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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#booksky Last week's sabbatical (and festival) readings were taken from... 🙈

ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm thinking of a work/life balance. Currently assessing the risk of only being aware of my wife for one month a year... 🙈

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My most important foray into AI to date... 🙈

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Happy memories of getting packets of these from me Gran on walks to South Gosforth Station... When she really pushed the boat out, sweet cigarettes were a thing too... All very @groomb.bsky.social ... when life was lived in colour and remembered in monochrome...

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Distributed components to optimise the packing density of the real-time envelope... 🙈

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'll consider adding it as an opening slide for each lecture... ...summoning undead demons and rousing students at the start of term...same difference... 🙈

Students recreate the atmosphere of a Zoom lecture by covering their faces with black rectangles of card...in a lecture theatre...

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#booksky Last week's sabbatical (and festival) readings were taken from... 🙈

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There's another future we've lost. We were promised a world of Westminster typface...but have been stuck with Courier New...and shouted down if truth requires more than 80 characters. @richardlittler.bsky.social

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

TBH...I have a quandary of solace... 🙈

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Some of these starring in the record of last week's sabbatical readings were in that pile... 🙈

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Playing snap! Would have scored more if there wasn't a pile of books on my bedside table... 🙈

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

'Now I remember! Pope Leo the Rutan!' 🙈

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I bet they had two pieces wood and 3 nails left over after the assembly... 🙈 ...and expected it to be wardrobe... @nataliehaynes.bsky.social

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

#booksky Last week's sabbatical readings were taken from... 🙈

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Ah! FUD. I thought you said something else... 🙈

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

😍 I haven't dressed like that in while... 🙈 (Even then, the detail worried me...the cap microphone was attach at both sides...* 😳) *It also snapped back on a finger-trapping spring so you had to hold it down... 🩹

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

#booksky The last sabbatical readings of the year were taken from... 🙈

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

You missed out the bit about my mother-in-law... 🙈 Meanwhile...has your historical analysis stretched to the Bayeux Tapestry (embroidery) stuff in today's news. We declare it a symbol of inter-nation friendship. I assume the French sit at home commemorating how they knocked 9 bells out of us...🙊

Scene Title: The Breach of the Digital Keep
In the embroidered panorama, the scene stretches across a long linen scroll, bordered with vines of binary code and Latin inscriptions interwoven with emojis and firewall icons.
Left Panel: The Calm Before the StormA diverse group of modern-day workers—clad in tunics over jeans, hijabs paired with chainmail, and hoodies beneath tabards—sit at desks shaped like wooden battlements. They wield laptops, tablets, and smartphones, their screens glowing with runes of code. A wise elder (perhaps a CISO) points to a tapestry-map of the network, warning of “malware spectres” from the East.
Center Panel: The Attack UnfoldsSuddenly, a monstrous figure looms—a digital dragon stitched from corrupted pixels and phishing hooks. It breathes fire made of red error messages and ransomware demands. Diverse defenders scatter: one knightly coder raises a shield emblazoned with a padlock, another hurls a spear labeled “Patch Update.” A bard-like analyst plays a lute that emits firewall alerts.
In the background, routers shaped like medieval towers blink furiously. A scribe frantically scrolls through logs on a parchment-scroll tablet. A rogue figure in a hoodie (the attacker) rides a Trojan horse made of USB sticks, breaching the gates of the data citadel.
Right Panel: The Response and RecoveryA team of incident responders—depicted as armored paladins and wise druids—gather in a war room. One casts a “Restore from Backup” spell, while another banishes the malware with a “Threat Intelligence Scroll.” Diverse figures cheer as the dragon is driven back into the cloud, which now rains patches and security updates.
Above them, a banner reads in faux-Latin: 'SECURITAS VICTORIA EST PER VIGILANTIAM ET PATCHUM.' ('Security victory is through vigilance and patching.')

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Start making notes for @dannyrobins.bsky.social It's only a matter of time... 🙈😲👻😁

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Ha! I remember joining The National Computing Centre (1989) and having to share a Wyse terminal. Going to the loo was a deal breaker: you'd return to find the screen swivelled round and a colleague using it. Meanwhile, down in dev., Neil acquired a triple set becoming known as 'The 3 Wyse Man'...🙈

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It is either very sad, embarrassing, or an absolute triumph that I recognised the opening episode of Robot by the Robot's-eye view showing as I switched on... 🙈

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

August goes down for the count, As the careless typsetter of the next season, Takes the lead. Rains reign... 🙈

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Hadaway wi ya lad...yer canna tak that name in vain... 🙈

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

And a core theme to Planet of the Spiders involved bring down the queen... 🕷🙈

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

In those days, where merch was few and far between, we had to fill our time (and space) with scissors and that funny slightly smelly* gum that came in a plastic, triangular bottle... 🙈 *with a hint of ammonia

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Last week's sabbatical readings were taken from... 🙈 #booksky

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Me Da's inspiration was to sellotape threads hanging down from the door lintels...invisible in the dimmed light for those walking through them... 😬

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Well now... 🙈 ...it's a regular, *ing hokey cokey... 😬

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Of course, there was this too... 🫣🙈

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Which was the thought behind this photo at Alnwick Gardens last week... 😍

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I'd be the police officer...in the Morecambe and Wise version... Eheu! 😜

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I might just recently have made an oblique reference to what this has got us thinking about... 🙈 www.meetup.com/manchester-s...

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

@bigfinish.bsky.social: The 'truth' about number stations in #Torchwood's The Lincolnshire Poacher is sheer screaming genius. (No spoilers.) l'll be telling students at manchesterstudentsunion.com/activities/v.... (They're too polite to roll their eyes when I make everything a #DrWho analogy...)

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

There is precedence... 🙈😉 'The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter, It isn’t just one of your holiday games; You may think at first I’m as mad as a hatter When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES.' T. S. Eliot... poets.org/poem/naming-...

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Who can trust these things? 🙈

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Name your fave Disney princess. (Wrong answers only.) 🙈

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

#booksky Last week's sabbatical readings were taken from... 🙈

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

And happy memories of walking into The National Computing Centre one morning to find the place emblazoned with our new marketing campaign with a lighthouse theme to promote our guidance portfolio. Was I wrong to point out that the thing about lighthouses is that they're designed to be avoided...? 🙈