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Jesus wept, have we done something to upset the person in charge of BBC4 or something? #totp
September 11, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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Very niche software, part 2:
philbooth.me/blog/very-ni...
September 11, 2026 at 2:25 PM
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Sometimes error messages create endorphins.
Screen grab: Are you sure you want to delete "Twitter"?
September 5, 2026 at 7:31 AM
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September 4, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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The dahlias are happy
A glorious pompom dahlia dominates the foreground, its petals showing pink, peach, orange and yellow. In the background, the sun shines on my fruit bushes. A bumblebee collects nectar from the flower on a Bishop of Leicester dahlia. The flower has petals that are pink, purple and white while the stamen in its centre are a rich golden colour. Another pompom dahlia, same variety as the first but a different plant. The petals on this one are a touch darker in their shade of pink, but the yellow and orange are stronger too. Just beautiful, intricate and endlessly fascinating to look at.
August 30, 2026 at 6:07 PM
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Introduce yourself with 10 acts you've seen live:

Andrew Weatherall
Aphex Twin
The Beta Band
Fat White Family
Kruder & Dorfmeister
Lee "Scratch" Perry
Lemon Jelly
Orbital
Radiohead
Slayer
fisherandrew79.bsky.social Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 17d
Introduce yourself with 10 acts you’ve seen live:

Billy Bragg
Tracy Chapman
Beverley Craven
Nik Kershaw
The Levellers
Manic Street Preachers
Oasis
Skunk Anansie
The Verve
The Zutons
brokenbottleboy.bsky.social Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 17d
Introduce yourself with 10 acts you’ve seen live:

The Fall
The Mountain Goats
Prince
Metallica
Rage Against The Machine
Dead Prez
Motörhead
Pixies
Le Tigre
My Bloody Valentine
August 30, 2026 at 10:45 AM
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Surprising no-one, Legs & Co win the evening. It's like watching Boris Becker in his pomp. #totp
Screenshot of Blue Friday, a Bluesky #totp client, showing Legs & Co as the most popular meme of the evening with 20 posts.
August 28, 2026 at 8:24 PM
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"When Legs & Co leave the tower, England will fall" #totp
August 28, 2026 at 8:12 PM
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A young Gérard Houllier on vocals there #totp
August 28, 2026 at 7:48 PM
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Jog on Straussy, don't let the door hit you on the way out #totp
August 28, 2026 at 7:42 PM
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Needs more Legs & Co #totp #proms
August 28, 2026 at 6:20 PM
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"Hmmm? Oh nothing, we're just destroying these books so we can feed them to AI."

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Secondhand book sales are booming. Is it because of AI?
Booksellers are reporting mysterious bulk orders. It's thought the books are being used to train AI - and ending up pulped.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 15, 2026 at 3:41 PM
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Why is Burnham so reluctant to talk about the cliamte crisis? New Labour MPs take over £45k from oil and gas lobbyists
August 14, 2026 at 9:19 AM
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The Haywain 2026
August 13, 2026 at 11:55 AM
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Hmmm? Oh nothing, just the forest burning on our dog walk last night. 😞🔥
A chalky footpath runs through heather and gorse in the New Forest. Two black labradors are walking along the path away from the camera. On the horizon a huge cloud of smoke billows from left to right as the forest burns in the distance.
August 10, 2026 at 8:03 AM
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Beethoven giving off distinct Lemon Jelly vibes with his Fifth #proms
August 7, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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Witness the triumph of my beetroot harvest (tennis ball for scale)
4 beetroots lie on a garden bench, their leaves resplendent and fresh soil falling from them onto the bench below. A tennis ball next to them, somewhat incongruous, but there to measure size apparently. Three of the beetroots are roughly tennis ball sized (let's be generous) but the fourth is a mega-beetroot, dwarfing the puny tennis ball with ease. Look on my works ye mighty and despair!
August 4, 2026 at 8:12 AM
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If a coworker dumped a 5k-line code review on you, you'd tell them to come back when it's broken down into smaller reviewable chunks. It should be no different with agent harnesses. Get them to break that stuff down, then review each part independently.
June 17, 2026 at 9:17 AM
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I wrote some words about agentic coding and mental models: philbooth.me/blog/agentic...
Agentic coding and mental models
Personal website of Phil Booth
philbooth.me
June 11, 2026 at 5:17 PM