Peter Grant
@grantpe.bsky.social
Asexual. Genderfluid, pronouns they/them. Quaker. Model railway enthusiast. Works with computers. https://en.pronouns.page/@grantpe
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Remember software UIs before minimalism?
December 30, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Remember software UIs before minimalism?
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I'm being glib here but I'm actually very serious about this.
I'm tired of every part of culture being about competition. Everything framed in terms of winners and losers, as though life is zero sum.
It isn't. We make everything better when we see peers and friends, not enemies.
I'm tired of every part of culture being about competition. Everything framed in terms of winners and losers, as though life is zero sum.
It isn't. We make everything better when we see peers and friends, not enemies.
I am not in competition with anyone.
always baffles me when I see “but writers/creatives/etc. HAVE to use AI to remain competitive!”
besides AI writing being worse, there’s no evidence it gives any real advantage over not using it. you’d still have to fix all its screw ups, which takes time you could use to do it right the first time.
besides AI writing being worse, there’s no evidence it gives any real advantage over not using it. you’d still have to fix all its screw ups, which takes time you could use to do it right the first time.
December 29, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I'm being glib here but I'm actually very serious about this.
I'm tired of every part of culture being about competition. Everything framed in terms of winners and losers, as though life is zero sum.
It isn't. We make everything better when we see peers and friends, not enemies.
I'm tired of every part of culture being about competition. Everything framed in terms of winners and losers, as though life is zero sum.
It isn't. We make everything better when we see peers and friends, not enemies.
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I tried to do something that a lot of makers do: a one-day build.
I did not complete it in one day, but I got there eventually. And thats what matters :D
I did not complete it in one day, but I got there eventually. And thats what matters :D
When ADHD attempts a One-Day Build
I attempted to make a new project-building desk in a day. It took a liiiiittle longer than that!
Matt Gray | http://mattg.co.uk | @MattGrayYes
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📋 Credits 📋
Producer: Alex Bate @alexjrassic
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Prusa Research gave me the Prusa XL 3D printer and some filament, with no contract to advertise or promote it. I think it's bloody great however, so I'm choosing to link you to it!
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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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December 14, 2025 at 10:36 PM
I tried to do something that a lot of makers do: a one-day build.
I did not complete it in one day, but I got there eventually. And thats what matters :D
I did not complete it in one day, but I got there eventually. And thats what matters :D
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Motor traffic volumes.
December 12, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Motor traffic volumes.
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BBC Under Attack: Pot and Kettle Special
The new Private Eye is out now.
The new Private Eye is out now.
November 12, 2025 at 8:06 AM
BBC Under Attack: Pot and Kettle Special
The new Private Eye is out now.
The new Private Eye is out now.
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The distance in time between now and when Microsoft Office replaced drop down menus with the ribbon bar at the top is the same as the distance between then and the fall of the Berlin Wall
November 11, 2025 at 7:23 AM
The distance in time between now and when Microsoft Office replaced drop down menus with the ribbon bar at the top is the same as the distance between then and the fall of the Berlin Wall
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Are you ready for #PicoIDE? It seems to be telling me it's ready. Coming soon: ATAPI optical disc emulation and IDE hard drive emulation. picoide.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Are you ready for #PicoIDE? It seems to be telling me it's ready. Coming soon: ATAPI optical disc emulation and IDE hard drive emulation. picoide.com
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Infrastructure planning is bonkers, episode 33:
The new Basingstoke services will be legally only accessible to motorists, despite having a large source of potential employees just 380 metres away from the building and the route by road being much longer (and congested).
The new Basingstoke services will be legally only accessible to motorists, despite having a large source of potential employees just 380 metres away from the building and the route by road being much longer (and congested).
November 6, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Infrastructure planning is bonkers, episode 33:
The new Basingstoke services will be legally only accessible to motorists, despite having a large source of potential employees just 380 metres away from the building and the route by road being much longer (and congested).
The new Basingstoke services will be legally only accessible to motorists, despite having a large source of potential employees just 380 metres away from the building and the route by road being much longer (and congested).
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Railway video coming up this weekend.. so I've been playing with a few before and afters.
Andover probably 70 years apart.
Andover probably 70 years apart.
November 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Railway video coming up this weekend.. so I've been playing with a few before and afters.
Andover probably 70 years apart.
Andover probably 70 years apart.
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If you want your thing to last, and you can make your thing into a static website: You should.
Not because it's less infrastructure. Not because you love javascript. Not because self-hosting. Not because offline.
Because it can be archived and preserved for the future.
Not because it's less infrastructure. Not because you love javascript. Not because self-hosting. Not because offline.
Because it can be archived and preserved for the future.
October 27, 2025 at 7:33 PM
If you want your thing to last, and you can make your thing into a static website: You should.
Not because it's less infrastructure. Not because you love javascript. Not because self-hosting. Not because offline.
Because it can be archived and preserved for the future.
Not because it's less infrastructure. Not because you love javascript. Not because self-hosting. Not because offline.
Because it can be archived and preserved for the future.
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Happy Longest Day Of The Year
October 26, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Happy Longest Day Of The Year
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October 26th is Intersex Awareness Day.
![Intersex bodies are neither wrong nor unnatural. Sex exists on a spectrum.
[ID : Myrick, a boy with dark hair says : Being intersex doesn't mean to be "both a man and a woman" or "born with two sexes". It means to be born with variations in sex characteristics that do not fit nicely in the traditional male/female binary. "Sex exists within a spectrum" is written at the bottom.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vcmpg73bt2wudku3nqgx33yx/bafkreia6wz6mc6rkqjrjyoj2s37sgxtrxmftuaznbyi3gnu3bk6ctjbera@jpeg)
October 26, 2025 at 7:41 PM
October 26th is Intersex Awareness Day.
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This.
Is.
Brilliant.
Is.
Brilliant.
October 4, 2025 at 4:32 PM
This.
Is.
Brilliant.
Is.
Brilliant.
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Today is a direct consequence of:
* a society that has been poisoned by the "commentariat" stoking up division at every opportunity.
* the unthinking, binary "concerned citizen" soundbite politics of sub-rate figures giving ALL extremists legitimacy.
If one extremist feels emboldened, they all do.
* a society that has been poisoned by the "commentariat" stoking up division at every opportunity.
* the unthinking, binary "concerned citizen" soundbite politics of sub-rate figures giving ALL extremists legitimacy.
If one extremist feels emboldened, they all do.
October 2, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Today is a direct consequence of:
* a society that has been poisoned by the "commentariat" stoking up division at every opportunity.
* the unthinking, binary "concerned citizen" soundbite politics of sub-rate figures giving ALL extremists legitimacy.
If one extremist feels emboldened, they all do.
* a society that has been poisoned by the "commentariat" stoking up division at every opportunity.
* the unthinking, binary "concerned citizen" soundbite politics of sub-rate figures giving ALL extremists legitimacy.
If one extremist feels emboldened, they all do.
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Copy that Floppy Cafe 💾
📅Thursday 9 October, 2-5pm
Come have your floppy disk data transferred to a modern format at Cambridge University Library!
For more info and to book: https://loom.ly/FRjMsM8
📅Thursday 9 October, 2-5pm
Come have your floppy disk data transferred to a modern format at Cambridge University Library!
For more info and to book: https://loom.ly/FRjMsM8
September 18, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Copy that Floppy Cafe 💾
📅Thursday 9 October, 2-5pm
Come have your floppy disk data transferred to a modern format at Cambridge University Library!
For more info and to book: https://loom.ly/FRjMsM8
📅Thursday 9 October, 2-5pm
Come have your floppy disk data transferred to a modern format at Cambridge University Library!
For more info and to book: https://loom.ly/FRjMsM8
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Representation’s important, especially during times like now where people are marginalised and turned into scapegoats regularly.
So here’s some stuff that, while none of your business, I’ll share in case it helps anyone feeling alone:
🧵1/
So here’s some stuff that, while none of your business, I’ll share in case it helps anyone feeling alone:
🧵1/
July 1, 2024 at 8:16 PM
Representation’s important, especially during times like now where people are marginalised and turned into scapegoats regularly.
So here’s some stuff that, while none of your business, I’ll share in case it helps anyone feeling alone:
🧵1/
So here’s some stuff that, while none of your business, I’ll share in case it helps anyone feeling alone:
🧵1/
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@showmeasign.online Have a look at this flip-dot VMS speed limit spotted in Japan. It has the bonus of being in the correct colours and also not blanking out if the power is cut.
src: x.com/expwy_sign/s...
src: x.com/expwy_sign/s...
August 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
@showmeasign.online Have a look at this flip-dot VMS speed limit spotted in Japan. It has the bonus of being in the correct colours and also not blanking out if the power is cut.
src: x.com/expwy_sign/s...
src: x.com/expwy_sign/s...
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Happy 30th birthday Windows 95! Advertisements on the desktop
August 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Happy 30th birthday Windows 95! Advertisements on the desktop
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Good news! I've obtained a gender changer and this crime scene will now very "happily" transfer at USB3 speeds. Once. Then Dolphin crashes. (Maybe because changing your gender is now illegal in the UK?)
August 22, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Good news! I've obtained a gender changer and this crime scene will now very "happily" transfer at USB3 speeds. Once. Then Dolphin crashes. (Maybe because changing your gender is now illegal in the UK?)
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It’s. A. Toilet
Toilets aren’t there to make profit.
Toilets aren’t there to make profit.
“Unfortunately, the toilets have never made a profit, they have never even been cost neutral.”
Insane quote...
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/people/...
Insane quote...
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/people/...
Public toilets in Whitby are ‘drain’ on council finances with ‘urgent’ action required
Whitby’s public toilets are a ‘drain’ on the town council’s finances and have resulted in more than £85,000 of above income expenditure since 2018.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk
August 3, 2025 at 2:01 PM
It’s. A. Toilet
Toilets aren’t there to make profit.
Toilets aren’t there to make profit.
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Side-eye from the archdeacon, Hodge. Southwark Cathedral.
August 1, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Side-eye from the archdeacon, Hodge. Southwark Cathedral.
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These are unpleasant underpasses but it would take minimal investment to add lighting, surface treatments, and cctv to discourage the ne'er do wells which would make a huge difference.
We refuse to appreciate the value of walking and cycling routes because economic appraisals are rigged for cars.
We refuse to appreciate the value of walking and cycling routes because economic appraisals are rigged for cars.
Absolutely this. Heading north from the ferry towards N Tyneside and N’land (NCN10) you meet these 2 underpasses within minutes.
It’s great to celebrate the upgrades on the seafront and the C2C but it also highlights just how terrible the rest of our ‘network’ is.
@kimmcguinness.bsky.social
It’s great to celebrate the upgrades on the seafront and the C2C but it also highlights just how terrible the rest of our ‘network’ is.
@kimmcguinness.bsky.social
August 2, 2025 at 10:19 AM
These are unpleasant underpasses but it would take minimal investment to add lighting, surface treatments, and cctv to discourage the ne'er do wells which would make a huge difference.
We refuse to appreciate the value of walking and cycling routes because economic appraisals are rigged for cars.
We refuse to appreciate the value of walking and cycling routes because economic appraisals are rigged for cars.
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The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025!
survey.gendercensus.com
It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.
survey.gendercensus.com
It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.
July 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM
The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025!
survey.gendercensus.com
It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.
survey.gendercensus.com
It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.
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Please don't plug keyboards or other devices into random USB ports, ok?
July 29, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Please don't plug keyboards or other devices into random USB ports, ok?
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Today in the UK, the Online Safety Act (2023) came into force. This means that social media companies are required to undertake age verification for users in the UK to see "adult content". And who decides what is and is not "adult content"? The social media companies themselves.
July 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Today in the UK, the Online Safety Act (2023) came into force. This means that social media companies are required to undertake age verification for users in the UK to see "adult content". And who decides what is and is not "adult content"? The social media companies themselves.