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sashibashi.bsky.social
Recovering computer geek, still learning to understand people. Bassist and Bass VI convert who also makes nasty noises on guitars and keyboards. A cyborg from Scotland in Dublin, with an accent somewhere out in the Mid-Atlantic. #LambdaMale.
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‘I now declare this bomb disposal school open.’ ‘Not THAT ribbon…..’

submitted 29 days ago • 4 comments

Looking for something to do on my last night in London, saw @mrrickygervais.bsky.social had a 4pm show. Last-minute dash to see if there were seats, but all they had was a barstool at the back of the hall for £42. Had a good laugh at that, at least. #IDon’tThinkSo

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Visiting @aiatkings for a talk on #AI and mental health. Am I not on holiday? Yes, I am.

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

Still figuring out #TouristMode as a concept. I live in a tourist destination (#Dublin), but it mostly bypasses me. So, when I’m Touristing as am I this week, I don’t expect locals to care. Tomorrow I’ll be in London again as a tourist, even though I lived there for 8y. Same place, different eyes.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Just landed in #Ramsgate. Why? I’m in #TouristMode, heading for the seaside, with a side quest of geekery. Destination: this-museum-is-not-obsolete.com

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

I saw the Roland SH-4d synth workstation got a major update and considered one, but that somehow inspired to dig in to the tools I already have, such as #GarageBand on my iPad. Very usable, great sounds, but I wish it supported key, time or tempo changes between song sections.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

I feel some #metapoetry coming over me: There was a young lady from #Limerick Who thought she would show off her party trick, But she picked a bad time To bust out a rhyme And got clocked in the head with a hockey stick.

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

I hitchhiked quite a lot when I was younger and living in South Africa. But movies like The Hitcher really turned people off the idea ..!

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Music Producer Roy Thomas Baker has died at 78: producer of many classic albums, including several by Journey and The Cars, but best known for producing all the early Queen albums. He produced Bohemian Rhapsody: a towering achievement in itself.

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

Easter Sunday always reminds me of the gift shop at a cathedral near Palermo, when the woman in front of me said: 'Oh, and a man on a stick, please.'

submitted 65 days ago • 19 comments

Finished Fair Play by Louise Hegarty today: thought-provoking. It’s not exactly as it’s being sold, and many reviewers seem to be confused about its core theme. It starts as one kind of book and finishes as a different, better book. I won’t spoil it for anyone, but it’s very good.

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

I've actually read Atlas Shrugged - as dystopian SF, not as handbook - and the world looks a bit like that but in reverse. In the book the world collapses and the US oligarchs hole up so they can ride to the rescue. Today it looks like the USA will collapse and Europe will have to step in later.

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

'The Great Gatsby' was published 100 years ago today, on April 10, 1925. I remember other kids being assigned it in high school but I wasn't. I didn't read it myself until I was in my thirties. As soon as I finished it I read it again, then again. It's a perfect little gem—not a wasted word.

submitted 74 days ago • 29 comments

“I hope we shall take warning from the example and crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country.” Thomas Jefferson, to George Logan (1816). Oops …

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

Artist: christhebarker https://b3ta.com/board/11416896 From the 'If Kids Stories Told The Truth' challenge https://b3ta.com/challenge/ifkidsstoriestoldthetruth/popular/ #IfKidsStoriesToldTheTruth

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

Enormously honoured to be featured on both the novel and series shortlists for this year’s Hugo awards.

submitted 78 days ago • 62 comments

New episode of Winds of Change! The Indian Nationalist cause splits between Moderates and Radicals. British Viceroys dodge bombs from revolutionary terrorists. We meet three major characters: Srinivasa Sastri, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, and Mohandas Gandhi. Listen here: cms.megaphone.fm/channel/ARML...

submitted 182 days ago • 2 comments

Elbows up, Canada.

submitted 93 days ago • 1525 comments

I still have only one question re. The Suxxesses: “Why?”

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

Just left the #Kennedy Centre… the one in #Belfast. It’s another shopping centre, this time on the West side, the famous Falls Road. More Irish than #Dublin complete with sectarian murals and Irish in Celtic fonts everywhere. #TryingTooHard The Glider “road tram” is fast, though.

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

Still in #Belfast, I accidentally wandered in to a bit of history happening: the Connswater Shopping Centre on its last day before closing entirely. (I was looking for lunch.) “Difficult Trading Conditions” are #Rentier economics in action: sit on assets, rent them out, milk the renters dry.

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

I have friends in the USA, but will I get to visit them in the next four years? If I am denied entry because I openly think that Trump and Musk want to turn the USA into a theocratic kleptocracy, at least it will be at Preclearance in Dublin, and not at JFK. Or a denied ESTA application, perhaps.

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

In the Botanic Gardens next to Queen’s University, #Belfast, past a statue of William Thomson, a.k.a.Lord Kelvin, who studied there. I don’t believe we’re related, but it’s a nice thought. The Gardens are full of students doing student stuff on a nice-ish early Spring day.

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

My Linux laptop is named "Grandma" because every time it goes to sleep there's a terrific chance it's never gonna wake up again.

submitted 96 days ago • 45 comments

Taking the train from #Dublin to #Belfast on a misty Thursday morning.

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

St. Patrick’s Day doesn’t mean a lot to me, even after 25+ years in #Ireland. I do have some Irish ancestors, but from around Tyrone or Fermanagh, meaning that they were likely Ulster Scots that had been shipped there during the Plantations of the 17th Century. DNA says a little #Donegal, though.

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

"The Ides of March are come." "Aye, Caesar, but not gone." (gulp)

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

Word of the day is ‘hingum-tringum’: 19th-century Scots for feeling feeble or barely presentable, and just about hanging together.

submitted 104 days ago • 58 comments

"Mr Humphries, are you free?" "I'm not free!" Artist: HappyToast https://b3ta.com/board/11415984

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

I call myself a #bassist, sure, but I was never going to set the world on fire. There are superlative musicians that the world has barely heard of, such as this guy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt5j...

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

The "real job" reference in my last post is hopefully ironic: what is a "real job" anyway? I like Cory Wong's answer: youtu.be/Dz85I7_IeS8

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

I actually did have a shot at a career in music, but didn't want it badly enough. Some have made it big, through luck, not hard work, but not me: I got a "real job" with no chance to join the #27Club. More money would be great, but at what personal cost? www.theguardian.com/music/2025/m...

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments