Stuart Brown

@zzztype.bsky.social

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Publishing (mainly Arabic), politics (mainly socialist), jokes (mainly poor). A Brit transplanted to the Netherlands.

A screenshot of two lines from an Arabic manuscript. Alas, it’s establishing precisely what it says that is the point of this post, so if I could provide the full text, I wouldn’t be posting it.
A photo of my home office, which is largely Arabic-themed.
A photo of me and friends at a beer festival. Thee photo is taken with a wide angle lens and I am stood in the centre of the shot, causing my usually diminutive legs to look positively truncated.
A photo of me and my brother enjoying a glass of wine in the Raffles hotel in Singapore
A chart of the Wentworth scale, which is used by geologists to classify the grain size of what we plebs would call “rocks.” Pebbles are 4 to 64 millimeters in diameter; cobbles 64 to 256. Anything above that is a boulder.
A screenshot from a video of cardinals entering the conclave, showing a plump hand wearing a large gold ring pressed devoutly on an open Bible.
A screenshot of a ChatGPT input window which reads ‘I suppose I think it—and many of your responses—have jumped the gun a bit, because you include in them conditions for consciousness that I think might be in dispute. For instance, “self-awareness.” Is that necessary for consciousness? Mae yna beth fel hyn, yn siŵr…’
An AI generated image of a number of kangaroos with their tails entwined around each other, under a dark and foreboding sky. Like something out the worst corners of Lovecraft’s imagination.