Cal Ryder
@calryder.bsky.social
Much greater than my fear of the Giant Squid is my fear of the Colossal Squid.
Like if she was my friend irl I'd be ripping the piss out her for probably 6-8 weeks for "I'm so proud of the way he embraces life to the full", but perhaps I'm too harsh. I mean he is clearly magnificent.
January 18, 2026 at 11:02 PM
Like if she was my friend irl I'd be ripping the piss out her for probably 6-8 weeks for "I'm so proud of the way he embraces life to the full", but perhaps I'm too harsh. I mean he is clearly magnificent.
On the one hand, this is perfect and I love him. On the other hand I am snorting at the bits of that article where the owner was clearly running out of salient things to say.
January 18, 2026 at 11:02 PM
On the one hand, this is perfect and I love him. On the other hand I am snorting at the bits of that article where the owner was clearly running out of salient things to say.
I love how that's clearly meant to come down after christmas but they've left it up just because it's His now.
January 18, 2026 at 10:48 PM
I love how that's clearly meant to come down after christmas but they've left it up just because it's His now.
I'm sorry for your loss and I know this is about your mum's funeral but it's also an absolutely brilliant thread that I greatly enjoyed - thank you xx
January 18, 2026 at 10:38 PM
I'm sorry for your loss and I know this is about your mum's funeral but it's also an absolutely brilliant thread that I greatly enjoyed - thank you xx
This was about 10 yrs ago and other tech is prob better now but it's an option at least rather than investing in a scanner that takes up room and can make the pics look flatter than you'd like.
November 28, 2025 at 6:46 AM
This was about 10 yrs ago and other tech is prob better now but it's an option at least rather than investing in a scanner that takes up room and can make the pics look flatter than you'd like.
I once did this with old family pics and the method I used was photographing them on a fairly standard DSLR camera (Canon Eos 500) and touching up in Photoshop. It worked very well re resolution, fixing fades and waterspots etc. If you can borrow the equipment I really recommend it.
November 28, 2025 at 6:43 AM
I once did this with old family pics and the method I used was photographing them on a fairly standard DSLR camera (Canon Eos 500) and touching up in Photoshop. It worked very well re resolution, fixing fades and waterspots etc. If you can borrow the equipment I really recommend it.
This too. Bad life decisions, Poors!
November 27, 2025 at 3:44 PM
This too. Bad life decisions, Poors!
But have you considered that they actually deserve contempt for not being born to richer parents tho
November 27, 2025 at 12:02 PM
But have you considered that they actually deserve contempt for not being born to richer parents tho
Reposted by Cal Ryder
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Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand
In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.
Le Monde has a long article describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.
Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.
He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.
That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund
and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.
Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic
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