Mark
@yacfoaky.bsky.social
Professional python-botherer and wrangler of pandas. Computational demonologist. Amateur cyclist and chess player. Physicist. Cat-a-holic 😼.
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How it started. How it's going.
November 11, 2025 at 1:28 PM
How it started. How it's going.
Putting boots on in case it kicks off later at [checks notes] ABBA Voyage.
November 8, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Putting boots on in case it kicks off later at [checks notes] ABBA Voyage.
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November 7, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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What happens when a minority is forced to fight for its very existence?
Here's a lesson from history that the gender crits would do well to heed.
Here's a lesson from history that the gender crits would do well to heed.
October 31, 2025 at 9:38 AM
What happens when a minority is forced to fight for its very existence?
Here's a lesson from history that the gender crits would do well to heed.
Here's a lesson from history that the gender crits would do well to heed.
I mean look at this cheesy sliver. The top is still concentrated cheese while the bottom is a crust made from cheese.
#cheese
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#cheese
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November 1, 2025 at 3:42 AM
I mean look at this cheesy sliver. The top is still concentrated cheese while the bottom is a crust made from cheese.
#cheese
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#cheese
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I might have already worked out how long this cheesy goodness will last.
November 1, 2025 at 3:31 AM
I might have already worked out how long this cheesy goodness will last.
OMFG!
My wife just had a fondue night with friends and I was doing some clearing up.
I went to clean out the residue in the fondue pot itself and thought "before trying hot water etc. let's just hear the pot and see if the plug of stuff loosens.
It did....
My wife just had a fondue night with friends and I was doing some clearing up.
I went to clean out the residue in the fondue pot itself and thought "before trying hot water etc. let's just hear the pot and see if the plug of stuff loosens.
It did....
November 1, 2025 at 3:05 AM
OMFG!
My wife just had a fondue night with friends and I was doing some clearing up.
I went to clean out the residue in the fondue pot itself and thought "before trying hot water etc. let's just hear the pot and see if the plug of stuff loosens.
It did....
My wife just had a fondue night with friends and I was doing some clearing up.
I went to clean out the residue in the fondue pot itself and thought "before trying hot water etc. let's just hear the pot and see if the plug of stuff loosens.
It did....
Irresponsibly posting my location on social media
October 28, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Irresponsibly posting my location on social media
First time stopping at the newly opened Beaulieu Park railway station, and a grand total of ten people got onto the train.
The only other people there apart from staff/security were a couple of train-spotters, photographing/filming the trains as they arrived.
The only other people there apart from staff/security were a couple of train-spotters, photographing/filming the trains as they arrived.
October 27, 2025 at 8:27 AM
First time stopping at the newly opened Beaulieu Park railway station, and a grand total of ten people got onto the train.
The only other people there apart from staff/security were a couple of train-spotters, photographing/filming the trains as they arrived.
The only other people there apart from staff/security were a couple of train-spotters, photographing/filming the trains as they arrived.
Can confirm. AWS us-east-1 has indeed gone belly up today.
October 20, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Can confirm. AWS us-east-1 has indeed gone belly up today.
A question that has nagged at me for over 25 years:
Why didn't I go rooting through the discarded equipment cages at work in 1999 the day after they replaced my IBM Model M keyboard with some brand-new membrane POS?
Why didn't I go rooting through the discarded equipment cages at work in 1999 the day after they replaced my IBM Model M keyboard with some brand-new membrane POS?
October 16, 2025 at 10:12 AM
A question that has nagged at me for over 25 years:
Why didn't I go rooting through the discarded equipment cages at work in 1999 the day after they replaced my IBM Model M keyboard with some brand-new membrane POS?
Why didn't I go rooting through the discarded equipment cages at work in 1999 the day after they replaced my IBM Model M keyboard with some brand-new membrane POS?
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“I’m a very aesthetic person”.
I guess so, if that aesthetic is Liberace meets Saddam Hussein.
I guess so, if that aesthetic is Liberace meets Saddam Hussein.
September 30, 2025 at 2:56 PM
“I’m a very aesthetic person”.
I guess so, if that aesthetic is Liberace meets Saddam Hussein.
I guess so, if that aesthetic is Liberace meets Saddam Hussein.
Stop blaming migrants:
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Stop blaming migrants and tackle UK’s real problems, 100 charities tell home secretary
A letter warns Shabana Mahmood that ‘targeting refugees will do nothing to tackle’ problems with housing and the NHS
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September 30, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Stop blaming migrants:
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CNET: people who actually LIKE poached eggs would like a word!
September 30, 2025 at 10:18 PM
CNET: people who actually LIKE poached eggs would like a word!
Country hotels, decent wine, estate cars.
What’s the most Tory-coded thing you actively love?
Me: Essex. Elgar. Country pubs.
Me: Essex. Elgar. Country pubs.
September 23, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Country hotels, decent wine, estate cars.
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I encourage people to read the systemic review RFK jr is expected to cite to claim “Tylenol causes autism” as is a wonderful example of the danger of people who don’t understand the limitations of systematic reviews, and why a single review should not override the totality of scientific evidence.
September 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I encourage people to read the systemic review RFK jr is expected to cite to claim “Tylenol causes autism” as is a wonderful example of the danger of people who don’t understand the limitations of systematic reviews, and why a single review should not override the totality of scientific evidence.
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Anyway, that concludes today‘s ancient history lesson! Quite appalling what the Nazis did there in the 1930s. And a good thing that we have all learned our lesson, and would never again fall for this kind of crude, radicalizing propaganda, right? Right? 17/17
September 21, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Anyway, that concludes today‘s ancient history lesson! Quite appalling what the Nazis did there in the 1930s. And a good thing that we have all learned our lesson, and would never again fall for this kind of crude, radicalizing propaganda, right? Right? 17/17
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What the Vossische newspaper pointedly doesn ‘t do is spread the propaganda that Goebbels is building on the funeral. Goebbels has decided that he wants to make Wessel, not a nationwide key figure by any reckoning, but certainly well-known among Nazis in Berlin as a young and effective 4/
September 21, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Plain white paper bag as used for bacon sandwiches by Italian run London cafes.
What kind of food wrapper would your bribe come in?
September 20, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Plain white paper bag as used for bacon sandwiches by Italian run London cafes.
It's that time again(*).
(*) Time for bad decisions.
(*) Time for bad decisions.
September 20, 2025 at 12:14 AM
It's that time again(*).
(*) Time for bad decisions.
(*) Time for bad decisions.
