Per Inoboedientiam Ad Astra

pikesley@mastodon.me.uk

Things are:* White or "political" * Straight or "political" * Male or "political" * Cis or "political" * Able-bodied or "political" * Neurotypical or "political" * Christian or "political" * Capitalist or "political"etc, etc"I don't like to talk about politics" means "I voted Tory and I don't like to be made to feel uncomfortable"

Posts

Post #4443819
My AI has Escaped Containment and started ordering huge amounts of guillotine parts 🤷
Post #4399363
FUCKING HELL CAN WE PLEASE JUST MAKE IT STOP Why I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy https://naomibashkansky.com/blog/telepathy/
Post #4349044
Quoth the Raven, "Be careful with that cable, it's carrying 48 volts" -- Edgar Allan PoE
Post #4163755
I have written about #EMFCamp https://sam.pikesley.org/blog/2026/07/22/emf-as-an-act-of-defiance/
Post #4159132
Capitalism "legally allowed to indoctrinate and exploit 14-year-olds", says Labour Government https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj4k2djd5qpo
Post #4119958
Poe's Law: Somebody, somewhere will earnestly treat your sarcasm with 100% sincerity PoE's Law: Somebody, somewhere will plug the wrong cable into an ethernet port and fry their device
Post #4091805
https://news.sky.com/story/europe-wildfires-latest-french-tourist-hotspot-evacuated-as-national-emergency-declared-in-spain-13566532 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c935yx2z9d4o Everything is unbelievably fucked and the people in charge absolutely do not care
Post #4012302
New release just about to hit the #EMFCamp #Tildagon app-store https://apps.badge.emfcamp.org/apps/34121033
Post #3913693
Seeing all these kids at #EMFCamp having the time of their lives and wondering how different my life might have been had I known at the age of ten that these people, this energy, exists in the world
Post #3703628
Your periodic reminder that the New Scientist IS OWNED BY THE GODDAMN DAILY MAIL GROUP
Post #3650245
Actual Sisyphus https://boingboing.net/2026/07/06/post-china-built-a-40-story-tower-that-stores-wind-powe.html
Post #3601819
I heard there was a secret cord That nobody told David about And his parachute didn't open
Post #3533744
Equal parts alarming and exciting #EMFCamp
Post #3478077
This now exists on the #EMFCamp #Tildagon app-store https://apps.badge.emfcamp.org/apps/33240411/ If anybody has any ideas how we might transform this nonsense into an actual game, I'm all ears
Post #3471817
Sorry celebrate my *what*, Etsy?
Post #3467545
Value Goose implies Hue Goose and Saturation Goose
Post #3458214
Something I just saw on here put this in my mind
Post #3446182
Welcome to kneecap.smash, our new instance here on fediverse.com. Our presumed-consent, opt-out model means that by the time you find out about us and what we're doing, you'll probably still have one kneecap left
Post #3403684
I fed the text of the Softbank Goose thing through a Markov Chain and it came back exactly the same
Post #3092006
Reading Thomas Nagel's seminal 1974 paper What Is It Like to Be an #LLM?
Post #2815676
Post #2815675
DAMMIT I solved the daily #CluesBySam, May 24th 2026 (Hard), in less than 27 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 https://cluesbysam.com
Post #2815674
JFC
Post #2815673
I have done ~1 hour of #gardening and I am now thoroughly melted #London #heatwave
Post #2815672
West Ham v Millwall is BACK, baby #football
Post #2815671
This week in Crimes Against URLs, or How Are We Making Roy Fielding Cry Today?, what happens if we select a size on Size&#39;s trainer pages? https://www.size.co.uk/mens/footwear/size/7-5,5-8,7-5-8,6-5-8,5-8-5,7-8-5uk,5-5-8/s/trainers/ I understand show-sizing is a shitshow, but WTF IS THIS?
Post #2518521
BBC #6music News: &quot;People who read books or visit museums regularly have a biological age a year younger than those who don&#39;t&quot; THERE ARE OTHER FACTORS AT PLAY I DON&#39;T THINK THE BOOKS JUST MAGICALLY MAKE YOU HEALTHIER
Post #2498292
Gitlab about to go to shit https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/
Post #2493433
Fairy Liquid implies Fairy Solid and Fairy Gas
Post #2472835
Thinking about this again today for some reason