Rob Abram

@robabram.bsky.social

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Emigré Brit, ex-Berliner, now herding cats across the asparagus fields of Beelitz. Tin-opener-in-chief to four cats. Did I mention the cats? GenAI delenda est #nobridge #nobot

A scene from Peter Greenaway‘s "The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover". No, not THAT scene.
A Royal Navy admiral going down with his ship, already up to his chest in seawater and stoically ignoring the life-belt drifting past.
A Google AI answer to the question "how many p's in Pete Postlethwaite", to which the spicy autocarrot has answered "4 - one in Pet e and three in Postlethwaite"
Spitfire aircraft with black and white invasion stripes painted on it to prevent Allied ground troops from shooting at it.
A boat, mounted on a railway trolley, being hauled up an incline on the Elblag Canal in Poland.
The stuffed stiff of Jeremy Bentham, appropriately on display for anyone to see.
Begbie from Trainspotting casually tossing a beer-glass off a pub balcony as a prelude to starting a mindless fight
The Google AI Overview for the search term "lemon raccoon" goes like this: A "lemon raccoon" can refer to an actual raccoon that eats fruit, including lemons, or it can describe a raccoon that is used as a deterrent because it dislikes the scent of lemons. The term can also be used in AI-generated content, such as an animation of a raccoon causing chaos in a lemon-themed city
The floatplane version of the sub-optimal Blackburn Roc naval turret fighter.
Aschenbrödel, disguised as a hunter, holding a crossbow and facing the Prince who has his back to the camera as one of the Prince‘s friend looks on.
A smol chocolate-brown British Shorthair cat stares intensely at the camera.
Paddy, a black and white cat with a very fluffy tummy, yawns mightily as he snoozes the day away after another hard night’s patrolling.
Paddy, a black-and-white cat, lies on his back with all four paws in the air, showing his fluffy white tummy. The paws are rather grubby because he‘s just come in from his nightly patrol, having walked 7.5 kilometres.
Paddy, a small fuzzy tuxedo kitten, stands on his hind legs resting his forepaws on the keyboard of a laptop.
British radio DJ John Peel, known for playing records at the wrong speed on occasion.
An octagonal water tower stands against a red sky at sunrise. The upper stories of the tower where the water tank is are half-timbered.
The hideously ugly Saxon armoured personnel carrier, seen from the front left.
A Citroen 2CV with the roof rolled back driving through axle-deep water in what appears to be a river
The ruins of Whitby Abbey against an almost cloudless blue sky with an expanse of uncut grass in the foreground
A packet of Purina "Bonio" dog-biscuits
A cable with an Ethernet plug at one end and a 220v two-pin Eurostecker mains plug at the other end, otherwise known as an Etherkiller. Don’t try this at home, kids.