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UK, Ireland (citizen), Zambia, Malawi, South Africa (citizen), Sweden, wife, children, wife again, horses, dogs, cats, computers, SQL, strategy games, slow running […]

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@malachy.beige.party.ap.brid.gyOct 10, 2026, 11:55 AM

I ... I live among the creatures of the night! I haven't got the will to try and fight Against the new tomorrow, So I guess I'll just believe it, That tomorrow never comes.

@tomgauld.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 10:47 AMReposted by @malachy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

Panel 1: a large robot (composed of AI servers, network switches, storage arrays, and power distribution units) and a human are talking.

Professor "You don't want to destroy humanity do you, lLLM-A-9300x?"

Robot "Haha. What a silly question, Professor. I have no desires or feelings of my own whatsoever."

Professor (relieved)"Oh good." 

Panel 2: they walk on. The robot continues  "I am merely a tool of the company that created me. And that company, being composed of humans, will naturally have humanity's best interests at heart."

Panel 3: The professor is conspicuously quiet.
"Right?" says the Robot.
…
More silence

"Professor?"
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@malachy.beige.party.ap.brid.gyOct 10, 2026, 9:21 AM

Svensk Ikea. Det är identisk till någon andra Ikea!

Fram av Ikea i Bäckebol, närheten Göteborg. En molnig dag.
@malachy.beige.party.ap.brid.gyOct 10, 2026, 7:15 AM

Yes yes I know, it's hard to believe, but I've lived in Sweden for a year and not once been to Ikea.

@malachy.beige.party.ap.brid.gyOct 9, 2026, 2:13 PM

Well now I'm looking forward this movie: Let’s finish with death. That’s where the whole film is leading. Chris has decided he wants to die on Rapa Nui. Then he changes his mind and opts for Venice instead. Assuming that a death can be scripted like a film, where in the world would be the ideal […]

@malachy.beige.party.ap.brid.gyOct 9, 2026, 11:43 AM

It's the weekend, baby! Time for methods of barbarism in Bulgaria.

@malachy.beige.party.ap.brid.gyOct 9, 2026, 11:32 AM

Some of our politicians have been long celebrated, but I don't think people always remember how important and influential South African lawyers and judges have been internationally, as well as domestically. Besides Navi Pillay, real greats include Richard Goldstone, who prosecuted human rights […]

@malachy.beige.party.ap.brid.gyOct 9, 2026, 11:01 AM

Obsolete. Needs updating. Urgent local election issue.

A statue at the Cape Town Waterfront that shows four Nobel Peace Prize winners in a row. They are Albert Luthuli, Desmond Tutu, FW de Klerk and, of course, Nelson Mandela. The statues are slightly larger-than-life-size, and their features have deliberately slightly exaggerated heads, making them seem like friendly caricatures. Behind the statue is a row of South African flags, the quay-side, some tourists walking, and Waterfront buildings.

The statue was installed a while ago, and missing from the line-up is Navi Pillay, who was awarded the Peace Prize in 2026.
@malachy.beige.party.ap.brid.gyOct 9, 2026, 10:36 AM

Navi Pillay has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace! This South African is stunned but not surprised.

@malachy.beige.party.ap.brid.gyOct 9, 2026, 10:02 AM

@ericg Hmmm, I thought a lubrican is a container for lubricant. Though usually we order it in lubribarrels.

@malachy.beige.party.ap.brid.gyOct 9, 2026, 9:55 AM

@tregeagle Ceremonial burial of a tube of cannibal paint. Yeah they were weird.

@malachy.beige.party.ap.brid.gyOct 8, 2026, 6:31 PM

Enchufla complicado. Complicated.

@malachy.beige.party.ap.brid.gyOct 8, 2026, 5:04 PM

The Pre-Raphaellite Brotherhood, among their many weird pathologies, made a speciality of painting pictures using ground-up Egyptian mummies.

@malachy.beige.party.ap.brid.gyOct 8, 2026, 4:40 PM

Off to salsa class! The Swedes are hotfoot dancers, another aspect hidden behind the cool facade.

@malachy.beige.party.ap.brid.gyOct 8, 2026, 7:08 AM

THIS GUY IS APPARENTLY 90.

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/oct/08/brian-blessed-90-emma-thompson-adrian-lester-derek-jacobi-brian-may

BRIAN BLESSED.
@malachy.beige.party.ap.brid.gyOct 8, 2026, 6:58 AM

@i0null This is all Luddites always. The originals in the 19th Century were weavers, and they knew their tools and skills as well or better than the steam-bros who owned the mills.

@malachy.beige.party.ap.brid.gyOct 8, 2026, 6:05 AM

These days a password manager also makes a very workable URL bookmarks storage.

@bnewbold.netOct 7, 2026, 9:09 PMReposted by @malachy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton.

she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back.

news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)
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@malachy.beige.party.ap.brid.gyOct 7, 2026, 7:25 PM

I don't speak much French (yet). But my Dad's most recent teacher is a West African guy. He tells me that he is rigorously taught Parisian standard French. But I'd like to imagine my Dad surprising the Occitans with a colloquial Abidjan accent.

@malachy.beige.party.ap.brid.gyOct 7, 2026, 7:16 PM

My Dad is now 80, and to celebrate he has gone to the south of France for a month to perfect his French. For him, age appears to be an accelerant.

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