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Chris The Hairy
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Newish here. Reminds me a lot of old tw*tt*r.
South London. Corporate IT gimp. Bad musician. Run a bit 🐐

Also tend to be a bit literal so not brilliant reading the room. Inveterate user of the singular "they."
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Windows updates ftw.
System log from Windows PC with a lot of Service Control manager errors. This is not great.
November 27, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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You had to cut a specifically positioned notch out of the sleeve of a 5.25" or 8" floppy. There were hole-punch-like things that would do this neatly.

Re-enabling write meant taping over the hole.

Good times!
Diagram of 5.25 inch floppy disk.
November 26, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Nice out? No.
Myself, and idiot, feeling very cold at a South London bus stop.
November 24, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Here we go....
Email from internal "AI Growth Lead" promising an AI update and some Agent stuff. Names redacted to protect the guilty.
November 3, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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First run after Chicago last weekend. Problem leg so going to be a tough winter of physio. Got a new hanger for majors and have got a place for Sydney next year. 4x marathons in 4x countries and 3x continents this year which has been fun too.
Myself, in a blue and white Chicago Marathon top, sticking tongue out. It's raining and I've just run 10 miles. Medal hanger for marathon majors that I've run. 2x London, 1x Berlin, 1x Chicago. Flip display of race numbers. Chalked progress (7x stars, 3x crossed out)
October 19, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Ohio Nazis. I hate Ohio Nazis.
October 16, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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3 mins in MS paint:
Blues Brothers Illinois Nazis meme updated to read "Ohio Nazis. I hate Ohio Nazis"
October 16, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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Blues Brothers Illinois Nazis meme edited to say "Ohio Nazis, I hate Ohio Nazis"
October 16, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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Person in robes and mask sitting on a stage, speaking into microphone, with number of effect pedals in front of him.
September 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Before & after the Berlin Marathon. Lack of proper training & horrible conditions made it an interesting day. Nice course, lots of runners, not the same crowds as London but loads of bands & music.

4:48:46 time. Slowest race by far but pretty happy with just getting round!
Me, pulling a "this is going to suck" expression, surrounded by other runners at the start of the Berlin Marathon. Pulling a similarly questionable expression while holding a finishers medal. Nice bling, German tricolour band, Brandenburg Gate on the front, map of route on the rear.
September 22, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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No shit sherlock.
There are still considerable hurdles for this form of transport in terms of infrastructure, regulation and public acceptance.
September 17, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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= "We force you to use AI tools but still blame you for mistakes"

Cool, cool.
LLMs don't produce flawless code, and we have seen that a growing use of AI in development increases bugs. But AI is still just a tool for us, and tools don’t ship bugs, humans do. To protect against these risks, in close partnership with security and privacy teams, we developed a repository sensitivity matrix that identifies criteria that repository owners must meet to use LLM-based tools to operate on code. This ensures Coinbase maintains the highest bar for customer safety and quality while allowing our engineers to move quickly and with confidence.
September 4, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Raided my FB photo album....
"How do you do fellow kids" meme with orca head wearing a salmon as a hat.
August 11, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Relevant morale patch for my new Covert Instruments Genesis kit.
Small black pouch with morale patch. Patch is a Windows XP information pop-up box reading "Task failed successfully."
July 12, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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From the article.

Strong Stockton Rush vibes but with more fallout.
“We’ve operated reactors so well for so long that a whole new breed of advocates and even founders mistakenly believe that they’re fail-safe by default,” says Touran. “The reality is they’re made fail-safe by very careful and well-regulated engineering and quality assurance.”
April 30, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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#running #londonmarathon Did this on Sunday. Hot day, started overheating 22 miles in so slowed down. St John's Ambulance had a lot of work that I didn't want to add to! 4:14:57 time, happy with that after last weekend, well inside my 'four and a half-ish but whatever' target.
Me sticking my tongue out while holding a medal for completing the 2025 London Marathon. Stats for my 2025 London Marathon. 4 hours 14 minutes 57 seconds finishing time.
April 29, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Friday's Manchester to Liverpool ultra. 50 miles. Destroyed my goals but only same again 2 days later. #running #ultrarunning #gbultras
Me, at about 5:50am, not looking too enthusiastic about my life choices. Me, that afternoon, with gold medal meaning that I finished in top 200. Strata results. 80.47km, 6:47min/km, 9:05:20 elapsed time are what matters.
April 20, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Oops.
$TSLA down %14 on the day.
March 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Scottish slam band Party Cannon have it right. Often the only logo in colour on lineup lists:
Poster for Bay Area Deathfest. Most bands have unreadable logos, Party Cannon's is colourful & resembles a childrens entertainer's.
March 7, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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This machine kills cybertrucks
Heavy rain on a road
February 13, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Elon Musk is a cretin. No notes
Twitter grab. James Rosen-Birch quotes an image of Elon complaining about duplicate SSNs in a database, and says "TIL Elon has never used SQL" Note: there is some SSN duplication, apparently, and if he's thinking that SSN would be the key field anywhere then that's a bad design choice considering the previous condition. Elon responds with "This r-slur thinks the government uses SQL" Community notes added, saying "The Social Security Administration and several other government entities utilize MySQL and thus are "using SQL"" and link to the MySQL site. Anyone thinking that a massive organization doesn't use SQL knows nothing about computing in that context. See: Elon.
February 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Waiting for flight back to London at hotel pool. Could be worse I suppose.
Hotel pool, bright sunshine. Image of legs & feet, e-reader and cat on the ground.
January 27, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Ew.
NBC suit.
January 16, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Merry Christmas you degenerates.
Grumpy me wearing a Santa hat and a Jim'll Paint It conspiracy theory jumper while flicking the Vs.
December 25, 2024 at 7:05 PM
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My mum has a very @themerl.bsky.social -coded tea tray...
Tea tray with 2 rows of 3 farm animals. Top row is a chicken, a rectangular cow and a rectangular pig. Bottom row is a goose, a chunky cockeral, and a very rectangular sheep.
December 24, 2024 at 5:38 PM