Evil Jim O’Donnell
@eatyourgreens.org.uk
Research software engineer. Comics lover. Accessibility enthusiast.
https://mastodon.social/@eatyourgreens
Oxford RSE: https://www.rse.ox.ac.uk
Professional bio: https://www.rse.ox.ac.uk/dr-jim-odonnell
https://mastodon.social/@eatyourgreens
Oxford RSE: https://www.rse.ox.ac.uk
Professional bio: https://www.rse.ox.ac.uk/dr-jim-odonnell
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MYSTERIOUS STRANGER: *hands woman box* If you press this button, someone you don't know dies
WOMAN: Ok *presses button*
STRANGER: Whoa, I didn't even tell you about the money
WOMAN: I can't afford to pay much
STRANGER: No, you don't pay
WOMAN: Oh good *presses button again*
STRANGER: Jesus Christ
WOMAN: Ok *presses button*
STRANGER: Whoa, I didn't even tell you about the money
WOMAN: I can't afford to pay much
STRANGER: No, you don't pay
WOMAN: Oh good *presses button again*
STRANGER: Jesus Christ
March 25, 2024 at 5:57 PM
MYSTERIOUS STRANGER: *hands woman box* If you press this button, someone you don't know dies
WOMAN: Ok *presses button*
STRANGER: Whoa, I didn't even tell you about the money
WOMAN: I can't afford to pay much
STRANGER: No, you don't pay
WOMAN: Oh good *presses button again*
STRANGER: Jesus Christ
WOMAN: Ok *presses button*
STRANGER: Whoa, I didn't even tell you about the money
WOMAN: I can't afford to pay much
STRANGER: No, you don't pay
WOMAN: Oh good *presses button again*
STRANGER: Jesus Christ
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To start off the New Year I was invited to write a list for @giantbomb.bsky.social of the All-Stars of accessibility in 2025 that includes @assassinscreed.ubisoft.com, @compulsiongames.bsky.social, @doublefine.com, and @atomfall.com
giantbomb.com/posts/steve-...
giantbomb.com/posts/steve-...
Steve Saylor's Accessibility All-Stars of 2025 | Giant Bomb
The Accessible All-Stars of 2025: Games That Made Accessibility a Feature, Not an Afterthought - For GiantBomb.com's 2025 Game of the Year
giantbomb.com
January 1, 2026 at 9:25 PM
To start off the New Year I was invited to write a list for @giantbomb.bsky.social of the All-Stars of accessibility in 2025 that includes @assassinscreed.ubisoft.com, @compulsiongames.bsky.social, @doublefine.com, and @atomfall.com
giantbomb.com/posts/steve-...
giantbomb.com/posts/steve-...
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Just when it seemed like 2026 couldn’t get any worse, I’ve got a Myles Smith song stuck in my head.
January 4, 2026 at 11:14 PM
Just when it seemed like 2026 couldn’t get any worse, I’ve got a Myles Smith song stuck in my head.
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It's really hard to be sick when you're single. No-one to bring you medicine, no-one to cook you dinner, no-one to do the necessary daily maintenance to your camouflaged pit traps full of jagged rocks and sharp spears where billionaires are lured to their doom
January 4, 2026 at 11:05 PM
It's really hard to be sick when you're single. No-one to bring you medicine, no-one to cook you dinner, no-one to do the necessary daily maintenance to your camouflaged pit traps full of jagged rocks and sharp spears where billionaires are lured to their doom
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A really sad follow-up to this story — Alexis Erlinmeyer, one of the trans federal intelligence workers who was fired, has died of a pulmonary embolism. She was 31. Her family is burying her under her deadname, so friends are fundraising for an accurate memorial: www.gofundme.com/f/in-memory-...
NEW—In late Feb, Chris Rufo published leaked chats between queer/trans employees at US intel agencies. Then Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said she’d fire all involved.
I spoke to chat members who were fired, are on admin leave, and who kept their jobs about the new lavender scare:
I spoke to chat members who were fired, are on admin leave, and who kept their jobs about the new lavender scare:
Queer intel officers targeted by top secret chat leak get their chance to speak
Chris Rufo published the chats. Staffers say a new "lavender scare" is upon us.
www.thehandbasket.co
January 4, 2026 at 10:24 PM
A really sad follow-up to this story — Alexis Erlinmeyer, one of the trans federal intelligence workers who was fired, has died of a pulmonary embolism. She was 31. Her family is burying her under her deadname, so friends are fundraising for an accurate memorial: www.gofundme.com/f/in-memory-...
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‼️A German hacker known as "Martha Root" dressed as a pink Power Ranger and deleted a white supremacist dating website live onstage
This happened during the recent CCC conference.
This happened during the recent CCC conference.
January 2, 2026 at 8:19 PM
‼️A German hacker known as "Martha Root" dressed as a pink Power Ranger and deleted a white supremacist dating website live onstage
This happened during the recent CCC conference.
This happened during the recent CCC conference.
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Stop saying that all Schumer and Jeffries ever do is write strongly worded letters. Bullshit. They're not strongly worded at all.
January 4, 2026 at 6:15 AM
Stop saying that all Schumer and Jeffries ever do is write strongly worded letters. Bullshit. They're not strongly worded at all.
Whenever online radicalisation comes up in the news, why isn’t MumsNet mentioned?
In which Mumsnet women persuade each other that voting Reform will give the establishment “a kick in the arse”
Oh well done, you lot. Brexit again. Falling for the con and risking it all, cos that’ll teach them.
It won’t. It’ll just ruin life for everyone. Your children most of all.
(Sunday Times)
Oh well done, you lot. Brexit again. Falling for the con and risking it all, cos that’ll teach them.
It won’t. It’ll just ruin life for everyone. Your children most of all.
(Sunday Times)
January 4, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Whenever online radicalisation comes up in the news, why isn’t MumsNet mentioned?
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If banning conversion therapy for all people would make your religion 'illegal' then your religion deserves to be illegal.
January 4, 2026 at 12:37 PM
If banning conversion therapy for all people would make your religion 'illegal' then your religion deserves to be illegal.
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Bryan and @eyedotter.bsky.social announce their next graphic novel, Lo! An Amazon!
In the Age of Revolutions demanding greater liberties for mankind, Mary Wollstonecraft spoke out for the other “’one-half of the human race”: that of womankind.
1/4
In the Age of Revolutions demanding greater liberties for mankind, Mary Wollstonecraft spoke out for the other “’one-half of the human race”: that of womankind.
1/4
January 4, 2026 at 2:39 PM
Bryan and @eyedotter.bsky.social announce their next graphic novel, Lo! An Amazon!
In the Age of Revolutions demanding greater liberties for mankind, Mary Wollstonecraft spoke out for the other “’one-half of the human race”: that of womankind.
1/4
In the Age of Revolutions demanding greater liberties for mankind, Mary Wollstonecraft spoke out for the other “’one-half of the human race”: that of womankind.
1/4
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Tickets for my next @greshamcollege.bsky.social lecture - about weird planets and our place in the Universe - are now available. It's free to attend - in London or online - but they will run out so do register fast.
In-person tickets open: Alien Earths 🌍✨
Book free: https://gres.hm/alien-earths
Prof Chris Lintott* explores why, among the thousands of exoplanets we've discovered so far, none is like Earth - and asks what makes our world truly special
*also of Department of Physics at the University of Oxford
Book free: https://gres.hm/alien-earths
Prof Chris Lintott* explores why, among the thousands of exoplanets we've discovered so far, none is like Earth - and asks what makes our world truly special
*also of Department of Physics at the University of Oxford
January 4, 2026 at 1:29 PM
Tickets for my next @greshamcollege.bsky.social lecture - about weird planets and our place in the Universe - are now available. It's free to attend - in London or online - but they will run out so do register fast.
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#TodayInQueerHistory
January 4 (1986)
Christopher Isherwood was a prolific writer, penning diaries, novels, screenplays, and biographies. He died #OTD.
Goodbye to Berlin was immortalised as Cabaret and his memoir Christopher and His Kind "carried him into the heart of the Gay Liberation movement".
January 4 (1986)
Christopher Isherwood was a prolific writer, penning diaries, novels, screenplays, and biographies. He died #OTD.
Goodbye to Berlin was immortalised as Cabaret and his memoir Christopher and His Kind "carried him into the heart of the Gay Liberation movement".
January 4, 2026 at 12:24 PM
#TodayInQueerHistory
January 4 (1986)
Christopher Isherwood was a prolific writer, penning diaries, novels, screenplays, and biographies. He died #OTD.
Goodbye to Berlin was immortalised as Cabaret and his memoir Christopher and His Kind "carried him into the heart of the Gay Liberation movement".
January 4 (1986)
Christopher Isherwood was a prolific writer, penning diaries, novels, screenplays, and biographies. He died #OTD.
Goodbye to Berlin was immortalised as Cabaret and his memoir Christopher and His Kind "carried him into the heart of the Gay Liberation movement".
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Have you ever wanted to learn about fat animals, but just couldn't find a zine for it? Well you're in luck!
bauth.itch.io/fat-animals
| #marbart #zines
bauth.itch.io/fat-animals
| #marbart #zines
January 4, 2026 at 11:58 AM
Have you ever wanted to learn about fat animals, but just couldn't find a zine for it? Well you're in luck!
bauth.itch.io/fat-animals
| #marbart #zines
bauth.itch.io/fat-animals
| #marbart #zines
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finally, we're living through precedented times
January 4, 2026 at 6:56 AM
finally, we're living through precedented times
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Thank god Chuck Schumer isn’t alive to see this.
January 3, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Thank god Chuck Schumer isn’t alive to see this.
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Ladbroke Grove Sainsbury’s is selling McVities caramel digestives for 20p a packet. They’re rather more-ish.
January 3, 2026 at 10:40 PM
Ladbroke Grove Sainsbury’s is selling McVities caramel digestives for 20p a packet. They’re rather more-ish.
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Chocolate Easter bunnies are on the shelves in Tesco. 🐰
January 3, 2026 at 10:16 PM
Chocolate Easter bunnies are on the shelves in Tesco. 🐰
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Had to pop out to get milk. The Moon, Jupiter, Orion, and Sirius look spectacular tonight. From here, they’re framing the lights rising from Grenfell Tower.
January 3, 2026 at 10:14 PM
Had to pop out to get milk. The Moon, Jupiter, Orion, and Sirius look spectacular tonight. From here, they’re framing the lights rising from Grenfell Tower.
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Tell me something that brought you joy this week.
Any old thing will do. Small joys are as good as big ones—sometimes even better.
Any old thing will do. Small joys are as good as big ones—sometimes even better.
January 3, 2026 at 5:19 PM
Tell me something that brought you joy this week.
Any old thing will do. Small joys are as good as big ones—sometimes even better.
Any old thing will do. Small joys are as good as big ones—sometimes even better.
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people probably need an emotional/mental palette cleanser
here is a cat owner being a cat to her cats
here is a cat owner being a cat to her cats
January 3, 2026 at 6:42 PM
people probably need an emotional/mental palette cleanser
here is a cat owner being a cat to her cats
here is a cat owner being a cat to her cats
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Japan House, in Kensington High Street, has a lovely, free exhibition about the beauty in everyday, hand-crafted things.
www.japanhouselondon.uk/whats-on/hya...
www.japanhouselondon.uk/whats-on/hya...
Hyakkō: 100+ Makers from Japan
Explore a collection of almost 2,000 exquisitely hand-crafted items
www.japanhouselondon.uk
January 1, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Japan House, in Kensington High Street, has a lovely, free exhibition about the beauty in everyday, hand-crafted things.
www.japanhouselondon.uk/whats-on/hya...
www.japanhouselondon.uk/whats-on/hya...
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Important thread about all the fake videos and disinformation about the invasion of Venezuela.
THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread
This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated.
According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.
This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated.
According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.
January 3, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Important thread about all the fake videos and disinformation about the invasion of Venezuela.