Him Over There, Now Over Here
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Nathan.
He/Him. 🟥🟨🟦
Being weird on social media since 2007, and no plans to stop now.
"So, face forward and keep going."
He/Him. 🟥🟨🟦
Being weird on social media since 2007, and no plans to stop now.
"So, face forward and keep going."
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Happy Pride month to all*, from a nonbinary little boat and their pansexual other half!
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(*No, not you, homopohobes and transphobes and the like. I hope all of your shits this month are hedgehogs...)
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(*No, not you, homopohobes and transphobes and the like. I hope all of your shits this month are hedgehogs...)
In Chester this morning. And, as the Eastgate Clock in the city is (allegedly) the most photographed clock in the UK outside of London, it seems only correct to maintain its status...
November 27, 2025 at 10:08 AM
In Chester this morning. And, as the Eastgate Clock in the city is (allegedly) the most photographed clock in the UK outside of London, it seems only correct to maintain its status...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Putting aside all the predictable "street Countdown" jokes, I was at the event in question so did witness this happening, and it was pretty upsetting and scary.
Given everything, it's an unsurprising outcome, really.
Putting aside all the predictable "street Countdown" jokes, I was at the event in question so did witness this happening, and it was pretty upsetting and scary.
Given everything, it's an unsurprising outcome, really.
Countdown champion who stabbed rival handed hospital order
John Cowen stabbed a rival Countdown champion at a fans' convention in Blackpool.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 10:27 PM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Putting aside all the predictable "street Countdown" jokes, I was at the event in question so did witness this happening, and it was pretty upsetting and scary.
Given everything, it's an unsurprising outcome, really.
Putting aside all the predictable "street Countdown" jokes, I was at the event in question so did witness this happening, and it was pretty upsetting and scary.
Given everything, it's an unsurprising outcome, really.
A word of warning if you end up watching this; the theme tune and all the incidental between-rounds stings *WILL* get stuck in your head as the most persistent of earworms that will be nigh on impossible to remove.
Before striking screens in Strike It Lucky Michael Barrymore presented Get Set Go, a one series early Saturday evening quiz - here from today in 1984 - involving delivering one word at a time to deliver a question for the answer.
GET, SET, GO (26th November 1984) Michael Barrymore
Word association quiz...
Presented by Michael Barrymore
With Julia Gale
For entertainment purposes only...
All copyright remains with BBC.
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
A word of warning if you end up watching this; the theme tune and all the incidental between-rounds stings *WILL* get stuck in your head as the most persistent of earworms that will be nigh on impossible to remove.
Umm... not airports, but UK railway stations
(I mean, come on, you can't beat "Rail Alphabet".
And "Calvert", the font designed by Margaret Calvert specifically for use on the Tyne and Wear Metro is an absolute timeless design and still looks fantastic after 45 years)
Guess I'm a wrong'un then...
(I mean, come on, you can't beat "Rail Alphabet".
And "Calvert", the font designed by Margaret Calvert specifically for use on the Tyne and Wear Metro is an absolute timeless design and still looks fantastic after 45 years)
Guess I'm a wrong'un then...
November 26, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Umm... not airports, but UK railway stations
(I mean, come on, you can't beat "Rail Alphabet".
And "Calvert", the font designed by Margaret Calvert specifically for use on the Tyne and Wear Metro is an absolute timeless design and still looks fantastic after 45 years)
Guess I'm a wrong'un then...
(I mean, come on, you can't beat "Rail Alphabet".
And "Calvert", the font designed by Margaret Calvert specifically for use on the Tyne and Wear Metro is an absolute timeless design and still looks fantastic after 45 years)
Guess I'm a wrong'un then...
Checking out the route of the M50 on Google Maps just now and I happened to spot this village just off junction 1
I wonder if it's twinned with somewhere like "Gisakis"
I wonder if it's twinned with somewhere like "Gisakis"
November 26, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Checking out the route of the M50 on Google Maps just now and I happened to spot this village just off junction 1
I wonder if it's twinned with somewhere like "Gisakis"
I wonder if it's twinned with somewhere like "Gisakis"
10 years today our niece Isabelle died, after just 8 days.
Seems like an absolute age ago, and yet at the same time hardly more than 5 minutes ago.
Off to the cathedral later with my Mum to light a candle.
Sleep well, little one. Uncle Nath and Kit love you and will never forget you ♥️
Seems like an absolute age ago, and yet at the same time hardly more than 5 minutes ago.
Off to the cathedral later with my Mum to light a candle.
Sleep well, little one. Uncle Nath and Kit love you and will never forget you ♥️
November 24, 2025 at 9:06 AM
10 years today our niece Isabelle died, after just 8 days.
Seems like an absolute age ago, and yet at the same time hardly more than 5 minutes ago.
Off to the cathedral later with my Mum to light a candle.
Sleep well, little one. Uncle Nath and Kit love you and will never forget you ♥️
Seems like an absolute age ago, and yet at the same time hardly more than 5 minutes ago.
Off to the cathedral later with my Mum to light a candle.
Sleep well, little one. Uncle Nath and Kit love you and will never forget you ♥️
Will be fully in for the whole of #forgtten80s next Sunday - have a good week, everyone - love and big hugs to you all!
November 23, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Will be fully in for the whole of #forgtten80s next Sunday - have a good week, everyone - love and big hugs to you all!
Love the major/minor key switching between the verses and choruses in "Suburbia" #forgotten80s
November 23, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Love the major/minor key switching between the verses and choruses in "Suburbia" #forgotten80s
Hello #forgotten80s folks, we're back from watching Labyrinth with a live band at the Liverpool Empire and in for the remainder of tonight's edition.
November 23, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Hello #forgotten80s folks, we're back from watching Labyrinth with a live band at the Liverpool Empire and in for the remainder of tonight's edition.
And that's us back in L26 after a glorious weekend of quizzing.
Yes, it's a bloody long and tiring day, but one I always look forward to in the quizzing calendar.
Hat tips of apprecization to all the wonderful OQL bods who work so hard to make it a brilliant event.
Yes, it's a bloody long and tiring day, but one I always look forward to in the quizzing calendar.
Hat tips of apprecization to all the wonderful OQL bods who work so hard to make it a brilliant event.
November 23, 2025 at 4:09 PM
And that's us back in L26 after a glorious weekend of quizzing.
Yes, it's a bloody long and tiring day, but one I always look forward to in the quizzing calendar.
Hat tips of apprecization to all the wonderful OQL bods who work so hard to make it a brilliant event.
Yes, it's a bloody long and tiring day, but one I always look forward to in the quizzing calendar.
Hat tips of apprecization to all the wonderful OQL bods who work so hard to make it a brilliant event.
Good morning from ATV-land.
The day is finally upon us... It's time for the 2025 OQL buzzer quiz tournament.
I'll be using #Snathequiz again throughout the day for all the score updates, so feel free to follow along and cheer us on, to see if we manage to claim the saucer for a second time!
The day is finally upon us... It's time for the 2025 OQL buzzer quiz tournament.
I'll be using #Snathequiz again throughout the day for all the score updates, so feel free to follow along and cheer us on, to see if we manage to claim the saucer for a second time!
November 22, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Good morning from ATV-land.
The day is finally upon us... It's time for the 2025 OQL buzzer quiz tournament.
I'll be using #Snathequiz again throughout the day for all the score updates, so feel free to follow along and cheer us on, to see if we manage to claim the saucer for a second time!
The day is finally upon us... It's time for the 2025 OQL buzzer quiz tournament.
I'll be using #Snathequiz again throughout the day for all the score updates, so feel free to follow along and cheer us on, to see if we manage to claim the saucer for a second time!
Important cat news. More of this on Bluesky, please and indeed thank you.
Walter de Staplecat, Simpkin IV, Teabag, Balthasar and Benny D Cat take the stage as we meet the college cats of Oxford. And, of course, Magdalen’s Ozymandias. Read on for our photo special. (Includes a cat map.) oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...
College cats of Oxford
Once upon a time, we featured an image of Magdalen's kitten, Ozymandias, in our newsletter. We figured it might be a gentle contrast to our regular diet of planning and local politics.
The grey ball ...
oxfordclarion.uk
November 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Important cat news. More of this on Bluesky, please and indeed thank you.
Right, it's that time of the year again, the annual OQL Buzzer Quiz weekend, down in that there ATV-land.
I'll be doing the usual #Snathequiz tag tomorrow, so tune in here for all the updates on whether the intrepid team TOWIE (nowt to do with the show) can retain the saucer for another year...
I'll be doing the usual #Snathequiz tag tomorrow, so tune in here for all the updates on whether the intrepid team TOWIE (nowt to do with the show) can retain the saucer for another year...
November 21, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Right, it's that time of the year again, the annual OQL Buzzer Quiz weekend, down in that there ATV-land.
I'll be doing the usual #Snathequiz tag tomorrow, so tune in here for all the updates on whether the intrepid team TOWIE (nowt to do with the show) can retain the saucer for another year...
I'll be doing the usual #Snathequiz tag tomorrow, so tune in here for all the updates on whether the intrepid team TOWIE (nowt to do with the show) can retain the saucer for another year...
Reposted by Him Over There, Now Over Here
There was an AI from Nantucket,
Which made AI slop by the bucket,
But if you typed in a rhyme,
It worked every time,
That the AI gave up, and said ‘fuck it!’
Which made AI slop by the bucket,
But if you typed in a rhyme,
It worked every time,
That the AI gave up, and said ‘fuck it!’
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
There was an AI from Nantucket,
Which made AI slop by the bucket,
But if you typed in a rhyme,
It worked every time,
That the AI gave up, and said ‘fuck it!’
Which made AI slop by the bucket,
But if you typed in a rhyme,
It worked every time,
That the AI gave up, and said ‘fuck it!’
I can't help but feel there's a hard core of people on here who would actually be pleased that I'm now unemployed if they found out that I may have dabbled in a bit of occasional Github Copilot use in order to try and understand certain bits of code, because I felt I had no other choice.
November 21, 2025 at 9:09 AM
I can't help but feel there's a hard core of people on here who would actually be pleased that I'm now unemployed if they found out that I may have dabbled in a bit of occasional Github Copilot use in order to try and understand certain bits of code, because I felt I had no other choice.
Reposted by Him Over There, Now Over Here
Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay, for Trans Day of Remembrance
November 20, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay, for Trans Day of Remembrance
Today's moment of joy:
Getting a telephone in the post (a GPO 706 model) and discovering that behind the dial label which shows the phone originally being connected to 01-660 xxxx (a number in Putney, SW London), there was an earlier dial label with the original exchange name of "UPLANDS xxxx".
Getting a telephone in the post (a GPO 706 model) and discovering that behind the dial label which shows the phone originally being connected to 01-660 xxxx (a number in Putney, SW London), there was an earlier dial label with the original exchange name of "UPLANDS xxxx".
November 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Today's moment of joy:
Getting a telephone in the post (a GPO 706 model) and discovering that behind the dial label which shows the phone originally being connected to 01-660 xxxx (a number in Putney, SW London), there was an earlier dial label with the original exchange name of "UPLANDS xxxx".
Getting a telephone in the post (a GPO 706 model) and discovering that behind the dial label which shows the phone originally being connected to 01-660 xxxx (a number in Putney, SW London), there was an earlier dial label with the original exchange name of "UPLANDS xxxx".
This is now number 1 on my list of things I NEED to do next year.
New VIDEO! Let's go ride on the Mail Rail, and go for a tunnel/tracks walk, plus the exclusive 'Train Graveyard' area!
youtu.be/UUAZegAKM14
youtu.be/UUAZegAKM14
Let's Ride ... Mail Rail the Post Office Underground Railway
YouTube video by Geoff Marshall
youtu.be
November 19, 2025 at 7:06 PM
This is now number 1 on my list of things I NEED to do next year.
A sudden earworm approaches for no reason whatsoever...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gxz...
#HeyBigYinGwanYersel
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gxz...
#HeyBigYinGwanYersel
We Have a Dream
YouTube video by The Scottish World Cup Squad - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:53 PM
A sudden earworm approaches for no reason whatsoever...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gxz...
#HeyBigYinGwanYersel
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gxz...
#HeyBigYinGwanYersel
It's the 321st day of the year today, so in celebration of this, here's the time that Ted Rogers opened the original version of the show "Uno, Dos, Tres" on Spanish TV, using the English 321 titles including the Yorkshire TV Ident zooming into Dusty Bin.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0Iw...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0Iw...
Ted Rogers on TVE | Un, Dos, Tres... responda otra vez (24/09/1982)
YouTube video by BluetheFortune
www.youtube.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:07 PM
It's the 321st day of the year today, so in celebration of this, here's the time that Ted Rogers opened the original version of the show "Uno, Dos, Tres" on Spanish TV, using the English 321 titles including the Yorkshire TV Ident zooming into Dusty Bin.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0Iw...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0Iw...
A very positive meeting with the work counselling service from Merseycare today, which also threw up another of my occasional connections with Winstanley College.
November 17, 2025 at 3:43 PM
A very positive meeting with the work counselling service from Merseycare today, which also threw up another of my occasional connections with Winstanley College.
"Windmill, Windmill, with Chris Serle, but not produced by Michael Hurll..."
40 YEARS AGO TODAY: Chris Serle heads into the animal kingdom for this week's Windmill. One By One's James Ellis is in the studio to meet the Play School cockatiel while Serle has been to Twycross Zoo to meet Johnny Morris and some chimps for tea. www.youtube.com/watc...
November 17, 2025 at 12:35 PM
"Windmill, Windmill, with Chris Serle, but not produced by Michael Hurll..."
In case you're wondering how my first day of unemployment is going, I'm sat here laughing at the idea that Elvis Presley could have, potentially, been on the first series of Swap Shop, as a special guest on the Swaporama OB with Cheggers, from a playing field in a rain-soaked Wellingborough...
November 17, 2025 at 10:09 AM
In case you're wondering how my first day of unemployment is going, I'm sat here laughing at the idea that Elvis Presley could have, potentially, been on the first series of Swap Shop, as a special guest on the Swaporama OB with Cheggers, from a playing field in a rain-soaked Wellingborough...
Reposted by Him Over There, Now Over Here
It’s the same thing as the terfery really: it’s just being an arsehole and a busybody, seething at people who are just quietly going about their business without harming or bothering anyone.
November 16, 2025 at 7:27 PM
It’s the same thing as the terfery really: it’s just being an arsehole and a busybody, seething at people who are just quietly going about their business without harming or bothering anyone.