Richard Gaywood
@penllawen.favrd.social
Just some guy, I think.
Snark, tech, cooking, greyhounds, TTRPGs. Usually some politics too. I’m a privacy engineer at a big tech firm but I’m not here for work so these hot takes are nothing to do with my employer and are all my own. He/him.
Snark, tech, cooking, greyhounds, TTRPGs. Usually some politics too. I’m a privacy engineer at a big tech firm but I’m not here for work so these hot takes are nothing to do with my employer and are all my own. He/him.
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the earliest depiction of Christ’s crucifixion is among the ruins of a Roman palace turned messenger boy’s school - a student mocking one of his Christian classmates with a doodle of a boy praying to a donkey-headed figure on a cross captioned “Alexamenos worshipping his God”
February 3, 2026 at 10:41 PM
the earliest depiction of Christ’s crucifixion is among the ruins of a Roman palace turned messenger boy’s school - a student mocking one of his Christian classmates with a doodle of a boy praying to a donkey-headed figure on a cross captioned “Alexamenos worshipping his God”
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I'm buying a kitchen and they sent a sample of the marble counter top with a metal ball showing what the sink will be like. Now my desk looks like a 90s 3D rendering tool demo image.
February 4, 2026 at 9:36 AM
I'm buying a kitchen and they sent a sample of the marble counter top with a metal ball showing what the sink will be like. Now my desk looks like a 90s 3D rendering tool demo image.
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Games Workshop: You get those drawings of the heroes of our brand new toy range?
Will Rees: Sure did boss, real fuckin disgusting just like you asked.
GW: what
Will Rees: Sure did boss, real fuckin disgusting just like you asked.
GW: what
February 2, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Games Workshop: You get those drawings of the heroes of our brand new toy range?
Will Rees: Sure did boss, real fuckin disgusting just like you asked.
GW: what
Will Rees: Sure did boss, real fuckin disgusting just like you asked.
GW: what
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We will then drone strike Sharon for taking the kids and leaving us
February 3, 2026 at 10:47 AM
We will then drone strike Sharon for taking the kids and leaving us
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they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit
Xfinity has just released its Jurassic Park-themed Super Bowl ad that features a digitally de-aged Sam Neil, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum. https://bit.ly/4rmRhrK
February 3, 2026 at 3:32 AM
they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit
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Let's check in on the Twitter Files guy -- who insisted that the behind the scenes decision-making on content moderation was the most important issue of our time -- and see what he thinks about the publication of communications involving the most notorious sex predator of our generation.
February 2, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Let's check in on the Twitter Files guy -- who insisted that the behind the scenes decision-making on content moderation was the most important issue of our time -- and see what he thinks about the publication of communications involving the most notorious sex predator of our generation.
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here is probably the most whimsical and gormless creature ive made so far. just utterly permeable. under investigation for an allergy to tap water
December 4, 2025 at 5:17 AM
here is probably the most whimsical and gormless creature ive made so far. just utterly permeable. under investigation for an allergy to tap water
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It's 1998. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.
It's 2001. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.
It's 2025. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.
It's 2026. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.
It's 2001. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.
It's 2025. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.
It's 2026. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.
February 2, 2026 at 7:06 AM
It's 1998. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.
It's 2001. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.
It's 2025. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.
It's 2026. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.
It's 2001. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.
It's 2025. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.
It's 2026. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.
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read online that someone set-up a premium rate phone number where callers get charged $3.99/ min. then they posted flyers in their neighborhood that said "call this number to report illegal aliens," but the number just puts them on hold with music. so far, they've made $17,000
February 1, 2026 at 8:28 PM
read online that someone set-up a premium rate phone number where callers get charged $3.99/ min. then they posted flyers in their neighborhood that said "call this number to report illegal aliens," but the number just puts them on hold with music. so far, they've made $17,000
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DOCTOR: I told him he needed to get out to a show, that was how he would cure his depression.
CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school?
DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town.
C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name?
DR: Now look
CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school?
DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town.
C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name?
DR: Now look
February 2, 2026 at 3:58 AM
DOCTOR: I told him he needed to get out to a show, that was how he would cure his depression.
CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school?
DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town.
C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name?
DR: Now look
CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school?
DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town.
C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name?
DR: Now look
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Every American should have this in their wallet:
November 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Every American should have this in their wallet:
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it's probably Natalie Portman, who has a 5-2-2 via a neuroscience paper authored with Abigail Baird, appearing in A Powerful Noise Live with Sarah Michelle Geller (who appeared with Bacon in The Air I Breathe), and who appeared in New York, I Love You, which had a segment co-directed by Ratner.
Has someone figured out who has the lowest Erdos-Bacon-Epstein number and what it means to be that person?
February 1, 2026 at 10:42 PM
it's probably Natalie Portman, who has a 5-2-2 via a neuroscience paper authored with Abigail Baird, appearing in A Powerful Noise Live with Sarah Michelle Geller (who appeared with Bacon in The Air I Breathe), and who appeared in New York, I Love You, which had a segment co-directed by Ratner.
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Don’t worry, he eventually figured out how to make it cost much less each time his computer asked the remote AI model what time it was
February 1, 2026 at 2:59 AM
Don’t worry, he eventually figured out how to make it cost much less each time his computer asked the remote AI model what time it was
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I’m starting to think the people who are excited about “AI agents” have literally never used a computer in their lives
February 1, 2026 at 2:56 AM
I’m starting to think the people who are excited about “AI agents” have literally never used a computer in their lives
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seems we’re dangerously close to a point where someone will tweet you can slurp three gas town juices in a moltbot - and kill a few ai bubbles.
February 1, 2026 at 11:56 AM
seems we’re dangerously close to a point where someone will tweet you can slurp three gas town juices in a moltbot - and kill a few ai bubbles.
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Alexander Skarsgård is big guy hardware running freaky little guy software
February 1, 2026 at 4:47 AM
Alexander Skarsgård is big guy hardware running freaky little guy software
who says smarthome tech doesn't solve real problems (cc @adorablecyb.org)
January 30, 2026 at 1:38 PM
who says smarthome tech doesn't solve real problems (cc @adorablecyb.org)
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Finally we’ll see the story of how the nation of Aamerleda was founded
January 29, 2026 at 6:14 PM
Finally we’ll see the story of how the nation of Aamerleda was founded
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Calling the Gestapo “the Gestapo” is causing the Gestapo to act like the Gestapo.
Homan: "I begged for the last two months on TV for the rhetoric to stop. I said in March -- if the rhetoric doesn't stop, there is gonna be bloodshed. And there has been. I wish I wasn't right. I don't want to see anybody die."
January 29, 2026 at 2:27 PM
Calling the Gestapo “the Gestapo” is causing the Gestapo to act like the Gestapo.
this is indistinguishable from an 18th century puritan village where people wore hairshirts and flogged themselves if they got an erection before marriage
January 29, 2026 at 10:07 AM
this is indistinguishable from an 18th century puritan village where people wore hairshirts and flogged themselves if they got an erection before marriage
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WebUSB
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webGPU
WebPCIE
WebNVME
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January 28, 2026 at 10:49 AM
WebUSB
webGPU
WebPCIE
WebNVME
WebSATA
WebATX12V
webGPU
WebPCIE
WebNVME
WebSATA
WebATX12V