Colin Fry

@colinfry.bsky.social

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Ne’er do well

Woman in a strawberry fancy dress costume.
Long-haired chihuahua laying on his back with tongue out to the side.
A 42% drop in Canadian visits to U.S. cities signals a broader shift beyond tourism. Romana King May 24, 2026
Miniature Poodle sitting on carpet in front of a fireplace.
Arch of Titus, Rome
1970s Holden ad
Glaring Chihuahua
Logo for LF Harris
Les Harris on a motorbike.
ABC NEWS Analysis with Matthew Doran Trump has reined in Israeli escalation in Lebanon with a reportedly 'crazy' phone call, reminding Netanyahu who's calling the shots now.
Peter Gabriel (1977) album cover
Bin with a sticker that says Smoking Butts Here.
Sign: Stop! Please do not enter our hospital if you are feeling unwell. Thank you for helping us to keep all our patients safe.
Amin S. Staff Software Engineer Today was my last day at Google. I have made a conscious choice of leaving for better. I am looking forward to spending more time with my kids, family and friends. I am looking forward to not yelling at my kiddo when he comes into my office because I am still busy until 7 PM due to some broken shit. Because we no longer have a sensible software engineering process and everything is rushed. I am also looking forward to sleeping through the night without getting paged at 2 AM! Why and for what you ask? Because a job that, I kid you not, literally needed 2 CPUs and 20GB of RAM could not start for some time. It was starved for 2 CPUs, when God knows how many hours of CPU and RAM resources are going into GenA!! | had to get up to get an emergency loan and ensure the job runs fine. And then not be able to go back to sleep until 5-6AM. Furthermore, I am looking forward to thinking for myself and gaining some autonomy, rather than taking product and technical decisions made up by higher-ups and executives (who are probably using Al for those decisions) and feeding them to Al to generate garbage. This has become absolutely meaningless to me very quickly over the past year. I don't want to be just another execution arm for someone else. Trust me, I am not against Al. Heck, I have a masters in Al. I use a lot of GenAl myself, but work has lost all meaning to me. This GenAl stuff and the way it is changing software engineering creative process might be cool and fun to someone without a computer science or software engineering background. It might give them a sugar high, making them think they have superpowers now, but I find absolutely no joy in it. Needless to say, the use of Al where it should not be used is reaching new levels of absurdity. I want to go back to "basics" and think. I invite you to do that as well. With that, cheers to a better tomorrow. Better for humans, not Al freaking agents
DEVO performs "Jerkin' Back n' Forth" for the first time in many, many years at The Natural History Museum in Los Angeles, CA - 6/9/13. Although Jerry Casale says DEVO hadn't performed this song in 30 years at the end of this video, it's probably been closer to 20 years. Still...a long time! Video by Michael Pilmer/Devo-Obsesso. https://youtu.be/usF2jBqgHTk
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Trump holding UNO cards saying “I have all the cards”
Alleged surveillance footage of a man running past many agents supposedly trying to protect against men running past.
Screenshot of Bluesky showing pinned feeds.
Tony Abbott: "Nah it's pretty obvious that um... well sometimes sh't happens doesn't it?"
Clip from Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999)
“He is not a monster,” says Kirilly Dutton, at the time one of the few supporters of PM hubby, Peter Dutton. Picture: PETER WALLIS
Sole of a foot with imprint of Lego pieces
April Fools image from Victoria Police with a hot air balloon over a wildly inaccurate image of Melbourne with Flinders Street station built in Jolimont rail yards facing the river.
That's why 9 out of 10 fim stars use Lux Tollet Soap always in the bath.
Very dusty PC insides
Public transport app route directions containing the step: Walk 93660m (18 mins)
Christmas tree decorated with underwear
Many people participated in the initial development of LISP, and I haven't been able to remember all their contributions and must settle, at this writing, for a list of names. I can remember Paul Abrahams, Robert Brayton, Daniel Edwards, Patrick Fischer, Phyllis Fox, Saul Goldberg, Timothy Hart, Louis Hodes, Michael Levin, David Luckham, Klim Mal-ing, Marvin Minsky, David Park, Nathaniel Rochester of IBM, and Steve Russell.
Acknowledgements: This manual was mainly written by Fox on the basis of information supplied by McCarthy and the authors of specific sections of LISP.
Magpie tapping on the window looking in.
Ann Sheridan in Nora Prentiss (1945)
OZtrail brand 60cm Mosquito Head Net
Screenshot of SPEED (1994)
NEWS Breaking First-home affordability is no longer just a Sydney problem, as mortgage stress spreads nationally, according to research by Domain
From Woman's Day article: "I put everything into being a mum. Everything. She's my reason for living. I'm so proud that she is who she is." Gia said it was important to show her daughter that it's ok to "shine", explaining to the expert that the reason was because she was "very bullied in school" herself. "Very, very bullied and it went all the way through high school," she said.
Chuck Norris giving the thumbs-up sign
ABC News notification: Victorian backbencher Jane Hume has been voted in as Angus Taylor's deputy, after beating three candidates
Screenshot of news report on the rebranding, showing old COON packaging and new CHEER packaging. Strapline reads “‘RACIST’ CHEESE REBRANDED”
Captain Pugwash
MGSD Gundam Barbatos nicknamed "Bubblegum Barbi" for its predominantly pink finish.
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, a.k.a. the 1st Baron of Lytton, is renowned as a writer, but not for being a good writer. He’s renowned for being one of the worst writers in history. His novels and plays — including Richelieu — are infamously pompous, long-winded and full of badly-constructed language. The most notorious example is the oft-quoted opening line of his historical novel Paul Clifford (1830), which begins: “It was a dark and stormy night…”
Book burning in Berlin while people seem to be pointing at the scapegoat
Argento is facing a total of 20 criminal charges, including allegations he stole 144 tubes of Sensodyne toothpaste from a Coles supermarket in Kew valued at more than $1623 on November 21. Police allege he returned to a Coles supermarket in the same suburb on December 20 and stole another 96 units of the same branded toothpaste valued at more than $1200. Ten days later, he visited Coles again and allegedly stole more than $800 worth of dental hygiene products.