Grim Down South
@sigrim.bsky.social
Fiddling with computers for fun and profit. Loves science, beer, curry and running, amongst other things.
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FOR THE LOVE OF GOD USE HYPHENS
December 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD USE HYPHENS
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A fretless Precision bass should be called an Imprecision bass.
November 25, 2025 at 9:01 AM
A fretless Precision bass should be called an Imprecision bass.
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I have been traveling and today I present to you...the thing I saw in the Frankfurt airport.
Is it efficient? Undeniably. Does it probably work better than the normal way? Oh certainly. Produce less of a mess? Probably?
But the existence of Condiment Udders gives me a deep, aghast disquiet.
Is it efficient? Undeniably. Does it probably work better than the normal way? Oh certainly. Produce less of a mess? Probably?
But the existence of Condiment Udders gives me a deep, aghast disquiet.
October 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I have been traveling and today I present to you...the thing I saw in the Frankfurt airport.
Is it efficient? Undeniably. Does it probably work better than the normal way? Oh certainly. Produce less of a mess? Probably?
But the existence of Condiment Udders gives me a deep, aghast disquiet.
Is it efficient? Undeniably. Does it probably work better than the normal way? Oh certainly. Produce less of a mess? Probably?
But the existence of Condiment Udders gives me a deep, aghast disquiet.
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A thread of inspirational quotes from two of my idols: Kemi Badenoch and Ange Postecoglou
(uh-oh, I may have gotten some mixed up... or have I??)
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(uh-oh, I may have gotten some mixed up... or have I??)
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October 6, 2025 at 9:11 AM
A thread of inspirational quotes from two of my idols: Kemi Badenoch and Ange Postecoglou
(uh-oh, I may have gotten some mixed up... or have I??)
🧵
(uh-oh, I may have gotten some mixed up... or have I??)
🧵
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For many years I have been posting little observations online. What you may not know is that for many years, artists have been illustrating them - for no reason other than they wanted to respond. Below is a thread of some of these beautiful drawings because they should be seen 🧵
October 2, 2025 at 6:54 PM
For many years I have been posting little observations online. What you may not know is that for many years, artists have been illustrating them - for no reason other than they wanted to respond. Below is a thread of some of these beautiful drawings because they should be seen 🧵
The horror.
A TKC listener gets in touch re our section on old cookbooks from the 80s. This delight comes their copy of the Woman’s Own cookbook, circa 1964. Simpler times.
September 1, 2025 at 9:05 PM
The horror.
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Yesterday, at approximately 9:30pm U.S. Central Daylight Time, somebody aboard the International Space Station rocked an astronomically impressive piss:
August 28, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Yesterday, at approximately 9:30pm U.S. Central Daylight Time, somebody aboard the International Space Station rocked an astronomically impressive piss:
I’m getting into writing Cypress tests, but starting everything with it triggers Silence of the Lambs memories:
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August 27, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I’m getting into writing Cypress tests, but starting everything with it triggers Silence of the Lambs memories:
it(‘rubs the lotion on its skin’, () => {
it(‘rubs the lotion on its skin’, () => {
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I've got a huge pile of art to ink up, so I thought I'd get in the zone by doing one of my occasional "just for fun" pages... and to get some of that weird imagery out of my head and onto the paper. One day I'm going to collect all these in a book.
August 12, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I've got a huge pile of art to ink up, so I thought I'd get in the zone by doing one of my occasional "just for fun" pages... and to get some of that weird imagery out of my head and onto the paper. One day I'm going to collect all these in a book.
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I always enjoy reading the TripAdvisor London Forum because I'm fascinated to see what foreign tourists expect, what they ask about and what surprises them. I thought this post from someone from Texas was a really lovely and cheering comment about riding the tube late at night
August 9, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I always enjoy reading the TripAdvisor London Forum because I'm fascinated to see what foreign tourists expect, what they ask about and what surprises them. I thought this post from someone from Texas was a really lovely and cheering comment about riding the tube late at night
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![[Scene is Women’s World Cup match showing on big screen in pub, lots of FANS in pub watching it cheerfully, apart from one guy at the back looking grumpy]
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FANS [as goal goes in]:
YYEEEESSS!
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COMMENTATOR 1 VOICEOVER ON THE TV:
Ooh and there's been a VAR check on that goal
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COMMENTATOR 2:
Yeah Robyn it looks like there’s been a question about it...
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[show a miserable gammony bloke watching the same from the back of the pub]
COMMENTATOR 2:
…from Brian at the back of the pub.
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COMMENTATOR 1:
Looking at the replay we can see Brian using this rare moment of uncomplicated national joy
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COMMENTATOR 1:
to talk about men.
BRIAN [holding his pint while he watches the screen, grumbling his own commentary]:
Grumble Grumble Grumble men’s game
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COMMENTATOR 2:
Yeah you can see from his body position he’s making a dumb and sexist comparison there
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COMMENTATOR 1:
The ref’s made her decision…
[Ref returns to the pitch, making one of the big VAR speeches they’ve started doing through her head-mic]
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REF:
MY JUDGEMENT IS…
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REF:
BRIAN IS TALKING BOLLOCKS.
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PEOPLE IN PUB:
YEEEAAH
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PEOPLE IN PUB [all pointing at Brian]:
SHUT UP BRIAN SHUT UP BRIAN](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreidptbbvbpc664jxdtqfonnmfoz4mb2ldyiglirnxknvunk5uc6e4u@jpeg)
When people ask me how I’m preparing for retirement, this is what I show them.
July 10, 2025 at 9:14 PM
When people ask me how I’m preparing for retirement, this is what I show them.
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Graph of British Rivers
July 5, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Graph of British Rivers
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OK Mrs/Mr/Ms/Mx Harris. It's good of you to give me an opportunity to explain the physics of the radiation emitted by "highly enriched Uranium". In order to do this properly, I have to explain some of the concepts and units of measurement that are relevant.
June 30, 2025 at 9:15 AM
OK Mrs/Mr/Ms/Mx Harris. It's good of you to give me an opportunity to explain the physics of the radiation emitted by "highly enriched Uranium". In order to do this properly, I have to explain some of the concepts and units of measurement that are relevant.
Perhaps the best parenting advice I’ve read:
From an entirely different perspective (I'm guessing), I get the nobility of the idea here: love is sacrifice. But if your children grow up seeing you always unhappy, slavishly going through the motions of parenthood, taking no joy or enjoyment from life, that negativity WILL imprint upon them.
June 17, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Perhaps the best parenting advice I’ve read:
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The FT conducted extensive interviews with Metreweli and her senior female SIS colleagues for this piece three years ago on the top women spies at MI6. To protect her identity, Metreweli chose the pseudonym 'Ada' for the story (free to read)
www.ft.com/content/7417...
www.ft.com/content/7417...
The secret lives of MI6’s top female spies
For the first time ever, SIS officers reveal why women often make the best spies for our times
www.ft.com
June 15, 2025 at 9:40 PM
The FT conducted extensive interviews with Metreweli and her senior female SIS colleagues for this piece three years ago on the top women spies at MI6. To protect her identity, Metreweli chose the pseudonym 'Ada' for the story (free to read)
www.ft.com/content/7417...
www.ft.com/content/7417...
Total perspective vortex.
If you need a breather from all this bullshit, here's a photo of Earth.
From Saturn.
We're that slightly brighter star at centre right.
From Saturn.
We're that slightly brighter star at centre right.
June 6, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Total perspective vortex.
An interesting article. It feels to me like AI papers might benefit from some sort of Gell-Mann amnesia. rachel.fast.ai/posts/2025-0...
June 6, 2025 at 6:44 AM
An interesting article. It feels to me like AI papers might benefit from some sort of Gell-Mann amnesia. rachel.fast.ai/posts/2025-0...
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no more posting about any of those “writing routines of famous writers” unless it’s Edmund White’s
June 4, 2025 at 12:51 PM
no more posting about any of those “writing routines of famous writers” unless it’s Edmund White’s
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You know what sucks? Our newsletter used to go out to over 100k people and then Yahoo Groups closed their damn site and we lost all our subs. We've currently on 25k but if you help us and tell your friends to sub we could possibly creep back to where we were. Sub here --> b3ta.com/subscribe
May 29, 2025 at 6:55 PM
You know what sucks? Our newsletter used to go out to over 100k people and then Yahoo Groups closed their damn site and we lost all our subs. We've currently on 25k but if you help us and tell your friends to sub we could possibly creep back to where we were. Sub here --> b3ta.com/subscribe
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Absolutely surreal to have lived through the Napster days and watched as the titans of industry moved hell and high water to lock down any possible chance that someone's song might get swapped online without giving the studios a cut and now those same people are just like "well we gotta steal music"
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
May 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Absolutely surreal to have lived through the Napster days and watched as the titans of industry moved hell and high water to lock down any possible chance that someone's song might get swapped online without giving the studios a cut and now those same people are just like "well we gotta steal music"