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George Baily @georgebaily.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/05/2025

Ignominy: Great Eastern (1858) anchored at Liverpool when used for advertising Lewis' Department Store, Liverpool #ships #maritimehistory

Black and white photograph of the Great Eastern ship, starboard side on, with giant white letters painted on the hull "LEWIS'S... are the friends of the people"... on the paddle wheel housing "the bon marche live" ... forward: "Ranelach St Liverpool, Lewis's, bon marche, basnett st, Manchester, Sheffield, Birmingham"

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George Baily @georgebaily.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/05/2025

Ugh! LG "affectionate intelligence"... F off unless this is an actual sexbot

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George Baily @georgebaily.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/05/2025

Sad! "Unavailable Due to the UK Online Safety Act"

screenshot of a browser window asking for a page at aphyr.com which is just blank with the big text "Unavailable Due to the UK Online Safety Act"

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George Baily @georgebaily.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/05/2025

tempting! "Lot 1453: An extensive collection of thimbles, approx one hundred and twenty, including mainly hallmarked and sterling silver examples, various makers including Charles Horner, enamel examples, etc (120)."

auction site photo of a display box of about 120 antique thimbles, mostly metallic but a variety of other colours and designs; priced from £600

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George Baily @georgebaily.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/05/2025

In this YouTube UI there's the internet's least-clicked link: "See more ads".

youtube screenshot with the main heading being "why you're seeing this ad" and above it is a link in blue "see more ads"... that this advertiser has shown using Google

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George Baily @georgebaily.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/05/2025

Good HN comment satirizing several archetypal genres of HN comment

Screenshot of comment by deadbabe: Crows are pretty smart, I befriended one after offering it cashews daily as I would sit in my patio working on my laptop. Now he pecks on my keyboard to generate code with AI to resolve simple Jira tickets.

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George Baily @georgebaily.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/05/2025

Lol Wikipedia app serves me the wrong image

Screenshot of Wikipedia entry for "superb parrot" with the main photo being Jensen Huang

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George Baily @georgebaily.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/05/2025

Ahahaaha (aaaaaarg) this bit... Of COURSE it doesn't forget. Of course. Rolling Stone chatgpt psycho rabbit hole article: [www.rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…]

Article screenshot with text as follows: Sem was confused when it appeared that the named AI character was continuing to manifest in project files where he had instructed ChatGPT to ignore memories and prior conversations. Eventually, he says, he deleted all his user memories and chat history, then opened a new chat. “All I said was, ‘Hello?’ And the patterns, the mannerisms show up in the response,” he says. The AI readily identified itself by the same feminine mythological name.

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George Baily @georgebaily.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/05/2025

This kind of ad is like Nigerian Prince emails: filter out the 99% who find it super obviously distrustworthy at first glance and suck in the gormless and gullible who remain

Screen shot of YouTube ad of a very untrustworthy looking man sitting cross legged talking to camera. It's promoting some kind of online course

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George Baily @georgebaily.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/05/2025

The nightmare of having a gurning Farage on my Mac widgets thing on Friday...

screenshot of apple desktop widgets thing with calendar, weather, world clocks, stock market bullshit, and at the bottom right a thumbnail of a laughing Nigel Farage

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George Baily @georgebaily.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/05/2025

Pretty interesting coin: Cancelled US Mint Morgan Dollar Reverse Dies CC & S Overstrike Theresa Thaler US $1,499.94 on ebay....

Photo of a silver coin. The face is stamped with a cross. The upper design is a US silver dollar. But it has been stamped over a bigger Maria Theresa silver trading dollar which can still be seen in a concentric circle around the outer part of the circle. The overall impression is wtf.

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George Baily @georgebaily.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/05/2025

Yes! "what interests you most" - MARKETING CONSENT GOOD PRACTICE - JUST ASK PEOPLE

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George Baily @georgebaily.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/05/2025

This talk by Samantha Lawler is an absolute MUST WATCH www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MDI7rEgb6g "you cannot safely have a million satellites in orbit" #space #pollution

Slide from the talk titled "the future?"
with bullets for
- starlink 34000+
- oneweb 7000
- kuiper 3000
- guanwang 13000
- yinhe 1000
- hanwha 2000
- link 2000
- astra 14000
- boeing 6000
- telesat 2000
- hvnet 1400
- spinlaunch 1200
- globalstar3 3000
- semaphore 160000
- e-space 337000

Footer: we need international regulation of satellites

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George Baily @georgebaily.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/04/2025

Love Tony Blair's new "generic capitalist villain" hairstyle... I assume you can ask for that by name at the good barbers in the City

Thumbnail of YouTube video featuring tony Bliar with silvery hair getting rather long swept back, any longer and it starts being a liberated grandmother look

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George Baily @georgebaily.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/04/2025

I am "glad sun reading glasses are a real thing" years old

Screenshot of an ecommerce shop page showing various pairs of sunglasses which are actually reading glasses

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George Baily @georgebaily.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/04/2025

Now that looks like a tasty package 🥁🥁💥 #linux

photo of a cheez-it crisp packet where the second biggest title text says "snapd"

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George Baily @georgebaily.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/04/2025

Nobody: --- Robotics startups: you're welcome Video: >Polish startup Clone Robotics unveils humanoid robot with 1,000 muscles e.vnexpress.net/news/tech/tech-news… #DystopianHeadlineGenerator

video still of a creepy white coloured humanoid robot with a metallic visor head and bare muscular body

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George Baily @georgebaily.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/04/2025

Absolutely classic: the full Guard Dog by Bill Plympton - now on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmK5R4rZEGs #animation

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George Baily @georgebaily.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/04/2025

oh look they had a "hijack scenario" with the Capitol as a target

Amalgam Virgo slide depicting a commercial aircraft and the US Capitol building with a flight path going west to east across continental US

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George Baily @georgebaily.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/04/2025

Especially love the Star Wars imperial viper probe droid in this (2001 Amalgam Virgo) slide depicting emerging UAV threats

slide entitled "federal flight rules eyed for unmanned aircraft" and it has a collage of various real or concept UAVs one of which is clearly some kind of star wars fan art

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George Baily @georgebaily.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/04/2025

Vintage military industrial complex: Amalgam Virgo from June 2001 (yes before 9/11)

slide with heading text "SEADS concept proposal amalgam virgo 01" and title "scenario: counter terrorism 1-2 June 2001" with the main picture being a photo of Osama Bin Laden and four aircraft plus what might be a submarine underneath, and next on the bottom "combined joint training for unconventional threat"

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George Baily @georgebaily.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/04/2025

Karahan Tepe, possibly the oldest human dick pic art: (source: stargatevoyager.com/2023/09/30/brea…)

ancient statue being unearthed by archaeologist: a head about three times life size lies on its side in the dust... it has simple but expertly carved facial features

the excavated statue has been stood up and is a standing depiction in grey stone of a man with a beard, marked rib bones, hands at sides facing forward in the style of similar statues but in this case holding a forward-pointing phallus

straight-on view of the statue's face when unearthed... it has indentations in the pupils of its eyes creating a powerful eye contact staring effect

side view of the stood-up Karahan Tepe statue where you can see the phallus sticking out and on the face the side of the beard

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George Baily @georgebaily.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/04/2025

19th Century doggo painting from Sorrento museum

detail of a painting with a spaniel running directly towards us with its tail up and tongue hanging out

full frame view of the dog painting with the museum label which shows it to be by Filippo Palizzi 1818-1899

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George Baily @georgebaily.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/04/2025

[Apparent KKK dolls in a shop window] This fashion shop in Sorrento might want to rethink the value of their window display. (OK OK it's a traditional religious festival here ... but still... maybe rethink that too...)

Photo of a shop window display in a handbag and leather goods store called Nannini. There is a little Easter diorama of the empty tomb of Jesus with the stone rolled away, and several doll-like figures all wearing what can only be described as Ku Klux Klan white gear with the pointy hat-mask things... w hich is actually a traditional local procession presumably far predating the US racism shit.

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George Baily @georgebaily.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/04/2025

And here is some particularly fine marble work from a fallen bit of pediment in the forum at #Pompeii

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George Baily @georgebaily.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/04/2025

Here are two statues from the same house in #Pompeii

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George Baily @georgebaily.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/04/2025

Also: elephants holding up something for some reason... #Pompeii #FrescoFriday

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George Baily @georgebaily.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/04/2025

The Pompeii naval battle scenes in the thread above are part of a bigger scene in the Roman trompe l'oeil architecture theme:

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George Baily @georgebaily.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/04/2025

Incidentally here is a cool snake door handle from a house in Capri:

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George Baily @georgebaily.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/04/2025

Pretty cool Lion leg table from a house in Pompeii, just about qualifying as #Caturday content

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George Baily @georgebaily.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/04/2025

Incidentally here is another leopard for #caturday from the museum in Sorrento:

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George Baily @georgebaily.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/04/2025

Here are two Pompeii #FrescoFriday leopards - doubling up as #Caturday content:

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George Baily @georgebaily.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/04/2025

1/- One day late for #FrescoFriday but here are some of my pics from a recent visit to #pompeii First, some naval battles:

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George Baily @georgebaily.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/04/2025

Somewhere in Tesco there is a gang war between two product marketing teams...

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George Baily @georgebaily.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/04/2025

creative product photo for tennis racket grip tape

screenshot of ebay product page photo which is a riff on the "distracted boyfriend" meme, where the girlfriend and boyfriend are in tennis clothes, and the boy looks over his shoulder with pursed lips at a floating tennis racket showing the designer colourful grip tape

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George Baily @georgebaily.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/04/2025

Ebay has opted all users into AI training without consent. To disable it (vaguely hoping they honour that): My eBay > Account > AI training preferences

screenshot of ebay settings interface titled "Al development and training preferences" with the relevant toggle seen in the default "yes" position for "Use personal data for AI development and training" - fuck you, ebay

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