rumorsmatrix
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I work devops, play table-top RPGs and MMOs, collect Magic the Gathering, and like procedural generation. I live in the north-east of England with my wife and two cats.
👋 he/him
👋 he/him
Haven’t used Bluesky in about 4 months. Haven’t been posting anything, anywhere, outside of a couple of Discord servers; cut right back on The Internet. Instead I’ve been keeping an increasingly sprawling journal / PKMS, just for myself. It’s been kind of incredible, actually?
December 29, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Haven’t used Bluesky in about 4 months. Haven’t been posting anything, anywhere, outside of a couple of Discord servers; cut right back on The Internet. Instead I’ve been keeping an increasingly sprawling journal / PKMS, just for myself. It’s been kind of incredible, actually?
New episode of my current favourite podcast, Starship Alexandria with @emmanewman.bsky.social and @aptshadow.bsky.social (Adrian Tchaikovsky). Going to delay listening to this one for a day or two though, I’m only halfway through the book.
Here's a brand new episode of Starship Alexandria in which @aptshadow.bsky.social and I talk about Ray Bradbury's short story collection The Golden Apples of the Sun. starshipalexandria.com/episode-5-th...
It also features a lot of laughter and a section where I am a chaotic muppet.
It also features a lot of laughter and a section where I am a chaotic muppet.
Starship Alexandria: Episode 5 - The Golden Apples of the Sun
For our fifth episode of Starship Alexandra, Emma puts forward the short story collection The Golden Apples of the Sun by Ray Bradbury to read and consider. Other talking points:&nbs...
starshipalexandria.com
August 9, 2025 at 1:58 PM
New episode of my current favourite podcast, Starship Alexandria with @emmanewman.bsky.social and @aptshadow.bsky.social (Adrian Tchaikovsky). Going to delay listening to this one for a day or two though, I’m only halfway through the book.
So @cyningstan.bsky.social has done it again and released a fantastic CGI roguelike dungeon crawler. Well worth a play - DOS(box) and Windows versions available.
cyningstan.itch.io/the-chambers...
cyningstan.itch.io/the-chambers...
The Chambers Beneath by Cyningstan
A role-playing dungeon crawler game for DOS
cyningstan.itch.io
July 24, 2025 at 8:20 PM
So @cyningstan.bsky.social has done it again and released a fantastic CGI roguelike dungeon crawler. Well worth a play - DOS(box) and Windows versions available.
cyningstan.itch.io/the-chambers...
cyningstan.itch.io/the-chambers...
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Lovelies, here's a shiny new episode of Starship Alexandria for you (and anywhere you listen to podcasts). @aptshadow.bsky.social and I discuss Top Ten by Alan Moore, Gene Ha and Zander Cannon. starshipalexandria.com/episode-4-to...
Starship Alexandria: Episode 4 - Top Ten
For our fourth episode of Starship Alexandra, Adrian puts forward the graphic novels Top Ten volumes 1 and 2 by Moore, Ha and Cannon, for Emma to read and consider. Other talking poi...
starshipalexandria.com
July 9, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Lovelies, here's a shiny new episode of Starship Alexandria for you (and anywhere you listen to podcasts). @aptshadow.bsky.social and I discuss Top Ten by Alan Moore, Gene Ha and Zander Cannon. starshipalexandria.com/episode-4-to...
I have eaten
the turtles
that were in
the Galapagos
and which
you were probably
saving
for study
Forgive me
they were delicious
so meaty
and so slow
the turtles
that were in
the Galapagos
and which
you were probably
saving
for study
Forgive me
they were delicious
so meaty
and so slow
July 8, 2025 at 1:14 PM
I have eaten
the turtles
that were in
the Galapagos
and which
you were probably
saving
for study
Forgive me
they were delicious
so meaty
and so slow
the turtles
that were in
the Galapagos
and which
you were probably
saving
for study
Forgive me
they were delicious
so meaty
and so slow
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The Classic Web account on Bluesky is currently going through kottke.org’s blogroll list from 2004 and displaying screenshots of those sites as they appeared then. Look at all those varied designs! [bsky.app]
Classic Web (@classicweb.site)
Screenshots of classic websites and blogs from Dot-Com, Web 2.0 and the 2010s. Brought to you by the internet history site https://cybercultural.com [bridged from https://indieweb.social/@classicweb on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
bsky.app
June 23, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The Classic Web account on Bluesky is currently going through kottke.org’s blogroll list from 2004 and displaying screenshots of those sites as they appeared then. Look at all those varied designs! [bsky.app]
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shel silverstein on the LLM, 1981
June 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM
shel silverstein on the LLM, 1981
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I'll never get over how the best line in all of noir – "I've got eight slugs in me. One's lead, and the rest are bourbon" – doesn't come from Raymond Chandler or Dashiell Hammett, but Calvin and Hobbes
March 4, 2024 at 9:09 PM
I'll never get over how the best line in all of noir – "I've got eight slugs in me. One's lead, and the rest are bourbon" – doesn't come from Raymond Chandler or Dashiell Hammett, but Calvin and Hobbes
I really want to play some Elder Scrolls Online. I haven’t touched it for a few weeks, besides claiming my login goodies. Want to get Wrothgar wrapped up before the new content patch hits consoles in a few weeks time.
June 3, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I really want to play some Elder Scrolls Online. I haven’t touched it for a few weeks, besides claiming my login goodies. Want to get Wrothgar wrapped up before the new content patch hits consoles in a few weeks time.
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I added some vinyl text to this banner outside my local Sainsburys a few years ago. Stayed up for about 12 hours before they took the whole thing down
May 31, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I added some vinyl text to this banner outside my local Sainsburys a few years ago. Stayed up for about 12 hours before they took the whole thing down
got our stamp duty bill from the solicitors, bit unpleasant but it is historically used to pay for wars with France SO I guess I’ll pay it
a close up of a man wearing a black jacket
ALT: a close up of a man wearing a black jacket
media.tenor.com
May 28, 2025 at 5:34 PM
got our stamp duty bill from the solicitors, bit unpleasant but it is historically used to pay for wars with France SO I guess I’ll pay it
This is kind of interesting because it shows that an LLM can’t do this with any accuracy or skill, and it’s basically the Lemonade Stand game. Instead of boiling an entire ocean to get a LLM to do it badly, a human could write a handful of IF statements to handle it basically forever.
arxiv.org/pdf/2502.15840
"...in this paper we ask the llm to run a vending machine..."
it tries to email the fbi, i shit you not
"...in this paper we ask the llm to run a vending machine..."
it tries to email the fbi, i shit you not
arxiv.org
May 27, 2025 at 6:55 PM
This is kind of interesting because it shows that an LLM can’t do this with any accuracy or skill, and it’s basically the Lemonade Stand game. Instead of boiling an entire ocean to get a LLM to do it badly, a human could write a handful of IF statements to handle it basically forever.
First Witch: When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
Second Witch: …in the exciting new DLC update, only $9.99, or with the new season pass included for $29.99
Second Witch: …in the exciting new DLC update, only $9.99, or with the new season pass included for $29.99
“Is this a dagger I see before me?”
Weight: 3
Damage: 11
+2 bonus against kings of Scotland
Weight: 3
Damage: 11
+2 bonus against kings of Scotland
May 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM
First Witch: When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
Second Witch: …in the exciting new DLC update, only $9.99, or with the new season pass included for $29.99
Second Witch: …in the exciting new DLC update, only $9.99, or with the new season pass included for $29.99
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Your beauty is beyond compare,
With writhing locks of flaming hair,
The thousand eyes upon your wings are green,
Your voice it is the death of men,
Your angles non-euclidean,
You're biblically accurate, Jolene
With writhing locks of flaming hair,
The thousand eyes upon your wings are green,
Your voice it is the death of men,
Your angles non-euclidean,
You're biblically accurate, Jolene
May 24, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Your beauty is beyond compare,
With writhing locks of flaming hair,
The thousand eyes upon your wings are green,
Your voice it is the death of men,
Your angles non-euclidean,
You're biblically accurate, Jolene
With writhing locks of flaming hair,
The thousand eyes upon your wings are green,
Your voice it is the death of men,
Your angles non-euclidean,
You're biblically accurate, Jolene
Aronofsky? The guy who made pi? The movie about an unfortunate guy with mental health issues who builds a giant computer that spits out probably random junk but he frantically imbues it with meaning until he has a breakdown? That Aronofsky?
May 22, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Aronofsky? The guy who made pi? The movie about an unfortunate guy with mental health issues who builds a giant computer that spits out probably random junk but he frantically imbues it with meaning until he has a breakdown? That Aronofsky?
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Generative AI has helped me to understand why, in Star Wars, the droids seem to have personalities but are generally bad at whatever they're supposed to be programmed to do, and everyone is tired of their shit and constantly tells them to shut up
May 10, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Generative AI has helped me to understand why, in Star Wars, the droids seem to have personalities but are generally bad at whatever they're supposed to be programmed to do, and everyone is tired of their shit and constantly tells them to shut up
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Just been to our favourite little French restaurant just around the corner. The owner announced he’s selling up, having not-quite recovered after Covid. Absolutely gutted. Wife has been going there ~14 years, me ~9. End of an era.
May 9, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Just been to our favourite little French restaurant just around the corner. The owner announced he’s selling up, having not-quite recovered after Covid. Absolutely gutted. Wife has been going there ~14 years, me ~9. End of an era.
Work was really stressful today, but my boss and I talked things out a bit; currently sat in a pub garden with my wife who is fantastic and I think everything might just be okay
May 6, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Work was really stressful today, but my boss and I talked things out a bit; currently sat in a pub garden with my wife who is fantastic and I think everything might just be okay
Went out to vote. Polling station in a pub. Rewarded ourselves with a Democratic Pint. Stopped in another pub on the way home. Now in a Greek restaurant. Feels very birth-of-democracy and civic-minded. Well done us. Good citizens/drunkards.
May 1, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Went out to vote. Polling station in a pub. Rewarded ourselves with a Democratic Pint. Stopped in another pub on the way home. Now in a Greek restaurant. Feels very birth-of-democracy and civic-minded. Well done us. Good citizens/drunkards.
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An open letter to the Equality and Human Rights Commission from the Culture Sector, in solidarity with Trans, Nonbinary and Intersex communities. Sign your name here: tinyurl.com/ehrcletter Please share widely, and if you are not able to sign for your organisation, please share with someone who can
April 28, 2025 at 8:44 AM
An open letter to the Equality and Human Rights Commission from the Culture Sector, in solidarity with Trans, Nonbinary and Intersex communities. Sign your name here: tinyurl.com/ehrcletter Please share widely, and if you are not able to sign for your organisation, please share with someone who can
spent two hours this afternoon debugging an issue with a colleague before either of us noticed that the report to identify problem data was mistakenly using ‘last_updated’ instead of ‘last_imported’ during a crucial comparison.
a man sitting at a desk using a computer with a woman standing behind him
ALT: a man sitting at a desk using a computer with a woman standing behind him
media.tenor.com
April 25, 2025 at 6:33 PM
spent two hours this afternoon debugging an issue with a colleague before either of us noticed that the report to identify problem data was mistakenly using ‘last_updated’ instead of ‘last_imported’ during a crucial comparison.
I know when you’re viewing a house to buy you shouldn’t judge the furniture or decor, because that’s not what you’re buying, but this house came with fleas.
Hard to remain objective when your ankles are crawling.
Hard to remain objective when your ankles are crawling.
April 19, 2025 at 10:58 AM
I know when you’re viewing a house to buy you shouldn’t judge the furniture or decor, because that’s not what you’re buying, but this house came with fleas.
Hard to remain objective when your ankles are crawling.
Hard to remain objective when your ankles are crawling.