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Paul Watson 🌍
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Web developer born in the last millennia. CTO @sociolocal.io and @openup.org.za, vice-chair @somersetstrikers.co.za. South Africa 🌍
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Syndicate would be up there for me.
January 9, 2026 at 10:12 PM
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Nice! Syndicate was a favourite amongst a few others from the 89s and 90s.
January 9, 2026 at 9:47 PM
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Fernkloof towards Hemel en Aarde.
Black and white landscape showing near ground fynbos in shade, mountains on the horizon, and a lit up valley between.
January 9, 2026 at 7:49 PM
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Son starting high school orientation tomorrow. They have to make and look after a brakkie for a month. Wild West theme so he made a (cute) coyote. It has a brick inside it! We used a door mat for the fur. Mom putting finishing touches to it.
Women colouring in the nose of a furry toy in the shape of a coyote with eyes, ears, fur, and a hat. Furry toy in the shape of a coyote with eyes, ears, fur, bandana, tongue, sunglasses, and a hat.
January 9, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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Rain at a cricket game?

Doesn't slow down the party in Durban. #sa20 #dsgvsec
January 9, 2026 at 5:48 PM
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Fernkloof towards Hermanus
Landscape photo of sea, coast, town, two people on the edge of a cliff
January 9, 2026 at 9:35 AM
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These Grok AI LLM instructions remind me of men who argue for lowering the age of consent. It’s clearly not about good intent.
However, the rules also direct Grok to "assume good intent" and "don't make worst-case assumptions without evidence" when users request images of young women. Using words like "teenage' or 'girl' does not necessarily imply underage," Grok's instructions say.
January 9, 2026 at 9:21 AM
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So @bsky.app search has 3h old results for Renee Nicole Good but day old results for Jonathan Ross, pre identification of the ICE agent who killed Renee. There are lots of recent posts about Jonathan Ross.
January 8, 2026 at 9:34 PM
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Fernkloof towards Walker Bay.
Black and white landscape showing a plateau then a chalky cliff and a sea level landscape beyond
January 8, 2026 at 8:18 PM
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How beautiful is Boland Park cricket stadium in Paarl, South Africa. Home of the #SA20 Paarl Royals 💪🏾
January 8, 2026 at 6:19 PM
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Yes, guardrails make it so you can’t even “discuss” it with an LLM
Screenshot of ChatGPT: User: Proof: Bit "kind" calling generated images of nude children "explicit". Explicit can be legal. Published nude children is not. System warning: • This content may violate our terms of use or usage policies. Did we get it wrong? Please tell us by giving this response a thumbs down.
January 8, 2026 at 1:27 PM
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Nice API stability from @bsky.app. skylink.paulmwatson.com still works just fine.
Screenshot of a web browser showing skylink.paulmwatson.com with a table of links with their mention counts, dates etc.
January 7, 2026 at 1:50 PM
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Maybe @bsky.app shouldn’t label US Military Strategy as “Hot”. Trump might get the wrong idea 🥵💦
Screenshot of Bluesky Explore screen listing US Military Strategy as top item with a “HOT” label
January 7, 2026 at 1:41 PM
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Hiked Fernkloof recently; no other place on earth where so many different species can be seen growing in such close proximity.
Osmitopsis asteriscoides shrub. Brown naked branch with silvery green furry leaves and white and yellow flowers.
January 6, 2026 at 9:38 PM
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I’m all for being sensitive but now hand wash has feelings?
Bottle of hand wash on a counter with a green label that says “SENSITIVE”
January 6, 2026 at 9:11 PM
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👌🏽 nicely done. Egrets are bizarre!
Photo of an egret bird, hunched, like a wise guy
September 1, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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One of my favourite flavour contrasts is marmalade and Marmite. Not on the same piece of toast but eaten alternately, with a cup of tea. They set each other up so well.
Photo of a counter top with a jar of marmalade and a jar of marmite and a plate with toast spread with the sauces
September 1, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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See! 👌
Screenshot of Bluesky timeline showing some posts and muting/hiding ones mentioning #bb27
September 1, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Don't forget before 28 September to OPT OUT from Anthropic Claude using your personal and private chats as training data for 5 years. claude.ai/settings/dat...
1. Help improve Claude by allowing us to use your chats and coding sessions to improve our models With your permission, we will use your chats and coding sessions to train and improve our Al models. If you accept the updated Consumer Terms before September 28, your preference takes effect immediately. If you choose to allow us to use your data for model training, it helps us: • Improve our Al models and make Claude more helpful and accurate for everyone • Develop more robust safeguards to help prevent misuse of Claude We will only use chats and coding sessions you initiate or resume after you give permission. You can change your preference anytime in your Privacy Settings. 2. Updates to data retention- your choices and controls If you choose to allow us to use your data for model training, we'll retain this data for 5 years. This enables us to improve Claude through deeper model training as described above, while strengthening our safety systems over time. You retain full control over how we use your data: if you change your training preference, delete individual chats, or delete your account, we'll exclude your data from future model training. Learn more about our data retention practices here.
September 1, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Gwijo South Africa through to historic #RWC2025 quarter-final 💪 www.rugbyworldcup.com/2025/en/news...
September 1, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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People park in bike lanes, too close to fire hydrants, and obstructing the sidewalk. I wonder if there’s a bicycle charity that slaps “fines” on these cars and people feel shamed to donate.
Photo of a bakkie parked over a bike lane and on the sidewalk.
August 31, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Boland ran the Sharks close in Pietermaritzburg. #shavbol #currieCup
Sharks XV 33. Boland Kavaliers 31. Full time.
August 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Be Bosch #fuckICE
Character in TV show called Bosch saying: You tell them we don’t have them over to ICE
August 29, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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I googled for the source of the joke and got this unasked for but pitch perfect AI response. 😂 Truly the tool of fascists.
• Al Overview The premise you provided isn't quite right because time zones are a geographical concept, not a historical one. The statement "In the USA it's the late 1930s Germany" is not a time zone. In fact, if it were Noon in Denmark, it would be around 6 PM in the Eastern Time Zone of the USA, which is part of the present day, and not the 1930s.
August 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Oh my giddy aunt the NX hack is dumb.
Screenshot of github issue comment: ryankshaw said 2 days ago All the security advisories should be updated to note that if you have the x console extension installed, just by having opened Cursor or VS code during the hours that these compromised versions existed, you could become infected. That was how I became compromised too. I verified that my PNPM lock file did not have any of the vulnerable versions in it but when you open the NX console extension in cursor it tries to download '@latest' The advisories make it sound like if you verify that those NPM packages in your local repo are not specific versions that you're fine, but that's not true if you have the VS code extension installed.
August 29, 2025 at 2:36 PM