Mark
@yacfoaky.bsky.social
Professional python-botherer and wrangler of pandas. Computational demonologist. Amateur cyclist and chess player. Physicist. Cat-a-holic 😼.
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Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
December 31, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
For reasons I feel the the need to state three things.
Freebird is >> Sweet Home Alabama
There are loads of Lynyryd Skynyrd songs that are ~>= Freebird
If you have cystitis, you can sing "Big wees keep on burning" to the tune of Sweet Home Alabama.
Freebird is >> Sweet Home Alabama
There are loads of Lynyryd Skynyrd songs that are ~>= Freebird
If you have cystitis, you can sing "Big wees keep on burning" to the tune of Sweet Home Alabama.
December 27, 2025 at 11:46 PM
For reasons I feel the the need to state three things.
Freebird is >> Sweet Home Alabama
There are loads of Lynyryd Skynyrd songs that are ~>= Freebird
If you have cystitis, you can sing "Big wees keep on burning" to the tune of Sweet Home Alabama.
Freebird is >> Sweet Home Alabama
There are loads of Lynyryd Skynyrd songs that are ~>= Freebird
If you have cystitis, you can sing "Big wees keep on burning" to the tune of Sweet Home Alabama.
Suck it up, Wordle bot. You only beat me ONE (1) time in the last two weeks and I beat you SEVEN (7) times.
December 23, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Suck it up, Wordle bot. You only beat me ONE (1) time in the last two weeks and I beat you SEVEN (7) times.
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They never actually cared about the Constitution
December 23, 2025 at 2:22 AM
They never actually cared about the Constitution
Conversation between two youths looking at the departures board at the station this morning.
"Yoof1: There's too many times. How do we get to Colchester"
"Yoof2: 8:24? Dunno?"
...
There were three trains on the board getting to Colchester before that.
"Yoof1: There's too many times. How do we get to Colchester"
"Yoof2: 8:24? Dunno?"
...
There were three trains on the board getting to Colchester before that.
December 16, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Conversation between two youths looking at the departures board at the station this morning.
"Yoof1: There's too many times. How do we get to Colchester"
"Yoof2: 8:24? Dunno?"
...
There were three trains on the board getting to Colchester before that.
"Yoof1: There's too many times. How do we get to Colchester"
"Yoof2: 8:24? Dunno?"
...
There were three trains on the board getting to Colchester before that.
Anybody for a morsel of Jarlsberg?
December 5, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Anybody for a morsel of Jarlsberg?
Nice clear 22° halo round the moon tonight.
December 3, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Nice clear 22° halo round the moon tonight.
This is an epic and important thread. Post 100 in the sequence surely needs (at least) 100 likes!
100th post 😄
This reminds me that I once explained on Twitter to a transphobic barrister, Barbara Rich, the concept of standing being intertwined with merits and how prospects are assessed in legal aid cases, only for her to block me, lol.
This reminds me that I once explained on Twitter to a transphobic barrister, Barbara Rich, the concept of standing being intertwined with merits and how prospects are assessed in legal aid cases, only for her to block me, lol.
100/ He adds that the Good Law Project’s support for the trans community demonstrates that it is not merely a busybody. He stresses that standing is intertwined with the merits in this case, noting the importance of holding the EHRC accountable in its discharge of statutory functions.
November 15, 2025 at 11:30 PM
This is an epic and important thread. Post 100 in the sequence surely needs (at least) 100 likes!
Happy "Giles Coren pointing at a poo on a mattress" day to all who celebrate it.
November 15, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Happy "Giles Coren pointing at a poo on a mattress" day to all who celebrate it.
How it started. How it's going.
November 11, 2025 at 1:28 PM
How it started. How it's going.
Putting boots on in case it kicks off later at [checks notes] ABBA Voyage.
November 8, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Putting boots on in case it kicks off later at [checks notes] ABBA Voyage.
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November 7, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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What happens when a minority is forced to fight for its very existence?
Here's a lesson from history that the gender crits would do well to heed.
Here's a lesson from history that the gender crits would do well to heed.
October 31, 2025 at 9:38 AM
What happens when a minority is forced to fight for its very existence?
Here's a lesson from history that the gender crits would do well to heed.
Here's a lesson from history that the gender crits would do well to heed.
I mean look at this cheesy sliver. The top is still concentrated cheese while the bottom is a crust made from cheese.
#cheese
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#cheese
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November 1, 2025 at 3:42 AM
I mean look at this cheesy sliver. The top is still concentrated cheese while the bottom is a crust made from cheese.
#cheese
@traceyno.bsky.social
#cheese
@traceyno.bsky.social
I might have already worked out how long this cheesy goodness will last.
November 1, 2025 at 3:31 AM
I might have already worked out how long this cheesy goodness will last.
OMFG!
My wife just had a fondue night with friends and I was doing some clearing up.
I went to clean out the residue in the fondue pot itself and thought "before trying hot water etc. let's just hear the pot and see if the plug of stuff loosens.
It did....
My wife just had a fondue night with friends and I was doing some clearing up.
I went to clean out the residue in the fondue pot itself and thought "before trying hot water etc. let's just hear the pot and see if the plug of stuff loosens.
It did....
November 1, 2025 at 3:05 AM
OMFG!
My wife just had a fondue night with friends and I was doing some clearing up.
I went to clean out the residue in the fondue pot itself and thought "before trying hot water etc. let's just hear the pot and see if the plug of stuff loosens.
It did....
My wife just had a fondue night with friends and I was doing some clearing up.
I went to clean out the residue in the fondue pot itself and thought "before trying hot water etc. let's just hear the pot and see if the plug of stuff loosens.
It did....
Irresponsibly posting my location on social media
October 28, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Irresponsibly posting my location on social media
First time stopping at the newly opened Beaulieu Park railway station, and a grand total of ten people got onto the train.
The only other people there apart from staff/security were a couple of train-spotters, photographing/filming the trains as they arrived.
The only other people there apart from staff/security were a couple of train-spotters, photographing/filming the trains as they arrived.
October 27, 2025 at 8:27 AM
First time stopping at the newly opened Beaulieu Park railway station, and a grand total of ten people got onto the train.
The only other people there apart from staff/security were a couple of train-spotters, photographing/filming the trains as they arrived.
The only other people there apart from staff/security were a couple of train-spotters, photographing/filming the trains as they arrived.
Can confirm. AWS us-east-1 has indeed gone belly up today.
October 20, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Can confirm. AWS us-east-1 has indeed gone belly up today.
A question that has nagged at me for over 25 years:
Why didn't I go rooting through the discarded equipment cages at work in 1999 the day after they replaced my IBM Model M keyboard with some brand-new membrane POS?
Why didn't I go rooting through the discarded equipment cages at work in 1999 the day after they replaced my IBM Model M keyboard with some brand-new membrane POS?
October 16, 2025 at 10:12 AM
A question that has nagged at me for over 25 years:
Why didn't I go rooting through the discarded equipment cages at work in 1999 the day after they replaced my IBM Model M keyboard with some brand-new membrane POS?
Why didn't I go rooting through the discarded equipment cages at work in 1999 the day after they replaced my IBM Model M keyboard with some brand-new membrane POS?
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“I’m a very aesthetic person”.
I guess so, if that aesthetic is Liberace meets Saddam Hussein.
I guess so, if that aesthetic is Liberace meets Saddam Hussein.
September 30, 2025 at 2:56 PM
“I’m a very aesthetic person”.
I guess so, if that aesthetic is Liberace meets Saddam Hussein.
I guess so, if that aesthetic is Liberace meets Saddam Hussein.
