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James Stapley

@discusfish.bsky.social
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Ichthyologist doing IT. You could say I moved from fish into chips.

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James Stapley @discusfish.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Is this the Beatles... or Ini Kamoze's "here come the hotstepper"?
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James Stapley @discusfish.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
What's a ghost's favourite cheese?
Plastic packaging with a logotype reading "BOOBRIE".
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James Stapley @discusfish.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
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."
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James Stapley @discusfish.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
The good news fairy finally visited. Finally.
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James Stapley @discusfish.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
@thelifeofsharks.com It's aliiiive!
Front cover of newly released book "The world according to sharks", by Christian Talbot and illustrated by Sophie Hodge (we miss your cartoons!). The cover is a super intelligent shade of the colour blue, and feature various cartoon sharks, asking important questions such as "what is that smell" and possibly related facts such as "sand tiger sharks fart to swim deeper". It claims to be an (almost) 100% factual guide.
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James Stapley @discusfish.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
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!
Packet of Indomie Mi Goreng 3 minute noodlesPacket contents of Indomie noodles in not-sunmer noodle brick, silver foil sachet of sauce and chilli powder, and crucially, the seasoning oil and kecap manis sachet is hard and the contents solid and off white in the oil side.In the summer, the same noodle package contents are different. The seasoning oil is liquid and no longer off white.
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James Stapley @discusfish.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
@tashasev.bsky.social Look what they have done to Zuri!!!!
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James Stapley @discusfish.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Public Service Announcement: slow motion puppaccino videos are the new cats on the Internet.
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James Stapley @discusfish.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Pretty crazy to watch Crufts and know a dog and handler in the Flyball.
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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
#InvertebrateShitposting as per @joabaldwin.com's request
6 bad doodles with text under each one.
horseshoe crab is literally the animal horseshoe crab.
shoehorse crab is a crab riding a shoe, cowboy style.
crabshoe horse is a horse wearing literal crabs as shoes.
shoecrab horse is a horse telling a crab to go away.
crabhorse shoe is a pair of shoes, left one crab shaped, right one horse shaped.
horsecrab shoe is literally the same pair of shoes, flipped.
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James Stapley @discusfish.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Why call it vivipary when Womb Service was right there?
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James Stapley @discusfish.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Spotify Wrapped...
Spotify wrapped headline image 
Top 5 artists and songs 
14110 minutes listened
Top genre tranceThe day you staged a 10 hour relay from Goa to Greenwich. 619 minutes, 182 tracks, 213 artists.The day you turned valentine's into a trance festival. 535 minutes 132 tracks 148 artists.The day you made 109 new friends before breakfast. 329 minutes 109 new artists.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
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:
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a man in red swim trunks is standing in the ocean
ALT: a man in red swim trunks is standing in the ocean
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James Stapley @discusfish.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
#teef
Dog lying upside down with lips parted showing front teeth.
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James Stapley @discusfish.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
IT'S NOT LUPUS
Cover of a promotional pizza box featuring Call of Duty Black Ops 7. "fireaway" is the pizza chain in question.

The character holding a gun bears a passing resemblance to Hugh Lawrie in House MD.
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James Stapley @discusfish.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
N E R D. R E I C H. Perfection 👌 10/10, no notes.
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James Stapley @discusfish.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
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.
Selection of 3 Britiish Transport Police posters for their "see it say it sorted" safety campaign aimed at reporting suspicious packages and behaviour. Image from https://aml-group.com/our-work/see-it-say-it/
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James Stapley @discusfish.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Spider hackers!
Post from SwiftOnSecurity that ends on a cliffhanger and hour ago... "And exploiting that matrix of trust has a new factor:"

Followed by a post by Evelyndroid with a picture of a Geolycosa spider peeking out of a burrow.

The latter post almost seems to answer the previous one.
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James Stapley @discusfish.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
USPS airmail is scandalously slow for how expensive it is. "International Airmail Shipments usually arrive in 2-4 weeks depending on customs."
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James Stapley @discusfish.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
South Africans: time to find out if your flatties can pull this off. "It's not flying, it's falling with style!".
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James Stapley @discusfish.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Yay, new @aptshadow.bsky.social day.
Front cover of UK edition of Adrian Tchaikovsky's new book, Lives of Bitter Rain.
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Doug Madory @eldomador.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
🚨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...
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A Network Crumb Back Story: A Baker’s Dozen Retrospective
Loaf and behold, this retrospective covers nearly 20 years of the Baker’s Dozen style annual ranking of the biggest ASes of the internet. In it we discuss the DFZ, de-peerings, and partitions. It was ...
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Deep Ocean: Kingdom of the Coelacanth review — Attenborough peps up a very slow fish 🧪🌎🦑🐠
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Deep Ocean: Kingdom of the Coelacanth review — Attenborough peps up a very slow fish
In this quiet, deeply immersive documentary, David Attenborough reveals the fascinating story of the coelacanth
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The Life of Sharks @thelifeofsharks.com · 24/08/2025
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 12/08/2025
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...
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The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models rep…
The new era of tech seems to be built on superstitious behaviour
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The Onion @theonion.com · 01/08/2025
Researchers Determine Coelacanth Faked Own Extinction To Escape Massive Gambling Debt theonion.com/researc...
Researchers Determine Coelacanth Faked Own Extinction To Escape Massive Gambling Debt
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
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
The eel facts advent calendar has 5 species of eel on it, ribbon eels which are royal blue and bright yellow, american and european eels hanging out in some eelgrass, a yellow moray, and 2 splendid garden eels which are orange and yellow. The boxes are all numbered in fun boxes with orange and light organ zigzags and a yellow oval in each with the number of the day
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James Stapley @discusfish.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
I feel like this product... will not do well in South Africa, other than as a novelty gag.
Aquarium Test kit called 
"ICP-OES".

A south african might say it as

"I see poes", which is not exactly polite.

NASA's POES satellite caused titters in every 13 year old boy.
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NetLdn @netldn.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
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...
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James Bensley @jwbensley.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
For anyone not at #NetUK2 today it's being live streamed via YouTube so anyone can watch indico.netuk.org/event/2/time...
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NetUK2
NetUK2 will be held on 7th & 8th of July 2025 in London. NetUK is an open and vibrant community of individuals and organisations that are passionate about network infrastructure and wider internet tec...
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NetLdn @netldn.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
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...
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James Stapley @discusfish.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
More IXPs need mascots. Spotted at #NetUK2
Red Welsh dragon stuffed animal peeking out of pocket on a tactical kilt. Has an attached conference name badge reading "Dilys CymruIX"
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James Stapley @discusfish.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Looks like Little Johnny Drop Tables got some gene splicing from his parents. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... xkcd.com/327/
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Cyberbiosecurity: Advancements in DNA-based information security
Synthetic biology is a crucial component of the “cyber-biological revolution” in this new industrial revolution. Owing to breakthroughs in synthetic b…
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Milton Tan @mtanichthys.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Hold on I need my air for this
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a man in a suit and tie is opening a can of beer
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James Stapley @discusfish.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
If you're feeling short of spoons, I may have the culprit.
Mixed breed tan coloured puppy with purloined wooden spoon under his left leg on a lawn.
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NetLdn @netldn.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
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
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James Stapley @discusfish.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
I haven't even finished Shroud and this arrived today. @aptshadow.bsky.social you are SPECTACULARLY productive.
Front cover of "Bee Speaker", a new Adrian Tchaikovsky book. The front cover shows a Threatening mechanical looking ichneomonoid insect form skewering a bee with an appendage like an ovipositor.
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James Stapley @discusfish.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
... 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.
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James Stapley @discusfish.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Farewell, Soda. You were the very best boy.
Tan coloured Africanis dog in the sun on his last day.Post processed selective colour photo of a dog happy to have his ball. Other than the dog the image is greyscale. Dog is tan coloured with a white chest blaze and a curly fluffy firework of a tail.Tan coloured dog with a fluffy curly tail happy to be exploring a grassy field.Dog sees an aurora.
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James Stapley @discusfish.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Shed exoskeleton of a dragonfly/damselfly nymph on a sundial gnomon some distance from a pond.
Dragonfly nymph shed exoskeleton on a sundial gnomon
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James Stapley @discusfish.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
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
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James Stapley @discusfish.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Haha! I see you had me in focus! Byeeeee!
Metallic green insect takes flight from my hand.
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James Stapley @discusfish.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
This reminds me of vaccinating flash drives from autorun viruses with a *folder* called autorun.inf.
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The Register @theregister.com · 26/03/2025
It's International Datacenter Day for those who colocate, er, celebrate
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It's International Datacenter Day for those who colocate, er, celebrate
It's not a party until someone builds a bit barn on greenbelt land It's International Datacenter Day, when people around the world get together to share their love of faceless concrete edifices.…
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James Stapley @discusfish.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Achievement unlocked: boarded a plane, doors closed, waited an hour or so, got off the plane again. In the same place.
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
In response to the UK's demands for a backdoor, Apple has stopped offering users in the UK Advanced Data Protection, which provides end-to-end encryption for backups and files. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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Cornered by the UK’s Demand for an Encryption Backdoor, Apple Turns Off Its Strongest Security Setting
Today, in response to the U.K.’s demands for a backdoor, Apple has stopped offering users in the U.K. Advanced Data Protection, an optional feature in iCloud that turns on end-to-end encryption for fi...
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James Stapley @discusfish.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Sometimes plants cost an arm and a leg. This one takes a whole uncle.
Picture of a succulent plant in a green pot next to some steps outside someone's house.

The text at the top reads "An Aeonium I bought in the Isles of Scilly with my uncle".
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NetLdn @netldn.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
It's #NetLdn tonight and we've got 2 super interesting talks lined up for you. Talks start at 7pm sharp, upstairs at The Wheatsheaf, Fitrovia netldn.uk/2025/01/10/n...
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