Ian Pointer
@carsondial.bsky.social
Mostly British (but also Irish and American according to the passports). ML Engineer.
https://snappishproductions.com
@carsondial@mastodon.social
https://snappishproductions.com
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pouring a jar of babybels into the coinstar and waiting for it to dispense a giant megabel of equal value
December 5, 2025 at 10:15 PM
pouring a jar of babybels into the coinstar and waiting for it to dispense a giant megabel of equal value
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It's not to much to ask that the party line be to the left of *checks notes* Bill fucking Kristol is it or is that too woke and gonna cost us "centrist" votes?
Idiocy. Bigotry. Cruelty.
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered. n.pr/48HypvT
December 6, 2025 at 1:19 AM
It's not to much to ask that the party line be to the left of *checks notes* Bill fucking Kristol is it or is that too woke and gonna cost us "centrist" votes?
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Ceefax Unwrapped telling me the five pages I’ve used most this year:
1) Top 40, numbers 40-31
2) Subtitles for Scooby Doo to see how they spell his dialogue
3) Pic of Len Murray made out of pound signs
4) Subtitles for New Shmoo (see 2)
5) Pic of Norman Willis made out of ampersands
1) Top 40, numbers 40-31
2) Subtitles for Scooby Doo to see how they spell his dialogue
3) Pic of Len Murray made out of pound signs
4) Subtitles for New Shmoo (see 2)
5) Pic of Norman Willis made out of ampersands
December 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Ceefax Unwrapped telling me the five pages I’ve used most this year:
1) Top 40, numbers 40-31
2) Subtitles for Scooby Doo to see how they spell his dialogue
3) Pic of Len Murray made out of pound signs
4) Subtitles for New Shmoo (see 2)
5) Pic of Norman Willis made out of ampersands
1) Top 40, numbers 40-31
2) Subtitles for Scooby Doo to see how they spell his dialogue
3) Pic of Len Murray made out of pound signs
4) Subtitles for New Shmoo (see 2)
5) Pic of Norman Willis made out of ampersands
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We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
December 3, 2025 at 11:54 AM
We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
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The article explicitly notes WI had had a trans-inclusive policy *since the 1970s*!
December 3, 2025 at 10:57 AM
The article explicitly notes WI had had a trans-inclusive policy *since the 1970s*!
Looks like somehow I’m going to Manchester next year to see Saint Etienne on their final tour (the London dates disappeared as I was clicking on them…)
December 3, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Looks like somehow I’m going to Manchester next year to see Saint Etienne on their final tour (the London dates disappeared as I was clicking on them…)
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you don't have to love it but if someone with a new baby asks you wear a propeller beanie, you can just do it
A friend with a new baby asked guests to mask in order to hold her baby. A relative refused to mask & broke down in tears about her "restrictions"
As a reminder, babies <6 months have the 2nd highest hospitalization rate from Covid after adults 75+ & are too young to be vaxxed
As a reminder, babies <6 months have the 2nd highest hospitalization rate from Covid after adults 75+ & are too young to be vaxxed
December 2, 2025 at 10:35 PM
you don't have to love it but if someone with a new baby asks you wear a propeller beanie, you can just do it
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White House ratio'd by the smallest possible pop star.
December 2, 2025 at 5:36 PM
White House ratio'd by the smallest possible pop star.
It's bad when your internal monologue during the day resembles David Peace in the Red Riding Quartet, right?
December 2, 2025 at 5:58 PM
It's bad when your internal monologue during the day resembles David Peace in the Red Riding Quartet, right?
Daycare has exposed Maeryn to Paw Patrol, and I'm belatedly realising I'm recreating the BBC/ITV household by only having her watch Sesame Street/Bluey/Hey Duggee at home ;)
November 29, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Daycare has exposed Maeryn to Paw Patrol, and I'm belatedly realising I'm recreating the BBC/ITV household by only having her watch Sesame Street/Bluey/Hey Duggee at home ;)
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I kind of love that a cursory image search reveals the truth of my thesis that no matter his age or his fashion, Noddy Holder looks like an Englishman named Noddy Holder.
January 31, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I kind of love that a cursory image search reveals the truth of my thesis that no matter his age or his fashion, Noddy Holder looks like an Englishman named Noddy Holder.
And that's neat, that's neat, that's neat, that's neat
I really love your
I really love your
November 27, 2025 at 8:08 PM
And that's neat, that's neat, that's neat, that's neat
I really love your
I really love your
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Yeah mate they're saying the album released to commemorate ten years of Girls Aloud is thirteen years old today. Yeah they're saying time marches on relentlessly. Yeah apparently it doesn't care about your feelings about that. Yes mate I know
November 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Yeah mate they're saying the album released to commemorate ten years of Girls Aloud is thirteen years old today. Yeah they're saying time marches on relentlessly. Yeah apparently it doesn't care about your feelings about that. Yes mate I know
Tonight we made up a bedtime story that accidentally happened became a mash up of Disney and Tinker, Tailor…Tammy losing it as I interjected “Love to Minnie!”
November 26, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Tonight we made up a bedtime story that accidentally happened became a mash up of Disney and Tinker, Tailor…Tammy losing it as I interjected “Love to Minnie!”
Has anybody (not unsloth people, I'm looking for in the wild) actually successfully used DGX Spark for fine-tuning? (sft/dpo/rl/etc)
November 26, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Has anybody (not unsloth people, I'm looking for in the wild) actually successfully used DGX Spark for fine-tuning? (sft/dpo/rl/etc)
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47 years ago today, dozens of turkeys met their unfortunate demise in a Cincinnati parking lot.
November 24, 2025 at 8:59 PM
47 years ago today, dozens of turkeys met their unfortunate demise in a Cincinnati parking lot.
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This week! Friday 28th November at 10:10pm THE STONE TAPE (1972) with #MichaelBryant #JaneAsher #IanCuthbertson sci-fi-horror #TPTVsubtitles Part of #TheCellarClub hosted by #CarolineMunro
November 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
This week! Friday 28th November at 10:10pm THE STONE TAPE (1972) with #MichaelBryant #JaneAsher #IanCuthbertson sci-fi-horror #TPTVsubtitles Part of #TheCellarClub hosted by #CarolineMunro
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Don’t want to be too moralistic about this, but it is an active disgrace what people are doing to a profoundly liberational scheme that costs relatively piddling amounts on the basis of a couple of right wing shitposters misrepresenting it on Twitter.
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Don’t want to be too moralistic about this, but it is an active disgrace what people are doing to a profoundly liberational scheme that costs relatively piddling amounts on the basis of a couple of right wing shitposters misrepresenting it on Twitter.
5 stars for the title alone!
Brand new on Dirty Feed: just how reliable are Bob Monkhouse's memories of The Golden Shot?
www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/11/poor...
www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/11/poor...
November 24, 2025 at 2:17 PM
5 stars for the title alone!
Currently at Games Workshop: “is there anything to be said for doing another 65 book series on how the Emperor is a Dick?”
November 23, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Currently at Games Workshop: “is there anything to be said for doing another 65 book series on how the Emperor is a Dick?”
Adventures in toddler upbringing with very different accents: mostly American, but when she says "I can't do it", it's *exactly* Victoria Wood doing Barry's lines in "The Ballad of Barry & Freda"
November 23, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Adventures in toddler upbringing with very different accents: mostly American, but when she says "I can't do it", it's *exactly* Victoria Wood doing Barry's lines in "The Ballad of Barry & Freda"
“when 2000AD is sold to Robert Maxwell’s Fleetway in 1988, it’s reportedly selling about 100,000 copies a week”
One thing I think that is interesting in this era is that also was the circulation of Transformers: UK, which probably explains a lot about some of us
freakytrigger.co.uk/wedge/2025/1...
One thing I think that is interesting in this era is that also was the circulation of Transformers: UK, which probably explains a lot about some of us
freakytrigger.co.uk/wedge/2025/1...
Dance Our Way Out Of Our Constrictions: INTRO ’78
Previously on Discourse 2000: After successfully helping launch war comic Battle, editor Pat Mills had the opportunity to launch a new kind of boys’ comic at publishers IPC – Action, a title which tur...
freakytrigger.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 6:42 PM
“when 2000AD is sold to Robert Maxwell’s Fleetway in 1988, it’s reportedly selling about 100,000 copies a week”
One thing I think that is interesting in this era is that also was the circulation of Transformers: UK, which probably explains a lot about some of us
freakytrigger.co.uk/wedge/2025/1...
One thing I think that is interesting in this era is that also was the circulation of Transformers: UK, which probably explains a lot about some of us
freakytrigger.co.uk/wedge/2025/1...
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#Discourse2000 is back! This intro post sets the scene for the 1978 posts with an overview of the different tribes of early #2000AD creators - the professionals, the rebels, the fans and the outsiders - and their visions of what the comic is
freakytrigger.co.uk/wedge/2025/1...
freakytrigger.co.uk/wedge/2025/1...
Dance Our Way Out Of Our Constrictions: INTRO ’78
Previously on Discourse 2000: After successfully helping launch war comic Battle, editor Pat Mills had the opportunity to launch a new kind of boys’ comic at publishers IPC – Action, a title which tur...
freakytrigger.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 6:26 PM
#Discourse2000 is back! This intro post sets the scene for the 1978 posts with an overview of the different tribes of early #2000AD creators - the professionals, the rebels, the fans and the outsiders - and their visions of what the comic is
freakytrigger.co.uk/wedge/2025/1...
freakytrigger.co.uk/wedge/2025/1...