Mark (Baron Of Sealand)
@iamjurassicmark.bsky.social
“Assume that what you write will be read by malign foreign actors and tailor your response accordingly.”
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Introduction : I have the same handle on Twitter. I like music, cats, lovely people, chocolate, music, films, books, architecture, and geeky stuff. Fiftysomething, bald, and I am the second finest living Englishman after Jarvis Cocker*.
*this is not a legally binding promise.
*this is not a legally binding promise.
35 years ago today, everything changed.
January 21, 2026 at 11:47 PM
35 years ago today, everything changed.
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i went to mcdonalds, twice: edjefferson.com/blog/i-went-...
I went to the best and worst McDonald’s In London because I place no value on my time even though I will be dead one day
For a while I had a very interesting hobby. Every time Google Maps prompted me to review something, I would rate the thing 5 stars and write a single line reading “It was a pub.”, “This It a supermark...
edjefferson.com
January 21, 2026 at 1:13 PM
i went to mcdonalds, twice: edjefferson.com/blog/i-went-...
CLICKTATORSHIP. www.wired.com/story/everyt...
Everything Is Content for the ‘Clicktatorship’
In the second Trump administration, online conspiracy theories are shaping real-world policies like never before.
www.wired.com
January 21, 2026 at 7:09 PM
CLICKTATORSHIP. www.wired.com/story/everyt...
My own Personal Jaxxon.
January 21, 2026 at 6:30 PM
My own Personal Jaxxon.
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thegeekywaffle.com/home/2024/7/... : I'm currently reading this by @chriskempshall.bsky.social, and it is a pertinent commentary on the nature of fascism as it exists through history (both real, and not), full of terrifying echoes of the reality we are trapped within. Recommended.
Book Review: The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire — The Geeky Waffle
Three years ago, we were treated to Skywalker: A Family A War a biograhpy-style book by Kristen Baver that chronicled the life and times of the Skywalker family in a non-fiction style. I appreciat...
thegeekywaffle.com
January 20, 2026 at 9:31 PM
thegeekywaffle.com/home/2024/7/... : I'm currently reading this by @chriskempshall.bsky.social, and it is a pertinent commentary on the nature of fascism as it exists through history (both real, and not), full of terrifying echoes of the reality we are trapped within. Recommended.
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It’s crazy how you can give the pharmacy a random combination of letters and numbers and your meds will go from $1200 to $35.
But only if you are digitally savvy enough to go to the drug manufacturers website.
It’s built to take advantage of non savvy people.
American healthcare is so broken.
But only if you are digitally savvy enough to go to the drug manufacturers website.
It’s built to take advantage of non savvy people.
American healthcare is so broken.
January 20, 2026 at 5:39 PM
It’s crazy how you can give the pharmacy a random combination of letters and numbers and your meds will go from $1200 to $35.
But only if you are digitally savvy enough to go to the drug manufacturers website.
It’s built to take advantage of non savvy people.
American healthcare is so broken.
But only if you are digitally savvy enough to go to the drug manufacturers website.
It’s built to take advantage of non savvy people.
American healthcare is so broken.
"Adults make mistakes" too. And calling a 26 year old a child is goddamn insulting. After all, wasn't he 25 when he became a Dad? What an arsehole.
January 20, 2026 at 6:35 PM
"Adults make mistakes" too. And calling a 26 year old a child is goddamn insulting. After all, wasn't he 25 when he became a Dad? What an arsehole.
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Surely we're in Section 4 of The 25th Amendment territory?
January 20, 2026 at 12:20 AM
Surely we're in Section 4 of The 25th Amendment territory?
I absolutely had NO idea Suede once covered "The Man Who Sold The World." at a soundcheck in 1995. Or that they uploaded it to YouTube in 2010! www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqwI...
Suede - 'The man who sold the World' cover
YouTube video by Suede HQ
www.youtube.com
January 19, 2026 at 12:34 AM
I absolutely had NO idea Suede once covered "The Man Who Sold The World." at a soundcheck in 1995. Or that they uploaded it to YouTube in 2010! www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqwI...
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Is there anyone in UK's Conservative Party that hasn't defected to Reform this week?
January 18, 2026 at 9:54 PM
Is there anyone in UK's Conservative Party that hasn't defected to Reform this week?
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j... : "The problem isn’t “phones”, and it isn’t “social media”. The problem is human fracking, a world-spanning land-grab into human consciousness – which big tech is treating as a vast, unclaimed territory, ripe for sacking and empire."
January 18, 2026 at 5:47 PM
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j... : "The problem isn’t “phones”, and it isn’t “social media”. The problem is human fracking, a world-spanning land-grab into human consciousness – which big tech is treating as a vast, unclaimed territory, ripe for sacking and empire."
Some streaming service needs to sign a deal for 40 episodes of this. Maybe with Olivia Coleman.
If you use Victorian newspapers for research, you will always be down a rabbit hole. Today we have Slater's Lady Cyclist Detectives (London Evening Standard, 28 October 1896).
January 18, 2026 at 12:03 PM
Some streaming service needs to sign a deal for 40 episodes of this. Maybe with Olivia Coleman.
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Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds
January 13, 2026 at 8:17 PM
Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds
What matters in life is how you live your life. How you treat people. How you make them feel. Were you a good human? Did you bring joy where you could? Make the world better? Live your life in such a way that people do not feel a sense of relief when you die. Death is not the end. There is a beyond.
January 17, 2026 at 9:22 PM
What matters in life is how you live your life. How you treat people. How you make them feel. Were you a good human? Did you bring joy where you could? Make the world better? Live your life in such a way that people do not feel a sense of relief when you die. Death is not the end. There is a beyond.
"It's hard to explain what it's like to live in a fucking basement and have a shit fucking life, growing up in Birmingham, or Glendale Heights, Illinois, and find THAT band that speaks to you." - Billy Corgan.
January 17, 2026 at 7:52 PM
"It's hard to explain what it's like to live in a fucking basement and have a shit fucking life, growing up in Birmingham, or Glendale Heights, Illinois, and find THAT band that speaks to you." - Billy Corgan.
He's going to burn the world down to avoid going to jail.
January 17, 2026 at 7:43 PM
He's going to burn the world down to avoid going to jail.
At a shop earlier, and as a 'nudge', I felt that I should look in a couple of areas I don't normally visit. And there, I found OMD's Dep2 "Live At Winstons" 1978 7"ep. And another nudge to look at the kids books, in which I found the 1979 Star Trek : Motion Picture lobby programme. I was helped.
January 17, 2026 at 7:10 PM
At a shop earlier, and as a 'nudge', I felt that I should look in a couple of areas I don't normally visit. And there, I found OMD's Dep2 "Live At Winstons" 1978 7"ep. And another nudge to look at the kids books, in which I found the 1979 Star Trek : Motion Picture lobby programme. I was helped.
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Suspiciously asking my wife who's funding her anytime she criticizes me
January 17, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Suspiciously asking my wife who's funding her anytime she criticizes me
10 years ago today.
January 17, 2026 at 6:44 PM
10 years ago today.