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Michael Maibaum
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Home: Husband, Parent, Carer, Reading, History, Home automation, Photography.

Work: Exec leader, strategist, change & transformation, enterprise architecture - started out in Genetics/Immunology, bioinformatics and now garden variety techie
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Submarine on the surface island…
St Mary's Isle (also known as Conister Rock or the Tower of Refuge, Manx: Kione y Sker or Creg Voirrey) is a partially submerged reef in Douglas Bay on the Isle of Man. Prior to 1832 the rock was the property of the Quane family until John Quane, Attorney General of the Isle of Man, presented the rock to Sir William Hillary, in his capacity as President of the Isle of Man District of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution to build the Tower of Refuge. Since then the custody of St Mary's Isle has been held by each president of the local lifeboat association.
November 10, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Well this is a terrible headline. It should say “Trump will make unfounded link… almost all experts disagree” and lede should say there is strong evidence there is no link. #badheadlines
BBC news headline saying “Trump will reportedly link pain reliever Tylenol to autism - but many experts are sceptical” with a lede saying “some studies have suggested an association between the two, but experts say there is no causal relationship”
September 22, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Video clip version... this one feels like a screensaver ;)
August 16, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Magical Florida sunset
Sunset over the lake at Epcot with the orange glow reflected on the lake
August 16, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Black Swallowtail butterflies (I think, definitely swallowtails anyway!)
A Black Swallowtail butterfly perched on a pink flower with another in the background out of focus. The butterfly is actually brown with creamy white spots on the edges of the wing and orange spots on the hind wing A Black Swallowtail butterfly perched on a pink flower, feeding. The butterfly is actually brown with creamy white spots on the edges of the wing and orange spots on the hind wing
August 13, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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A lovely backlit fungus in Fenham Carr this morning
An orange fungus with gnarly bark in the foreground and blurred green dappled background
July 13, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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A walk in Williamson Park, Lancaster - Common banded overfly on a flower
Common banded overfly on a flower
July 13, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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An early morning walk on the beach in Douglas, Isle of Man during a work trip
A photograph of a beach with dramatic lighting, some rocks on the sand and a promontory in the distance under dark clouds with sun and blue sky peaking through and a ship in the distance
July 12, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Common Houseleek
Close up of common houseleek - small pink and red flower Oblique angle close up of common houseleek - small pink and red flower Slightly wider view of houselek showing a few flowers on a stalk
July 1, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Juvenile Eurasian Robin
OM-3, 100-400mm
Small brown bird with golden yellow speckles, flying from right to left with wing feathers downwards and translucent Juvenile robin on a stone wall with green leaves in the background
June 29, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Finally some decent weather and can get out in some decent light! A Hummingbird Hawk-Moth and Small white butterfly
OM-3 with 40-150mm f4 PRO
A Hummingbird hawk-moth frozen in flight, proboscis extended towards some lilac flowers A Small white butterfly coming in to land on some lilac flowers with proboscis coming out towards flowers
June 29, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Cray-1
Image of the Cray-1 Supercomputer, on display in the Science museum in London. It is a tall cylinder, with rectangular panels forming vertical facets, the covers in red, green and blue with one face exposed showing the internal wiring
March 28, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Benedict Evans talks about this a lot.

www.ben-evans.com/benedictevan...

Or more recent interview www.contagious.com/news-and-vie...
Screenshot of interview saying: Think about this. When you use your phone, the fact that every photograph you take is perfectly in focus and perfectly balanced is AI. But you don’t think of that as AI. That’s just a camera. And the fact that you can type in a word in the search of Apple Photos and Google Photos, and it will find a book in the background of a photo you took 15 years ago. Ten years ago, that was science fiction. Now, it’s just software. So by default, that’s what will happen. It will just be software. Unless, of course, it goes to AGI and kills us all.
November 5, 2024 at 12:04 PM
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Related, when you get recruited for crimes on LinkedIn by a web3 (🤦) incubator offering jobs running illegal businesses.
A screenshot of LinkedIn showing my response to a recruiter: Me: "Thanks for getting in touch. I'm not really looking at the moment, and beyond that, it appears coin-poker is operating illegally in at least the UK market…" Them: "Thanks Michael. I'm not totally sure on the licensing to be honest as we've only recently acquired the platform so there's probably some items to sort out…"
September 3, 2024 at 10:22 AM
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HAVE YOU CONSIDERED HEARING AIDS?
Kelce shouting at the coach at the Super Bowl
February 12, 2024 at 11:35 AM
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Numbers like this just show how unbalanced our political conversation is, Brexit costing £100bn (lost exports only) - when the Labour Party are so terrified of saying they will spend money to invest in the future...
image of Independent headline - £100bn hit to UK exports as toy, medical kit and jewellery sales slump
February 12, 2024 at 11:27 AM