Simon Bisson
@sbisson.com
👨💻 Used to write code, now writes words about code 📘 Azure AI Services At Scale🦎O'Reilly 💻 Beats: enterprise, dev, cloud 🙋♂️ Vrai Jerri, bird photos, SFF writer, reader, ally, he/him/they 🐈⬛ calico floofs 📧 [email protected] 🌍 sbisson.com
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Simon Bisson
@sbisson.com
· Jun 19
Come for the developer journalism, stay for the long running SFF review series, photographs of inner London birding, and well, the randomness of a crapaud in the big city.
All this from an ex-engineer who found one of his cancelled projects in For All Mankind.
And if you want to chat try Signal.
All this from an ex-engineer who found one of his cancelled projects in For All Mankind.
And if you want to chat try Signal.
“Dark they were, and golden-eyed.”
November 29, 2025 at 6:53 PM
“Dark they were, and golden-eyed.”
This is a rather excellent adaptation and highly recommended.
need something fun to watch? how about this: THREE MEN IN A BOAT (1975), dramatized by Tom fuckin' Stoppard and starring Tim Curry and Michael Palin
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgwk...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgwk...
"THREE MEN IN A BOAT" (1975 Jerome K. Jerome TV Adaptation-starring Tim Curry, Michael Palin)
YouTube video by Archive Media Vault
www.youtube.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:50 PM
This is a rather excellent adaptation and highly recommended.
Today's #BirdOfTheDay is the #Gannet, and so a sequence of images from a ferry passing the colony on Ortac, an islet near Alderney.
#birds #birding #alderney #ortac #gannetcolony #wildlifephotography
#birds #birding #alderney #ortac #gannetcolony #wildlifephotography
November 29, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Today's #BirdOfTheDay is the #Gannet, and so a sequence of images from a ferry passing the colony on Ortac, an islet near Alderney.
#birds #birding #alderney #ortac #gannetcolony #wildlifephotography
#birds #birding #alderney #ortac #gannetcolony #wildlifephotography
This week on #SquirrelSaturday one of our local greys delivers a resounding left hook in the battle of the garden fence.
#putney #photography #wildlifephotography
#putney #photography #wildlifephotography
November 29, 2025 at 12:46 PM
This week on #SquirrelSaturday one of our local greys delivers a resounding left hook in the battle of the garden fence.
#putney #photography #wildlifephotography
#putney #photography #wildlifephotography
Introduce yourself with five animals you've seen in the wild
Fiddler crab
Pukeko
Slow worm
Cave weta
Tarantula
Fiddler crab
Pukeko
Slow worm
Cave weta
Tarantula
Introduce yourself with five animals you've seen in the wild
Buffalo
Moose
Coyote
Grey fox
Pika
Buffalo
Moose
Coyote
Grey fox
Pika
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Moose
Coyote
River otter
Grizzly bear
Brown vulture
Moose
Coyote
River otter
Grizzly bear
Brown vulture
November 29, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Introduce yourself with five animals you've seen in the wild
Fiddler crab
Pukeko
Slow worm
Cave weta
Tarantula
Fiddler crab
Pukeko
Slow worm
Cave weta
Tarantula
Dear Skype.
How can I reactivate my credit if you have shut the service down?
No love
Me.
There is a literal ghost in the machine sending automated emails. The internet is haunted!
How can I reactivate my credit if you have shut the service down?
No love
Me.
There is a literal ghost in the machine sending automated emails. The internet is haunted!
November 28, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Dear Skype.
How can I reactivate my credit if you have shut the service down?
No love
Me.
There is a literal ghost in the machine sending automated emails. The internet is haunted!
How can I reactivate my credit if you have shut the service down?
No love
Me.
There is a literal ghost in the machine sending automated emails. The internet is haunted!
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ARTISTS! BANDS! MUSIC FANS! Can you lend FOTN your ears & expertise this weekend to help some deserving artists find a wider audience? Please drop by the Listening Post & tell us your favourite tunes at freshonthenet.co.uk/batch591 Big love & warm thanks if you’re able to help x
November 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
ARTISTS! BANDS! MUSIC FANS! Can you lend FOTN your ears & expertise this weekend to help some deserving artists find a wider audience? Please drop by the Listening Post & tell us your favourite tunes at freshonthenet.co.uk/batch591 Big love & warm thanks if you’re able to help x
Todays #BirdOfTheDay theme is #MorningLight. A pelican skims the sea at sunrise off Long Beach Island, New Jersey. Sometimes jet lag brings you good things.
#birds #birding #newjersey #photography
#birds #birding #newjersey #photography
November 28, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Todays #BirdOfTheDay theme is #MorningLight. A pelican skims the sea at sunrise off Long Beach Island, New Jersey. Sometimes jet lag brings you good things.
#birds #birding #newjersey #photography
#birds #birding #newjersey #photography
I kind of think it's OK to buy a new electric razor in a Black Friday deal if your two-decades old one no longer holds a charge and is in the WEEE bag waiting a trip to the electrical recycling bin at the end of the street...
November 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I kind of think it's OK to buy a new electric razor in a Black Friday deal if your two-decades old one no longer holds a charge and is in the WEEE bag waiting a trip to the electrical recycling bin at the end of the street...
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The Gävlebocken cam is live folks, this is not a drill
The Gävle Goat LIVE 2025 | Lofi Christmas mix
YouTube video by Gävle Goat LIVE
www.youtube.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The Gävlebocken cam is live folks, this is not a drill
Over @infoworld.bsky.social I took a deep dive into the recently announced Azure Copilot agents, and the capabilities they offer. Having a hybrid environment that mixes different types of ML with intent-based orchestration is useful; think of it as GitHub Spec Kit for devops and finops.
Agentic cloud ops with the new Azure Copilot
Azure Copilot’s six new AI agents assist with a wide range of Azure cloud management tasks, either on their own or working together.
www.infoworld.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Over @infoworld.bsky.social I took a deep dive into the recently announced Azure Copilot agents, and the capabilities they offer. Having a hybrid environment that mixes different types of ML with intent-based orchestration is useful; think of it as GitHub Spec Kit for devops and finops.
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Enjoy Walschaerts valve gear as standard or take advantage of our limited time offer on Caprotti this Black Five Day #BlackFiveDay
November 28, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Enjoy Walschaerts valve gear as standard or take advantage of our limited time offer on Caprotti this Black Five Day #BlackFiveDay
A happy #BlackFiveDay to all who celebrate the greatest all-rounder steam locomotive of all time.
#photography #putney #railways #steamlocomotives
#photography #putney #railways #steamlocomotives
November 28, 2025 at 1:03 PM
A happy #BlackFiveDay to all who celebrate the greatest all-rounder steam locomotive of all time.
#photography #putney #railways #steamlocomotives
#photography #putney #railways #steamlocomotives
Alice's Restaurant - Original 1967 Recording
YouTube video by Stiletto
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Found on Reddit with no source attribution, a seasonal NOTAM for the CVG area.
November 27, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Found on Reddit with no source attribution, a seasonal NOTAM for the CVG area.
And of course the hat.
Okay, the crowd going nuts like someone just scored a touchdown at the Super Bowl all *through* the KDH performance is a hell of a thing to see hear/see:
November 27, 2025 at 7:41 PM
And of course the hat.
If you're a UK-based writer and you've not updated your @alcs.co.uk profile with your 2024/25 publications, you have until Sunday!
(Brought to you by spending the last hour or so doing mine!)
(Brought to you by spending the last hour or so doing mine!)
November 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
If you're a UK-based writer and you've not updated your @alcs.co.uk profile with your 2024/25 publications, you have until Sunday!
(Brought to you by spending the last hour or so doing mine!)
(Brought to you by spending the last hour or so doing mine!)
"This must be Thursday, I never could get the hang of Thursdays"
a group of people are sitting at a table in a room and one of them is holding something in his hand
Alt: Two men at a bar, drinking beer. One is saying "This must be Thursday, I never could get the hang of Thursdays".
media.tenor.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:11 PM
"This must be Thursday, I never could get the hang of Thursdays"
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I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.
November 26, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.
Today's #BirdOfTheDay prompt is #HeadShots. And so the orange eye of one of London's many pigeons on my next door neighbour's roof...
#birds #birding #putney #photography
#birds #birding #putney #photography
November 27, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Today's #BirdOfTheDay prompt is #HeadShots. And so the orange eye of one of London's many pigeons on my next door neighbour's roof...
#birds #birding #putney #photography
#birds #birding #putney #photography
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One of the most beautiful bits of english eccentricity and glorious design is coming back to Sotheby’s and should be bought by a musuem (or me) for THE NATION. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Jewelled golden hare that sparked national treasure hunt set for auction
Artist and author Kit Williams hid a golden hare with clues to its precise location given in his 1979 book
www.independent.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 9:18 AM
One of the most beautiful bits of english eccentricity and glorious design is coming back to Sotheby’s and should be bought by a musuem (or me) for THE NATION. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
I am a bit concerned about the ingredients of my crisps…
November 27, 2025 at 1:27 AM
I am a bit concerned about the ingredients of my crisps…
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![Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihwhjblp5lyiwp63ouar7ocfea7evmckytoeo7rkfuoo4gw5rnrra@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Tody's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #OnTheEdge, so it's back to the north coast of Jersey and a pair of fulmar nesting in a scrape burrow on the granite cliffs of the Île Agois.
#birds #birding #jersey #channelislands #photography
#birds #birding #jersey #channelislands #photography
November 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Tody's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #OnTheEdge, so it's back to the north coast of Jersey and a pair of fulmar nesting in a scrape burrow on the granite cliffs of the Île Agois.
#birds #birding #jersey #channelislands #photography
#birds #birding #jersey #channelislands #photography