Mark Elliott
@thatmarkelliott.bsky.social
Cycling, music, political and other random ramblings. Work: computer scientist/language tester/psychometrican in some order. Once drew trees and was told it was "better than felling them", which is a start, I guess.
Views my own; cat photos will happen.
Views my own; cat photos will happen.
And so, as soon as we pin @submariner76.bsky.social down to specific claims based on a specific document we can all read down and ask for evidence in that document, the previously garrulous chap decides it's "word games" and "circular logic" and blocks. Read into that what you will, dear reader.
November 11, 2025 at 5:05 PM
And so, as soon as we pin @submariner76.bsky.social down to specific claims based on a specific document we can all read down and ask for evidence in that document, the previously garrulous chap decides it's "word games" and "circular logic" and blocks. Read into that what you will, dear reader.
"I'm sorry, Donald, I'm afraid I can't do that."
November 9, 2025 at 2:23 PM
"I'm sorry, Donald, I'm afraid I can't do that."
Poem for today, by Siegfried Sassoon
November 9, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Poem for today, by Siegfried Sassoon
If you see this post an album cover with a motor vehicle in it
November 8, 2025 at 10:19 PM
If you see this post an album cover with a motor vehicle in it
As a chaser from TV, this Lovecraftian hellish monster from Space 1999 also stayed with me for some time - the mid control, drawing its helpless prey to their doom in a zombie-like trance, the massive eye, the tentacles, and spitting out the charred corpse after devouring as a finishing touch.
November 7, 2025 at 11:55 AM
As a chaser from TV, this Lovecraftian hellish monster from Space 1999 also stayed with me for some time - the mid control, drawing its helpless prey to their doom in a zombie-like trance, the massive eye, the tentacles, and spitting out the charred corpse after devouring as a finishing touch.
So this "Staten Island" place...
November 5, 2025 at 9:52 AM
So this "Staten Island" place...
I asked our cat what he thought of it all:
October 29, 2025 at 12:09 PM
I asked our cat what he thought of it all:
Yes, the problem is most certainly that while people are lapping up everything the Labour government are doing and saying, they wish it were being done and said much faster.
October 24, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Yes, the problem is most certainly that while people are lapping up everything the Labour government are doing and saying, they wish it were being done and said much faster.
"So tell me, how would you summarise the difference between the UK and France?"
October 20, 2025 at 9:55 PM
"So tell me, how would you summarise the difference between the UK and France?"
So I see the Grauniad have decided to go with zombie paratic death fungus pictures on their landing page today. I guess that's about par in terms of cheeriness for a 2025 news story, mind you...
October 15, 2025 at 5:51 PM
So I see the Grauniad have decided to go with zombie paratic death fungus pictures on their landing page today. I guess that's about par in terms of cheeriness for a 2025 news story, mind you...
Flashback to 1891...
October 14, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Flashback to 1891...
Post you from a different era.
Fuzzy photo of me bestriding a stile like a colossus (at least in my imagination) and gazing into the middle distance, somewhere near Lulworth Cove while on a camping holiday with my friends. All I can find rn...
Fuzzy photo of me bestriding a stile like a colossus (at least in my imagination) and gazing into the middle distance, somewhere near Lulworth Cove while on a camping holiday with my friends. All I can find rn...
October 13, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Post you from a different era.
Fuzzy photo of me bestriding a stile like a colossus (at least in my imagination) and gazing into the middle distance, somewhere near Lulworth Cove while on a camping holiday with my friends. All I can find rn...
Fuzzy photo of me bestriding a stile like a colossus (at least in my imagination) and gazing into the middle distance, somewhere near Lulworth Cove while on a camping holiday with my friends. All I can find rn...
If only there were people who could go around and find out what the reality is, and then perhaps report on it back to everyone. They could even publish their reporting in print or online, and possibly even make a business out of keeping folk informed about what's happening in the world. If only.
October 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
If only there were people who could go around and find out what the reality is, and then perhaps report on it back to everyone. They could even publish their reporting in print or online, and possibly even make a business out of keeping folk informed about what's happening in the world. If only.
That's Mr Prof Dr to you, my Journal Coordinator friend, although I thank you for your generous discounted offer of only charging me 1,700 Singapore Dollars to publish in your esteemed journal.
October 11, 2025 at 12:12 PM
That's Mr Prof Dr to you, my Journal Coordinator friend, although I thank you for your generous discounted offer of only charging me 1,700 Singapore Dollars to publish in your esteemed journal.
I fought the cat (and the cat won)
October 6, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I fought the cat (and the cat won)
"Roughly defined" is the problem here - while some of the foods are obviously very unhealthy, UPFs also generally includes foods like Quorn, for which there is no evidence of harmful impact. We really need a better definition of UPFs that separates out the bad from the innocent.
October 1, 2025 at 3:59 PM
"Roughly defined" is the problem here - while some of the foods are obviously very unhealthy, UPFs also generally includes foods like Quorn, for which there is no evidence of harmful impact. We really need a better definition of UPFs that separates out the bad from the innocent.
This is upsetting
September 27, 2025 at 2:08 PM
This is upsetting
If Starmer won't attend COP30 because he's scared of what RefUK will say, it's time for Keir Starmer to stand down so someone who isn't scared of RefUK and can defend the overwhelmingly settled (and acccepted by UK public) climate science can attend - and attack RefUK's anti-science conspiracies.
September 26, 2025 at 6:43 AM
If Starmer won't attend COP30 because he's scared of what RefUK will say, it's time for Keir Starmer to stand down so someone who isn't scared of RefUK and can defend the overwhelmingly settled (and acccepted by UK public) climate science can attend - and attack RefUK's anti-science conspiracies.