Aditya
@adityamandrekar.bsky.social
Aero/Space Software guy, flannelled fool in the summer, Earth-bound misfit. No image reposts without alt text. (he/him)
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Aditya
@adityamandrekar.bsky.social
· Nov 11
I think everyone needs to see Olive at her dignified best. #DogsOfBlueSky
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Capy New Year you magnificent bastards xxx
January 1, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Capy New Year you magnificent bastards xxx
Ronan Keating, why are you singing "If Tomorrow Never Comes" on new year's eve? That's a bit unnerving.
December 31, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Ronan Keating, why are you singing "If Tomorrow Never Comes" on new year's eve? That's a bit unnerving.
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Something on TV about Ghandi one day. Wife’s granda piped up with “funny bloke him”. “Oh, you’ve see that film, have you?” “No, I mean in real life” “how the hell would you know?” “cos I guarded him during my national service..but it was my day off when they shot him!! - never mentioned it in 65yrs!
December 31, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Something on TV about Ghandi one day. Wife’s granda piped up with “funny bloke him”. “Oh, you’ve see that film, have you?” “No, I mean in real life” “how the hell would you know?” “cos I guarded him during my national service..but it was my day off when they shot him!! - never mentioned it in 65yrs!
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I'm asking John - and indeed all journalists - as a new year resolution to stop comparisons with a national economy and a household budget.
How many years have to go by until we can have coherent conversations in the media about the economy?
t.co/jIObxTAoeL
How many years have to go by until we can have coherent conversations in the media about the economy?
t.co/jIObxTAoeL
December 31, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I'm asking John - and indeed all journalists - as a new year resolution to stop comparisons with a national economy and a household budget.
How many years have to go by until we can have coherent conversations in the media about the economy?
t.co/jIObxTAoeL
How many years have to go by until we can have coherent conversations in the media about the economy?
t.co/jIObxTAoeL
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Happy tenth anniversary to photographer Joel Goodman’s classic image which by rights should be hanging in the Louvre.
December 31, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Happy tenth anniversary to photographer Joel Goodman’s classic image which by rights should be hanging in the Louvre.
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Day 365: What better way to bookend this year than by reprising the very first drawing I did in 2025?
We made it through, friends. I'm going to miss these dailies, but I won't be going anywhere -- you'll see warmup sketches while I work on some bigger projects!
Thank you for being here with me ❤️
We made it through, friends. I'm going to miss these dailies, but I won't be going anywhere -- you'll see warmup sketches while I work on some bigger projects!
Thank you for being here with me ❤️
December 31, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Day 365: What better way to bookend this year than by reprising the very first drawing I did in 2025?
We made it through, friends. I'm going to miss these dailies, but I won't be going anywhere -- you'll see warmup sketches while I work on some bigger projects!
Thank you for being here with me ❤️
We made it through, friends. I'm going to miss these dailies, but I won't be going anywhere -- you'll see warmup sketches while I work on some bigger projects!
Thank you for being here with me ❤️
In no particular order:
Take on me - A-ha
Virtual Insanity - Jamiroquai
Any Fatboy Slim video really (but special mentions to Praise You, Weapon of Choice and Sunset)
November Rain - Guns n Roses
A bunch of Michael Jackson videos should be on this list but no.
Take on me - A-ha
Virtual Insanity - Jamiroquai
Any Fatboy Slim video really (but special mentions to Praise You, Weapon of Choice and Sunset)
November Rain - Guns n Roses
A bunch of Michael Jackson videos should be on this list but no.
MTV is officially ending all of its music channels.
In honor of that, what's your favorite music video?
In honor of that, what's your favorite music video?
December 31, 2025 at 5:26 PM
In no particular order:
Take on me - A-ha
Virtual Insanity - Jamiroquai
Any Fatboy Slim video really (but special mentions to Praise You, Weapon of Choice and Sunset)
November Rain - Guns n Roses
A bunch of Michael Jackson videos should be on this list but no.
Take on me - A-ha
Virtual Insanity - Jamiroquai
Any Fatboy Slim video really (but special mentions to Praise You, Weapon of Choice and Sunset)
November Rain - Guns n Roses
A bunch of Michael Jackson videos should be on this list but no.
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I've waited 3 years to make this post
December 30, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I've waited 3 years to make this post
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I thought I was safe since this is hitting Shopify shops (I’m using BigCartel) but I found one of my products listed. Thankfully it didn’t have the image and says unavailable so can’t be bought via Amazon. But “Bree Shop” name, product title, and some (AI rewritten) details. Fuck Amazon and AI. 😡
As if artists don't have enough to deal with, Amazon has a "Buy For Me" program in beta which is scraping indie shops for their items and putting them up on Amazon (often incorrectly), for their "AI agent" to buy from the other site. It is NOT opt in, and there is no opt out.
I just found out that our stuff is being sold on Amazon - WITHOUT our consent or any ability to opt out bc Amazon is just scraping artist’s websites and putting our shit in their search results. Again, without our permission.
December 31, 2025 at 12:35 AM
I thought I was safe since this is hitting Shopify shops (I’m using BigCartel) but I found one of my products listed. Thankfully it didn’t have the image and says unavailable so can’t be bought via Amazon. But “Bree Shop” name, product title, and some (AI rewritten) details. Fuck Amazon and AI. 😡
Let he who has not tried to fish out a soft breakaway biscuit fragment from their coffee with the rest of the dry biscuit, cast the first stone.
*ouch ouch ouch*
Why you all throwing stones at me, am I the only idiot that does this and loses the rest of the biscuit?
*gets hit by more stones*
*ouch ouch ouch*
Why you all throwing stones at me, am I the only idiot that does this and loses the rest of the biscuit?
*gets hit by more stones*
December 31, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Let he who has not tried to fish out a soft breakaway biscuit fragment from their coffee with the rest of the dry biscuit, cast the first stone.
*ouch ouch ouch*
Why you all throwing stones at me, am I the only idiot that does this and loses the rest of the biscuit?
*gets hit by more stones*
*ouch ouch ouch*
Why you all throwing stones at me, am I the only idiot that does this and loses the rest of the biscuit?
*gets hit by more stones*
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Kikomancy- the magical art of using soy sauce to power spells
December 30, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Kikomancy- the magical art of using soy sauce to power spells
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December 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Because apart from my phone, my book reader, my toothbrush, my shaver I also would like to remember to charge my coffee mug, my trivets (?!) and my goddamn stapler.
Also, this just in -> the latest bizarre AI fever dream is AI-controlled trivets, staplers, and coffee cups on wheels. So we'll be chased around by inanimate wheeled objects clamoring for our attention.
![Real news story headline: "Robot Coffee Cups? Self-Driving Trivets? AI Researchers Made It Happen. [sub-title] Scientists found a way to animate everyday objects and predict your next move, so your stapler is always nearby when you need it."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wstpte2vzb4ra2iqtnw2d2ef/bafkreibbhk46utcdzm3qb2u2muehbhrndu6x47k5a4v64ef44xdpbgh42u@jpeg)
December 30, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Because apart from my phone, my book reader, my toothbrush, my shaver I also would like to remember to charge my coffee mug, my trivets (?!) and my goddamn stapler.
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The Second-Order Streisand Effect is a social phenomenon where if a party makes an effort to censor information, discussion and news about the censorship paradoxically leads to an increased awareness of Barbara Streisand, a musician whom most "Zoomers" would probably have otherwise never heard of
December 29, 2025 at 7:27 PM
The Second-Order Streisand Effect is a social phenomenon where if a party makes an effort to censor information, discussion and news about the censorship paradoxically leads to an increased awareness of Barbara Streisand, a musician whom most "Zoomers" would probably have otherwise never heard of
Lock, Stock and Two Soaking Water Pistols #MakeAFilmCheaper
December 30, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Lock, Stock and Two Soaking Water Pistols #MakeAFilmCheaper
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Strong prospects if they ever bring back the 3-legged race
December 30, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Strong prospects if they ever bring back the 3-legged race
My last job was middle management and I experienced all of these three on any given day.
Nothing prepares you for how rapidly you accelerate between these three states #chemchat
December 30, 2025 at 2:28 PM
My last job was middle management and I experienced all of these three on any given day.
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On the record, as somebody who regularly goes to places knowing more than the tour guide, I do not ever correct them because like. I’ve also been a tour guide and none of them are paid enough. If it’s egregiously wrong I might stay afterwards and chat but with a very big tip
What kind of asshole calls a tour guide a liar to their face?!
December 30, 2025 at 1:15 PM
On the record, as somebody who regularly goes to places knowing more than the tour guide, I do not ever correct them because like. I’ve also been a tour guide and none of them are paid enough. If it’s egregiously wrong I might stay afterwards and chat but with a very big tip
Bronski Beatles
Rolling Stone Temple Pilots
Temple of the Ferocious Dog
Shakespeares Sisters of Mercy
Christian Napalm Death
Temple of the Ferocious Dog
Shakespeares Sisters of Mercy
Christian Napalm Death
The Stone Cooper Temple Pilots Clause
Hootie and the Catfish and the Bottlemen
Throwing Muse
Dogs Die In Hot The Cars
Ned's Atomic Kitten Dustbin
Hootie and the Catfish and the Bottlemen
Throwing Muse
Dogs Die In Hot The Cars
Ned's Atomic Kitten Dustbin
December 30, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Bronski Beatles
Greg Rusedski said "Excuse me" as he went past us. My friend, a tennis fan, recognised him but I hadn't.
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 30, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Greg Rusedski said "Excuse me" as he went past us. My friend, a tennis fan, recognised him but I hadn't.
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Enter the new year like a long-eared rabbit emerging through a curtain of tall grass to face the stars 🌌
December 30, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Enter the new year like a long-eared rabbit emerging through a curtain of tall grass to face the stars 🌌
He... He just wants to tell us how he's feeling.
Gotta make us, understand.
Gotta make us, understand.
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 30, 2025 at 7:19 AM
He... He just wants to tell us how he's feeling.
Gotta make us, understand.
Gotta make us, understand.
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THIS. Read Asterix in English, and see how Hockridge and Bell don’t just transliterate but remake whole puns and wordplays that sparkle in English culturally as well as linguistically. Flawless work that simply cannot be done without true understanding of *the concept of meaning*
AND ANOTHER THING, WHILE I'M AT IT:
ENOUGH WITH THESE BULLSHIT CLAIMS THAT AI CAN REPLACE HUMAN TRANSLATORS!!!
Translation is *not* the science of finding the perfect definition of a word from a foreign language and putting that definition into the text.
Translators translate, of course. But!
ENOUGH WITH THESE BULLSHIT CLAIMS THAT AI CAN REPLACE HUMAN TRANSLATORS!!!
Translation is *not* the science of finding the perfect definition of a word from a foreign language and putting that definition into the text.
Translators translate, of course. But!
December 28, 2025 at 7:21 PM
THIS. Read Asterix in English, and see how Hockridge and Bell don’t just transliterate but remake whole puns and wordplays that sparkle in English culturally as well as linguistically. Flawless work that simply cannot be done without true understanding of *the concept of meaning*
*desperately searching for the "don't allow users who follow more than 999 accounts to follow me" setting*
December 29, 2025 at 4:50 PM
*desperately searching for the "don't allow users who follow more than 999 accounts to follow me" setting*