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@mike@sauropods.win · 1d ago

RE: @kentparkstreet1@mastodon.online

This is spot on: we all need to start referring to the current abhorrent distraction as "The Epstein War".

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By day I am a computer programmer with Index Data, where I have been happily and gainfully employed for 20 years. By night, I am a vertebrate palaeontologist with the University of Bristol, specialising in sauropods: the biggest and best of all dinosaurs. I am an advocate for open access, open data and open source, and I'm beginning to think pre-publication peer-review might be a mistake. I support # LFC . Email: mike@miketaylor.org.uk ORCiD: 0000-0002-1003-5675 # fedi22

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@mike@sauropods.win · 1d ago

The most unpleasant part of watching Liverpool this season is the mental fragility. We're used to seeing out lads snatching wins injury time. This year we are throwing wins away in injury time — over and over and over again. We've somehow lost that mental toughness.

#LFC

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By day I am a computer programmer with Index Data, where I have been happily and gainfully employed for 20 years. By night, I am a vertebrate palaeontologist with the University of Bristol, specialising in sauropods: the biggest and best of all dinosaurs. I am an advocate for open access, open data and open source, and I'm beginning to think pre-publication peer-review might be a mistake. I support # LFC . Email: mike@miketaylor.org.uk ORCiD: 0000-0002-1003-5675 # fedi22

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@mike@sauropods.win · 1d ago

Mentality midgets 😠

#LFC

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@mike@sauropods.win · 1d ago

FFS

#LFC

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By day I am a computer programmer with Index Data, where I have been happily and gainfully employed for 20 years. By night, I am a vertebrate palaeontologist with the University of Bristol, specialising in sauropods: the biggest and best of all dinosaurs. I am an advocate for open access, open data and open source, and I'm beginning to think pre-publication peer-review might be a mistake. I support # LFC . Email: mike@miketaylor.org.uk ORCiD: 0000-0002-1003-5675 # fedi22

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@mike@sauropods.win · 1d ago

I've just tuned into the match (I was driving for several hours). The first thing I see is multiple waves of Spurs attacks.

NO THANK YOU.

#LFC

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@mike@sauropods.win

By day I am a computer programmer with Index Data, where I have been happily and gainfully employed for 20 years. By night, I am a vertebrate palaeontologist with the University of Bristol, specialising in sauropods: the biggest and best of all dinosaurs. I am an advocate for open access, open data and open source, and I'm beginning to think pre-publication peer-review might be a mistake. I support # LFC . Email: mike@miketaylor.org.uk ORCiD: 0000-0002-1003-5675 # fedi22

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@mike@sauropods.win · 6d ago

There is no aspect of my life that Generative AI is not taking a giant dump on. My professional life as a programmer infested with it. My leisure on the Web is infested with it. Music is infested with it. Emails are infested with it, including somewhat sophisticated spam.

Then there's the second-order effects. e.g. Gmail's spam filter has been made tighter due to all the AI spam — and as a result, I am seeing lots of legit emails being wrongly spammed.

I hate it all so much.

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By day I am a computer programmer with Index Data, where I have been happily and gainfully employed for 20 years. By night, I am a vertebrate palaeontologist with the University of Bristol, specialising in sauropods: the biggest and best of all dinosaurs. I am an advocate for open access, open data and open source, and I'm beginning to think pre-publication peer-review might be a mistake. I support # LFC . Email: mike@miketaylor.org.uk ORCiD: 0000-0002-1003-5675 # fedi22

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@mike@sauropods.win · Mar 07, 2026

The Italy-England six nations match is interrupted as a scrum forms, while ITV plays an intrusive, noisy advert. So far as I can make out, it's for Adobe Acrobat. This firms up my decision never ever to use Acrobat.

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By day I am a computer programmer with Index Data, where I have been happily and gainfully employed for 20 years. By night, I am a vertebrate palaeontologist with the University of Bristol, specialising in sauropods: the biggest and best of all dinosaurs. I am an advocate for open access, open data and open source, and I'm beginning to think pre-publication peer-review might be a mistake. I support # LFC . Email: mike@miketaylor.org.uk ORCiD: 0000-0002-1003-5675 # fedi22

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@mike@sauropods.win · Mar 05, 2026

"Karen has no criminal record. “I don’t even have parking tickets”, she says. “I am not a dangerous criminal. I didn’t enter the country illegally and I had everything I needed to be there.”

So why did ICE detain her, and keep her locked up for so long? As Karen got to know the guards at the Northwest ICE Processing Center where she was held, she kept hearing the same thing from them: that ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/karen-newton-valid-visa-detained-ice

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By day I am a computer programmer with Index Data, where I have been happily and gainfully employed for 20 years. By night, I am a vertebrate palaeontologist with the University of Bristol, specialising in sauropods: the biggest and best of all dinosaurs. I am an advocate for open access, open data and open source, and I'm beginning to think pre-publication peer-review might be a mistake. I support # LFC . Email: mike@miketaylor.org.uk ORCiD: 0000-0002-1003-5675 # fedi22

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@mike@sauropods.win · Mar 03, 2026

"Today’s Spring Statement was an absolute snooze-fest. A moribund, dead-on-arrival snore-a-thon. It was the political equivalent of a five-hour experimental modern dance performance, the kind of show you’re dragged to by your partner and know with utter certainty will leave you comatosed. And that right there is the most lavish praise we can offer it."

https://inews.co.uk/opinion/reeves-spring-statement-dull-triumph-4259451

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By day I am a computer programmer with Index Data, where I have been happily and gainfully employed for 20 years. By night, I am a vertebrate palaeontologist with the University of Bristol, specialising in sauropods: the biggest and best of all dinosaurs. I am an advocate for open access, open data and open source, and I'm beginning to think pre-publication peer-review might be a mistake. I support # LFC . Email: mike@miketaylor.org.uk ORCiD: 0000-0002-1003-5675 # fedi22

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@mike@sauropods.win · Mar 03, 2026

For some reason, this Bob The Angry Flower cartoon is on my mind.
https://www.angryflower.com/513.html

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RE: https:// sportsbots.xyz/users/LFC/statu ses/2023110061447672261 Don’t think Liverpool have scored a better goal all season. Everything Anfield has wanted to see - moving it quickly, the precision,

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@mike@sauropods.win · Feb 16, 2026

@JamesPearceLFC I don't think ANYONE has. It was just perfect.

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By day I am a computer programmer with Index Data, where I have been happily and gainfully employed for 20 years. By night, I am a vertebrate palaeontologist with the University of Bristol, specialising in sauropods: the biggest and best of all dinosaurs. I am an advocate for open access, open data and open source, and I'm beginning to think pre-publication peer-review might be a mistake. I support # LFC . Email: mike@miketaylor.org.uk ORCiD: 0000-0002-1003-5675 # fedi22

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@mike@sauropods.win · Feb 14, 2026

Over the last few weeks I have noticed a behaviour in myself.

If I follow a link and I get a "We care about your privacy" popup, I click the "Reject all" button and read the article.

But if there is no "Reject all" button, just a link to a complicated set of preferences, I simply close the window and never see what the article had to say.

I wonder how many others do this.

And how many web-sites are losing A LOT of their traffic for this reason.

—
UPDATE: see replies, lots of people do this!

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@mike@sauropods.win · Feb 02, 2026

@w3c@w3c.social I thought EPUB already *was* HTML?

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By day I am a computer programmer with Index Data, where I have been happily and gainfully employed for 20 years. By night, I am a vertebrate palaeontologist with the University of Bristol, specialising in sauropods: the biggest and best of all dinosaurs. I am an advocate for open access, open data and open source, and I'm beginning to think pre-publication peer-review might be a mistake. I support # LFC . Email: mike@miketaylor.org.uk ORCiD: 0000-0002-1003-5675 # fedi22

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@mike@sauropods.win · Jan 31, 2026

Gerrard calls it at half time: Ekitike is Torres-like.

#LFC

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New #Textures album sounds decent. I like it more than what I heard from them before. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8xJv-WGZgo #NP #NowPlaying

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By day I am a computer programmer with Index Data, where I have been happily and gainfully employed for 20 years. By night, I am a vertebrate palaeontologist with the University of Bristol, specialising in sauropods: the biggest and best of all dinosaurs. I am an advocate for open access, open data and open source, and I'm beginning to think pre-publication peer-review might be a mistake. I support # LFC . Email: mike@miketaylor.org.uk ORCiD: 0000-0002-1003-5675 # fedi22

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@mike@sauropods.win · Jan 23, 2026

@Gargron@mastodon.social What did you make of Steve Wilson's Overview? Just listening to it now, it's one of my top three albums of 2025.

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By day I am a computer programmer with Index Data, where I have been happily and gainfully employed for 20 years. By night, I am a vertebrate palaeontologist with the University of Bristol, specialising in sauropods: the biggest and best of all dinosaurs. I am an advocate for open access, open data and open source, and I'm beginning to think pre-publication peer-review might be a mistake. I support # LFC . Email: mike@miketaylor.org.uk ORCiD: 0000-0002-1003-5675 # fedi22

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@mike@sauropods.win · Dec 19, 2025

RE: https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/115740500373677782 This is great news so far as it goes. But. It amounts to "We're going to take all our resources (apart from the CEO's $7M salary, obviously) and plough it into generating plausible bullshit. But GREAT NEWS! You can turn it off. What if we spend all that effort on something people actually want?

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