Shane McKee

Greenisland #ShareOurShore

Beach beagle

small child, top of head reflection on shiny worktop

Shiny worktop, 2015 (Olivia's wee heid)

From my archives - Marameelan, Donegal, 2015

In all honesty, I preferred the atmosphere of the original Quake - more inventive, more fun monsters. The Arcane Dimensions mod is fabulous, particularly the incredibly beautiful Tears of the False God map...

Shane and Brompton bike

Have Brompton, will travel.

If you don't want the city centre of Belfast to further resemble a half dead shopping mall comprised of soulless chains, you can spend a minute of your time filling this survey out in defence of Yallaa who have been doing an unreal job running their cafe in 2 Royal Avenue. We've enough Starbucks.

Oh dear - the hinge springs on this #Psion 5mx are a *disaster*! Can they be fixed??

First, a little tape to stabilise things... then a red hot needle to make some tiny holes...

Then some fine wire to tie down the hinge springs, put it all together, and we're in business!

A little Psion 5mx repair, you say? Why, of course! A little tape, a red hot pin, a little wire and a whole lot of love ❤️. These machines are *fantastic*, even after a quarter of a century.

I was telling my med students yesterday about how the *human genome* was nearly enshittified by the tech bros. John Sulston, head of the UK arm, had to work tirelessly on Collins, Clinton & Blair to prevent Venter's planned monetisation of the genome. He is much missed.

Hey I did a fun thing with @warren.senate.gov about breaking up giant healthcare conglomerates

Support Yallaa Cafe at 2 Royal Avenue Yallaa Cafe has been a social enterprise anchor in 2RA since August 2022. As the Council looks at the future of the building, we want to demonstrate the community value we provide. Thank you for your ...

ie turn it into a commercial venture and privatise this public space.

Yallaa needs us to tell Belfast City Council how important their work is.

It shouldn't have to prove its value in this way but we can help.

Please complete and share this. It would mean the world to these great people.

I don't have The Solution, but the journal model of propagation of scientific knowledge needs to die. It needed to die many many years ago.

Uta Frith: why I no longer think autism is a spectrum The autism spectrum has widened to the point of collapse, affecting how teachers should support autistic pupils in the classroom, researcher Uta Frith tells Helen Amass

Super interview with @utafrith.bsky.social on the ever expanding spectrum of “autism” www.tes.com/magazine/tea...

It's the inability to make those spreading lies accountable that's the problem. They profit whilst gaslighting. A nice expensive fine or closing of such irresponsible media platforms is required.

While some of Grokipaedia's errors may seem banal, the whitewashing of the appalling behaviour of Paisley in the Troubles suggests something much darker and more systematic. Also, AI getting high on its own recycled supply seems to be a Bad Thing.

Happy days - I just gave a lecture this morning to a load of our medical students, recommending #Enshittification (the book), as well as "The Common Thread" by John Sulston - the man who prevented the enshittification of the genome.

Good luck in the new job, Britney! You'll be great!

That's a fine point. I always find it weird looking at photos of Cobain and McCartney with their necks out the wrong side...

I'm not entirely convinced the world is a safer place than it was a week or so ago.

What sorcery is this?!

Psion Ericsson hinge flanges repair with book binding tape - amazing stuff.

Hinge flanges broken on my Ericsson Psion MC218 - time to fix

What a beauty! Ericsson MC218 psion 5mx clone running HieroVu, my hieroglyphic app

Also FIX THINGS! :-)

Removing the FPTP scam and bringing in a maximal-consent STV/AV system is a matter of national security.

FPTP is a scam. There never was a "post" to be first past. STV (AV for one seat) at least guarantees the maximal consent for whoever is to represent the constituency. Labour should bring this in urgently.

Ancient tree backlit by the morning Derry-Londonderry sun trying to break through behind the clouds over the bridge stretching across the Foyle. #NorthernIreland

I took this photo the other morning up in Culmore, Derry-Londonderry near the foot of the Foyle Bridge. It seemed to capture the moment that winter was finally resigning itself to the coming of spring.

If I were Labour, I'd be using the cushion provided by having 400+ MPs to race to implement PR in time for the 2029 GE.

It could literally be the party's last ever chance to participate meaningfully in UK politics if they don't shake the electoral system up.

Just more evidence that the UKs “first past the post” voting system does not reflect the diversity of our politics. Time for a change

Ancient tree backlit by the morning Derry-Londonderry sun trying to break through behind the clouds over the bridge stretching across the Foyle. #NorthernIreland

I took this photo the other morning up in Culmore, Derry-Londonderry near the foot of the Foyle Bridge. It seemed to capture the moment that winter was finally resigning itself to the coming of spring.

Indeed - he may have had some views that we'd look askance at nowadays, but he'd have regarded himself as a son of Erin, like so many did. The DUP regard the Republic as a "foreign country" - it's really not.

Indeed. And if they don't wise the bap it will not only end the Union, but will significantly constrain the options for the type of United Ireland that may be available. If they could learn to be open and share our island, all sorts of models become possible.

This is why the DUP can't have nice things, and they don't want any of the rest of us to have nice things either. Plenty of people of Ulster Scots heritage regard all of Ireland as our shared homeland, whether uni- or bi-jurisdictional. Gregory's pettiness is a dying worldview.