Rob Vaughan
@coffee-cat.bsky.social
An engineer in Bristol, UK. I like cats and coffee That's plenty enough info for a search engine Profile pic really is me insta/threads=@coffeecat_photo @coffeecatdotorg@mastodonapp.uk Signal: TLMJLQDYBN.72 (X=@coffeecatdotorg) - out of use, obv...
September Wednesdays are weird. One minute you're a fresh faced graduate starting out on a career, the next minute you've passed 39 years' service and the new grad intake looks rather young. Lucky that this gig is still a lot of fun after all this time 😁
Shot the eclipse. Not as sharp a pic as I managed with the smaller partial eclipse last year tho. Should have used my old manual focus 1970s Canon 300mm f/4 but its front element is HUGE compared to my 46mm filters.
One day last week I found myself standing at Hannover station, because Deutsche Bahn had cancelled our booked train. We were not expecting to even go through here, let alone get off. But we had to replan on different trains to get from A to B. Fun times 😁
TFW you get home from 2 weeks Interrailing after frequently complaining that you have to empty your (borrowed) rucksack to find stuff at the bottom... and discover it has a zip to open a flap at the bottom 🤣
Repeatedly telling "those stories" at work, which always start with "...when I first worked here..." Eg. People smoked at their desks, we all had to book a slot on shared mainframe terminals, went to the pub Friday lunchtimes, yada yada
Black Aziz Anansi@blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 3mo agoWhat's your old person trait?
My employer was working on two competing programs. My small specialist team had to literally send ourselves an RFI to use info from one program on the other one, which took about 2 months after it had gone there and back through all the higher levels of companies we were subcontracted to.
SMD's pension@anothersmd.bsky.social · last yr.what are some absurd work situations you can share? once i got called into a meeting i had nothing to do with because the consultant brought an engineer and no one in the room could understand him, so they asked me to translate. he was scouse. i translated from english to english.
"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"
Today I bought an Interrail pass. Last time I did that was 1991. I wonder if train travel on the continent will seem much different... Sadly no overnight sleeper trains this time
And just three old men are responsible for 90% of the world’s problems.
Just 104 shoplifters carried out thousands of offences
All but three of 104 repeat shoplifters continued offending after they had been charged, the Met says.
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Apparently the latest Apple Intelligence models won't run on anything less than an M3 with 12GB RAM. So that's me safe from that threat 😁
Really is the end of a loooong era. theaviationist.com/2026/06/03/e...
End of an Era: U.S. Marine Corps Celebrates AV-8B Harrier II Sundown
The U.S. Marine Corps honored the legacy of the AV-8B Harrier II and the Marines who served with it in a ‘Sundown Ceremony’ at MCAS Cherry Point, home to
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Car Service+MoT today. So I dropped it off and came into work by bus. Services are really good if you commute from nowhere near where I live😂 It was a nicer journey than yesterday's tropical cycle ride...
Being able to run the 100m in under 13 secs (or at all 😂)
Jason Herbert@herberthistory.bsky.social · 6mo agoYou're Gen X. You can bring back one thing from the 80s. What is it?
A guess a lot people will be spending a lot of today checking some slowly changing numbers on a BBC webpage. If you enjoy that sort of thing and want it to be a more than annual occurrence - can I recommend getting into county cricket?
I noticed this on my MacBook in Nov last year, so I just uninstalled Chrome, which did the trick 😁
The Register@theregister.com · 5mo agoChrome silently installs a 4 GB local LLM on your computer
This is a particularly stupid headline. Imagine the scene - yes, Manchester has taken a couple of tactical nukes so it's gone, NHS has collapsed, food supply is gone. Oh BTW you might get a smaller pension rise next year
Just realised I should have uploaded multiple pics to show off the new carousel thingy
To celebrate the increase in picture upload resolution in Bluesky, here's a random pic off my phone
Golden retriever runs 15 feet after owner mimes throwing tennis ball
Woohoo. Apple has age verified me on my iPad because I've had an account for more than 18 years - that was painless!
Alexa+ is free for Prime subscribers=yay! But it'll remember loads of personal info like your Mum's birthday=boo! It Doesn't work on older hardware=phew! TBF, our Alexas are powered off most of the time.
The tribes of Britain c. 540 in the time of Gildas.
97% of Britons work jobs which force them to pay all the tax they should. 3% of Britons who get 50% of the money can choose to dodge almost all the tax if they want. That 3% of tax dodging wankers is who Reform work for.
An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar tools. www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-i...
CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements
An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar…
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