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Mark Norman Francis
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Internet boffin.
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’80s BASIC type-in mags are back, but this time for HTML!
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November 11, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Best part of leftover Halloween candy is that nobody apart from me likes Parma Violets so I get them all.
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Growing concerned that Boo Boo might be the world's most photogenic kitten.
November 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Got my copy of @hellomcdm.bsky.social Draw Steel and I guess they decided people with old eyes didn’t need to be able to read the words, it’s all so TINY.
November 5, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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People will mock this. But something to note:

When Remembrance Day was introduced, this is EXACTLY what many British WW1 veterans did on it.

They would meet up with old friends and colleagues from their units. Talk. Laugh. Cry. Toast those not there and get joyously, and utterly shitfaced. /1
November 4, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Writing a data processor to populate my D&D Obsidian vault with content. My last commit was “Render the Gods unto me.”
November 1, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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I've said it before and I'll say it again. The first three words of "look at this asshole" is "look at this".
My perhaps controversial assessment is that when you share the propaganda of your enemies to call it out or to mock it… you’re still spreading their propaganda and maybe doing exactly what they hope you’ll do.
November 1, 2025 at 3:43 PM
I would like to have a job in a company that contributes to open source, so I could persuade it to throw some effort/money at GitX for a new release to fix all the awful behaviours it has on modern macOSs.
November 1, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Wet in Wandsworth
November 1, 2025 at 9:23 AM
If you see this, post a vampire that isn’t Dracula.
October 30, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Subspace Carertakerrrr
#Startrek #Sisko197
October 30, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Tolkien understood masculinity to a level Elon Musk and fascist tech bros can NEVER understand.

All the shit they do in Call of Duty he did for real in the mud and blood of the Western Front.

He came out of that rejecting all of the macho bullshit they claim it teaches you.

Fuck 'em.
October 29, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Version 1.109 ❌
Every new version I try pasting a GIF into the app and am disappointed. Don’t know why I thought this one would be different.

And this lack is about 80% of the reason I’ve not started making GIFs again. The inability to share them on the only social network I use.
📢 v1.107 is rolling out now!

We've done what was previously thought to be impossible: you can now add image or videos to your post using one magical button.

Just one step in making posting simpler and more enjoyable.
October 28, 2025 at 6:25 AM
@mattround.com Going through some old D&D books and found that one has “Typical Beholder day”, and I thought of you.
October 27, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Ugh, we’ve crested into needing the microwave to have spreadable butter temperatures.
October 27, 2025 at 6:51 AM
4.23am.
Good morning to everyone trying to explain Daylight Saving Time to their cat.
October 26, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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guys I assure you, there are dozens of us on earth who do not live in the United States of America

dozens
October 25, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Babylon 1
Babylon 2
Babylon 3
Babylon 4
Babylon 5
Name the five greatest Science Fiction franchises.
Not best stories or lone ideas.
Not most profitable.
Specifically "greatest" and "franchise," as you define them.
My list:
Doctor Who
Godzilla
Star Trek
Star Wars
Twilight Zone
October 25, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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my god he is serious oh joshua, joshua, joshua .... sweetie.

No. Just ... no. I mean, no.

Joshua, I need you to sit down and listen to your Elders. I am here to tell you, with my full chest, that you are ignorant and wrong, you should be embarrassed that you said this crap out loud.
okay grandpa, let's get you to bed
October 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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🥪 Some of your delicious lunchtime #CrispSandwichDay sandwiches, credits on the site: vole.wtf/crisp-sandwi...
October 25, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Thought I’d get a little fancy today and have a cucumber sandwich. #CrispSandwichDay
October 25, 2025 at 11:51 AM
norm.hasworn.com/tshirts/cris... — This is the fourth time I've worn this tshirt, the last time was a year ago.
October 25, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Women saved Star Trek, women put together the first Star Trek con, women put together the zines and wrote the fanfic (and decided Kirk & Spock should be together and that ship was called Kirk/Spock and "slash" is literally a thing because of that slash). I could go on—

fanlore.org/wiki/Timelin...
okay grandpa, let's get you to bed
October 25, 2025 at 5:08 AM
I don’t know if you’re in the centre of the Venn diagram of uses-Obsidian, plays-dnd-5e, and never-pays-for-things, but if you are, here’s the 2024 D&D SRD packaged in an Obsidian vault: github.com/your5e/5e-sr...
October 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Wake up, babe, the least subtle visual metaphor in history just dropped
October 21, 2025 at 4:18 AM