Timbones
@timbones.bsky.social
Software engineer, living and working near York, father of two.
Messes about with heat pump performance data "for fun".
Reposts are other people's opinions.
Messes about with heat pump performance data "for fun".
Reposts are other people's opinions.
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We are living in the world that could rapidly become the Star Trek ideal. UBI, free healthcare, many jobs done by machine, freeing up humans to pursue the arts, education, exploration.
But it's being run by the fucking Ferengi.
But it's being run by the fucking Ferengi.
November 4, 2025 at 8:18 PM
We are living in the world that could rapidly become the Star Trek ideal. UBI, free healthcare, many jobs done by machine, freeing up humans to pursue the arts, education, exploration.
But it's being run by the fucking Ferengi.
But it's being run by the fucking Ferengi.
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![Comic. [two connected spacecraft hovering in space above the Earth] Houston, the view is superb. We can see the continents spread out below us, right where they’ve been since the Earth formed. [caption] I still can’t believe we developed spaceflight before we figured out that the continents moved.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreicp2ka5asjgkmgfdfj33vnjb5bbvk3vnyao6ju5kipxcdc23pqasm@jpeg)
October 27, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Let me tell you a story (before the ship explodes):
October 24, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Let me tell you a story (before the ship explodes):
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Some absolutely top notch orange cattery here
October 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Some absolutely top notch orange cattery here
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I wrote about how and why social media has largely become boring and why it's a bad idea to eat your own brain: www.forkingpaths.co/p/is-social-...
Is social media just...boring now?
Social media is destroying democracy and accelerating idiocracy. But it's also just...really, really boring.
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October 17, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I wrote about how and why social media has largely become boring and why it's a bad idea to eat your own brain: www.forkingpaths.co/p/is-social-...
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In the late 1970s I worked in a computer shop where we sold 4kb memory cards for £100 (£550 in today’s money). So… if those prices had held, the 24gb of main memory in the computer I bought today would have set me back £3,300,000,000! Exponentials are wild.
October 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
In the late 1970s I worked in a computer shop where we sold 4kb memory cards for £100 (£550 in today’s money). So… if those prices had held, the 24gb of main memory in the computer I bought today would have set me back £3,300,000,000! Exponentials are wild.
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Why you should care about Net Zero.
My attempt to sum it up in 450 words for the good people of Maidenhead.
Why you should care about Net Zero.
My attempt to sum it up in 450 words for the good people of Maidenhead.
Why you should care about Net Zero.
Friends, in an unprecedented media blitz, this article is being co-published with newspaper publishing giant, The Maidenhead Advertiser. =============================== Who am I to talk about Net Z…
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October 10, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Why you should care about Net Zero.
My attempt to sum it up in 450 words for the good people of Maidenhead.
Why you should care about Net Zero.
My attempt to sum it up in 450 words for the good people of Maidenhead.
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Don't threaten us with a good time, Daily Express.
October 9, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Don't threaten us with a good time, Daily Express.
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Blustery day, isn't it? Here's the National Grid: Live generation data. Wind and solar are generating 74.2% of our electricity. Gas is generating 13.1%. And yet our household electricity prices are pegged to... the volatile price of gas. Which is the basis on which the right attacks... renewables.
October 4, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Blustery day, isn't it? Here's the National Grid: Live generation data. Wind and solar are generating 74.2% of our electricity. Gas is generating 13.1%. And yet our household electricity prices are pegged to... the volatile price of gas. Which is the basis on which the right attacks... renewables.
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Bad Keyboards Thread:
So I like to make intentionally bad keyboards, in part because of my unfulfilled blood feud with mechanical keyboard enthusiasts, but mainly because I like being a chaos gremlin.
Most recently, the Juggling Keyboard:
bsky.app/profile/foon...
So I like to make intentionally bad keyboards, in part because of my unfulfilled blood feud with mechanical keyboard enthusiasts, but mainly because I like being a chaos gremlin.
Most recently, the Juggling Keyboard:
bsky.app/profile/foon...
Behold my latest keyboard, the JuggleKeyboard!
Just click the letters as they're juggled, it's an easy* way to type.
* it's not easy
Just click the letters as they're juggled, it's an easy* way to type.
* it's not easy
September 15, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Bad Keyboards Thread:
So I like to make intentionally bad keyboards, in part because of my unfulfilled blood feud with mechanical keyboard enthusiasts, but mainly because I like being a chaos gremlin.
Most recently, the Juggling Keyboard:
bsky.app/profile/foon...
So I like to make intentionally bad keyboards, in part because of my unfulfilled blood feud with mechanical keyboard enthusiasts, but mainly because I like being a chaos gremlin.
Most recently, the Juggling Keyboard:
bsky.app/profile/foon...
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the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.
September 25, 2025 at 11:09 PM
the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.
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Look what we have here then.
September 24, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Look what we have here then.
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Harry Enfield and Ronnie Corbett's "My Blackberry is not working" sketch. God, it's *exquisite*. Not a line out of place, everything works beautifully and there's some free Harry *almost* corpsing thrown in as well. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAG3...
My blackberry is not working - BBC
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September 24, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Harry Enfield and Ronnie Corbett's "My Blackberry is not working" sketch. God, it's *exquisite*. Not a line out of place, everything works beautifully and there's some free Harry *almost* corpsing thrown in as well. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAG3...
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Reconstructing animals from their fossilized remains requires meticulous artistry and scientific rigour.
What was done to bones partly of a woolly rhinoceros discovered in Germany in 1663 arguably involved neither.
Behold the 'Magdeburg Unicorn' in all its tea-spitting glory.
(Yes, it's real.)
What was done to bones partly of a woolly rhinoceros discovered in Germany in 1663 arguably involved neither.
Behold the 'Magdeburg Unicorn' in all its tea-spitting glory.
(Yes, it's real.)
June 30, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Reconstructing animals from their fossilized remains requires meticulous artistry and scientific rigour.
What was done to bones partly of a woolly rhinoceros discovered in Germany in 1663 arguably involved neither.
Behold the 'Magdeburg Unicorn' in all its tea-spitting glory.
(Yes, it's real.)
What was done to bones partly of a woolly rhinoceros discovered in Germany in 1663 arguably involved neither.
Behold the 'Magdeburg Unicorn' in all its tea-spitting glory.
(Yes, it's real.)
Happy "aktually, equal light and dark occurs a few days later" Day to those who celebrate.
www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/eq...
www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/eq...
The Equilux
Day and night are equal at the equinox? You're thinking of the equilux.
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September 23, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Happy "aktually, equal light and dark occurs a few days later" Day to those who celebrate.
www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/eq...
www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/eq...
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Trans people are not a threat to women’s safety.
Over 52,000 women have signed the open letter to say not in our name.
Will you join them?
notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...
Over 52,000 women have signed the open letter to say not in our name.
Will you join them?
notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...
September 21, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Trans people are not a threat to women’s safety.
Over 52,000 women have signed the open letter to say not in our name.
Will you join them?
notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...
Over 52,000 women have signed the open letter to say not in our name.
Will you join them?
notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...
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The iMac G3 from 2001 is my favourite-looking computer of all time, but it's completely unusable these days because of its age.
So I tore out its insides (leaving the CRT screen intact of course) and replaced them with a brand new Mac Mini M4.
So I tore out its insides (leaving the CRT screen intact of course) and replaced them with a brand new Mac Mini M4.
This 25-Year-Old iMac is Faster Than My Gaming PC
I dragged this iMac G3, kicking and screaming, 25 years into the present by swapping its innards for a brand new Mac Mini M4.
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Hi, I'm Matt Gray. You may know me from my work with Tom Scott, The Technical Difficulties, Matt Gray is Trying, or even as a broadcast engineer working in radio and TV.
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September 14, 2025 at 12:13 PM
The iMac G3 from 2001 is my favourite-looking computer of all time, but it's completely unusable these days because of its age.
So I tore out its insides (leaving the CRT screen intact of course) and replaced them with a brand new Mac Mini M4.
So I tore out its insides (leaving the CRT screen intact of course) and replaced them with a brand new Mac Mini M4.
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Star trek strange new worlds has been bought by itvx for any uk fans who don't want to bother with paramount plus. Spread the word.
September 8, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Star trek strange new worlds has been bought by itvx for any uk fans who don't want to bother with paramount plus. Spread the word.
"I'm not angry, just disappointed"
Angry bollard.
#WorldBollardAssociation
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September 7, 2025 at 9:53 PM
"I'm not angry, just disappointed"
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Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life.
And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should
And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should
September 2, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life.
And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should
And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should
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enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits
September 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits