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James Hannett
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Full time computer weirdo. Games, infosec and devops in no specific order.
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I think this might be a sign that we are lol
Advert on the Financial Times asking if we’re in a bubble
October 24, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Why have they wojak’d him?
Photo of a kindle showing the author photo for Cixin Liu. The photo has been stretched so he has a short face and a wide head
August 23, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Had to check activations too because I’m so old and decrepit now that my actual first purchases don’t show up there
Screenshot of my purchases on steam showing I bought RoboBlitz first, then Garry’s Mod, Psychonauts, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines and most recently The Deus Ex Collection Screenshot of my license activations showing that the actual first thing I bought via Steam was Half-Life 2 Gold followed by Rag Doll Kung Fu (first 3rd party game available on Steam, inexplicably), Darwinia, Red Orchestra, Sin Episode 1, HL2: Episode 1, Defcon and then it catches up with my purchases at RoboBlitz
August 15, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Don’t do me like this, Journal app.
Push notification from the Journal app on my phone suggesting I might like to write a diary entry for “Eating at Burger King”
July 21, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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The good news is that they won’t deny care! I do not know how this happened but I do know it made it easier to get an early covid jab because my BMI was..abnormal.
Screenshot of the NHS app showing that my height was recorded as 391cm
July 2, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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The only reason Shopify wants this is to see what I’m buying from other companies. Bad taste. I just wanted order updates.
Screenshot of a permissions dialog showing that the app ‘Shop’ wants permission to read the contents of emails sent to my Gmail account
March 28, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Fixed up my old penknife today. Cleaned it, oiled it, sharpened it and replaced some missing springs and bits. It’s over 25 years old now.
Penknife, oil and tools laid out ready for work. Fully oiled and complete penknife
March 9, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Made some bread
Freshly mixed bread dough Proofed and scored bread dough Freshly baked bread
January 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Beyond thrilled to have my achievements officially recognised
Screenshot of one of my posts showing a ‘nepo baby’ moderation label applied. The label says ‘Blue Link (parent)’
December 21, 2024 at 12:09 AM
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US Government: please do not shoot hard drives with a gun to erase the data on them
Excerpt from NIST 800-88 advising that attempting to use a firearm to purge data from a storage device may not be successful
December 16, 2024 at 11:34 AM
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Screenshot of Hugh Grant’s character in Heretic, but with a speech bubble to make it look like he’s saying the quoted post below
November 19, 2024 at 12:43 PM
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If you see this, quote-post a bridge
Photograph of Magdalen Bridge in Oxford. Photo taken from the Botanical Gardens. Some punts are visible, tied up by the bank.
October 25, 2024 at 11:23 PM
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Phone cameras are really quite good
Photograph of an unusally vibrant aurora borealis taken in Oxford Another photo of aurora borealis, this time with the silhouette of a building in the lower right
May 11, 2024 at 12:04 AM
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They’ve licensed Lego’s dick detector
Screenshot of a Eurogamer article about Lego Fortnite. The paragraph is about how they’ve added Lego bricks to Fortnite’s creative mode. A highlighted sentence reads that doing this has ‘prompted further changes in the game’s own suite of player safety tools’.
December 7, 2023 at 4:07 PM
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Phew! Long day; time to crack open a cold one
Photo of what appears to be a drinks can but is instead Tikka Masala curry sauce
December 5, 2023 at 6:05 PM
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Got some cool stuff in the post today! Guidebooks for an old computer game that never actually existed. hollow-press.net/products/ver...
Cover of a book with the title Vermis I. There is an illustration on the book of a man in a black suit of armour fighting 2 red skeletons. Cover of a book with the title Vermis II. There is an illustration showing a white figure in armour holding a long sword standing in front of a green mirror that shows what appears to be the same figure but as a skeleton. A double page spread in a book titled ‘The Bone Hunter’. Part of a page in the book titled ‘Cursed Fool’. There is an illustration of a figure in armour holding their head in despair.
November 18, 2023 at 3:14 PM