@binaryape
Hat-wearing devourer of chickpeas, Manchester vegan, manager of identities, developer of obscure software, Green inactivist, Elixir & Ruby coder, watcher of K-dramas, daft-apeth. Alignment: Quixotic-Good https://binary-ape.org
Anrealage "GHOST" (Paris Fashion Week FW/2026).
Fashion designer Kunihiko Morinaga paying tribute to Mamoru Oshii's "Ghost in the Shell" movie.
>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELF8...
In 1999 Nato bombed a TV studio in Serbia, killing technicians and makeup people. The UK Labour Party said this was OK because a TV station that broadcasts government propaganda was a valid military target. I was working in a TV studio at the time and quit the Labour Party.
Exciting news - I have actually updated the Library Conferences on BlueSky page, and it now has current and previous 2026 sections! Lots to do to add in events I have noted in screenshots and saved emails, but good progress.
It feels like Gary Neville started trying to demolish the pub soon after it was built
30ml for an answer that’s likely to be wrong is not good value
A section of a broken branch that kind of looks like an upright walking horse…sort of.
When I used to walk my son to & from school, we used to play various games to diminish the tedium & repetition. One was finding ‘good’ sticks, we had quite the collection😂
My son, now 26 still occasionally brings them me. Last week he brought in this ‘proud horse homunculus’!
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This is terrible but I can at least laugh a bit more at the Web 3.0 people who are now in the past despite never managing to actually be in the present
A-ooh (Werewolves of London) Labour.
Coup Labour.
Doo Labour.
Foo (Fighters) Labour.
Goo Labour.
Who Labour.
Loo Labour.
Moo Labour.
Ooh, Labour.
Poo Labour.
'Roo Labour.
Sue Labour.
Too Labour.
(Voulez-)Vous Labour.
Woo! Labour.
You Labour.
Zoo Labour.
Sadly I think it already is
New Labour
Blue Labour
True Labour
I'm beginning to see a pattern emerge
This is the sort of thing a cashless society robs us of, the opportunity to try to get away with paying the bus fare in Carthaginian currency www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I’d wondered if I was imagining this, maybe it was confirmation bias, but sadly no.
I wonder will this harassment get as much publicity and have the Home Secretary call it disgraceful or is that only for really serious crimes like drawing on statues with chalk?
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I lost a customer that way. I had a series of crackly phone spam bots with Indian accents call me up for weeks, then for one I snapped and said something like "Oh god I'm so sick of these bots" and it was, very unfortunately, a nice customer with an Indian accent and a crackly line. Still mortified.
It should be fraud to misrepresent a computer as a person in a business context. This goes for support messages too. If I hear or see "Hi I'm Steve" I expect a human not a jumped-up Python script.
here's another thing i hate: when companies change their AI computer voice to be more "human". under no circumstances do I want that. i want every computer in my life to sound stilted and weird because it's a computer, not a person, and it is a violation of natural law for it to speak in our voice
Amanda Foreman addresses the camera in her BBC documentary ‘The Ascent of Woman’. A subtitle shows that she is describing a ritual of some kind, saying “And then in the afternoon, the women shouted obscenities”
…and probably with good reason, on International Women’s Day or indeed any other
A newspaper headline from over a century ago, reading: WOMEN ANARCHISTS HAVE BECOME THE TERROR OF WORLDS POLICE Their Daring Crimes Are Said to Have Out- stripped the Deeds of Brothers of the Red Search for the Woman is Becoming a Safe Rule in Crimes Proceeding From Anarchistic Violence—The Guardians of the World Nearly Always Finda Woman Implicated When a Ruler is Stricken Down—Emotional Women Lose Sense of Fear.
Happy International Women's Day. 🏴
"The Underwood Multi-tool (c. 1850)
Decades before the first Swiss Army knife (1891), London’s Underwood of Haymarket crafted this "harped" pocket kit. Designed for Victorian sportsmen, it features a hoof pick, saw, and corkscrew. A rare 19th-century masterpiece of portability."
Not for cars though.
More men should respond to romantic disappointment by building transport infrastructure
Margaret Downes (sabred), Mary Heys (trampled by cavalry), Sarah Jones (truncheoned), Martha Partington (fell into cellar) died at Peterloo Massacre in Manchester 1819, protesting for voting reform. Women were disproportionately hurt and possibly deliberately targeted. #IWD
I'm self-employed and if I posted something like "If you're confident my teddy bear isn't conscious please explain the nature of human consciousness" on social media I'd be forced to fire myself
That's because the designers and programmers are incredibly ignorant of things outside their very narrow field of expertise, and astonishingly overconfident and naive about what they do know.
I like the windows, and the interior wood, but I'm not convinced by the flat roofs in Britain idea
I like this style of building but wonder if I'd always feel as if I was living in a university department
