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Simon Hendy

@simonhendy.bsky.social

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Bristol, UK 📷 Enthusiast photographer (including film) 🏉 Northampton Saints fan 🍷 Wannabe foodie and wine snob 🏹 Archerist 🍑 Naturist 🚲 Theoretical cyclist Sometimes I combine various of these activities.

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Simon Hendy @simonhendy.bsky.social · Apr 3

I'm going to experiment with a Substack blog in place of the underused blogs on my main website - let's see how it goes.
This first post is about how my dad's photos have been used in disinformation in Spain, and how Spanish media organisations are fact-checking it.
open.substack.com/pub/simonhen...

An image of two ladies walking along King's Road in Chelsea in 1970, one of them licking an ice cream. The photo was taken by my dad.

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Simon Hendy @simonhendy.bsky.social · 40m

Beef Carbonnade tonight, with a decadently rich (Joel Robuchon-stylee) mash.
We used Mort Subite beer in it.

Beef carbonnade - beef cooked in onions and beer.

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Simon Hendy @simonhendy.bsky.social · 7h

a cartoon monkey wearing a pirate hat with skull and crossbones on it

Alt: a cartoon monkey wearing a pirate hat with skull and crossbones on it, doing a "ba-dum, tish" on a set of drums

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Simon Hendy @simonhendy.bsky.social · 9h

I have just entered my first archery competition - a Portsmouth round, in December. 🏹🎯
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Simon Hendy @simonhendy.bsky.social · 1d

Nils Lofgren for a quid!

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Modern Toss @moderntoss.bsky.social · 1d

happy halloween

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Simon Hendy @simonhendy.bsky.social · 1d

"Jesus H Christ in a chicken basket, I'm on the fucking moon" had us in hysterics.

Simon Hendy @simonhendy.bsky.social · 1d

They say that Stanley Kubrick filmed it all, but he was such a perfectionist that he insisted they film it on the moon.

Simon Hendy @simonhendy.bsky.social · 1d

Have you heard the uncensored version?
m.youtube.com/watch?v=RhWZ...

The Fucking Moon

YouTube video by The Evolution Control Committee

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Simon Hendy @simonhendy.bsky.social · 1d

That feeling when your smoke alarm goes off in the middle of the night for no apparent reason...
It's done it before, I think we need to get a new one.

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Simon Hendy @simonhendy.bsky.social · 2d

Towels. The answer is that we sit on towels. Our own towels.

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Simon Hendy @simonhendy.bsky.social · 2d

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Simon Hendy @simonhendy.bsky.social · 2d

Also, @lunacytowers.bsky.social and @saintsclaire.bsky.social will be horrified at the idea of there being two of me.

Simon Hendy @simonhendy.bsky.social · 2d

I haven't got an accent, have I?
There will be a bit of Bristol as I've been here for nearly 30 years, Northampton before that.

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Simon Hendy @simonhendy.bsky.social · 2d

Worth looking out for - it was a good fun gig.
And yes, same here.

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Catherine Munro @catherinemmunro.bsky.social · 3d

The camera on my phone can't do justice to the magic in tonight's sky #Shetland #aurora

Green and purple northern lights. Fuzzy phone photo

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Simon Hendy @simonhendy.bsky.social · 2d

I saw them last year, at long last!

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archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 3d

Top of the Pops (29th October 1981). Altered Images open the show with 'Happy Birthday'.

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Simon Hendy @simonhendy.bsky.social · 2d

I get what he's on about, it's no different to a company focusing a chatbot on its own documentation.
For someone prolific eg Clive James who wrote an *enormous* amount over 40-50 years, having something that can work across the entire output would be v.interesting.
LLM isn't automatically AI slop.

Simon Hendy @simonhendy.bsky.social · 2d

That's got me thinking again about buying the full set of Asterix books...

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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 3d

Just remembered something rather touching about "Asterix in Belgium". Goscinny died halfway through work on it, so for the rest of the book, to mark the exact point of his passing, Uderzo has drawn either rain, or darkened, lowering skies into pretty much every panel.

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Simon Hendy @simonhendy.bsky.social · 2d

2:30am? Are you becoming nocturnal?

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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 3d

Paul Hamilton's 1968 Battleship Building up against London's Westway. Was a British Rail depot, now offices

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Simon Hendy @simonhendy.bsky.social · 4d

I heard a new phrase today, from a Glaswegian colleague - he said that something "rips my knitting" 😆

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 5d

Goodnight.

dad and two kids in a 'perfect suburban home' carving pumpkins
the boy is saying. cut his. fucking soul out dad
the girl is saying hail satan

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His Royal Madjesty @hisroyalmadjesty.bsky.social · 4d

In German, there is an expression for a thing, an item or an person that is the solution to all your problems, which has only pros and no cons, a remedy to all your needs, the so-called "eierlegende Wollmilchsau", which means "egg-laying woolmilksow". 😁

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