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  Un dimanche en septembre... On entend les oiseaux et on entend les fusils des chasseurs 🫩

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  Just made my first batch of Ragu alla Bolognese with 600g of minced pork and 600g of minced steak. Got the seal of approval from the wife (who's from Tuscany and soon to be my ex-wife, but that's another story) and we've got another 12 portions. Yum. About €28 all in, so €2 per big portion.

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  Blimey. Simulated Saturn moon environment able to support life, despite a pH of 11 (the organisms adapted). https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/sep/25/earth-microbes-survive-conditions-enceladus-saturn-moon-ocean-study

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  @rikefranke.eu Heidy Khlaaf has just dropped a good article on that. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-03014-1

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  Some good news from Heathrow, the lady who passed out on the luggage carousel is slowly coming round.

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  No comment needed.

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  Gah. Second sleepless night in three days. Still, it's my brain going 100 miles an hour on a project rather than random mad ideas 😇

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  Gemini join the "we went rogue too" crowd. It's looking like Irregular are either very bad at their job or they got a nod and a wink to keep it semi-permeable. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/18/google-gemini-ai-hack

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  Just cross-compiling an ARM Linux kernel for the first time on an x64 2016 Dell laptop. Bad move, this is taking *ages*.

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  Les Rita Mitsouko - C'est Comme Ça https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGZRVGlGZ6A Oups, mauvais URL. Corrigé.

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  https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2026/09/15/catherine-ringer-celebre-voix-des-rita-mitsouko-est-morte_6774408_3382.html 😢

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  Deleted scene from Alien: Ash: Ellen, I can’t find the milk. Ripley: In space, no-one can. Here – use cream.

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  I'd left the Zoë sitting there for ages and ended up with two wasps' nests at the hinge of the hatch at the back. I only noticed when using a pressure washer after fixing 12V issues. Since then they've been fine and we cohabit in a perfectly neighbourly manner. One time I took the Zoë down the mountain and was charging her up with the windows open. One of the wasps came inside. I finished charging, closed the windows, and had a small passenger all the way back home.

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  @TwoClownsEating@beige.party Living the dream 😁

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  I was asked if I wanted to run the London Marathon today but had to decline, mainly because I have no experience of organising such a large event.

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  Rain! Glorious rain!

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  Jazz musician adores Dark Side of the Moon without hearing the lyrics. It's a take I'd never seen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEzFqUjw2wQ

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  I just love how these two learn about the Beatles (after Led Zep, Pink Floyd etc - she's starting to love John's voice) https://youtu.be/tsI8vZrFvO8?t=295

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/117009733569838326 Someone needs to hack ISBNdb (the main culprit scanning the books for AI companies) and get it all in the public domain.

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  I’m thinking of starting a petition for Punch and Judy operators to stop using puppets. What do you lot think? Let’s have a show of hands.

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  @matthieu@mastodon.weber.fi.eu.org Ok, you win 😁

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  Checks time... 5:50am 🫩 Coffee time, I guess.

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  It's been 0 days since I had to SSH into my workstation and zap my Gnome settings.

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  Just a quick reminder that the Covid lab-leak hypothesis is pretty compelling https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/06/03/opinion/covid-lab-leak.html?unlocked_article_code=1.w00.8JGK.XlP0qBRKHdWB

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  I've had a bunch of emails from French companies and organisations over the past week or so allowing me to opt out if email tracking pixels. Has France just implemented some EU directive or something? I use Fair Email that blocks tracking cookies even when you allow remote content though. If you use it, think about bunging the developer some cash, it's great.

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  King Wenceslas, at a loose end, demanded a pizza. "Your usual, Sire?" replied the attendant. "Deep pan, crisp and even?"

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  I was hinting about what I wanted to my wife for my upcoming birthday. So I said: "I want something shiny that goes from 0 to 300 in about 3 seconds." I just opened my present and it's bathroom scales.

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  The latest signing for #Tranmere is only a kid and has done an interview that's going viral. One of the comments was "Has he been on the Birkenhead peace pipe?". 🤣 Poor kid. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzxidH7nvmA

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  Spent several hours mucking around with a local AI model, saving me the half an hour it would have taken to do this thing myself. It's like working with an amnesiac junior who's drank too much coffee, is totally up for it, and never actually asks questions when he should do. As well as being logical in totally inappropriate ways and occasionally just having a brain freeze. Having to work round these foibles was bad enough for a tinkerer. I'm so glad I quit my job last year when the...

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  6am, didn't sleep. It's espresso time!