Marktech

Marktech

@marktech.bsky.social

Tout passe, tout lasse, tout casse. Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. Every joke is a tiny revolution. God keep me from ever completing anything.... Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience!

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Responses beginning "So..." very commonly fail the waffle test, and this is no exception; the simplest response is to discourage the behaviour by pointing this out and muting.

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Stop what you are doing and look at this lovely story. A photography student in the 80s took pictures of punks and mods on the street in Preston. He’s now tracked them down and photographed them again. The pictures and stories are really ❤️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.ukEmotional reunions as photographer recreates shots 46 years onSam Hill spent months tracking down the "special generation" he photographed as teenagers in 1980.

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My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

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Today, in DD/MM/YY form, is 24/10/26, a Pythagorean triple, the last one this century apparently

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Ondřej Surý fixed PHP. Open source is completely wild.

Charlie Warzel@cwarzel.bsky.social

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

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The gospel according to Luke. No, not that Luke.

wrongtom@wrongtom.bsky.social

According to Koo Stark, while filming Star Wars in Tunisia, the radio controlled R2D2 malfunctioned, disappeared behind a sand dune and trundled onto the set of Jesus Of Nazareth

An old Bill Tidy cartoon of a club comedian onstage saying "It's always a pleasure to be here in Westhoughton Lancashire", while in the wings is a bunch of men in flat caps clutching their foreheads and holding up a huge sign saying "Westholmswick Yorkshire"

Robert Hutton@roberthutton.co.uk

"There is a big fishing fleet here in Portsmouth," Nigel Farage tells a Reform rally in Plymouth, which actually boos in response.

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Me coming home from kindergarten

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "The first one is they show you a lion, a bear, a snake, and a giraffe. And they say, 'Which one is the giraffe?' I got a perfect score."

People are being very cruel, but don't forget you get up to 30% off the exclusive Gnomemart Amol Rajan official tie-rack and trouser press

Daniel McElroy@danielmcelroy0.bsky.social

Amol Rajan’s membership tiers…that is scandalous.

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Today I am loving the first edition cover of Decline and Fall. Designed and illustrated by Waugh himself, the four panels tell the story of the book

Me: oh lord, do people really know no better these days than to try cheesy fake dialogue when they can't act, could it possibly get any worse [music starts]

David Benedict@eggsbened.bsky.social

67 genuinely unforgettable seconds of Zack Polanski. x.com/ifindwankers...