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Mitch Gibson

@mitgibs.bluesky.im

Kindness is like butter. You can never have to much of it and it should be spread on everything. Unashamed technerd, gamer, animal lover, daft apeth and Manx immigrant.

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Sign the Petition Ban Electric Shock Collars on the Isle of Man

There is absolutely no need for electric shock collars, ever. They achieve nothing that can't be acomplished through more humane, and kinder methods.

c.org/MxPXxtGqRR

#dogs #cats #mondog

20.10.2025 14:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

As someone whoโ€™s been fighting depression since my teens, I canโ€™t say this enough: donโ€™t face it alone. Itโ€™s hard, I know, but reach out for help, whether from a charity or a professional. There are many free options out there.

18.10.2025 07:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 228    ๐Ÿ” 17    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) โ€“ Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

"AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations"

pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

Great post from bsky.app/profile/plur...

06.10.2025 13:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A ridiculously cute ginger cat doing his thing.

A ridiculously cute ginger cat doing his thing.

Some places have a Bridge Troll who demands payment to safely pass.
We have a Stair Cat who works on broadly the same principle. He demands tickles to safely pass.

#cats #gingerninja

03.10.2025 16:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Another desperate attempt by Microsoft to try and trick people into using Bing by opening a dialogue box each time Edge updates, defaulted to "confirm" which sets Edge to the default browser and Bing to the default search engine".

Another desperate attempt by Microsoft to try and trick people into using Bing by opening a dialogue box each time Edge updates, defaulted to "confirm" which sets Edge to the default browser and Bing to the default search engine".

Dear Microsoft, if you are going to keep coming up with new a creative ways to try and trick us into using Bing, at least give us some new and creative options to decline. Like a "fuck off" button, that would be new...

#microsoft #bing #edge #browserwars #desperation

29.09.2025 08:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Osprey at St John's, Isle of Man ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฒ

27.09.2025 18:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 29    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Every time a grossly over-paid CEO needs to generate more income the best idea this person can come up with, the supposed crรจme de la crรจme of corporate genius, is... Ads. Always Ads.

7/8 figure salary, and you said "Ads".

How about making a product that has actual value? Just an idea...

25.09.2025 10:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

lot of negativity towards AI lately, but consider :

are these tools ethical or environmentally sustainable? No.

*but* do they enable great things that people want? Also no.

*but* are they being made by well meaning people for good reasons? Once again, no.

maybe you're not being negative *enough*

02.09.2024 00:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10400    ๐Ÿ” 4474    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 69    ๐Ÿ“Œ 84

But you don't deny being sexy...

29.08.2025 07:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Wouldn't it be cool if Tesco Delivery vans played a tune like an Ice-cream van when they're heading down your road?

#tesco

27.08.2025 15:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿ’ฏ

20.08.2025 10:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9567    ๐Ÿ” 4235    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 623    ๐Ÿ“Œ 558
A Beagle and a Westie waiting hopefully for a bit of cheese.

A Beagle and a Westie waiting hopefully for a bit of cheese.

Always pay your taxes...

#dogs #cheesetax

20.08.2025 12:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Petition: Repeal the Online Safety Act We want the Government to repeal the Online Safety act.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions. I don't disagree with the intent of the online safety bill, but the implementation is an omni-shambles.

Repeal and try harder.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

26.07.2025 07:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

ยฏ\_(ใƒ„)_/ยฏ

Here's a แ“šแ˜แ—ข to cheer you up.

11.07.2025 16:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A forlorn looking Beagle.

A forlorn looking Beagle.

It is beyond the comprehension of my dog to understand, when she can clearly see 36 tins of dog food in the cupboard, why I am only giving her one...

It's right there. I can see it. Just give me all of it and I'll deal with it myself.

09.07.2025 12:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Seeing some of the recent output from the Grok vomitorium, I'm starting to wonder if some of it isn't just Musk himself posting under the Grok account. It gives him plausible deniability if anyone get litigious.

09.07.2025 09:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

There is absolutely no excuse for any right-minded person or body to still be on Twitter, it's absolute filth. Governments have failed to legislate for the billionaire/social media/AI/tech bro/fascist black hole and it's far too late to do anything about it now. I'm terrified.

09.07.2025 08:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A rudely awoken cat.

A rudely awoken cat.

Poor Bosley, having his mid-morning snooze disturbed.

#cats #bengal

02.07.2025 11:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Pick a side โ€“ hate or Pride June is Pride month. So our social feeds will be awash with corporate rainbow logos performatively signalling their support for the LGBTQ+ community. But some of the same companies celebrating Pride a...

June is Pride Month. Let's call out companies who show support for LGBTQ+ people while also advertising on GB News, a channel that pumps out LGBTQ+ hate. Tell these companies to pick a side - hate or Pride:

action.goodlawproject.org/pick-side-ha...

29.06.2025 14:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

9-44-666 999-2 4-666-66-66-2 222-2-555-555

21.06.2025 09:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

[wedding]

PRIEST: repeat after me

GROOM: after me

PRIEST: ... [to bride] is he serious

BRIDE: no his name is gary

17.06.2025 00:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1052    ๐Ÿ” 219    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 16    ๐Ÿ“Œ 9

Chatting to my neighbour over the fence, she has seen me in passing but doesn't know which house I live in. She started telling me about a yappy dog that lives nearby. Because of the fence she couldn't see the lead in my hand, or the yappy dog attached to it.

18.06.2025 14:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Sometimes we donโ€™t have much of a choice in businesses we use. Banks, phone companies, utility providers etc. There are however many instances in which we do. I wish more people would shun businesses who are frequently shown to behave poorly. We have more power than we sometimes think.

15.06.2025 21:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 45    ๐Ÿ” 14    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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In honour of Joy Division's iconic album Unknown Pleasures being released on this day in 1979, I'm again sharing one of my favourite ever video clips (Peanuts vs Joy Division dance party)...

15.06.2025 15:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1616    ๐Ÿ” 600    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 29    ๐Ÿ“Œ 48

Yup... After that Scrubs episode I was singing it for weeks.

13.06.2025 08:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Herr Flick: "Heil Hitler!"
Gen. von Klinkerhoffen: "Heil Hitler!"
Col. von Strohm: "Heil Hitler!"

This guy ๐Ÿ‘‡ "Klopp!"

12.06.2025 09:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 33    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Bronze statue of the Bee Gees with traffic cones on their heads.

Bronze statue of the Bee Gees with traffic cones on their heads.

Difficult... but not impossible.

12.06.2025 13:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Bronze statue of the Bee Gees

Bronze statue of the Bee Gees

The problem with having the Bee Gees as your local town legends is that it's very difficult to steal 3 traffic cones without causing an accident.

12.06.2025 13:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

He'll do it again, and properly go for it.... In... Oooh, about 3 and a bit years.

11.06.2025 17:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Never Forget What They've Done Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - Villains of Circumstanceย  Listen to my podcast Better Offline if you haven't already. I want my fucking tech industry back.ย  Maybe you think I sound insane, bu...

Newsletter: I want my damn tech industry back. I'm sick of these sociopathic and directionless freaks wasting hundreds of billions of dollars on AI and ruining products in search of perpetual growth.

It has never been more urgent to hold them accountable.

www.wheresyoured.at/never-forget...

09.06.2025 18:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2240    ๐Ÿ” 406    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 41    ๐Ÿ“Œ 33

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