Dan of the Dead 🧟
@haggistamer.bsky.social
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Lecturer in Computing at University of Dundee! 💻👨‍🏫 Doing HCI research. Scottish. Metalhead. Cheerful Goth. Tamer of haggises. Impostor academic. Occasionally irate. Fuelled by coffee/chocolate/whisky. ☕🍫🥃. he/him
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In an age where people mindlessly consume AI output in an unhealthy way, here is a handy guide to understanding whether your particular AI output is fit for human consumption.

Moral: look after your health, and love yourself 💜
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Solid choice!
One of my favourite bands (Soft Play) has a deadly song about John Wick - called John Wick - which I offer for your critique 🧐
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeTG...
SOFT PLAY - John Wick (Official Audio)
YouTube video by SOFT PLAY
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Delighted to see my childhood home of Moray is no longer voting for the blue blood!

According to this graphic anyway...but even my relatively conservative parents can't be fucked with them any more, so je l'accepte! ✊
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Moving is DANGEROUS.
Last week hurt my back bending over to pick up a Dorito that fell out of my mouth while laughing at my own joke.
Claps for all of us screwed over by kinetic energy 👏👏👏
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I do not personally find this controversial.

But if I did, rest assured I would be whispering "well that's completely out of order" to myself, sighing loudly, and tutting in your general direction 🧐
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Let me know when you finish your PhD and I'll supply the accesories and a home-made grandiose ceremony ⚔️🎩
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Uuuurrrgghhhh

My colleagues know my stance on it and tend to lead in gently with "Now I know you're not going to like this but..." 😅
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😂 I never thought of that! Disease, body lice, sexual positions - what a trifecta!
Quite glad to be a Capricorn goat with a squiggly symbol 🐐
haggistamer.bsky.social
Append to "caution": mental health, privacy, trust, education, basic human rights, climate, and anything that doesn't generate ridiculous wealth for the 0.01%.

In fact fuck the wind, OpenAI throws everything humanity values into a fucking volcano as a sacrifice to the Gods of Technocapitalism.
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Right!? My sister is a Cancer and loves a bit of astrology but it's hard to find a gift that doesn't look like glorification of a terrible disease.
Because Cancer is part of the "water trigon" I've got her things related to this, which is kind of nice. She has a tattoo of the water symbol too 💧
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I am aware of this wonderful tradition!
BUT the Finnish PhD is but one route to this flex - what's stopping you acquiring a top hat and a (non-lethal) sword, and parading about your locale like an absolute boss? 😎
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Aaaah but would you pass up the chance to give it a go? Would a Gorgon Goddess by any other unicycle smell as Goddessish?

Wow that really didn't work but thee catcheth mine own drift 🧐
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Full of surprises! I want a go on the unicycle 😆
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Delighted to see LeBron James honoured in this manner 💜
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Today I met groups of the new students I'm advising. Trying hard to remember all 65 of their names (5 are called Callum so I have a 1/13 chance of guessing right)

One can ride a unicycle! One has a pony called Clover! One has pet shrimp! There are a few metalheads too! Gonna be a lovely bunch 😍
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OMG you've unlocked a memory stowed away!
I spent so many hours on this when I was 10ish trying to make something that actually walked and didn't collapse into a genetically-modified slug trying to heave itself along the bottom of the screen.
Would I do better now? Probably not. But it was fun!
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Absolutely bizarre to me that they look at what's happening across the pond and think "I gotta get me some of that!"

I'm no historian, but I thought we were generally against persecution of the poor and marginalised?
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Good old Russ standing up for Scottish 'freedom'!
Freedom to burn hotels sheltering asylum seekers
Freedom to charge vulnerable tenants whatever the fuck you want
Freedom to be openly hateful to LGBTQ+ people
Surely these are the freedoms that Wallace fought for? 🙄
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
SNP hurting Scotland with 'wacky and woke' policies, says Findlay
The Scottish Tory leader delivered his speech to the Conservative party conference in Manchester.
www.bbc.co.uk
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I can't Escape right now, but I can least make a START!
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Good point! I'm still able to be SAD, be RAD, be a DAD, play the SAX, send a FAX, pay TAX, play DARTS, bake some TARTS, grow WARTS, or just be a TWAT.
So many possibilities!