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@robindch.bsky.social

In alpha order, C++ developer in payment systems' certification, frequent flyer (former), guardian of apostrophes, hiker, Kerryman, organist, sailor.

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Latest posts by robindch.bsky.social on Bluesky

Can’t wait for the arrival of his friends, Stir-fried Broccoli Guy, Crème Brûlée Guy and Mushroom Soup Guy.

13.02.2026 00:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Costs £87 if you want him to cheer on the IRA:

x.com/RTEUpfront/s...

13.02.2026 00:03 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“Your privacy is important to us. Please click on the unclearly-designated checkboxes to make a privacy choice which you’ll later regret.“

12.02.2026 15:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

TACO.

12.02.2026 14:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Surely, the winner of this year’s Gerard Ratner Public Foresight Award?

12.02.2026 10:42 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Need to consider the possibility that this is simply outrage-farming to the gullible.

08.02.2026 09:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Yep, that's a problem - though, if you have a NAS on your home network, then easy enough to download the video and play it from the NAS.

There's only so many thirty-second ads for 'Tai Chi Abs Exercise' you can watch before you change your viewing habits permanently.

05.02.2026 10:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

YouTube-dl is your friend - it downloada videos from YouTube without th accompanying ads.

ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/

05.02.2026 07:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Pretty good for an LLM.

04.02.2026 22:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You, Kyiv and Ukraine have friends abroad - do not be shy to call us and ask for help.

03.02.2026 00:01 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I usually do three boils - first for less than an hour, second for less than two hours and the last for less than three.

30.01.2026 06:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Wow, looks amazing! Where can one buy such magic things?

29.01.2026 11:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

In Europe, defence spending is a function of proximity to Russia.

28.01.2026 22:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Could call it “Pain”.

28.01.2026 22:35 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

“in bid to shore up key minerals”

Like, seriously?

25.01.2026 01:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That’s the Trumpy two-week tango - means it’s shoved so hard towards the back burner that it vanishes, never to be seen again.

23.01.2026 00:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Such a disappointment to see the third para start with “I have done” when he could have finessed the letter by omitting “have”.

19.01.2026 18:54 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Presume it’s studying the exoplanets to keep out immigrants.

18.01.2026 22:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I don't disagree with The Atlantic's assessment or yours. What I am saying is that using 'misleading' and 'threat inflation' to refer to an intentional strategy of universal, barefaced lying by a string of serial liars is putting lipstick on a pig.

16.01.2026 10:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

”offered” or “gives”? Headline says one, photo says the other. Both are craven.

16.01.2026 01:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Think he said “King of Piss”.

16.01.2026 00:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“25% of racists shocked when other racists do racist shat” isn’t much of a headline.

16.01.2026 00:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The terror is the point.

16.01.2026 00:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

When they say “peace” maybe they actually mean “piss”?

16.01.2026 00:23 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Instead of calling it “threat inflation” and lending it some semblance of decency, why not, instead, call it by its real name, “barefaced lying”?

16.01.2026 00:17 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Good to see sombody stand up to the ongoing traincrash.

12.01.2026 01:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Are cars getting too big for the road? In some parts of the world, cars have always been on the larger side. But now these behemoths are spreading – and the consequences are still being figured out.

Car fattening:

www.bbc.com/future/artic...

11.01.2026 22:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Would be great if platforms show what country posts originated from, plus whether they’re over VPN or TOR.

11.01.2026 00:31 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Dense, sticky and heavy: why Venezuelan crude oil appeals to US refineries South American nation’s tar-like oil is what many Gulf coast facilities were built for but ramping up production to 3m barrels a day will be a long game

If only the US had a string of refineries in, say, Texas, which are good at refining heavy oil.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

07.01.2026 01:38 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Just as well we don’t have oil.

06.01.2026 23:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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