Notjarvis
@notjarvis.bsky.social
Still a mediocre software engineer, father and husband.
I aspire to be a mediocre hockey player.
I aspire to be a mediocre hockey player.
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If you want some good news this morning, I showed my three boys the PM doing the six/seven thing and now they have all stopped doing it.
November 27, 2025 at 7:03 AM
If you want some good news this morning, I showed my three boys the PM doing the six/seven thing and now they have all stopped doing it.
One day, god willing, we shall defeat the scourge of Napoleonism, and this tax will no longer be required.
Big news, income tax is being charged this year.
(It has to be renewed each year or it ceases to apply. Because it's a temporary tax, introduced to fund the Napoleonic wars)
(It has to be renewed each year or it ceases to apply. Because it's a temporary tax, introduced to fund the Napoleonic wars)
November 26, 2025 at 1:44 PM
One day, god willing, we shall defeat the scourge of Napoleonism, and this tax will no longer be required.
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Just tweeted my "just logging in from my job at the OBR" joke, assuming no one else has thought of it. Now to take a big sip of coffee and check my timelin
November 26, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Just tweeted my "just logging in from my job at the OBR" joke, assuming no one else has thought of it. Now to take a big sip of coffee and check my timelin
Haha. There's an episode of Walker Texas Ranger on which is like an incredibly Lame thinly veiled version of Die Hard.
Even down to having a faux urbane head villain with european accent and a beard who talks to Chuck Norris constantly on the radio.
Even down to having a faux urbane head villain with european accent and a beard who talks to Chuck Norris constantly on the radio.
November 26, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Haha. There's an episode of Walker Texas Ranger on which is like an incredibly Lame thinly veiled version of Die Hard.
Even down to having a faux urbane head villain with european accent and a beard who talks to Chuck Norris constantly on the radio.
Even down to having a faux urbane head villain with european accent and a beard who talks to Chuck Norris constantly on the radio.
Discuss - "The current card system in football amounts to 'I am allowed to do deliberate foul play once per game' for players at the top level."
IMO This is a bad way to run a sport.
IMO This is a bad way to run a sport.
November 25, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Discuss - "The current card system in football amounts to 'I am allowed to do deliberate foul play once per game' for players at the top level."
IMO This is a bad way to run a sport.
IMO This is a bad way to run a sport.
Please donate for this poor sad cat forced to live in a cardboard box
November 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Please donate for this poor sad cat forced to live in a cardboard box
I am feeling personally attacked by this.
It's like when I realised WW2 was closer to the date of my birth than the present.
It's like when I realised WW2 was closer to the date of my birth than the present.
November 25, 2025 at 7:45 AM
I am feeling personally attacked by this.
It's like when I realised WW2 was closer to the date of my birth than the present.
It's like when I realised WW2 was closer to the date of my birth than the present.
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We’re living through crazy times - it’s getting to the point where you can’t even go to an Al Jardine show with Eric Idle without being dragged up on stage to sing “Barbara Ann”!
November 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
We’re living through crazy times - it’s getting to the point where you can’t even go to an Al Jardine show with Eric Idle without being dragged up on stage to sing “Barbara Ann”!
In a thread of roast like insults about Space Karen, this is by far the most brutal lol
Elon Musk’s favourite Star Trek movie is Section 31 because “it was so badass.”
November 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
In a thread of roast like insults about Space Karen, this is by far the most brutal lol
Are you sure it isn't Michael Fabricant?
Watching 1968 British horror film Corruption and you just know things are going to turn weird and wrong when the role of the cool David Bailey-esque photographer is played by a blond-wigged Tony Booth.
November 24, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Are you sure it isn't Michael Fabricant?
"Do a vulgar roast. Use forbidden words."
November 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
"Do a vulgar roast. Use forbidden words."
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It remains insane to me that DOGE was treated at the time as an impressive shock and awe accomplishment - “you can’t deny he’s getting stuff done!” - and then instantly memory holed by the press once if became clear it was a total failure by every possible standard including Musk’s own
Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.*
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 3:52 PM
It remains insane to me that DOGE was treated at the time as an impressive shock and awe accomplishment - “you can’t deny he’s getting stuff done!” - and then instantly memory holed by the press once if became clear it was a total failure by every possible standard including Musk’s own
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This is an astonishing and maddening and sad story, just incredible work from Sirin Kale.
It’s also downstream of many of the things @aliceemmalouise.bsky.social has talked about on @skepticswithak.org for a decade - medical mistrust as a result of medial bias, exploitation of women as empowerment.
It’s also downstream of many of the things @aliceemmalouise.bsky.social has talked about on @skepticswithak.org for a decade - medical mistrust as a result of medial bias, exploitation of women as empowerment.
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
As Esau Lopez was asphyxiated for the first 17 minutes of his life on Earth, the atmosphere in the room remained serene, even ecstatic. Acoustic music crooned from a speaker in a modest two-bedroom apartment in a suburb of Pennsylvania. “You are a queen,” murmured one of three friends in the room.
Only Esau’s mother, Gabrielle Lopez, felt something was wrong. She was pushing hard, but her son would not be born. “Can you help [him] out?” she asked, as Esau crowned. “Baby is coming,” the friend replied. Four minutes later, Lopez asked again, “Can you grab [him]?” Another friend murmured, “Baby is safe.” Six minutes passed. Again, Lopez asked, “Can you grab [him]?” Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:25 AM
This is an astonishing and maddening and sad story, just incredible work from Sirin Kale.
It’s also downstream of many of the things @aliceemmalouise.bsky.social has talked about on @skepticswithak.org for a decade - medical mistrust as a result of medial bias, exploitation of women as empowerment.
It’s also downstream of many of the things @aliceemmalouise.bsky.social has talked about on @skepticswithak.org for a decade - medical mistrust as a result of medial bias, exploitation of women as empowerment.
Zac crawley is getting a deserved verbal pasting on here.
But the brainless middle order 3 wickets going in exacty the same way in about 10 minutes, driving against a hard ball that absolutely didn't have to be played deserves some examination too.
Decent bowling but terrible decisions.
But the brainless middle order 3 wickets going in exacty the same way in about 10 minutes, driving against a hard ball that absolutely didn't have to be played deserves some examination too.
Decent bowling but terrible decisions.
November 22, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Zac crawley is getting a deserved verbal pasting on here.
But the brainless middle order 3 wickets going in exacty the same way in about 10 minutes, driving against a hard ball that absolutely didn't have to be played deserves some examination too.
Decent bowling but terrible decisions.
But the brainless middle order 3 wickets going in exacty the same way in about 10 minutes, driving against a hard ball that absolutely didn't have to be played deserves some examination too.
Decent bowling but terrible decisions.
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In a time of great upheaval, when all our old certainties are crumbling, it’s of enormous comfort to be able to rely on the fact that England will learn absolutely nothing from their appalling batting performance. #MAshes
November 22, 2025 at 9:15 AM
In a time of great upheaval, when all our old certainties are crumbling, it’s of enormous comfort to be able to rely on the fact that England will learn absolutely nothing from their appalling batting performance. #MAshes
Head is doing to England what they wanted Zac Crawley to do.
But Crawley seems to have regressed recently.
But Crawley seems to have regressed recently.
November 22, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Head is doing to England what they wanted Zac Crawley to do.
But Crawley seems to have regressed recently.
But Crawley seems to have regressed recently.
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Never liked cricket anyway. Stupid sport.
November 22, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Never liked cricket anyway. Stupid sport.
This is seeming more true by the minute.
Pitch is not doing nearly as much as yesterday and the batters threw this game away in the afternoon session.
Pitch is not doing nearly as much as yesterday and the batters threw this game away in the afternoon session.
If I were an England bowler I’d be targeting the England batters in the nets before the next Test the way they did the Australians for this
November 22, 2025 at 8:09 AM
This is seeming more true by the minute.
Pitch is not doing nearly as much as yesterday and the batters threw this game away in the afternoon session.
Pitch is not doing nearly as much as yesterday and the batters threw this game away in the afternoon session.
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Incredible scenes on BBC Look North.
November 21, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Incredible scenes on BBC Look North.
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Sets for Batman Returns were kept very cold for the comfort of the real-life penguins involved. This meant that cast/crew repeatedly got sick during filming. The real-life penguins though would often fall in love with their animatronic counterparts or feel so settled that they began mating.
November 21, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Sets for Batman Returns were kept very cold for the comfort of the real-life penguins involved. This meant that cast/crew repeatedly got sick during filming. The real-life penguins though would often fall in love with their animatronic counterparts or feel so settled that they began mating.
Odd letter arrived today, to my address from a local estate agent.
Basically, it invites me to sell my house because a specific named woman is looking for one in my area.
It gives a surname and job for her. Is this person real? Does she know her name is being spread to random people locally?
Basically, it invites me to sell my house because a specific named woman is looking for one in my area.
It gives a surname and job for her. Is this person real? Does she know her name is being spread to random people locally?
November 21, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Odd letter arrived today, to my address from a local estate agent.
Basically, it invites me to sell my house because a specific named woman is looking for one in my area.
It gives a surname and job for her. Is this person real? Does she know her name is being spread to random people locally?
Basically, it invites me to sell my house because a specific named woman is looking for one in my area.
It gives a surname and job for her. Is this person real? Does she know her name is being spread to random people locally?
