Mark Farrington @markfarrington.co.uk · 7hBet they didn't have access to the really technical bits.... 010
Reposted by Mark FarringtonPhilip Cunnington @rilthy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Biggles Fails to Return (1943) #CelebrityTraitors #Traitors 1267
Reposted by Mark FarringtonShahan Miah @shahanshahan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I've just declared myself as a traitor by mistake #CelebrityTraitors #TheCelebrityTraitors 434479
Mark Farrington @markfarrington.co.uk · 01/10/2026I knew I'd seen Amol Rajan somewhere before. #traitors 010
Reposted by Mark FarringtonMichael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Most TV is just this now. 17071281952
Mark Farrington @markfarrington.co.uk · 20/09/2026Not everyone that works in my local kebab shop advises against having the 'backdoor special meat donor', but I'm happy to take the advice of those who do just in case. 002
Reposted by Mark FarringtonMostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 18/09/2026To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. 03114
Reposted by Mark FarringtonRadioToday - UK & Ireland @handle.invalid · 16/09/2026Radio stations are being warned not to mistake working AI generated software for a secure and sustainable broadcast system.radiotoday.co.uk 001
Reposted by Mark FarringtonJoe Scaramanga @joescaramanga.co.uk · 16/09/2026Anyone thinking that Piddington is a lovely little village story and what japes, needs to watch this. 724477
Mark Farrington @markfarrington.co.uk · 09/09/2026This seems to be a specifically online issue. The radio managed to use grown up words just fine 000
Mark Farrington @markfarrington.co.uk · 09/09/2026Really BBC: 'food pipe', how dumbing downy is that.... what's wrong with oesophagus given it's what it's actually called.... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukVery hot drinks may damage the food pipe and increase cancer riskSteaming hot liquid can damage the cell lining on the way down to the stomach, experts say. 100
Reposted by Mark FarringtonCharles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now 5145121509
Reposted by Mark FarringtonGreg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 05/09/2026In case you don’t recall, one of the best scenes in The West Wing explains the problem with the traditional map of the world youtu.be/vVX-PrBRtTY?...youtu.beGall--Peters ProjectionYouTube video by UsefulClips 510019
Reposted by Mark FarringtonOnce Upon A Time On The Internet @newgroundsdoc.newgrounds.com · 01/09/202623 YEARS AGO TODAY, @mrweebl.bsky.social posted BADGERS to @Newgrounds.com 8450252703
Reposted by Mark FarringtonJason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours. 117313038382
Reposted by Mark FarringtonMostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 26/08/2026"That's what SEP means. Somebody Else's Problem. The brain just edits it out, it's like a blind spot. If you look at it directly you won't see it unless you know precisely what it is. Your only hope is to catch it by surprise out of the corner of your eye." 04013
Mark Farrington @markfarrington.co.uk · 25/08/2026It would be fitting if Dolly Parton's time of death was 4.51 wouldn't it. 000
Reposted by Mark FarringtonJoel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 25/08/2026There needs to be some reason for London to exist beyond buying and selling bits of it for profit. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...you.38degrees.org.ukSave The Prince Charles CinemaThe future of the iconic Prince Charles Cinema in London’s West End is under serious threat! We are beyond disappointed that our landlords, Zedwell LSQ Ltd and their ultimate parent company Criterion... 516360
Mark Farrington @markfarrington.co.uk · 21/08/2026Not quite London, but I'd throw Northfleet into the mix 000
Mark Farrington @markfarrington.co.uk · 18/08/2026Hark what is this wonderous substance that falls from the sky, so nourishing, so beautiful, so cooling. 000
Mark Farrington @markfarrington.co.uk · 14/08/2026Hey the government - any chance if next time you issue an alert you could have sent out all day you could not do it in the middle of the children's bath and bedtime? Thanks, parents. 010
Mark Farrington @markfarrington.co.uk · 13/08/2026Pretty sure I heard 'Eggplant Fall Defense' on John Peel back in the day. 140
Reposted by Mark FarringtonMostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 13/08/2026"Look," said Ford. He picked up an imaginary phone and dialled an imaginary dial. "Hello?" he said into the imaginary mouthpiece. "Is that Arthur Dent? Ah, hello, yes. This is Arthur Dent speaking. Don't hang up." He looked at the imaginary phone in disappointment. "He hung up," he said 0165
Mark Farrington @markfarrington.co.uk · 09/08/2026Told my son the pigs are saying all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. Not entirely sure he understood the allegory, but he's only 3.... 000
Reposted by Mark FarringtonHappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 01/08/2026Tell me your parents never loved or communicated with you without etc 322425
Mark Farrington @markfarrington.co.uk · 30/07/2026Or make calls like a mid-00s apprentice candidate 010
Mark Farrington @markfarrington.co.uk · 24/07/2026"I don't want to see a ghost. I'd rather have a piece of toast and watch the evening news." I've gone definitive, no need for further discourse 000
Mark Farrington @markfarrington.co.uk · 21/07/2026I thought it looked green screen, it's because the lighting is a bit weird I think, the house fascia is bathed in sunlight, but he's in the shadows there so they've got artificial lighting on him, which is pretty much how lighting would be done for green screening it 112
Mark Farrington @markfarrington.co.uk · 18/07/2026Burnham by name, Burn-them by nature. Idiot. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukBurnham to announce plans for new North Sea oil and gas drillingDrilling has become a controversial topic for the Labour party after the 2024 manifesto pledged to not issue new licences. 000
Mark Farrington @markfarrington.co.uk · 12/07/2026House feels reasonably cool this morning. Thermometer in the baby's room reads 26 degrees, a temperature I would have considered pretty toasty booking a holiday to Spain a few years ago.... 000
Mark Farrington @markfarrington.co.uk · 08/07/2026My commiserations to the Manor of Northstead. As a resident of the Chiltern Hundreds, happy to say we didn't want him. 000
Reposted by Mark FarringtonCount Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Any Clacton residents who want to nominate your friendly neighbourhood intergalactic space warrior, ping me a line! 1764261896
Reposted by Mark FarringtonMostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 04/07/2026The history of the Galaxy has got a little muddled, for a number of reasons: partly because those who are trying to keep track of it have got a little muddled, but also because some very muddling things have been happening anyway. 0125
Mark Farrington @markfarrington.co.uk · 03/07/2026Interesting, I thought more "Cleaning the house before the cleaner comes around, so they don't think we're too untidy" 120
Mark Farrington @markfarrington.co.uk · 29/06/2026or it's just a joke - could go either way I guess... 000
Mark Farrington @markfarrington.co.uk · 29/06/2026A 'Number 10 of The North' is basically Andy Burnham saying he wants to WFH right??? 100
Mark Farrington @markfarrington.co.uk · 24/06/2026Wanging on about '76 has reached wanging on about '66 levels in part of the UK today. 000
Mark Farrington @markfarrington.co.uk · 24/06/2026Thanks, I am aware there are various Podcasts about economics etc. My post was a sort of joke as the original poster is a host of a podcast doing exactly this. 100
Mark Farrington @markfarrington.co.uk · 24/06/2026Not sure I really know what MMT is, if only there was a podcast that explained the history of political terms and ideas... 330
Reposted by Mark FarringtonJonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 22/06/2026okay this one fucked me up bsky.app/profile/mcst... 1519
Mark Farrington @markfarrington.co.uk · 17/06/2026In surprise news I am very keen that both England and Scotland do fantastically in the world kicky ball thing (in a change from my usual complete indifference). This has nothing whatsoever to do with my electricity company giving me free energy every time they play at all.... 000
Mark Farrington @markfarrington.co.uk · 09/06/2026While true you could say that about the heart or the lungs too, not sure I want technology deciding to switch those off for me 110
Mark Farrington @markfarrington.co.uk · 09/06/2026This is the thing I must hate about arguments in favour of AI. It treats thinking as a burden to be avoided at all costs, rather than one of the few pleasures of modern life. I like thinking, I don't like weeding or taking the bins out - why not work on that first... 2239
Mark Farrington @markfarrington.co.uk · 08/06/2026Bought one of these when we first moved house 5 years ago as seemed like the future (and didn't need a hole in the wall for a big hose) constantly surprised when it uses less power than the washing machine. 000
Mark Farrington @markfarrington.co.uk · 08/06/2026@octopus.energy have you stopped doing free coffee for customers? Nothing showing in the app this morning (even as 'all gone'!) 100
Mark Farrington @markfarrington.co.uk · 06/06/2026Hurrah, I make the grade. Maybe even more so as the swimming pool in question was owned by a victorian public school and they let us plebs in for swimming lessons at the weekend. 000
