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Nicola @scrapegroat.bsky.social · 7h

I say "the most recent" but I'm updating work that I did based on it more than 5 years ago and I can't see that's actually changed since then.

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Nicola @scrapegroat.bsky.social · 7h

Wtf is a bassoon Bocal and how big is it?

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Nicola @scrapegroat.bsky.social · 7h

I am excited to announce that while the most recent Google product categorisation structure includes specific categories for "train whistle", "Bassoon Bocal", "Bassoon parts" AND "bassoon small parts", the words "ukulele", "banjo" and "mandolin" are entirely absent from the document.

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Nicola @scrapegroat.bsky.social · 18h

Outside of London loads of pubs are dead quiet even at 9pm. I think cost is the big driving factor. I'm a grown adult and can rarely afford an evening in the pub, how are young people going to scratch up the cash for more than one pint a week?

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 1d

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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Nicola @scrapegroat.bsky.social · 22h

That was the most solid night of sleep I've had for maybe weeks but I woke up really wired from fear and I still don't feel right, as though I'm flooded with cortisol. But apparently I still still have to get up and "make sandwiches" and "get the kids to school" and "do my job"

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Nicola @scrapegroat.bsky.social · 22h

I haven't qualified for once since we all got them but I get the flu jab through asthma. Wouldn't have minded having a covid jab but not a big deal for me.

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Nicola @scrapegroat.bsky.social · 23h

No Covid jab though. The booking form said I could have one and the poor pharmacist was having to explain to me and hundreds of other people one by one that that was bullshit.

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Nicola @scrapegroat.bsky.social · 23h

I just woke up from a really strange and vivid dream of the type I've only had when I had Covid so I wondered if I had Covid and then remembered I had my flu jab yesterday and that must be why

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Nicola @scrapegroat.bsky.social · 1d

People who did not ask for and do not benefit from the AI industry: Artists

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 1d

Haven't seen pictures, is she doing the speech dressed in a hot-dog suit?

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.

Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 4d

Great post. You should all read it. Especially if you thought the Patricia Routledge 'life thoughts' piece was cute. shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/10...

You did no fact checking, and I must scream

I'm neither a journalist nor a professional fact checker but, the thing is, it's has never been easier to check basic facts. Yeah, sure, there's a world of misinformation out there, but it doesn't tak...

shkspr.mobi

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Nicola @scrapegroat.bsky.social · 1d

climb to the top of the apparatus and jump off over and over again whenever it was out.

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Nicola @scrapegroat.bsky.social · 1d

Great bit of nostalgia baiting to which I have several responses.
Very fond memories of this equipment being in use at my 80s primary school, I've seen it in use at my kids primary school, and my mum was a primary school teacher in the 80s and she said that her naughtiest ever pupil used to...

Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 1d

Been to the youngest’s harvest assembly.
Theory: every primary school built pre about 1980 in Britain has some version of this equipment. It is referred to as something like ‘the apparatus’.
No one has any memory of it ever being used.

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Joanna Wyld @joannawyld.bsky.social · 2d

Realised my old covid tests expire today so I'm having a bit of a binge before they're invalid, just doing test after test after test like they're shots, what a rush

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Binyizdabbalah @binyizdabbalah.bsky.social · 2d

And the Elder Ones said, before the Fall: Go to the Safe Place, go the where the machines will not find you. Go to Brighton.

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Nicola @scrapegroat.bsky.social · 2d

It's right there

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 3d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Nicola @scrapegroat.bsky.social · 2d

Them: Buckle up, technology is the future, you're getting left behind
Technology:

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Nicola @scrapegroat.bsky.social · 3d

I've heard something about it from a group I'm in. I haven't seen anything on here (blocked by everyone involved I assume) and although I've heard waffles mentioned I don't know what it means

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