Greg Walshaw
@gwalshaw.bsky.social
Professional musician (organ, piano, composition, others on occasion), theological shit-disturber (semi-pro), and long-time fan of Canadian football.
People in 1952 never thought that in the 21st century, humans would struggle to find staplers and other simple tools that just worked. Products get shittier every time the price increases.
November 13, 2025 at 10:05 PM
People in 1952 never thought that in the 21st century, humans would struggle to find staplers and other simple tools that just worked. Products get shittier every time the price increases.
My new Hammond stage organ. Early review: this thing is fucking incredible.
Because Katie is marking, I have so far only played it through headphones. Tomorrow morning, however...
Because Katie is marking, I have so far only played it through headphones. Tomorrow morning, however...
November 11, 2025 at 10:32 PM
My new Hammond stage organ. Early review: this thing is fucking incredible.
Because Katie is marking, I have so far only played it through headphones. Tomorrow morning, however...
Because Katie is marking, I have so far only played it through headphones. Tomorrow morning, however...
No Lancaster flight this year, but the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum's B-25 Mitchell just flew over my house, with one of their WW2 fighters following.
November 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
No Lancaster flight this year, but the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum's B-25 Mitchell just flew over my house, with one of their WW2 fighters following.
I was improvising on the new piano today, and came up with this.
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Groove Blues
YouTube video by Greg Walshaw
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November 9, 2025 at 2:42 AM
I was improvising on the new piano today, and came up with this.
youtube.com/shorts/q4GNo...
youtube.com/shorts/q4GNo...
Reposted by Greg Walshaw
Is there a way to buy a peerage these days? Because I would contribute cash money to get Sean Dunn named the Earl of Sandwich
November 7, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Is there a way to buy a peerage these days? Because I would contribute cash money to get Sean Dunn named the Earl of Sandwich
So I just found out that Albert Camus and I have more in common than I thought. We have both written things and we both played goal in soccer. The bastard was undoubtedly better at both. But I have lived longer, so I've got that going for me.
And just like that, I am a character in a Vonnegut novel.
And just like that, I am a character in a Vonnegut novel.
November 5, 2025 at 12:19 AM
So I just found out that Albert Camus and I have more in common than I thought. We have both written things and we both played goal in soccer. The bastard was undoubtedly better at both. But I have lived longer, so I've got that going for me.
And just like that, I am a character in a Vonnegut novel.
And just like that, I am a character in a Vonnegut novel.
Picked up my new ride today. It moves like it's supposed to so far.
I usually take the train into Toronto on Wednesdays, but I think for tomorrow I will make an exception.
I usually take the train into Toronto on Wednesdays, but I think for tomorrow I will make an exception.
November 4, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Picked up my new ride today. It moves like it's supposed to so far.
I usually take the train into Toronto on Wednesdays, but I think for tomorrow I will make an exception.
I usually take the train into Toronto on Wednesdays, but I think for tomorrow I will make an exception.
Why don't we have sportswriters like this?
I didn't hear any post-game interview questions, but I know they were fawning and inane.
I didn't hear any post-game interview questions, but I know they were fawning and inane.
Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
November 2, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Why don't we have sportswriters like this?
I didn't hear any post-game interview questions, but I know they were fawning and inane.
I didn't hear any post-game interview questions, but I know they were fawning and inane.
So a whole lot of elected officials (whose job it is to pass laws) are showing that they don't really know how laws work - or if they do, they just don't care.
Which is why constitutions exist.
Which is why constitutions exist.
November 1, 2025 at 1:27 PM
So a whole lot of elected officials (whose job it is to pass laws) are showing that they don't really know how laws work - or if they do, they just don't care.
Which is why constitutions exist.
Which is why constitutions exist.
Netflix seems to have moved to subtitles on by default every time you open the app, and it's really fucking annoying.
They are absolutely needed by some, and enjoyed by others. It shouldn't be hard for an app to remember a user setting.
They are absolutely needed by some, and enjoyed by others. It shouldn't be hard for an app to remember a user setting.
October 30, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Netflix seems to have moved to subtitles on by default every time you open the app, and it's really fucking annoying.
They are absolutely needed by some, and enjoyed by others. It shouldn't be hard for an app to remember a user setting.
They are absolutely needed by some, and enjoyed by others. It shouldn't be hard for an app to remember a user setting.
Doug Ford asking the US ambassador to apologize instead of something like "I'm recommending that the PM tell you to get the fuck out of our country, you fascist bootlicking fuckface."
Of course, I am also not surprised that current Republicans find Reagan's actual words insulting and outrageous.
Of course, I am also not surprised that current Republicans find Reagan's actual words insulting and outrageous.
October 30, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Doug Ford asking the US ambassador to apologize instead of something like "I'm recommending that the PM tell you to get the fuck out of our country, you fascist bootlicking fuckface."
Of course, I am also not surprised that current Republicans find Reagan's actual words insulting and outrageous.
Of course, I am also not surprised that current Republicans find Reagan's actual words insulting and outrageous.
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Alexa explodes after Canadian replies to query with, “Oh, yeah, no, for sure.”
Alexa explodes after Canadian replies to query with, “Oh, yeah, no, for sure.”
OROMOCTO, NB - A local man almost lost his home yesterday after his Amazon Alexa smart home device burst into flames. Lloyd Wentworth, 38, says the fire started as he was preparing dinner in his bunga...
www.thebeaverton.com
October 29, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Alexa explodes after Canadian replies to query with, “Oh, yeah, no, for sure.”
Join ICE, you too can mess yourself while being so panicked you feel it is necessary to shoot an unarmed person in the face with anti-riot weapons.
This should be the recruitment poster.
This should be the recruitment poster.
Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.
October 25, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Join ICE, you too can mess yourself while being so panicked you feel it is necessary to shoot an unarmed person in the face with anti-riot weapons.
This should be the recruitment poster.
This should be the recruitment poster.
I highly recommend both these items if you can get your hands on them.
October 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I highly recommend both these items if you can get your hands on them.
Katie's back, and she brought presents!
October 18, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Katie's back, and she brought presents!
I was telling people recently about one of my profs (William Renwick) whose advice on sight-reading *and* improvisation was this:
If you make a mistake, make sure to do it again.
For the audience, if it stood out and it happened again, it was intentional: it was supposed to be that way!
If you make a mistake, make sure to do it again.
For the audience, if it stood out and it happened again, it was intentional: it was supposed to be that way!
October 17, 2025 at 4:22 AM
I was telling people recently about one of my profs (William Renwick) whose advice on sight-reading *and* improvisation was this:
If you make a mistake, make sure to do it again.
For the audience, if it stood out and it happened again, it was intentional: it was supposed to be that way!
If you make a mistake, make sure to do it again.
For the audience, if it stood out and it happened again, it was intentional: it was supposed to be that way!
Except this is exactly how it is supposed to work. It is a language model, not a 'correct answer machine'.
Oh, did somebody hoping to monetize its use tell you it is a correct answer machine? And you believed them?
Oh, did somebody hoping to monetize its use tell you it is a correct answer machine? And you believed them?
October 17, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Except this is exactly how it is supposed to work. It is a language model, not a 'correct answer machine'.
Oh, did somebody hoping to monetize its use tell you it is a correct answer machine? And you believed them?
Oh, did somebody hoping to monetize its use tell you it is a correct answer machine? And you believed them?
Reposted by Greg Walshaw
You know, to paraphrase @kenwhite.bsky.social , if you joke about some things, it’s kind of like ‘ironically’ fucking a goat.
Sure, you may say it’s for irony or performance art or to be provocative or whatever, but at the end of the day, you’re still balls deep in a goat.
Sure, you may say it’s for irony or performance art or to be provocative or whatever, but at the end of the day, you’re still balls deep in a goat.
JD Vance dismisses Young Republicans who in a group chat said "I love Hitler" and joked about slavery and rape as "a bunch of kids" who "told stupid jokes" and adds that "most of the stupid things I did when I was a teenager and young adult, they're not on the internet."
October 15, 2025 at 7:34 PM
You know, to paraphrase @kenwhite.bsky.social , if you joke about some things, it’s kind of like ‘ironically’ fucking a goat.
Sure, you may say it’s for irony or performance art or to be provocative or whatever, but at the end of the day, you’re still balls deep in a goat.
Sure, you may say it’s for irony or performance art or to be provocative or whatever, but at the end of the day, you’re still balls deep in a goat.
I saw some cool things in my one afternoon in Marseille - may have to go back and see what else they have cooking!
October 15, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I saw some cool things in my one afternoon in Marseille - may have to go back and see what else they have cooking!
I think the only thing I can like about baseball is that a team that is swimming along can suddenly come up against a different team and be one of the suckiest teams that ever sucked.
October 15, 2025 at 12:32 AM
I think the only thing I can like about baseball is that a team that is swimming along can suddenly come up against a different team and be one of the suckiest teams that ever sucked.
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New "inventions" are not incentivized to solve actual problems as much as they are incentivized to attract money. If those goals overlap, cool, but it's not required (see NFTs). If modern society invented the wheel, it'd be accessed via a subscription-based proprietary plan with multiple tiers
October 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
New "inventions" are not incentivized to solve actual problems as much as they are incentivized to attract money. If those goals overlap, cool, but it's not required (see NFTs). If modern society invented the wheel, it'd be accessed via a subscription-based proprietary plan with multiple tiers
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Capitalism is a funny thing, because GenAI/LLM technology is considered successful not because of what it does, but because of its ability to attract venture capitalist investors
AI bubble now 17 times bigger than dot-com boom and four times larger than subprime crisis, per MW
October 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Capitalism is a funny thing, because GenAI/LLM technology is considered successful not because of what it does, but because of its ability to attract venture capitalist investors
Made for Harold Pinter, I'm pretty sure.
What is the name of your least favorite child?
In what year did you abandon your dreams?
What is the maiden name of your father's mistress?
In what year did you abandon your dreams?
What is the maiden name of your father's mistress?
Nihilistic Password Security Questions
What is the name of your least favorite child? In what year did you abandon your dreams? What is the maiden name of your father’s mistress? At what...
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October 10, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Made for Harold Pinter, I'm pretty sure.
This is why I am hoping all my friends and relatives are able to leave that country.
The Guardian- The US president may impose tariffs, demand higher NATO contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says, if on Friday he is not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. www.theguardian.com/world/202...
Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize
US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says
www.theguardian.com
October 10, 2025 at 3:36 AM
This is why I am hoping all my friends and relatives are able to leave that country.
I live near campsites of homeless people. On my way to and from the GO bus stop, I encounter homeless people - middle of the day, early morning, after midnight. I do not get the average Canadian's fear of people experiencing poverty and homelessness.
October 10, 2025 at 1:58 AM
I live near campsites of homeless people. On my way to and from the GO bus stop, I encounter homeless people - middle of the day, early morning, after midnight. I do not get the average Canadian's fear of people experiencing poverty and homelessness.