Russell Garner

#Ruby, drums, #synth, cats, unions, bicycles, ADHD, flippancy.

Not a hot-swappable labor spigot.

github: https://github.com/rgarner
founder: https://jointogether.online
Location: Leeds, UK

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2026-04-28 17:37:47 UTC

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I do like SM but by the time I'd found it I'd already paid for Fork. I keep thinking I'm missing something from SM but RubyMine already does my conflict resolution nicely so I just potter along.
Is there anything you really love workflow-wise about SM?

2026-04-25 08:58:20 UTC

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go with what reads best at thumbnail size. To me, the most approachable are the two bespectacled, maybe leaning towards the closed-mouth one, but the open-mouthed one is fun and you've turned upwards so less of your face is in shadow. Were I doing it as a formal portrait I'd brolly a speedlight lower left but these are decent.
The non-bespectacled one people might mistake for Kiefer Sutherland in 24. Which has its place, it's just in tense terrorism-related TV

2026-04-13 10:08:55 UTC

Almost all our faults are more pardonable than the methods to which we resort to hide them.
— François de La Rochefoucauld

2026-04-09 09:50:13 UTC

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bloody hell. I can send you my floppy with Elite on it if you want but you'd never work on Kitten again

2026-04-05 11:46:10 UTC

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I get two (2) nights of randomly good sleep a year

2026-04-05 10:12:59 UTC

Happy Easter, yeah?
(German artist Michael Sowa, b. 1945)
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/351/556/503/029/201/original/df9cbb6aadbdeecb.png

2026-03-13 15:22:31 UTC

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the main thing that's stopping us is getting everyone to trust a site that runs them. In fact, trust is the main thing stopping everything

2026-02-13 14:26:49 UTC

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I am *literally* recording right now on a Xaoc Sarajewo piped into a Springray 2 which in most circumstances is going to sound just as good except for the stereo mapping issues what is wrong with me

2026-02-13 14:05:56 UTC

@npub12h7…85xc @npub1jep…jqax @npub12ac…jdzv folks. Please help. I have literally nowhere to put this. Talk me out of it. What can go wrong with these things?
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/177860046210

2026-01-22 09:08:13 UTC

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apologies, I don't think I'm quite awake yet. Reading comprehension not online.

2026-01-22 09:07:45 UTC

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ahhhhh

2026-01-22 08:58:17 UTC

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you can still download the "old" installers; there's a site that maintains public versions of the old links that I used to upgrade to Sonoma instead of Sequoia (I have a policy of being on the "supported" trailing edge due to music plugin incompatibility).
Sadly I've forgotten where the site is but it worked for me last year.
EDIT: might have been https://www.macworld.com/article/671911/how-to-get-old-macos-download-big-sur-catalina-mojave-and-more.html which links directly to the old App Store links – still live, just unpublicised, must be downloaded from Safari

2026-01-20 20:50:33 UTC

I like how this turned out, years after I took it #Photography
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/929/395/568/884/320/original/59f4ab8bf74dedbc.png

2026-01-15 13:45:49 UTC

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Guilty. I clearly had no idea who Jimmy Wales actually was.

2026-01-15 08:24:56 UTC

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/898/152/069/260/962/original/a068a97dd3a8ef49.png

2026-01-09 18:25:20 UTC

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https://www.flickr.com/photos/96038950@N08/54924208283/in/dateposted-public/ it's way outta hand

2026-01-09 18:23:36 UTC

Today I bought a secondhand spring reverb. And it's still winter!

2025-12-21 14:02:45 UTC

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/757/924/233/618/730/original/ef9839804b99ef19.png

2025-12-20 16:25:49 UTC

This is some absolute nonsense. I never got rid of my wired 'phones. I never moved over to landfill wireless. People just started requiring landfill adapters to use them
https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025/dec/19/bluetooth-wired-headphones-trend

2025-12-07 13:28:51 UTC

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/678/514/937/296/963/original/2abe2c14297ef5ca.png

2025-11-25 13:03:07 UTC

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oh, I'm *loving* the watercolours

2025-10-24 21:50:31 UTC

I expect you're going to want to know what a Noperthedron is. It's a three-dimensional shape. It can't pass through itself. (surprisingly, a cube can pass through an identical copy of itself when oriented in the correct direction)
Anyway. It's a portmanteau of Prince Rupert, a shape ending in -hedron and "nope", and the article is a lot more interesting than I imagined it to be
https://www.quantamagazine.org/first-shape-found-that-cant-pass-through-itself-20251024/

2025-10-21 06:55:17 UTC

Horse walks into a bar.
Barman: "Why the long face?"
Horse: "I just found out Val's having an affair."
Barman: "On your birthday? Oh, Ian."

2025-10-16 08:19:43 UTC

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/382/863/412/897/680/original/85c17b01194ff8ef.png

2025-10-14 14:05:25 UTC

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Oh man, I'm sorry. Staring at a picture of my own Dad and now in bits all over again.
It's a bit late in the season, but I'm going to go and tell the bees.

2025-10-06 09:07:29 UTC

Everything may be shite but this will make you happy, albeit briefly.
Promise.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/326/423/898/544/608/original/a49fb22da0706657.mp4

2025-10-01 18:18:55 UTC

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/300/281/239/645/455/original/ff2b47c6b7d1a219.png

2025-09-26 15:09:45 UTC

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suddenly more or less literally everyone I know has picked up a mild cold at exactly the same moment. I reckon it was the rapture what done it

2025-09-19 17:10:32 UTC

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post not found? Is this because a statement has been made now?

2025-09-18 13:15:29 UTC

Windows NT implies the existence of Windows ND

2025-09-11 09:29:40 UTC

The ADHD thing of trying to not look at the thing you were coding a full 20 minutes before your 10.30 because if you do you’ll hyperfocus and only notice at 10.45am or at the point someone comes to round you up

2025-09-01 11:27:51 UTC

Lads we could have saved a lot of time with this bubble if only you could have been a *little* more like me
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/128/799/187/710/395/original/e08139478b688c91.png

2025-08-27 09:20:34 UTC

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yeah, I mean it's People Willing To Understand It and People Reaching For Coping Platitudes. It's never easy being in the first group, but I'm all but certain it's easier than being in the second.

2025-08-27 08:54:42 UTC

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oh good lord. Lean into the fucking pancakes. Loins fully girded.

2025-08-27 08:49:58 UTC

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oh gawd. This is bringing back memories of 20 years ago.
Also Doncaster.

2025-08-21 06:18:19 UTC

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it is?

2025-08-11 09:03:05 UTC

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I had a drink with him once. Lovely person.

2025-08-11 08:49:37 UTC

Robin Ince: "I think anyone who has any form of platform who is not saying anything about what happened in London yesterday is saying a great deal about the world they will accept"
https://bsky.app/profile/robinince.bsky.social/post/3lw3hbhyjk22b

2025-08-11 08:32:20 UTC

"MET Police arrested and later de-arrested this gentleman after he pointed out his t-shirt supported Morph"
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/009/197/472/185/753/original/c205d3475aa2a24b.png

2025-07-31 07:04:59 UTC

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"Whenever these LLM guys say they think AGI/artificial superintelligence is in the works it's like hearing someone say that their next toaster is going to break the land speed record"
https://bsky.app/profile/ianboudreau.com/post/3lv6ude474k2i

2025-07-14 07:03:04 UTC

Good morning from the M60
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/850/303/761/810/833/original/6d57fd043f6389ce.jpg

2025-07-06 08:57:32 UTC

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but sorry for the sheer physical difficulty in everything you're experiencing rn. It was a real shock after Dad's diagnosis and I remember just sitting and sobbing on a bed for hours before getting into the "right, so what can we still do together?" part

2025-07-06 08:56:28 UTC

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this is "good" to the extent that anything can be with this situation. After Dad went, Mum went for pre-emptive power of attorney for my brother and me. I think we all feel a bit more secure in things with it.

2025-06-24 09:52:33 UTC

Five hours' sleep. An upcoming planning dispute with neighbours who've built an off-plan window looking into our back room. A dead vole from cat #1. A liquid poo from cat #2. Barely started work. A school Shakespeare production later. Tuesday.

2025-06-20 06:08:20 UTC

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I didn't even see him. I subscribe to a MAGA blocklist, he was tuned out before he even arrived.

2025-06-18 17:10:15 UTC

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yer in me birth town love

2025-05-21 15:51:53 UTC

Honestly, Strava, just turn the Athlete "Intelligence" off already
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/546/613/134/275/288/original/ec10973a73b4c25a.png

2025-05-07 10:34:38 UTC

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didn't clock "Orcadian" and had never heard it before. What a wonderful word.

2025-05-06 06:27:04 UTC

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loved The Outrun

2025-05-04 06:15:24 UTC

Think I might have extracted every bit of enjoyment from BlueSky now. It's becoming as hectoring as Twitter was, and the people you enjoyed talking to just melt into the shadows as the dopamine vanishes.

2025-04-26 06:26:24 UTC

The EHRC's remit is
"Using our powers to defend your freedom and promote a fairer England, Scotland and Wales"
However, it's had extremists planted in it. It's currently acting counter to this remit. When it rolls back human rights with "guidance", it does so as quietly as it can manage, on a Friday night.
These people are weasels.

2025-04-22 20:24:37 UTC

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https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/383/484/534/458/641/original/9adde387d66d74f9.png

2025-04-21 08:11:50 UTC

All I can say is that it's a good job we saw Conclave when we did

2025-04-19 08:57:18 UTC

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good pun, but might I suggest not concealing the image's actual content from trans ppl rn. They don't need to see this unwarned

2025-04-13 17:45:45 UTC

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she is on the verge of tears many times in this. She's faltering too. Compare with some of her older talks to see the difference.
She has absolutely sacrificed herself for us.

2025-03-28 10:51:56 UTC

If you think your day is going badly be thankful you're not this friend
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/239/674/203/852/781/original/5c3cba4bbdd8c385.png

2025-03-26 07:48:16 UTC

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*literally* the opposite of "free speech", don't make me tap the cartoon
https://xkcd.com/1357/

2025-03-15 12:01:28 UTC

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I think this distinction deserves a much wider audience

2025-03-07 07:56:04 UTC

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thanks for reminding me I need to avoid all Google News notifications until Severance Saturday Night

2025-02-20 18:05:13 UTC

"Your outie is kind to children and animals. Your outie judges people who say 'the point is is' harshly."
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/037/534/852/223/470/original/84648ad729b5d061.png

2025-02-18 23:13:04 UTC

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I have genuinely looked into small spikes of what it might take to move to Hanami. I fear it largely impossible for a team our size, but one day it will not be so.

2025-02-18 23:02:31 UTC

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Christ I need to get off Rails

2025-02-11 07:11:49 UTC

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https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/984/003/485/530/190/original/c4815df3a94020ca.png

2025-01-22 20:44:49 UTC

brb just renaming some odd bits of sea
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/873/954/075/045/202/original/f599c60da7e71c24.png

2025-01-14 13:07:06 UTC

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"We've got a machine that can make the tea
Why not build one to drink it as well?"
https://mastodon.social/@rgarner/113826851660416456

2024-12-09 16:25:16 UTC

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yeah, I think This Is The Way. FOAF is hanging around at home like he's been in receipt of a Tyson uppercut

2024-12-09 16:22:17 UTC

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how many did you have done at once? Talking to a friend today whose friend attempted to do 10 at once, and he is currently not going out due to overestimating how much he could cope with at a time...

2024-11-28 07:22:31 UTC

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counterpoint: an artist I know – who does art based on footballers – signed up to an art instance. When he spoke about football (because he's a footballing artist), the admins Had Words and he left the fedi completely.
People like choice so long as they don't become limiters – and so long as they think that they understand enough to make the decision.

2024-11-18 12:38:41 UTC

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good title parens

2024-11-14 08:06:30 UTC

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instinctively, on imagining them, I have a laugh emoji in my head. I can only imagine the sort of internalised rejection that leads to your defences getting turned up to max

2024-11-14 07:41:19 UTC

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oh hush there's a slight wry smile in there

2024-11-10 08:39:44 UTC

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https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/457/747/263/509/335/original/d04a2c02600b1301.png

2024-11-10 08:12:13 UTC

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>⌔–– ᯤ< here's my terrible workaround

2024-11-06 18:07:34 UTC

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oh hey, you're *that* Jared that @npub1vx0…upu8 referenced at HaggisRuby. Hi!
I liked the look of Bridgetown for ditching Liquid alone.

2024-11-06 18:04:40 UTC

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good point, well made.

2024-11-06 17:58:32 UTC

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it must have been discussed already how practical or not it is to fork Rails at this stage

2024-11-06 17:49:40 UTC

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Wow. Fuck that guy, yet again.

2024-10-26 08:53:21 UTC

I felt a disturbance in the force, as if millions of voices screamed out "Democracy dies in darkness is a mission statement" at once and were suddenly silenced

2024-10-09 12:55:47 UTC

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I'd sign it, but you know, we got confidence-trickstered out of *those* rights

2024-10-08 21:44:54 UTC

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left-aligned, but without the space to the immediate left of the colon.
Largely because if you fire up Editor X with default settings and format the file, that's what it'll do and I don't fight defaults – because as [@knotnicky](https://ravenation.club/@knotnicky ) says, there are bigger fights elsewhere.

2024-10-06 08:53:23 UTC

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*sigh* I shouldn't speak about this stuff to be dispirited before I've even had my toast

2024-10-06 08:22:33 UTC

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not entirely. I know a data scientist for a large charity for example – they're a proponent of "responsible", and there are more like them.
Absolutely not the same crowd in those kinds of cases, though I see why you see it in your post

2024-10-06 08:03:43 UTC

What the "responsible AI" crowd appear to be overlooking is that they have to use the infrastructure provided by the "irresponsible AI" crowd
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/259/431/896/589/145/original/9f207724ed7bd29e.png

2024-09-25 08:51:18 UTC

@npub18pm…m2f0 saw this and thought of you
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/197/334/292/533/812/original/608322cf16e944e9.png

2024-09-21 08:43:53 UTC

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wtf is this publication? I sat next to a white supremacist in a contract for a few weeks and these were his talking points...

2024-09-07 14:19:46 UTC

The irony that capitalism has:
- obsoleted my perfectly working printer
- necessitated that I press a Raspberry Pi into service as a print server
- broken web search, so that
- the only way to get timely information is to abuse an LLM as a search engine, thereby
- using a lot of water so that I can save a printer to save resources

2024-09-07 11:30:34 UTC

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I've only muted conversations lately – I don't, thank god, have the same follower count – but is it ever hecking tedious that people have so little agency and self-worth that they must seek to claim some by Being Right Online

2024-09-07 11:12:13 UTC

What do people with a perfectly working old printer whose drivers are not available for modern OS's do? Is there a sustainability printer proxy project for Raspberry Pis or somesuch?

2024-09-02 16:20:25 UTC

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(I wish stuff with RFCs would win more often, I think is what I'm saying)

2024-09-02 16:19:46 UTC

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I liked them, when I was scraping Directgov pages in 2010. I still like them, in much the same way I still like XSLT. In retrospect, a useful tech that didn't have great tooling adoption (especially by your socials) and so is now all but legacy except among those of us who still wish it was spoken.
A bit like speaking Cornish, but for your <head>.
Were you to add them and I was to scrape your page I'd happily use them, but I think I might be Special.

2024-08-28 13:27:35 UTC

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is this AI? Some of those people are like, different guys now.
Anyway, big up zebrachin

2024-08-22 09:11:13 UTC

I'm going to say you're overestimating the value of this by approximately £227, and honestly, probably somewhat more than that
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/004/893/208/318/454/original/dc625574d3e3aa56.png

2024-08-12 15:24:17 UTC

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... REIFY, so that HTTPRange-14 is finally a solved problem. Unfortunately we will need to employ a few more genies to act as the servers."

2024-08-09 21:17:25 UTC

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This is how you know you're on the right network

2024-08-06 06:56:43 UTC

If there's a trigger in customer support exchanges that screams "don't waste your time" it's that when you outline your problem they say "strange. It's very stable, we have thousands of users that don't have this problem."
If you're in customer support, please don't do this.