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So ‘quietly’ has pushed its way through the ranks to be the word that I now most assume indicates that the text you sent me was never written or read by an actual human, and hence likely to be worth little.

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Even more so than the ‘not only X, but Y’ construct.

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Although I suppose there will be a point -...

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Not only WEIRD, but DEAD: thebraindumpblog.com

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This is a shame (in my view):

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Iceland rejects EU accession talks after divisive referendum campaign.

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Lord knows we don’t need less European solidarity at this point in time. You can see that it’s an unfortunate result simply by looking at who is celebrating it (Farage, Le Pen, and, I would assume, Putin).

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It...

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Staying in bed extra at the weekend turns out to be a healthy habit: thebraindumpblog.com

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Developing the UK's North Sea oil fields further would likely end up being a pointless disaster: thebraindumpblog.com

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Albums worth listening to: 2026 releases (so far, non-exhaustive): thebraindumpblog.com

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Geeqie is a handy little open-source app for Linux systems that helps you view, sort and organise all your images. I’m sure it has far more capabilities than I will ever need, but as a way to flick through hundreds of photos, mark ones to keep vs delete and then do exactly that it works a treat.

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I...

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Results of the 2024 UK General Election under different voting systems: thebraindumpblog.com

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Slow Gods is a space opera dealing with the question of how various societies react to certain destruction \"A : thebraindumpblog.com

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Our critical infrastructure seems increasingly subject to effective cyber attacks. thebraindumpblog.com

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Albums worth listening to: 2026 releases (so far, non-exhaustive): thebraindumpblog.com

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Nigel Farage, the anti-patriot, strikes again: thebraindumpblog.com

","summary":"","url":"https://thebraindumpblog.com/2026/08/22/nigel-farage-the-antipatriot-strikes.html","date_published":"2026-08-22T07:20:09+00:00","author":{"name":"Braindump","url":"https://thebraindumpblog.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fthebraindumpblog.com%2Ffavicon.ico","_microblog":{"username":"braindump"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-22 07:20","date_timestamp":1787383209,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"95865851","content_html":"

One of the exceedingly rare upsides of being in the midst of the UK’s fifth (!!) heatwave of the year is that it seems to have made me a relatively bumper tomato harvest.

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And yes it was, again, the UK’s hottest day of the year again a couple of days ago, ugh.

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Bad Blood tells the story of Theranos, one of the biggest Silicon Valley scams of all time: thebraindumpblog.com

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Setting up Yubikeys in Linux: thebraindumpblog.com

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So today is Bin Day for our friends in Clacton.

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Whilst we await the pointless and expensive nonsense from the throughly unpatriotic and corrupt millionaire with an unimaginably snowflake-fragile ego who believes competing against a fictional space alien to do a job he clearly has no interest in doing somehow...

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Obviously, the violent and racist mob plaguing Thetford must be condemned in the strongest terms. thebraindumpblog.com

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@robertbreen Thank you for your kind words and the info on the Vera book. It sounds very compelling - I can see I’m going to end up wanting to read every book that Shteyngart has written. Sounds like it is yet another warning from the potential future.

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I enjoyed your review of it, thank you. I’m very jealous of the event you went to to see the author discuss it. As you say, a great part of living in New York must be that these things happen! I’m definitely following your blog to see what other gems you read.

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📚 Finished reading Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart.

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This book is set in a (slightly?) future America where everyone has become entirely obsessed with their phones, whilst around them the country has descended into dystopian economic collapse, authoritarian politics enacted via constant...

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Temporarily housed Britons refused usage of air conditioning by landlords; children suffer: thebraindumpblog.com

","summary":"Sometimes news comes that really confirms my worst prejudices against certain communities. In this case I’m talking about the moral vacuums that are companies that profiteer via offering accommodation to those who most desperately need it, aka a certain category of landlord.\n\nThe first paragraph say...","url":"https://thebraindumpblog.com/2026/08/01/temporarily-housed-britons-refused-usage.html","date_published":"2026-08-01T20:53:50+00:00","author":{"name":"Braindump","url":"https://thebraindumpblog.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fthebraindumpblog.com%2Ffavicon.ico","_microblog":{"username":"braindump"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-01 20:53","date_timestamp":1785617630,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"94894296","content_html":"\"A\n

The greatest mystery of all.

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(Original source unknown to me)

","summary":"","url":"https://thebraindumpblog.com/2026/07/30/the-greatest-mystery-of-all.html","date_published":"2026-07-30T06:32:15+00:00","author":{"name":"Braindump","url":"https://thebraindumpblog.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fthebraindumpblog.com%2Ffavicon.ico","_microblog":{"username":"braindump"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-30 06:32","date_timestamp":1785393135,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"94835234","content_html":"

Uh oh, it’s back :(

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Britain braces for fourth heatwave of year as fire chiefs issue public appeal

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Temperatures are forecast to reach as high as 35C…

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July has been 3C above average across the UK, according to provisional Met Office data, and with more than a month of summer left, the UK has already faced more days above 30Cthan ever before.

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Hot and dry of course:

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Southern England has had just 1% of its average July rainfall, while England as a whole has had 5% and the UK 20%, according to the Met Office.

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You cannot possibly worship Thatcher and MAGA at the same time: thebraindumpblog.com

","summary":"It’s not the main focus of the article, but Rafael Behr raises a good point in that it’s very inconsistent for someone to venerate both Thatcher and Trump at the same time - which is exactly what the more radical (increasingly mainstream) UK Conservative MPs and their dwindling supporters claim to ...","url":"https://thebraindumpblog.com/2026/07/29/you-cannot-possibly-worship-thatcher.html","date_published":"2026-07-29T06:55:54+00:00","author":{"name":"Braindump","url":"https://thebraindumpblog.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fthebraindumpblog.com%2Ffavicon.ico","_microblog":{"username":"braindump"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-29 06:55","date_timestamp":1785308154,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"94774807","content_html":"

Most Internet traffic is now 'non-human': thebraindumpblog.com

","summary":"On their blog, Cloudflare report that a new online milestone has recently been passed:\n\n\"This year, agent traffic crossed a historic threshold for the first time: more than 50% of traffic on the Internet is now non-human.\"\n\nAs they say:\n\n\"This shift has staggering implications for publishers, conten...","url":"https://thebraindumpblog.com/2026/07/28/most-internet-traffic-is-now.html","date_published":"2026-07-28T06:59:47+00:00","author":{"name":"Braindump","url":"https://thebraindumpblog.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fthebraindumpblog.com%2Ffavicon.ico","_microblog":{"username":"braindump"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-28 06:59","date_timestamp":1785221987,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"94686918","content_html":"

🎶 Listened to Blood on the Silver Screen by SASAMI.

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This is the third album from SASAMI, an artist who appears to massively re-invent her genre of interest on every album. This one is more an indie-pop style entry, after she took the time to use her classical music training to study the art-form.

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Out of interest, her key takeaway:

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“For me, the unifying thing about pop — whether it’s Pulp or David Bowie or Beyoncé or Rihanna — the thing that makes it pop, I think, is that it makes the listener feel like a main character.”

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youtube.com/...

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🎶 Listened to All That Is Over by Sprints.

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The second album from this Irish band, frequently featuring the punky frustration and anger of dealing with the inner and outer chaos and turmoil of modern-day life.

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Let’s go with Rage, featuring the “guess who it’s referring to” lyric:

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There’s a false prophet in the room\nUsing fear as a weaponised tool

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(Not that there’s a shortage of potential folk in that category.)

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youtube.com/...

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@paulw “re-exploration of a classic novel” isn’t really a genre that ever occurred to me before, but I certainly thought this one was great so I’m into it! Thanks for the James recommendation, will definitely take a look.

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@umerez_ I definitely agree with your daughter’s taste, it’s certainly worth giving it a go, and great if it’s helping to inspire or educate the younger generation! I found another show by the same writer, Toxic
\nTown, very good too (on a totally different subject).

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@jsonbecker It’s been a while so if Amazon changed something maybe this won’t help - but in the past I had success with the ‘kindle.py’ bit of this script for downloading all books at once.

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(Tho there’s not much in the way of English documentation! And I feel like it didn’t get the books shared with me via being in a household, if that’s a concern)

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@MylesInTheNorth I never actually realised the UK had a law on it! thanks for sharing. Tho makes me worried if I accidentally committed a crime in my youth 😀

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@wfm Nice thank you! I listen to their regular podcast quite often but it’s been a long time since I looked at their interview series. But I’m certainly going to listen the the Snyder ep next now you mentioned it, thanks.

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@toddgrotenhuis That’d be a great follow!
\nThis link seems to work for me:

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www.smbc-comics.com/comic/rss

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@SimonWoods agreed! I never use the Wordpress dashboard reader so had forgotten it even exists but that’s annoying.

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Also I’ve had a paid plan at Wordpress.com a while and it’s extremely restrictive - the point about disabling features being bad is ironic. (Granted I am on the cheapest plan so maybe that’s my fault - WPEngine is much more expensive! )

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@odd happy memories indeed! I vaguely remember getting emm386.exe to do something to the tiny memory we had back then that meant I could play Doom as being a formative experience of my youth, and then when CDROMs came out, magical 😃

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@JohnPhilpin Getting Richard Dawkins to contribute to your magazine back then seems an impressive achievement! I’d certainly much rather read something he was involved in around then than the average corporate PR newsletter.

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@JohnPhilpin Amazing! Good to know the legacy of the original SEQUEL lived on via your magazine :)

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@odd if I’m honest I had to use the randomly click on squares that seem feasible technique to get through the first one 😂

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@SimonWoods Great idea, no need to stop at “how to use your phone”! In some ways I think we’ve created, or at least allowed, a society that’s become so unnecessarily difficult to thrive in that there’s a ton of things we have a responsibility to offer support for. Stories like this one from today’s paper about the plight of some of our children are so tragic.

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To be honest, I’d happily be an adult learner in a how to live well class myself :)

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@chrisfoley Sounds like you’re making great progress! Yes, I think tracking is one of the few techniques that the research suggests is quite effective in most circumstances regarding weight loss. The main problem is that it’s effortful so most people aren’t able to keep it up for a long time, so good on you for persisting!

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I’m glad folk are trying to work out ways to make it less of an ordeal. But as you say I guess intentionality is likely a part of it so making it too automatic might be unhelpful in the end. Perhaps that’s why the researchers in this paper noted that tracking by taking photos might be less effective. But otoh it’s good to know that it’s certainly not critical to be a ‘perfect tracker’.

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@SimonWoods you’ve a great memory! And, I agree, if the various dictionaries don’t nominate ‘enshittification’ as word of the year this year it’ll be an injustice.

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@odd Ha, I don’t think I’ve seen those shows but they sound hilariously undramatic…accidental seed smuggling!

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@odd Agree, it’s absolutely wild! There’s so much I’m sure we’ve yet to discover about the brain’s influence on…everything.

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@Miraz Glad you liked them! I see that the author has released a book with several short stories and also made a novel based on the Cat Pictures world, “Catfishing with Catnet” I’m also curious about.

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@rknightuk Thanks for the reminder! I never got around to checking it out before but just used your link to sign up for a good few years as plenty of folk seem excited about it. Now to figure out what I bought 😂

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@sherif It did amuse me, if only all drunken escapades ended with such impressive results!

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@jean Amazing, I can’t believe I didn’t know this was a thing until now!

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@amit Looks great! I’m already grateful to you for the Paper theme you produced. Thanks for producing more great options those of us with less knowledge can use :)

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@otaviocc This looks so cool! I use Obsidian and was kind of surprised there wasn’t a direct way to publish to micro.blog from it given all the other plugins. So thank you so much for creating a way for us to do this. It looks great.

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@manton Very exciting! Once this gets featured in an app a novice like me can use it feels like micro.blog then has all the main features one could want to replace basically all other social networks :) So great that it feeds back to OSM too.

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@manton Re micro.blog always scaling down images greater than 1800x1800, does that mean that they’re (only) saved at the scaled down resolution?

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Or just that micro.blog always scales them down when displaying them in posts but the original image is still theoretically there in the uploads section? Thanks!

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