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Simon Le Gross Bisson

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👨‍💻 Used to write code, now writes words about code 📘 Azure AI Services At Scale🦎O'Reilly 💻 Beats: enterprise, dev, cloud 🙋‍♂️ Vrai Jerri, bird photos, SFF writer, reader, ally, he/him/they 🐈‍⬛ calico floofs 📧 [email protected] 🌍 sbisson.com

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Simon Le Gross Bisson @sbisson.com · Jun 19

Come for the developer journalism, stay for the long running SFF review series, photographs of inner London birding, and well, the randomness of a crapaud in the big city.

All this from an ex-engineer who found one of his cancelled projects in For All Mankind.

And if you want to chat try Signal.

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Simon Le Gross Bisson @sbisson.com · 2h

It is. I really love it.

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Simon Le Gross Bisson @sbisson.com · 4h

That's more like it!

Odd, I was using the Apple AI tools in the Photos app.

Simon Le Gross Bisson @sbisson.com · 5h

So issue 12 of The Power Fantasy? Well, I guess that explains the ending of 11 (and why Etienne is who he is). But then, holy crap, now we have another ending that ramps up the stakes still further...

Simon Le Gross Bisson @sbisson.com · 5h

Not here! It suggests that it is an American Nursery Web Spider, which it clearly is not. If only because this is Europe!

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Simon Le Gross Bisson @sbisson.com · 5h

Said spider on the ceiling.

A large brown spider on a white painted ceiling.

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Simon Le Gross Bisson @sbisson.com · 5h

Peter Gabriel already went there!

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Simon Le Gross Bisson @sbisson.com · 6h

There is a giant housespider on the kitchen ceiling.

I guess we're living on takeout now.

(I wonder if it is on commission from Deliveroo.)

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Simon Le Gross Bisson @sbisson.com · 8h

I think it was this one; I remember it was opposite the old hospital and it seems to be the only mexican market in the area...

maps.app.goo.gl/pfV9K2hmKHWg...

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Simon Le Gross Bisson @sbisson.com · 21h

Imagine if it was an AWS service…

Simon Le Gross Bisson @sbisson.com · 22h

The asthma clinic at my local teaching hospital told me that turbohalers and similar gave better results as part of a dual purpose regime...

Simon Le Gross Bisson @sbisson.com · 22h

Nooooo!

Simon Le Gross Bisson @sbisson.com · 22h

Pretty sure it's been more than a decade since I last had an inhaler that used propellant. Even fpor emergency use.

Simon Le Gross Bisson @sbisson.com · 22h

Propellant-free inhalers have been the most common prescription in much of the developed world for a long time now.

CNN @cnn.com · 2d

The people who are most vulnerable to the hard-to-breathe air that comes with climate change may inadvertently be adding to the problem, new research finds. https://cnn.it/4pWQMoh

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Simon Le Gross Bisson @sbisson.com · 22h

Oh you need to; it is McDonald's masterwork. It's a story of islands in the storm of history, Peter Gabriel's Here Comes The Flood writ across a century and more.

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Simon Le Gross Bisson @sbisson.com · 22h

And yet Ian McDonald's Hopeland which reaches back to a historical C18 Ireland and forward to a world reshaped by the anthropocene is described purely as an SF novel, even though it's full of fantasy, of curses and blessings, of gods and Tesla coils...

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Simon Le Gross Bisson @sbisson.com · 22h

Samuel Delany's Through The Valley Of The Nest Of Spiders does something similar, followig a relationship from the early 00s to near the end of the century...

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Simon Le Gross Bisson @sbisson.com · 23h

There's something apt about writing the conclusion to a long piece while listening to Steve Hackett deliver a 13 minute virtuoso live version of Los Endos.

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Alex Jay Brady @alexjaybrady.bsky.social · 23h

www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...

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Simon Le Gross Bisson @sbisson.com · 23h

Part of me is tempted to say natto...

Simon Le Gross Bisson @sbisson.com · 23h

There's a story of an archaeologist who found a still sealed bottle of Roman garum and stated that it would be just about ready to serve...

Simon Le Gross Bisson @sbisson.com · 23h

Listening to The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway for the nth time and suddenly I wonder, were the writers for Cheers, Wings, and Frasier secret Genesis fans?

I mean, Lilywhite Lilith...

Simon Le Gross Bisson @sbisson.com · 23h

Moules mariniere, with mussels from somewhere silty like the Bristol channel, so you end up spitting out little pearls all over the plate...

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

What foods do you love that you fully acknowledge make you a pervert for loving them?

Simon Le Gross Bisson @sbisson.com · 23h

I wonder if ibara would be a good option...

Simon Le Gross Bisson @sbisson.com · 23h

Or a squeeze of fresh orange juice.

Simon Le Gross Bisson @sbisson.com · 23h

All the anchovy umami!

(It's basically garum...)