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Hugh Macabre @hughmacabre.bsky.social · 17h

Maybe I just order the wrong thing.

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Hugh Macabre @hughmacabre.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

George’s St or the one on the quays? I never took to the former but thought the latter was vg the one time I went.

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Hugh Macabre @hughmacabre.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Sounds like Roddy Ho from Slow Horses speaking (the biggest idiot in current fiction).

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uɐʅ∀ (𝙻𝚒𝚔𝚎𝚕𝚢 𝚂𝚌𝚊𝚖) @alanbutler.info · 07/10/2026

Replace most of the adobe suite with these open-source apps: getartcraft.com/apps Alternatives to: Photoshop Illustrator inDesign Premiere Pro After Effects Lightroom Acrobat Dual-licensed under MIT or Apache-2.0 code on github: github.com/storytold OH BOY. This is going to be interesting!

getartcraft.com

Crafting Apps: open-source creative tools

Image editing, vector illustration, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics and page layout: seven native, open-source apps from the ArtCraft team, built in Rust and free to use.

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Hugh Macabre @hughmacabre.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

He did indeed find it repugnant and repeatedly said so. Weizenbaum’s book of AI and computational critique from the mid-70s still stands up.

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Hugh Macabre @hughmacabre.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What about the postboxes? Aren’t they red? Do they still have them?

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Hugh Macabre @hughmacabre.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I’m not sure really. I think it might be something that has now run its course. Still enjoyable but …

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Hugh Macabre @hughmacabre.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The new series of Slow Horses has been filmed in a world where the colour red has been ruthlessly expunged. Visual McCarthyism if you will.

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Hugh Macabre @hughmacabre.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think it’s the plot of the next series of Slow Horses.

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Hugh Macabre @hughmacabre.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

But unless they are extremely wealthy they must also be looking at their children and realising that they won’t be able to live here.

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Hugh Macabre @hughmacabre.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

- We have to realistic about things - Not playing wouldn’t have altered Israel’s behaviour - Throwing your toys out of the pram doesn’t solve anything - What about … what about … what about

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Hugh Macabre @hughmacabre.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Unfortunately looks like they are going ahead. Massive respect to Bazunu for sticking his neck out on this though.

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Hugh Macabre @hughmacabre.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Me too! Very out of date now I would think.

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Hugh Macabre @hughmacabre.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I know. I was trying to imagine what the “true horrors” might be, over and above the horrors we know about already.

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Hugh Macabre @hughmacabre.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This shit is so infuriating. And meanwhile people are giving out about speed cameras.

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Hugh Macabre @hughmacabre.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Highlights of my cycle today. Car exiting hospital on the wrong side of the road to avoid waiting for the barrier. Car pausing at a red light to make sure nothing was coming before speeding through. Car mounting the pavement at speed to make a green light, failing, and just ploughing through anyway.

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Hugh Macabre @hughmacabre.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

For the day that’s in it. Perhaps not regarded as up there with his best work but the opening track, and particularly McCoy Tyner’s contribution to it, really is Out Of This World.

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Hugh Macabre @hughmacabre.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Guernica? Very jangly. Bit before early 90s though I think.

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Hugh Macabre @hughmacabre.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Spreadsheets are actually conscious. You can’t prove me wrong so therefore I am right.

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Hugh Macabre @hughmacabre.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Apologies if that sounded like it was directed at you! Not my intention but just realised my clumsy wording might have made it seem like that.

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Dermot Casey @dermotcasey.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The €1bn spent on fossil fuel sinces April would have put 8kw battery & solar on 100,000 homes buying them energy freedom for 20+ years. The €1bn+ that will be spent over the next few months would bring that to 250,000 homes. What we lack is will and vision

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Hugh Macabre @hughmacabre.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Maybe I’m completely at odds with what most people want to use social media for but it baffles me why anyone would want to follow/engage with one of these main character types with 40K followers or whatever. Would you not be better off cultivating an interesting friend in real life?

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Hugh Macabre @hughmacabre.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Would it be safe to assume he has no actual expertise on those topics about which he is expounding at length and that his primary skill set is oriented towards arguing with people on the Internet?

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Hugh Macabre @hughmacabre.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Who is this guy and why are people talking about him all the time?

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uɐʅ∀ (𝙻𝚒𝚔𝚎𝚕𝚢 𝚂𝚌𝚊𝚖) @alanbutler.info · 20/09/2026

Andrex toilet paper no longer uses normal maps.

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Hugh Macabre @hughmacabre.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Heard this in a bar last night and now it’s top of the list of records I must own. Peak soukous. m.youtube.com/watch?v=9RKj...

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Zitany Neil - Marcory Gasoil (audio)

YouTube video by Syllart Records

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Hugh Macabre @hughmacabre.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I did a back of the envelope calculation yesterday and figured it would cost 10 billion to kit out the entire country with solar panels. Payback on many levels would be colossal. Well, there was no envelope. Just in my head.

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Hugh Macabre @hughmacabre.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I think it’s under Export on the File menu iirc

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Hugh Macabre @hughmacabre.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Another vote for LibreOffice here. Never really have to use anything else and works with docs produced by those still using MS.

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Hugh Macabre @hughmacabre.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Just got an email from @foggynotions.bsky.social saying doors at 7pm. Wondering what the stage time for Ryan Davis is? I got something else to do first this evening …

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Hugh Macabre @hughmacabre.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

So true. I got one a year ago and hardly use the car at all anymore.

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Hugh Macabre @hughmacabre.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The 1916 walking tour run by Lorcan Collins (starts at International Bar) is also terrific.

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Hugh Macabre @hughmacabre.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The Guinness place is the biggest tourist trap of all. Skip it and do the tour of Kilmainham jail instead.

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Hugh Macabre @hughmacabre.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I don’t need the “I am on vacation” part.

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Hugh Macabre @hughmacabre.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

That mumbled vocal delivery was a big part of the mysterious aura that made the first two records in particular so compelling.

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Hugh Macabre @hughmacabre.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Reminder appreciated. Had completely forgotten.

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Hugh Macabre @hughmacabre.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

For me the first five albums on IRS are untouchable. Green and Out Of Time are patchy. Automatic is brilliant but not quite my bag. New Adventures is great once you are past the first couple of songs. After that .. nah

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Hugh Macabre @hughmacabre.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Though I do like some of the later records and the whole catalogue is sprinkled with brilliant songs.

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Hugh Macabre @hughmacabre.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I always remember the last line of Melody Maker’s review of LRP: “If they bowed out now we would remember them with nothing but awe”.

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Hugh Macabre @hughmacabre.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Really enjoyed the Shannon/Narducy REM love-in at Vicar Street tonight but it did really show up how poor their later music was in comparison to how sublime much of the earlier stuff was. That last song was just bad pub rock.

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Hugh Macabre @hughmacabre.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Finally got around to reading this. Has anyone ever written so eloquently about this kind of life from direct lived experience? The final payoff (redemption?) still has me reeling.

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Hugh Macabre @hughmacabre.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Blocked for asking this. It’s unfortunate because I really do want to understand these refund rules.

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Hugh Macabre @hughmacabre.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

What if I go to a concert expecting political firebranding and the artist chooses to do a set of heartfelt love songs. Do I get a refund then too?

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Hugh Macabre @hughmacabre.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

She thinks you should be able to get a refund if a concert gets “political”? How bizarre. Is this in the T&Cs of the ticket purchase?

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Hugh Macabre @hughmacabre.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

How early do I need to be getting up to qualify for this support? Will there be some sort of cut-off time?

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Hugh Macabre @hughmacabre.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Looks good and I hope I can find time to watch. Worth noting that the researcher works for METR which engages in consultancy with OpenAI to evaluate threats. Not entirely an unbiased position and obviously such orgs can play a role in pushing a particular narrative under the guise of independence.

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Hugh Macabre @hughmacabre.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Bruce Springsteen’s I’m On Fire at 45. Sounds just like Dolly Parton.

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