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Marcus Elliott
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Pokes things until they break. Complains. Repeats.

A little bit of diggity and lots of doubt.

Educator who now works in the UK civil service.

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The standard of BBC Sport and @optajoe.com data has not been great recently. Take this example graph where the totals are double counted. Is this the best way to display this information? Absolutely not. It might not be Opta’s fault but you guys must be embarrassed by this.
Horizontal bar graph showing goals conceded by West Ham, Wolves, Brentford and Forest. The bars are made up of total,first half and second half blocks, effectively double counting.
September 27, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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August 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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When you see it….
Driveway with a car parked on it, in front of two garages. There is grass and a new tree to one side. The garages do not join up with the driveway meaning no car could get into the garage
May 31, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Shoe sizes are messed up.

Exhibit A:
Red shoe box with the following sizes listed: for women a US size 8, uk 5.5, European 39, and 25cm. But for men it’s a US sizesize 6.5, uk 6, European 39 and 24.5cm.
December 7, 2024 at 8:50 PM
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I’ve lived in Lincoln for *coughs* years and regard myself as a bit of Lincoln fact buff. I found out this week that this tower is not in fact Lucy Tower, and is actually Observation tower. Mind blown. The actual Lucy Tower is pretty cool too, it has a tree in the middle!
A Norman castle tower extending above various walls as viewed from a distance. Trees and leaves are in the foreground. There is a Union flag flying from the flagpole at the top of the tower in front of a blue sky
April 26, 2024 at 9:54 AM
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And, with that, I realised I am old.
Newspaper with headline 'Old Man Yells at cloud', with a picture of an old man, hand raised, fist clenched, shouting at a solitary cloud. Taken from the Simpsons.
December 18, 2023 at 11:00 AM
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Fixed that for you
Picture of a pigeon with a headline below reading: "Pigeons mirror AI learning patterns, researchers say" from Business Insider. The terms pigeon has been crossed out and replaced with AI, and AI has been corrected to Pigeons, so the headline now reads "AI mirror pigeon's learning patterns, researchers say"
October 29, 2023 at 3:39 PM
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Never before has my parenting style and sense of humour been so accurately represented. Damn you @warandpeas.bsky.social
4 panel comic strip. A father, in business attire, and child are standing at a bus stop. In the first panel the child says "daddy, why do you have to go to work every day?". In the second panel the pair look at each other and the father replies "so we can have nice things my boy". In the third panel, the boy replies "but all of our things are shit". In the last panel the father looks away and days "you're shit".
September 30, 2023 at 12:11 PM