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Paddy K

@spongepaddy.bsky.social

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Irishman morphing into a Swede. Tech writer, fiction writer, poet. Builder of computer games since - oh God - the 1980s. Maker of soap, grower of vegetables. Author page: https://paddyk.wordpress.com/author

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Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · May 28

In my teens - I will be famous!
In my 20s - I will be rich!
In my 30s - I will be happy.
In my 40s - I will get a good night's sleep.
In my 50s - I will grow a carrot.

Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 1h

When they start to offer porn you know the "generative" AI industry is fucked. And good fucking riddance.

Simon Ferrigno @brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social · 2h

Because what the world, and the onwards march of human civilisation, needs is a climate wrecking porn delivery mechanism www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

ChatGPT will soon allow erotica for verified adults, OpenAI boss says

CEO Sam Altman says upcoming versions of the popular chatbot would enable it to behave in a more human-like way -

Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 13h

It's fucking vile.

Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 21h

I was looking forward to seeing a wedding in BG where they threw lots of triangular confetti. But alas.

Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 23h

"Just a temporary fix." (I'm a tech writer but it applies in many fields...)

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 5d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 1d

I switched to Deezer. It's great. Could import my playlists and everything.

Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 1d

Switching POV character in chapter 2 does not make me twice as interested, but half as interested.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 1d

Bread with added beetroot = pink bread. Win.

Bread on a tray, pink coloured

Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 1d

That shower cubby did have a strange (and mouldy) charm...

Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 1d

Also - someone once pissed out the window of that room. Making it, almost, also a toilet.

Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 1d

Can you pick up Radio Luxembourg...?

Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 1d

The Swedish press: "This huge ecological disaster is about to happen due to our sad and puzzling inability to change our ways. Now here's the latest sun holiday special offers!"

Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks! I will attempt to arrange a release shindig at the English Bookshop when it's time.

Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 3d

Writing update! A novella of mine has been accepted by a fantastically odd Stockholm publisher. Li'l Factory publish books in a single run of 500 numbered copies (500 and no more) and they are so very very pretty. My book "Spellcheckers" will be coming next year. More info to come. lilfac.com/books

Three hardcover books with weird covers

Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 3d

I took down last year’s
Christmas curtains
And put up the
Halloween ones

Sure, it's October
And I could have just
Let them hang

But this way
In two months time
I can make it suddenly
Feel like Christmas

Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 3d

That doormat ... I must have! Currently I have one that says "Oh shit not you again" but maybe it's time to get a bit more positive...

Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 3d

I realised the maker of this music @capgrasman.bsky.social is actually on Bluesky. So I'll repost it. Buy buy buy!

Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 4d

For lovers of atmospheric dark ambient I recommended this EP I just bought on Bandcamp. Great stuff!
siavashamini.bandcamp.com/album/severe...

Severed Like The Red Moon, by Siavash Amini

siavashamini.bandcamp.com

Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 4d

For lovers of atmospheric dark ambient I recommended this EP I just bought on Bandcamp. Great stuff!
siavashamini.bandcamp.com/album/severe...

Severed Like The Red Moon, by Siavash Amini

siavashamini.bandcamp.com

Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 5d

It certainly is eye-catching though.

Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 5d

Regarding EU sausagegate, I suggest we solve it using an 80s-metal-band trick and just add random umlauts. Anyone for a veggie bürger or a saüsage? Or, in Swedish, a körv...?

Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 6d

And now I guess Israel will just put Gaza back how they found it and bring all those dead kids back to life and we'll be grand.

Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 6d

I mean your ad worked for me. I wishlisted you. More knowledge than that I sadly do not possess.

Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 6d

For some reason the article link was not shared:
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘Veggie burgers’ could be off EU menu as MEPs back renaming plant-based foods

Proponents say move would strengthen position of farmers in supply chain but critics dismiss it as ‘hotdog populism’

www.theguardian.com

Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 6d

Or that hamburgers neither come from hamburg nor contain ham.

Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 6d

Wait till the EU finds out that fish don't ACTUALLY have fingers ...
I can't deal with the Age of Stupid anymore.
I just can't.

Elaine McGoff @elainemcgoff.bsky.social · 6d

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 6d

Not to mention the trillions of dollars burnt so far in an effort to replace them with degenerative AI...

Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 6d

Worked for me!