Michael Collins

Why not SkaGPT?

BCCLA condemns the Liberal government’s unfounded, biased, and authoritarian decision to bar Irish-language rap group @kneecapceol.bsky.social from Canada, preventing them from performing their October shows.

Email your MP and tell them to Reverse Kneecap's Travel Ban! bit.ly/ReverseKneec...

Burned by this once, never again!

A message to Vince Gasparro, who has banned us from Canada, and our many fans there. 👇

Reverse Kneecap Travel Ban - BC Civil Liberties Association BCCLA condemns the Liberal government’s unfounded, biased, and authoritarian decision to bar Irish-language rap group Kneecap from Canada, preventing them from performing their scheduled shows in Octo...

I just found out about @bccla.bsky.social through bccla.org/2025/09/reve... - I have donated and will send real letters this weekend. Multiculturalism is special. I fondly remember being told “you can call Canada home, we are multicultural” by a stranger at a party a year after I moved here!

Canada has many flaws. We should be proud of Canadian Multiculturalism (1971), which federally recognizes the diversity and validity of all cultures which make up Canada; Israeli and Palestinian included. @kneecapceol.bsky.social are artists, not terrorists and should be welcomed back not banned.

Also gutted for my 15 year old and wife and friends who wouldn’t/couldn’t go to the show last year and were really looking forward to the gig!

I went to see them in a dive venue in Vancouver in March last year, it was an amazing show and there were no terrorist incidents afterwards! I can take or leave their recorded music but they are making some serious statements under the messing. I’m disappointed in Canada today!

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Imagine if we also did not use Slack, Teams etc at work …

I had a super long layover in Munich in early November last year, I took the train into the city and visited NSDOKU, a museum on the grounds of a former political party. Definitely no reason to do so just days before a large election last year …

Hooray for late stage capitalism and creating shareholder value!

As an example, long ago working on backend services for video games … the only way to justify reliability and availability work beyond what was needed to survive launches was micro-transactions becoming a thing; they introduced a direct link between downtime and lost revenue!

The same neglect of maintenance and tech debt in favour of new features and products also happens for internal non foss work at all large corporations, to varying degrees. At least in my experience having worked on various types of infrastructure for over two decades.

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As an aside, I love the “‘ole movie factory”; I haven’t heard it before but it very much reminds me of friends who work for a fruit company or saying I work for a bookshop.

Polyglot Unconference is back. Saturday Oct 11th. Would love to see you there. Old faces, help spread the word. www.polyglotsoftware.com

Irréversible at the IFC was the first date I went on with my now wife

There are definitely dogs I have pet pets at 1000 times, but I worry I may not have pet 1000 unique dogs

At least I imagine it is, I don’t think I have ever had a breakfast roll

A key ingredient for breakfast rolls

I guess it’s a monument to what you and the others built decades ago. Your foresight, bravery, vision etc ultimately led to a community which has stood the test of time and now is verifiable source reference material for the Wikipedia article on breakfast rolls.

Now Ye're Talkin'

I’m really not sure what to make of a boards.ie thread being used as a reference …

So many. The worst was massive soft tissue damage and a chipped bone in my ankle the one time I wore Birkenstocks taking my kids to a mountain bike skills park. I planned to watch and got talked into dropping in off a ramp by my youngest. The ER doc said a clean break would have been better :(

I’m watching the Guy Ritchie TV show MobLand occasionally to switch my brain off, his Irish accent in it is curious. (It’s no where near as jarring as Helen Mirrwns attempt at an Irish accent in the same show)

Wow, I’m guessing the last time I bought a hard copy 2600 was over 25 years ago. Old.

Looks light a lighter load than my dog backpack!

While jet lagged many years ago I told my Mum she could dunk her new grandkid in magic water in the sink, but, there’s no way we will have a church baptism ceremony as I don’t want my kid registered on Pope Bennie’s books in the Vatican. Too harsh in hindsight!

Congrats! Does that mean you’ll get to work with the folks on Terminal avenue and/or in Santa Monica again, or is it all segregated?

Every Canadian Election I approach different party leaders. Mark Carney & 
Jagmeet Singh did interviews but I’m still waiting to hear back from Pierre Poilievre. I’ll keep trying though. I won’t give up. Cuz that’s what I do. Here’s  Elizabeth May youtu.be/Q3yyCjOFDu4