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Aditya

@adityamandrekar.bsky.social

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Aero/Space Software guy, flannelled fool in the summer, Earth-bound misfit. No image reposts without alt text. (he/him)

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Aditya @adityamandrekar.bsky.social · Nov 11

I think everyone needs to see Olive at her dignified best. #DogsOfBlueSky

A golden retriever lying on her back on a grey carpeted floor getting belly rubs. Her front paws are in the air, curled, and her eyes are shut as her tongue falls out of the side of her mouth in blissful contentment.

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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 3h

If I wrote a book about a senile vindictive dictator wannabe running the country, including a bit where he starts tearing down the White House so he can rebuild it in his image… no decent editor, yada yada

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bundgaardf.bsky.social @bundgaardf.bsky.social · 2d

I am living for the sumo wrestlers having fun playing tourists while preparing for the sumo tournament in London

Sumo wrestlers having fun posing with Stonehenge

Sumo wrestlers posing like The Beatles on Abbey Road

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Kate @katef.bsky.social · 8h

okay hello. it's kate alt text clinic time. show me things you didn't write alt text for because you thought it was too difficult, or for whatever other reason, please. i will help

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James Chalmers @jameschalmers.bsky.social · 15h

This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.

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A woman who rang ABC Sydney radio said she found out about the Optus outage from her cat.

The cat has an automatic wi-fi feeder (connected to Optus) & when breakfast wasn't delivered at 6:10 am, the cat went to the bedroom to lodge a complaint with management.

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Aditya @adityamandrekar.bsky.social · 14h

Oh my god that unlocks a core memory. Eighteen years. Wow.

Aditya @adityamandrekar.bsky.social · 15h

To add to what CoY says, often these dogs or cats can be females used for breeding and then dumped once they're done or they get pregnant from the "wrong" male. Such ones often don't have a bad bone in them and will give you back twice the love you give them. Evidence attached! (Sadly, not our dog)

A dark brown working Cocker spaniel with a white underbelly lies upside down and fast asleep on towels on a sofa. Her wonky bottom teeth can be seen in her slightly open mouth. She'd just been back from getting wet in the rain and honestly is still living her best life. She doesn't belong to us but we look after her on occasion. She is an absolute cuddlebug.

Aditya @adityamandrekar.bsky.social · 1d

Dammit. #IndVEng #cwc25

Definitely the fourth-best team in the competition, if not lower.

Aditya @adityamandrekar.bsky.social · 1d

Was it an Alfa Romeo?

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Philip Purser-Hallard @purserhallard.com · 1d

"But soft! What light through yonder window... BRAKES!"

Sky News @news.sky.com · 2d

Shakespeare family home damaged by reversing driver

A 17th-century building that housed William Shakespeare's family has been left damaged after a driver reversed into it.

news.sky.com

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Aditya @adityamandrekar.bsky.social · 1d

Well played.

Aditya @adityamandrekar.bsky.social · 1d

BY LAWD, IS THAT DAN BROWN'S MUSIC I HEAR?!

Pam Nash @pamnashes.bsky.social · 1d

Louvre museum in Paris closed after robbery, French minister says - live updates

France's Culture Minister Rachida Dati said the incident happened as the museum opened this morning.

www.bbc.co.uk

Aditya @adityamandrekar.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!

Aditya @adityamandrekar.bsky.social · 1d

Last night's focaccia, got lucky with intercepting the rise before it over-proved. Wish I had the correct-sized tray for vertical edges but it doesn't matter, it tasted fine! #BreadSky

A square slab of focaccia bread viewed from a little above one corner, sitting on a metal rack on a hob. The surface has small dimples and there are flecks of sea salt across the top. It's roughly the height of the average thumb.

A slice of the same focaccia now sitting on a plate next to a bowl of tomato soup with croutons. The texture of the bread is reasonably hole-y and you can just make out that the bottom has crisped. In the background are apples and further on an armchair.

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Antifa Baltussen 🇳🇱🇪🇺 @baltussen.bsky.social · 2d

Pie chart thats mostly blue and a sliver of red. Legenda reads red: EHHHH MACARENA
Blue reads: asdwdqdnhjvxhg

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Aditya @adityamandrekar.bsky.social · 1d

I once - 2014ish - went to a wedding of an Indian guy and a Chinese girl, and their uni friends from all over the world. At the afterparty, the only song everyone was perfectly in sync with was the Macarena. I think discos all around the world are also helping keep it relevant.

Aditya @adityamandrekar.bsky.social · 2d

Deedee dadada!

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Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 2d

with alt-text.

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I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into Fscist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town.
Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming.
Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance.

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Aditya @adityamandrekar.bsky.social · 2d

...Hoga, Woh Mera, Intezaaaaaaar....

Aditya @adityamandrekar.bsky.social · 2d

My German Bsky friends, how do I find out if www.indiansupermarkt.de is trustworthy? I'd like to place an online order to be delivered to someone in Germany.

IndianSupermarkt - One Stop Online Shop

Indian Supermarkt is an online Indian market where you will find variety of Indian Grocery, Indian Bedsheets, Bangles, Indian Festival items, Herbal Indian skincare products, Indian Home Remedial medi...

www.indiansupermarkt.de

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Aditya @adityamandrekar.bsky.social · 2d

Close - the word is Kadhi. These days in North India and maybe the west it refers to a thin, yoghurt based curry. Curry leaves are literally Kadhi Patta.

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Aditya @adityamandrekar.bsky.social · 2d

My utter sympathies. I work in too specialised a field for it to be of any use in its current state at least. My team wouldn't really find LLMs useful really even if they were allowed them at work (and some do use them at home for experiments).

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Aditya @adityamandrekar.bsky.social · 2d

To add to what @plognark.bsky.social said, even for coding there are "offline" AI tools that means they don't burn huge amounts of energy for every little query you ask of them, and you can deploy them on your own servers, just update them once in a while from the vendor.

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Aditya @adityamandrekar.bsky.social · 2d

I like this framing. This view is shared across everyone I work with, from specialist engineers to Gen Z juniors.

I'm lucky that the people I work with aren't rushing head first into "AI" like it's a goldmine, but outside of that it seems to be a shit show.

Anil Dash @anildash.com · 3d

Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!

The Majority AI View - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

anildash.com

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Aditya @adityamandrekar.bsky.social · 2d

I don't normally read long judgements on the internet, but today was a different day

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 3d

It's kinda cool that Gary Larson is doing new cartoons because he picked up a digital tablet, taught himself how to use it, and it made him love drawing again.

www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/

New Work by Gary Larson | TheFarSide.com

Get an exclusive look at brand new cartoons and artwork from cartoonist Gary Larson, creator of the iconic comic strip The Far Side®.

www.thefarside.com

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