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Adrian Wilkins

@drbarnowl.bsky.social

Software engineer, public sector.

119 Followers  |  13 Following  |  48 Posts  |  Joined: 26.10.2023  |  2.4785

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An olympic gymnast, an attractive Italian brunette, holding an entire wheel of parmesan cheese as she kneels in her leotard.

An olympic gymnast, an attractive Italian brunette, holding an entire wheel of parmesan cheese as she kneels in her leotard.

The Parmesan marketing board playing a blinder as usual.

Here's the cover shot for their upcoming collaboration with Hallmark Movies.

23.11.2025 11:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The only use I've been able to come up with it is as a notarized timestamp provider - but that doesn't require the destructive Proof of Work that burns so much energy.

16.11.2025 11:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You think they just slap a `sed` layer on top, or whether they have an entire extra model for removing emdash?

16.11.2025 10:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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14.11.2025 20:07 β€” πŸ‘ 80    πŸ” 38    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

It's regenerating.

12.11.2025 22:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You'll be happy with her casting in Doctor Who then.

26.10.2025 16:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's like people who say "I'll teach you some respect!"

You _earn_ respect. They mean fear.

26.10.2025 15:51 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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I think about this a lot.

25.10.2025 11:12 β€” πŸ‘ 9668    πŸ” 3530    πŸ’¬ 72    πŸ“Œ 212

www.salon.com/2000/06/14/l...

Maybe this is something the fediverse could fix - musicians need a platform that techbros and "corrupt little pishers" can't control.

As do taxi drivers, take aways, etc, etc, etc.

26.10.2025 13:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

"Can the gravitational singularity avoid the black hole?"

26.10.2025 13:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Hey there, what if I spill my secrets in YOUR silicon valley.... wait, no, I thought you were Russian .... dammit."

26.10.2025 13:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

They didn't have the chocolate coated ones with apricot jam in Tesco and I'm hoping that Lidl comes through for me.

03.10.2025 17:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Snowflake Space

02.10.2025 12:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

to my mind the woman who dies of sepsis because of antiabortion laws, or the person who dies because they can't afford insulin -- these are just as much victims of political violence as the man shot through the throat while making a racist speech

11.09.2025 02:20 β€” πŸ‘ 12433    πŸ” 3225    πŸ’¬ 74    πŸ“Œ 67
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I too deplore political violence - particularly when employed by the state - against people peacefully expressing their point of view.

Meanwhile, I need to deal with the donation of art supplies to my local community college - we've got a lot of Free Plasticine.

11.09.2025 07:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There have been 309 mass shootings in the US so far *this year*. 15,186 people killed by guns.

Did our Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister put out statements within hours for the anti-abortion assassination of Representative Melissa Hortman three months ago?

None of their feeds mention her name.

10.09.2025 22:33 β€” πŸ‘ 172    πŸ” 52    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 2

Needs a companion : garlic butt ... er, I don't know how to write crochet patterns.

08.08.2025 16:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Cartoon of the Owl with a Copper Dick (with copper dick censored out) sitting on a branch and looking menacing af

Cartoon of the Owl with a Copper Dick (with copper dick censored out) sitting on a branch and looking menacing af

In the UK, the bogeyman is a fictional monster that many parents use to scare their children into behaving. The bogeyman exists in Hungary also, but small children are more commonly threatened with a visit from RΓ©zfaszΓΊ Bagoly, or β€œThe Owl with a Copper Dick.”

04.08.2025 14:14 β€” πŸ‘ 148    πŸ” 40    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 14

Naah.

This was entirely on purpose.

The Tories took PAINS to make it so. "Go Home" vans. Sending the Home Secretary out in her special Home Secretary jacket to sneer at people traffickers. Nonsense plans about wave machines.

All to distract from the legal immigration.

05.08.2025 20:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If the rate of Rolex theft is really up, that would indicate a MAJOR uptick in the rate of Rolex wearing, rather than an increase in the rate of watch theft.

26.07.2025 14:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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It eventually told me my card was declined.

Either it's swamped with donations, or someone is trying hard to block them.

26.07.2025 14:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Trying to donate and finding that my card is just being declined.

Far from me to suspect shenanigans, but I suspect shenanigans.

26.07.2025 14:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Kinda reminds me of ....

(CW : plasticine bodily emissions)

youtu.be/gzxQgRbTesA?...

22.07.2025 18:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Also
bsky.app/profile/ewac...

16.07.2025 22:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"I'm the bitch you hated /
Powerpoint roundly slated"

16.07.2025 22:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

THE TAINT PERVADES

16.07.2025 22:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yet Thiel and all his tech bros *want* the replicator future, where a machine provides everything for a low cost. They just don't want the machines to be readily available. They want to control the supply. They want to be Hurts, or Ferengi.

11.07.2025 13:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

"Well there's Spies, Lies, Pies and Tries, that's about espionage among the rugby community in the North, that doesn't have very much 'Spies' in it" - <Graham Chapman in falsetto>

11.07.2025 12:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

OK, so here’s my JJ Abrams story…

Before I started working in digital restoration one of my primary jobs in post-production support was running the in-house theater and screening rooms at work. Every now and again it would get booked for casting sessions, because it was perfectly suited for that…

27.06.2025 02:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1089    πŸ” 391    πŸ’¬ 30    πŸ“Œ 158

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