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Malachy @malachy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 9h

I'm afraid you're all going to have to get used to my bad Swedish alt-text.

Malachy @malachy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 10h

@futurebird Learning Swedish perhaps gives me an insight I might not otherwise realise, as a native Old World English speaker (Ireland, UK, South Africa). In Swedish we have the supine tense, which modifies the second verb in this construction your showing here: Jag har gjört = I have done […]

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Malachy @malachy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 10h

Flodas fiskväg. Jag kom till Nääs Slott för en snickeri kurs på helgen.

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Malachy @malachy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 26/10/2026

The best snack I ever had. When I was 18, in 1988, I backpacked over Malawi. I sailed from Monkey Bay to Likoma on the MV Ilala, and from Likoma to Karonga on the MV Mtendere. The old Ilala was a veteran of about the same age as Forrester's fictional African Queen. That's another story. I'd […]

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Malachy @malachy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 26/10/2026

I'm learning to #salsa. It's great fun! Last week it was the #sombrero step, which my wife loves because it's such a quick and stylish turn for her. The insta below is of our teachers Danny and Johanna demonstrating it. Now I'm playing the Blue Danube (Richard Strauss), and missing the #waltz […]

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Malachy @malachy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 26/10/2026

My phone has forgotten who I am because I grew my beard longer. Yeah I know unlocking my phone that way is insecure. But with this photo you can't actually unlock my phone any more, so there's that.

Selfie of a nearly bald guy with a big brown and grey beard. Moustache long enough that his mouth is hidden. Wearing a checked shirt, and his head hides a picture hanging behind him on the wall.

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Eleanor Saitta @dymaxion.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 26/10/2026

I am tired of watching (and dealing with the fallout of) progressives/the center left/"liberals" across the west giving up on the idea of universal human rights and instead fighting to throw people to the fascists to save their own skin. It never works. Fight where you stand or die where you kneel.

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Malachy @malachy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 26/10/2026

Oh man, the next ten years could be a political renaissance, if the young people and students can sustain their progressive momentum. #Serbia, #Brazil, #Hungary, #Italy, #France. Optimism!

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Jürgen Hubert @juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/10/2026

As others have pointed out, there could be an influx of newcomers to the #Fediverse from #Brazil who are tied of #Meta 's latest shenanigans while meddling with politics. If you see them, be friendly and welcoming, and under no circumstances start with "You are using the Fediverse wrong!" I […]

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Malachy @malachy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 26/10/2026

#Brazil. Thank God. Best wishes, you guys.

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Malachy @malachy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

I am a very badly-behaved 56 year-old.

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Malachy @malachy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

I lost a kilo over the past week. Not much, maybe, but what a difference it makes to my running! This morning I felt ridiculously fast and light, and got to the end of my standard 6km wondering whether I could do it again (no I didn't, to protect my knees). I hope this makes it easier to lose […]

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Malachy @malachy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Mark Knight - Your Love. I need to get me some bigger bass speakers maybe the size of my house.

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Malachy @malachy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Slayyyter is a perfect hybrid of Avril Lavigne and Alanis Morrisette.

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Malachy @malachy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

I ... I live among the creatures of the night! I haven't got the will to try and fight Against the new tomorrow, So I guess I'll just believe it, That tomorrow never comes.

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Malachy @malachy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Svensk Ikea. Det är identisk till någon andra Ikea!

Fram av Ikea i Bäckebol, närheten Göteborg. En molnig dag.

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Malachy @malachy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Yes yes I know, it's hard to believe, but I've lived in Sweden for a year and not once been to Ikea.

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Malachy @malachy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Well now I'm looking forward this movie: Let’s finish with death. That’s where the whole film is leading. Chris has decided he wants to die on Rapa Nui. Then he changes his mind and opts for Venice instead. Assuming that a death can be scripted like a film, where in the world would be the ideal […]

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Malachy @malachy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

It's the weekend, baby! Time for methods of barbarism in Bulgaria.

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Malachy @malachy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Some of our politicians have been long celebrated, but I don't think people always remember how important and influential South African lawyers and judges have been internationally, as well as domestically. Besides Navi Pillay, real greats include Richard Goldstone, who prosecuted human rights […]

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Malachy @malachy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Obsolete. Needs updating. Urgent local election issue.

A statue at the Cape Town Waterfront that shows four Nobel Peace Prize winners in a row. They are Albert Luthuli, Desmond Tutu, FW de Klerk and, of course, Nelson Mandela. The statues are slightly larger-than-life-size, and their features have deliberately slightly exaggerated heads, making them seem like friendly caricatures. Behind the statue is a row of South African flags, the quay-side, some tourists walking, and Waterfront buildings.

The statue was installed a while ago, and missing from the line-up is Navi Pillay, who was awarded the Peace Prize in 2026.

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Malachy @malachy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Navi Pillay has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace! This South African is stunned but not surprised.

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Malachy @malachy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

@ericg Hmmm, I thought a lubrican is a container for lubricant. Though usually we order it in lubribarrels.

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Malachy @malachy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

@tregeagle Ceremonial burial of a tube of cannibal paint. Yeah they were weird.

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Malachy @malachy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Enchufla complicado. Complicated.

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Malachy @malachy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

The Pre-Raphaellite Brotherhood, among their many weird pathologies, made a speciality of painting pictures using ground-up Egyptian mummies.

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Malachy @malachy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Off to salsa class! The Swedes are hotfoot dancers, another aspect hidden behind the cool facade.

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Malachy @malachy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

@i0null This is all Luddites always. The originals in the 19th Century were weavers, and they knew their tools and skills as well or better than the steam-bros who owned the mills.

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Malachy @malachy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

These days a password manager also makes a very workable URL bookmarks store.

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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Malachy @malachy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

I don't speak much French (yet). But my Dad's most recent teacher is a West African guy. He tells me that he is rigorously taught Parisian standard French. But I'd like to imagine my Dad surprising the Occitans with a colloquial Abidjan accent.

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Malachy @malachy.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

My Dad is now 80, and to celebrate he has gone to the south of France for a month to perfect his French. For him, age appears to be an accelerant.

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