Mark

Mark

@yacfoaky.bsky.social

Professional python-botherer and wrangler of pandas. Computational demonologist. Amateur cyclist and chess player. Physicist. Cat-a-holic 😼. Normally aspirinated. (he/him)

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Mark
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I've reached that stage of life when my children are away at uni. I often wander upstairs and am still surprised when their doors are open, the beds are made and the floors are clear of clothes and dirty dishes. It's then when I go into their rooms, take a good look around and wonder...

Mark
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Third OTB game of the season last night - third time with black - third game ending in a draw after a time scramble. Feels like I should be able to learn something from this but I'm not sure what! #chess

Mark
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For any pedants, I know that the IEA is based on Lord North Street and not at 55 Tufton St. I'm lumping all Westminster based, shadily funded, right wing think tanks together under that label.

Mark
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Drivers of the two (2) cars in front of me who drove past two (2) signs starting "pre-book only" on the way into the car park: what exactly were you expecting to happen when you got to - and blocked - the two (2) entry barriers?

Mark
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A Boulevardier, objectively, should be less dangerous than an Old Fashioned, especially if I made both myself, right? This one feels fucking deadly and ISTG I didn't add more than one third whisky.

Mark
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Adrian Lester in Cyrano de Bergerac at the Noël Coward theatre. Well that was amazing. Definitely go and see it if you are able.

Mark
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If I turn this off for my follow feed, what happens? Do I A) no longer see quote posts that people I follow make themselves B) no longer see quote posts by random people of posts made by people I follow C) both D) some other behaviour

Mark
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Out in the garden at 0130 on a "school night". Sampling my duty-free (Connemara Malt Whiskey). Listening to tunes by The Scratch, The Pogues, Flogging Molly etc. Don't feel like going to bed just yet.

Mark
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Aaaaand Limerick have won it, right at the end, which is excellent seeing as that is who we were supporting (on account of being in Limerick 😁)

Mark
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Realised I never followed up with the end product -- I usually forget to photograph it before it's half-eaten. Anyway, here's one from the following session...

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Balls

Mark
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I saw the accompanying picture and immediately thought "Badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger..."

Anton Gerashchenko@antongerashchenko.bsky.social

On June 6, China announced a special maritime "law enforcement" operation east of Taiwan. On June 7-8, the Chinese government and coast guard vessels entered restricted waters near the island, in an area where the Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs) of Japan, the Philippines, and Taiwan overlap

Mark
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Great! I tweaked my knee getting up off the toilet earlier and now I'm getting reminders of my own mortality every time I bend my leg.