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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Sunday is 5 years since I adopted the most ridiculous wobbly little man the world has ever seen.
I think you know what has to happen. It's gonna be ✨ SMOL PAUL DAY ✨
I think you know what has to happen. It's gonna be ✨ SMOL PAUL DAY ✨
November 27, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Sunday is 5 years since I adopted the most ridiculous wobbly little man the world has ever seen.
I think you know what has to happen. It's gonna be ✨ SMOL PAUL DAY ✨
I think you know what has to happen. It's gonna be ✨ SMOL PAUL DAY ✨
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ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Every track on Apple’s Sleep playlist sounds like Mass Effect menu music.
November 27, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Every track on Apple’s Sleep playlist sounds like Mass Effect menu music.
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Johnnycakes fed settlers, soldiers, enslaved people, and whole regions…then somehow became a forgotten dish in American history. I wrote about their long, unremarkable journey and included my modern interpretation...
#VeganFood
#VeganFood
The Unremarkable Journey of a Corn Cake
A reflective look at Johnnycakes... how this humble corn cake sustained generations, adapted across regions, and quietly disappeared from American cookbooks and memory.
open.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Johnnycakes fed settlers, soldiers, enslaved people, and whole regions…then somehow became a forgotten dish in American history. I wrote about their long, unremarkable journey and included my modern interpretation...
#VeganFood
#VeganFood
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And here's the original film clip: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTKs...
The original Mahna Mahna, from SWEDEN HEAVEN AND HELL (1968)
YouTube video by Capri Show World [CapriShowWorld.com]
www.youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:09 PM
And here's the original film clip: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTKs...
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This really needs emphasizing. The entirety of the UK media ecosystem is utterly fixated on a 100% fabricated "crisis".
Net migration has fallen again to 204,000, the lowest level since 2021 and is forecast to continue falling over the coming years.
Not that you would know it from the endless coverage of Britain's supposed "immigration crisis"
Not that you would know it from the endless coverage of Britain's supposed "immigration crisis"
November 27, 2025 at 12:48 PM
This really needs emphasizing. The entirety of the UK media ecosystem is utterly fixated on a 100% fabricated "crisis".
Nation shall speak [REDACTED] unto Nation
BBC tells staff they cannot quote Trump line removed from Reith Lecture
BBC tells staff they cannot quote Trump line removed from Reith Lecture
Journalists not allowed to repeat Rutger Bregman’s corruption claims against US president in coverage of edit
BBC presenters and journalists have been told they cannot quote a line removed from its prestigious annual lecture, in which a Dutch writer accused Donald Trump of being “the most openly corrupt president in American history”.
Rutger Bregman accused the BBC of cowardice after the decision to remove the line from the first of his Reith Lectures, which he was invited to give by the corporation. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Nation shall speak [REDACTED] unto Nation
This was the original design of The Death Star
Part 218 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg dnd
Ceramic hedgehog dated to the Neolithic period found at the Hamin archaeological site near Shebotu Town in Inner Mongolia, China
Ceramic hedgehog dated to the Neolithic period found at the Hamin archaeological site near Shebotu Town in Inner Mongolia, China
November 27, 2025 at 9:58 AM
This was the original design of The Death Star
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This is an unspooling thread of total joy. A slug of forgotten comedy history.
The brilliant female clowns of silent cinema. This might be the most ALIVE thing you’ll see all day.
The brilliant female clowns of silent cinema. This might be the most ALIVE thing you’ll see all day.
Since we are once again dealing with "the only silent era comedians of note were men" I feel I need to stand up for the ladies.
Marion Davies!
Marion Davies!
November 27, 2025 at 7:51 AM
This is an unspooling thread of total joy. A slug of forgotten comedy history.
The brilliant female clowns of silent cinema. This might be the most ALIVE thing you’ll see all day.
The brilliant female clowns of silent cinema. This might be the most ALIVE thing you’ll see all day.
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“saying they are going to help save the bee by encouraging all the farmers who supply them to keep more hives. This was, he went on, akin to trying to reverse bird declines by keeping more chickens”
Many people still imagine beekeeping and honey making are somehow 'good for nature'.
But it's the *total* opposite.
share.google/1csfRNfR3lnL...
But it's the *total* opposite.
share.google/1csfRNfR3lnL...
“A beehive is as natural as a pasture of grazing sheep.” Why beekeeping is causing a huge problem for wild bees – according to scientists | Discover Wildlife
A dramatic rise in the number of managed beehives is negatively impacting wild pollinating insects
share.google
November 27, 2025 at 7:26 AM
“saying they are going to help save the bee by encouraging all the farmers who supply them to keep more hives. This was, he went on, akin to trying to reverse bird declines by keeping more chickens”
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It's good they removed the two child benefit cap.
It is bad to not examine or analyse why they removed the whip from so many MPs for wanting this last year.
It is either genuinely dense or thoroughly evil to pretend that never happened and labour has always wanted to remove it.
It is bad to not examine or analyse why they removed the whip from so many MPs for wanting this last year.
It is either genuinely dense or thoroughly evil to pretend that never happened and labour has always wanted to remove it.
November 27, 2025 at 8:02 AM
It's good they removed the two child benefit cap.
It is bad to not examine or analyse why they removed the whip from so many MPs for wanting this last year.
It is either genuinely dense or thoroughly evil to pretend that never happened and labour has always wanted to remove it.
It is bad to not examine or analyse why they removed the whip from so many MPs for wanting this last year.
It is either genuinely dense or thoroughly evil to pretend that never happened and labour has always wanted to remove it.
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If you want some good news this morning, I showed my three boys the PM doing the six/seven thing and now they have all stopped doing it.
November 27, 2025 at 7:03 AM
If you want some good news this morning, I showed my three boys the PM doing the six/seven thing and now they have all stopped doing it.
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I thought nobody would get the reference but Bluesky’s knowledge of Victorian public health statistics breakthroughs is strong
Generative AI is convenient and useful in the same way the Broad Street water pump was convenient and useful in 1854
November 26, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I thought nobody would get the reference but Bluesky’s knowledge of Victorian public health statistics breakthroughs is strong
I tried to have a normal day today sitting at a desk, or on the sofa. Cried at The Phantom Menace (look, R2D2 was very brave, ok?) and then sent a personal message offering a large bag of excess gochugaru to a serious international IT Slack channel by mistake
November 26, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I tried to have a normal day today sitting at a desk, or on the sofa. Cried at The Phantom Menace (look, R2D2 was very brave, ok?) and then sent a personal message offering a large bag of excess gochugaru to a serious international IT Slack channel by mistake
Generative AI is convenient and useful in the same way the Broad Street water pump was convenient and useful in 1854
November 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Generative AI is convenient and useful in the same way the Broad Street water pump was convenient and useful in 1854
I’m really disappointed that I can’t spoil A. with an excessive Thanksgiving meal this year as usual. I’m too weak & tired and I don’t even have the ingredients. Not sure if I’ll even manage Christmas. Secretly planning to do it all in Spring maybe
November 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I’m really disappointed that I can’t spoil A. with an excessive Thanksgiving meal this year as usual. I’m too weak & tired and I don’t even have the ingredients. Not sure if I’ll even manage Christmas. Secretly planning to do it all in Spring maybe
Going to call McDonalds a Supermarket Meal Deal Restaurant
November 26, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Going to call McDonalds a Supermarket Meal Deal Restaurant
It's not even just an unnecessary localisation, it's wrong!
new favourite New York Times term for a British thing just dropped
November 26, 2025 at 2:26 PM
It's not even just an unnecessary localisation, it's wrong!
I've just rewatched The Phantom Menace for the third time, and I've decided it somehow isn't a bad film, it's just a film filled with an extraordinary amount of bad
November 26, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I've just rewatched The Phantom Menace for the third time, and I've decided it somehow isn't a bad film, it's just a film filled with an extraordinary amount of bad
The racism is bad enough but Farage was bullying 9 year olds when he was *18*.
November 26, 2025 at 9:13 AM
The racism is bad enough but Farage was bullying 9 year olds when he was *18*.
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Good morning, while everyone is waiting for the budget to be announced it’s a good time to say that immigration is a source of prosperity for the UK and painting Britain as a hostile state is sabotaging the country. Thanks!
November 26, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Good morning, while everyone is waiting for the budget to be announced it’s a good time to say that immigration is a source of prosperity for the UK and painting Britain as a hostile state is sabotaging the country. Thanks!
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Big news! The groundhog is back at my sister's and she gave him a plum
November 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Big news! The groundhog is back at my sister's and she gave him a plum
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The dangerous rise of Buddhist extremism: ‘Attaining nirvana can wait’
The dangerous rise of Buddhist extremism: ‘Attaining nirvana can wait’
The long read: Still largely viewed as a peaceful philosophy, across much of south-east Asia, the religion has been weaponised to serve nationalist goals
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:22 AM
The dangerous rise of Buddhist extremism: ‘Attaining nirvana can wait’
Digital independence proposal for EU Parliament
Get us off Microsoft! Lawmakers press EU Parliament to change in-house IT.
“We cannot afford this level of dependence on foreign tech,” lawmakers say in letter obtained by POLITICO.
www.politico.eu
November 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Digital independence proposal for EU Parliament