Owen
@problemsdog.bsky.social
A person [citation needed]. He/him. COYS
Outstanding UX design by the local leisure
November 21, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Outstanding UX design by the local leisure
The perils of large font sizes in emails
November 6, 2025 at 9:26 AM
The perils of large font sizes in emails
Strictly speaking that’s the Oxford Dictionary of English (the OED’s confusingly-named little brother, current English only). But the OED proper has that sense dating from 1769. “Literally” as an intensifier predates flushing toilets, the telegraph, and the USA!
October 29, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Strictly speaking that’s the Oxford Dictionary of English (the OED’s confusingly-named little brother, current English only). But the OED proper has that sense dating from 1769. “Literally” as an intensifier predates flushing toilets, the telegraph, and the USA!
POV: you are a skeleton trying to do better
October 16, 2025 at 8:52 PM
POV: you are a skeleton trying to do better
Pollock and McLean
Pollock and McLean
One of them solicits
The other is a pain
Pollock and McLean
One of them solicits
The other is a pain
October 16, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Pollock and McLean
Pollock and McLean
One of them solicits
The other is a pain
Pollock and McLean
One of them solicits
The other is a pain
More representative, probably
October 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
More representative, probably
Post you from a different era
(Not my usual attire. Perhaps it should have been)
(Not my usual attire. Perhaps it should have been)
October 13, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Post you from a different era
(Not my usual attire. Perhaps it should have been)
(Not my usual attire. Perhaps it should have been)
Straight red for the Grim Reaper I reckon
July 27, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Straight red for the Grim Reaper I reckon
...and in fact Google AI agrees, because if you search "Mount Sinai columbine" it chides you for mixing up actual Mount Sinai with the Columbine high school massacre.
Which shows that Google haven't put the needed effort in to train the models not to invent information that doesn't exist, still.
Which shows that Google haven't put the needed effort in to train the models not to invent information that doesn't exist, still.
June 8, 2025 at 12:25 PM
...and in fact Google AI agrees, because if you search "Mount Sinai columbine" it chides you for mixing up actual Mount Sinai with the Columbine high school massacre.
Which shows that Google haven't put the needed effort in to train the models not to invent information that doesn't exist, still.
Which shows that Google haven't put the needed effort in to train the models not to invent information that doesn't exist, still.
Another datapoint for Google AI summaries being terrible: if you google "aquilegia montsicciana" it confidently asserts its common name is "Mount Sinai columbine". Where does this come from? No idea. It's a rare endemic from the Pyrenees that has no English common name I could find... 1/2
June 8, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Another datapoint for Google AI summaries being terrible: if you google "aquilegia montsicciana" it confidently asserts its common name is "Mount Sinai columbine". Where does this come from? No idea. It's a rare endemic from the Pyrenees that has no English common name I could find... 1/2
I’ve also been to Bristol but it was too small to select on my phone
May 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I’ve also been to Bristol but it was too small to select on my phone
Happy birthday to Ewa! here is the neighbour’s cat encountering the excitement of Stick
May 10, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Happy birthday to Ewa! here is the neighbour’s cat encountering the excitement of Stick
@delaneyking.bsky.social Found these LOTR figs from I think the 90s - do you know anything about them? Scuse my paint job, I was very young at the time…
April 20, 2025 at 1:20 PM
@delaneyking.bsky.social Found these LOTR figs from I think the 90s - do you know anything about them? Scuse my paint job, I was very young at the time…
It goes deeper than that. We finally have a lead on the identity of the elusive Sea Peoples of the Bronze Age Collapse
April 18, 2025 at 1:42 PM
It goes deeper than that. We finally have a lead on the identity of the elusive Sea Peoples of the Bronze Age Collapse
Let’s see you break this one
April 8, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Let’s see you break this one
Oh no, my courier can’t deliver the courier I ordered
April 2, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Oh no, my courier can’t deliver the courier I ordered
Yes! And a bit of skirting board, beading and paint can make them look like fancy built-in bookcases
March 29, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Yes! And a bit of skirting board, beading and paint can make them look like fancy built-in bookcases
The football at Old Trafford may be pretty bad now but at least the advertising hoardings are keeping alive the romance of the “Theatre of Dreams”
March 2, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The football at Old Trafford may be pretty bad now but at least the advertising hoardings are keeping alive the romance of the “Theatre of Dreams”
I went upstairs to continue reading The Gone-Away World by @harkaway.bsky.social only to discover my partner was using it, bookmark and all, as a bookmark
January 22, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I went upstairs to continue reading The Gone-Away World by @harkaway.bsky.social only to discover my partner was using it, bookmark and all, as a bookmark
Is... is haggis made of meteorites?
January 18, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Is... is haggis made of meteorites?
Someone tried to get into the Livejournal account I haven't used for aeons. Amused by the end of the notification email
January 12, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Someone tried to get into the Livejournal account I haven't used for aeons. Amused by the end of the notification email