LukeBMTB
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LukeBMTB
@lukebmtb.bsky.social
Usual Twitter transfer. Dog walks, phone photo's, dad puns, education, some politics, some family stuff, trying to maintain a 600 year old house.
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Autumn's past
January 29, 2026 at 5:10 PM
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Round of applause for Specialized, ‘Carless Whisper’ has to be the best ever name for a cargo bike tyre.
January 29, 2026 at 10:34 PM
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#OnThisDay 1980 : The Sinclair ZX80 was officially launched.

#retrogaming #80s
January 29, 2026 at 8:05 PM
Just knocked a pint of water over my laptop keyboard.

Darn.
January 29, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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Heeeey I actually sold a book yesterday by posting this link, what if I could sell another one today? 👀
January 28, 2026 at 6:53 PM
I know where this is - it'll be whoever owns the house on the other side of the road restoring their sea view.

www.brightonandhovenews.org/2026/01/29/c...
Council investigates after tree ‘vandalised’
An investigation into how the top of a tree in a leafy Hove suburb was hacked off has been launched.
www.brightonandhovenews.org
January 29, 2026 at 3:27 PM
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Advanced lanyard technology. Patented this week.
US 12532956
January 29, 2026 at 3:10 PM
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This is 2.5 UK’s worth of power.
i was actually shocked to see the numbers on new research from Global Energy Monitor on new gas projects in the US: nearly 100 gigawatts of power—enough to power tens of millions of homes—are currently in development explicitly to power data centers. At the end of 2023 that number was 4 gigawatts
Data Centers Are Driving a US Gas Boom
Gas projects in the US pipeline explicitly linked to data centers increased by almost 25 times over the past two years, according to new research from Global Energy Monitor.
www.wired.com
January 29, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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Home is the most dangerous place for women, says global femicide report

Of the 85,000 women killed by men in 2023, 60% died at the hands of a partner or family member, new UN figures show

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Home is the most dangerous place for women, says global femicide report
Of the 85,000 women killed by men in 2023, 60% died at the hands of a partner or family member, new UN figures show
www.theguardian.com
January 29, 2026 at 2:49 PM
I do wonder if the murder rate for women has changed as much as it has for men - I'm not sure they're always safer at home.
lol what
January 29, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Lunchtime walk. Fieldfare - big bird!

#birds #photography
January 29, 2026 at 2:45 PM
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little chudlet among the fungus, go little chudlet 💗
January 28, 2026 at 9:45 PM
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I genuinely don't know what to say about this stuff anymore. It's deliberate disinformation. There can be no other explanation.
This is a disgracefully dishonest headline from the BBC. Its motivation can only be deliberately to mislead the public about who lost the case.
January 29, 2026 at 12:33 PM
If you want to laugh for ten minutes play this audio clip.

(contestants have to guess when the person speaking is telling the truth)

www.reddit.com/user/pfobwpf...
From pfobwpfo's profile on Reddit: Nuts
Explore this post and more from pfobwpfo's profile
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January 29, 2026 at 12:45 PM
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The director of McDonald's Netherlands is called... Zoe Hamburger

www.mcdonalds.com/nl/nl-nl/con...
Zoe Hamburger benoemd tot Managing Director van McDonald's Nederland
www.mcdonalds.com
January 29, 2026 at 12:07 PM
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Here comes the sun: After two months of polar night, the orangish-glowing 🌞 returns over the horizon seen from the windows of the Barents Observer newsroom in #Kirkenes 🇳🇴. Temperature this morning is -24°C.
January 29, 2026 at 10:20 AM
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I saw someone rather thoughtfully saying that we shouldn’t be dunking on the 9-9-6 bro but instead interrogating the culture that spawned him… But while that nuance is interesting, I feel like this is one of those “yes, and” situations.
Personally I feel I have more than enough scorn to go around?
January 29, 2026 at 11:41 AM
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“What I’m waiting for, still, is a nuanced portrayal of autistic adults on our screens.

I’d like to tell you how your world looks equally baffling to ours, except your absurdities are our social expectations. We’d be amused by it all, just like you’re amused by us, but we have to play the game.”
Telly is weird. As an autistic person, I’ve never felt ‘wholesome’
The microphone is passed to a young man sat along the row. He laughs a little, avoiding all eye contact, and suddenly struggles to speak…
medium.com
January 29, 2026 at 11:24 AM
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Quite a telling quote from previous coverage. Men being disengaged from the real world is a big multiplier for social media brain.
January 29, 2026 at 8:43 AM
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BREAKING: Head gamekeeper Racster Dingwall pleads guilty to conspiracy to kill a Hen Harrier at York Magistrates Court this morning.
January 29, 2026 at 11:09 AM
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Me having drawn loads of Valentines Cards for you all and having sold about four… WHERE IS DA LUV?

They’re all here. I need knickers and frazzles money

Pls buy dem - I hate marketing. I just wanna make ART

linktr.ee/Dippyfishcards

#bsnm
January 29, 2026 at 9:47 AM
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Among the many holes in the "LLMs can do anything" claims, this is definitely the biggest. Unless you know what good looks like, they WILL give you bad. Inevitably. And they aren't really improving in this respect; they're mostly just getting more convincing. And convincingly wrong is worse.
How? How do you double-check the accuracy, if you're not already an expert? Ask a different GenAI? Or do you, you know... Have to go and do the research you would have done anyway, pre-AI? Because I'm buggered if I can think of how you do that in a way where the GenAI saved you time.
January 29, 2026 at 10:15 AM