Then, I went for a walk in Sydney.
Loving the replies to this.
Dear Bluesky liberals. Come back to Twitter. Please. PLEASE.
December 15, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Loving the replies to this.
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“It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them.” — Mayor of Pontevedra, Spain (re-elected 6 times)
December 13, 2025 at 12:55 AM
“It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them.” — Mayor of Pontevedra, Spain (re-elected 6 times)
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Happy birthday, Dick van Dyke, 100 today
Gor blimey, Mary Poppins …
Gor blimey, Mary Poppins …
a man and a woman are looking at each other with flowers in their hair
Alt: Dick van Dyke and Julie Andrews in Mary Poppins
media.tenor.com
December 13, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Happy birthday, Dick van Dyke, 100 today
Gor blimey, Mary Poppins …
Gor blimey, Mary Poppins …
Why do I hear Hovis music?
"Most of us basically love our country, even if begrudgingly – not the version we’re told to, or even presented with, but the one we really see and live in every day. Silly Sausage Britain is the Britain most of us reside in, and love."
@sofiejenkinson.bsky.social on "Mr Blobby patriotism"
@sofiejenkinson.bsky.social on "Mr Blobby patriotism"
Mr Blobby patriotism
Over recent weeks I have found myself thinking about the country we live in, what it feels like and what I like, and love, about it.
I guess I found myself thinking about this because of the summer w...
renewal.org.uk
December 12, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Why do I hear Hovis music?
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When you're raising a child it's daunting and frightening and lifechanging and you need the support of real humans around you who have done it for themselves, and to learn from them. What you do not need is conmen selling you their lying machines to do a job we have been doing since our beginnings.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
When you're raising a child it's daunting and frightening and lifechanging and you need the support of real humans around you who have done it for themselves, and to learn from them. What you do not need is conmen selling you their lying machines to do a job we have been doing since our beginnings.
Funniest line I've seen yet in local news discourse about Sheringham and its infamous bus shelter stand off:
December 9, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Funniest line I've seen yet in local news discourse about Sheringham and its infamous bus shelter stand off: