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David Maloney

@dtrmcr.bsky.social
195 followers 456 following 246 posts

Nerd. Likes boingboing, B3ta, UK politics, data, government, digital, health, transport (posting in a personal capacity)

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David Maloney @dtrmcr.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Coming out of a hedge and I've been doing just fine, gotta gotta get down because I want it all
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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sat next to a crying baby for the entire flight. I don't mind though. Feel like they were the only other passenger who truly grasped the unnatural horror of our undertaking. Man does not belong to the sky. The real monsters are those who remain silent.
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David Maloney @dtrmcr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I have to admire the spirit of scientific rigour behind going back to try it again years later in case the taste has evolved.
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David Maloney @dtrmcr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It's a great line. Maybe an idea you like more for the visual will come to you later on.
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David Maloney @dtrmcr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Kevin Miles from Gene
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David Maloney @dtrmcr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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David Maloney @dtrmcr.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Great, unless your council - like mine - personalises the results based on who has or has not paid for optional collections. Wow betide any gardener who relies on a non-gardening neighbour's address to check on the garden waste bin dates!
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Castles, books, a cat who likes to camp, Wales in a heatwave and a good story about a 1970s hedgehog. Read my latest newsletter here, for free: www.tom-cox.com/notes-on-a-c...
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Notes On A Castle
It seems there’s always a planned chapter I end up leaving out of one of my books - sometimes because I go cold on an idea but more often because it simply ends up not feeling like the right fit for t...
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CPN @oksettledown.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Thank you for your attention to this matter!!
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David Maloney @dtrmcr.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I'm playing Bob Dylan's Christian period albums in the background while working today. My mind is on what I'm typing so the lyrics are floating past without sinking in. Musically speaking, the albums are a lot better than I expected.
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David Maloney @dtrmcr.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I bought a ticket from Bristol to Northamptonshire via Paddington and it was cheaper than the ticket from Bristol to Paddington only. Am I morally compromised if my ticket covers *more than* my whole journey?
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David Maloney @dtrmcr.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I want to see more Horrible Histories/Ghosts alumni in Taskmaster!
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David Maloney @dtrmcr.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The most useful function of Copilot is searching across One Drive, SharePoint, Teams and Outlook to find that thing that I can't quite remember enough about to search for manually
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David Maloney @dtrmcr.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Erl with a pearl earring is so good!
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David Maloney @dtrmcr.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
In a world... where April is the cruellest month... one man will rise up... and show you fear in a handful of dust...
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David Maloney @dtrmcr.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Your 10 year old should be free of charge on TfL services (buses, tube). They are normally expected to pay a child fare on National Rail services, so worth allowing a bit of extra time to check that if you're heading to a mostly rail area (e.g. Bromley, Bexley)
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Ian Lahey @ilahey.com · 16/07/2026
Never date a tennis player — love means nothing to them.
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David Maloney @dtrmcr.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
My daughter is watching a song about the early Prime Ministers of the UK set to the tune of Mambo No. 5. Nothing beats Horrible Histories.
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David Maloney @dtrmcr.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
"This is the one thing we didn't want to happen."
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Comics Covers @comicscovers.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Elric 1 (2412)
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David Maloney @dtrmcr.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Airplane. Blazing Saddles.
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David Maloney @dtrmcr.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I want to be able to fill my cart in my online supermarket shop and then press a button to compare prices of a like for like selection from other online supermarkets, and then press another to transfer my list to that new retailer.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Happy Father's Day 🖤
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David Maloney @dtrmcr.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
UK police operation names are chosen via a nationwide system to avoid duplication across different police forces (and presumably so that nobody chooses a name that's already in use for a covert operation of some kind).
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christhebarker @christhebarker.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Ok so SOMEBODY convinced me to make this and it took me absolutely ages when I was supposed to be doing something else so enjoy it! sgtp.lovable.app
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Lovable App
Who is still alive on the Sgt Pepper album cover?
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Comic Tropes @comictropes.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Give me your best out of context comic panels or covers.
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David Maloney @dtrmcr.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
This sounds silly, but I do something similar with cereal after once getting a duff pack.
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Nice collision of the headline from one story and a picture from another on The Times website.
Story reading:

Russia 'jammed signals of RAF jet' carrying defence secretary
John Healey was flying home after visiting British troops undertaking military exercises in Estonia

Below it a picture of someone wing walking on a bi-plane.
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David Maloney @dtrmcr.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Submarines
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David Maloney @dtrmcr.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I wonder what that final audio transmission meant. That phrase was, "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn"
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David Maloney @dtrmcr.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Not a massive surprise here findmypolitics.com
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David Maloney @dtrmcr.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Starmer is the only person this century to win a majority at a GE without having been Prime Minister for a period before.
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David Maloney @dtrmcr.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Reminds me of that tweet: I think Ronan Keating's biographer said it best when he said “He said it best when he said “You say it best when you say nothing at all”” (Can't find the original tweet only loads of copies)
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David Maloney @dtrmcr.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
The war was lost, the treaty signed. I was not caught, I crossed the line. I was not caught, though many tried. I live among you, well-disguised.
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David Maloney @dtrmcr.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
I always think of it like when Disney's Aladdin's Genie comes out of the lamp
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David Maloney @dtrmcr.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Not only did a few of mine get published, but once I got a new one published on the same day as one of my old ones came up on Fesshole Gold.
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David Maloney @dtrmcr.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Is "prisoners of geography" a recognised idiom, or do I just think of that because of the book?
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David Maloney @dtrmcr.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
....The Aristocrats!
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David Maloney @dtrmcr.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Now it can revert to its original meaning, furniture correspondent in a daily newspaper
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Robbie Lesiuk @mysterybob.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
I was once given £1 to say nice things about Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt. It was a quid pro quo agreement.
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David Maloney @dtrmcr.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
The threshold for what is considered scandalous has really changed in recent times
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David Maloney @dtrmcr.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
A comma away from a beatnik suggesting a snack break
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David Maloney @dtrmcr.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
media.tenor.com
a man playing a guitar in front of a sign that says ad
Alt: a man playing a guitar. It's Mark Knopplfer from Dire Straits. He looks cool. Always cool. The headband. You need a headband too.
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Happy Mario day!
“Super Mario was based on an Italian man I saw die in an accident on a construction site. I thought to myself, ‘What if that man had been killed by a gorilla, rather than negligence?’
- Shigeru Miyamoto
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David Maloney @dtrmcr.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
media.tenor.com
a close up of a man making a funny face with his mouth open .
Alt: a man nodding and tapping his head like "I got a good idea"
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David Maloney @dtrmcr.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Time and time again I get to the bottom of an excellent interview in the Guardian, then scroll up to see who wrote it, and see the name Simon Hattenstone. The recent one with Corrine Bailey Rae continues this pattern of high quality writing. Fantastic.
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EconReporter @econreporter.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
I think there is not enough appreciation to how good this FT visualization is the original is like this 👇
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David Maloney @dtrmcr.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Definitely turtles
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David Maloney @dtrmcr.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
It's all numbers if you look closely enough, ones and zeroes, ones and zeroes, all the way down. Even the phrase "telephone numbers are not numbers" is in itself made of numbers.
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