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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
5.30am at Gatwick departure lounge and Wetherspoons is absolutely rammed
November 13, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Urgent call for help on Nextdoor 🧐
November 8, 2025 at 9:39 PM
October 31, 2025 at 7:20 AM
October 30, 2025 at 8:14 AM
October 30, 2025 at 7:17 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 🧐)
October 30, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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
September 21, 2025 at 8:05 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
September 19, 2025 at 8:40 PM
September 7, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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
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
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
Yes that looks like a pump-action shotgun by the front console 🤔
August 21, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Just a vintage California Highway Patrol car driving along the M6 in Birmingham
August 21, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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 came up on FB as if seeing this nob would be preferable to Cleopatra or a stegosaurus
August 10, 2025 at 8:20 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?
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 😬
August 7, 2025 at 7:55 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 👍
July 18, 2025 at 2:00 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
July 15, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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
Earliest shite I could find
July 6, 2025 at 8:12 PM
At Prince of Wales theatre, London, for Book of Mormon
June 28, 2025 at 1:18 PM