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His look of fury brings me joy.

i will strangle a horse by BRAINMAGE A comedy twine-based choose-your-own-adventure game where it's your first day on The Farm, and you have One Job

I wrote a game! About attempting to strangle a horse! And dying of eg Spider Bumhead or Bonegone Horsefright! It's free! And VERY SILLY

brainmage.itch.io/i-will-stran...

Waiting to see the doctor, which is just a thing that happens at my age I guess.

a neighbour had a smart hub thing installed in his attic by an engineer to control outdoor lights. worked great until the app randomly logged him out, and he just can't get back in no matter what. his lights have been powered off for like 12 months

A black and white photograph of a woman wearing an ornate light coloured dress with ruffles. She's seated on an ornately carved wooden chair, with her right hand resting on the head of a large black and white dog of the border collie persuasion.

When you're posting inspirational women's day stuff today, remember alt text. Tvm.

Eunice Foote, who theorised and demonstrated the greenhouse gas effect in the 1850s, but was largely overlooked.

More on her and others:

ideas.ted.com/history-over...

This thread by @helenbelcherobe.bsky.social, in response to a post by @paulbernal.bsky.social, is worth a read for just some of the context behind how regressive, and frankly hostile, Labour is on trans rights.

A small black cat, lying on her tummy on a sofa. She has a fluffy white patch of fur on her neck. Behind her is a vintage cushion which has the Cadbury's Bournville logo on it.

Just a little panther that lives with us.

#Cats #CatsOfBluesky

Is that the dude from Reacher?

(I goggled, it is). I shall see if I can persuade Darling Wife to watch it, the first scene was promising and I stopped in case she might like to watch it too.

Who the hell is stupid enough to give an AI agent that sort of access to anything? There are maybe 2 people that work for my main client that I'd trust with that.

....I have to assume you know that Cefn Mawr is a real place close to Wrexham (we're just up the road).

A TV showing a football player scoring a goal. A black cat is sat on a chest of drawers next to the TV, apparently watching the game.

Niffler appreciated the Wrexham goal.

#Cats #Caturday #CatsOfBluesky

Darling Wife is watching football because. Wrexham is just up the road from us.

So, beer? Yes, beer.

Oh god. I stopped drinking to excess a couple of years ago because of an incident like this (not involving DW's work but I upset a lot of people I care about).

Maybe he'll learn his lesson too...!

Just back from the pub. No cooking on the agenda, had a big nosh up at the chip shop before the pub.

A black cat with a fluffy white patch of fur on her chest. She is lying on her tummy on a sofa. Her left leg is stretched out in front of her; her right leg is tucked into her body. Her head is lifted up and her eyes are open. Her ears are pricked up.

What time do your call this, human?!

#Cats #Caturday #CatsOfBluesky

Anyway I bought an M4 in the end because I'm unlikely to need the extra inputs on the Id24 and several people mentioned the output impedance is quite high. Also they were out of stock everywhere.

Your job is to pick the worst actor to play James Bond

It will take more than one post to list all the ways in which the right have no media literacy whatsoever. They love the noise & sound films & TV make without understanding what any of it means. So anyway, let's go through some of the clips they used in support of their illegal and immoral war. 1/7

I am now deep in reddit audiophile territory.

The level of geekery here scares me. And I'm a software engineer.

Those things didn't work for me at all I've the 2 occasions I've tried to use them.

Worked without a hitch for Darling Wife though.

Unfair.

Sarah Gail Brand Trombonist of Improvised Music. Also seen on Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle series 1 & 2 For more info, contact me on here.

Hello Bluesky.

If you like Improvised Music/ Free Jazz, you can hear and buy it on my records here:

sarahgailbrand.bandcamp.com

I haven't released a new record for a while - I'm benched as a trombone player while I recover from hand and arm surgery, but my music lives on!

#BandcampFriday

Apparently now I need to know about things like headphone impedance...

This is very "first world problems" but I thought I'd decided on an audio interface *months* ago but now I've started watching more YouTube videos about them and now I have to decide between the motu M2 and the Audient Id24 again....

At the last place I was a permanent employee (20 years ago) a bunch of us formed a band for one of those "strategy kick-off" meetings so beloved of a certain size of SME.

The sound people they got in had worked with Queen.

And I've met the guy that refurbished Brian May's Red Special.

Darling wife's alarm goes off at 6:10.

I am NOT a morning person, but if I don't get up I end up going back to sleep until 8:30 and then I'm more tired, which seems unfair.

How I arrived on bluesky

9 with occasional hints of 1. (I am looking at somebody else's code and have so far found 42 high-level vulnerabilities in the packages they're using).

Jacob Collier is a British multi-album Grammy award winner.

He is known for his "audience choir' interactions, skillfully leading thousands of audience members in improvised, multi-part singing. This performance on Oct 27 2025, was his first attempt at the "audience orchestra" concept.

#music