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Daniel Rough
@haggistamer.bsky.social
Lecturer in Computing at University of Dundee! 💻👨‍🏫 Doing HCI research. Scottish. Metalhead. Cheerful Goth. Tamer of haggises. Impostor academic. Occasionally irate. Fuelled by coffee/chocolate/whisky. ☕🍫🥃. he/him
I can't wait to see them live! Only discovered them this time last year and really hoping to get to a concert ASAP 😍
November 20, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Yes I love it! I think it's partly a satire on social media motivational influencer culture, but also a solid "fuck off" to the right. "Like Kathleen Hannah with bear claws grabbing Trump by the pussy" is deliciously visceral 😍
November 20, 2025 at 12:22 AM
I'm hoping SO HARD that release of the Epstein Files are what breaks him. Even the staunchest of Republicans can't legitimately defend pedophilia!
November 20, 2025 at 12:19 AM
I'm glad we have both tried and failed! I was also bullfroggish.

This is my current motivation song from a lovely band. Video made during COVID lockdown of their fans in 80s fitness gear/plague doctor outfits/demonic summoners.

Pre-lecture muttering to myself "You're Joe Cal-fucking-Zaghe!"
IDLES - MR.MOTIVATOR (Official Video)
YouTube video by IDLES
www.youtube.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:11 AM
"Vibe coding" is the practice of people who don't know what the fuck they're doing cosplaying as software developers by using Generative AI to make apps/websites that are superficially fine but are lacking in every dimension of good software practice, including (crucially) security.
November 20, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Fucking love The HU! 😍
Hurt my vocal chords trying to emulate Tuvan throat singing - it should be left to the experts.
November 20, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Uugh right!? It's like:
"Reform propose eating immigrants for low-income nutrition"
(1 day later)
"Labour denounce awful dystopian Reform policies"
(1 month later)
"Labour propose eating immigrants for low-income nutrition"
November 18, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Aah I really hope so! We had the chance 11 years ago but alas we did not capitalise on it 😔
I'm sure IndyRef Mark II would yield a very different result! ✊
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 AM
I have been reliably informed, despite his supercilious appearance, that he is a Very Good Boi 😻
November 18, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Not a kitten but BEHOLD THE ALMIGHTY OTIS. King of my sister's friend's house and surrounding area! 8kg of gorgeous feline disdain 😍
November 18, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Fuck that knobhead and his shitty fucking pasta with assembled leaves.

Fun fact! "Samuel Harris Altman" is an anagram of "AI Satan = LLM user harm"
November 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Aha! I didn't know that, thank you Amber!

Guess I'm too entrenched in the modern era where parents would have to try and shove an XBox in there 😅
November 17, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Christmas songs before December 1st are a criminal offence in over 140 countries that exist only in my mind, including Bloopia, Frizzlestan, and The Republic of Hubbabubba. 👿
November 17, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Fun fact!
"Donald Trump Epstein Files" is an anagram of:
"Print: Senile satsuma pedo lied. Fin."
November 16, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Ah if only I still had the skills to write such a program! I have been indebted to Andy's Anagram Solver for inspiration, but my (warped and wonderful - thank you on both counts) imagination brings them together 😘
Andy's anagram solver
Andys anagram solver - find words or phrases that are anagrams of the input letters, using multi-lingual lexicons of up to 220,000 words
www.ssynth.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 11:18 PM