Posts by Nicovel0@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #Ay1RYStEyDl1j1GTaa by Nicovel0@mastodon.social
2025-09-09T06:54:50Z
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Oh very progressive: Banksy artwork criticising the government is to be destroyed. Even the Tories didn’t do that as far as I recall, they only destroyed artwork in refugee reception centres. https://news.sky.com/story/new-banksy-artwork-to-be-removed-from-royal-courts-of-justice-13427216
(DIR) Post #AynWkjDuqPY8rT9xwW by Nicovel0@mastodon.social
2025-10-02T11:56:34Z
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@futurebird it looks like a crown designed by a 9 year old
(DIR) Post #AynbWpkGIdQSnxU15c by Nicovel0@mastodon.social
2025-10-02T12:50:05Z
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@futurebird when the first iPhones and Androids came out there were queues around the building. Before that once people started getting online they kept asking for more and more bandwidth. No one except some VC and a few C suites are actually excited about generative AI. But when the bubble pops a lot of people will lose a lot of money, through no fault of their own.
(DIR) Post #AyvnRgmcwfqAHDa9uy by Nicovel0@mastodon.social
2025-10-06T11:41:19Z
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@futurebird that’s kind of my view about publishing too, although there is a big attempt to introduce AI at all levels. I’m in scholarly pub which is its own microcosm, and I often say to my colleagues that really we’re in a people business.
(DIR) Post #B0BLlgawASI3yeT0TY by Nicovel0@mastodon.social
2025-11-12T21:38:40Z
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@futurebird when I had work done on the chimney I asked the workers to remove the aerial
(DIR) Post #B0DD5rNp2ZI5dy5zTE by Nicovel0@mastodon.social
2025-11-12T17:50:27Z
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@Nickiquote @TheBreadmonkey you Brits are just so strange
(DIR) Post #B0DD5tqFtpDtGjPj4C by Nicovel0@mastodon.social
2025-11-13T18:45:56Z
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@DamonHD @Nickiquote @TheBreadmonkey my eldest is applying to Oxford and despite working with academics/in academia for 25 years and going to open days I’m still not sure I get it. I understand every time a lecturer leaves they kill a deer or something? Not sure what this has to do with physics.
(DIR) Post #B0EiMHfQNPjtX3bHZQ by Nicovel0@mastodon.social
2025-11-14T12:35:56Z
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@futurebird I was watching an American show and at some point the protagonists came out of an Escalade, and I was shocked at how ugly that lorry is.
(DIR) Post #B0F0IzYh2tojfx220u by Nicovel0@mastodon.social
2025-11-14T15:55:12Z
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@JamesWidman @futurebird my preferred term is wankpanzer but I don’t know how universal it is
(DIR) Post #B0F0leftloRXIt4NSC by Nicovel0@mastodon.social
2025-11-14T16:02:13Z
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@futurebird @JamesWidman antiversal?
(DIR) Post #B0dMF7CBV7OYJ4ps9o by Nicovel0@mastodon.social
2025-11-26T09:55:55Z
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@futurebird I don’t know them well enough, but they’ve been around long enough that I wouldn’t be surprised if there was an ant species out there that mimics an ant mimic, but we don’t know because the ant mimic species died out and the ant one didn’t.
(DIR) Post #B1BQWC99LsTbmBSB9M by Nicovel0@mastodon.social
2025-12-12T20:23:59Z
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@futurebird very good thank you. I’m actually not that worried about the tech itself (despite having to battle slop every day), but rather about the C suits who seem to think it can do our jobs.
(DIR) Post #B1RdlhomYUGAkTlbYO by Nicovel0@mastodon.social
2025-12-20T16:07:45Z
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@futurebird I’m sure you’ve heard that before, but I’m also certain you don’t hear it anywhere near enough: you are an amazing teacher
(DIR) Post #B1TSfpJv2TWz6DFErQ by Nicovel0@mastodon.social
2025-12-21T13:12:48Z
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@futurebird I am pretty much completely ignorant of kwanzaa, apart from baffling (to me) references in some US shows. What language is the holiday name and reflection topics from?
(DIR) Post #B2JLanldT3dMQd68WW by Nicovel0@mastodon.social
2026-01-15T13:57:55Z
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@aral @Geri I suspect they lose more sleep over a bad headline in the Daily Mail. People dying, meh.
(DIR) Post #B2NIsdfyCfSn746M52 by Nicovel0@mastodon.social
2026-01-17T11:45:50Z
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@aral 😂
(DIR) Post #B2RVSczHwFudDmSGAK by Nicovel0@mastodon.social
2026-01-19T12:26:49Z
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@futurebird my lower back seized up just looking at this. Amazing skill!
(DIR) Post #B2XKSVFMmjZMfOTMwa by Nicovel0@mastodon.social
2026-01-22T07:51:49Z
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@futurebird can confirm, but salesforce is making bank
(DIR) Post #B2ZSSkGU8VKbC4Xg9o by Nicovel0@mastodon.social
2026-01-23T07:49:49Z
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@DrALJONES/115943277881911921Of course they have “camps” already planned, where did you think the slave labour was going to live?
(DIR) Post #B2g9eyI4zdhsSmfaLY by Nicovel0@mastodon.social
2026-01-26T14:03:15Z
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@futurebird also it looks like a Civ III achievement badge. Very “graphic design is my passion”.