Angus McIntyre

@angusm
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I play with words, cameras & computers
Science-Fiction/Fantasy Writinghttps://angus.pw
Photography & Morehttps://raingod.com
Travel/Photo Bloghttps://disoriented.net
Languagesen (native) / fr, it (fluent) / es, nl (some)

Sorry to hear that Michael Keating, who played the cowardly but capable Vila in the BBC science-fiction series “Blake’s 7”, has died.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Keating_(actor)

Michael Keating (actor) - Wikipedia

ME: It's nice sometimes to wear something that isn't completely covered in cat fur.

ORANGE CAT (leaping into my lap): Not on MY watch!

#cats

RE: https://mastodon.social/@dansup/116584545893648082

I’m always stunned by how undervalued the openness of the Fediverse is. Something that isn’t hostage to the whims of billionaires or advertisers, that is as nearly #enshittification-proof as anything can be, is amazing. It bugs me more people don’t appreciate or value that.

Protocols liberate, platforms control: protocols like ActivityPub or the HTTP/HTML combo that built the Web put tools in the hands of whoever wants to use them. Platforms like Facebook or Twitter are purpose-built traps.

Cairo street cat has Opinions.

#caturday #CatsOfMastodon #cats

As the robot vacuum rolls into the room, the cat in my lap looks at me anxiously as if to say “It's got us trapped. What are we going to do?”

(Plot twist: the robot has sucked up so much orange fur that it probably counts as some kind of cyborg-cat chimera. If they form an alliance against me, I'm done for).

Furious tail. #cats #CatsOfLoops
It’s “mandated password change” time at work again, which means that I will spend the next six months awkwardly mistyping or forgetting my new password until it’s time to change it again.
Last night's fireworks display put on by some billionaire to celebrate the 30th anniversary of his dwindling (according to the FT) hedge fund was pretty to watch, but it was also much too late at night and frightened my cat. So that’s where we are, I guess.
All these headlines about how AI makes people lazy and dumb make me feel very smug, because I was lazy and dumb long before AI came along.

The paperback of Winston Malone's "Take a Breath”, an anthology of claustrophobic horror, is now available for pre-order. It includes my creepy little story “Tourist Trap”, as well as other good stuff.

Amazon, Bookshop.org & B&N are taking paperback pre-orders, or you can buy the ebook from Bookshop.org & Kobo today.

#ebooks #fiction #horror #claustrophobia