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PhotonThief
@photonthief.com
👨‍👩‍👧 Dad
🤓 Nerd
🌐 SEO consultant
🧠 ADHD

Lover of analogue photography, fountain pens, electronics, RC aircraft, 3d printing, amateur radio and metal🤘
September 23, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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There's always some shit going on with old mate.

Full article here: chaser.com.au/general-news...
April 10, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Oh man...

Lotta denial already about our latest research: sparktoro.com/blog/new-res...

Some faves:
"Does Google search FEEL like the safe thing?" 🤔
"I think the numbers lie." 🙄
"You have to wonder how long search as we know it has. Soon everyone will just talk to their personal AI assistant" 😑
March 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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February 9, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I worked on a site that had this issue recently and I was a real PITA. Great to see @sitebulb.com giving us an easy way to find them 😊
Third time I have encountered a site that caches requests to 404 pages, then on the next request to the same URL returns a 200 and serves the cached error page 😂

@sitebulb.com being cool and adding in a double-404-check thing to catch these!
March 7, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Perfect concise summary of the situation. Unfortunately.
Worth stating simply what’s happening. An American government is launching a full-scope political & economic assault on an ally repelling an ongoing invasion to compel them to terminate martial law, topple their president, hand over minerals to America & accept a ceasefire w/out security guarantees.
March 4, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Borrowing some of Indecorum's energy to help me grind through my monthly reporting. This set is epic! Love it!
Indecorum | HÖR - February 27 / 2025
YouTube video by HÖR BERLIN
www.youtube.com
March 4, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.

18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.

We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
We're not done yet | 18F
18f.org
March 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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“If Roosevelt had told Churchill to sue for peace on any terms with Adolf Hitler and to fork over Britain’s coal reserves to the United States in exchange for no American security guarantees, it might have approximated what Trump did to Zelensky.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...
Opinion | A Day of American Infamy (Gift Article)
A dreadful moment for Ukraine, for the free world, for the legacy of an America that once stood for the principles of the Atlantic Charter.
www.nytimes.com
March 1, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I was so fucking angry after seeing the way Trump and his pitiful piece of shit sidekick Vance treated Zelenskyy today, I was fucking shaking. When my partner asked me what was up and I tried to explain it to her, I started to cry. I've sat on it for the last 12 hours, and I'm still fucking furious.
March 1, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Marco Rubio is like having Tom Wambsgabs as Secretary of State, a man whose ambition is to be an empty suit, on board to take any stance, say anything, whatever the boss wants, and sponge up some of the pain that comes back, all for the trappings, the title, the plane rides, the suits, to be there.
March 1, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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In this world, be Zelensky.
March 1, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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🧵 Just starting to use the #flashes app to view BlueSky image content.

Being able to select and arrange your images in a grid #portfolio is awesome. Better than Instagram!!

I never really liked the limitations of the square format, but I’ll take it.

Who else is using Flashes? #artists
February 26, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Welcome to Australia 🦘 As we would say here "This joints a bit f**ked aye" 😂
Australia's Quiet Collapse
YouTube video by How Money Works
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February 21, 2025 at 1:32 PM
This week has been nuts, super busy, long hours, average sleep, and very little time for fun stuff. At about 11:45pm a couple of nights ago, I thought to myself, should I go to bed, or should I fix the Lamy Safari stub nib I bought ages ago and never really loved?

Of course, the fountain pen won.
February 21, 2025 at 12:54 PM
I'm in Australia. There is no way for me to influence the opinions of US voters. Yet every day, I wake up in a world shaped by the decisions of US voters. I'm f**king sick of it. The US is a f**king clown show at the moment.
February 20, 2025 at 10:59 PM
All I wanted was a relaxing weekend and some sleep after a super busy/stressful week, but my son has caught some sort of virus and is super sick now and I've spent the night on a spare bed in his room with him waking every 30 mins 😩

Maybe I can rest next weekend...
February 14, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Lmao! Facts!
It’s fun starting a new hobby with ADHD because I never know if I’ve found a new lifelong passion or if I’m going to spend $2000 on stuff and immediately lose all interest
February 12, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Matt Maxey killed this.

Here’s his business: deafinitelydope.org
February 10, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Awesome new high-energy techno set from ROÜGE to help me smash through my Monday to-do list 🎧🎶

Got some real Blade vibes at times ⚔️🧛
ROÜGE - DJ set - Frenetic event
YouTube video by ROÜGE
youtu.be
February 10, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Spending the evening watching YouTube while polishing my new (to me) Montblanc 24 fountain pen. I picked this up on eBay a couple of weeks ago, and it arrived yesterday. It's in great shape overall, but someone left ink in it many years ago, which had dried and glued everything together.
February 8, 2025 at 9:39 AM
My fountain pen is full of molten gold (said in the voice of Goldmember from Austin Powers) 😂

I had a couple of new inks arrive today and had to give this one a go before I went to bed. The shimmer is just insane!

It's Van Diemen's Greek Heros Alexander. So cool 😍
February 7, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Blowing the Monday morning cobwebs out with this epic set by FUMI www.youtube.com/live/qG0cTJH...

So fricken good! I can't stop dancing at my desk 😃🎧♥️
240 KMH - FUMI | HÖR - December 17 / 2024
YouTube video by HÖR BERLIN
www.youtube.com
February 2, 2025 at 10:58 PM
I won an auction for a vintage Montblanc set this morning, including a Montblanc 24 fountain pen, 28 ballpoint, and 26 mechanical pencil. The seller is in Serbia and didn't have a lot of feedback... The price was just too good to pass up, though 😆
January 31, 2025 at 9:41 PM