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@chadkoh Big fan of Dezerbi - and really like that he is back in the PL. Will be super interesting to see if he manages to keep Spurs in it

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Gary Neville & Jamie Carragher react to Man Utd’s win over Liverpool! Absolutely loving Jamie loosing his shit over the fact that his team were crap and got battered. Manchester United scored all 5 goals this game. It was glorious.

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LifeOS: kaa.bz

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@JohnPhilpin Easily one of my favourite things I’ve read this week.

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whoami.wiki. This looks incredible.

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Om’s article Software Eats Its Own looks at it from a software engineer’s perspective - and I can completely understand because what is happening in the software industry will ultimately impact every single knowledge worker out there (including engineering, architecture, consulting, legal, education and the...

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It’s good to be able to enjoy some outside space again. Took me hours to clean the mess the kids had made over the winter.

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I have a proper crush on Hannah Fry (math professor at Cambridge University). It’s the style of what she is saying, but also how she breaks things down that I love.

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I was talking to a contractor in Ottawa and they mentioned that during a careers fair for a civil contractor, one of the largest number of applicants were senior software engineers that had been without a job for over a year in some cases.

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I knew this was our new shared reality, but can also see the winds of...

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I was talking to a contractor in Ottawa and they mentioned that during a careers fair for a civil contractor, one of the largest number of applicants were senior software engineers that had been without a job for over a year in some cases.

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I have spent all day developing a finances app with Claude. It’s really been an incredible process but honestly speaks to the amount of wasted time in trying to either put something together or polish something. The results are staggering, only because I know the level of effort it traditionally takes to...

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@numericcitizen yeah I’ve only just started on this journey myself and I am hitting those limits pretty quickly but honestly it’s making me think a little bit more before interacting.

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@manton it’s a funny take but clearly speaking from someone who has not been a corporate job in a while. When you are good at something you get more of that something

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We had an amazing couple of evenings here in Toronto. A light jacket. The sun was shinning. A bit of park action. A bit of ice cream action. Hopefully we’ll be greeted with the first buds on trees.

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@jaheppler sooo jealous

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Discovering AI: kaa.bz

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The world is about to get seriously disrupted in ways I honestly didn’t think was possible, so quickly. I thought certain professions were likely immune, at least for a while. The reality is that this is not the case at all. Disruption is coming for us all.

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I honestly don’t know what is scarier. What I will...

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@Vincent It’s all back again! All good.

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@vincent I did a rebuild…but it didn’t do much. Will try again.

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@vincent so yeah, some images (not all) are not rendering for me. Started 30min ago….

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@manton is there an image server down?

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Its taken a while, but new look index page is sorted.

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Talking with my mother about the US/Iran negotiations and she dropped a gem, ‘It takes Iranians 12 years to make a rug. You can’t expect them to negotiate peace in 1 day.’

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You know that moment in time when you realise that you are using something special. I remember Richard telling me about Google in the first year of University. I remember using an iPhone for the first time. Getting into a Tesla for the first time.

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I can now add Claude into that mix. If you’ve been using...

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I mean, this is what Americans are paying for. Americans work hard. Have limited holidays. They suffer from a limited social net, but when they work and they buy things they are paying for the bombs and death and destruction in the name of Israel. Spend 30 seconds watching the destruction they sowed across...

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@JohnPhilpin sending these two muppets is a death kiss to the entire process.

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21 Miles · The Strait of Hormuz, Mapped. @Gruber posted about the iPhone (of course), but honestly sheets.works has some incredible data visualisation. I of course am linking to the Strait of Hormuz.

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We have a ceasefire.

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Does it include Lebanon I wonder? If Iran is looking at the long game, then yes absolutely. If not, a clear and considered stab in the back, then the genocidal and neo-colonialist activities of the depraved state of Israel will continue.

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Fuck war man. Fuck war.

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Esperanza by Hermanos Gutiérrez. This song is the background to a long scene in the episode ‘The Gap’ in Pluribus and was by far the highlight of the entire show for me. Made only more perfect by this song. It’s incredibly difficult to combine story, music, cinematography so seamlessly.

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My attention is so hijacked at the moment, I’ve not been able to read anything substantive. It’s all been news related shit that just upsets me.

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All I want to hear is the end of the war and Israel withdrawing its troops from Lebanon. The Iranians will have their toll both to pay for all the destruction that...

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🍿 Finished watching: Pluribus Season 1. Fascinating premise, and exceptionally well done. Great escapism because honestly I need it right now.

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The Worst of Us: kaa.bz

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Damn. Iran trolling Pete Hegseth hard.

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@manton not sure if this is a bug, or something that can be done, but when I upload an image and then replace that same image (with a tweaked version), Micro.blog stores the original image and uses that instead. What I found is that rather than using the url mysite/2509/2026… it serves cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2509/2026… the cdn version is the old one.

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@danielpunkass He is sooo annoying. The 76 year old with a full six pack! But also, yes very cool political activism.

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@manton I think you updated something on one of the themes for the photolist - in my case it added some styling that I had removed, so no issues there. But for some reason my photos (that are tagged as photos) are no longer showing up on that page. Any ideas what it could be? thanks.

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@patrickrhone Ah Greek driving…Greek roads! Definitely not your American ones :).

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@amit amazing work :). Will give it a spin later this evening! Thank you sir!

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@amit you know I love this plugin (second favourite after ‘on this day’. My only gripe is the fact that I can’t change the colour of the graph. Any way to add a setting option?

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@manton It’s a corporate requirement. Also actually necessary considering the amount of cyber attacks companies deal with regularly. Managing 10 people is very different to managing 10,000 or 100,000 employees…

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@numericcitizen Also much less mental overhead…

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@bradbarrish It’s a little pricey but the kids love the gamification and really break out in sweats - so from that aspect 8/10! You do need to wait a little bit for the laser activity

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@manton nice! See I knew you were good people, now that I know you’ve got Greek ancestry!

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@manton these are amazing!

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@mrjamesob.bsky.social he is such a ding gong. Just an incompetent moron, surrounded by bigger morons. With advanced weapons.

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@BonnieRue It’s soo soo great. It is a little jarring trying to remember who all of these characters are and their back story, but the overall story has momentum and you just carry on :).

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@patrickrhone Hmm, that’s a different path than I would have taken, but I see what you’re doing. Missing Corinth, Olympia and Nafplio is probably left for another time :).

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@patrickrhone ah see you should ask the guy raised in Greece before your chatGPT friend. Where you guys heading to? Athens or elsewhere?

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