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Evil Jim O’Donnell

@eatyourgreens.org.uk
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Research software engineer. Comics lover. Accessibility enthusiast. mastodon.social/@eatyourgreens Oxford RSE: www.rse.ox.ac.uk Professional bio: www.rse.ox.ac.uk/dr-jim-odonnell

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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.org.uk · 17h
Viz top tips: Apparently it costs the
NHS over £300,000 a year to remove foreign objects from people's rectums. Why aren't we removing British objects instead?
Was Brexit all for nothing?
Gerry Paton, London
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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.org.uk · 16/10/2026
It’s #BunnyButtFriday
Umbriel, a black rabbit, on the windowsill with his back to us. You can see the white puff of his tail.
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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.org.uk · 16/10/2026
Pair programming.
Lyra, a white rabbit with black highlights around her eyes, standing next to my laptop, prior to putting her front paws on the keyboard.
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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.org.uk · 05/10/2026
Also works with rabbits.
Umbriel (a black rabbit) and Lyra (a white rabbit) desperately hunting for food pellets hidden behind little plastic sliding doors in a dog toy.
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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.org.uk · 29/09/2026
Ok, that’s more useful.
Hoa Hakanai again, but I’ve directly when it will be returned to its rightful home, and got a fairly direct answer.
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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.org.uk · 29/09/2026
It seems like you can only choose from a pre-selected list of conversation topics, so there’s no open-ended discussion?
A screenshot of the Ask Virgil app, with three options available to ask about the return of Hoa Hakananai to Rapanui, but no free text option to add your own question.
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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.org.uk · 23/09/2026
Actually unsure as to whether the Weetabix Skins would support GB News.
The Weetabix Skins, cartoon Weetabix dressed in white shirts, jeans, braces and Dr Martens boots.
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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.org.uk · 18/09/2026
This evening at @goshcomics.bsky.social, @bryan-talbot.bsky.social signing Mary Talbot’s new biography of Mary Wollstonecraft.
Lo! An Amazon! The interesting narrative of the life of Mary Wollstonecraft. Signing with Mary Talbot and Bryan Talbot at Gosh! Comics, 18 September 6pm.
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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.org.uk · 16/09/2026
Big Tech outspends everyone else on lobbying in the EU. #lwsSept2026
A slide showing annual spending on EU lobbying: Tobacco 14 mEUR, Oil & Gas 30 mEUR, Big Pharma 40 mEUR, Big Tech 48 mEUR.
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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.org.uk · 11/09/2026
Ok then.
4 votes for Tom Coates on the BlueSky 38 thing.
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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.org.uk · 08/09/2026
This also works with house rabbits.
Umbriel, a black rabbit with a white belly, asleep on his side on the living room carpet.
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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.org.uk · 26/08/2026
Oliver Twist, from the 1968 film, but he’s saying; please sir, can I have some less.
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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.org.uk · 14/08/2026
A link preview card for the news of Jason Arday's death. The preview text names him as Mr. Arday, not Dr. Arday.
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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.org.uk · 13/08/2026
Lucretia, my reflection, trim the lawns with me.
A sign in Richmond saying, welcome to Gothic Gardens.
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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.org.uk · 13/08/2026
Killing time while Umbriel has an x-ray in Sheen. He’s not wild about the hot weather either.
Umbriel, a black rabbit with brown and white highlights, sitting on the windowsill and looking handsome.
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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.org.uk · 13/08/2026
In the BlueSky app, are you also seeing this weird , borderline illegal trending topic for the Clacton vote.
BlueSky trending topics leading with Farage wins Clacton seat, even though the vote hasn’t been counted yet.
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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.org.uk · 10/08/2026
Climate stripes (by @edhawkins.org) at the Kew Carbon Garden.
The sign at the entrance to the Carbon Garden at Kew Gardens. It has a map of the garden and climate stripes showing global warming. The garden’s pavilion, shaped like a giant mushroom, is visible in the background.
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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.org.uk · 30/07/2026
Oliver Twist (from the 1968 film) but he’s saying; please sir, can I have some less?
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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.org.uk · 19/07/2026
Restricted area. Geese only!
A metal, barred gate across a path border by hedges. A sign on the gate says geese only beyond this point.
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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.org.uk · 19/07/2026
The wetlands centre in Barnes has pelicans, and they are not at all afraid of people.
4 Australian pelicans resting on a sandy beach area. Close-up of a resting pelican. The same pelican but he has stood up to stretch a bit. His beak is enormous.
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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.org.uk · 15/07/2026
Well, kids, we spoke truth to power through a cartoon penguin with a bow tie.
Opus the penguin, grinning nervously while wearing a red bow tie and a Bill The Cat t-shirt.
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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.org.uk · 05/07/2026
Hi I'm Troy Mcclure, you probably remember me from reacts such as 'What the fuck is that?', 'Why did i have to see this?' and
'I miss 20 seconds ago when I didn't know this shit existed'.
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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.org.uk · 18/06/2026
Our hotel room came complete with a copy of the Communist Manifesto.
A paperback French translation of the Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels.
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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.org.uk · 18/06/2026
Good afternoon from the most magical place on earth.
A selfie with a plushy of Judy Hopps, from Zootopia, attached magnetically to my flat cap, so that she’s sitting on my head. In a window behind me, you can see a reflection of an outdoor seated area in Disneyland Paris.
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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.org.uk · 14/06/2026
There’s an annual silent march at 6pm today.
Flyer for the Grenfell 9th anniversary silent march, 6pm 14 June 2026 at Notting Hill Methodist church.
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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.org.uk · 14/06/2026
I took this at 10.30am.
Grenfell Tower from Lancaster Road, still burning at 10.30am. A crowd of journalists are filming the fire.
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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.org.uk · 13/06/2026
Today’s reading: vol. 2 of Exquisite Corpses from @readtinyonion.bsky.social
The trade paperback of Exquisite Corpses vol. 2, featuring a murderous rabbit on the cover.
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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.org.uk · 27/05/2026
In a similar vein, GitHub announced the end of GitHub Classroom like this:
GitHub Classroom is evolving – explore what’s next.
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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.org.uk · 27/05/2026
Aside: reject and subscribe? Absolutely fucking not.
A cookie banner for Mumsnet, offering the option to pay to remove ads.
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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.org.uk · 09/05/2026
Enjoyed the Henry Moore walking tour at Kew Gardens.
Henry Moore’s Oval With Points, on display at Kew and framing a view of the natural landscape of the gardens.
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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.org.uk · 25/04/2026
Got a bunch of comics (including @andydiggle.bsky.social new Expanse story) signed by the lovely @cjward.bsky.social and picked up the first issue of the new Event Horizon: Inferno.
Selfie with Christian Ward at Forbidden Planet London. Christian Ward signing Two Face and The Expanse: A Little Death.
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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.org.uk · 28/03/2026
Random book finds from the Hammersmith TK Maxx.
I Contain Multitudes, by Ed Yong, and On Modern Architecture, by Richard Rogers.
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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.org.uk · 14/03/2026
72 lives lost.
“72 lives lost” spray-painted above green Grenfell hearts on the side of the old Barclays bank in Ladbroke Grove.
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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.org.uk · 05/03/2026
Umbriel, a black rabbit with white highlights, looking directly at the camera.
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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.org.uk · 23/02/2026
Loving the React rewrite of GitHub. 😏
A GitHub repo page with a box that says: Uh oh! There was
an error while loading.
Please reload this page. 
The error message is weirdly squashed into a vertical column only a few characters wide.
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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.org.uk · 11/02/2026
Worn out after all that house work? Not to worry, 1940 has you covered.
An advert from 1940, aimed at women. It shows a photo of a beautiful, happy young woman with the caption: stay fit and slim by taking amphetamine.
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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.org.uk · 04/02/2026
He’s not easily shocked, when he’s had a drink.
Mini Yoda with an almost empty pint of stout in the Lamb & Flag in Oxford.
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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.org.uk · 28/01/2026
Remember the 5 principles of accessibility 🙂.
A selfie: I’m wearing a purple t-shirt that says perceivable & operable & understandable & robust & punch Nazis.
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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.org.uk · 28/01/2026
Positive thoughts from Oxford!
Shaun striking a silly pose In Nando’s, with Mini Yoda on the table in front of him.
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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.org.uk · 21/01/2026
“It is this individual uncertainty on the part of white American men and women, this inability to renew themselves at the fountain of their own lives, that makes the discussion, let alone elucidation, of any conundrum - that is, any reality - so supremely difficult.”
Page 42 of James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time.
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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.org.uk · 20/01/2026
Yoda will be there again.
Mini Yoda on the podium at State of the Browser 2025, with a laptop and the presentation screen behind him.
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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.org.uk · 09/01/2026
Here’s a rabbit for all my new followers today.
Lyra, our white dwarf rabbit, sitting on the windowsill and looking cute.
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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.org.uk · 06/01/2026
Our white rabbit, Lyra, sitting on the windowsill and looking very cute.
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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.org.uk · 02/01/2026
Since I was just walking past, here’s a photo.
The Harrow Club in Freston Road, W10. Formerly the Church of the Holy Trinity when Freston Road was Latimer Road, it features a large, traceried Gothic arched window.
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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.org.uk · 01/01/2026
“A pot for brewing tea: the shape of the spout, the angle of the handle and the fit of the lid all reflect the maker's skill, and influence the flavour of the tea. The teapot is both a practical tool and a presence that supports moments of tranquillity within our lives.”
A handmade ceramic Japanese teapot, illustrating the principle of kyūsu.
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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.org.uk · 01/01/2026
Richmond Park deer.
A group of deer grazing under a large tree, on a late winter afternoon in Richmond Park.
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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.org.uk · 20/12/2025
Not her most flattering angle, to be sure.
Lyra face-on, in the animal carrier, so that you can see the black highlights around both her enormous eyes.
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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.org.uk · 20/12/2025
@hutchinsondave.bsky.social a clandestine organisation found across Europe, Les Crayons Des Bois.
Four wooden pencils shaped like woodland animals; bear, moose, rabbit and fox. The French label says “crayons des bois”.
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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.org.uk · 01/12/2025
Hi I'm Troy Mcclure, you probably remember me from reacts such as 'What the fuck is that?', 'Why did i have to see this?' and
'I miss 20 seconds ago when I didn't know this shit existed'.
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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.org.uk · 28/11/2025
You’re also decorating @maccymacx.bsky.social’s Kindle.
A Kindle decorated with a drawing of Boba Fett pointing a gun at the viewer, above a second sticker saying “respectfully, no.”
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