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Richard Norman @duckbytheoboe.bsky.social · 2d

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings, GET your hands off my PENIS

Bede Kelleher @thevenerablebede.bsky.social · 2d

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings, and I can see your house from here

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings, I live on the second floor, I live upstairs from you, yes I think you’ve seen me before

Richard Norman @duckbytheoboe.bsky.social · 3d

Any eSIM recommendations for Singapore?

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 4d

I think about this LeGuin essay a lot. (link in next post; you should read it too.)

Its technology is how a society copes with physical reality: how people get and keep and cook food, how they clothe themselves, what their power sources are (animal? human? water? wind? electricity? other?) what they build with and what they build, their medicine — and so on and on. Perhaps very ethereal people aren’t interested in these mundane, bodily matters, but I’m fascinated by them, and I think most of my readers are too.

Technology is the active human interface with the material world.

But the word is consistently misused to mean only the enormously complex and specialised technologies of the past few decades, supported by massive exploitation both of natural and human resources.

This is not an acceptable use of the word. “Technology” and “hi tech” are not synonymous, and a technology that isn't “hi,” isn’t necessarily '“low” in any meaningful sense.

We have been so desensitized by a hundred and fifty years of ceaselessly expanding technical prowess that we think nothing less complex and showy than a computer or a jet bomber deserves to be called “technology” at all. As if linen were the same thing as flax — as if paper, ink, wheels, knives, clocks, chairs, aspirin pills, were natural objects, born with us like our teeth and fingers — as if steel saucepans with copper bottoms and fleece vests spun from recycled glass grew on trees, and we just picked them when they were ripe...

One way to illustrate that most technologies are, in fact, pretty “hi,” is to ask yourself of any manmade object, Do I know how to make one?

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Richard Norman @duckbytheoboe.bsky.social · 7d

This reminds me that I haven’t done any listening comparisons between different cat 6 cables on my new AES67 network.

John B @johnb78.bsky.social · 7d

I've just understood the origin of some of the weirder old-school hifi myths after swapping unshielded RCA cable out for shielded RCA cable for a turntable-to-preamp connection (relatedly, my new turntable is excellent - fosiaudio.com/pages/fosi-a... - another Chi-Fi win!)

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Richard Norman @duckbytheoboe.bsky.social · 9d

I got a behind the scenes tour there about 20 years ago and I’m genuinely surprised it’s still standing.

John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 9d

The Palace of Westminster is literally going to either burn down, kill someone, or both because spending money to save it is perceived as so politically toxic.

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Richard Norman @duckbytheoboe.bsky.social · 9d

The red crabs are the less weird ones there.

the 's' in "spavel" stands for spooky @spavel.bsky.social · 9d

Street shutdown for scheduled carcinization

Sign says, road closed, red crab migration, no entry by vehicles beyond this point. Behind the sign is a rural road completely covered by red crabs.

Richard Norman @duckbytheoboe.bsky.social · 10d

This would have to be the dream gig for an excavator operator surely.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 10d

NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.

Photograph of ongoing demolition of the East Wing of the White House.

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Richard Norman @duckbytheoboe.bsky.social · 11d

The London bureau and Trump is a meeting of minds, to be sure.

Richard Norman @duckbytheoboe.bsky.social · 11d

Just saw a place selling beetroot and yuzu soda. Sounds alright I reckon.

Richard Norman @duckbytheoboe.bsky.social · 14d

You hate to see it.

A graph of solar PV system performance showing that we consumed 3.58kWh from the grid and exported 95.2kWh.

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Richard Norman @duckbytheoboe.bsky.social · 14d

I very much doubt I would like them today but my parents definitely put me off the Beatles by playing them a lot in the car. Based on what my son just said I suspect I’ve done the same to him with Carcass.

Richard Norman @duckbytheoboe.bsky.social · 18d

“The keel fell off”

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 18d

Thoughts with the crew and expedition members but "ship made contact with the ocean floor" is the most insane comms staff brain way to try and spin this www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Breaking: Australia's Antarctic icebreaker scrapes ocean floor near Heard Island

Antarctic icebreaker RSV Nuyina has headed to deeper waters off remote Heard Island in the Southern Ocean while assessments are undertaken to see if the hull has suffered any damage after scraping the...

www.abc.net.au

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Richard Norman @duckbytheoboe.bsky.social · 19d

Looks like a Amish guy with his head on upside down

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 19d

sick flow

Tate Ratledge who has a PFF rank of 14 and wears #69 with a feathered mullet

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Richard Norman @duckbytheoboe.bsky.social · 19d

The cats have apparently decided that when I use a knife and a cutting board then it means they’re getting meat. Tonight I started cutting up some tomatoes and cucumber and this happened. #catlyfe

Three cats on a hardwood floor, one staring expectantly at the camera.

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Richard Norman @duckbytheoboe.bsky.social · 19d

Client helped coil cables

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 19d

please use our CMS

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Archives banned making copies.

Richard Norman @duckbytheoboe.bsky.social · 20d

This has me thinking. You could insert sports betting ads into Raging Bull, military recruiting ads into All Quiet on the Western Front, AI ads into 2001

Barry Crainiotomy @barrycrain.bsky.social · 20d

I'd like a few words with the boorish louts at HBO who scheduled commercial breaks during IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE. You simply do not do that to Wong Kar-wai

Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu-wai in one of the most heartbreakingly romantic films of all time, and HBO executive fuckers decided they needed additional ad revenue.

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Richard Norman @duckbytheoboe.bsky.social · 20d

Just got a promoted thing on insta for a pub that’s just added toad in the hole to its menu. Just the sort of thing you want in tropical Queensland.

Richard Norman @duckbytheoboe.bsky.social · 21d

A friend of mine was in the stands at Wimbledon when John Isner and Nicholas Mahut finished the fifth set of their match 70-68. Baseball is a tiny weak sport.

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