Mike

@mikemacleod@infosec.exchange
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Toronto based human. All views my cat’s.
MikeMar 29, 2024
UnclePJMar 29, 2024
I read somewhere that Fitbits are just modern day Tamagotchis and the stupid animal you’re trying to keep healthy is just you. I think about that a lot.
MikeFeb 14, 2024
Euan 2025Feb 12, 2024
Eric Idle being the best surviving Python
MikeJan 15, 2024
DocAtCDIJan 15, 2024

It's inappropriate to make a dad joke if you're not a dad.

It’s a faux pa.

MikeJan 14, 2024
My wife made rainbow pancakes for the rugrat today. Pretty impressive, if you ask me.
MikeDec 25, 2023
packetcatDec 20, 2023

"They Want You To Forget What A Film Looks Like" by Chris Person

https://aftermath.site/true-lies-4k-uhd-blu-ray-james-cameron-peter-jackson-park-road-post

They Want You To Forget What A Film Looks Like - Aftermath

The 4K transfer of True Lies is what happens when a company uses proprietary tech to overwrite and denoise history.

MikeDec 25, 2023
beetlejuice's ghoulish wifeDec 25, 2023
if you're worried that you're too old to do anything amazing remember that the grinch did not burglarize an entire hamlet overnight until he was fifty three years old
MikeDec 3, 2023
Meanwhile in CanadaDec 2, 2023
You've heard of elf on a shelf, now we have:
MikeNov 15, 2023
Cameron MacLeodNov 14, 2023

The City of Toronto wants to hear from you to help us make recommendations on which bikeways to build, upgrade and study in 2025 to 2027.

Fill out a short survey or use an interactive map to share your thoughts on future bikeways.

https://www.toronto.ca/services-payments/streets-parking-transportation/cycling-in-toronto/cycling-pedestrian-projects/cycling-network-plan/cycling-network-public-input/

#Toronto #TOPoli #BikeTO #CycleTO

Cycling Network 2025-2027 Public Input

Fill out a short survey or use an interactive map to share your thoughts on future bikeways. Comment period ends December 14. The City wants to hear from you to help us make recommendations on which bikeways to build, upgrade and study in 2025 to 2027.   Review the information materials explaining why the City […]

City of Toronto
MikeNov 13, 2023
Mandu 🥟Nov 12, 2023
your pets demand an explanation
MikeNov 11, 2023
kira :3Oct 3, 2023
getting fired from apple for printing out little pieces of paper that say ".DS_Store" and leaving them everywhere
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Euan 2025Feb 12, 2024
Eric Idle being the best surviving Python
Show threadViolet RoseFeb 12, 2024

@Euan
Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown,
And things are hard or tough,
And people are stupid, obnoxious, or daft,
And you feel that you've had quite enough...

Just listen to Eric Idle for proof that you're never too old to "get it."

Show threadKit Rhett AultmanFeb 12, 2024
@Euan These are such incredibly English answers to give to these, too. 😆
Show threadClinton Anderson SwordForHireFeb 12, 2024

@Euan

Yeah, someone needs to sew John Cleese and Graham Linehan into a bag along with a heavy rock and throw that bag into a deep river

Show threadChloé RaccoonFeb 12, 2024
@Euan @TundraWolf My normal thought of an Eric Idle quote on this kind of subject is always the first Discworld point and click game... "That doesn't work" ;)
Show threadDr. Juande Santander-VelaFeb 12, 2024

@Euan of course, it is apt that the standard Python coding environment is called IDLE 😉

https://docs.python.org/3/library/idle.html

IDLE

Source code: Lib/idlelib/ IDLE is Python’s Integrated Development and Learning Environment. IDLE has the following features: cross-platform: works mostly the same on Windows, Unix, and macOS, Pytho...

Python documentation
Show threadThadFeb 12, 2024
@Euan Michael Palin's still cool too, right?
Show threadEuan 2025Feb 12, 2024
@Thad I hope so! Always enjoyed the gag in Holy Flying Circus about him being The Nicest Man in the World.
Show threadCalumFeb 16, 2024
@Thad @Euan And funnier, to be honest.
Show threadSci Fi Brickyards 🚀Feb 12, 2024
@Euan
Good old Eric 👍
Show threadluna (tangleofthorns)Feb 12, 2024
@Euan i mean Michael Palin, though
Show threadMelly BeanFeb 12, 2024
@Euan I always hoped Cleese was just doing a bit with the cancel culture stuff, like some self-deprecating "I'm not funny and it's the audience's fault" skit

because he acts like a horrible old man a lot for jokes at his own expense...

i remember the one where he's being chauvinistic in his "retirement" and the camera cuts to his young female nurse walking away as he's floating face-down in the pool with the wheelchair sunk to the bottom
Show threadRodneyPetersonTalentAgencyFeb 12, 2024

@mel @Euan

He’s had some bad breaks which have cost him a lot of money. Divorce, Fierce Creatures failing even though it’s quite a good film, etc. To his credit, he hates Trump immensely and I’m sure the Tories as well. He’s still cool.

Show threadJuho MäntysaloFeb 15, 2024

@RodneyPetersonTalent @mel @Euan

Divorces, plural. And apparently he was always optimistic enough to not get a nuptial agreement when he tried again.

Show threadZorro Notorious MEB 😡Feb 12, 2024
@Euan Indeed ... he had not one, but *two* Python IDEs named after him!
Show threadAlexander 😷Feb 12, 2024
@Euan https://hachyderm.io/@alxndr/110159224897273768
Alexander 😷 (@alxndr@hachyderm.io)

Attached: 1 image Foreshadowing... #TransRightsAreHumanRights

Hachyderm.io
Show threadklausfiendFeb 12, 2024
@Euan I have it on good authority that Mr. Nudge-Nudge himself is a lovely human IRL.
Show thread🇨🇦 SteveFeb 12, 2024
@Euan @ianbetteridge That comment on seven years is *so* cold.
Show threadRodneyPetersonTalentAgencyFeb 12, 2024

@Euan

John Cleese has quite a bit of social awareness and is still funny. It’s a shame that he lost a lot of money on Fierce Creatures, the followup to A Fish Called Wanda. It shouldn’t have happened, it’s a good and funny film.

Michael Palin made an amazing second career for himself with travel series, most very challenging (Pole to Pole, Around the World in 80 Days, Pacific Rim, Sahara, etc.)

Eric idle just seems to be idling by comparison, although happy. Good for him.

Show threadIsaac Ji KuoFeb 13, 2024

@RodneyPetersonTalent @Euan Eric Idle basically created Spamalot by himself, after not being able to get the others interested.

After it became a hit, he got the others to participate with what they could fit in (with some appreciative embarrassment, as they couldn't "see" how good the idea was at the time).

Show threadMarc LepageFeb 13, 2024
@Euan Also this recent article:
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68246210
Eric Idle: Monty Python star working at 80 for financial reasons

Eric Idle told fans on social media that Monty Python was a financial "disaster".

BBC News
Show threadFardels BearFeb 13, 2024

@Euan

Who knew that John Cleese would turn into Basil Fawlty?

Show threadPaul ChernoffFeb 13, 2024
@Euan @ianbetteridge I’m approaching old foggydom (not there yet) so I appreciate when someone like Eric Idle doesn't complain.
Show threadEarthlingFeb 13, 2024

@Euan Ugh! More info in this article. Good for Eric for speaking up.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/inside-the-monty-python-curse-that-threatens-the-comedy-icons-legacy/ar-BB1iaG1y

MSN

Show threadgeographileFeb 13, 2024
@Euan not Michael Palin?
Show threadgeographileFeb 13, 2024
@Euan but dear gods those are brilliant
Show threadAphrodite ☑️ Feb 13, 2024

@Euan

Growing up does not mean one needs to grow old.

Cleese, he’s grown old. He’s the exact wanker he mocked 50y ago on BBC.

Idle? He’s grown up. He has the awareness and cogency to recognize that he should be the target of appropriate mockery.

And he laughs at himself.

I forget who wrote, “Life’s a laugh and death’s the joke, it’s true. You’ll see it’s all a show. Keep’em laughing as you go. Just remember that the last laugh is on you,” but Idle really gets it. ;)

Show threadJoeFeb 13, 2024
@Aphrodite @Euan That's Eric's song.
Show threadAphrodite ☑️ Feb 13, 2024

@not2b @Euan

[Hi! Editor in my head here. Also a long time fan of Monty Python because British comedy is one of the reasons I survived my teenage years, and that’s no exaggeration. The smiley face at the end should’ve been sufficient to indicate that of course I know The Last Cool Python™ who sang this while being absolutely hammered on screen, wrote this song which has so much insight for such a playful, seemingly throwaway piece. -ed.]

Show threadJoeFeb 13, 2024
@Aphrodite @Euan Sorry I missed the joke.
Show threadWyatt (🏳️‍⚧️♀?)Feb 13, 2024

@Euan And the most musical one, too. :)

Cleese has self professed to be tone-deaf. Which is probably why in that sketch on flying circus where he's an archaeologist with someone piggybacking on him, he has someone else's song obviously dubbed over it.

Show threadpenpencilbrush🇨🇦Feb 13, 2024
@Euan *cough cough, ah hem* Michael Palin and Eric Idle
Show threadSomeGadgetGuyFeb 13, 2024
@Euan I didn't know that I needed to read those tonight, but I did.
Thanks for sharing.
Show threadbettybarcode (she/her) 🚲Feb 13, 2024
@Euan
He was the cutest one, too. 🙂
Show threadwraptileFeb 13, 2024

@Euan The "cancel trope" ruined so much comedy tbh. It's so incredibly boring 😴

It's such a major contrast when you compare American comedy to other countries which didn't get trapped in this meme.

The worst part? Americans just can't get enough of this fake conflict. It's like you guys actively don't want to be happy or something.

Show threadJake in the desertFeb 13, 2024
@Euan Idle is great. Cleese is a gross racist and it's really a shame.
Show thread💡𝚂𝗆𝖺𝗋𝗍𝗆𝖺𝗇 𝙰𝗉𝗉𝗌📱Feb 13, 2024
@Euan
What they say: cancel culture
What they mean: free market consumer choice
Show threadSomeAnoTooterFeb 13, 2024
@Euan those who are talking most about cancel culture don't realise it is ok to exist and always had. You know the right to marry your loved once, even if they have the same genitalia? If you are strongly against those, you are cancelling them. Oh you don't want to go on a Taylor Swift(or any other) concert? Are you CaNcElLiNg her???
The only thing which is not cancel culture and is not ok is threats to or lies about people!
E.g: talk like a Nazi and you will be called out to be a Nazi no cancel
Show threadLenFeb 13, 2024
@Euan oh thank goodness!
Show threadMegatronicThronBanksFeb 13, 2024
@Euan Jesus this ageist crap can fuck off.
Show threadPalmAndNeedleFeb 13, 2024
@Euan it makes me happy, too, Eric 
Show threadMystery Babylon Feb 13, 2024
@Euan Always the best. 👍️