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Let me have books about me that are fat.

Tout passe, tout lasse, tout casse.

Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
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marktech.bsky.social
He was hired by Snowden's father (and he got a fair amount of media coverage for it); fair to say that Snowden was not happy:
Part of a statement by Edward Snowden from https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/edward-snowden-media-misled_n_3764560 Neither my father, his lawyer Bruce Fein, nor his wife Mattie Fein represent me in any way None of them have been or are involved in my current situation, and this will not change in the future. I ask journalists to understand that they do not possess any special knowledge regarding my situation or future plans, and not to exploit the tragic vacuum of my father's emotional compromise for the sake of tabloid news.
January 13, 2026 at 8:51 AM
marktech.bsky.social
The 'y tho' meme used as a response to "RT this with your home river" and intended as a very mildly humorous play on words, my home river being a homophone of the letter "Y".
January 12, 2026 at 10:20 PM
marktech.bsky.social
See, Batman gets it
From "The Joker Is Wild", 1966: DICK Gee whizz, Aunt Harriet. what's so important about Chopin? BRUCE All music is important, Dick. It's the universal language. One of our best hopes for the eventual realization of the brotherhood of man. DICK Gosh, Bruce. Yes. You're right, I'll practice harder from now on.
January 12, 2026 at 1:25 PM
marktech.bsky.social
Without revealing your actual age,what's something you remember that if you told a younger person they wouldn't understand?
The Wombles rocking out
January 11, 2026 at 10:55 AM
marktech.bsky.social
"So, how did you first hear about the asteroid strike?"
Tweets [yes, I know] from the ISS piss tracker: ISS Piss Tracker @iss-piss-tracker.... 1m The piss tank on the ISS is now 52% full tl SS Piss Tracker @iss-piss-tracker.... 6m The piss tank on the ISS is now 53% full. tl |SS Piss Tracker @iss-piss-tracker... 10m The piss tank on the ISS is now 54% full. t B .. |SS Piss Tracker @iss-piss-tracker... 15m The piss tank on the ISS is now 55% full. 1
January 10, 2026 at 3:14 PM
marktech.bsky.social
Oh, and
Bluesky exchange: Jerry Timber @jerrytimber.bsky.social They went to market. Paddy O'Furniture @goseahox.b....6h I'm embarrassed at how long I went before I realized it didn't mean the piggy went shopping Monkey puppet side-eye meme
January 10, 2026 at 10:26 AM
marktech.bsky.social
And the default Android Gallery app:
Inceptionesque screenshot of Gallery on Android showing it selecting text from a screenshot of a Bluesky tweet with a screenshot of the iPhone Photos app showing it selecting text from an image: Dom but Chopper @domsalvia.iaco... 1h This is from the default iPhone Photos app Madeley @madeley.bsky.social Was I imagining it or is there an online tool that will extract words from an image making alt text easier? Copy 1 like Select All Look Up
January 8, 2026 at 4:01 PM
marktech.bsky.social
As the prophecies foretold
Graphic of the moon with a huge impact: : AN ASTEROID THE SIZE OF 240 TOASTERS IS ON A POTENTIAL COLLISION COURSE WITH THE MOON, WHICH COULD TRIGGER A DESTRUCTÍVE METEOR SHOWER ON EARTH IN 2032. The flying toasters screensaver
January 8, 2026 at 7:03 AM
marktech.bsky.social
I love the Opus cartoon on this from years ago:
A multi-panel colour cartoon by Berkeley Breathed - I LOVE THESE SUMMER EVENING REALITY CHECKS FROM OLIVER! HOLD OUT A SPECK OF SAND AT ARM'S LENGTH. THAT'S THE PORTION OF THE NIGHT SKY AT WHICH THEY POINTED THE HUBBLE TELESCOPE FOR A WEEK. IT WAS THERE- DEEP WITHIN THAT DOT OF DARK NOTHINGNESS TEN BILLION LIGHT YEARS DISTANT--THAT THEY FOUND THE UNEXPECTED: GALAXIES! THOUSANDS! THOUSANDS! ...WITH BILLIONS OF STARS! ... AND TRILLIONS OF NEW WORLDS. AND BEYOND THOSE... MORE! ALL IN THE SPACE OF A SINGLE GRAIN OF SAND ON THE VAST BEACH OF THE COSMOS. WHICH NICELY FRAMES THE QUESTION MAN HAS BEEN ASKING POR MILLENNIA. WHAT QUESTION? WHAT'S THE CENTER OF IT ALL? ME. ME, BABY. @Berkeley Breathed Dist, by The Washington Post Writers Group
January 6, 2026 at 10:01 PM
marktech.bsky.social
About forty years too late, but I'll take it
From the Merriam-Webster Word for 2026 gif: picturesque
January 5, 2026 at 8:17 AM
marktech.bsky.social
Goodness, if only there was some term for what I've done to him
Notification: Listifications 9m @listifications.app @andrewbutler99.bsky.social has blocked you
January 4, 2026 at 9:44 AM
marktech.bsky.social
I went looking for that but found this
HOW TO MAKE TOFFEE VODKA INGREDIENTS 1 bottle of Vodka 135g Werther's Original toffees That bit off of Jurassic Park: YOUR SCIENTISTS WERE SO PREOCCUPIED WITH WHETHER OR NOT THEY COULD... THEY DIDN'T STOP TO THINK IF THEY SHOULD.
January 1, 2026 at 3:41 PM
marktech.bsky.social
First day of 2025 vs last day of 2025.
Oh, whatsisname, brother of that newsreader, as Hercule Poirot in Egypt for some reason Dirk Bogarde as Gustav von Aschenbach feeling a bit peaky towards the end of the Visconti film 'Death In Venice'
December 31, 2025 at 10:37 PM
marktech.bsky.social
Picture of the staff who operate my account.
Dear old Stinker Murdoch and Deryck Guyler as The Men From The Ministry
December 31, 2025 at 9:29 PM
marktech.bsky.social
First day of 2025 vs last day of 2025.
David Suchet as Hercule Poirot in Egypt for some reason Dirk Bogarde as Gustav von Aschenbach feeling a bit peaky in the closing moments of Visconti's film of the Thomas Mann novella 'Death In Venice'.
December 31, 2025 at 2:00 PM
marktech.bsky.social
If that's so, putting the Managing Director of the Crystal Palace in the iguanadon's arse was a ballsy move
and successful undertaking. The wider arch at the opposite end was filled by Mr Francis Fuller the Managing Director of the Crystal Palace with Prof Edward Forbes on his right
December 31, 2025 at 10:00 AM
marktech.bsky.social
Not sure about the bits in between, mind
Detail of the gilded capital of an interior column
December 29, 2025 at 12:10 PM
marktech.bsky.social
Here you go, from 1903.
The gilded capital at the top of an interior column, decorated with a Green Man at each corner.
December 29, 2025 at 12:10 PM
marktech.bsky.social
The latest from the most advanced salesforce in the world
Amazon Shopping 11:51 We found a deal just for you Save on something you'll love SONIC THE HEDGEHOG ADVENT CALENDAR
December 29, 2025 at 12:05 PM
marktech.bsky.social
Going into 2026 like
From Discover Count Mysterioso @mysteriosox.b.. 37m This is bloody fabulous Deleted
December 29, 2025 at 9:47 AM
marktech.bsky.social
It's the Good Lord dog: "PEOPLE DO LIKE TO COMPLAIN ABOUT CONNECTIONS" "GOOD LORD"
December 29, 2025 at 9:37 AM
marktech.bsky.social
Well, yes; I was in no great danger of taking it literally. Also 🤷‍♂️:
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December 28, 2025 at 5:12 PM
marktech.bsky.social
A curious origin story, this. I bought it on a whim: I was a very young teenager and thought it might be about flying saucers. I was partially right, but not the way I was expecting: it's a lucid and occasionally very funny survey of fringe beliefs and pseudosciences, and made a skeptic of me.
A paperback: Cults of Unreason Dr. Christopher Evans
December 27, 2025 at 9:33 PM
marktech.bsky.social
Today's XKCD xkcd.com/3186/ sits oddly with me: at work, what's universally called an IEC looks like this, with a sheath around the pins:
An IEC male connector An IEC female connector
December 27, 2025 at 9:29 AM
marktech.bsky.social
A couple of people have posted favourite poems. Here's another.
THE CHOIRMASTER'S BURIAL by Thomas Hardy He often would ask us That, when he died, After playing so many To their last rest, If out of us any Should here abide, And it would not task us, We would with our lutes Play over him By his grave-brim The psalm he liked best - The one whose sense suits "Mount Ephraim"- And perhaps we should seem To him, in Death's dream, Like the seraphim. As soon as I knew That his spirit was gone I thought this his due, And spoke thereupon. "I think,'" said the vicar, "A read service quicker Than viols out-of-doors In these frosts and hoars. That old-fashioned way Requires a fine day, And it seems to me It had better not be.' Hence, that afternoon, Though never knew he That his wish could not be, To get through it faster They buried the master Without any tune. But 'twas said that, when At the dead of next night The vicar looked out, There struck on his ken Thronged roundabout, Where the frost was graying The headstoned grass, A band all in white Like the saints in church-glass, Singing and playing The ancient stave By the choirmaster's grave. Such the tenor man told When he had grown old.
December 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM