Pete Birkinshaw
@binaryape.bsky.social
Hat-wearing devourer of chickpeas, Manchester vegan, manager of identities, developer of obscure software, Green inactivist, Elixir & Ruby coder, watcher of K-dramas, daft-apeth.
Alignment: Quixotic-Good
https://binary-ape.org
Alignment: Quixotic-Good
https://binary-ape.org
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Pete Birkinshaw
@binaryape.bsky.social
· Jul 30
I'm going to list Korean romcoms I've watched so far [copied from my old thread elsewhere]
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"Say ... Do you know where I get the 192 bus to Stockport?"
Cary Grant's birthday.
Here he is in Manchester. St Peter's Square. Chatting to a lady.
Here he is in Manchester. St Peter's Square. Chatting to a lady.
January 18, 2026 at 5:34 PM
"Say ... Do you know where I get the 192 bus to Stockport?"
I've just stumbled across this photo of a Korean lighthouse that's shaped like a pony so I'm showing it to other people straight away
January 18, 2026 at 4:15 PM
I've just stumbled across this photo of a Korean lighthouse that's shaped like a pony so I'm showing it to other people straight away
OK I was wrong, there can be too many chips
Chip wreck! Thousands of chips wash ashore near Eastbourne
The chips washed up in Sussex after shipping containers containing
www.bbc.co.uk
January 18, 2026 at 2:55 PM
OK I was wrong, there can be too many chips
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Word has spread on the long tailed tit grapevine that I run a very good bird café. This family group (likely brothers & sisters from a 2025 brood) came to dine. I’m passing on these 5 adorable tiny birbs (colloquial name: flying teaspoons) to you bc we all need a bit of joy rn🪶:
January 18, 2026 at 10:47 AM
Word has spread on the long tailed tit grapevine that I run a very good bird café. This family group (likely brothers & sisters from a 2025 brood) came to dine. I’m passing on these 5 adorable tiny birbs (colloquial name: flying teaspoons) to you bc we all need a bit of joy rn🪶:
Sick of business email perverts wanting to touch my base. Some even "circling back" in an attempt to do it. Blocking them all.
January 18, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Sick of business email perverts wanting to touch my base. Some even "circling back" in an attempt to do it. Blocking them all.
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Here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.
January 18, 2026 at 9:47 AM
Here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.
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Weekend timeline cleanse!
A #Greek rhyton in the shape of a #dog's head. 🐕🐶
Vessels such as this were used in drinking parties. Since they didn't have a base, their contents had to be consumed before the vessel could be put down
Dating ca. 475 BC.
📷 Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia 🏺
A #Greek rhyton in the shape of a #dog's head. 🐕🐶
Vessels such as this were used in drinking parties. Since they didn't have a base, their contents had to be consumed before the vessel could be put down
Dating ca. 475 BC.
📷 Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia 🏺
January 17, 2026 at 8:16 AM
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Cleminson Street, Salford. Salford pioneered play streets, traffic-free from 8am till sunset (borrowed from New York) in the 1930s. Legislation followed: there were 700 in England and Wales in the 1950s, all but forgotten by the 1980s.
January 18, 2026 at 8:54 AM
Cleminson Street, Salford. Salford pioneered play streets, traffic-free from 8am till sunset (borrowed from New York) in the 1930s. Legislation followed: there were 700 in England and Wales in the 1950s, all but forgotten by the 1980s.
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If you are in Seattle, please go patronize this store because this is amazing content/promo 😂 (laughing to keep from crying, and I do kind of low-key want that orange spider plant I have never seen that before)
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DTQrTqZ...
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DTQrTqZ...
January 17, 2026 at 1:33 AM
If you are in Seattle, please go patronize this store because this is amazing content/promo 😂 (laughing to keep from crying, and I do kind of low-key want that orange spider plant I have never seen that before)
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DTQrTqZ...
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DTQrTqZ...
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hey train perverts wanna see the shinkansen cloaca
January 17, 2026 at 6:13 PM
hey train perverts wanna see the shinkansen cloaca
An excuse to show Eartha Kitt eating tripe and singing the Yorkshire national anthem back in ancient times (1970 but also Batley)
January 17, 2026 at 8:00 PM
An excuse to show Eartha Kitt eating tripe and singing the Yorkshire national anthem back in ancient times (1970 but also Batley)
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A thorough review confirms that taking paracetamol during pregnancy does not increase the chances that the child will be autistic: www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Paracetamol is featured in this infographic guide to different painkillers and how they work: www.compoundchem.com/2014/09/25/p...
Paracetamol is featured in this infographic guide to different painkillers and how they work: www.compoundchem.com/2014/09/25/p...
January 17, 2026 at 5:29 PM
A thorough review confirms that taking paracetamol during pregnancy does not increase the chances that the child will be autistic: www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Paracetamol is featured in this infographic guide to different painkillers and how they work: www.compoundchem.com/2014/09/25/p...
Paracetamol is featured in this infographic guide to different painkillers and how they work: www.compoundchem.com/2014/09/25/p...
This is good. "The Hymmapan Electron (Isan Cyber), a talented duo that is redefining Thai traditional instruments with modern electronic sounds." cc @acidgrandads.bsky.social
Thai Psychedelic Techno like you've never heard before | The Hymmapan Electron
YouTube video by Tuktuk Radio
www.youtube.com
January 17, 2026 at 6:47 PM
This is good. "The Hymmapan Electron (Isan Cyber), a talented duo that is redefining Thai traditional instruments with modern electronic sounds." cc @acidgrandads.bsky.social
A national boycott campaign focused on "Eat More Greggs" might work
January 17, 2026 at 6:29 PM
A national boycott campaign focused on "Eat More Greggs" might work
Remove the gangrenous limb
January 17, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Remove the gangrenous limb
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so many of these "here's how our new AI feature would be useful" scenarios sound like they're targeted at, say, an alien who has taken possession of a human body and is desperately trying to pass without anybody noticing
think this really gets to the bottom of it - obviously the idea of using AI to, eg, count the number of people at a table is inherently silly, but there is something genuinely disturbing about trusting a robot to....what? tell you how hungry you are that day? it's so *weird*
I'm genuinely trying to get my head around this because, like, you don't actually ever need to know how many people are ordering? If ten people want to share three pizzas, you order three pizzas. If they want one each, you order ten. It's no one's business how many people are in the room.
January 17, 2026 at 10:59 AM
so many of these "here's how our new AI feature would be useful" scenarios sound like they're targeted at, say, an alien who has taken possession of a human body and is desperately trying to pass without anybody noticing
Slop-ouroboros
'There is a phenomenon in artificial intelligence and deep learning called model collapse. Model collapse is the slow erosion of a generative AI system grounded in reality as it learns more and more from machine-generated data rather than from human-generated content.' 1/3
From model collapse to citation collapse: risks of over-reliance on AI in the academy
The way GenAI surfaces sources for literature reviews risks exacerbating the citation Matthew effect, writes David Joyner. Here, he offers ways to prevent AI-driven search from blunting the impact of ...
www.timeshighereducation.com
January 17, 2026 at 12:12 PM
Slop-ouroboros
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This is why I like living in London. People from all over the world have made their homes here, built lives & families here, and they’ve made our shared city & the communities that exist here much better, more interesting places
I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"
January 17, 2026 at 9:54 AM
This is why I like living in London. People from all over the world have made their homes here, built lives & families here, and they’ve made our shared city & the communities that exist here much better, more interesting places
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I felt like making some art last night/today and could have made something beautiful and/or meaningful but I made this instead.
It's a Barbie Yaga Malibu Dream Hut.
No regrets. Can't defeat fascism without joy.
It's a Barbie Yaga Malibu Dream Hut.
No regrets. Can't defeat fascism without joy.
January 9, 2026 at 4:20 AM
I felt like making some art last night/today and could have made something beautiful and/or meaningful but I made this instead.
It's a Barbie Yaga Malibu Dream Hut.
No regrets. Can't defeat fascism without joy.
It's a Barbie Yaga Malibu Dream Hut.
No regrets. Can't defeat fascism without joy.
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Regional names for alleyways…
January 17, 2026 at 9:51 AM
Regional names for alleyways…
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At the Tobu Museum there’s this new very popular interactive corner where 4 black rotary dial telephones are arranged in a square and each phone can call the other with a single digit number and that’s it that’s the exhibit 👵🏼👵🏼👵🏼
January 17, 2026 at 6:21 AM
At the Tobu Museum there’s this new very popular interactive corner where 4 black rotary dial telephones are arranged in a square and each phone can call the other with a single digit number and that’s it that’s the exhibit 👵🏼👵🏼👵🏼
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Wes Streeting always talks a lot of shit but I'm particularly offended by him giving Tony Blair credit for The Good Friday Agreement, when Mo Mowlam did the work and effectively gave her life to achieve it.
January 17, 2026 at 9:26 AM
Wes Streeting always talks a lot of shit but I'm particularly offended by him giving Tony Blair credit for The Good Friday Agreement, when Mo Mowlam did the work and effectively gave her life to achieve it.