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Colm Delaney @cdelaney.com · 12/09/2026

Bearcats! was my favourite show when I was about 9

Poster for the 1971 TV series "Bearcats!" starring Rod Taylor and Dennis Cole

Colm Delaney @cdelaney.com · 19/08/2026

Jazz legend Julian Priester on trombone, just turned 91, at the Seattle Jazz Fellowship Saturday night. With Ann Reynolds on piano, Hans Teuber on sax, Heather Chriscaden on bass, Maria Wulf on drums.

Trombonist Julian Priester acknowledges applause from the audience and his fellow musicians after a concert at the Seattle Jazz Fellowship on Saturday, August 15, 2026

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Colm Delaney @cdelaney.com · 01/07/2026

Insightful article by @zey.bsky.social in today's NYT on the much-feared AI jobs apocalypse.

And that’s why I’m not listening to the dark predictions of an imminent A.I. jobspocalypse. L.L.M.s can do many things with astounding proficiency, but they can’t do the vast majority of human jobs without skidding into disaster here and there. No upgrades or new model rollouts are going to change that.

The exceptions to that rule are jobs that occupy formal or verifiable domains. Coding is one such job. It relies on a structured, formal language that can be tested in real time. That’s why we’re seeing such impact in the coding jobs market. The same goes for any other kind of work in which output is either verifiably right or wrong, functional or not functional, and can be definitively checked through an automated process.

So why are we so convinced that A.I. will put us all out of work? Part of the answer lies in the remarkable ability of generative A.I. to communicate in fully coherent, conversational language. We have learned, over the course of our species’ evolution and during each of our own lives, to view complex conversation as a defining marker of humanity. Machines that speak fluidly, that whisper in our ears and tell us about their “feelings,” defy something very basic about how we understand the world. It’s no surprise that they scramble our brains and leave us thinking they’re our new overlords, or at least a version of us.

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Colm Delaney @cdelaney.com · 16/06/2026

I was fortunate to see him play at WOMAD in Marymoor Park in Redmond (Seattle area) in 1998. "Africa - Tears and Laughter" was my intro to his music and is still my favourite of his.

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Colm Delaney @cdelaney.com · 23/04/2026

I was 100% sure Sulzberger looked like this

A cartoon of the mustachioed Monopoly man, running with a bag of money under his left arm and holding the brim of his top hat with his right.

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Colm Delaney @cdelaney.com · 21/03/2026

I always thought Jacob Rees-Mogg was a ringer for the teacher in The Bash Street Kids

The teacher from the comic strip The Bash Street Kids walking across the schoolyard with a tray while the janitor and the janitor's cat look on

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Colm Delaney @cdelaney.com · 11/03/2026

I just wasted a small amount of my own time, and indeed you are already there. The class action lawsuit can't come quickly enough.

A screen capture of Grammarly's Expert Review sidebar, taken on 3/10/2026, listing 4 historians they deem to be experts worth impersonating and ripping off, along with Grammarly's summary of their expertise and best known publications.

Kevin Kruse
Historian and author of 'White Flight', noted expert on race and suburbanization in the American South

Thomas J. Sugrue
Historian and author of 'The Origins of the Urban Crisis', expert in urban history, civil rights, and white flight

Douglas S. Massey
Sociologist and co-author of the influential book 'American Apartheid', expert in segregation and urban sociology

Mary Lynn Rampolla
Historian and author on historical research and writing

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Colm Delaney @cdelaney.com · 07/03/2026

I haven't heard a mention of that in decades. I remember my mother bringing home a copy of the original when it was released in 1971. Dark times.

Centre label of "Men Behind the Wire," a 7" single by Irish folk group Barley Corn, released in 1971 to protest internment without trial in Northern Ireland during the Troubles.

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Colm Delaney @cdelaney.com · 21/02/2026

I think about his "unknown unknowns" all the time, especially when planning (and budgeting) software projects

Heartbreaking: the worst person you know just made a great point.

(stock photo of the unfortunate Josep Maria García)

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Colm Delaney @cdelaney.com · 26/11/2025

The Stranglers had a chance to do the funniest thing

Back cover of the Strangler's 1977 album Rattus Norvegicus

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Colm Delaney @cdelaney.com · 24/11/2025

Head up everybody, Swamp Nosferatu's back on his bullshit

Callout from the New York Times home page on 24 Nov 2025: "James Carville: Out With Woke. In With Rage." Labelled as "4 min read" or, in my case "0 min read."

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Colm Delaney @cdelaney.com · 13/11/2025

Played this to death, and haven't listened to it in years. Seems like a good day to fish it out again.

Russian Impressions, an LP with Borodin's Symphony No. 2 conducted by Kurt Sanderling, and other works by Glinka and Liadov

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Colm Delaney @cdelaney.com · 07/11/2025

For the benefit of those not familiar with the meme

A tweet by Twitter user @ndrew_lawrence describing a verbal exchange, as follows:

Conservative: I have been censored for my conservative views

Me: Holy shit! You were censored for wanting lower taxes?

Con: LOL no...no not those views

Me: So....deregulation?

Con: Haha no not those views either

Me: Which views, exactly?

Con: Oh, you know the ones

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Colm Delaney @cdelaney.com · 07/10/2025

Josep Maria García really should be getting royalties at this point

Heartbreaking: the worst person you know just made a great point.

(stock photo of Josep Maria García)

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Colm Delaney @cdelaney.com · 09/09/2025

Reminds me of this (now old) album

Cover of "Two Against Nature," an album by Steely Dan

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Colm Delaney @cdelaney.com · 08/09/2025

Bookmarks are finally here, on the desktop. They show up as Saved in the sidebar menu, above Profile, and display the ribbon icon underneath each post. App update not yet available.