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alex jegtnes
@jegtnes.com
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london freelance web dev 👨🏼‍💻 https://jegtnes.com/work-with-me

thought leader in yak shaving

cheap wine & cheaper shitposts

photography • travel • hiking • gaming • cocktails • weightlifting • kidney transplantee

but first and foremost, silly goose

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A tweet from @InternetHippo: 'New right wing thing is describing crimes as generically as possible to pretend like they're not crimes. Someone gets convicted of conspiracy and they start yelling "Wow so it's illegal to make plans with friends now"'
December 18, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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'tis the season for homemade liqueurs and boozes

mirabel cherry plum liqueur, 2x sloe gin, 2x quince gin, rhubarb gin, peach liqueur

not pictured: mulled sloe gin, sloe "port" with the used berries from the sloe gin, blackberry + sloe + rosehip liqueur, blackberry and bay liqueur
Seven glass bottles of varying sizes on a kitchen counter, each containing the liqueurs in the skeet. Cherry plum, peach, sloe, and rhubarb are a light red-orange, quince is strikingly yellow in contrast
December 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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won't somebody please think of the retired corporate financiers sitting on a large pile of unearned wealth
Older homeowners, or those who have owned their property for a long time and watched its value soar over the years, are expected to be hardest hit by the changes. This is the case for Nick Miller and his wife, Carolyn, who have lived in their detached home in East Sheen for three decades. After putting the house on the market in summer 2024, a sale fell through this spring and they have subsequently reduced the price several times to the current £2m asking price, meaning it remains within the surcharge bracket. "It won't help our case - it's just more burden for buyers," said Miller, a retired corporate financier. "We may have a better chance if interest rates come down again in December."
November 27, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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can't be in bristol without going to the cat pub
A mackerel tabby cat sits in a shallow box on a pub bar, surveying their domain
October 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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thank you to my favourite vape lad @alexolder.com (and @lurkmoophy.bsky.social I guess) for putting it on xoxo
alex older being caught mid-vaping, with a fifth of a pint in one hand, a cheesy grin on his cute little face, and a big thumbs up with the other. look at this lovable little scamp. what a great guy.
October 10, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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tag urself, here's mine
A list of ranked web standards proposal, in order: 1. CSS contrast-color() function, 2. JavaScript Temporal, 3. Allow CSS transitioning/animating display between none and other values, 4. CSS text-box and related longhand properties, 5. CSS anchor positioning, 6. CSS text-wrap: pretty, 7. CSS sibling-count() and sibling-index() function
October 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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cats, cartoons, and nature photography, largely what I expected!
A screenshot of the Instagram Discover page, containing a masonry layout of various things that have been recommended to me personally. It is largely cats, cartoons, and nature photography.
October 5, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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I have finally fulfilled my lifelong dream of eating a ragù alla bolognese in Bologna and I can now die a happy man
A plate of tagliatelle enveloping a rich, dry meaty sauce
September 26, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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I'm a simple man, can't see a Manhattan and not want a Manhattan; I think that's actually how they market Manhattans
A Martini glass with a Manhattan cocktail in it, it has a warm and inviting amber colour with two Maraschino cherries in it. In the background, blurred, are its constituent ingredients: Angostura Bitters, Wild Turkey 101 bourbon, Carpano Antica vermouth, and Rittenhouse rye whiskey
September 20, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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It's New Fuji Lens day today for me - 27mm 2.8. (desperately missing the pocketability of the X100 series)
A retro rangefinder-style digital mirrorless camera, Fujifilm X-T30II, with a small pancake lens that's thinner than the camera itself.
September 15, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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haha yeah, and even better there's a (not very common) even shorter A318 😅 it's adorable
A photo of a British Airways Airbus A380 and an A318 facing eachother. The A380 has two full decks and the A318 looks comically small next to it. Photo credit Malcolm Nason
August 23, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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pov: you're going camping for the weekend at your girlfriend's family farm
A rural farm landscape with grassy hills, scattered trees, and a partly cloudy sky. A dirt path runs through the valley.
August 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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PSA, if you're in the UK and have an Android device I strongly encourage you to download and install the Bluesky 1.104 APK from Bluesky's GitHub, and turn off auto-updates for it in the Play store when you're done 🫡

github.com/bluesky-soci...
A screenshot of Bluesky on the Play store with the top right kebab menu open and the enable autoupdate box unticked
July 24, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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🏙️🛬

not gonna lie, when I looked up ten seconds prior to taking this photo my lizard brain panicked and thought we'd have some jet fuel melt some steel beams imminently
The Shard, a skyscraper that tapers towards a single point like a very tall pyramid, against blue skies dotted with clouds. An Airbus A380 aircraft with two floors and four engines, is flying past it
June 6, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Bart Simpson in the back of a car, saying "what an odd thing to say"
June 6, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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I know it's an error trace, but suddenly reminded of this gem 😅
A tweet with a photo attached. The tweet reads, in all caps "! ! ! THE BELOW MESSAGE WAS DISPLAYED ON SOMEONE'S TV. CODE WAS DISPLAYED, MIXED WITH THE WORDS "KILL PROCESS OR SACRIFICE CHILD" ! ! ! !! ARE YOU ALL SEEING THIS ! !" The photo is a software error stack trace including phrases such as "out of memory: kill process [...snip] or sacrifice child"
May 16, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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and this is beans! she's a shy gal! but not too shy to skip dinner :)
a very fluffy white cat looks hesitantly and slightly sassy at the camera, as though she is demanding to know why there hasn't been food dispensed yet. her floofy tail is curled upwards in a really cute manner
May 10, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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will always remember the first time I flew to heathrow after having moved to england for uni, seeing "westward ho!" on the coach departure board, and thinking someone must be trolling me.

nope, real place. ridiculous nation
a list of coach departures from heathrow, going to real places like taunton, oxford, and london, but then also "Westward Ho, exclamation mark"
May 9, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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everybody please say hi to wigglet
A small adult black cat standing on a sofa, with green eyes and a tail curled at the tip, looking inquisitively at something to the right of the camera
May 9, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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whenever I'm back in Norway after an extended period away, my immediate priority is sourcing, depending on mood:
1) a convenience store hot dog (they hit different here)
2) good licorice

(#2 won today. still contemplating a hot dog tho)
A 1kg tub of Haribo Matador Mix containing a mix of gummi sweets and licorice, in front of an airport luggage conveyor belt
April 28, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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bee you are going to love this t-shirt my girlfriend got me for my birthday
A white t-shirt featuring an illustration of a majestic goose wearing near-raffish cowboy boots and a resplendent cowboy hat. The caption reads "Silly goose on the loose", with "loose" in a stylish hand-writing-esque typeface.
March 11, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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90 minutes later but we finally got there. clown shit
A chat transcription of me and Google support: Me: Okay, so it is the official position of Google that Gemini features in Workspace services are enabled by default, and in order to *disable* Gemini features in Workspace services, I need to upgrade my plan? Google Workspace Support: Yes, you're correct! Once you have upgrade the plan to enterprise standard or plus, you can follow the below steps to disable the Gemini feature for the Google workspace services: To turn on or off Gemini in a Google service: In your Google Admin console>>In the Admin console, go to Menu and then Generative Al > Gemini for Workspace>> (Note: Available only with Enterprise Standard and Enterprise Plus)>>Click the Feature access panel>> Click Edit next to the service you want to enable or disable>> Click On or Off, and then click Save. Me: Okay, thank you for helping me today. Please can you forward me to a supervisor so I can register a complaint? This isn't about your customer service, but about Googles stance on the matter. Google Workspace Support, 2:47PM: Alex, I completely understand how you feel in that way, we have taken your valuable feedback on the above issue, however let me quickly go-ahead and update with our management team about this. Me: No problem, take your time Google Workspace Support, 2:48 PM: Please allow me another 5 minutes while I check this for you. I appreciate for being on hold and thank you for your patience, Alex. I checked with my internal team and we made some changes from the backend. Could you please refresh the admin console to disable the option for Google workspace services? Me: That's worked, and the setting worked immediately. Thanks a lot for your help
January 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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the foundation of modern capitalism is somehow even less serious than as depicted by vincent adultman
An image of a the top child in a two children in a trenchcoat, wearing a top hat, eating an ice cream, who says "I went to the stock market today. I did a business"
January 27, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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cowards 😒
A phone notification from the Met office issuing a yellow wind warning for Storm Eowyn, expected to bring strong winds and disruption on Friday 24th January
January 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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lifted weights today after a long time off and every time I do this I want to kick myself because I ENJOY it so much, it is satisfying and makes me feel great (even though I've had to deload by, like, 50%)! nobody conspires against me like depression brain conspires against me, man
meme: a simple-looking wojak-esque figure, with a single tooth and some drool from his mouth, intended to look like a caveman, superimposed on top of a photo from a gym, captioned "lift heavy stone, make sad head voice quiet"
January 8, 2025 at 5:52 PM