Peter Flynn
@docum3nt.bsky.social
Documents, markup, typesetting • Writer • Grandfather • Cook • Pronoun: he/him/us’n • Bribable with chocolate • Discord: frisket • Recipes: https://xml.silmaril.ie/recipes/ ☘️ 🇮🇪
If you see this, quote tweet with a vampire that's not Dracula.
October 31, 2025 at 7:21 PM
If you see this, quote tweet with a vampire that's not Dracula.
Guilty as charged, m'lud. But I inherited the job of family tree keeper from my grandmother (as in "I'm nominating you to do this after I'm gone, OK?") And yes, "auntie" and "uncle" are the defaults for anyone older than you who is not your parent or grandparent.
October 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Guilty as charged, m'lud. But I inherited the job of family tree keeper from my grandmother (as in "I'm nominating you to do this after I'm gone, OK?") And yes, "auntie" and "uncle" are the defaults for anyone older than you who is not your parent or grandparent.
"Well, we've finished the church but we seem to have an altar left over."
"I know, stick it outside and make it into a ping-pong table."
(There are also two chess tables. Ballyroan church, Dublin)
"I know, stick it outside and make it into a ping-pong table."
(There are also two chess tables. Ballyroan church, Dublin)
October 18, 2025 at 9:27 AM
"Well, we've finished the church but we seem to have an altar left over."
"I know, stick it outside and make it into a ping-pong table."
(There are also two chess tables. Ballyroan church, Dublin)
"I know, stick it outside and make it into a ping-pong table."
(There are also two chess tables. Ballyroan church, Dublin)
Southern states US people: are these seasonings anywhere near what they claim to be? Or just pale UK imitations of the Taste of The South™? (Ingredients in alt text, in descending order of quantity by weight).
![Marks & Spencer Cajun Seasoning. Ingredients: Ground Sweet Paprika, Sugar, Ground Smoked Paprika, Ground Yellow Mustard Seed, Dried Garlic, Dried Onions, Sea Salt, Dried Parsley, Cayenne Pepper, Dried Red Peppers, Dried Red Chillies [sic], Dried Oregano, Dried Thyme, Anti-Caking Agent E55, Fennel Seeds.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ib62wvl2bvt3hezeomqatusn/bafkreidahhqhbp2sjd4jcntnt7bnmpgoluqte6ghm3vltz4begx6tmvpza@jpeg)
October 16, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Southern states US people: are these seasonings anywhere near what they claim to be? Or just pale UK imitations of the Taste of The South™? (Ingredients in alt text, in descending order of quantity by weight).
And the other one from the same source of perversion is a [UK] iced bun (see pic) split sideways and spread thickly with butter and Marmite, then closed as a sandwich.
October 7, 2025 at 10:03 PM
And the other one from the same source of perversion is a [UK] iced bun (see pic) split sideways and spread thickly with butter and Marmite, then closed as a sandwich.
Kids called this "bugs on a log"
October 7, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Kids called this "bugs on a log"
Shakespeare's sonnet 18 "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day" in the original Klingon, as a TEI XML document, typeset with LaTeX (showing the markup).
xml.silmaril.ie/sonnet18/son...
xml.silmaril.ie/sonnet18/son...
October 6, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Shakespeare's sonnet 18 "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day" in the original Klingon, as a TEI XML document, typeset with LaTeX (showing the markup).
xml.silmaril.ie/sonnet18/son...
xml.silmaril.ie/sonnet18/son...
Worse, even if you complete it, and the captchas, you get an error message (complete with spelling error).
![Error message from the JND claim site:
Alert
An error occured [sic] during your submission. Please try again. If this problem persists, please contact the settlement administrator at the email below.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ib62wvl2bvt3hezeomqatusn/bafkreighbalbz3xqackqmai2n7hr7lnhb2kb6nqojizw5urqrxbyifwhv4@jpeg)
October 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Worse, even if you complete it, and the captchas, you get an error message (complete with spelling error).
Duckduckgo seems still to answer the question but the sources are questionable.
![First three responses to the question "does trump show signs of dementia" typed into the duckduckgo search engine show:
1. There are concerns and discussions among experts suggesting that Donald Trump may exhibit signs of cognitive decline, including symptoms associated with dementia, such as verbal slips and changes in behavior. However, definitive diagnoses cannot be made without clinical assessment. [SearchAssist AI, healthandme.com Wikipedia]
2. Donald Trump exhibting 'four signs' of dementia as expert makes ...
During the five-hour tests, Trump reportedly underwent neurological evaluations on his mental status, nerves, motor and sensory function, and reflexes, showing no signs of depression or... [MSN]
3. Does Donald Trump Have Dementia? Expert Insists POTUS Is 'Clearly ...
Sep 23, 2025 In an interview, Dr. Gartner shares how Donald Trump is showing signs of dementia. Age is another factor. At nearly 80, small cognitive changes are statistically common. [International Business Times UK]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ib62wvl2bvt3hezeomqatusn/bafkreihr27a5jmu2e5icvltolqjsknptttqghibv6a4pzg2mrerugmmumi@jpeg)
October 1, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Duckduckgo seems still to answer the question but the sources are questionable.
Also, that when they get given some source in .docx format, a couple of piped commands can turn it into TEI paras without even having to write any XSLT :-)
$ unzip -p myfile.docx word/document.xml | lxprintf -e w:p "<p rend=\"%s %s\">%s</p>\n" w:pPr/w:pStyle/@w:val w:pPr/w:jc/@w:val . - >myfile.xml
$ unzip -p myfile.docx word/document.xml | lxprintf -e w:p "<p rend=\"%s %s\">%s</p>\n" w:pPr/w:pStyle/@w:val w:pPr/w:jc/@w:val . - >myfile.xml
![Start of a draft document written in Word [used by kind permission of the late author]
Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 101 : 1, 1971
RECTORY, VICARAGE AND PARISH IN THE WESTERN IRISH DIOCESES
K. W. Nicholls
In most areas of western Europe the parochial system (whose essential feature was that a particular church was entitled to the tithes and the profits arising from spiritual minstration within a given area, the parish) was in general a creation of the ninth, tenth and eleventh centuries. In England the system was already fully established by the time of King Edgar (959-63).l In the Celtic countries, Wales, Ireland and Scotland, the introduction of the system […]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ib62wvl2bvt3hezeomqatusn/bafkreidcdl7r7iber4gnkoqtpjp3wm3wni4vundw25kcf72i4yh42jpd6a@jpeg)
September 29, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Also, that when they get given some source in .docx format, a couple of piped commands can turn it into TEI paras without even having to write any XSLT :-)
$ unzip -p myfile.docx word/document.xml | lxprintf -e w:p "<p rend=\"%s %s\">%s</p>\n" w:pPr/w:pStyle/@w:val w:pPr/w:jc/@w:val . - >myfile.xml
$ unzip -p myfile.docx word/document.xml | lxprintf -e w:p "<p rend=\"%s %s\">%s</p>\n" w:pPr/w:pStyle/@w:val w:pPr/w:jc/@w:val . - >myfile.xml
Anyone know what this was for? I mean I know the French words "prune" and "piège", and I'm aware of fruit-tree pest traps, but this is in the style and size of a decanter label. A pharmacist's poison label? Online searches return nothing, and I don't have a French thesaurus.
September 28, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Anyone know what this was for? I mean I know the French words "prune" and "piège", and I'm aware of fruit-tree pest traps, but this is in the style and size of a decanter label. A pharmacist's poison label? Online searches return nothing, and I don't have a French thesaurus.
Red Cow, Dublin. There used to be a pub in there once.
September 26, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Red Cow, Dublin. There used to be a pub in there once.
I'm happy to hear ILL still exists and works. I have a recipe written by a friend on the back of a BL Telex Request form 🤣 which probably dates both me and the recipe.
September 24, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I'm happy to hear ILL still exists and works. I have a recipe written by a friend on the back of a BL Telex Request form 🤣 which probably dates both me and the recipe.
Or here (the kids called this "bugs on a log")
September 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Or here (the kids called this "bugs on a log")
This is a start, but to see what we're up against, we need to look at the whole picture.
September 21, 2025 at 8:33 PM
This is a start, but to see what we're up against, we need to look at the whole picture.
I saved it to disk and it looks like a JPG (JFIF), so I add it here with alt text. Let's see...
September 20, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I saved it to disk and it looks like a JPG (JFIF), so I add it here with alt text. Let's see...
Yep, stops it dead.
September 10, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Yep, stops it dead.
FFS. This is on a medical appointment letter for an elderly patient from the UK's NHS. Utter dereliction of duty of care because the service has been stripped of funding in preparation for its sell-off to Big Med and Big Pharma, and is being run by misguided administrators.
September 10, 2025 at 10:17 AM
FFS. This is on a medical appointment letter for an elderly patient from the UK's NHS. Utter dereliction of duty of care because the service has been stripped of funding in preparation for its sell-off to Big Med and Big Pharma, and is being run by misguided administrators.
Let’s see you at 21.
There mercifully no other photographs from this era.
There mercifully no other photographs from this era.
August 28, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Let’s see you at 21.
There mercifully no other photographs from this era.
There mercifully no other photographs from this era.
Prompted by this (thank you @kavey.bsky.social) I did a search for Indonesian restaurants locally. DuckDuckGo gave me a pizza joint, a burger bar, and…a nursery school FFS. Google did at least return the sole Malay restaurant in my city. I don't know what drugs the DDG search engine is on.
August 24, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Prompted by this (thank you @kavey.bsky.social) I did a search for Indonesian restaurants locally. DuckDuckGo gave me a pizza joint, a burger bar, and…a nursery school FFS. Google did at least return the sole Malay restaurant in my city. I don't know what drugs the DDG search engine is on.
@kavey.bsky.social Brixham Crab mayonnaise salad at Otterton Mill
August 13, 2025 at 1:17 PM
@kavey.bsky.social Brixham Crab mayonnaise salad at Otterton Mill
This week's Scrabble™ hand
August 10, 2025 at 7:13 PM
This week's Scrabble™ hand
@sh-discoverycentre.bsky.social Can you please help? This is a family photograph from 1954 and I think it's Pole Bank, Long Mynd. A recent picture from the web shows a concrete monolith but it seems to be a slightly different shape.
August 10, 2025 at 9:43 AM
@sh-discoverycentre.bsky.social Can you please help? This is a family photograph from 1954 and I think it's Pole Bank, Long Mynd. A recent picture from the web shows a concrete monolith but it seems to be a slightly different shape.