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Geek, Linux user, open-source contributor and developer. Former security researcher & consultant turned data engineer. Itinerant tinkerer and knowledge junkie.

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What people expect: Star Trek

What people will get: Red Dwarf

youtu.be/LRq_SAuQDec?...
October 16, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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BBC News - How coffee chains like Costa lost the matcha generation

Apparently Coca Cola is looking to sell Costa for less than half of what it paid.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Meanwhile, at a local Costa… 😬
A photo of the Costa Coffee sign in the side of a shop. The "ffee" at the end of "coffee" has fallen off and is only hanging on by the wiring.
September 1, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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And the base.
The Chaos shield side of Grombrindal's base. The shield is brown and beaten with a gold star. The helmet is black. The skeletal shield side of the base. The dragon wing on the helm is painted red. The shield is black with gold trim. The orc side of the base with a red "evil sun" shield with beady white eyes
August 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Painted a bit more of Grombrindal today. The base is finished (just needs to be glued, but that needs the rock in first!) and I'm blocking out colours and starting highlights on the body.

#Warhammer #Grombrindal #MiniaturePainting #CitadelMiniatures #GamesWorkshop
Front of Grombrindal miniature - Warhammer's Where Dwarf - partially painted with silver armour, blue clothes, dark gold trim and a green axe shaft. His head is being painted separately. Back of Grombrindal miniature - Warhammer's Where Dwarf - partially painted with silver armour, blue clothes, white cloak, brown fur, dark gold trim and a green axe shaft. His head is being painted separately.
August 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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A comparison of programming before and after OpenAI (or any GenAI). The left side is labelled "Days before OpenAI". The stickman is thinking at his computer. The label says "Developer coding: two hours". Below that, he has his head in his hands. The label says "Developer debugging: 6 hours x The right side is labelled "Days after OpenAI". There is a computer with no stickman. It is labelled "ChatGPT generates codes: 5 min". Below that, the stickman has his head in his hands. The label says "Developer debugging: 24 hours"
June 16, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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This.
Marvin the Paranoid Android from the Hitchhiker's Guide film
June 3, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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Listen to the Queen!
Queen Elizabeth the Second in full regalia opening Parliament. The text says "There is no such thing as American English. There is the English language and there are mistakes".
May 30, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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Checked out some of the dressed wells in Malvern this weekend. The theme was "folklore and fairy tales".

By far the best two: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and Eco Bhakti Sangha's Krishna and Kaliya (with SO MANY BANGLES making the snake!)

#WellDressing #MayDay #NoFilter #NoEdit
The Green Knight - a large suit of armour (probably 12ft tall) made from green corrugated plastic, lying down as if sleeping on his side. His axe is a large plastic head with a length of tree trunk a few inches thick as a handle. A close-up of the Krishna and Kaliya well dressing. There is a multi-headed papier-maché snake in the middle, a drawing of a Hindu character in the middle, and a long snake made of hundreds of gold and multi-coloured bangles draped across the front.
May 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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According to my new calendar, today is New Year's Day with UK de frites.

I don't know how French chips come into it all.
Close-up photo of 1st January on a calendar. It says "New Year's Day" and below it there are the country codes UK, DE, FR, IT and ES.
January 1, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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There was some good light in the conservatory today, so I didn't procrastinate and I did some painting. Highlighted up the red.

I was a little unsure as I painted, but it worked out okay overall. Crimson Gore to Blazing Orange.

#Warhammer40K #WarhammerPlus #AzrakhTheAnnihilator #MiniaturePainting
The front of Azrakh the Annihilator - a Chaos Space Marine in red Terminator armour with gold/yellow trim The back of Azrakh the Annihilator - a Chaos Space Marine in red Terminator armour with gold/yellow trim
November 10, 2024 at 3:16 PM
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It was this. Currently hung over my home-office desk. Along with multiple other posters, old and new. But mostly old!

Issue 177 was my first issue 🙂

#WhiteDwarf #GamesWorkshop #Warhammer #Oldhammer
Photograph of the Citadel Colour poster from White Dwarf 177. It is the era of bright colours and "we need some red as at least a spot colour on EVERY model"!
November 7, 2024 at 8:01 PM
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Look at me, the early adopter 😬
BlueSky "celebrating 10 million users" image, which numbers me as user 3,225,903
September 19, 2024 at 4:25 PM