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Technical operations manager, ex-technician and cat & dog dad
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bsakat.bsky.social
Not with that attitude it can't.
adamcsharp.bsky.social Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 7d
There’s a Turkish phrase about the upside of hitting rock bottom being that things can’t get any worse. It goes göte giren şemsiye açılmaz and it means “an umbrella up one’s ass cannot be opened.”
December 21, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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uofytechs.bsky.social
#job for a Biological Safety Officer to act as the principal source of expert advice on biosafety and biosecurity. The BSO will support departments & supervisors in meeting all relevant regulatory requirements. Apply by 04/01/2026 jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/biol...
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December 5, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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tanisfowler.bsky.social Tanis Fowler @tanisfowler.bsky.social · Nov 4
Love how, every time I want to buy, like, a pair of pantyhose online, I have to come up with a new unique password with at least one number and one symbol and one uppercase letter, but the people guarding precious works of art are allowed to be, like, “I dunno, Louvre?”
perryodontal.bsky.social Perry Areolar @perryodontal.bsky.social · Nov 3
the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre"

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November 4, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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twlldun.bsky.social
I’m sorry but these sound like vintage esoteric euphemisms for “homosexual”
October 22, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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mrdaveturner.bsky.social
They’re just phoning in these metaphors now.
October 20, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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peterchilvers.com Peter Chilvers @peterchilvers.com · Oct 16
The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.
October 16, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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wohyeahwohyeah.bsky.social
Timeline cleanser 🐈
September 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From
LONDON—Claiming that he recognized the member of the royal family, but his memory was hazy, President Donald Trump has spent his entire trip to the U.K. trying to figure out where he knows Prince Andr...
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September 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
September 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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September 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Me five minutes ago: I'm not going to read the Prince Andrew biography, so I'll just read this article about it

Me after reading these two paragraphs: LMAO GOOD GOD
Here follows some claims Lownie makes about Andrew, backed up by testimony from people who knew the prince: He had a member of the royal staff moved from his job for wearing a nylon tie, and another because he had a mole on his face. He had 40 women brought to his hotel room in Thailand over a 5-day visit. Aged 26, he had dozens of stuffed animals on his bed, one of which wore a vest that read “It’s tough being a prince.” He missed his daughter’s 12th birthday party to hang out with Epstein at his Miami beach house. He ran up a bill of £325,000 on helicopters and planes in 2005 alone. He let a Libyan gun smuggler pay for a holiday he took to Tunisia and accepted a present of a bugged MacBook Pro from an attractive woman who turned out to be a Russian spy; he later tried to get himself a free Fabergé egg on an official Kremlin tour. In his role as a special representative for the United Kingdom, he earned, in the diplomatic community, the nickname “His Buffoon Highness” by refusing to follow his briefs and perhaps even read them in the first place. Once, driving his £80,000 Range Rover to Royal Lodge in Great Windsor Park, he found that the gates’ sensor was broken, so, rather than taking a 1-mile detour, he rammed them open, causing thousands of pounds’ worth of damage. Name an undesirable trait a person might have, and this book will demonstrate Andrew having it. He is, in addition to being a sex offender, cruel, easily enraged, stupid, boring, naive, attention-seeking, unfunny, childish, arrogant, and out of touch, as well as a misogynist, a liar, a thief, a bully, a pervert, a bad lover, a bad husband, a bad father, a brat as a child, a brat as a teenager, and a brat as an adult. Just when you’re thinking every possible slight has been leveled at the prince, and that there can surely be no greater depth to which your opinion of him can sink, Lownie relates that staff at Buckingham Palace used to have to clear away collections of “soiled tissues” in his bedroom.
August 23, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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uofytechs.bsky.social
#job opportunity for a Senior Technical Specialist (Mass Spectrometry) in the dept. Chemistry at University of York. Apply by 01/07/2025 jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/seni...
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June 3, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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uoyenvironment.bsky.social
Staff, students, local residents and the wider York community are invited to attend a drop-in Open Day exploring the University’s new Deep Geothermal Energy Project, delivered in partnership with Echo Geo 👇🌍

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[Free, no booking required] #york #geothermalenergy
Geothermal Energy Project Open Day
A drop-in Open Day exploring the University of York’s new Deep Geothermal Energy Project, delivered in partnership with Echo Geo.
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June 3, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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dukecarge.bsky.social
Saw this and thought my oomfs' feeds could use this
Tumblr post that reads: kill the imposter syndrome in your head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it
May 11, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social
Cloven Hooved Horned Satan sitting in a library reading books to kids since we can't do drag storytime anymore....i thought we'd try something else
May 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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uofytechs.bsky.social
#job @uoyenvironment.bsky.social / Dept. Chemistry are looking to hire a Teaching Laboratory Technician Apprentice: an ideal starting point for a career in the HE science sector & undertake a nationally recognised qualification: jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/teac... Apply by 21/5/25
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April 23, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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uofytechs.bsky.social
Fantastic to see 4x @york.ac.uk technicians in the 67 shortlisted for the 2025 @midlandsinnovation.bsky.social UK ITSS Papin Prizes. Winner will be announced at the HETS summit on 9th July. Well done and good luck!
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67 technical professionals shortlisted for an acclaimed Papin Prize - UK ITSS
67 technicians from across the UK have been shortlisted for an acclaimed Papin Prize across ten categories.
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March 31, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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nicsigni.bsky.social
you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
March 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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@yorkbioimaging.bsky.social
Tony Larson: the untold story of technicians as PIs 👏
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The untold story of technicians as Principal Investigators (PIs)
YouTube video by UK Institute for Technical Skills and Strategy
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February 7, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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adamcsharp.bsky.social
A Hungarian equivalent to “a bad workman blames his tools” is ha egy kacsa nem tud úszni nem a víz a hülye. It means “if the duck can't swim, it's not the water that's stupid”

* And if you want more international duck phrases and facts, the following thread should fit the bill…
January 22, 2025 at 10:55 AM