Peter Flynn
@docum3nt.bsky.social
Documents, markup, typesetting • Writer • Grandfather • Cook • Pronoun: he/him/us’n • Bribable with chocolate • Discord: frisket • Recipes: https://xml.silmaril.ie/recipes/ ☘️ 🇮🇪
I must dress like that next time I cook sausages.
November 29, 2025 at 10:57 PM
I must dress like that next time I cook sausages.
Is this meant to be a university-level essay?
November 29, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Is this meant to be a university-level essay?
This is crazy. Can I ask how far away the vendors are?
November 29, 2025 at 9:39 PM
This is crazy. Can I ask how far away the vendors are?
Would that apply also if they were not white, I wonder
November 29, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Would that apply also if they were not white, I wonder
Very good but a PITA 😁
November 29, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Very good but a PITA 😁
I'd be interested to know if that works. Maybe with the big online supermarkets
November 29, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I'd be interested to know if that works. Maybe with the big online supermarkets
Another thing that needs fixing is the preservation of the metadata. The couriers claim they can't tell you the contents so you can see in their messages WHAT is being delivered, which is obviously nonsense: it's in the shipping data. They just never thought of it, and now won't fix it.
November 29, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Another thing that needs fixing is the preservation of the metadata. The couriers claim they can't tell you the contents so you can see in their messages WHAT is being delivered, which is obviously nonsense: it's in the shipping data. They just never thought of it, and now won't fix it.
A few do but mostly European. But they only give you a choice of the courier they hand the goods to, not the end-of-route local courier who brings it to your door — or not.
November 29, 2025 at 10:30 AM
A few do but mostly European. But they only give you a choice of the courier they hand the goods to, not the end-of-route local courier who brings it to your door — or not.
Because once they've sold the goods they couldn't care less whether they get delivered on time or not.
November 29, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Because once they've sold the goods they couldn't care less whether they get delivered on time or not.
Ah. So he's also only semi-literate.
November 29, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Ah. So he's also only semi-literate.
I underwent numerous osteopaths and chiropractors before the docs discovered the reason for the pain was an (apparently inherited) condition where two vertebrae fuse together. As a Worf-style full spinal transplant is unavailable in this galaxy I just do exercise and take drugs.
November 29, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I underwent numerous osteopaths and chiropractors before the docs discovered the reason for the pain was an (apparently inherited) condition where two vertebrae fuse together. As a Worf-style full spinal transplant is unavailable in this galaxy I just do exercise and take drugs.
Take it easy over the weekend?
November 29, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Take it easy over the weekend?
In other news, face-eating leopards ate faces :-)
November 28, 2025 at 10:37 PM
In other news, face-eating leopards ate faces :-)
I hope that fixes it.
November 28, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I hope that fixes it.
Have a toque! Happy Thanksgiving to all my USian friends.
November 28, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Have a toque! Happy Thanksgiving to all my USian friends.
I've visited many times but I haven't noticed this.
November 27, 2025 at 11:51 PM
I've visited many times but I haven't noticed this.
Slightly OT, but if you haven't encountered it, Somerville & Ross's "Some Experiences of an Irish R.M." is worth reading (or see the 1980s TV dramatisation with Peter Bowles) for a comic poke at the predicament of an English Rural Magistrate in south-west Ireland under British rule in the 1890s.
November 27, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Slightly OT, but if you haven't encountered it, Somerville & Ross's "Some Experiences of an Irish R.M." is worth reading (or see the 1980s TV dramatisation with Peter Bowles) for a comic poke at the predicament of an English Rural Magistrate in south-west Ireland under British rule in the 1890s.
Our headmaster at school was a magistrate and it added a certain frisson to the risk of being caught drinking underage in the locality.
November 27, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Our headmaster at school was a magistrate and it added a certain frisson to the risk of being caught drinking underage in the locality.
I like the phrase ("I get an ear by default"). I can pass for one in the UK ("right" school and RP accent) but I haven't lived there for decades, and it cuts no mustard elsewhere. But on a few rare occasions I was able shamelessly to abuse this privilege to get someone unheard a hearing.
November 27, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I like the phrase ("I get an ear by default"). I can pass for one in the UK ("right" school and RP accent) but I haven't lived there for decades, and it cuts no mustard elsewhere. But on a few rare occasions I was able shamelessly to abuse this privilege to get someone unheard a hearing.
Alas I won't be in Oxford (I used to be a regular visitor) but thank you for doing this again.
November 27, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Alas I won't be in Oxford (I used to be a regular visitor) but thank you for doing this again.
Every year I check off the days before I catch an accidental earful of the Little Drummer Boy. No offence to the composer and many fine musicians who have performed it, but I would happily go two or three decades without hearing it again.
November 27, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Every year I check off the days before I catch an accidental earful of the Little Drummer Boy. No offence to the composer and many fine musicians who have performed it, but I would happily go two or three decades without hearing it again.