jack

I just wanted to tell you both, good luck, we're all counting on you

will block accounts who uncritically post "AI"-generated images and unfollow those who boost them

pronouns: he/him
location: glasgow
capitalisation: Milnesian

Public Key

npub1z87jepl52uewfrucpjd0z0vd7catdl8xc9p53pqrjnztl04cmekqdncpwp

NIP-05 Address

jackeric_at_beige.party@momostr.pink

Profile Code

nprofile1qqsprlfvsl69wvhy37vqexh38kxlvw4klnnvzs6gsspef39lh6udumqpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduqs6amnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0dsmvnr7l

Publishing to

relay.damus.io

nos.lol

Author Public Key

npub1z87jepl52uewfrucpjd0z0vd7catdl8xc9p53pqrjnztl04cmekqdncpwp

Show more details

Last Notes

2026-07-23 15:10:36 UTC

- reply

https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/116/969/924/323/661/827/original/4125a2fbddda0ab0.jpg

2026-07-18 08:39:12 UTC

- reply

my partner's immediate take: is there a compounding factor that LLMs became mainstream immediately after a global pandemic of a disease that causes long-term cognitive impairment

2026-07-08 12:19:11 UTC

- reply

link without `si` param:
https://youtu.be/9NGa5mz5cp0
(youtube uses the si= or is= part to track who's sharing links with who - which I don't think is in anyone's interest)

2026-07-02 08:47:18 UTC

- reply

meow
https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/116/849/507/996/001/539/original/6ce7dc649171f366.jpg

2026-06-29 11:12:19 UTC

- reply

Senior Administrative Nurses

2026-06-25 18:09:45 UTC

- reply

I had a similar hat from Parc Omega. if you spot it please let me know

2026-06-18 15:47:20 UTC

- reply

you'll just have to do it again tomorrow

2026-05-22 14:45:50 UTC

- reply

I hope these haven't all come through at once... but I've selected that response from time to time as a white lie, when I actually mean something like "you've not really uploaded anything interesting in two years"
(not you btw, if I was/am one of your patreon backers and I cancel it would be because of your persistent slander of Montreal's street design, it drives my Quebecois partner nuts 😉)

2026-05-12 20:59:10 UTC

- reply

As Allan / BallotBoxScot has said more eloquently on other networks... there is no doubt that most of IGV's voters intended to vote SGP and this has cost them a seat. There is zero chance IGV got more intentional votes than two parties that actually campaigned (Alliance to Liberate Scotland and Scottish Family Party)
#ScotPol

2026-05-11 14:25:39 UTC

- reply

transphobic use of the pronouns field to boot

2026-04-22 13:35:19 UTC

- reply

50.001% of votes cast is a good enough threshold but, practically speaking, we're not going to get another referendum until support is a lot higher anyway

2026-04-16 11:53:27 UTC

- reply

alrighty then
https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/116/414/242/627/876/831/original/a3b6bdc14eb7ea53.png

2026-02-21 14:30:21 UTC

- reply

As a former bus driver... this is a tremendous policy! So much time was wasted at bus stops selling tickets one-by-one to passengers. Prepayment, contactless payment, and free travel passes were all big improvements over selling tickets for cash, but "bus arrives, some people get off, some people get on and find a seat without delay, bus drives on" is the absolute gold standard.
Combine it with enforced bus lanes and bus-priority traffic lights and you get much more consistent running times - and from there you can get a much faster timetable that doesn't need to accommodate so much variation!

2026-02-19 23:08:26 UTC

- reply

visiting Cradle Mountain in Tasmania
rules:
1. remain on the boardwalk at all times
2. remain at least 2m from wildlife at all times
the wildlife:
https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/116/099/792/745/308/264/original/d1a8e887ee7545a4.jpg
https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/116/099/804/563/386/885/original/df3f6c894227584e.jpg
https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/116/099/804/530/277/792/original/78017a08ec11c016.jpg

2026-02-12 10:16:42 UTC

- reply

Or the Scottish Green Party:
https://greens.scot/

2026-02-06 16:32:10 UTC

- reply

hang on they expect a licence fee if you watch Netflix??

2026-02-03 16:53:01 UTC

- reply

you mean against the guys who say "marry me", or the guys who offer unsolicited advice... or all of the above?

2026-02-03 16:49:42 UTC

- reply

please don't! it shouldn't be up to you to block the creeps - their instance mods should be doing that for us...

2026-01-10 22:02:25 UTC

- reply

why _were_ you washing pizza?

2025-11-18 09:42:03 UTC

- reply

how on earth did she find and work so many different jobs before the age of 35? that's impressive

2025-11-05 11:24:42 UTC

- reply

what's wrong with falling asleep at the desk tho

2025-10-29 15:32:25 UTC

- reply

I was delighted to get a product update email from them earlier today... not because of what the email contained particularly, but because there was zero mention of shoving chatbots into stuff and claiming it's a benefit

2025-10-29 12:15:40 UTC

- reply

Does a "digital licence" mean "must own an Android or iPhone phone to drive"?

2025-10-28 19:42:39 UTC

- reply

I don't understand the level of complacency and distraction that can cause _anyone_ to be hit by a train in any manner whatsoever
they literally travel on tracks. not exactly unpredictable

2025-10-28 01:04:15 UTC

- reply

it goes over my head too tbh

2025-10-27 22:34:29 UTC

- reply

ironically, someone with an insensitive dick wouldn't find any benefit to holding it in rolling paper

2025-10-18 02:59:59 UTC

- reply

the Nexus 7 tablet from 2013 was fantastic. I miss mine and wish there was a successor

2025-10-15 12:31:42 UTC

- reply

having multiple monitors, making one be the sanitised monitor and sharing only that, perhaps

2025-10-13 15:34:06 UTC

- reply

I got £5 off my maths lecturer who'd put something like this in the course notes. it had been languishing on the back of his office door for years

2025-09-23 11:51:08 UTC

dear god. I'm in an all-hands call. director says we are adopting a "zero-defect approach" by... ceasing to work on bug fixes, delegate bug fixes to LLMs, while developers focus on new features. I think I've already encountered this approach already, with a GDPR-breaching bug introduced by a "refactoring" fix in July by a dev I'd never heard of before
#GetFediHired anyone looking for an application support engineer/developer/general computer-wrangler, remote or based in Glasgow?

2025-08-31 15:30:59 UTC

anyone got experience of amateur RJ45 wrangling? would like to put ethernet everywhere in $newhouse along with a patch panel, and also use RJ45s in hobby projects
specifically the comments section of every youtube video has someone moaning about passthrough RJ45 plugs being a disaster waiting to happen and I was wondering if there's any truth in that!

2025-08-23 12:39:50 UTC

- reply

It's Dino Time!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVho5fU3lwc

2025-07-03 20:14:16 UTC

I for one hail our new Sultana-Corbyn-GPEW overlords
#ukpol

2025-05-24 17:59:28 UTC

we go now live to our carpet-destroying correspondent
https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/114/564/104/341/259/385/original/11465d9374a41367.jpg

2025-05-13 10:16:04 UTC

- reply

Input validation is so last century

2025-04-16 20:10:40 UTC

- reply

Hello!
I saw a mudcrab the other day. Hideous creatures.
Well, goodbye!

2025-04-09 18:36:03 UTC

- reply

this is actually how I learned of the news

2025-03-19 09:27:38 UTC

- reply

this is tangential but glorious and it took me forever to find it https://www.tumblr.com/elodieunderglass/178921341318/my-boyfriend-is-trying-to-explain-cricket-to-me

2025-03-06 22:24:14 UTC

- reply

why didn't you hang up tho

2025-01-09 16:01:43 UTC

- reply

Who's being forced here?
"You should block [X] because [reason, e.g. they federate with Threads]. We block anyone federated with Threads" is no more dictatorial than saying "Don't tell other servers who to block, don't warn them you block servers that federate with Threads".
People can run servers as they please, federate and block as they please, develop policies and red lines between themselves. Defederation cuts both ways.

2025-01-09 12:51:45 UTC

- reply

fond (not fond) memories of working for a church as an admin and being very depressed (working in central London on £21k will do that). one of the pastors told me I needed to see a GP and get on some medication or I'd probably be fired for poor punctuality etc. the GP told me they don't go immediately to medication and "since you work for a faith organisation, many people who have faith find prayer is effective"
she also recommended exercise, so I bought a bike and that did help. but not as much as leaving London, becoming an athiest and earning a few more £ks

2025-01-08 19:21:57 UTC

I think my order is confirmed
https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/113/794/351/840/235/125/original/368c634d2c878a7e.png

2024-12-24 11:46:18 UTC

- reply

thing is with a proper trolley a single person can manouever a sofa down the street

2024-11-29 16:59:14 UTC

- reply

I wonder if they're related
https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/113/567/300/380/347/221/original/e910c125a9fef4e6.jpg

2024-11-11 20:25:55 UTC

- reply

lest we forget many of these conflicts could've been avoided or reduced if Chamberlain, Stalin etc hadn't first tried to collaborate with the fascists

2024-11-11 12:44:04 UTC

- reply

well there's your problem
https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/113/464/378/434/596/885/original/93112c8a6175b469.png

2024-11-10 13:47:09 UTC

- reply

does that work??

2024-10-29 11:35:21 UTC

https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/113/390/495/278/248/997/original/dbbd27f9ac99fe27.png

2024-10-16 10:29:52 UTC

- reply

does the USB-C port have to be connected to anything

2024-10-10 00:45:36 UTC

https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/113/280/360/762/934/824/original/89a335e650d8c3cb.png

2024-10-10 00:44:19 UTC

streaming services in rural Scotland
https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/113/280/354/985/536/538/original/2ecc624533e6a26a.jpg