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Mike Taylor 🦕
@mike.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy
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By day I am a computer programmer with Index Data, where I have been happily and gainfully employed for 20 years.

By night, I am a vertebrate palaeontologist with […]

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To fellow #LFC fans, I say this.

Once more, the result totally does not reflect the game. Liverpool had 27 shots to PSG's 9. Theirs were better quality, but we still registered 2.66 xG to their 2.21. And check out the attacking momentum below.

Keep the faith […]

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Attacking momentum graph from Fotmob shows total Liverpool dominance.
November 26, 2025 at 10:03 PM
mike.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy
My word, this is bleak. Imagine having everything material that the world can give you and still being so inadequate.
Screenshot of Elon Musk's tweet: "Grok Imagine prompt: She smiles and says 'I will always love you'", with an AI-generated photo of an imaginary girlfriend.
November 10, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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This shot-map from https://www.fotmob.com/matches/real-madrid-vs-liverpool/2gxhcg#4947117:tab=stats is pretty astonishing. I'm not sure I've ever seen so many shots from right in front of the goal, five to twelve yards out.

#LFC
Diagram of the pitch for Liverpool vs. Real Madrid, showing that Liverpool had a dense cluster of shots from in front of the penalty spot.
November 4, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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When people (mostly Tories and Reform supporters) say they want to repeal the European Convention on Human Rights, I wonder which specific rights they want to get rid of? Which of these do they not want?
Right to life. Prohibition of torture. Prohibition of slavery and forced labour. Right to liberty and security. Right to a fair trial. No punishment without law. Right to respect for private and family life. Freedom of thought, conscience and religion. Freedom of expression. Freedom of assembly and association. Right to marry. Right to an effective remedy. Prohibition of discrimination. Prohibition of abuse of rights.
November 4, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Listening to Nursery Cryme. What a great, great album it is. Any album with The Musical Box, The Return of the Giant Hogweed AND Harold the Barrel is a stone cold classic.

It was Genesis's third album, but really their first in terms of sudden arrival at their […]

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The cover of Genesis's album Nursery Cryme
October 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Hell, no.

(This from a theatre that I really like, the Watermill in Newbury.)
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October 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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@Waxingtonknee I took your advice!
Photo of a new and not-yet-unboxed AeroPress.
October 16, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Seen in a street market in Naples. It's the only known sculpture of the Venus de Milo when she was a baby.
Statue of a monk holding a baby. The baby's arms are broken off, as are those of the Venus de Milo.
October 16, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Seen in the Royal Palace museum at Portici, a suburb of Naples: an early prototype of Thomas the Tank Engine.
An old-style traction engine painted in exactly the same colours as Thomas the Tank engine: slightly desaturated royal blue, with scarlet trim.
October 16, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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At first glance this toothbrush holder seems to be having a great time. But look closer and you can see a cold, hard deadness behind his eyes.
A photograph, from above, of a cup with a toothbrush holder top. It has three holes: two smaller ones at the top of the picture and a wider one at the bottom, so that it superficially resembles a face.
October 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Google's search just keeps getting better and better.
Screenshot of a Google search for :Chats aren’t backed up. Fix now" It says: Did you mean: "Chats aren’t backed up. Fix now" No results found for "Chats aren’t backed up. Fix now"
October 1, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Here's the best thing about today's match.

#LFC
League table showing Liverpool six points ahead of Arsenal (though having played a game more).
September 20, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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@mlawton Right. If you play a low block for 90+ minutes but do it ineffectively enough that you concede 27 shots for total of 2.65 xG, you can't legitimately complain if your opponents nick a goal.
Graph of attacking moment shows very nearly literally all Liverpool.
September 15, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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If Forbes is right, then the wealth of top 0.000118% increased by 22% last year.

Did YOUR wealth increase by 22% last year?

No? Then maybe billionaires' interests are not aligned with yours.
Inside Forbes’ ranking of the richest billionaires in the United States. Another year, another set of broken records for the 400 richest Americans. They're worth a record $6.6 trillion in all, after getting $1.2 trillion richer over the past 12 months. It now takes a record $3.8 billion to make the ranking, $500 million more than the minimum in 2024.
September 10, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Well, thanks a ton, Vanguard Investor bot. This has been sooo helpful.
Hello, I’m your Vanguard virtual agent. I’m here for you 24 hours a day. I can answer simple questions. And, if I cannot answer your question, I can let you know how to get in touch with a human. So, what can I help you with today? > How can I change which fund my monthly payment is invested in? To clarify, did you mean: [list of options] > Personal contributions To help me provide you with an accurate response, select one of these options… [list of options] > None of the above. It’s been a pleasure trying to help you. Goodbye.
September 10, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Here's what we've all been saying about Keir Starmer's Reform-appeasing policy: Labour's decline in popularity since the General Election has seen 14% of their voters leave for the right (10% Reform, 4% Tory) — and 26% to the left (13% Lib Dems, 10% Greens, 2% […]

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A graph showing the numbers included in the post.
September 9, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Well, now, this is interesting:

"Appeals court upholds defamation lawsuit, ordering Trump to pay more than $80m

A federal appeals court in New York has upheld the defamation lawsuit filed by writer E Jean Carroll, and the $83.3m award, after Trump denied her […]

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Screenshot from the Guardian's live news blog, showing the words included in the main post plus: "The same appeals court awarded Carroll $5m in 2023, in a separate case that found Trump liable for defamation and sexual abuse."
September 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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I like the Guardian's minute-by-minute commentary on #LFC:
Screenshot from the Guardian. Next to the photo of the goal, the commentary just says "BLOODY HELL!"
August 31, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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I am seeing so much more of this crap, now — meaning that hopping over to a web-site becomes a ten-second delay rather than being near-instant. I assume that LLM crawlers are to blame for this increased delays and gatekeeping. _sigh_.
Screenshot: Verify you are human by completing the action below. www.cardiff.ac.uk needs to review the security of your connection before proceeding.
August 23, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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#help me, #librarians

This photo of Bone Cabin Quarry is from page 683 of:

Osborn, Henry Fairfield. 1904. Fossil wonders of the West: the dinosaurs of the Bone-Cabin Quarry, being the first of description of the greatest "find" of extinct animals ever made […]

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Small photo of the Bone Cabin Quarry in 1898, with two men working on extracting a dinosaur skeleton from the ground.
August 23, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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In the news today:

"New mRNA vaccine stops malaria transmission in its tracks"
vs.
"RFK Jr. pulls $500 million in funding for mRNA vaccine contracts"

https://newatlas.com/infectious-diseases/wehi-mrna-vaccine-malaria-transmission/ […]

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Screenshot of first story. Screenshot of second story.
August 7, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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I just love how #google keeps adding value!
A screenshot of my query "33 $ in £" (which used to work). It offers the response: 33 inches = 83.82 cm Formula: multiply the length value by 2.54
July 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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For the first time, Google Scholar has dropped a gigantic turd into its usually outstanding author identification algorithm. Of the 24 offered articles, NONE of them was mine.
A list of articles written by people called M Taylor who are not me, offered by Google Scholar for me to verify as my own.
July 3, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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I have to do my university's mandatory cyber-security training course *sigh*. Here is a bit of toxic UI from before I've even got into the system. The "Sign in to Develop" button is NOT a button, and does nothing when clicked. You have to click on the "Click […]

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Screenshot showing the buttons: [Sign into Develop] [Click here]
June 27, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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The Met Office (UK) invites you to suggest names for future storms. Make your own suggestions at https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-our-storms-call-for-names

Here are mine.
I filled in the storm names Exxon Shell BP Chevron GazProm And I gave "Reason for name choices" as: To properly acknowledge the source of the climate conditions.
June 21, 2025 at 12:02 PM