Duncan Casey
@duncancasey.bsky.social
Designer of gadgets, start-up builder, geek. Quite bad at quite a lot of things. Science, tech, festivals, rock music, and rugby in no particular order of priority.
I've just been invited to present at a business conference that starts the morning with a "Coffee Rave": "upbeat morning tunes" to boost everyone's energy levels before the day gets going. I'm terribly sorry, I think I'd rather nail my own bollocks to a burning building.
you'd think a supposedly hella Christian public official would think twice before saying, "yeah you know the way to stop this radical religious movement from spreading is to make a public spectacle of executing its most zealous adherents"
I hate to fanboy on principle, but I suspect I'd enjoy reading this man's shopping lists.
Lavie Tidhar@lavietidhar.bsky.social · 2w agoIt's October! I wroted an October story. @uncannymagazine.bsky.social
I love that they got the outline of the body to float. It's very Naked Gun.
(teenage mutant ninja turtles voice) Danny Tommo's Fascist Blackshorts
TensegrityFan🐝🍯@tensegrityfan.bsky.social · last mo.It’s Danny Tommo’s Blackshorts!!
Hahahahahahahaha it literally couldn't happen to a nicer guy. Although you wonder how many times Farage must be caught grafting before it ceases to be considered "news".
Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · last mo.Well, this is a marmalade dropper
It turns out the cynic in me was right. The easiest way to improve a national research funding settlement is to threaten to cut a new PM's favourite bits of the old one. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Andy Burnham says "We'll find a way to save Jodrell Bank"
Burnham said "there is no way that we can see its demise, and it won't happen under my Government".
bbc.co.uk
Duncan Casey@duncancasey.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe cynic in me thinks this is like the BBC threatening to cut BBC4 every time they get their budget cut - that UKRI is playing for extra budget by threatening iconic Manchester infrastructure to a shiny new Northern PM. It's what I'd do too, but I'm a bad person.
Please enjoy what is, in a crowded field, probably the most cringe-inducing tagline ever dreamt up for a #start-up cluster. I was just a *little* bit sick in my mouth.
Buckingham Palace band playing 9 to 5 for Dolly Parton
Oh, no. Not Dolly. I was lucky enough to spend one of my favourite days ever in her company, with a few like-minded friends: youtu.be/nwBNBcFAFso?...
Dolly Parton performs Jolene at Glastonbury - BBC
YouTube video by BBC
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Some ideas are so intuitively correct, you're frustrated you didn't think of them yourself.
DuckDuckGo@duckduckgo.com · 3mo agoNo camera. No AI. Just Normal Sunglasses. From DuckDuckGo x @Knockaround. (Yes, these are actually real. Get a pair here: knockaround.com/products/duc...)
I've been watching the World Cup final for near-on two hours, and the most entertaining thing that's happened in that time has been my son running around the room with his shorts on his head, pretending to be a rabbit.
Colombia v Switzerland being referred to as Charlie v The Chocolate Factory.
Alan Quinlan is the most one-eyed rugby commentator in Europe. Truly remarkable - it's almost performance art. He must have trained in France...
Awfully sporting of my wife and kids to go away for the week of the Nations Championships. #beerforlunch
Whichever of the purple dots you look at turns more purple.
Trying to work out if I've got hayfever or Myxomatosis. It's about 50:50 odds at the minute.
Jeonqmi Cartoon Character Close-up
Alt: A cartoon character from Ren & Stimpy with outsized eyes, which are slowly becoming more bloodshot.
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Can't help but feel the music Violet Grohl just released sounds *exactly* like a young Courtney Love - which is either really unfortunate, or an expertly delivered, laser-focused act of teenage rebellion. youtu.be/qP87MkFX_IE?...
Violet Grohl: Bug in the Cake | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
YouTube video by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
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My hayfever is sufficiently advanced today that I look like I've been tear-gassed.
Congratulations! My first one was 20 years ago, which makes me feel even more geriatric than usual.
Imperial College London@imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social · 5mo agoCongratulations to everyone who graduated today! You’ve just joined the network of thousands of Imperial Graduates around the world 🌍 Don’t forget to keep in touch! https://www.imperial.ac.uk/alumni/
There's a parallel timeline where the 2019 downturn turned into a normal sort of recession that tightened credit conditions, meaning all the LLM developers had to aim for breakeven by making commercially viable and legally compliant products, and around now we'd be excited about their possibilities.
I'm flying Swiss Air today, and their boarding muzak sounds a *lot* like the backing track to a 1970s porn film. So I'm told, anyway.
