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Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It's a great question, and you are right to be curious. Let's dive right in!

Man on toilet typing on his mobile - "Hey ChatGPT, I've just done a shit, should I wipe my arse?"

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Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I made butter! It was easy! And tasty! Using cheap cream from the soon-out-of-date shelf in the shop. Win-win. Win.

Slightly glistening butter inside a glass container.

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Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I never pass up the opportunity to spread this image a little wider...

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Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'll dive into this. Hope I'm tagging correctly. My poem for #PoemsAbout #DeadLetters Ping to @thebrokenspine.co.uk

A NEW CAR

He always liked a new car
endlessly patrolling town
to ferret out the best deal

after he’d stopped driving
and then walking
and then sitting
he still talked about it

as if life were a circle that
always returned on itself
given enough time
and not a tightening knot

to grin in blazing sun
to roar on open roads
a hope for better times
or for any times at all

Paddy Kelly

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Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I live close enough to work that I can walk there through the woods. It has its moments.

Woodland path with a building in the distance obscured by glowing fog. The windows have a golden colour.

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Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Is there anything to be said for having a raffle?

Ad for becoming the opening act for Ed Sheeran. "You could open for Ed Sheeran!"

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Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

With apologies to actual hard-working clowns ...

Fake Halloween clown costume with title "AI artist" with a few putdowns about slop on the package.

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Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

When Two Thai Take Away A pad is all that you can score

A roadside Thai restaurant called Two Thai Take Away.

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Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I'm at our stuga (a Swedish summer house, very low key) and the pump at the well appears to be broken. So to survive I'm collecting rainwater. In a kettle. It feels glorious. The water tastes of roof tile and has floaty bits but still - glorious!

A galvanised kettle sitting under a rain pipe collecting water.

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Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Fixed that option for you, LinkedIn:

Ad for LinkedIn sales navigator with the last answer changed to "Shove it right up your arse".

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Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Because the one thing that comes to mind when I think of the fascist-hugging Moderaterna is that party who preserves our nature and green spaces.

Election poster from Moderaterna on a lamppost reading: "Trött på betong?
- Bevara Stockholms grönområden" / "Tired of concrete?
- Preserve Stockholm's green spaces".

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Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

By the way, the festival appears to be fully sold out, but Epidermis Circus has some dates in Finland soon, so if that's where you are, for God's sake go see it. 2/2

A doll's head attached to a hand which is acting as its body.

Many children made up as freaky Pinocchio figures being puppeted.

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Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I have reached a thousand followers. Some are bots. Some are OF girls who have never posted a single thing. Some are people trying to sell me something. But does that diminish my joy? It does not. Observe my joy. OBSERVE IT.

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Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Put some time aside right now for Forbidden Solitaire from Grey Alien Game and @nightsignalentertainment.com . It's the most compulsive and clever game I've played in years. And it only takes a few hours to complete. Great stuff. But ouch does my arse hurt from all that sitting...

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Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

You know, I'm starting to suspect that my sunflowers aren't growing exactly evenly.

3 sunflowers in a garden box, 1very long, 2 pipsqueaks.

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Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Easy for me, since there were a total of 6 - 6! - computer games released the year I was born. Here's one:

"You have died of dysentery" screen from Oregon Trail.

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Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Buy a cover for my new Kobo reader? When I could just make one from cardboard and duct tape? SCREW YOU CONSUMERISM!

A cardboard cover and a scissors and a Kobo reader.

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Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

God knows we need some joy these days, and mine comes from fixing broken things. This Panasonic RX-5030L vintage 1981 needed a new drive band (sourced from the excellent DeckTech belts www.ebay.co.uk/str/manatree...) and a cleaning and tweaking and now it purrs like a kitten. What a beaut!

An old boombox opened up, showing the interior

The tape drive mechanism of an old boombox

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Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Google tells me the wee bug I saved from the water barrel is a red-breasted carrion beetle (Oiceoptoma thoracicum) although it does add that AI can make mistakes so its answer cannot be relied upon in the slightest. Isn't AI just fab?

A large flat black beetle with an orange upper body and head.

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Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I will keep posting pictures of my massive squash until morale improves.

A very large green squash in a wicker chair.

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Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Halloween outfit for this year...?

Andrew Tate getting arrested in a purple shirt, too tight and too short trousers, and weird skinny shoes

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Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

You already know what to do, you're just negotiating with comfort ... I feel very seen ...

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Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

This is wonderful. Strong Paul Simon vibes. From @kylegordonisgreat.bsky.social linktr.ee/kylegordonis...

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Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

We have this little beauty here in Stockholm:

A strange point concrete structure / wall that looks a space-city skyline.

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Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Do not I repeat do NOT do this, thieves. Like, just don't. Kay?

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Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Some great rainbow action at our summer house. And for the record, the standard Swedish summer house is an old wooden farmhouse with maybe a shed but no plumbing and an outdoor toilet (you basically shit in a bucket). Just wanted to make that clear so you don't think I'm trying to be all fancy...

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Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

If any of them are into elephant hawk moths, I can hook you up with this local beauty.

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Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

This certainly is the summer of many butterflies.

A brown black-spotted butterfly on dry mulch.

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Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Found this gorgeous fella in my greenhouse. Deilephila elpenor apparently (elephant hawk moth / större snabelsvärmare).

A large pinkish moth sitting on a green stem.

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Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

In other news, here's my massive marrow. (Or is it a courgette? Or a zucchini? I don't know. Should I know? Because I don't.)

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Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

We keep the land at our summer house wild (mostly, if I'm honest, due to laziness) and it's a religious experience to stand by this field of wild flowers and listen to bees and wind and birdsong and silence. What human could want any more than this?

A field of white wildflowers with trees in the background.

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Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

One of the more obscure Toast of London characters.

A van with the company name "Chris Facility".

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Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

King Karl XV of Sweden as portrayed by Jude Law.

Plate with an image of an old king and queen of Sweden. The King DOES very much look like Jude Law...

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Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

With any piece of media, I am watching for the moment when I can relax, where I trust the person and where they're taking me. I call it the safe hands moment. For the new Olivia Rodrigo album it came ten seconds in. I loved it from start to finish. A gorgeous and remarkable achievement in pop music.

Album cover of "you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love"

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Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I still insist that this is the funniest I will ever be.

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Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Touching the pool? Right to jail.

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Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I will now inform you that here in Sweden the word for road is "väg" which leads to situations like this:

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Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Spotted these beauts on my way to work (my route to work passes through a nature reservation).

Many orange plate-shaped mushrooms growing on a tree

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Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Got some rainbow in my eyes.

Man with rainbow across his eyes like makeup.

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Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

I was about to reply but then figured I had to share this.

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Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Held my mobile phone up to my small telescope last night to take a pic of Jupiter. And you can just about see the Galilean moons, right? Juuuuuuuust about...

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Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Wisdom can occasionally be found on LinkedIn.

The reason so many people passionately hate AI is because it is society's way of saying "you don't matter."

*You spend 20 years carefully honing your craft, then your CEO who has never done your job says "just run everything through GPT."

*You work overtime to build entire systems while every keystroke is logged and coded so that AI can steal your entire work history and replace you.

But it's worse than that because you are also on the receiving end of extreme disrespect:

*Every time someone sends you an AI message, they are saying "I deserve your time, but you do not deserve mine."

We have always been cogs in a machine but AI is now rubbing our noses in it and explicitly telling us the system would be better off without us here at all.

And for what? We are optimizing all the joy and purpose out of life and making everything a little bit worse in exchange for almost no benefit. And then people have the gall to pile on and say "adapt or get life behind." Left behind from what?

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Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

My son, selling his old Pokemon cards for daft prices, reminded me I have this complete set of Star Wars bubble gum cards from 1977. Which I personally bought. In 1977. Don't think they're worth much, though. Still, very weird to think it's almost 50 years since I got them.

A stack of green-framed star wars collector cards.

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Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Spilled the damn rainbow on the floor again.

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Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

A lot of AI images remind me strongly of the images in Jehovah's Witness material. They had the whole AI style going before AI even was a thing. Or maybe the major LLMs were force-fed millions of issues of The Watchtower... And don't even get me started on 50+ suddenly being "senior"...

Swedish ad for computer training for "old" people with lots of grey-haired people.

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