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Graham Downs @grahamdowns.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

So we all know what love is, right? God (A being of pure love) created us in love, out of love, and for love. We are beings of love. We don't need to learn what love is. But along the way, while we were obtaining the knowledge of good vs evil and all that […] [Original post on mastodon.africa]

A cartoon Jesus standing in front of a group of people all holding Bibles. The people appear crestfallen, as Jesus is saying, "The difference between you and me is you use Scripture to determine what love means and I use love to determine what Scripture means." The cartoon is attributed to "nakedpastor".

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Graham Downs @grahamdowns.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

I took some inspiration from a friend of mine, who did this using Grok, against his X account. I asked ChatGPT to analyse my public Mastodon profile, and based on the information contained therein, to generate an image of a fictional kingdom that I would […] [Original post on mastodon.africa]

A fantasy-style image of a beautiful kingdom with winding dirt roads, a Copernican observatory, a telescope, a castle, etc. It also features what looks like a Wizard's Tower, along with several people clustered around a table, as if playing a TTRPG. Prominently displayed, right at the entrance, is a banner showing a Christian cross with an open book (obstensibly a Bible), and symbols of scientific connections below it.

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Graham Downs @grahamdowns.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

South African political cartoonist, Zapiro, is *not* trying to be funny today. :'( #SouthAfrica #GBV

Cartoon by Zapiro: Black background, with nine white drawings of sheets, ostensibly covering dead bodies. Each of the sheets is captioned with an activity that the women in Ekurhuleni were supposedly doing when they were accosted and brutally murdered (going for a walk, going to work, going to sell beauty products, etc). The whole caption reads, "Women doing normal things. In an abnormal society"

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Graham Downs @grahamdowns.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

I wish they'd fix this message. It confuses new users no end, and I've never *ever* seen a situation where this is legitimately fixed by a pull. The only time it happens is when you've done a rebase or amended or dropped a commit or otherwise rewritten your […] [Original post on mastodon.africa]

A screenshot of git bash, where I checked out a branch, and received a message about my branch and the remote branch having diverged because there are commits on the remote that I don't have, and commits on my local that remote doesn't have, and I should do a pull to correct the discrepancy.

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Graham Downs @grahamdowns.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

So we're all in agreement about sysadmins, right? X-D #infosec #memes

A matrix showing how various IT professionals see each other (Developers, Designers, Project Managers, QA, and Sysadmins) see each other. Everyone sees sysadmins as some variation of person giving the finger. Sysadmins see themselves as Neo from the Matrix, stopping a storm of bullets with their hand.

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Graham Downs @grahamdowns.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

This pops up in my Facebook memories every once in a while, and it always makes me smile. If you know a celebrity, send this to them. Maybe it'll make their day. :-) #JohnSteinbeck

A letter from John Steinbeck to Marylin Monroe, dated April 28, 1955. In it, he asks her for an autograph on behalf of his nephew-in-law, who idolises her and has trouble believing that she is, in fact, a real person, never mind that his uncle-in-law has actually met her personally.

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Graham Downs @grahamdowns.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 17/06/2026

Yes. Sunday should be #1. The Bible describes it as, "The first day of the week, the day after the Sabbath." ;-P Other than that, no, I must confess, I can't find any mistakes. But it'll probably be super obvious for some... unless I'm right, of course. :-) #puzzles

An image asking, Can you find the mistake? 1. Monday 2. Tuesday 3. Wednesday 4. Thursday 5. Friday 6. Saturday 7. Sunday

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Graham Downs @grahamdowns.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 14/06/2026

Look what I got for our anniversary! <3

A coffee cup with two anthropomorphic toilets staring into each other's eyes, captioned, "Still flushed with love after 18 years. Happy anniversary. The porcelain year."

Next to that is a metal disk on a keyring, with the words, "You're the best thing I've found on the Internet."

Also attached to the keyring, on the top, are two dark green crocheted four leaf clovers.

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Graham Downs @grahamdowns.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 06/06/2026

Love people. All people. No conditions attached. #love

The sentence, "don't cross oceans for people who wouldn't cross a puddle for you." is written, but then crossed out. It is replaced with the text, "No, do it. Do cross oceans for people. Love people, all people. No conditions attached, no wondering whether or not they're worthy. Cross oceans, climb mountains. Life and love isn't about what you gain, it's about what you give."

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Graham Downs @grahamdowns.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 12/05/2026

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Legacy Code by William Brander #Devconf2026

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Graham Downs @grahamdowns.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 24/03/2026

#puns #DrSeuss #maths

$White text on a black background reads: "If Dr Seuss were a Mathematician" Underneath are four fractions: 1/5, 2/5, 1/5 (in red), 2/5 (in blue). You're meant to read it as "One Fifth, Two Fifth, Red Fifth, Blue Fifth"$

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Graham Downs @grahamdowns.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 24/03/2026

@thunderbird Thanks for the reply. That's what Google told me as well, but for the life of me, I couldn't find it. I was just about to respond to you to that effect, when I saw a label (not a button) reading "events" above the date, with <> buttons to the […] [Original post on mastodon.africa]

Screenshot of my Today Pane in Thunderbird, showing what I described in the post

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Graham Downs @grahamdowns.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 05/02/2026

I just saw this "ChatGPT Challenge" on Facebook. Basically, you open ChatGPT and you tell it, "Create a caricature of me and my job based on everything you know about me." It might ask for a recent photo of you first. If so, upload one. But don't modify the […] [Original post on mastodon.africa]

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Graham Downs @grahamdowns.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 22/01/2026

By my reckoning, there are two types of atheists in the world: First, there's the type that simply does not believe that there is a God -- or indeed, anything supernatural or paranormal. It could be for various reasons, but it basically boils down to the […] [Original post on mastodon.africa]

A photo of C.S. Lewis, next to the heading, "C.S. Lewis on Reasoning to Atheism". It contains the following quote: "Supposing there was no intelligence behind the universe, no creative mind. In that case, nobody designed my brain for the purpose of thinking. It is merely that when the atoms inside my skull happen, for physical or chemical reasons, to arrange themselves in a certain way, this gives me, as a by-product, the sensation I call thought. But, if so, how can I trust my own thinking to be true? It's like upsetting a milk jug and hoping that the way it splashes itself will give you a map of London. But if I can't trust my own thinking, of course I can't trust the arguments leading to Atheism, and therefore have no reason to be an Atheist, or anything else. Unless I believe in God, I cannot believe in thought: so I can never use thought to disbelieve in God." The quote comes from - C.S. Lewis' "The Case for Christianity", page 32.

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Graham Downs @grahamdowns.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 20/12/2025

Very appropriate, in light of what I was saying yesterday about people overspending in December and struggling through "Januworry".... #memes #Christianity (Aside: let's not get caught up in debating the date of Jesus' birth. This meme is slightly misleading […] [Original post on mastodon.africa]

Picture of an icon of Jesus on the left, with the following text on the right: "Where did I say that you should buy so much stuff to celebrate my birthday!?"

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Graham Downs @grahamdowns.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 09/12/2025

If you read ebooks and you want to support indie authors, you might be interested to know that the Smashwords End of Year sale is now on: www.smashwords.com/shelves/promos?u… #books #EOYSale25

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Graham Downs @grahamdowns.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 09/12/2025

Video of "If you had my love" (song by Jennifer Lopez) #AiArt #music Generated using upsampler.com/free-video-generator-…

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Graham Downs @grahamdowns.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 08/12/2025

Video of "To the moon and back" (song by Savage Garden) #AiArt #music Generated using upsampler.com/free-video-generator-…

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