Andy Brice
@andybrice.bsky.social
Software products: https://www.easydatatransform.com https://www.perfecttableplan.com https://www.hyperplan.com Blog: https://www.successfulsoftware.net
One doesn't want to count unhatched chickens, but I have a feeling that come 2029 there will be a whole bunch of men on the job market describing themselves as having 'law enforcement backgrounds' with four-year resume gaps they'd rather not be made to explain.
Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · last wk.ICE might be masked now, but one day, mark my words, payroll records will be subpoenaed.
If there is a God, he has a pretty dark sense of humour: www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/3...
Priest killed by falling crucifix during sermon on fragility of life
Father Sánchez Molinari dies in front of congregation after being hit by cross at church in Ecuador
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My online girlfriend was so shocked by the Ukraine drone strike on the Russian data centre that she's been too upset to message me all day.
I had this bit about Jeffrey Archer from the 1995 HIGNFY video memorised for whenever I needed a handy fact about him.
Easy Data Transform v2.15.0 is now out for Windows and Mac. Various improvements, including the 75th transform. More details at: www.easydatatransform.com/easydatatran... Download a free trial and start data wrangling.
Easy Data Transform v2.15.0
Easy Data Transform v2.15.0, business intelligence and analytics for Mac and Windows.
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Americans: Locking up tourists, threatening allies with invasion, insulting friends at every opportunity, cozying up to their enemies Also Americans: Why do fewer people want to visit us? It's so weird, how could this possibly happen
Semafor@semafor.com · last mo.Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
Found a bug in PerfectTablePlan that has probably been there for 15 years and has never been reported. There is a relatively easy workaround, so I guess no-one bothered to email me.
Congrats to Bending Spoons for enshittifying Komoot. You won't be getting my money.
TIL: The first racially segregated US prison was Dartmoor prison, in England. White US sailors captured in the war of 1812 requested segregation.
“This is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie” www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/3...
Trump unveils Space Force uniform inspired by Nazi-aesthetic film
Director Paul Verhoeven said his 1997 Starship Troopers was about “fascists who aren’t aware of their fascism”.
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ChatGPT ad targeting is garbage successfulsoftware.net/2026/09/02/c...
ChatGPT ad targeting is garbage
I have been experimenting with buying ChatGPT ads for my event seating assignment software. Here are the overall results from 05-Aug-2026 to 28-Aug-2026: Total spend on ChatGPT ads£289.52 Total cli…
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Onboard video from the Isle of Man TT. Just watching it got my pulse going. Absolutely terrifying. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEED...
FLAT OUT AT THE ISLE OF MAN TT | CLOSED ROAD ONBOARD
YouTube video by 44Teeth
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You can make a donation to help people in Nepal here: www.gofundme.com/f/support-ne...
Donate to Support Nepal Flood Relief, organized by KE Adventure Travel
For more than 40 years, Nepal has been a huge part of KE Adventure Travel and holds a… KE Adventure Travel needs your support for Support Nepal Flood Relief
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These must be the least terrifying fascists of all time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qat...
March for our Fallen - Party Leader Alek Yerbury
YouTube video by National Rebirth Party
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Strange isn't it that there are all those calls from right-wing influencers and libertarians on sm for Ukraine to hold elections in the middle of a war... but absolutely no calls for free and fair and transparent elections from the same people in the Russian dictatorship. Which is also at war.
When punching fascists, try to keep your thumb wrapped in tight.
My experience buying ads in ChatGPT: the good, the bad and the ugly successfulsoftware.net/2026/08/13/m...
My experience buying ads in ChatGPT: the good, the bad and the ugly
When OpenAI dropped the minimum $50k spend on their ad platform, I thought I should give it a try for my seating planner app. Perhaps I can get some cheap and well targeted clicks, before all the c…
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I thoroughly enjoyed meeting the world's press: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEsa...
Count Binface meets the world's press
YouTube video by Count Binface
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Hopefully the eclipse yesterday portends a cataclysmic change in Clacton. Go @countbinface.bsky.social !
Presumably everyone who stayed on Airf Force One was considered expendable? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Trump hid in catering truck in secret plane swap over Iran threat, reports say
The US president was reportedly part of a ruse where reporters were falsely told he was with them on Air Force One leaving a Nato summit in Turkey.
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Sadly, Norfolk is the county that could really use some new genes. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Arrests in Thetford as disorder continues for a third night
Norfolk Police attend a residential area in Thetford on Thursday as a third night of protests begins.
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So many amazing machines. So many health and safety violations. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E6u...
The Most Satisfying Machines That Are At Another Level!
YouTube video by Modern Mechanic
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If you think the world is miserable now, wait until another 5 or 10 countries get nuclear weapons. Saudi nukes! Japanese nukes! Polish nukes! More Korean nukes! Maybe some German nukes. It'll be bad
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 4mo agoU.S. President Donald Trump approves a nuclear agreement with Saudi Arabia that may allow the kingdom to enrich uranium, two AP sources say.
Thinking about Ukraine today. I just saw some images from Bucha and it really brings home what the consequences of defeat could be for Ukrainians. Tough to see, and unimaginable to live through.
Research shows that people who report being abducted by aliens also have a higher incidence of sleep paralysis. Anomalistic psychologist Chris French explains how his terrifying phenomenon aligns with accounts of alien abductions. Watch the full talk: youtube.com/watch?v=i8mjM3PB_Tk
If you think LLMs are conscious, the only explanation for them inserting "vegetative electron microscopy" into papers is that they are trying to mess with us.
Dr James on a bicycle, psychologist, cycologist 🇨🇦@jamesbicycle.bsky.social · 4mo ago“vegetative electron microscopy” "The term has now appeared in at least 22 different papers" "the nonsense term may now be permanently embedded in AI knowledge bases" 1/2 www.zmescience.com/science/news...
