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Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @fras.xyz · 19h

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

theoatmeal.com

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Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @fras.xyz · 1d

Effing Tesla driver. Parking in a charging bay, no intention of charging (he's the wrong way round) even though there are plenty of parking spaces.

Plus, when he left, he turned right against a "no right turn" sign.

Are Teslas the new BMWs?

#tesla #BadDriving

Image of a Tesla EV using a charging stand as a parking space.

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Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @fras.xyz · 29d

Meh, I don't really agree with you. Obviously, I do use my Subscriptions feed, but I also find a lot of good material from outside that bubble surfaced on the Home feed. Stuff I don't like, I flag to YouTube and the channel is never seen again.

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Steven M @stevenmil.bsky.social · Sep 8

tech CEOs take turns praising Trump to his face

www.wsj.com/politics/tru...

a truly abject sight

Tech CEOs Take Turns Praising Trump at White House Dinner

Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai and Sam Altman saluted the president’s leadership on innovation at an event that underscored the industry’s desire for his favor.

www.wsj.com

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Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @fras.xyz · Sep 8

Wow, an easy reckoner on which companies to boycott.

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Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @fras.xyz · Aug 19

Glencoe, back in character.

#Glencoe #Scotland #RicohGRiiiX

A rugged hillside is silhouetted in front of the sun trying to shine through ominous clouds

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Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @fras.xyz · Aug 18

Handy for the beach.

#Arisaig #Scotland #JeepAvenger #ev #Sand #RicohGRiiiX

A view from a white sandy beach at Arisaig, looking up at a Jeep Avenger silhouetted against an assure sky with light wispy clouds

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Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @fras.xyz · Aug 17

So far we've visited signal rock view point, with no view, Hagrids Hut with no hut and entered the forbidden forest without a problem. Glencoe is not all as it seems.

#Glencoe #Scotland #HarryPotter #FilmLocations

Sign pointing to Hagrids Hut (but no longer there)

Sign pointing to signal rock viewpoint pointing out that that's isn't a view.

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Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @fras.xyz · Aug 17

Glencoe Sunset.

I walked up the hill a little bit too catch the last of the sunset before the midges caught me.

#Glencoe #Conifers #RicohGRiiiX #Sunset

Conifers silhouetted against the setting sun

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Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @fras.xyz · Aug 17

Chaffinch.

#Chaffinch #RicohGRiiiX #GRWorld #RemoteTrigger #Glencoe #Scotland

Close up of a male Chaffinch eating crunchy crumbs

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Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @fras.xyz · Aug 16

More shots from Glencoe.

#RicohGRiiiX #Glencoe #Scotland

Monochrome shit of a lone tree in Glencoe

Mountains and blue skies in Glencoe with a slightly retro colour balance

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Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @fras.xyz · Aug 16

The neighbours joined me on the veranda for breakfast.

#RicohGRiiiX #Chaffinch #Bird #Glencoe #Clachaig

A chaffinch eyes the camera suspiciously from a wooden rail.

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Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @fras.xyz · Aug 16

Glencoe sunshine. There was a time when I would have interpreted "Glencoe sunshine" as a euphemism for rain. Not today.

#Glencoe #Sunshine #Rays #RicohGRiiiX

Morning sunshine streams over the mountains in Glencoe.

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Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @fras.xyz · Aug 4

I lived in China for over 15 years, so using a VPN was an inconvenient fact of life. I didn't expect to be dusting off that tool again, less than a year after returning to the UK.

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Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @fras.xyz · Aug 1

FFS Google. Using AI to categorize movies now?

#GoogleTV #AI #Slop

Image of a TV screen where the movie "How to Train Your Dragon" has been labelled as "A new martial arts movie"

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Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @fras.xyz · Jul 30

UK home products store "the Range" has it's Halloween displays set up already.

#unbelievable

Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @fras.xyz · Jul 25

Some peace after a hectic week.

#Parody #EleanorMorton

youtu.be/R0t_OGli0jg...

Scottish Tour Guided Meditation For Inner Peace With Craig

youtu.be

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Richard Hall @richardhall.bsky.social · Jul 17

A blog post about my tinkering with a #RaspberryPi Zero. Written with tongue in cheek, so it's not to be taken entirely seriously. (It's all true, though!)
revrichard.github.io/2025/07/15/d...

DeckZero-Alpha: The Journey to a Portable Command-Line Companion

hesitantly blogging while learning in the terminal

revrichard.github.io

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · Jul 16

It's hilarious that they genuinely don't seem to understand the difference between "the entire body of scientific research into quantum physics" and "what I've kind of passively absorbed through pop culture over the past twenty years"

Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · Jul 16

My god these guys are such spectacular morons

gizmodo.com/billionaires...

Travis Kalanick, the founder of Uber who no longer works at the company, appeared on All-In to talk with hosts Jason Calacanis and Chamath Palihapitiya about the future of technology. When the topic turned to AI, Kalanick discussed how he uses xAI’s Grok, which went haywire last week, praising Adolf Hitler and advocating for a second Holocaust against Jews.

“I’ll go down this thread with [Chat]GPT or Grok and I’ll start to get to the edge of what’s known in quantum physics and then I’m doing the equivalent of vibe coding, except it’s vibe physics,” Kalanick explained. “And we’re approaching what’s known. And I’m trying to poke and see if there’s breakthroughs to be had. And I’ve gotten pretty damn close to some interesting breakthroughs just doing that.”

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Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @fras.xyz · Jul 11

Family outing.

#NothingPhone2a+ #Snapseed #Caldicotte #Swans #Monochrome

Mono shot of a calm lake on a hot summer's day. Small clouds are reflected in the surface and a family of swans approaches.

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Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @fras.xyz · Jun 26

And then they announce that Jodie Whittaker is to be the new Bond. :-)

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That weird guy with the beautiful dog @lucky-ears.bsky.social · Jun 22

The new Arriva service is here.
#photography #Rhosonsea #Cymru #NorthWales #RicohGR #GRist #Tractionengine #ArrivaBuses

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Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @fras.xyz · Jun 23

After the Pub Crawl. We may need to have some coffee to aid our recovery. How better to find a coffee shop than Cafe Moi.

glenelg.io/cafemoi

#Just4Fun #Coffee

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Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @fras.xyz · Jun 19

I made a thing. Based on a site I read about in Tom Scott's newsletter this week, I decided to build on that code and create the UK Pub Crawler. You can try it here at glenelg.io/pubcrawl

The original Steak Bake Spider, for finding branches of Greggs is here. alastairrae.github.io/steakbakespi...

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Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @fras.xyz · Jun 18

On the train.

Panorama, in monochrome, of an almost empty train.

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