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Mark Hillen @markhillen.bsky.social · 21h

(Mark Riley voice): No neeeeed

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Steven Robinson @steverob5.bsky.social · 21h

That would be the work of the most excellent @johnnyohnny.bsky.social

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Mark Hillen @markhillen.bsky.social · 21h

Immediate follow!

Mark Hillen @markhillen.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, which reminds me of the best tweet of all time.

Johnny Chiodini @johneh Nov 27, 2017
The Vengabus is coming
And everybody’s jumping
The Vengabus’ purpose
A rail replacement service
To take you to some stations
We thank you for your patience
Might want to set out early
It will delay your journey

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Mark Hillen @markhillen.bsky.social · 4d

gist.github.com/pmarquees/d8... Bookmarklet FTW

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Mark Hillen @markhillen.bsky.social · 11d

This is absolutely going to be a macro doing a global find and replace. It’s not going to be AI.

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Mark Hillen @markhillen.bsky.social · 12d

: The Way of the Samurai

Mark Hillen @markhillen.bsky.social · 13d

What a combo: Deadpans et dauphins.

Mark Hillen @markhillen.bsky.social · 17d

Ach, she’s basically parroting the “remigration” rhetoric of Germany’s AfD’s Alice Weidel, nicht wahr?

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Mark Hillen @markhillen.bsky.social · 20d

I can’t remember what his “activism” did to the formerly great, incredibly well-run and at the time innovative (in that they actually did proper R&D in house) company Allergan - sold itself to Abbott to avoid becoming part of Valeant. And you should read what his failed attempts cost his hedge fund.

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Mark Hillen @markhillen.bsky.social · 20d

To be fair, that feature on our (also VAG) EV has saved my skin. Once I was coming round a bend on a 80 kph Swiss country road to find a car waiting to turn left up a dirt track. Car bleeped and braked faster than I could react!

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Mark Hillen @markhillen.bsky.social · 22d

At primary school in 1980s Lanarkshire, my brother used to sit next to a kid who would eat his (and others) apple cores. At the time, he thought: what a crazy kid. Later he realised: aaaargh! That child was living in abject poverty.

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Mark Hillen @markhillen.bsky.social · 22d

If they sell on Amazon, they can’t be cheaper anywhere else. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?

Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...

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Mark Hillen @markhillen.bsky.social · 26d

I’m currently in Frankfurt. I’m wondering if Frankfurters think Uisce beatha really does mean “Whisky for Life” or whether they just bloody love alcohol.

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Mark Hillen @markhillen.bsky.social · 26d

This is top shitposting.

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 26d

All right, y'all, help me out. This is a bidet, right? (It's in my airbnb.) So, the idea is, you poop in the toilet and then...crab walk a few feet to your left, with your pants down? And stick your butt down in this thing? There's no seat, as such, so you're just...hovering your butt down into it?

Mark Hillen @markhillen.bsky.social · 26d

He‘s not wrong.

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Mark Hillen @markhillen.bsky.social · 27d

This week’s Newsweek cover…

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Mark Hillen @markhillen.bsky.social · Oct 7

Interesting choice of which words to sensor, and which ones not.

Mark Hillen @markhillen.bsky.social · Oct 6

For that sign to exist, sink and toilet must have been confused many, many times to make the signmaking effort worth it.

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Mark Hillen @markhillen.bsky.social · Sep 29

At this rate, I might try Apple Maps.

Mark Hillen @markhillen.bsky.social · Sep 25

It’s a surprisingly good way of excluding non-nationals from certain services. As I found, trying to rent a municipal bike share bike in Barcelona. No ID card? Then you can’t register for the service. Extend to everything else… there you go.

Mark Hillen @markhillen.bsky.social · Sep 25

Delayed gratification always pays off more.

Mark Hillen @markhillen.bsky.social · Sep 24

Hats off for the effort.

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Mark Hillen @markhillen.bsky.social · Sep 22

I hate it when that happens.

Mark Hillen @markhillen.bsky.social · Sep 22

BMW Mini.