Ian Volante
@sometimehippy.bsky.social
Quiz presenter, writer, and doer; korfball veteran; rugby league stats wrangling; silly bugger spending too much time working and not enough having fun. Excited by newness. On Mastodon too. The 2024 World Quiz-Running Champion.
All the MS Office icons got updated today. Don't like it. Change bad.
November 13, 2025 at 2:29 PM
All the MS Office icons got updated today. Don't like it. Change bad.
@cybiksana.bsky.social No idea why I thought of you when I saw this.
This is the most awesome game I have ever heard of!
There's a card game based on this! It's called Brother, Why? And you play monks in the manuscriptorium who have to justify all the weird marginalia you added to the Bible while drunk. boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/44...
November 12, 2025 at 10:44 PM
@cybiksana.bsky.social No idea why I thought of you when I saw this.
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Happy to be of service. I once got into a taxi in Dublin wearing a cool new outfit. I was nervous about deviating from the norm but did it anyway.
The taxi driver was on the phone when I got in. First thing he did was finish his phone call saying "I have to go, this fella's wearing dungarees"
The taxi driver was on the phone when I got in. First thing he did was finish his phone call saying "I have to go, this fella's wearing dungarees"
November 12, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Happy to be of service. I once got into a taxi in Dublin wearing a cool new outfit. I was nervous about deviating from the norm but did it anyway.
The taxi driver was on the phone when I got in. First thing he did was finish his phone call saying "I have to go, this fella's wearing dungarees"
The taxi driver was on the phone when I got in. First thing he did was finish his phone call saying "I have to go, this fella's wearing dungarees"
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We have upgraded our geomagnetic forecast today (12 November 2025) to the highest intensity level amid an ongoing solar storm.
Current predictions suggest that the activity will result in potentially the largest solar storm to hit our planet in over two decades.
Current predictions suggest that the activity will result in potentially the largest solar storm to hit our planet in over two decades.
November 12, 2025 at 2:55 PM
We have upgraded our geomagnetic forecast today (12 November 2025) to the highest intensity level amid an ongoing solar storm.
Current predictions suggest that the activity will result in potentially the largest solar storm to hit our planet in over two decades.
Current predictions suggest that the activity will result in potentially the largest solar storm to hit our planet in over two decades.
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did not expect the site of Thomas Beckett’s murder to be memorialized in a fashion that is quite so fucking metal
November 12, 2025 at 3:12 PM
did not expect the site of Thomas Beckett’s murder to be memorialized in a fashion that is quite so fucking metal
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a crap version of godzilla vs kong but it's chewitosaurus battling the On the Record crocodile in a mashup of 1980s British kaiju mascots. @demontomatodave.bsky.social to produce
November 12, 2025 at 2:25 PM
a crap version of godzilla vs kong but it's chewitosaurus battling the On the Record crocodile in a mashup of 1980s British kaiju mascots. @demontomatodave.bsky.social to produce
Also, the local fly-boys are busy today. I've only managed to see the source of one of the passing rumbles.
November 12, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Also, the local fly-boys are busy today. I've only managed to see the source of one of the passing rumbles.
Had a day of rejection yesterday, so was sad in the evening and didn't deliver my best quiz presenting performance.
Cheered myself up this morning by rereading the Oregon dead whale dynamite story.
Cheered myself up this morning by rereading the Oregon dead whale dynamite story.
November 12, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Had a day of rejection yesterday, so was sad in the evening and didn't deliver my best quiz presenting performance.
Cheered myself up this morning by rereading the Oregon dead whale dynamite story.
Cheered myself up this morning by rereading the Oregon dead whale dynamite story.
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It’s 12 November, so it’s time to mark the 55th anniversary of the exploding whale of Oregon, an attempt to clear a cetacean carcass from a beach which prompted one reporter to say “The blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds”
November 12, 2025 at 9:58 AM
It’s 12 November, so it’s time to mark the 55th anniversary of the exploding whale of Oregon, an attempt to clear a cetacean carcass from a beach which prompted one reporter to say “The blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds”
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Well not bad in the end, scored a good try. Don't think we'll get in front, but it's a contest at least. #rugbyleague #engvaus
November 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Well not bad in the end, scored a good try. Don't think we'll get in front, but it's a contest at least. #rugbyleague #engvaus
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November 8, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Headingley resplendent
November 8, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Headingley resplendent
Sadly not at Headingley today, but hoping for something to cheer at least. #rugbyleague #engvaus
November 8, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Sadly not at Headingley today, but hoping for something to cheer at least. #rugbyleague #engvaus
Just heard Benson Boone's Beautiful Things for the first time.
Utter guff.
More hot musical takes as we have them.
Utter guff.
More hot musical takes as we have them.
November 8, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Just heard Benson Boone's Beautiful Things for the first time.
Utter guff.
More hot musical takes as we have them.
Utter guff.
More hot musical takes as we have them.
