Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 9hSon is getting 9s for GCSE history work largely off the back of playing Kingdom Come Deliverance and reading up on its story. 000
Reposted by Mark BurnleyDr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 15h"You can't imagine the woke youngsters of today being much use at the D-Day landings!" You can't imagine the older sorts who say crap like this being much use at D-Day either. They clearly lack the wherewithal to operate a machine gun nest. 1013018
Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 11/10/2026I’m annoyed at how rubbish and boxy a lot of EVs look, naming no names Toyota. But the French (R5 and this) have absolutely nailed it. 0220
Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Putin is a C…. Exhibit 2,453,785: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cq...bbc.co.ukZelensky accuses Russia of striking power plant after Trump's claim of energy ceasefire - follow liveMoscow is yet to comment on the purported ceasefire, which Trump said had been agreed by both sides. 020
Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Man City’s new manager looks like an AI version of the old one. I will share no further opinions on football this season. 110
Reposted by Mark BurnleyLeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 11/10/2026And the American people either agree with this betrayal of America's friends and allies, or they don't care. And that amounts to the same thing. If they cared they'd remove him themselves. 1153
Reposted by Mark BurnleyChris Rivers @chrisrivers50.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Rare for all the planets to align 2287
Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 10/10/2026It’s like Sauron took all the nastiness and evil in the world and turned into an old man rather than a ring. 020
Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 10/10/2026You’re off duty till Christmas with this one. 020
Reposted by Mark Burnleyzauberberg.bsky.social @zauberberg.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Now isn't that some lucky timing... 🤔 0116
Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 10/10/2026It’s why we use statistics. Humans are great at pattern recognition, even when it’s just noise. 010
Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Ukraine should destroy every refinery, fuel truck and tanker it can. 031
Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Trump doing everything he can to prove he’s a Russian asshat. 011
Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Where the game starts. The start line in a car racing game. A Higgins boat in a D-Day first person shooter. What makes me laugh is that the post being dunked on is asking to make a game of his own life so he can play it but live in a nicer house. 110
Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Writers and directors get one suspension of disbelief per show or series, no more. Some have five in the first 20 minutes, and it’s maddening. 110
Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Traitors shows the degree to which humans interpret noise as signal. It’s the fundamental problem with humanity. It’s why we invented science. It’s also why doing science is often fucking annoying. #CelebrityTraitors 010
Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I’m going full Bluesky and suggest “incidentally” is more accurate. “Accidentally” implies nobody is to blame. 030
Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026But if one fell off, you would sort it out, rather than watch the other 9 come down too. 110
Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026If anyone thinks the tech oligarchs are going to release profits for universal basic income, I have a bridge and some magic beans to sell them. 030
Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026@gavinesler.bsky.social “As himself”. You’re a Slow Horse now. Congratulations! 040
Reposted by Mark BurnleyMatthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026This thing is insane. The Cannonball Pulsar is travelling at 1127 km/s and has moved 53 light years from its formation supernova. It will eventually leave the galaxy. It is currently 6,500 light years away in Cassiopeia, rotating 8.6682 times a second and has a 13 light year wake tail! 0154
Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Love EVs, but there is something odd about the design choices legacy manufacturers are making. There are no design constraints caused by engine and transmission, so why make them look crap? Renault got it right with the 5, why can’t JLR? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukJaguar unveils its polarising Type 01 electric carTwo years after JLR relaunched Jaguar into a blizzard of controversy, it has launched its new EV. 110
Reposted by Mark BurnleyDr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds. 7070251922
Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Ah yes, San Diego, that lefty liberal place where the US Pacific Fleet is based. 010
Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026By design it looks like it couldn’t go anywhere else. 000
Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Not even true. Gyms have been around, in one form or another, since at least the Ancient Greeks. Got properly popular in the 1800s to train soldiers. There was a gym on the Titanic FFS. 110
Reposted by Mark BurnleyDr_Aust_PhD @draustphd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Amused by this, esp. as the author of the letter, by then a Senior Editor, interviewed me for a job at Nature in 1999. [I didn't get it.] Also reminded of how Paul Lauterbur (Nobel for MRI) always joked that Nature published his key paper 'even though they said the reviewers didn't understand it'. 111
Reposted by Mark BurnleyMags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Monica Coglan was cross-examined for 13 hours by Archer’s lawyers in the libel trial. She was frequently in tears as her entire life and character was attacked. She died in a car crash before Archer was found guilty of perjury in that trial. Before it was found she’d told the truth all along. 5492169
Reposted by Mark BurnleyStephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I had this bit about Jeffrey Archer from the 1995 HIGNFY video memorised for whenever I needed a handy fact about him. 431779677
Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026When you’ve turned your brain off, you get Clarkson’s take on climate. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukJeremy Clarkson makes surprise appearance at Tory conferenceThe former Top Gear presenter and star of Clarkson's Farm also said farmers were being "attacked" from every angle. 000
Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Day of the Triffids. Treads is the only media that really scares me as an adult. 020
Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026They propose to fund this by making a lot of people earning under £100,000 a year redundant. Genius. 061
Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Because the BBC’s news/current affairs team is composed of Oxbridge Tories, and because Farage is now radioactive, the Beeb have decided Kemi is on the march to power. It’s an astoundingly stupid editorial position. 020
Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026“When you’re short on your dough…” The whole of middle America is going to need to stay at the YMCA because of this guy. 010
Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026If I got a grant, then used an AI agent to develop a synthetic data set based on real data sets and passed it off as new information I would be facing a fraud trial. 110
Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I’m sure the BBC will be furious when it finds out what negative effects of ICE vehicles are. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukWhy electric cars might be making some passengers feel sickResearch shows there are several reasons people might experience motion sickness in electric vehicles. 010
Reposted by Mark BurnleyOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026A man builds an IED. He sets it off in a busy public street. Shrapnel flies about hitting cars, homes and a child's bedroom. It's a miracle nobody is injured. And Reform MP Sarah Pochin calls his imprisonment "disproportionate" and "two tier justice." 2872551924
Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I hate the way the media analyses Trumpism as if there is some grand strategy when the truth is they’re just really stupid and got lucky with inflation in 2022-2024. 010
