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algy (alan) booker

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information security specialist (retired), culture snob, politics bore, all-round miserable old tosser

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algy (alan) booker

@algybooker.bsky.social

good to see. the archers punching well above their weight.

a screen grab of my bluesky feed, specifically the 'trending' section, which lists the following as their trending terms: columbia university, bernie aoc rally, the archers, boeing contract, paul weiss, severance.
so... just american stuff, pleasingly interrupted by the good folk of ambridge.

March 22, 2025 at 12:02 AM

algy (alan) booker

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and if theres one thing that starmer cant stand, its a vile individual who commits crimes walking away as a free man

photograph of serial paedo and famously not-put-in-jail-while-starmer-was-head-of-dpp individual, jimmy saville

January 21, 2025 at 1:36 PM

algy (alan) booker

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very sad about david lynch.
creator of the all-time best tv series.
creator of several of my favourite films.
genius.

a still photo of david lynch, playing gordon cole, in episode 8 of twin peaks - the return.
a genuine genius.

January 17, 2025 at 10:49 AM

algy (alan) booker

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a standard picture of the spiderman meme - one spidernan pointing accusingly at a second spiderman who is pointing back.
they are accusing each of of the same thing.
rachel reeves is apparently accusing another party of 'lack of fiscal credibility'.

December 21, 2024 at 9:44 PM

algy (alan) booker

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a selection of interesting streetlamps in northern spain.

picture of a street in Mirand De Ebro, in northern spain, with a set of attractive, red streetlamps.
the top half of the posts curve gently into the road with the lamp on top. halfway up the post, before it curves, there is another lower level lamp attached, on the street side of the post. the post is red.
in the distance, across the street, some smaller, straight streetlamps, in the same red.

picture of a small park area in Burgos, in northern spain, with a number of differently styled streetlamps.
mostly they are in sets of 2, closely situated posts, one approx 2/3rds the size of the other, both curving gently at the top, in opposite directions to each other. the posts are grey.
The lamps seem to be dangling off the top of the posts, and look like witches hats.

November 13, 2024 at 2:11 PM

algy (alan) booker

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image from tv show VIc Reeves Big Night Out showing characters the Living Carpets.
These are played by reeves and mortimer sitting at a table, both wearing full-head masks made of material.
The sketches involve outdoing each other in making preposterous claims, ending up with saying to each other 'You Lying Get'.

They came to mind for some reason, when seeing reports of Starmer telling yet another whopper, which the media duly, and swooningly, report, without bothering with a fact-check. With his reputation....?

October 9, 2024 at 8:14 PM

algy (alan) booker

@algybooker.bsky.social

this jeremy bowen?

image capture from social media post, text: "BBC's Jeremy Bowen pretends to be on the frontline, whilst a woman looks on, seemingly bemused. "
and yes he is lying down with hard hat, press jacket etc talking to mic in a bit of wasteland, and there is a normally dressed woman in shot wondering what this weirdo is doing.
the good old BBC.

October 4, 2024 at 10:26 AM

algy (alan) booker

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A perfect album that came out when i was 21.

Image ofthe album cover of Perverted By Language by The Fall.
Very much a perfect album.

September 15, 2024 at 5:44 PM

algy (alan) booker

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Some nice looking streetlamps in antwerp.

Photo i took of some streetlamps in antwerp, near central station, which are partly painted red, and have some arms, crooked red arms, attached to the main pole. Very striking, to this observer.

September 15, 2024 at 5:26 PM

algy (alan) booker

@algybooker.bsky.social

2 settings that should default to ON
@support.bsky.team

screenshot of the Accessibility Settings page on bluesky, showing 'require alt text before posting' and 'disable autoplay for videos' in the ON position.

September 12, 2024 at 1:54 PM

algy (alan) booker

@algybooker.bsky.social

Just seen a ring cycle at the bayreuth festival.
Major item on to-do list ticked off. V lucky to get the tickets.
Singing and orchestra superb, a lot of the set design etc didnt work for me tho.
Fab experience.

Photo of the bayreuth festspielhaus, a theatre designed and built by richard wagner for the optimum presentation of his works.

Photo of a small statue of richard wagner on a concrete plinth, one of a series dotted around bayreuth. This one located at the bottom of the green hill on which the festspielhaus is located.

August 26, 2024 at 1:39 PM

algy (alan) booker

@algybooker.bsky.social

View from my hotel room in basel. Aaah.

Picture of skyline through a hotel window, top of s skyscraper on left, clouds over cityscape with very green hills in the distance.
And a gorgeous semi-circle of a rainbow spanning the whole picture. Nice.

May 21, 2024 at 6:40 PM

algy (alan) booker

@algybooker.bsky.social

just finished reading stephanie keltons The Deficit Myth.
excellent. lays out core points of MMT really clearly and simply.
mainly about the US but easily relateable to UK.

down side - will now get me even more angry reading rachel reeves economically illiterate bollocks