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tchaypo.bsky.social
Slave to two cats. Formerly in IT. Erstwhile trombonist.
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Writing an AI bot to replace Chief Technology Officers. Going to call it C3TO.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

For those in need of a smile, a reminder that one 19th-century name for a penguin was ‘arsefoot’.

submitted 13 days ago • 58 comments

hey don't forget to turn off biometric access to your phone and if you did happen to forget, in an emergency, pressing the power button 5 times on your iphone will lock it & it can't be unlocked again without the passcode even if you were silly & left face ID on 🙂

submitted 19 days ago • 21 comments

The threshold for free school lunches is *significantly* lower than the threshold for winter fuel allowance, meaning you could be subsidising your landlord's heating whilst your own kids go hungry. What is the government thinking.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Los Angeles: if you get tear gas or see other people who have been and someone calling themselves a medic tries to use milk to wash their eyes out SLAP THAT MILK JUG OUT THEIR FUCKING HAND. MILK DOES NOT WASH OUT TEAR GAS. Just use bottled water please.

submitted 21 days ago • 57 comments

Apropos of two questions on the latest episode of @lateralcast.com - try having a J name! I dated a James while working with a James and a Jamie; later I worked at a desk near the James I’d dated, my manager James, and we had two other James in the immediate team.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

This is just a flat out lie and everyone involved is either malicious or incompetent

submitted 22 days ago • 4 comments

If you’re looking for good news today this is such a major milestone as we work to cure HIV! www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

I went shopping yesterday. I got snacks. I did not get popcorn. Immediately upon waking up this morning I realized my error. I’m guessing that by the time I get back to the shops today the popcorn aisle will look like an early-COVID-era toilet paper aisle.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Hacked some Javascript, forced the feature flag for xchat on, and verified my assumptions - Twitter's got the ability to recover private key material for their encrypted DMs, even ignoring the complete lack of any MITM or metadata protection: mjg59.dreamwidth.org/71646.html

submitted 23 days ago • 6 comments

Happy birthday to #LaskerLaureate Stanley Prusiner! 🧪 He discovered prions, a new class of infectious agents—opening the way to understanding neurodegenerative diseases. ow.ly/c9Ge50OtV83 Read more about toppling scientific dogma: ow.ly/SYjg50Jg1Ej

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

People will literally make fun of the Indiana Pi Bill and still be fine with utterly unscientific laws using the term "Biological Girl"

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

The sweatiness quotient of the internet is suddenly much restored, and the world is a better place for it

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

The headline here is a lie. The majority of the people questioned won’t be trans people, they’ll be cis people who someone doesn’t like the look of.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

#BREAKING 🚨 David Littleproud has announced the Nationals will NOT renew their coalition agreement with the Liberal Party Littleproud says the Nationals will now “sit alone”

submitted 39 days ago • 43 comments

I don’t know why but I’ve seen a lot of talk about Scooby Doo on the TL lately and even some very good fan art. Maybe I’m following the wrong accounts but I’m not seeing any cute illustrations of Shaggy and Freddy making out, which I would like to see more of.

submitted 40 days ago • 2 comments

The excellent Donna Benjamin, an OpenAustralia Foundation Director: “I'd like to invite every single one of you who read this, to invest a little more in our democracy than normal. Ask a few more questions, engage in the civic fabric a little more often…” www.linkedin.com/posts/donnab...

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

Recently, the Los Angeles Times featured the Western fence lizard. After reviewing the data, they found that the western fence lizard is the most observed species in the US. There are over 130,000 verified observations of western fence lizards in California. Can you #FindThatLizard?

submitted 48 days ago • 11 comments

Loaded up Civ VII because I hadn’t played in a while, hit continue game because I forgot what my last game state was at, after three minutes of loading, instant nuclear explosion and “The Modern Age Has Come To An End, You Win” screen, which I feel is a little on the nose

submitted 49 days ago • 15 comments