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@markhillen.bsky.social

Equal mix of scientist, editor, and espresso.

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Itโ€™s bad enough on Facebook.

21.11.2025 08:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oh yeah?

19.11.2025 16:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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a cartoon of a cat playing a trombone with gifmania written on the bottom ALT: a cartoon of a cat playing a trombone with gifmania written on the bottom

Cheer them up by using your trombone to comment immediately after a corny joke or terrible pun is made.

17.11.2025 16:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I guess even non-diabetic people can sometimes experience the same thing?

17.11.2025 16:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I mean, semaglutide / tirzepatide are both anti-diabetes drugs with a helpful weight loss side effect. Sometimes in diabetics, lowered blood sugar results in more damn blood vessels growing (and leaking) in the retina, causing diseases like diabetic macular oedema to worsen (for a while).

17.11.2025 16:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Flying into Edinburgh Airport, baggage reclaim had carousels for flights from both โ€œmadโ€ and โ€œpisโ€.

Pisaโ€™s IATA code is PSA, if anyone cares.

17.11.2025 10:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Flying into Edinburgh Airport, baggage reclaim had carousels for flights from both โ€œmadโ€ and โ€œpisโ€.

Pisaโ€™s IATA code is PSA, if anyone cares.

17.11.2025 10:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You have to place it in der frische Box

17.11.2025 10:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Ach, Dairy Milk has been getting shite for years now. Thanks Kraft / Mondeleez, ya bastards.

07.11.2025 21:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

(Mark Riley voice): No neeeeed

bsky.app/profile/stev...

06.11.2025 20:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Immediate follow!

06.11.2025 20:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Johnny Chiodini @johneh Nov 27, 2017
The Vengabus is coming
And everybodyโ€™s jumping
The Vengabusโ€™ purpose
A rail replacement service
To take you to some stations
We thank you for your patience
Might want to set out early
It will delay your journey

Johnny Chiodini @johneh Nov 27, 2017 The Vengabus is coming And everybodyโ€™s jumping The Vengabusโ€™ purpose A rail replacement service To take you to some stations We thank you for your patience Might want to set out early It will delay your journey

Ah, which reminds me of the best tweet of all time.

06.11.2025 15:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 416    ๐Ÿ” 104    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Edit page (bookmarklet) Edit page (bookmarklet). GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

gist.github.com/pmarquees/d8... Bookmarklet FTW

03.11.2025 12:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is absolutely going to be a macro doing a global find and replace. Itโ€™s not going to be AI.

27.10.2025 14:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

: The Way of the Samurai

25.10.2025 20:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

What a combo: Deadpans et dauphins.

25.10.2025 17:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Ach, sheโ€™s basically parroting the โ€œremigrationโ€ rhetoric of Germanyโ€™s AfDโ€™s Alice Weidel, nicht wahr?

20.10.2025 19:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I canโ€™t remember what his โ€œactivismโ€ did to the formerly great, incredibly well-run and at the time innovative (in that they actually did proper R&D in house) company Allergan - sold itself to Abbott to avoid becoming part of Valeant. And you should read what his failed attempts cost his hedge fund.

18.10.2025 07:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

To be fair, that feature on our (also VAG) EV has saved my skin. Once I was coming round a bend on a 80 kph Swiss country road to find a car waiting to turn left up a dirt track. Car bleeped and braked faster than I could react!

18.10.2025 07:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

At primary school in 1980s Lanarkshire, my brother used to sit next to a kid who would eat his (and others) apple cores. At the time, he thought: what a crazy kid. Later he realised: aaaargh! That child was living in abject poverty.

16.10.2025 16:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish? Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term โ€˜enshittificationโ€™ explains whatโ€™s gone wrong with the internet โ€“ and ...

If they sell on Amazon, they canโ€™t be cheaper anywhere else. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

16.10.2025 16:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Iโ€™m currently in Frankfurt. Iโ€™m wondering if Frankfurters think Uisce beatha really does mean โ€œWhisky for Lifeโ€ or whether they just bloody love alcohol.

12.10.2025 11:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is top shitposting.

12.10.2025 10:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Heโ€˜s not wrong.

12.10.2025 10:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This weekโ€™s Newsweek coverโ€ฆ

10.10.2025 21:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Interesting choice of which words to sensor, and which ones not.

07.10.2025 15:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

For that sign to exist, sink and toilet must have been confused many, many times to make the signmaking effort worth it.

06.10.2025 11:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

At this rate, I might try Apple Maps.

29.09.2025 12:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Itโ€™s a surprisingly good way of excluding non-nationals from certain services. As I found, trying to rent a municipal bike share bike in Barcelona. No ID card? Then you canโ€™t register for the service. Extend to everything elseโ€ฆ there you go.

25.09.2025 19:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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