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Edwin Brady @edwin.type-driven.org.uk · 30/06/2026

Over on another social network I've been encouraging techie types to indulge in bad art so I thought I'd do it here too. One of my favourite hobbies these days is making bad art. It's how I remember I'm human. Remember you're human, whatever else life makes you do.

A t-shirt which says "AI slop is not art, Chatbots are not your friends"

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Edwin Brady @edwin.type-driven.org.uk · 30/06/2026

Spotted while wandering Brussels. I didn't realise this was here.

A street sign for Place Jo Cox. It's just next to as pride mural, only a tiny bit of which is in shot, but what there is radiates happiness.

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Edwin Brady @edwin.type-driven.org.uk · 29/12/2025

Beautiful railway bridge of the Silv'ry Tay!

Looking down from Balgay Park in Dundee over the Tay, and the railway bridge to Fife, framed between two trees.

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Edwin Brady @edwin.type-driven.org.uk · 19/12/2025

I meant to be asleep but, well, it's nearly Christmas, the coursework is graded, and this is just where we are now. #latenightalbumclub

Side 2 of 4 of Dylan's Blonde on Blonde lined up and ready to go. Currently listening to I Want You. I am unlikely to stay awake beyond the end of "Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again" but let's see how it goes.

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Edwin Brady @edwin.type-driven.org.uk · 13/12/2025

Couldn't resist. It's... actually quite nice.

Can of Irn Bru, limited edition Winter Bru with spiced ginger and cinnamon.

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Edwin Brady @edwin.type-driven.org.uk · 24/11/2025

I'll probably wimp out. I see it's criticising my punctuation. It might have a point but I'm not going to let a computer tell me what to do. (Okay, maybe I will. This time.)

Editing my email signature. It says "Tempted to use generative AI to reply? Please think of the environment. and send me the prompt you were going to use instead". It's also criticising my punctuation use.

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Edwin Brady @edwin.type-driven.org.uk · 24/11/2025

I would not have expected these three things together in a mainstream bookshop...

Computers for seniors, and Beginner's step-by-step coding course. And, sandwiched between them, Introduction to Coalgebra by Bart Jacobs, because of course it is.

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Edwin Brady @edwin.type-driven.org.uk · 16/11/2025

Slightly different look for the Duke of Wellington today

The equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington in Glasgow. Usually he has a traffic cone on his head but today it's a pigeon reading a newspaper.

The pigeon, naturally, has a cone on its head.

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Edwin Brady @edwin.type-driven.org.uk · 15/11/2025

I found a record I've been looking for. Yay! A previous owner filled in the dot to dot on the fun pages, but the crossword remains unsolved.

Jethro Tull's "Thick As A Brick", the LP version with the fold out newspaper. Proper album art!

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Edwin Brady @edwin.type-driven.org.uk · 11/09/2025

My first meeting tomorrow is at the crack of half past eleven. I reckon we can get away with a meeting of Late Night Album Club...

The sleeve of Fog On The Tyne by Lindisfarne

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Edwin Brady @edwin.type-driven.org.uk · 03/09/2025

Meanwhile, it's late night album club time again.

More Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits, parked on my living room table.

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Edwin Brady @edwin.type-driven.org.uk · 12/08/2025

It's a shame I'm in bed and asleep because it means I'm missing out on Late Night Album Club which tonight involves Bob Dylan and All The Saxophones. But I don't know that because I'm in bed and asleep.

A turntable with a record sleeve next to it. The LP is Street Legal by Bob Dylan. On the album cover Bob is looking suspiciously to his left. Which, in this room, means he's inspecting my bookshelf. As all visitors should.

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Edwin Brady @edwin.type-driven.org.uk · 08/08/2025

Sadly Mr Goldie is no longer with us but I told this story in the pub and said if I got through the song I'd just have to buy one for myself. But in the end the bar staff presented me with this.

A Mars Bar. By the time you read this I will have eaten it.

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Edwin Brady @edwin.type-driven.org.uk · 02/08/2025

It's time for Late Night Album club with this week's LP find. You are welcome to mock my taste as long as you do it somewhere else.

The River by Bruce Springsteen, spinning on my recently acquired LP ROM drive. I'm old enough now that I don't care what you think :).

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Edwin Brady @edwin.type-driven.org.uk · 18/07/2025

As of this week I own a turntable. Dragged kicking and screaming into the 1970s... I've just bought these in a charity shop for £1 each. I may have been overcharged. One of these things is not like the others. I just don't know which one it is.

Three LPs: Larn Yersel' Geordie, Double Fantasy by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and the Best of Jasper Carrott

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Edwin Brady @edwin.type-driven.org.uk · 14/06/2025

There was a Pride event in Dundee today. I feel a bit an imposter at these although rationally I know I shouldn't. Anyway my phone camera app offered to straighten this photo (and my flag is in there :)). Definitely nothing funny about that. Oh no.

Pride flags which permanently hang at the Glass Bucket in Dundee: bisexual, progress, asexual, original pride. There are many more out of shot.

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Edwin Brady @edwin.type-driven.org.uk · 26/05/2025

Hooray! The luthier has just brought Jones The String back from ukulele hospital. Sorry neighbours. But at least it's not a banjolele.

A ukulele with a fixed headstock that's been glued back together. You can see the join if you know where to look.

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Edwin Brady @edwin.type-driven.org.uk · 19/05/2025

Aikman's has a new sign. Don't make them tap it.

"No please no pint. I am not kidding", says the sign at the bar.

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Edwin Brady @edwin.type-driven.org.uk · 13/05/2025

I'm sure the filkers will be thrilled to see that I got a Pegasus. Yay! I won it for my soon too be classic toe tapper, "Handing over five pounds ten at the bar".

A pump clip for a beer called "Pegasus" from Milton brewery.

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Edwin Brady @edwin.type-driven.org.uk · 10/05/2025

Well this is annoying. Jones The String, my 8 string baritone ukulele, seems to have had a mishap. Good news for people in neighbouring hotel rooms in the next couple of days I suppose.

The back of a ukulele headstock with an unpleasant looking crack in it.

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Edwin Brady @edwin.type-driven.org.uk · 05/05/2025

I've spent the afternoon at a memorial/wake for a well-loved St Andrews local, where, under instruction to "wear bright colours", I was wearing this. I regret nothing, and was told it was appreciated. When I die, please do similar ridiculous nonsense for me, or I'll come back and haunt you.

A red t-shirt with a picture of a unicorn riding a dinosaur with a rainbow in the background

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Edwin Brady @edwin.type-driven.org.uk · 02/05/2025

This was a nice thing to see in the window of Lush while wandering today. I feel a sudden urge to buy all the bath bombs.

The window display of Lush. "Imagine a world with these headlines" filled with, e.g. UK leads on teams rights, Hate crimes at historic low. Bordered with trans pride colours.

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Edwin Brady @edwin.type-driven.org.uk · 27/04/2025

I have just received a new (okay, 20+ year old) toy to play with and frustratingly I have a rotten cold and therefore it's just not going to work yet... On the plus side, if the cold lingers on, I have an excuse to not go to tomorrow morning's research committee meeting.

A Tascam Porta 02 four track cassette recorder.

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Edwin Brady @edwin.type-driven.org.uk · 23/04/2025

This morning I've been attempting to explain my research impact through the medium of Lego, which is curious because that's how I started. The googly eyed thing represented my wish to make a googly eyed thing.

A Lego minifigure carrying a brick that will fit in an appropriate shaped Lego box while a small googly eyed Lego monster looks on.

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Edwin Brady @edwin.type-driven.org.uk · 23/04/2025

Repost with the first album you bought with your own money. (Don't pretend to be surprised) m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71Q...

The Complete Flanders & Swann box set album cover, which is (other than the text) picture of Flanders and Swann singing with great enthusiasm.

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Edwin Brady @edwin.type-driven.org.uk · 22/04/2025

If you've never been to Fife, this is basically what it looks like at the minute, if my typical commute is representative.

One of the many local roadworks in Fife, with its distinctive red traffic light. It's not a road if it doesn't work.

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Edwin Brady @edwin.type-driven.org.uk · 22/04/2025

Anyway. Be kind, Boreas' gale.

The Tay Road Bridge as viewed from the top seat of a double decker approaching Fife.

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Edwin Brady @edwin.type-driven.org.uk · 20/04/2025

The ace price flag fell off at some point but these two still survive.

A dragon pin with the asexual pride flag colours and a "not a hugger" pin attached to my jacket.

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Edwin Brady @edwin.type-driven.org.uk · 20/04/2025

This turned up and will be proudly fixed to my coat next to all the other pins until it accidentally falls off like they always do because I'm careless.

Pin with "trans rights are human rights"

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Edwin Brady @edwin.type-driven.org.uk · 16/04/2025

Not a guitarist but I want to play anyway, because I spent an embarrassing amount of time choosing this. Behold Jones The String! Ukulele players of #Bluesky, show us your straps.

An 8 string baritone ukulele with a strap designed around Van Gogh's Starry Night

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Edwin Brady @edwin.type-driven.org.uk · 05/04/2025

Hmmph, they're shut. I'll come back later for some debugging aids.

"Duck World. Home of iconic rubber ducks." A shop on Charing Cross Road.

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Edwin Brady @edwin.type-driven.org.uk · 27/03/2025

🎶All bound for Morningtown, many miles away 🎶 With any luck we'll have about a two hour delay because the expected arrival time is 6am and I do not believe in 6am.

A sleeper berth (bunk bed) on the train back north. It's actually quite comfortable... Also there is free chocolate.

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Edwin Brady @edwin.type-driven.org.uk · 26/03/2025

a) no, I've just passed Darlington b) don't call me Ed c) this is bad even by my low standards

LNER paper bag with "Is Ed in Burgh or did they leave?" written on it.

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Edwin Brady @edwin.type-driven.org.uk · 22/03/2025

This was my second choice, by the way. My brain is hopping around a lot today...

A sticker which is destined for a laptop, a white lambda on a blue background, as they should be in Scotland.

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Edwin Brady @edwin.type-driven.org.uk · 22/03/2025

Without downloading any new pictures, where are you mentally?

A sticker (which remains to be stuck to anything but is probably destined for my 8 string baritone uke, Jones The String) of a lute with the slogan "This lute slayeth tyrantes"

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Edwin Brady @edwin.type-driven.org.uk · 21/03/2025

For reasons, elsenet, I felt the need to look this up. Charles M Schulz is one of the great philosophers.

A Peanuts strip. Linus to Charlie Brown: "I feel sorry for little babies. When a little baby is born into this cold world, he's confused! He's frightened! He need something to cheer him up... the way I see it as soon as a baby is born, he should be issued a ukulele."

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Edwin Brady @edwin.type-driven.org.uk · 18/03/2025

Excellent, some reading material turned up on my desk when I was at lunch. Thanks to my colleague Ian who had a spare one. As you do.

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Edwin Brady @edwin.type-driven.org.uk · 05/03/2025

What (if anything) do people use for organising academic papers for reading on an iPad these days? Ideally one that lets me read things without being online or signing into something. This one I'm not naming just earned itself an instant NOPE.

"What's New
Improved AI Assistant for PDF Reader"

I don't even know what this means but NOPE anyway

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Edwin Brady @edwin.type-driven.org.uk · 28/12/2024

Playing the game properly though... Without downloading any new pics what’s your energy going into 2025?

A skeleton in a lab coat with a sign saying "finest apothecary skincare" as spotted at Dublin Airport a couple of days ago. That's pretty much how my skincare (and everything else care) works, I think.

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Edwin Brady @edwin.type-driven.org.uk · 26/12/2024

We've been wandering around Dublin. I believe this statue is called "Come on referee, he was never offside!"

Statue of James Larkin in O'Connell Street, Dublin. He has arms outstretched and appears to be shouting.

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Edwin Brady @edwin.type-driven.org.uk · 20/12/2024

I have questions... firstly, is there a version I can get for my non-binary partner? Secondly, and more importantly, if headphones are gendered, is there something I've misunderstood all these years? Have I been using them wrong? (If you have an answer, please be assured that I Don't Want To Know)

From a sleep mask with headphones on Amazon: "Upgraded 3D Sleep Headphones Eye Mask with Headphones for Men & Women, Wireless Music Sleep Mask"

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Edwin Brady @edwin.type-driven.org.uk · 06/12/2024

Well I'm glad somebody is keeping track.

"You made 641 mistakes this year" says Duolingo.

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Edwin Brady @edwin.type-driven.org.uk · 24/11/2024

Well, okay, but I was planning to put the food in the freezer, not hang it out to dry

"You ordered: 1 x George Home Bag Clips 12pce
We sent: 1 x ASDA Plastic Snapper clothes pegs 36pk"

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Edwin Brady @edwin.type-driven.org.uk · 22/11/2024

This happens to me all the time on Duolingo and I've been reporting it for weeks with varying attempts at giving mir details. I wonder if any humans have seen it. Meanwhile if anyone needs to know the German word for "Pig" is, I reckon I've nailed it now.

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Edwin Brady @edwin.type-driven.org.uk · 20/11/2024

Post you from a different era. Except this is my actual current staff card with a picture from when I was still enthusiastic in 2005. Fortunately I only have to persuade the door sensors that it's me, and not any actual humans.

A photo of my staff card on which I am young and smiling and stuff. Yes, it expires in 2043 but I hope I don't expire then or before.

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Edwin Brady @edwin.type-driven.org.uk · 18/11/2024

Project for the rest of this evening: see if I can get the living room up to room temperature. Brrr.

Living room thermometer says 16.7 degrees C and 42% humidity.

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Edwin Brady @edwin.type-driven.org.uk · 17/11/2024

I mean I'd have driven me out, to be fair. (I'm partly testing whether this even works, and partly showing what I get up to in my copious free time, I suppose :). The answer to the first question is, I think, "maybe, sort of").

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