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jurgen @jurgen.ca · 22h

Okay the new Outlook/Mac icon is kind of pretty; at least it looks like an envelope.

(Under-20-year-old-human: "What's an envelope?")

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jurgen @jurgen.ca · 2d

If I had $1 for every time I blew my nose today I'd … well … I'd be able to afford way more tissues.

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Daniel Bowen @danielbowen.au · 2d

For those who didn’t spot it on the more mainstream social media networks, the #Melbourne Metro Tunnel will open in early December.

Jacinta Allan Threads post announcing Metro Tunnel opening in early December

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jurgen @jurgen.ca · 2d

That's exactly what I was after - thanks! Glad they're putting in that missing link across the intersection - much more network flexibility for just ~5m of track. And the big new platform stop to replace the little ones on Peel/Victoria is also welcome.

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Jukka Niiranen @jukkan.bsky.social · Jul 23

🎬 #PROMPTSPOTTING
👇 The unofficial movie poster:

Choose Copilot.
Choose auto-complete you never asked for.
Choose Copilot buttons crammed into every ribbon.
Choose being kicked from app to chat and back again.
Choose four Copilots with the same name and none that fit the task.

Movie poster on the street, in the style of Trainspotting, with Mark Renton laughing hysterically at you.

PROMPTSPOTTING

Choose Copilot.
Choose auto-complete you never asked for.
Choose Copilot buttons crammed into every ribbon.
Choose being kicked from app to chat and back again.
Choose four Copilots with the same name and none that fit the task.
Choose hidden paywalls.
Choose cloud lag.
Choose hallucinated “facts.”
Choose code that won’t compile.
Choose transcripts no one reads.
Choose privacy swapped for “productivity.”
Choose your carefully crafted prompt eaten away as Copilot stops responding.
Choose dashboards that have never been opened.
Choose AI glitter over real fixes.
Choose agents over apps.
Choose hearing “we should use AI for this” when no one in the room knows what the f*** that even means.
Choose watching a marketing demo with perfectly groomed prompts that never work in real life.
Choose rotting away at the office as Copilot thanks you for your service via Teams chat before disabling your user account.

Choose your future.
Choose Copilot.

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jurgen @jurgen.ca · 2d

@danielbowen.au One of the photos from your "10 years ago" post this morning told me more about the tram works on Elizabeth/Victoria than anywhere I could find on YT's website. I know about the closures etc, but do you know where can I find information on what they're actually building?

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jurgen @jurgen.ca · 2d

Ah yes, the famous Frexcel, eWord, and Owerpoint.

Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 2d

Microsoft’s new Office icons are now available in TestFlight versions of Excel, Word, and PowerPoint on iOS

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jurgen @jurgen.ca · 6d

"I asked the bartender for something strong and sophisticated, and he handed me a mirror."

jurgen @jurgen.ca · 8d

"He sounds like Dr Hannibal Lecter having smoked a hundredweight of weed, doing a derisive impression of an unctuous French headwaiter he intends to eat."

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/sep/30/mr-blake-at-your-service-review-john-malkovich-fanny-ardant-comedy

jurgen @jurgen.ca · 14d

This meeting should have been an email.
This Powerpoint should have been a Word doc.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 19d

This may seem cute but if you do this too much the cyclists may become reliant on cars feeding them, disrupting the delicate roadway ecosystem

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jurgen @jurgen.ca · 19d

Melbourne will host the International Tram Driver championships in 2027! https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/sep/20/world-tram-driver-championship-wowed-europe-now-australia-gearing-up-for-its-own

jurgen @jurgen.ca · 21d

Modern air travel is simultaneously the most excyand the most boring thing we can do.

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decryption @decryption.bsky.social · Sep 8

If you'd like a nice Mac SE/30, donate $389 or more to the ACMS in Sydney and on October 4th you can take part in a workshop to repair it! Screenshot has more info.

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jurgen @jurgen.ca · Sep 6

Your computer has too much computer in it, and not enough typewriter.

jurgen @jurgen.ca · Sep 6

I don't think I want to know what Strong Bad is up to here.

Homestar Screens @grapenutsrobot.graphics · Sep 6

jurgen @jurgen.ca · Sep 6

@hopeinhell.bsky.social OHAI!

(Hey followers - Mel's great. When she remembers the Bluesky exists).

jurgen @jurgen.ca · Sep 3

(I’m at a media conference, and it took 1h45 until a speaker mentioned AI.)

jurgen @jurgen.ca · Sep 3

I have a new game: The AI index.

How long does it take for AI to be mentioned in a non-tech conference?

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jurgen @jurgen.ca · Aug 28

O-pa chicken style!

jurgen @jurgen.ca · Aug 28

i'm your private chicken dancer.

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jurgen @jurgen.ca · Aug 28

The DotCom thing that I was a part of decided that all servers shall be named after Homestar characters, and all software shall be named after Teletubbies. #pocore #coachz

jurgen @jurgen.ca · Aug 28

TIL there's an account that posts screens from Homestar Runner every 30 minutes.

(Thanks @wilwheaton.net!)

Homestar Screens @grapenutsrobot.graphics · Aug 28

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jurgen @jurgen.ca · Aug 28

And if I see no hope for me
I still see hope for you!
In the wide eyes of the morning:
The exception that proves my rule.

("Wide Eyes" - The New Pornographers)

jurgen @jurgen.ca · Aug 18

Don't anthropomorphise technology, it annoys them.

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