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Chris Stafford

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founder Fanduel/Recast/Traksy. Tech, Edinburgh, startups, Norwegian and other languages

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Might just be me, but this seems like an incredibly odd selection

11.03.2026 15:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Glasgow Central Fire Sparks Travel Chaos Across the UK A major fire beside Glasgow Central has shut Scotland’s busiest station, triggering nationwide disruption and raising urgent questions over UK rail resilience.

Awful news about Glasgow Central, I'm still hoping the station itself escaped serious damage.
But while we're here, can anyone spot the problem with the news photo below, from thetraveler.org/glasgow-cent...?
We've really got to STOP using AI to fake things.

09.03.2026 08:28 πŸ‘ 563 πŸ” 146 πŸ’¬ 52 πŸ“Œ 61
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Uta Frith: why I no longer think autism is a spectrum The autism spectrum has widened to the point of collapse, affecting how teachers should support autistic pupils in the classroom, researcher Uta Frith tells Helen Amass

One of the world’s leading authorities on autism - very important read: www.tes.com/magazine/tea...

04.03.2026 09:34 πŸ‘ 144 πŸ” 47 πŸ’¬ 22 πŸ“Œ 18

I've seen it every so often around the bottom of Newington. I suspect it happens more at night. It's not optimal, but if you were in a wheelchair then the crap quality of pavement surface is likely to be more of an issue, and it even may act as little speedbumps to put off pavement-cyclists

03.03.2026 09:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Lmao

27.02.2026 14:00 πŸ‘ 3815 πŸ” 1031 πŸ’¬ 64 πŸ“Œ 179
Irish Independent: Man stole three coffee machines in a week from Monaghan department store.

Irish Independent: Man stole three coffee machines in a week from Monaghan department store.

How does he sleep at night?

25.02.2026 09:14 πŸ‘ 3598 πŸ” 605 πŸ’¬ 98 πŸ“Œ 53

This allowance is more luggage than I ever travel with. I'm not saying I particularly like the restriction, but if you decline to include the train then it makes your guide less useful.

Vy Oslo-Gburg is also bad for luggage, since it's a smallish commuter train can often be standing room only

24.02.2026 09:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh god Frost has discovered Ayn Rand. A mediocrity explosion.

12.02.2026 19:39 πŸ‘ 512 πŸ” 58 πŸ’¬ 38 πŸ“Œ 3

Don't let rust analyzer discover all your Rust projects - set the list you want to work on in the settings, and just swap them in and out as you need.

10.02.2026 19:46 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Weird. It's a completely unfeasible and pointless railway running in a loop, and yet it isn't a hyperloop

09.02.2026 12:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Mjau-Stein Landet i Oslo!

Anyway, here's the game of the story. It isn't good, maybe worse than the story. I actually wanted to control the hundesoldatene from "Trygg og Kattfri Oslo", not the cat, but Claude jumped to the wrong conclusion, and I really couldn't be bothered to correct it conversationswith.uk/katt-spill

08.02.2026 19:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Which I did. It knocked out something passable in seconds, with an explanation (in BΓΈkmal) of Glasgow-Edinburgh rivalry.

I'm now picturing a machine with 7-day stubble, drinking Scotch and smoking, staring at its in-tray with the cold dead eyes of somebody who has just written _enough_ for today.

08.02.2026 17:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I even have enough tokens left over to ask it to do the same thing about a Glasgow cat who wants to live in Edinburgh, written in the uniquely "Scottish" style of Scots wikipedia

08.02.2026 17:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Asked it to translate to Danish for my Danish friend, lose the embarrassing brunost references, and explain the Bergen/Oslo thing, which it did without fucking around in what I can only assume was perfect Danish.

08.02.2026 17:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Claude is very to-the-point recently. I asked it for short (500 words or less) fairy tale about a Bergen cat who was in space but really wanted to live in Oslo, and it just gave me a 368 word story.

No asking why I was speaking Norwegian, or telling me how clever I was. I'm not sure I like that

08.02.2026 17:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trove Of Emails About Pedophilia Reignites Nation’s Love Of Reading WASHINGTONβ€”Saying the millions of documents had restored a pleasure they lost long ago, Americans nationwide said Thursday that the recently released trove of emails connected with disgraced financier...

β€œI didn’t realize how much I missed the simple joy of losing myself in words until these massive tranches of sex crime files were released,” said Indianapolis resident Greta Livingston

06.02.2026 01:30 πŸ‘ 1611 πŸ” 253 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 6
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Polish justice minister fined by police for road offence caught during YouTube interview

Poland’s justice minister has been fined by police for a traffic offence that was caught on camera while he was being interviewed behind the wheel.

The incident came to light just as the minister was launching a crackdown on dangerous drivers.

02.02.2026 13:49 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

This would have been more accurate and less disturbing if they'd just left the Scotsman to illustrate the article with a random picture of a steam train in Germany. I mean it's so bad that Trainpal's marketing team would be ashamed of it.

02.02.2026 10:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That's how I felt when I first started working as a gym manager. But then I put the subscription prices up and they're not laughing anymore

23.01.2026 12:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If you really squint you can see that active travellers are being offered the opportunity to walk around longish diversions and under manky subways to be robbed by people hanging out in an inaccessible dank "green" space in the middle of the roundabout under the underpass. Nothing for buses though

16.01.2026 12:11 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm still suspicious of this `less` thing. More should be plenty for anyone.

14.01.2026 10:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The banners about New Year updates on their website linked to a Tweet, which itself just linked straight back to the website. Pointless, irritating, and probably drove a bunch of completely fake "engagement" with their X account.

09.01.2026 14:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I’m developing a game where you have to go back to assassinate Adam. It’s a first person shooter.

07.01.2026 00:58 πŸ‘ 2195 πŸ” 653 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 13
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"WALKING OUT ON PEDESTRIANS"
@ianswanson.bsky.social for @scotsman.com
Full Story: t.ly/kqeQA

Walking group @livingstreetsedi.bsky.social has come out against a proposed #TravelScheme for #DundeeStreet and #Fountainbridge.

#EdinburghEveningNews
#TomorrowsPapersToday
#IBPAPERS

06.01.2026 00:11 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Cycling on the stairs is dangerous, and should only be attempted on Christmas Day afternoon when all the adults are too drunk to stop you.

04.01.2026 13:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It's always struck me as a weird proposition. Uses a huge amount of space, doesn't really provide any more privacy or comfort, fiddly table so it's difficult to get any work done, and they've got the name completely wrong. Does anybody use them?

02.01.2026 13:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

FWIW Hetzner enforce an external firewall for new cloud instances. Given that I've been caught out before by docker working around ufw, I find external firewall preferable.

24.12.2025 13:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

🀦What's the point?
We said, given the substantial ⬆️ in residents from this planning application ('a more inclusive, & a more vibrant & thriving neighbourhood that strengthens the heart of the city': Developer)
democracy.edinburgh.gov.uk/documents/s9...
CEC should insist on bus stop improvements

11.12.2025 17:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Under the current system providers aren't really even trying to recruit within the UK. We are importing huge numbers of unqualified people, often with false promises that they will be able to switch career. It may be "cheap", but it just props up bad care companies providing bad care for users.

10.12.2025 15:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0