Bob Grahame
Bob Grahame
@bgrahame.bsky.social
On the pragmatic end of the libertarian scale, would say classical liberal in most matters. Science, beer, philosophy, good food and company. IT and Information Security professional, been in IT since paper tape was still (just about) a thing.
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🐣PaperKlay is now available!🐔

A 3D Platformer where you rotate and unfold a paper and cardboard world!

Meet fully voiced characters on your adventure!

Featuring the Banjo-Kazooie composer on the title track!

Poured my heart into this game, I hope you like it!
RT to help 💜
May 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Brighton, eh? ;-)
“Remove Santa rewarding children based on a Western binary of ‘naughty/nice.’”
“Include some Mother Christmases. Patriarchy and colonialism went hand in hand.”
“Put Santa to work in the factory alongside the elves.”
brightonmuseums.org.uk/discovery/hi...
Decolonising Father Christmas
Brighton & Hove Museums
brightonmuseums.org.uk
December 21, 2025 at 6:01 PM
One colonial power transferring a colony to another colonial power against the wishes of the colonised is not decolonisation…

www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
UK and Mauritius’ Chagos agreement raises concerns over Chagossian people’s rights, UN committee warns
GENEVA - The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) today expressed deep concern that a recent bilateral agreement between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ire...
www.ohchr.org
December 21, 2025 at 9:46 AM
A reminder: Councils are NOT your friends. “Pensioner ‘fined £250 for spitting’ after leaf blew into his mouth” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Pensioner ‘fined £250 for spitting’ after leaf blew into his mouth
Roy Marsh, 86, says the penalty from enforcement officers was ‘unnecessary and all out of proportion’
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Robert Ingersoll's humanistic "Thanksgiving Sermon," an appropriate appreciation of the holiday.

whyevolutionistrue.com/2025/11/27/i...
Ingersoll’s Thanksgiving Sermon
Robert G. Ingersoll was known as “The Great Agnostic,” but today they’d call him “The Great Atheist.” He was the Christopher Hitchens of his time: a great orator, thin…
whyevolutionistrue.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Police must NOT be allowed to use AI to identify suspects. It makes mistakes, people get hurt, and then police just say “it’s the computer’s fault not ours” and walk away.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Armed police handcuff teen after AI mistakes crisp packet for gun in US
Taki Allen, 16, said he was eating a bag of Doritos after football practice before being handcuffed by police.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 26, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Wonderful quote: “People would tell me that watching Lost in Space inspired them to become scientists. I did Lassie for six years, and I never had anybody come up to me and say, ‘It made me want to be a farmer.’” 😂 Actor June Lockhart dies aged 100

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Actor June Lockhart of Lost in Space and Lassie fame dies aged 100
Lockhart started out on stage at age eight and appeared in scores of television series and feature films
www.theguardian.com
October 25, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Weightloss by Cyber attack. Think I’ll stick with diets or GLP-1 agonists, thanks!

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘I lost 25 pounds in 20 days’: what it’s like to be on the frontline of a global cyber-attack
The security chief of SolarWinds reflects on the Russian hack that exposed US government agencies – and the heart attack he suffered in the aftermath
www.theguardian.com
October 18, 2025 at 8:32 PM
In todays’s episode of “The state is not your friend”: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Grimsby man owed £6k council tax after £100 bill spiralled
The government says it is taking action to protect people from “aggressive collection practices”.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 9, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The EU continues to push its surveillance state agenda. Ability to see what you type before you hit send, complete back doors to end to end encryption, etc. Nightmare.

www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-priv...
Chat Control is "like a malware on your device" – Signal slams the EU proposal to scan your private chats
Encrypted messaging app, Signal, said it could leave Europe instead of weakening encryption if the bill were to pass
www.techradar.com
October 6, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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What would happen if we let intuition, rather than planning, structure our days?
Can You Really Live One Day at a Time?
Productivity culture encourages us to live inside our tasks and projects. But nature offers its own organizational system.
www.newyorker.com
September 16, 2025 at 7:03 PM
If, like me, you were both gobsmacked by GPT LLMs but also thought they were not quite going to reach AGI no matter the resources thrown at them, this is worth the (long) read: www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
‘I have to do it’: Why one of the world’s most brilliant AI scientists left the US for China
In 2020, after spending half his life in the US, Song-Chun Zhu took a one-way ticket to China. Now he might hold the key to who wins the global AI race
www.theguardian.com
September 16, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I have accounts on X & Bluesky (and other places). They’ve always been interestingly different places but today it’s just crazy.
September 11, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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Dragon's Dogma 2 fans, it's time to make our voices heard! If you want a DLC for Dragon's Dogma 2, CLICK THE REPOST BUTTON!!
#ExpandDD2 #TheArisenWantMore #DragonsDogma2 #DragonsDogma #ドラゴンズドグマ @capcomusa.com @capcom.bsky.social
March 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Blimey - Arm pulling Qualcomm's architectural license is one hell of a poker game moment. Pits full of alligators on all sides for both, to say nothing for the smartphone market

Seismic a la Krakatoa.

youtu.be/j6kX7JWMiV0?...
Qualcomm's v8 License, Cancelled by Arm!
YouTube video by TechTechPotato
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October 23, 2024 at 10:47 PM
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Disney Adults are having a real Time rn bc disney changed the rules of their DAS (disability access service) passes because so many people were lying to abuse the system and then bragging about it on social media
July 17, 2024 at 9:04 PM
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They should get AI to do it, if you're gonna pointlessly fuck something up why stop halfway
July 12, 2024 at 3:04 PM
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i am watching THE BEEKEEPER while i do dishes and i somehow did not realize that the concept of this film was "what if you could murder everyone who defrauded your boomer parents with an internet scam?"
May 6, 2024 at 9:51 PM
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Follow me on Mastodon!

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January 25, 2024 at 11:23 PM
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ELLIE'S DREAM (2010)
Acrylic - 40" x 30"

The vision came to me exactly as you see it here. I was thinking about the Moon Race and the clear cloudless skies of my childhood days in California. 1/4
December 26, 2023 at 4:57 PM
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December 13, 2023 at 5:36 PM
Tyrannosaur’s last meal was two baby dinosaurs www.bbc.co.uk/news/science...
December 8, 2023 at 9:16 PM
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Seasonal greetings for both the #bookhistory and #digitalhistory folks: a keyboard waffle iron. 🗃️
December 8, 2023 at 2:35 PM
Isn’t nature wonderful? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 23, 2023 at 12:22 AM