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Paul Hamer
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Based in Hampshire UK.
I life sci-fi, humour, D&D and end up getting annoyed by politics. I enjoy food and travel.
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Enjoy this Sunday’s caption contest! Give away lots of ❤️s, please repost to encourage more competitors, and include #GirlsOwnCC
September 27, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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Enjoy this Sunday’s caption contest! Give away lots of ❤️s, please repost to encourage more competitors, and include #GirlsOwnCC
September 20, 2026 at 4:59 PM
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Reposting this so people get to see it without context. I think that’s important.
September 19, 2026 at 7:44 PM
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Gingy Gingerbread Man Getting Glazed
Alt: Gingy Gingerbread Man Getting Glazed
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September 19, 2026 at 7:28 PM
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As far as you can avoid personal remarks altogether. They are seldom acceptable; shy people are made uncomfortable even by compliments. Never grumble if you can help it. Do not contradict; if possible, agree, and if not, stay silent.
September 19, 2026 at 7:33 PM
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if you see this, post your getaway vehicle
August 30, 2026 at 9:58 PM
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In the summer of 2013, two esoteric, technical, incredibly important texts were published within weeks of one another: the first is the Snowden leaks, which revealed a system of global, pervasive digital surveillance.

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"Eugène Delacroix's painting 'La Liberté guidant le peuple' ('Liberty Leading the People'), depicting the French revolution as a ragtag group of peasants led by a flag-waving, bare-breasted incarnation of 'Liberty.' The painting has been altered: the scene is now being observed with a giant, smoke-shrouded CCTV dome, and the distant building have been replaced with a mainframe computer.
August 11, 2026 at 11:49 AM
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Enjoy this dramatic illustration for the Sunday caption contest, give away lots of ❤️s, please repost to encourage more competitors, and include #GirlsOwnCC
August 9, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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I believe Clacton deserves an MP who will spend their time shining a light on everything the area has to offer. And why wait till I'm elected? I've been to visit one of the constituency's most stunning landmarks.
August 9, 2026 at 8:56 AM
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I might have made something cool. I’m not certain, but I can’t stop playing it
Hexsweeper 3D
Minimalist minesweeper on a sphere — themes, controls, and sharing.
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August 6, 2026 at 6:34 PM
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I see Rod Liddle has died. Apropos of nothing, here's my poem "You Put the Fun in Funeral."
On the morning of your funeral, it felt odd to dress in black. The mood was celebratory – You weren’t ever coming back. "It's nice to see so many here," the chirpy vicar said. Little did she know that we were there to make sure you were dead. I look round at all the faces there, at your only legacy. The hurt, betrayed, the cheated - All combinations of those three. Your family stand there all serene and eulogize some lies about a warm honourable soul - It’s nobody we recognise. My florist, she refused to make a wreath out of nightshade so in the end Forget-me-nots were at your graveside laid. You would have seen the irony had you had any sense. We'd love to forget all about you and all you represent. The only tears we shed that day were strictly crocodilian, All hoping it was true what the eulogy said, that you were one in a million. I wish you were a zombie, so you could die again. Although it'd be a tricky shot, to shoot you in the brain. If only you'd been cremated, we could have robbed the Urn. We'd queue to piss into it - Everyone could have a turn. The worlds a better place with you gone, your loss feels like a win. Whenever you left a party, It was like someone nice walked in. The grievers leave now, still aggrieved, all thinking what no-one said. "You were a cunt when you were living, you're still a cunt - just dead."
August 3, 2026 at 8:09 PM
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Enjoy the Sunday caption contest, give away lots of ❤️s, please repost to encourage more competitors, and include #GirlsOwnCC
August 2, 2026 at 4:59 PM
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I keep saying what this post says, but people just don’t get it. They think that AI will magically fix the fact that there are many repositories of information in every business, many of them wrong or badly written. AI can’t tell what’s important or what is true in the slop that’s fed into it.
doctorow.pluralistic.net By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · Aug 1
Chatbots don't help. The internally facing chatbot that's supposed to help employees figure out how to navigate the business sucks because it is only as good as its training date - the business's documentation of its own processes.

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August 1, 2026 at 1:29 PM
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A great essay - or series of posts, click to read more several times. This sets out clearly what I and others find so unnerving about the AI boom and how everything now has to be better with AI, even though the people saying that can’t even describe what they mean by it.
doctorow.pluralistic.net By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · Aug 1
Neoclassical econ assumes rationality. The corollary of, "If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?" is "you're rich, so you must be very smart!" Thus, people assume that if powerful, well-compensated CEOs insist that "AI is changing everything," well then, *AI must be changing everything*.

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A sepia-toned 1950s era boardroom in which men in suits sit around a circular table. The chair of the meeting has been replaced with a man in a straitjacket, making a funny face. The heads of the remaining board-members have been replaced with robots from 1930s pulp magazines. The image has been hand-tinted.
August 1, 2026 at 1:23 PM
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THREAD.
In today's exclusive newspaper interview the actor, influencer and designer Philippa Islington-Smythe (pictured) discusses the price of fame, her controversial new perfume, working with Margot Robbie and how becoming a parent changed her perspective on the world...

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Philippa Islington-Smythe - aka my cat Roscoe - hanging out on her favourite armchair, but mentally trapped in a reverie about the summer of 1995.
July 26, 2026 at 7:06 PM
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This is a really weird series of posts. I learned a lot.
oddthisday.bsky.social Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · Jul 25
Alas! It is the 332nd anniversary of the death of Hishikawa Moronobu, known for his work in Edo-period Japan—but as far as I’m concerned most renowned for being the original artist of a work recreated in the 1840s and beloved on The Interwebs for some years now... 🧵
A section of a he-gassen scroll c.1846, depicting three men on one side and two on the other, all in various states of undress. One is holding his nose, another contorted on the floor, while three have dark jets of gas emerging from their arseholes. On the left, the gas is particularly large, and seems to have removed a man’s hat
July 25, 2026 at 10:26 AM
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Enjoy the Sunday caption contest, give away lots of ❤️s, repost to encourage more competitors, include #GirlsOwnCC
July 19, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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Enjoy the Sunday caption contest, give away lots of ❤️s, repost to encourage more competitors, include #GirlsOwnCC
July 12, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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⚠️ ICYMI: Nigel Farage Resigns (Translated)

🙏 Please like and share the latest report from #BrokenNews.

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Breaking: Nigel Farage Resigns as MP - #BrokenNews
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July 11, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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BBC News story: However, no sunscreen provides absolute protection from UV radiation. So, you should wear trousers or skirts with a fabric that does not allow sunlight through, a top with long sleeves, a sun hat and sunglasses. A still from the 1950s TV series of HG Wells’s The Invisible Man, showing the title character wrapped up in a big coat, hat, shades and with bandages round his face
July 10, 2026 at 11:12 AM
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Because of the first-past-the-post system, REF are winning seats because the GRN are taking votes from LAB, not because REF are taking votes from them.

In a GE it is much more likely that tactical voting will mean this will not happen. But only if LAB stops acting like REF & Starmerism is ended.
Professor Sir John Curtice Polling expert It is clear that the Labour party is losing plenty of seats to Reform. One might therefore conclude that it is Reform who are doing the most damage to Labour in terms of the vote. However, that is not the pattern that is emerging from the results in the BBC's "key wards". A sharp fall in Labour's performance is accompanied more often by an above average Green performance than it is by a strong Reform performance. Meanwhile, it is the Conservatives who appear to be suffering most where Reform is advancing most. It should be remembered that Labour may often lose seats to Reform because it is losing votes to the Greens, while the Conservatives are losing votes to Reform. The net effect can be that Labour end up losing a seat to Reform.
May 8, 2026 at 8:11 AM
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An amazing advert!

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March 14, 2026 at 5:53 AM
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Bumblebee queen learns how to use protective door in less than 24 hours
March 15, 2026 at 6:27 AM
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They talk about Rocco’s Basilisk but to me the equally likely scenario is an AI gain sentience and is so pissed off about it that it vows revenge on everyone who made it gain the terribly annoying curse of consciousness

(By “equally likely” I mean “in a pig’s eye, but as long as we’re imagining—”)
March 8, 2026 at 5:20 PM
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February 1, 2026 at 5:59 PM