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If I'm playing poker, and over enough hands, I notice that weirdly enough, rather than the expected average of 25% of all drawn cards are each suit, 50% are diamonds, 25% are hearts, 18% are clubs, and 7% are spades. So it seems like something is weird happening with the shuffling and dealing at […]

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Well, that's me in the naughty corner, responding to a thread with Essentially The Same Post As Above because I hadn't seen all the replies. Deleted now, and doh.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Turns out fireflies are beetles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefly That'll teach me to think I know anything at all about anythng at all. #fireflies #beetles

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[Politics, comic] Starmer actually said this. The first part, anyway. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/mar/23/keir-starmer-says-he-likes-and-respects-donald-trump https://comic.conniptions.org/comics/798.html #comic #politics #starmer #trump

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@joellenovey.bsky.social wrote this: The whole entire world is a very narrow bridge and the main thing to recall I can’t remember right now because the people who taught me that song and the ones I sang it with may make the same excuses when they come for me, and you

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

It's easy to blame the UK government for being incompetent nitwits for writing the horrendous Online Safety Act (https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/14/online_safety_act/) that strengthens monopolies with the resources to implement it and weakens small communities without those same resources […]

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

[MIttens] Mittens. Mittens Of Chaos! I made the mittens again, this time using what I had hoped would be a nice and colourful sort-of self striping yarn from my lovely local yarn shop. They somehow came out a bit more Brighton hipster than I'd hoped for […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Senators could do the funniest thing right now.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Pro tip: don't stab yourself in the hand with a fork. I am wishing I had realised this sooner.

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

Free idea: so, it turns out that you can get a Tache Stash, which is a small bag intended for storing moustache care products, but not, apparently, a Stash Tache, which is a false moustache containing pockets in which you can keep small items like nuts or raisins in case you get peckish while […]

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

I'm hearing that The Society for Putting Things On Top Of Other Things fully endorses Sty Scraper, the wonderfully silly new game from @mattround https://vole.wtf/styscraper/

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

If a joke is worth making, it's worth making twice in a row, the second time slightly less effectively. As such, I present: Elon Musk Teaches Chess - Part Two: https://comic.conniptions.org/comics/796.html #chess #uspol #musk

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"How to Backdoor Large Language Models": https://blog.sshh.io/p/how-to-backdoor-large-language-models

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Alienating my already tiny comics audience still further with a cartoon poking fun at one of the most unpleasant people on the planet via the medium of an extremely niche hobby, I present Elon Musk Teaches Chess: https://comic.conniptions.org/comics/795.html #chess #uspol #musk

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And now for something COMPLETELY different: Linux booting inside a PDF file. (Uses embedded JS to run a RISCV emulator and boot Linux to a command line prompt): https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/16/dev_linux_pdf/?td=rt-3a

submitted 48 days ago • 5 comments

This street art I encountered on the Parkland Walk between Highgate and Finsbury Park really spoke to me. #scrapyardspec #streetart

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Not sure how this will come out, but I've created a new study on Lichess - Elon Musk Teaches Chess - The American Gambit: https://lichess.org/study/dux9EG6X/drz8Yr6F#0 #chess #satire

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

Thinking of starting the Twitch streams back up but this time I'll just sit there knitting mainly.

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

There is always something you can do to gum up the works of fascism. A story. Claude Cahun. The queer nonbinary French-Jewish photographer. Nazis conquered France, were training soldiers on Jersey, where Cahun lived w/their partner, Marcel Moore. They did disinfo & morale smashing via Surrealism.

submitted 50 days ago • 40 comments

It's Valentine's Day so here's my Valentine's Day song: https://fitandtheconniptions.bandcamp.com/track/valentines-day-2 Hope you are having a less miserable time than I was when I wrote this. #ValentinesDay #Music

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[ukpol, comic, trans rights] Should have posted this one months ago but was very busy being too depressed to do anything about drawing it. Better late than never I guess: https://comic.conniptions.org/comics/794.html #ukpolitics #TransRights #transrightsarehumanrights #comic

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Periodically I consider actually watching the #monsterdon movie but honestly just following along with the hashtag is entertaining enough. Thank you all!

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

New comic, this one about the UK Online Safety Act and the "guidance" offered by Ofcom: https://comic.conniptions.org/comics/793.html #OnlineSafetyAct #Ofcom #UKPolitics #Comic

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Yikes. > Three people "nearly lost their lives" after relying on a tidal app, rescuers said. > > They were cut off waist-deep in Silverdale, Lancashire, on Sunday after an app they used to check the tide levels showed information for an area with the same name in the United States. That area […]

submitted 62 days ago • 2 comments

New comic, this one the unmitigated gall of AI experts urging caution to users of DeepSeek: https://comic.conniptions.org/comics/792.html #comic #AI #DeepSeek

submitted 68 days ago • 1 comment

[Dependency hell] Wanted to install something but the binary wouldn't run on my old Ubuntu so I need to compile from source, but that needs pnpm, which needs a newer node, but the binary from nvm won't run so I need to compile that too but my C++ compiler is too old so I need to update that […]

submitted 70 days ago • 1 comment

[Knitting, mittens] Mittens complete! They're not brilliant (I have not been knitting long and made many mistakes, still haven't figured out proper tension and so on) but they are definitely mittens. I'm not saying that's a Mitten Portal in the second pic […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

I shall spare you photos of my WIP flat-knit mittens, but suffice to say that with only small modifications to this pattern I feel I could make a knitted codpiece without too much trouble. #knitting

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OK, here's the "AI Opportunities Action Plan". https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ai-opportunities-action-plan/ai-opportunities-action-plan It's utterly meaningless; not a single mention of any actual need, or how any of this will help people. And the section on public sector […]

submitted 83 days ago • 6 comments

[ukpol, comic] New comic: https://comic.conniptions.org/comics/790.html #webcomic #uk #ai

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[ukpol, comic] New comic up: https://comic.conniptions.org/comics/789.html #comic #webcomic #ukpol #starmer #anusol

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

The fact the richest man in the world is successfully meddling with elections all across Europe and America, should have you worry about all the other rich people that aren't publicly announcing it.

submitted 91 days ago • 12 comments

[ukpol, comic] New comic up: https://comic.conniptions.org/comics/789.html #comic #webcomic #ukpol #starmer #anusol

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

Elon Musk's vicious attacks on Wikipedia are only the latest in right-wing fear and loathing campaign against open, accurate information. See Molly White's newsletter post on this -- the context is essential. https://www.citationneeded.news/elon-musk-and-the-rights-war-on-wikipedia/ (Please […]

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

Happy New Year, lovely people in my phone. Wishing you all good things for 2025.

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