James Stapley

What's a ghost's favourite cheese?

Overheard in Britain (affect a mental pair of Estuary English accents): "Had a Vietnamese last night." "Don't know what that is." "A fresh-tasting Chinese, really."

The good news fairy finally visited. Finally.

@thelifeofsharks.com It's aliiiive!

Anyone else have a weird way to mark the passing of seasons? It's summer when seasoning oil is liquid. Not summer when it is solid!

@tashasev.bsky.social Look what they have done to Zuri!!!!

Pretty crazy to watch Crufts and know a dog and handler in the Flyball.

#InvertebrateShitposting as per @joabaldwin.com's request

Why call it vivipary when Womb Service was right there?

Spotify Wrapped...

Nerrrrrrrrrrrds! To celebrate getting 100,000 followers on Bluesky, I am offering some of you fine folks the chance to join me on a 2026 shark research expedition. Really! Enter here: forms.gle/iq3YQG31kbAC... Terms and conditions in thread below:

#teef

IT'S NOT LUPUS

N E R D. R E I C H. Perfection 👌 10/10, no notes.

I feel like London needs a restaurant chain where you pick your food ingredients and they fry it in front of you. The advert tag line? See it Say it Sautéed.

Spider hackers!

USPS airmail is scandalously slow for how expensive it is. "International Airmail Shipments usually arrive in 2-4 weeks depending on customs."

Yay, new @aptshadow.bsky.social day.

🚨Back by popular demand — I revisit the old Baker's Dozen blog post series 🍩 that my former colleagues at Renesys used to publish. The analysis ranks the top transit ASes of the internet but this time we're extending it over 20 years, using a nifty interactive viz. www.kentik.com/blog/crumb-b...

Deep Ocean: Kingdom of the Coelacanth review — Attenborough peps up a very slow fish 🧪🌎🦑🐠

Modern AI tools emulate the classic con-man tricks of mentalism, tricking people into believing that they’re far more clever - and sapient - than they actually are. Fantastic piece by @baldurbjarnason.com : softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...

Researchers Determine Coelacanth Faked Own Extinction To Escape Massive Gambling Debt theonion.com/researc...

Hey. When's the last time you thought about eels? I think you should probably think about eels every day for 24 days straight. Art by the amazing @ehrenenglish.bsky.social Learn about eels, support @skypeascientist.bsky.social, look at awesome art. Get one here: squidfacts.bigcartel.com

I feel like this product... will not do well in South Africa, other than as a novelty gag.

We've got 2 great talks this evening; if you're even remotely interested in network automation, you're going to want to be here! netldn.uk/2025/07/07/n...

This Thursday it's an automation double-whammy at #NetLdn Meeting from 1830hrs, talks start promptly at 1900hrs, at our new venue: Henry’s Den, Downstairs @ Finch’s 12a Finsbury Square, EC2A 1AN netldn.uk/2025/07/07/n...

More IXPs need mascots. Spotted at #NetUK2

Looks like Little Johnny Drop Tables got some gene splicing from his parents. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... xkcd.com/327/

Hold on I need my air for this

If you're feeling short of spoons, I may have the culprit.

This Thursday, the first of a new era NetLdn 2.0, at our new venue: Henry’s Den, Downstairs @ Finch’s, 12a Finsbury Square, London EC2A 1AN

I haven't even finished Shroud and this arrived today. @aptshadow.bsky.social you are SPECTACULARLY productive.

... why do people keep building DCs in the boiling hot states? Do it in a northerly state and use cold seawater when free air cooling isn't enough. Waste heat might even be useful for onshore aquaculture.

Shed exoskeleton of a dragonfly/damselfly nymph on a sundial gnomon some distance from a pond.

As a network engineer, one of my pet peeves is how installing *any* IT gear into a rack is commonly termed "racking and stacking" in the UK. Like how often do you even stack switches these days, let alone non-network gear? Possibly just one of those idiomatic things I need to get over. :D