Mark Kennedy
@mrmonkington.bsky.social
Head of Technology, MicrobesNG
Head of Lunch, Brighton, UK
Also this guy https://hostux.social/@mrmonkington
And this guy https://www.instagram.com/mrmonkington/
Oh and https://github.com/mrmonkington
Head of Lunch, Brighton, UK
Also this guy https://hostux.social/@mrmonkington
And this guy https://www.instagram.com/mrmonkington/
Oh and https://github.com/mrmonkington
Twix is cos they look two twigs right?
February 9, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Twix is cos they look two twigs right?
#Brighton council gotta find £20m and it's fun reading their plan. I just hope "activating heritage assets in cemeteries" doesn't backfire!
February 4, 2026 at 9:06 PM
#Brighton council gotta find £20m and it's fun reading their plan. I just hope "activating heritage assets in cemeteries" doesn't backfire!
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Catherine O'Hara is great in #HomeAlone isn't she? Not something 10 year old me really appreciated but she plays it completely straight the way it needs to be and with genuine parental warmth.
January 30, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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ET the Extra Sausage
January 29, 2026 at 8:55 PM
ET the Extra Sausage
I think I have a condition that makes it impossible for me to listen to (the brilliant!) David Olusoga speak without focusing... solely... on the pauses he... injects... into every... sentence.
January 27, 2026 at 7:00 PM
I think I have a condition that makes it impossible for me to listen to (the brilliant!) David Olusoga speak without focusing... solely... on the pauses he... injects... into every... sentence.
Found a "build and decorate a gingerbread house" kit going out of date in the cupboard and now I am just eating the constituent parts of a gingerbread house
January 27, 2026 at 1:02 PM
Found a "build and decorate a gingerbread house" kit going out of date in the cupboard and now I am just eating the constituent parts of a gingerbread house
Reposted by Mark Kennedy
The GitHub mobile app is absolute bobbins isn't it?
January 23, 2026 at 8:08 AM
The GitHub mobile app is absolute bobbins isn't it?
Reposted by Mark Kennedy
The UK government – Trump is threatening to destroy NATO, so let's give our military data to a company owned by a political extremist who wants to abolish democracy, and whose money and influence put Vance in the White House.
January 18, 2026 at 8:01 PM
The UK government – Trump is threatening to destroy NATO, so let's give our military data to a company owned by a political extremist who wants to abolish democracy, and whose money and influence put Vance in the White House.
Terrific summary of model collapse and related concerns.
And I love "text is already a compression of experience" 💯
And I love "text is already a compression of experience" 💯
New post!
Where does new knowledge come from when everyone relies on AI models and those models collapse because they only have their own output to train on?
https://tomstafford.substack.com/p/model-collapse
Where does new knowledge come from when everyone relies on AI models and those models collapse because they only have their own output to train on?
https://tomstafford.substack.com/p/model-collapse
Model collapse
when AI alters our behaviour and our institutions, the risk isn't just theoretical
tomstafford.substack.com
January 17, 2026 at 8:25 AM
Terrific summary of model collapse and related concerns.
And I love "text is already a compression of experience" 💯
And I love "text is already a compression of experience" 💯
8 billion people do a simultaneous eye roll so hard that the gyroscopic effects knock the earth off its orbit
January 16, 2026 at 10:44 PM
8 billion people do a simultaneous eye roll so hard that the gyroscopic effects knock the earth off its orbit
If you know you know
January 16, 2026 at 7:04 PM
If you know you know
One of my kids is doing a moon phase tracker for school throughout Jan, and so far we have 15 x "could not see moon"
January 15, 2026 at 7:32 AM
One of my kids is doing a moon phase tracker for school throughout Jan, and so far we have 15 x "could not see moon"
<obligatory UK weather skeet>
January 15, 2026 at 7:30 AM
<obligatory UK weather skeet>
Reposted by Mark Kennedy
I suppose one way to hit your install base quarterly targets for "product X" is to rename your entire product range "product X"
Microsoft is so fucking stupid.
Microsoft renamed Microsoft Office to Microsoft 365 Copilot App
I'm not joking
Microsoft renamed Microsoft Office to Microsoft 365 Copilot App
I'm not joking
January 5, 2026 at 8:22 PM
I suppose one way to hit your install base quarterly targets for "product X" is to rename your entire product range "product X"
Terrifying to think the UK now basically has no allies so we have to be complete fence sitters on every issue and just keep our heads down
Jeez. Greenland is in the NATO alliance. How hard can this be?
January 5, 2026 at 10:48 AM
Terrifying to think the UK now basically has no allies so we have to be complete fence sitters on every issue and just keep our heads down
Reposted by Mark Kennedy
Two hundred years ago, the son of a saddler from a rural French village devised a groundbreaking tactile writing method of raised dots for blind people at the mere age of 15.
Here’s the story of how Louis Braille created a writing system for the blind.
www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...
Here’s the story of how Louis Braille created a writing system for the blind.
www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...
How Louis Braille revolutionized a writing system—despite efforts to stop him
Two hundred years ago, the son of a saddler from a rural French village devised a groundbreaking tactile writing method of raised dots for blind people at the mere age of 15.
www.nationalgeographic.com
January 4, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Two hundred years ago, the son of a saddler from a rural French village devised a groundbreaking tactile writing method of raised dots for blind people at the mere age of 15.
Here’s the story of how Louis Braille created a writing system for the blind.
www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...
Here’s the story of how Louis Braille created a writing system for the blind.
www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...
If you know, you know
December 21, 2025 at 7:19 PM
If you know, you know
fwiw most people are confused by lack of commutativity (?) of % increases and decreases
FOX: If you cut something by 100%, the cost goes down to 0. If you cut it by 600%, the drug companies are actually paying you
LUTNICK: What he's saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring it down to $13, it's down 7 times
F: Not a 600% cut
L: But it's 700% higher price before. It's down 700% now
LUTNICK: What he's saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring it down to $13, it's down 7 times
F: Not a 600% cut
L: But it's 700% higher price before. It's down 700% now
December 19, 2025 at 8:40 AM
fwiw most people are confused by lack of commutativity (?) of % increases and decreases
Just in time for Christmas!!
"Higher intake of high-fat cheese and high-fat cream was associated with a lower risk of all-cause dementia."
Results of a 25-year prospective study of ~27,000 participants.
The purported benefit was not linked to APOE4 carriers or low-fat cheese intake
www.neurology.org/doi/full/10....
Results of a 25-year prospective study of ~27,000 participants.
The purported benefit was not linked to APOE4 carriers or low-fat cheese intake
www.neurology.org/doi/full/10....
December 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Just in time for Christmas!!
Reposted by Mark Kennedy
“A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress - though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known"
- Bertrand Russell, 1976.
Time-lapse video of Vampyrella lateritia eating Spirogyra algae from Science Source/Oliver Skibbe. 🦠
- Bertrand Russell, 1976.
Time-lapse video of Vampyrella lateritia eating Spirogyra algae from Science Source/Oliver Skibbe. 🦠
December 17, 2025 at 4:53 PM
“A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress - though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known"
- Bertrand Russell, 1976.
Time-lapse video of Vampyrella lateritia eating Spirogyra algae from Science Source/Oliver Skibbe. 🦠
- Bertrand Russell, 1976.
Time-lapse video of Vampyrella lateritia eating Spirogyra algae from Science Source/Oliver Skibbe. 🦠
Explaining to children the correct way to put Hungry Hippos back in the box for the 85,543,777,322 time
December 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Explaining to children the correct way to put Hungry Hippos back in the box for the 85,543,777,322 time
Reposted by Mark Kennedy
He sees you while you’re sleeping
He’s also made of cake
He’s seen some shit you won’t believe
So be good, for goodness sake
He’s also made of cake
He’s seen some shit you won’t believe
So be good, for goodness sake
December 11, 2025 at 1:17 PM
He sees you while you’re sleeping
He’s also made of cake
He’s seen some shit you won’t believe
So be good, for goodness sake
He’s also made of cake
He’s seen some shit you won’t believe
So be good, for goodness sake