So, on a lighter note, there might’ve been karaoke at the local pub yesterday and I might’ve have sung a few songs… including (for the first time ever) a song in Turkish (Şımarık by Tarkan) and one of my favourite songs from one of my favorite musicals: Pity the Child from Chess.
Sound quality: typical pub karaoke quality :)
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Why exert effort when you can just tell fully automated lies that sound good?
(The lies don't sound good, it's the typical extremely mid LLM sentence construction.)
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
The Slits:
🎵 Typical Girls
#TheSlits
https://ahmicldnt.bandcamp.com/track/the-slits-typical-girls-ahmi-cldnt-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/395kSI564E2Rl1Nh5kGOxQ
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On another unspecified social media, I joined a photography challenge called '52 flickers'. I'm supposed to take and post one photograph per week for the entirety of 2026. No archives, no backups, no spares, no descriptions - just a photo of any topic taken on a given week.
I typically shun this kind of challenges for millions of reasons, but since I take photos almost everyday, I decided to give it a shot. But to make it more interesting for myself, I decided not to use the most frequent categories of photos, i.e. reportage or stock.
Adding a thread here for backup purposes. Always tagging as [#]52flickers2026.
Here goes 👇
#photography #52flickers2026
Series A, Episode 02 - Space Fall
TEAGUE: [V.O.] No response... circuit three...
[Teague is still trying to operate the device. The hatch starts to slide open]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/102/523 B7B6
Series D, Episode 03 - Traitor
AVON: Ah well. Tarrant is brave; young; handsome. [Chuckles] There are three good reasons for anyone not to like him.
SOOLIN: He has a point all the same.
AVON: About Tarrant?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/403/109 B7B2
Series C, Episode 10 - Ultraworld
ORAC: Encore.
[INTERIOR. Ultraworld sleep cell. Avon and Cally are being restored.]
DAYNA: It's so slow. Can't we speed it up?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/310/614 B7B3
Series B, Episode 08 - Hostage
MOLOK: Wait. Over there. Quick.
MOLOK: You are Cally.
CALLY: Yes.
JENNA: What's happened to our friends?
MOLOK: They're dead.
JENNA: What?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/208/577 B7B4