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Chris
@reallychris.bsky.social
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politics somewhere on the left, i like foss, am a bisexual.

he/him
from north west uk
masto= @reallychris@tech.lgbt
github= https://github.com/rlychrisg
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reallychris.bsky.social
This telly doesn't work it just makes me feel calm

*sings red dwarf theme tune and cries slightly*
A tv from 2000 ish, its a small one with a vhs player built in
November 9, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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i bloody love this game. for about 20 minutes now i've been decelerating towards this ship to rescue the crew. i could speed up time but honestly i like having a vape and a brew and shaving off a bit of velocity when the distance matches stopping distance.
a screenshot of pioneer. there's a gas giant with rings on the left side of the screen, and pretty much nothing else aside from a ship you can't see because it's too far away. space is really big.
November 3, 2025 at 5:05 PM
reallychris.bsky.social
silent majority latest
a cropped version of the charts below showing that all ethnic groups have a net dislike of tories and reform, with only indian people polling 37 to 57 percent tory, and white people polling 33 to 59 people for reform. that's the closest either get, the margin for the rest is vast.
October 30, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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it's the country i'm worried about and yes things are grim, but what would really help me is to have whatever people are smoking, who think this line is going to change direction
a cropped graph showing favourability of starmer compared to previous prime ministers. may and johnson have the same downward trend but there is a lot of fluctuation. starmers line is a near 90 degree nose dive to a point lower than both of them. sadly the numbers are left out so you'll have to use boris johnson's popularity for reference.
October 28, 2025 at 7:11 PM
reallychris.bsky.social
not too much of a stretch
screenshot of wikipedia opinion polling from survation for the caerphilly by election taken from 7-14 october with a sample size of 501. labour have 12%, plaid have 38%, tories have 4%, lib dems have 1%, greens have 3% and reform have 42%
October 22, 2025 at 9:59 PM
reallychris.bsky.social
when labour come in at a distant third tomorrow i'm going to need all the "vote labour or you're splitting the vote" people answer for this

i did consider making this an "if" rather than a "when" but i'm feeling gloomy.
a post from welsh labour about the by election tomorrow showing 25% for plaid, 26% for labour and 28% for reform, to make the point that only welsh labour can beat reform.
October 22, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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i am having lots of fun with pioneer. i'm playing the legacy graphics and it's running with plenty headroom on my old AMD ryzen 5 3500U. i haven't tried flying manual yet. i'm just earning enough money to make sure i can afford to not understand what delta v is. #FOSS #linux
a screenshot of the game pioneer from inside the ship's cockpit. i'm flying past titan in the top right corner towards earth, but saturn is in the way and even though the graphics look kinda hacky in this game sometimes the light is catching it just right and it looks very pretty.
October 19, 2025 at 1:50 PM
reallychris.bsky.social
post yourself from a different era

me when i was cool 😎
a picture of me with hair. i'm in one of the rooms in blueprint studios in salford, there's cool looking orange sound proof padding behind me, and there's a slight vintage type filter applied by the absolute poser who took it. as for me i'm wearing a black hoody unzipped and i'm playing my white mexican strat, where i took the scratch plate and sort of glued an old floral green shirt over it, which looks really cool. the fingerboard is maple. that matters because it's cool. also my hair is not long, but long ish. i'm about 25 i think.
October 13, 2025 at 4:40 PM
reallychris.bsky.social
anyway when did talk tv hire edward tattsyrup and is reece shearsmith not a little concerned that the station is presenting him at face value, rather than the beloved comedy character?
a picture of kevin o'sullivan who doesn't look EXACTLY like the league character but has similar hair and thick rimmed glasses
October 7, 2025 at 1:42 PM
reallychris.bsky.social
i'm probably not alone here. here is a fun clip i made though.
October 3, 2025 at 2:54 PM
reallychris.bsky.social
have i ever told you about my illegal tape measure? look closely, metric on both sides. you could quite easily put inches on one side, but what if the thing you want to measure won't fit on that side, and you still want to divide it by 10 without much effort? this isn't a tool it's a statement.
a tape measure extended to 7 cm on a kitchen chopping board
September 2, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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if you're going to excuse labour for their piss poor response to the impending threat of fascism can you at least leave out the fucking nicknames? it's really cringe.

the guy is going on about camps and mass deportations and the best you can do is say he smells like poo?
a post from an account whose details i have censored that reads 'not nailing him due to political incompetence isn't the same as agreeing with what fagrage says and is not doing what he says. even if you seem to want it to be. calling fagrage and badenock racists extremists might well backfire badly politically even if it is morally and factually correct (it is)."
August 28, 2025 at 9:30 AM
reallychris.bsky.social
paul mason says anybody who splits the progressive vote is responsible for reform govt.

this is how labour and the greens are responding to farage's fascist rally today.
an insta post from labour showing a split between farage and starmer. over farage it says "shouting from the sidelines", and over starmer it says "remmoved over 35k people from the uk with no right to be here" an image from the green party showing a similar split view. in one corner there is an empty life vest floating in the water with the caption "migrants aren't the problem" and in the other corner is much clearer water with a yacht and the caption reads "inequality is"
August 26, 2025 at 10:36 PM
reallychris.bsky.social
what the fuck is youtube's plan for me at the moment?

thing is though, it's not like i'm not completely averse to the ideas i'm being presented with.

i'm reaching for the random or whatever will bewilder me.
a youtube thumbnail for a video by "worcester terrariums" titled "the process of making friends with a tiny spider" which is 8 minutes long, is 2 months old and has 2.5m views (no, really). the thumbnail itself is the very tippiest tip of a finger tip next to a tiny spider.
August 26, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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yesterday angela rayner was paying lip service to the far right, literally warning of a "summer of riots if labour didn't address people's concerns" and "tackle the profound impact of migration".

coming from the deputy prime minister, that's serious validation for the absolute worst people.
a tweet from tommy robinson at 9:30 pm july 23rd "it's going to be an interesting summer (union jack emoji)"
July 23, 2025 at 10:58 PM
reallychris.bsky.social
looks like somebody in town is had a great night but they'll be paying for it all next week
screenshot of a reddit post in r/manchester titled "how do buses work?" with 46 upvotes and 89 comments
July 20, 2025 at 5:05 AM
reallychris.bsky.social
valve announce new spokesman
a screenshot from half life 2. wallace breen is looking down from a large screen inside a large hall with combine flags and wire fences
July 17, 2025 at 8:28 AM
reallychris.bsky.social
oh it's beautiful
a screenshot of tomorrow (today) weather forecast. from 6am to 7pm there is a 10-15mph wind blowing north, and the credible promise of rain throughout the day.
July 15, 2025 at 1:49 AM
reallychris.bsky.social
i think we could all do with this excellent photo taken by simon bukcley
a photo of a busy pedestrian crossing on deansgate in manchester city centre. it's probably the most manchester photo ever taken. there is a shot of a train bridge next to an old pub with people rushing across the road in the pouring rain.
July 11, 2025 at 8:37 PM
reallychris.bsky.social
i changed the syntax highlighting for markdown files in neovim, so folds are the same colour as headers. it's really handy because now i still have eye-catching headers, but they collapse hiding all the stuff that i may or may not want to see.

so handy if neovim is your notes app
a snippet of a file ~/.config/nvim/after/ftplugin/markdown.lua which has a bit of lua code in setting some mark down specific settings. the code is as follows "vim.opt_local.shiftwidth = 2" new line "vim.opt_local.wrap = true" new line "vim.api.nvim_set_hl(0, "Folded", { fg = 'orange' }) and a demonstration markdown file, showing some normal text, some headers, and a folded section which is the same as the headers aside from the long string of hyphens taking up the rest of the line.
July 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
reallychris.bsky.social
RIP to one of the longest running and consistently funny jokes in human history, an icon of the digital age
a tweet from house of judiciary GOP with three american flags and a gray checkmark. the tweet reads (following the alert emoji in block caps) "breaking: epstein files released" with a tiny url link. below is a community note which says the link is to the youtube video of rick asley's "never gonna give you up"
July 8, 2025 at 10:03 PM
reallychris.bsky.social
i love the little tmux widget i made for my waybar. it took me ages but it's much better than just having the terminal icon in the task bar. now i know which sessions are running and whether or not they are attached.

behold my little tmux widget
a screenshot of my little tmux widget, sitting between workspaces and the task bar. there are three icons in the widget, a notebook, a sort of half rolled bit of paper, and a cog. these mean my notes, script folder and config folder. the notes icon is bright while the other two are dim because they aren't attached.
July 6, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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i hope you're blocked by this guy
a screen shot of clear sky for a user called teekay, and i don't usually name people like this but you'll know why when you hear the biog which follows "you may be wondering why i blocked you along with tens of thousands of others. it's usually because you, without critical thought, liked, for example, a hamas propaganda tweet about a genocide that didn't happen"
July 5, 2025 at 8:00 AM
reallychris.bsky.social
this said 29 yesterday. it's an improvement but it's still going to be too hot. i want it around 22. 22 is a number to have the weather at.
a screen shot of bbc weather for monday the 30th. it's a cloud with sun rays and it says it's going to be 28 degrees. "sunny intervals and gentle breeze"
June 28, 2025 at 8:14 PM
reallychris.bsky.social
omg it's the guy from star gate universe
robert carlyle in the opening shot of 28 weeks later. it's dark and he's sort of half lit by candle light.
June 26, 2025 at 11:52 PM