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@simondo65.bsky.social

Software engineer at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social, doing research in orthopaedics. Loves model trains, science fiction and vintage microprocessors, doesn't own an anorak. Also likes to cook and take photographs, not necessarily of my cooking.

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Can't they just pay these people with the gazillions of dollars that Trump says the tariffs are bringing in? 😜

07.10.2025 15:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I remember when I was in the cubs or at school (can't remember which) in the 70s and we got a talk from the police they said it was their standard way to test their radio batteries.

I suspect this is not the standard method for more modern Airwave radio batteries.

07.10.2025 14:17 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Strangely not a title that shows up on IMDb, but seems to go for around Β£100 on eBay.

07.10.2025 08:27 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Well there’s certainly FA going on in her brain.

06.10.2025 19:23 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Did this really happen, or is it just a shagging, dog story?

06.10.2025 10:44 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Signing my name, on the other hand is perfectly logical. The S for sinister is on the left hand end, and the S for Starboard is on the right.

04.10.2025 08:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And just to confuse matters, when you do sign your name the R for right is on the left and the L for left is on the right.

04.10.2025 08:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I won’t be repeating this joke as I actually have 3 vices in my workshop.

03.10.2025 23:50 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

And Trump approved posting in his name a video of him as a cackling lunatic? He's not right in the head!

03.10.2025 12:48 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Does that make her a high priestess...

... or is that just when the incense kicks in?

03.10.2025 12:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Your destination would be an Italian Baroque style village in North Wales.

02.10.2025 22:43 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Nor in my local shopping centre.
No shopping allowed for ICE in England!

01.10.2025 17:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I bet they PAT Test their equipment too at the BBC.

01.10.2025 10:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The hoi polloi don't know any better.

01.10.2025 10:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I first read that as Airfix bayonets!

(Airfix is a British manufacturer of plastic model kits, including soldiers with bayonets)

30.09.2025 18:39 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Problem with the food and drinks? Public display of sulkiness?

30.09.2025 18:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Affordable adequacy" πŸ˜€

Is this a modern spoof, or an April fool joke from the time?

29.09.2025 17:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This is the night train not crossing the border,
Bringing no one, by French fiscal order.

(with apologies to Auden)

29.09.2025 15:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

...call it something other than 'diagnosis' if you want. You could call it, for example, 'classification' or something, but then I suspect you run into the murky world of eugenics.

29.09.2025 15:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Without a diagnosis how do you ensure that people find, or are given, the appropriate mental tools to succeed in a world that is generally not neurodiverse friendly? (you can wish it was, but wishing doesn't make it so)? ...

29.09.2025 15:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

"Needs Benny Hill music" was literally my first thought seeing it.

29.09.2025 14:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If true, the anonymity of fesshole can be quite easily blown if someone recognises the somewhat unique event described.

29.09.2025 14:35 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It is on my UK Netflix.
8 series of it.

29.09.2025 14:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Isn't Dexter on Netflix?

29.09.2025 14:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Not that I’d gloat or anything, but

Wordle 1,563 2/6*

🟩⬜🟨⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

29.09.2025 09:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Given Trump’s Scottish ancestry, giving Obama the Freedom of Edinburgh would probably piss Trump off more.

28.09.2025 18:27 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

She was obviously having rebound sex after someone ghosted her after a first date.

28.09.2025 11:54 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Big enough to drown the Duke of Clarence in Richard III

β€œI'll drown you in the malmsey-butt within.”

28.09.2025 11:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The negative messaging is depressing. Instead of starting with β€˜here are all the ways digital ID can make your life easierβ€˜, the focus is all about β€˜here are all the things other people can’t do without access to one’.

(All bollocks in the gray cash-in-hand cheap labour economy anyway)

28.09.2025 11:11 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Maybe it’s the name, but the styling always looks a bit American to me. I suppose they couldn’t revive the Great Central name as everyone would go off to Marylebone.

28.09.2025 10:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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