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  Race condition led to 2000 flights being cancelled. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw0kl1571lpmo See https://www.nats.aero/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/NATS-Preliminary-Investigation-Report-into-NAS-Incident-on-08-Sept-2026-Issued-16-Sept-2026.pdf

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  I was pulled aside at Copenhagen airport security. The serious Danish lady opened my bag and tutted as she looked at the salted liquorice Haribo inside. “Are these for you?” “Yes”, I answered, worried I’d committed some sort of export crime. “Go to the Deli in the airport and show them this, much better”

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  Hexagonal basalt #rock formations at Fingal’s Cave, Staffa #geology #kayaking

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  "I think a nerd is a person who uses the telephone to talk to other people about telephones" #ActivityPub #Mastodon #MastodonAPI #Nerd 🤓

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  My #recipe for #vegan Cornish pasties: pastry: 500g flour, 120g vege Atora, 1tsp salt, 175ml water, 25g marg filling (1cm^3 pieces): 350g potato, 200g swede, 175g onion, 1tsp stock powder, 1tbsp nooch, lots of black pepper, (optional fake meat, beyond burger, etc) Form pastry into a dry(ish) dough, work for 5mins until smooth, roll into 4 dinner plate sized circles, add filling, fold in half and crimp (on the side) Brush with oat milk + a little salt, bake for 45mins at 175C. Ansum! #cornwall

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  Average GenAI enthusiast: "He is smart. He can make us go. We need him. We are smart."

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  Wild garlic, everywhere #bloomscrolling #cornwall

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  This vacuum cleaner really sucks #diy

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  Goldfinches in the Spring sun #ukbirds

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  A view from this morning’s walk #SeaWednesday #meermittwoch #MerCredi

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  The heroes in teams aren't the ones pulling all-nighters, gambling big and saving everyone at the last minute. They're the ones who put in the work every day to stop those situations arising in the first place.

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  Problems with the undead? We come to you, no job too big

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  The cephalopods are coming! #cornwall (and the Risso's dolphins will surely follow)

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  OH: "Oh wow, you're an archaeologist! I love dinosaurs" Almost on a level with "Astronomy! I'm a pisces"

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  Comparing actual photograph with the promotional shot for Attenborough's new series. The man is 99 years old and still doing amazing work, can't we celebrate that instead of AI airbrushing him?

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  Figured out what those survival bivvy bags are really for #kayak #sailing

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  Bank holiday weekend coming up, so don't forget to push to production on Thursday evening instead of Friday

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  Mên-an-Tol #StandingStoneSunday #SilentSunday Late neolithic/early bronze age stone with a hole

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  Some chunky vines and a hole to live in #ThickTrunkTuesday

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  A while back I switched from iTerm to #Ghostty but I've missed being able to instantly launch a set of splits pre-setup for a project. On Mac, it can now all be setup from the shell using AppleScript https://gist.github.com/ringtailsoftware/1cc91e3b1346c2cc15ca5b2b51c14056

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  Beautiful https://malus.sh/

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  Little Snitch (app aware firewall for MacOS) is great, but has a terrible failure mode. Every time I do a major OS upgrade, its network extension no longer works and defaults to silently dropping all network traffic until forcibly uninstalled. This confuses me every time.

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  "Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?" #CatsOfMastodon

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  For those who say "#Mastodon needs an algorithm!", go follow some hype/trending bots: Here's a few, any other recommendations? @trending@mastodon.bot @trending@homestead.social @cozy_trends @hype

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  If you call Claude "he", but refuse to respect a fellow human's chosen pronouns, then you go in the oubliette #subtoot

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  Spider Dijon (c. 2017), fondly remembered, though he was a total bastard. He once stood off against a horse, enjoyed leaping at passing runners in the woods and took every opportunity to piss on people's beds. #catsofmastodon

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  Some experiments in hand finishing #3dprinting. Xiuhtecuhtli, Zeus/Poseidon, Horus/Falcon, Willendorf Venus

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  As a parent, every new casual conversation goes something like this: "Have you spawned yet?", "Yes". "How many times have your younglings travelled around the sun?", "15 and 12 loops, respectively". "What shaped genitals do they have?", "WTF dude!?". Please don't request gender identification of strangers, it's just weird.

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  Plug for "commy" my serial terminal emulator tool. This has been my daily driver for monitoring serial devices for 2yrs now. Does everything I need minicom/screen for and features rewind and fastforward instead of scrollback. https://github.com/ringtailsoftware/commy (This year, I should port to #zig 0.16 and libghostty...)

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  I believe LLMs today are (mostly) laundered plagiarism and some GenAI companies are fencing reconstituted thefts. And, every day I ignore ethical problems in order to get what I want, where I believe my ends justify the means. Sometimes knowingly, sometimes not. We live in a world where we all have to balance these choices all of the time. I think it's just as absurd to say "AI is ethically sound" as "AI has no valid uses"