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@mario Oh gutted I didn’t hear about this! I think I heard about them through one of your bloops. Out of interest, how do you track live gigs? You seem to be well informed.

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@David Jesus Wept! …but not too much because that’s precious slop fuel!

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@sturobson Shame the extractor fans weren’t positioned over his eyes and mouth, otherwise 8/10 on the brain scrub scale.

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Literally just a Charlie Kirk moment with my neighbour lighting up a BBQ in his front garden. “Including or excluding regular BBQs?” #UKWildfires

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@mario After uni I was working in an HMV backroom sorting stock. Everyone got a turn to put an album on the stereo. Having recently heard about Boredoms I popped in Chocolate Synthesizer… only made it to track 02 before everything went very awkward.

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@fabienmarry Intentionality and unintentionally changing reality and history.

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The Odyssey 🍿🍿🍿😕🥱 Five bags of popcorn and a bit of a confused yawn… the most tangential Spider-Man Multiverse film yet! https://benjamin.parry.is/watching/the-odyssey/

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Terminator 2: Judgement Day 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🧥🏍️🕶️ Five bags of popcorn and a leather jacket, motorcycle and a pair of sunglasses. https://benjamin.parry.is/watching/terminator-2-judgement-day/

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Well TINA (There Is No Alternative), there is one thing we can do about it… not watch any of your sludge movies!

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jul/15/george-lucas-likens-ai-sceptics-to-luddites-clinging-to-horses-and-carts

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@sturobson :dry-retch:

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Cycles: 20260608-20260711 Cycles: my no-pressure weeknotes. Future Shock. #Cycles https://benjamin.parry.is/collecting/cycles/2026/07/cycles-20260608-20260711/

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Backrooms 🍿🍿🍿🍿🏴‍☠️ Four bags of popcorn and pirate freak-flag to wave with pride. https://benjamin.parry.is/watching/backrooms/

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Moon 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🧢 Five bags of popcorn and a hat to put on… put on your hat! https://benjamin.parry.is/watching/moon/

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#CatsOfMastodon #Caturday

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@benjaminparry/109438935395208787

Oldie but goodie.

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Deputy Small Hands - Biggest Ocean Water Stomp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnZMTH0vxzE

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@hellomiakoda Ubiquitously loud and unnecessarily obnoxious. No wonder they’re called “(Hu)Man's best friend”.

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Is there a term for people using generative AI to answer a question you have asked directly? For example, I pose a question to someone who has specific expertise or experience on a topic and they respond by pasting my question into an chatbot and pasting the response to me. Like the ‘let me Google that for you’ but for a LLM.

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@josephcox $2k face-swap technology? Pfft!

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RE: https://mastodon.nl/@Edwin085/116803228402219858

If today was a random Oblique Strategy card.

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@spellingmistakescostlives https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcAqR-Hs9II

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The worst thing about living through a climate crisis isn’t the unbearable heat it’s having to share it with neighbouring petrol head cunts who insist on reminding everyone just how short-sighted and empty-headed they are with their ‘mum look… BRUM BRUM… mum look, mum… BRUM BRUM, BRUM BRUM’.

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@kgoetz Hello fediverse stranger that shares the same pain as I do… I literally came up with the same situation but then realised they could easily block the number (or email). Perhaps a better approach would be to use their contact details to sign up to a new, horrifically aggressive, marketing campaign?

Hope you find some peace!

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@Clearleft Oh! I’ll have a think about this one!

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Happy Sussex Day! To all that celebrate, I hope you’re all having a splendid Sussex Day and I/you most certainly **wunt be druv**! https://benjamin.parry.is/collecting/thoughts/2026/06/sussex-day/

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Double-take moment… what’s @sturobson doing on The Guardian frontpage?

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Cycles: 20260420-20260607 Cycles: my no-pressure weeknotes. Spring, Summer and Autumn in one. #Cycles https://benjamin.parry.is/collecting/cycles/2026/06/cycles-20260420-20260607/

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@tommorris Fuksake

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Baba is You GAME IS FUN AND CUTE – A fun pixel-art, lateral thinking puzzle game by @Hempuli. https://benjamin.parry.is/playing/baba-is-you/

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Rowboat

https://rowboat.net/product/ #Dataviz

https://benjamin.parry.is/collecting/links/2026/05/rowboat/

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Ed Wood

🍿🍿🍿🍿🐙 Four bags of popcorn and a giant octopus to wrestle with at 4 am in a makeshift lake. #Creativity

https://benjamin.parry.is/watching/ed-wood/

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@briansuda Happy Birthday and Happy End Of The Middle Ages Day!

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Is AI Profitable Yet?

https://isaiprofitable.com/ #Dataviz #GAI #LLM #AI

https://benjamin.parry.is/collecting/links/2026/05/is-ai-profitable-yet/

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RE: https://mstdn.ca/@atomicker/116637077130745579

Desperately trying to find some shade.

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Happy Towel Day!

Went to the beach. Made sure to bring a towel. Happy Towel Day folks!

https://benjamin.parry.is/collecting/thoughts/2026/05/towel-day/

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Mantis

Steal or Score – a simple card game by the folks behind Exploding Kittens.

https://benjamin.parry.is/playing/mantis/

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World of Tomorrow: Collection

🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿💽 Five bags of popcorn and a spare computer disk for storing important instructions and memories. #Memory #TimeTravel #Sci-fi

https://benjamin.parry.is/watching/world-of-tomorrow-collection/

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Mr Nobody Against Putin

🍿🍿🍿🍿✊ Four bags of popcorn and a first raised for the bravery

https://benjamin.parry.is/watching/mr-nobody-against-putin/

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@sturobson @sophie Oh that is RAD! I’ve got a really old heavy, high friction lightswitch in our shed. Very nostalgic, reminds me of my grandparents every time I ues it. I can’t wait to turn it into something.

Related, are you aware that you can turn old phones into an Intecom system using a raspberry pi and some other kit? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbODHbJyEX4

Plan is to link the doorbell to the system so it calls all the phones, especially the ones in the work garden shed.

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@aura £50! Sheesh! Thanks for replying. I love the idea of fully customising each part of the pattern. I was hoping for a ‘I feel lucky’ randomiser button to add a bit of serendipity. Happy new bag day!

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@wendyg They fucked it up!

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@shellsharks Thanks for the mention. I like the scrolls metaphor. I can't keep to a weekly cadence of weeknotes so have settled on 'cycles'. Look forward to reading your post properly!

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@sturobson I’m a sucker for these half-baked ideas. You should rise to the challenge. Proof me wrong!

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@sturobson Seems like you should open it more often!

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@sturobson 🤘😝🤘

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@infobeautiful I'd be interested in seeing a breakdown of wealth acquired from acting and other sources. Hypothesis: the former would be insignificant compared to advertising and side hustles.

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@sturobson @jaffathecake I honestly thought this was going to be one of those inattentional blindness examples where the breeze blocks changed colour at different stages of the video.

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@Richr Ha! Yeah I been employing the cough technique recently or a gravelly skid sometimes does the trick too.

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@sturobson Next level poached egg cooking skills there Stu! Respect!

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@sturobson Now I'm wondering if I've got any brandy butter leftover from Christmas, I reckon that'd be an amazing addition!

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@sturobson I very almost did poached eggs on hot cross buns this morning. I don’t think I need to ask but… how was it?

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