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Alistair Dabbs 💻📰 @alidabbs

Freelance journalist | tech & media trainer | Chair, NUJ Paris Branch | Montpellier | Find me on Bluesky as alidabbs

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Alistair Dabbs 💻📰 @alidabbs
23 Feb 2025
To avoid my tweets being deleted, I shall not write a single word about Elon Musk.
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Apps that ask if you are still alive are all the rage. And now my team-leader has got in on the act, sending notifications to check whether or not we’ve dropped dead at our desks or just having “a slow day”. [Con in 60 Seconds] autosaveisforwimps.substack.…
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In 2008, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi called for Switzerland to be abolished. In 2025, Elon Musk called for Europe to be abolished. [Autosave is for Wimps] featuring an AI that reckons weather forecasts are woke. autosaveisforwimps.substack.…
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Paranoid? Moi? Or should I say: “Moi, toi et eux if they happen to be listening?” [Con in 60 Seconds] autosaveisforwimps.substack.…
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I have just read some posts here on Twitter, for the first time in ages. Fucking hell, what a shit-hole of pea-brains.
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Aircon controls make no sense whatsoever. The button icons and handset LCD interface were designed by a maniac. Everybody else in the meeting room has already had a go before you turned up, and they all failed. Now it’s your turn... [Con in 60 Seconds] autosaveisforwimps.substack.…
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You have to hand it to these junk mailers: they know how to grab your attention. Especially the sphincter-loosening devil doll who springs from your computer display as effectively as Sadako from a Japanese television. autosaveisforwimps.substack.…
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The latest on the Angoulême Comics Festival shitstorm, explained in detail by comics journalist Dean Simons. Les dernières nouvelles sur la polémique autour du Festival International de la BD d'Angoulême, expliqué en détail par le journaliste Dean Simons. comicsbeat.com/angouleme-202…

ANGOULÊME 2026 in serious doubt as publishers and authors cancel to protest Bondoux's involvement

Creators and publishers are threatening a boycott after controversial 9e Art and owner Franck Bondoux are set to resume running Angoulême

comicsbeat.com
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There’s nothing a South Korean football fan loves more than to dress up in full England national kit, head to Sangam stadium and chant: “Ingerland, Ingerlaaaaand…” FREE POST from [Autosave is for Wimps] featuring five David Beckham haircuts. autosaveisforwimps.substack.…
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A few years ago while visiting St Albans cathedral, I took a couple of photos of St Albans' shrine and added a GPS co-ordinate for the precise location to Google Maps. This evening, Google emailed me to say it had attracted half a million views. maps.app.goo.gl/fp5fQrezyBDw…

Shrine of St Alban · Cathedral View, St Albans AL1 1BY, United Kingdom

★★★★★ · Shrine

google.com
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"When the AI gets embarrassed by gaps in its knowledge, it bullshits. It does it not to deceive but to win your acceptance. And what harm is there in a little embellishment? Look at your own LinkedIn profile, for example." [Con in 60 Seconds] autosaveisforwimps.substack.…
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Wednesday's FREE post from [Autosave is for Wimps] featuring the least scary mask you will see this Halloween plus a swimsuit model on a rug. autosaveisforwimps.substack.…
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"At our coworking place there's an ancient PC that nobody else will touch, let alone try to install anything clever on it. It’s my favourite PC. To my horror, tech support has just upgraded it to Windows 11..." Audio fun with [Con in 60 Seconds] autosaveisforwimps.substack.…
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"While we’re looking at his face… why is that all the weirdos portrayed in Korean spam are westerners? Almost certainly Americans? (Don’t bother, I think I’ve answered my own question.)" Free Korean Spam on Wednesdays! autosaveisforwimps.substack.…
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Mme D has one of those fitness apps that switches into nag-nag-nag mode. “Keep it up!” it tells her. “You’ve reached your sixty-second goal!” – which makes no sense as Mme D doesn’t play football. [Autosave is for Wimps] featuring Wolf Alice. autosaveisforwimps.substack.…
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Now that everything ends up in Junk, regardless whether it is or not, we have to trudge through endless shit about sleeping pills and weight-loss injections just to find last week’s meeting minutes. [Con in 60 Seconds] autosaveisforwimps.substack.…
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"I bet your perverted mind even interprets sexual innuendo from innocent sentences written by a Substack columnist on Fridays. Get a grip on yourself." [Autosave is for Wimps] featuring The Rolling Stones, The Floaters, Monty Python and Deicide. autosaveisforwimps.substack.…
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"I don't mind left-over office party balloons but the farty deflation noises are distracting when you’re on a video call. And I suspect the released helium is playing havoc with my vocal chords as the meeting progresses." [Con in 60 Seconds] Episode 30 autosaveisforwimps.substack.…
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Show me the money! Loan sharks' spam email technique in South Korea in the mid- 2000s. Episode 9 of Dabbsy's Curious Museum of Korean Spam just dropped. autosaveisforwimps.substack.…
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“Fancy a coffee?” My heart sinks. Once I step outside my own house, all coffee is shit. That's why they give you a stack of sugar cubes taller than the coffee cup itself: to take the awful taste away. [Autosave is for Wimps] featuring Ultra Vomit. autosaveisforwimps.substack.…
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I have a job title, as it turns out. It lasted all of 30 seconds before it got changed again. They really must value me! I can’t tell you how overjoyed I am about this. [Con in 60 Seconds] Featuring copious quantities of hinge oil. autosaveisforwimps.substack.…
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