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Paddy K

@spongepaddy.bsky.social

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Irishman morphing into a Swede. Tech writer, fiction writer, poet. Builder of computer games since - oh God - the 1980s. Maker of soap, grower of vegetables. Author page: https://paddyk.wordpress.com/author

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Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · May 28

In my teens - I will be famous!
In my 20s - I will be rich!
In my 30s - I will be happy.
In my 40s - I will get a good night's sleep.
In my 50s - I will grow a carrot.

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Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 7h

That doormat ... I must have! Currently I have one that says "Oh shit not you again" but maybe it's time to get a bit more positive...

Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 7h

I realised the maker of this music @capgrasman.bsky.social is actually on Bluesky. So I'll repost it. Buy buy buy!

Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 1d

For lovers of atmospheric dark ambient I recommended this EP I just bought on Bandcamp. Great stuff!
siavashamini.bandcamp.com/album/severe...

Severed Like The Red Moon, by Siavash Amini

4 track album

siavashamini.bandcamp.com

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Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 1d

For lovers of atmospheric dark ambient I recommended this EP I just bought on Bandcamp. Great stuff!
siavashamini.bandcamp.com/album/severe...

Severed Like The Red Moon, by Siavash Amini

4 track album

siavashamini.bandcamp.com

Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 1d

It certainly is eye-catching though.

Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 1d

Regarding EU sausagegate, I suggest we solve it using an 80s-metal-band trick and just add random umlauts. Anyone for a veggie bürger or a saüsage? Or, in Swedish, a körv...?

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Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 2d

And now I guess Israel will just put Gaza back how they found it and bring all those dead kids back to life and we'll be grand.

Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 2d

I mean your ad worked for me. I wishlisted you. More knowledge than that I sadly do not possess.

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Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 2d

For some reason the article link was not shared:
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘Veggie burgers’ could be off EU menu as MEPs back renaming plant-based foods

Proponents say move would strengthen position of farmers in supply chain but critics dismiss it as ‘hotdog populism’

www.theguardian.com

Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 2d

Or that hamburgers neither come from hamburg nor contain ham.

Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 2d

Wait till the EU finds out that fish don't ACTUALLY have fingers ...
I can't deal with the Age of Stupid anymore.
I just can't.

Elaine McGoff @elainemcgoff.bsky.social · 2d

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

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Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 3d

Not to mention the trillions of dollars burnt so far in an effort to replace them with degenerative AI...

Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 3d

Worked for me!

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Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 3d

Fingers crossed...

Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 3d

I've found them useful for stuff like coding, regex, cleaning up HTML and so on. Stuff with little "thinking" required. But for anything else, especially for copy, they are terrible.

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Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 3d

Yes but it's coming soon ... very soon ...

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Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 3d

Sora is basically that Traam app from the Mountainhead movie, isn't it?

OpenAI launch of video app Sora plagued by violent and racist images: ‘The guardrails are not real’

Misinformation researchers say lifelike scenes could obfuscate truth and lead to fraud, bullying and intimidation

www.theguardian.com

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Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 3d

As an ex-Catholic (and current Lutheran - hey, the church was nearby and I'm lazy) I'm mostly just impressed with a pope who sticks to his stated principles. Or anyone who does...

Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 3d

Approaching that weird part of the timeline where the pope is becoming the most liberal and level-headed of our leaders.

Migrants and advocates increasingly find champion in Pope Leo amid polarization

In audiences and off-the-cuff comments, Pope Leo has offered migrants and their advocates reason to rally around him as a defender of human dignity.

www.ncronline.org

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Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 4d

I mean, I can't say I'm not curious...

Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 4d

And the thing with Ireland is the cites are expensive as hell but cheap houses can still be found out in the countryside. So you could almost live on that.

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Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 5d

Excuse me, Swedish shop, but WHAT are you selling me...?

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Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 5d

Fully agree! Best song ever.

The Blogging Goth @theblogginggoth.bsky.social · 6d

On this day in 1987, #TheCure released "Just Like Heaven" as the third single from their seventh studio album, "Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me"

#RobertSmith said he considers "Just Like Heaven" to be one of the band's strongest works, and called it "the best pop song the Cure have ever done".

Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 5d

A classic!

Reposted by Paddy K

Gespenst @ Home @callgespenst.bsky.social · 6d

"it can't be uninvented! it's here to stay!" it literally can be uninvented, none of that nonsense is happening on your computer, it's all happening in a massive and massively unprofitable data center somewhere. You can't run that locally. The moment someone pulls the plug, it's gone.

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Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 6d

I had missed that but it is wonderful.

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Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 6d

Sorry, I'm gonna have to google it...

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