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Jymbo Fawkes 🧨
@jymbob.bsky.social
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Human. Technophile. Linguaphile. Bibliophile. Epistemophile. Husband. Dad. I also like other things.

Profile is a cartoon person who looks a bit like me.
Banner is from This Is Not My Hat, a children's thriller by Jon Klassen

A guy. Who replies.
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Wired is getting a bit threatening, ngl
Bold text. Black on white. Plenty of space around the edges to make sure I read it. "You've read your last free article." No further context. Is this a statement or a thread? What happens if I try to read another article? Does Wired know where I live? Is Wired outside right now? Are my children safe?
November 18, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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*looks around furtively*

Pals I think there might be an Antimemetics division after all
Three copies of a book entitled "There is no Antimemetics Division" by qntm with three different covers. The central book is the original issue, flanked by the "version 2" releases with both the US and UK covers. They are positioned slightly offset from each other on an oak countertop
November 16, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Found a mysterious portal but it wasn't the rapture, just the interplay of photons, shading and woodland paths.
A dirt path in some British woodland. At the end of the woods there is a field. It is being brightly illuminated by the morning sun, giving the effect of a glowing circle where the path emerges.
September 23, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Found the place all the kids are on about
An empty train station platform in the UK. Uncomfortable metal seats, a digital sign with a security camera, limp plants in a concrete coloured plant pot. Cars parked beyond the fence. The station sign reads "Brough" which might potentially be pronounced "Bruh" - it isn't, but when have we let pesky facts get in the way of a good joke? Or even a bad one?
August 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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The ratio on this post claiming there's an NPC problem here is hilarious, especially given the quality of those replies
Bluesky screenshot Fidelio @seldomused.bsky.social - 4d The only reason Bluesky is worse is because X is a sewer trap filled with nothing but NPCs and a few Barstool personalities. Amazing to me that people still use X for discourse. Thomas Chatterton Williams @chatterton.bsky.social - 4d This is almost all NPCs 198 replies 77 reposts 6 likes
August 28, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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August 11, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Yes, my DeNial also comes in that flavour. With it I can forgo sleep forever*
A bag of Kenya AA from CoffeeLink. It purports to have been established in 2005 and announces the contents were roasted in Suffolk
August 3, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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I spent most of my day today fixing a computer. That's not particularly unusual in itself, but this computer was an ARM laptop. From 1992.
#riscos #retrolaptop #acorn
An Acorn A4 laptop. The greyscale 640x480 screen has a text window open on it. The text in the window reads "Hello from 1992!" The same Acorn A4 with various covers removed to allow access to the cables and battery I needed to replace. The screen is showing an image for the first time in over 20 years. Two wires run from where the original CMOS battery was soldered on to a new one not yet rehomed inside the case. Behind the machine is a soldering iron and so rolls of solder and other tools. The tools are not mine, but belong to the Nottingham Hackspace where I was working on it
July 26, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Excuse ME, but I have a #1 Dad t-shirt which was conferred upon me personally & confirmed as genuine by @ryannorth.ca's strict vetting process. I'm sure it was an honest mistake, but you may want to check the source of your card as this reselling of unofficial "best dad" merch damages the profession
#1 dad t-shirt. It is full of additional text explaining that the status of #1 dad has been conferred on me. I am assured it is legally airtight.
June 15, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Thanks to a timely comment, my Discworld re-read is going to involve a rare date line-up

How do they rise up?
UK mass market paperback edition of Night Watch by Terry Pratchett, on a white table. The cover is by Paul Kirdy and features characters from the book, many in armour holding weapons. A monk in orange with a broom is juxtaposed alongside the military figures. He is sweeping some purple flowers on the floor. The style and layout is an homage to the famous Rembrandt painting The Night Watch. A small partially drunk espresso macchiato is in the corner of the photo, because it is taken in a coffee shop.
May 20, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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This has got to be satire right? Right? YouTube? Guys?
A screenshot of my subscriptions tab on YouTube. A heading states: "Post that you might like from communities" The post is from Veritasium's community, by a user called Vince. It reads: "This is terrible. I only want my subscribed YouTube channels on my subscription feed, not random users posts." I do not know Vince. This is a random user's post. On my subscription feed.
March 7, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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I been hacked. all my eggs gone. this just sold please help me
A standard hen's egg. Lightly speckled
February 16, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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The infection has broken containment and is now present in the UK, albeit currently held at bay by parentheses
A label on Google Maps for the Gulf of Mexico. Underneath it says (Gulf of America) because the people in charge at Alphabet are either fascists or cowards, or both.
February 13, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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By the way, here's a photo I took the other night. Nice clear Orion, and I'm reasonably sure I've got Mars and Jupiter in there too. Not bad for a phone camera
A photo of stars in the night sky. In the bottom left a 1950s English house obscuring a corner of sky. The Orion constellation is clearly visible. A bright dot in Gemini (top left) is likely Mars
February 9, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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When I clicked that link I just got this which, while a reasonable summary of where we are, is probably not the intended article
An error page with the text "Something has gone terribly wrong :(" This is, amusingly, a fitting remark, but not the article. There's some kind of icon above it which looks like an upside down bookmark with eyes. I've no idea what it's supposed to be, sorry. At a guess it's probably a variation on the substack logo.
January 25, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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If you see this post, quote with a bridge from your gallery
Some daft bloke (me) sitting on the bank of a river giving two thumbs up in front of a road bridge in Derby. It's a bright autumn afternoon and an open canoe can just be seen at the lower edge of the photo.
January 23, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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The number one movie at the box office on your 10th birthday is how 2025 will turn out for you.

Well, here's hoping.
Poster (cropped) for A Few Good Men. Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson and Demi Moore's names in large letters, their faces below in military looking hats. A Rob Reiner Film Kevin Bacon, Kiefer Sutherland, Kevin Pollak
January 10, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?
Agents of SHIELD, featuring Phil Coulson, Melinda May, Jemma Simmons and Leo Fitz, Daisy "Quake" Johnson, Grant Ward (I know, but Mrs Jymbob doesn't yet. Shhh. She doesn't know about "Sky" either)
January 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Happy Ne-COUGHCOUGHCOUGH ... COUGHCOUGH ... -ew Year.

Send more tissues.
A photo of a coffee cup on a saucer, except instead of the usual biscoff biscuit there is a half used packet of "Max Strength Cold & Flu Tablets," a packet of throat sweets and a marzipan fruit because IT'S CHRISTMAS DAMNIT. Surrounding the coffee cup is fantasy novel Krondor: The Assassins by Raymond E Feist, two bags of coffee beans from Volcano Coffee Works and an open box of tissues. At the edge of the frame is some random stuff I couldn't be bothered to move further out of shot because I have been coughing for two weeks and am therefore pretty fricking low on spoons.
January 1, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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@bigbenclock.bsky.social appears to be double posting for the last couple of hours.
A screenshot of the Big Ben Clock account recent posts. There are two posts marked as from 9 minutes ago, both containing "BONG BONG BONG". Two further posts marked as from 1 hour ago both contain "BONG BONG"
December 16, 2024 at 3:13 PM
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Is that not UP though?
Post by OP from further up the thread Ultra Pasteurization (UP) - that's heading milk to 280°F (138°C) for at least two seconds. This is where /most national milks fall in/
November 17, 2024 at 5:32 PM
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Celebrating 30 years since Flood a metre 4 years late @tmbg.bsky.social
They might be giants on stage with the horn section at Rock City, Nottingham
November 15, 2024 at 8:25 PM
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In today's UK edition of "I didn't expect the leopards to eat my face" former Prime Minister and Telegraph columnist Boris Johnson accuses police of authoritarian overreach after previously passing laws to massively reduce free speech protections for, among others, journalists.
Screenshot from the Telegraph Title: "Police accused of 'appalling' attack on free speech with probe into Telegraph journalist" Subtitle: "Boris Johnson, Elon Musk and senior Tories hit out at Essex force for refusing to give details of investigation into Allison Pearson"
November 14, 2024 at 2:31 PM
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Fixed it.
Modified screenshot of The Hill headline, now featuring the 185 other nations besides Cuba which voted to lift the Cuba embargo
November 3, 2024 at 5:37 PM
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Same song, different key.
NHS hospital staff talking to a visiting MP. Speech bubbles suggest the conversation. "...and once they're cured we send them home. "Wonderful. At which point is the profit generated?" "Er... there's no profit we cure people. Save their lives," "That's great. So how many lords and MPs get rich from this?" "No one. This is a hospital. It's for saving lives." "Super. But who gets rich?" "No one is meant to get rich. It's a hospital." "Sorry. You've lost me. If it isn't for making money, what's it for?" "For helping the sick and the dying." "We need to start again. The money. Who gets the money?" "No one. It's all spent on the sick." "Jesus! It's like a different language! THE MONEY!!! WHO GETS ALL THE CASH!?!"
October 15, 2024 at 9:43 PM