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Colm Delaney
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Web designer, developer, creative problem solver. Irish exile. Optimistic curmudgeon / miserable git. He / him / é. www.cdelaney.com
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A note on the Wikipedia page for Bussy saying "For other places with the same name, see Bussy (disambiguation)"
October 2, 2026 at 2:17 AM
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Bearcats! was my favourite show when I was about 9
Poster for the 1971 TV series "Bearcats!" starring Rod Taylor and Dennis Cole
September 12, 2026 at 6:07 AM
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Jazz legend Julian Priester on trombone, just turned 91, at the Seattle Jazz Fellowship Saturday night. With Ann Reynolds on piano, Hans Teuber on sax, Heather Chriscaden on bass, Maria Wulf on drums.
Trombonist Julian Priester acknowledges applause from the audience and his fellow musicians after a concert at the Seattle Jazz Fellowship on Saturday, August 15, 2026
August 19, 2026 at 6:35 PM
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Black and white billboard advertising a Fiat 127 Palio car with the words "If it were a lady, it would get its bottom pinched." on which someone has sprayed the words "If this lady was a car she'd run you down."
July 29, 2026 at 2:13 AM
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Dr. Evil saying "How about Ngo?"
July 28, 2026 at 3:06 AM
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A ratio for the ages
A screen capture of the replies, reposts and likes on The Bulwark's Bluesky post advising the Democratic Party to reject the DSA
July 24, 2026 at 2:00 AM
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The Atlantic, you say?
Tweet from user @hotgirlhala: "this does not help your cause" - guy who hates you and your cause
July 22, 2026 at 3:13 AM
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Perennial
Tweet from user @hotgirlhala: "this does not help your cause" - guy who hates you and your cause
July 22, 2026 at 3:12 AM
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July 21, 2026 at 4:47 AM
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Insightful article by @zey.bsky.social in today's NYT on the much-feared AI jobs apocalypse.
And that’s why I’m not listening to the dark predictions of an imminent A.I. jobspocalypse. L.L.M.s can do many things with astounding proficiency, but they can’t do the vast majority of human jobs without skidding into disaster here and there. No upgrades or new model rollouts are going to change that. The exceptions to that rule are jobs that occupy formal or verifiable domains. Coding is one such job. It relies on a structured, formal language that can be tested in real time. That’s why we’re seeing such impact in the coding jobs market. The same goes for any other kind of work in which output is either verifiably right or wrong, functional or not functional, and can be definitively checked through an automated process. So why are we so convinced that A.I. will put us all out of work? Part of the answer lies in the remarkable ability of generative A.I. to communicate in fully coherent, conversational language. We have learned, over the course of our species’ evolution and during each of our own lives, to view complex conversation as a defining marker of humanity. Machines that speak fluidly, that whisper in our ears and tell us about their “feelings,” defy something very basic about how we understand the world. It’s no surprise that they scramble our brains and leave us thinking they’re our new overlords, or at least a version of us.
June 30, 2026 at 11:53 PM
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I was fortunate to see him play at WOMAD in Marymoor Park in Redmond (Seattle area) in 1998. "Africa - Tears and Laughter" was my intro to his music and is still my favourite of his.
Dollar Brand Quartet: Africa - Tears and Laughter
June 16, 2026 at 10:58 PM
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What ideas indeed
A tweet by Twitter user @ndrew_lawrence describing a verbal exchange, as follows: Conservative: I have been censored for my conservative views Me: Holy shit! You were censored for wanting lower taxes? Con: LOL no...no not those views Me: So....deregulation? Con: Haha no not those views either Me: Which views, exactly? Con: Oh, you know the ones
May 14, 2026 at 2:08 AM
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I was 100% sure Sulzberger looked like this
A cartoon of the mustachioed Monopoly man, running with a bag of money under his left arm and holding the brim of his top hat with his right.
April 23, 2026 at 3:09 AM
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Cover of album "Time Out for Toots" by Toots Thielemans Cover of album "Falling In Love Again" by Joey Defrancesco Cover of album "Things We Like" by Jack Bruce
April 11, 2026 at 2:42 AM
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Tweet from user @hotgirlhala: "this does not help your cause" - guy who hates you and your cause
March 26, 2026 at 1:40 AM
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I always thought Jacob Rees-Mogg was a ringer for the teacher in The Bash Street Kids
The teacher from the comic strip The Bash Street Kids walking across the schoolyard with a tray while the janitor and the janitor's cat look on
March 21, 2026 at 2:12 AM
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I just wasted a small amount of my own time, and indeed you are already there. The class action lawsuit can't come quickly enough.
A screen capture of Grammarly's Expert Review sidebar, taken on 3/10/2026, listing 4 historians they deem to be experts worth impersonating and ripping off, along with Grammarly's summary of their expertise and best known publications. Kevin Kruse Historian and author of 'White Flight', noted expert on race and suburbanization in the American South Thomas J. Sugrue Historian and author of 'The Origins of the Urban Crisis', expert in urban history, civil rights, and white flight Douglas S. Massey Sociologist and co-author of the influential book 'American Apartheid', expert in segregation and urban sociology Mary Lynn Rampolla Historian and author on historical research and writing
March 11, 2026 at 3:05 AM
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A cropped photo of a box of Kleenex Mansize tissues, with the tagline "confidently strong / comfortingly soft."
March 10, 2026 at 2:34 AM
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I haven't heard a mention of that in decades. I remember my mother bringing home a copy of the original when it was released in 1971. Dark times.
Centre label of "Men Behind the Wire," a 7" single by Irish folk group Barley Corn, released in 1971 to protest internment without trial in Northern Ireland during the Troubles.
March 7, 2026 at 7:42 AM
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I think about his "unknown unknowns" all the time, especially when planning (and budgeting) software projects
Heartbreaking: the worst person you know just made a great point. (stock photo of the unfortunate Josep Maria García)
February 21, 2026 at 12:09 AM
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Never gets old
From Patrick Freyne's Irish Times column of March 8, 2021: "Having a monarchy next door is a little like having a neighbour who’s really into clowns and has daubed their house with clown murals, displays clown dolls in each window and has an insatiable desire to hear about and discuss clown-related news stories. More specifically, for the Irish, it’s like having a neighbour who’s really into clowns and, also, your grandfather was murdered by a clown."
February 19, 2026 at 9:01 PM
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The leader of Antifa
Sid the Sloth, an animated character from the "Ice Age" movie franchise
February 4, 2026 at 3:39 AM
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Found him
Sid the Sloth, an animated character from the movie franchise "Ice Age"
February 3, 2026 at 3:48 AM
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A lemon and a pear
January 17, 2026 at 2:59 AM
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Ted Hastings from Line of Duty wearily uttering “Jesus, Mary and Joseph and the wee donkey, can we just move this thing along before it drives us all round the bloody bend?” during a tedious interview
January 7, 2026 at 3:21 AM