Simon🦑
@flatsquid.bsky.social
Science, anti-quackery, on the cusp of throwing it all in for unemployment in another country tbqhwy
View from my accommodation today and another one for @pombalstoat.bsky.social to tell everyone where I am 😊
November 14, 2025 at 7:44 AM
View from my accommodation today and another one for @pombalstoat.bsky.social to tell everyone where I am 😊
5.30am at Gatwick departure lounge and Wetherspoons is absolutely rammed
November 13, 2025 at 5:39 AM
5.30am at Gatwick departure lounge and Wetherspoons is absolutely rammed
Urgent call for help on Nextdoor 🧐
November 8, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Urgent call for help on Nextdoor 🧐
I'm on holiday. In the spirit of @pombalstoat.bsky.social "photos without context" travel journalism, you're getting, surprisingly enough, travel photos without context. Guess the country! (No reverse image search 🧐)
October 30, 2025 at 6:40 AM
I'm on holiday. In the spirit of @pombalstoat.bsky.social "photos without context" travel journalism, you're getting, surprisingly enough, travel photos without context. Guess the country! (No reverse image search 🧐)
I shall quench the lights and release the hounds. There'll be no pandering to the whims of manservants in this shire!
October 3, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I shall quench the lights and release the hounds. There'll be no pandering to the whims of manservants in this shire!
Grim figures from a talk I attended this week, giving an overview of how much damage has been caused in Gaza:
The conflict has produced 37 million tons of debris,
which is a staggering 14 TIMES that of all other global conflicts over the last 16 years
The conflict has produced 37 million tons of debris,
which is a staggering 14 TIMES that of all other global conflicts over the last 16 years
September 19, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Grim figures from a talk I attended this week, giving an overview of how much damage has been caused in Gaza:
The conflict has produced 37 million tons of debris,
which is a staggering 14 TIMES that of all other global conflicts over the last 16 years
The conflict has produced 37 million tons of debris,
which is a staggering 14 TIMES that of all other global conflicts over the last 16 years
This is in Louisiana & involved raw oysters. I've eaten oysters twice; once raw (at the behest of French hosts) & once cooked when my Irish neighbour gave me a bag of them + recipe. Suffice to say the Irish way tasted far better & didn’t dice with my mortality.
September 1, 2025 at 9:52 AM
This is in Louisiana & involved raw oysters. I've eaten oysters twice; once raw (at the behest of French hosts) & once cooked when my Irish neighbour gave me a bag of them + recipe. Suffice to say the Irish way tasted far better & didn’t dice with my mortality.
Found the most inadvisable photo I've ever taken. Breaking hire car rules, I took the car off-road along a track in Yellowstone Park & was elated to find Yogi here! I leapt out of the car to get a few photos, then realised that if Yogi wanted to, he'd get to me faster than I'd get back to the car 😬
August 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Found the most inadvisable photo I've ever taken. Breaking hire car rules, I took the car off-road along a track in Yellowstone Park & was elated to find Yogi here! I leapt out of the car to get a few photos, then realised that if Yogi wanted to, he'd get to me faster than I'd get back to the car 😬
CEO of MGM+: how's our new and expensive ad campaign going on Insta?
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August 27, 2025 at 5:38 PM
CEO of MGM+: how's our new and expensive ad campaign going on Insta?
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Yes that looks like a pump-action shotgun by the front console 🤔
August 21, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Yes that looks like a pump-action shotgun by the front console 🤔
Just a vintage California Highway Patrol car driving along the M6 in Birmingham
August 21, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Just a vintage California Highway Patrol car driving along the M6 in Birmingham
This is a hornet mimic hoverfly in my garden. Looks a bit like a european hornet to protect it from predators, flies like one too which gave me a fright, but entirely harmless. This one is on flowering mint
August 10, 2025 at 8:29 PM
This is a hornet mimic hoverfly in my garden. Looks a bit like a european hornet to protect it from predators, flies like one too which gave me a fright, but entirely harmless. This one is on flowering mint
This came up on FB as if seeing this nob would be preferable to Cleopatra or a stegosaurus
August 10, 2025 at 8:20 PM
This came up on FB as if seeing this nob would be preferable to Cleopatra or a stegosaurus
I looked at the workers and felt even more grateful that I don't have to do that work anymore. The 90 minute tour had me desperate to escape. So I'll leave you with some of their autonomous robots, proper nightmare fuel that needs a horror film written about them, imagine trying to escape these?
August 7, 2025 at 7:55 PM
I looked at the workers and felt even more grateful that I don't have to do that work anymore. The 90 minute tour had me desperate to escape. So I'll leave you with some of their autonomous robots, proper nightmare fuel that needs a horror film written about them, imagine trying to escape these?
..with 2x 30 min breaks, 1 of these unpaid. Wages are £14.50 per hour for most workers. Everyone gets paid the same "even if they don't hit their targets" but ofc negated to mention what other repercussions they faced. Here's a robot that we watched get a fault & someone went into the cage to fix 😬
August 7, 2025 at 7:55 PM
..with 2x 30 min breaks, 1 of these unpaid. Wages are £14.50 per hour for most workers. Everyone gets paid the same "even if they don't hit their targets" but ofc negated to mention what other repercussions they faced. Here's a robot that we watched get a fault & someone went into the cage to fix 😬
Having to review a pdf technical report that has a non-technical executive summary. Thought I'd run it through an AI summariser to see what it says. Looks like my job's safe for the foreseeable 👍
July 18, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Having to review a pdf technical report that has a non-technical executive summary. Thought I'd run it through an AI summariser to see what it says. Looks like my job's safe for the foreseeable 👍
Peahen decided to shelter from the rain on my decking today, amazing colours, close up to show some detail of the rain on its back
July 15, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Peahen decided to shelter from the rain on my decking today, amazing colours, close up to show some detail of the rain on its back
Love this post which is basically "my husband went berzerk crocheting and now we're drowning in hats and scarves please help"
July 7, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Love this post which is basically "my husband went berzerk crocheting and now we're drowning in hats and scarves please help"
Earliest shite I could find
July 6, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Earliest shite I could find
At Prince of Wales theatre, London, for Book of Mormon
June 28, 2025 at 1:18 PM
At Prince of Wales theatre, London, for Book of Mormon