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Colin Ian King

@colinianking.bsky.social

kernel bug fixer, Open Source advocate, C64 and Lego fanatic, hobbyist artist. Author of stress-ng.

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First hedgehog of 2026! Tuesday 24th February 2026
YouTube video by The Hedgehog Garden First hedgehog of 2026! Tuesday 24th February 2026

First hedgehog of the year spotted in the back garden! youtu.be/pR1_cLB5BEI?...

28.02.2026 10:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hedgehog camera ready for a new year of Hog filming!

24.02.2026 18:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

hopefully you resolved the issue

20.02.2026 22:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Today's news: "He's a very naughty boy!"

19.02.2026 17:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Today's news: "He's a very naughty boy!"

19.02.2026 17:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The fastest way to get a letter delivered by the UK post office nowadays is to send it as a parcel.

18.02.2026 12:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The rest of the world looks on and realizes the US is a broken democracy.

16.02.2026 22:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A die photo of the 8087 chip, with the main functional blocks labeled. The chip is a tan rectangle with complex patterns in dark brown. Many of the patterned regions are textured rectangles. One of the largest rectangles is the microcode ROM in the middle. The bottom half of the chip is the datapath, performing operations on floating-point numbers. The instruction decoding happens in the upper left. Around the edges of the chip, bond wires connect the chip to the 40 external pins, but the pins are not visible, just short segments of the bond wires.

A die photo of the 8087 chip, with the main functional blocks labeled. The chip is a tan rectangle with complex patterns in dark brown. Many of the patterned regions are textured rectangles. One of the largest rectangles is the microcode ROM in the middle. The bottom half of the chip is the datapath, performing operations on floating-point numbers. The instruction decoding happens in the upper left. Around the edges of the chip, bond wires connect the chip to the 40 external pins, but the pins are not visible, just short segments of the bond wires.

In 1980, Intel released the 8087 floating-point chip, making math much faster. I'm reverse-engineering this chip, 46 years later. Most of its instructions are implemented in microcode, but some are implemented in hardware. Let's look at the circuitry that decodes instructions and decides what to do.

14.02.2026 17:46 β€” πŸ‘ 134    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Can planet earth please sue him for damages?

13.02.2026 22:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Exclusive: Former Prince Andrew tried to facilitate Epstein-Gaddafi meeting The emails were included in the latest dump of Epstein files from the US Department of Justice, and have been uncovered for the first time by Channel 4 News.

Exclusive: Former Prince Andrew tried to facilitate Epstein-Gaddafi meeting
www.channel4.com/news/exclusi...

13.02.2026 20:16 β€” πŸ‘ 40    πŸ” 30    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 5
Deneway Youth Rangers meet up with the Arun Regional Group | Sussex Wildlife Trust

I wrote a blogpost for @sussexwildlife.bsky.social about a trip I went on with a bunch of other youth rangers. We tried to find eagles... πŸ¦…

sussexwildlifetrust.org.uk/news/deneway...

#birds

12.02.2026 15:43 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I was very lucky today as I spotted none other than a Weasel. Super cute. Super teeny

11.02.2026 19:06 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

eeeeeee-numb

11.02.2026 18:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Each flag should also have a food item pictogram next to it to make it easier, e.g. bottle of wine for France, pizza for Italy.

10.02.2026 23:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Makes the US look like a trashy place to avoid.

09.02.2026 13:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's been so relentlessly rainy recently that my species recording diary is sodden. Worth it though, as I have seen Storks and an Eagle this week!

#birding

07.02.2026 13:22 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Six months since I booted my Windows "gaming" PC.
One game I want to play.
GPU drivers.
Windows updates.
27GB Steam update.
Three hours later, I've played zero games.

06.02.2026 17:58 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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@houserepublicans.bsky.social
We The People know.

06.02.2026 05:29 β€” πŸ‘ 4663    πŸ” 3233    πŸ’¬ 298    πŸ“Œ 299
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Emma Peel's Lotus Elan From "The Avengers" Is For Sale There were few cars more iconic to the television watching 1960s British public than the Lotus Elan, thanks largely to its use by Emma Peel in The

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Hot wheels
I'm guessing that it has been sold by now.

03.02.2026 18:24 β€” πŸ‘ 680    πŸ” 93    πŸ’¬ 59    πŸ“Œ 11
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We are deeply saddened by the passing of Professor Sir Nicholas White @moru-mip.bsky.social

Nick was a visionary in #malaria treatment whose work transformed global health.
He will be remembered with great respect and affection

Read our tribute πŸ‘‰ www.tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk/news/profess...

03.02.2026 12:20 β€” πŸ‘ 2102    πŸ” 272    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 12

There do seem to be a lot of corrupt folk in the party.

03.02.2026 14:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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added bit-flipping to the stress-ng register stressor and it's now making my system a bit more toasty!

31.01.2026 19:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A woman kneels on grass, carving a wooden stick with a knife. She wears a yellow shirt and red gloves, surrounded by wood pieces.

A woman kneels on grass, carving a wooden stick with a knife. She wears a yellow shirt and red gloves, surrounded by wood pieces.

Post image A small, handmade wooden leaky dam constructed with sticks and branches, partially submerged in a muddy, shallow water area surrounded by grass.

A small, handmade wooden leaky dam constructed with sticks and branches, partially submerged in a muddy, shallow water area surrounded by grass.

Watch out vampires - we've got a crack team of stake-holders! Katie Bell, Youth Action Officer, led a leaky dam building collab at Woods Mill nature reserve, between our Youth Rangers and the regular Friday Conservation volunteers. Leaky dams help prevent flooding.

29.01.2026 15:30 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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1984 in 2026

28.01.2026 09:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks Paolo!

27.01.2026 22:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Dear BBC
Please defund Mrs Browns Boys and divert funding to Winter/Spring/Autumn watch

Thx ever so
Signed
Everyone who isn’t a wrong β€˜un

23.01.2026 19:15 β€” πŸ‘ 626    πŸ” 77    πŸ’¬ 40    πŸ“Œ 2

Be focused on who you can help rather than who you are.

22.01.2026 19:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Trump's policies make the US look ridiculous from the standpoint of the rest of the world. It's going to take many years for the US to regain it's lost reputation. Sorry, but that's the reality we're now in.

21.01.2026 18:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Cold porridge is more intelligent and more useful.

21.01.2026 15:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If he can't manage his own finances why should we trust him with the UK's finances. What a cad.

21.01.2026 13:08 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0