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Chris Buckley
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Head of Engineering for SmartSearch, based in Leeds, UK. Opinions my own, when I have any.

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vuc.bsky.social
He said "Amen" straight into the drop

Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
cmbuckley.co.uk
Was woken up with wisdom tooth pain during the night. Only realised in the morning that it was at 2:30. It finally happened, the joke became a reality
October 20, 2025 at 9:32 AM
cmbuckley.co.uk
Unicode Consortium scrambles to create seahorse emoji to prevent runaway AI consumption
October 19, 2025 at 10:08 AM
cmbuckley.co.uk
Great move this. SSO is not an enterprise feature!
September 28, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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clairewillett.bsky.social
reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle
One thing that has become really clear since yesterday is that we live in at least two different realities. Talking to a friend who only knew Charlie as a Christian motivational speaker because that's all that ever came across her feed. Showed me videos I've never seen before of him saying perfectly reasonable and empowering things. I showed her videos she'd never seen before of his racism, misogyny, homophobia, advocating for violence against specific groups of people. She was horrified by his remarks about Pelosi's husband's attacker being bailed out and celebrated for his violent act. She was horrified by a number of things that he said, but she had never seen or heard them before, the same as I had never seen or heard the generalized clips of him sounding like a perfectly nice loving man and father. Neither of us had a whole picture of this man. I mentioned he was a known white supremacist and she thought I was joking. She talked about him giving a speech about finding your purpose and doing good in the world and I thought she was joking. I saw why this friend was mourning the loss of a person she thought was a good person. My friend, bless her, saw why I feel the way I do about him. We understood each other better. In spite of a multi-billion dollar internet machine specifically focused on keeping us apart. Because we talked to each other with the desire to listen and to learn rather than the desire to change someone else's mind or to be "right". None of those motivational things he said change my opinion about him because they don't erase the negativity, the subtle calls for violence, the belittling and denigrating of other races religions genders etc. His negative and blaming comments about homeless people, the poor, and victims of domestic violence. His comments about rounding up people who didn't think like him and putting them in camps where their behavior could be corrected. That time he said empathy was a made-up word he didnt believe in. That other time he said the Civil Rights Act was a mistake. The time he said most people are afraid when they get on a plane and see that there's a black pilot. His anti-vaccination rhetoric and his active campaigning against people being allowed to wear masks for their own health. His open support of fascism and white supremacy. To me, all of those are fully unchristian sentiments. Those are undeniable and just one of them would be a deal-breaker for me. All of them together are a picture of a man who was polarizing, enraged a lot of people and rightly so, but even with all of that I would never wish upon him or especially his children the end that he got. Oh, and my friend had never heard, and God help me I don't know how she escaped the news, but she had never heard of the Minnesota legislators who were shot in June. The husband and wife and dog who were killed, one after throwing themselves over their child to protect the child. The other couple who somehow survived. Politically motivated attacks specifically because they were democrats. She learned about those shootings that happened months ago because I showed her Charlie Kirk's comments about them. The kidnapping plot against a female Midwestern Democratic governor. The assassination attempt against Pennsylvania's democratic governor. All things Charlie had plenty to say about while supporting the Second Amendment and bashing the Democratic party. She didn't know about any of it because we're all living in two different worlds and none of us have the whole story.
September 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM
cmbuckley.co.uk
Just got ID’d at the shop. Whilst I should take the compliment, it was for ibuprofen for a bad back; should that not be ID enough?
August 23, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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bylinetimes.bsky.social
🔴Online Safety Act is Forcing Brits to Hand Over Their Data to ‘Unregulated’ Overseas Corporations With Questionable Privacy Records

Age verification firms used by social media platforms include company tied to a Trump-supporting billionaire and a firm set up by former Israeli intelligence ...
The Online Safety Act is Forcing Brits to Hand Over Personal Data to 'Unregulated' Overseas Corporations With Questionable Privacy Records
The age verification services used by social media platforms include a company funded by a Trump-supporting billionaire and a firm set up by former Israeli intelligence officers
bylinetimes.com
August 12, 2025 at 7:52 AM
cmbuckley.co.uk
Age verification needs to come up with a better name
iOS notification for an American Express card charge for Bluesky age verification. The amount is £0.05 and the description is “Kids Web Services”.
July 25, 2025 at 5:50 AM
cmbuckley.co.uk
“You shall not pass”
Golden shaded British shorthair cat, lying at top of stairs with tongue out and claws bared on one paw
June 17, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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lukelukeluke.bsky.social
Anyone else born before 1999 notice that boredom is not a thing anymore
April 18, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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samuel.fm
the website: please please please download our app please please please please

the app: oh shit didn’t think that’d actually work. what the heck do we do now?? screw it, webview time
August 28, 2024 at 7:44 AM
cmbuckley.co.uk
Yorkshire Tea, I love you, but that’s not how equations work.
Brewing instructions on a box of Yorkshire Tea: kettle boiled to 100°C plus teabag is equal to 4–5 minutes’ brewing time.
August 27, 2024 at 1:54 PM
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bsky.app
Wondering why some people have unique handles that don't end in "bsky.social"? 👀

You can set your website as your handle! Purchase and manage a domain through Bluesky here: account.bsky.app

We especially encourage official organizations to self-verify their account with their website.
February 7, 2024 at 9:35 PM
cmbuckley.co.uk
The only time this isn’t true is when they’re talking to the dog.
catsofyore.bsky.social Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · Nov 11
A scene repeated at least 20 times a day in our home:

Person 1: (unintelligible speech from another room)
Person 2: What?
Person 1: Nothing! I'm talking to the cats!
November 11, 2023 at 9:55 PM
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radiodeadair.com
Around the mid-to-late 2000s, we changed to a different kind of tech industry.

You started a company, made a lot of promises, kind of made a thing, and waited for Apple, Google, Microsoft or Facebook to buy you out.

Creating useful things was no longer the point.
September 20, 2023 at 10:18 PM
cmbuckley.co.uk
Anyone else feeling the fatigue of creating accounts on various new social media platforms and writing a breezy introduction about yourself whilst still doom-scrolling all the existing ones?
August 14, 2023 at 9:07 AM