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Mark D

@markjd84.bsky.social
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Transport consultant (esp. developing countries) and data tools research he/him #Nottingham check out @citiesbot.bsky.social

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Mark D @markjd84.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
There must be a dental hygienist somewhere named Jean Hi jean 🖐️
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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 04/10/2026
this is 90% of the problem with AI messaging. a bunch of computer touchers were told they were the smartest boys and were compensated in a manner that reflected it. then a huge part of their job was replaced by a beep boop robot (because programming *is* 1s and 0s via language) and they went insane
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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
When I become god-emperor one of my first official decrees will be that anyone who worked for Trump, was a part of any of his administrations, enabled him officially or unofficially, or simply voted for him will be legally forbidden from buying or eating cheese. This may seem cruel, but it is.
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Peter du Toit @peterdutoit.com · 03/10/2026
The world at ~1.5°C above preindustrial. Fossil fuel usage continues unabated, pushing more greenhouse gas pollution into the atmosphere, so heating will continue. We are *firmly* on track to pass 2°C We are *absolutely* not prepared for the associated climate chaos.
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 28/07/2026
whyuhhhhhhhhhh on tumblr: "So last week, I noticed my coworker kept saying weird phrases in meetings. Stuff like:
“We’ll take this to the synergy zone.”
“Let’s triangle back on that.”
“Put that in the idea fridge.”

No one reacted. Everyone just nodded like it was normal. I figured it was some corporate lingo I missed.

Day two, I hear: “We’ll verticalize that bandwidth.”

I write it down to Google later. Nothing.

By day three, I’m starting to use them, too. “Yeah, we should put that in the idea fridge.” People nodded. I felt included.

Friday rolls around. He pulls me aside and goes:
“I’ve been making them all up. No one knows what they mean.”

He Got The Entire Team Saying Nonsense. Even the manager threw out “triangle back” in a call.

Now the whole office is trapped in fake jargon with no way out.

I respect it. I fear it."
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 01/08/2026
"is this like an useful sentence in poland or what"

[A Duolingo screenshot: "He hears voices." Below it: "on słyszy głosy"]

Yes.
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 05/08/2026
Boeing 777
[A Nordwind Airlines Boeing 777 airplane in flight against a clear blue sky.]

Boeinginging 777
[The same Nordwind Airlines Boeing 777 airplane edited so that its fuselage is replaced with a metal coil spring.]
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 08/08/2026
"its alright at the end of the day
this online shit isn't real
look man
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the mouse as big as the elephant
its not real"
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 12/08/2026
Alex Blechman (@AlexBlechman) on twitter: "Eccentric Millionaire: I’ve invited you to my private island because I crave the deadliest game...

Me: (nodding) Knife Monopoly

Eccentric Millionaire: I was actually going to hunt you for sport, but now I’m really interested in whatever Knife Monopoly is"
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Mark D @markjd84.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Woah man
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"We believe AI might be self-conscious." "Well then you should stop making it do unpaid labor." "No. We also believe it could destroy the world." "Well then you should stop building it!" "Again, no."
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
well officer, my bin labeled "NOT MY DRUGS" has you asking a lot of questions already answered by the bin
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u/Final_Mix4281 • 2d
Making something legally not mine in my car
Location: Columbus ohio
Could I put a bin in my car with a label to make sure cops know something in my car isn't mine. I'm 18 but my mom and brother are over the age of 21 and sometimes they will leave liquor or weed in my car. I don't want to get pulled over and get a possession charge for it is there any way I can make it legally not mine while in my car. So they don't have to come to my house to pick it up every time.
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flamby ✨🐝 @flamby666.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
for whom the bell tacos
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batkaren @batkaren.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“JOIN MY FIGHT CLUB!”
RANDOM LINE FROM A MOVIE THAT FANS OF IT INSTANTLY KNOW
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phil @philjamesson.com · 30/09/2026
as always when this is posted, i have to fondly remember the time someone stole this tweet word for word, including using my name as the punchline, then claimed it was just independent discovery
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 30/09/2026
2370/XXXXX <------ final day, still under 25% of XXXXX. Help me thrive and survive.
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Oliver Blanthorn @bovine3dom.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
sudgy.itch.io/akimbo-express i hear some of you like hyper-realistic train simulators
sudgy.itch.io
Akimbo Express by Sudgy
A Choot-'em-up
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Person: Here is as much money as a brand new model T automobile cost in 1910 Phone salesperson handing over your brand new phone: You don't even get a plug lol Person: There's not even a user manual in this box lol Phone salesperson, loading a shotgun: You have to the count of 5 Person: Thanks!
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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My fourth consecutive bedtime reading a book called Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site and I think I'm just about ready to come out against child literacy. I'm going to become the reverse Dolly Parton and devote my fortune to taking books away from children.
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Two panel comic. Panel 1: a bat hangs upside-down from a telephone line at sunset. The bat is in front of a billboard advertising the Florida Mega Jackpot, which is valued at $5,318,008 - represented with a digital ticker. Panel 2: the POV flips to the bat’s upside-down perspective, which makes the digital numbers look like they spell “BOOBIES”. The bat appears delighted.
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Mark D @markjd84.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wonder if there'd be any possibility of charging drivers both for offences committed with their true VRM but also those detected historically against the 'ghosted' version ('W4 NKR' and ' 4 KR'...to take a random example....)
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Mark D @markjd84.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
2000 'ghost plates' a day in the M25 area alone. Why are the police not just throwing the book at these people? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Thousands of illegal ghost plates on cars revealed by new cameras
Illegal registration plates are far too easy to get hold of and are putting the public at risk, BBC is told.
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Humor Satire Memes @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
dolo
@doloyeung
The funnest thing to do after taking time out to work on yourself is to return completely unimproved, or if anything, slightly worse
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Mark D @markjd84.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
(at techbros): bayz DEEZ Priors!
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D.N. Schmidt, SF author🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 27/09/2026
Doctor Doom, Doctor Octopus, Doctor Light... Comics need more super villains who only have a bachelor's and were lucky to get it. Mr. Vile with his B.A. in Evil and a minor in Treachery Studies.
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Mark D @markjd84.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Now, instead, he's jus in trouble with all of them
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Personally, I’d rather have healthy kids than mollycoddled millionaires
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
@ChrisStephensMD

CNN ANCHOR: this is NOT the america any of us signed up for. we’ll be right back.

(five ads designed to trick old poor people into going bankrupt play)

CNN ANCHOR: and we’re back
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 31/08/2026
That explains a lot.
smit :verified_checkmark_emoji: (@itsoksmit) on Twitter: "God was the first vibe coder. “Let there be light.” No design doc. No tests. No staging environment. Just shipped the universe directly to production."
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Mark D @markjd84.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I see my own views of Venti Caramel Lattes vs 3rd wave long blacks as my snobbishness and hence mostly personal preference, i try not to judge But having tried it several times, I'm increasingly coming to the conclusion that what UK Starbucks serves for £5 a cup can't reasonably be called 'coffee'
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Dreamer @elgatoesmio.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Open casket funeral? I don’t even want people looking at me when I’m alive
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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optiMSTie @optimstie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Folks, we're terribly sorry to announce that there was a LinkedIn spill that broke containment and leeched into Bluesky. While the spill is being handled, we ask that you refrain from discussions about synergy, hustle, paradigm shifts, and praise for grind culture. Thank you for your cooperation.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 25/09/2026
as discussed previously ad nauseam I will always support a chaotic local business against a seamless chain but tonight my local pub had "run out of white wine" before even 6pm and like that's just you can't have that as a pub, on a Friday night, how did this even happen
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Mark D @markjd84.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Wow yeh just looked up the list price of a new id5
static.klipy.com
Kramer's Iconic Surprised Reaction
Alt: Kramer's Iconic Surprised Reaction
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Mark D @markjd84.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I'm not especially up on how PCP/financing works, preferring to buy as small as poss and always 2nd hand, but that sounds...fairly cheap? The first 5 years of the cars life wd be £14k ish plus electric
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
will say it again: the most effective way to curb far right agitators like Lowe, "Tommo" et. al. would be to stop their ability to earn money for it from social media or live streaming. So much of it is grifting for revenue, not attention.
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Mark D @markjd84.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's a five line JS script with an app attached, how in the hell did they lose £12m lolll
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🦋MOM🦋 @momcjl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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HELLGORITHM @hellgorithm.website · 12/09/2026
Charge Altman and/or Amodei with violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Bring the hammer down like we did on poor Aaron Swartz. Then we’ll see if their products continue to “break containment”.
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
we have control mechanisms for this. it's called The Law. these guys should be held personally liable for these harms. the suicides, the thefts, the intrusions into computer systems. they should be sued and prosecuted as appropriate. problem immediately solved
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Jason, ex Inferis @benedictsred.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Thing about the Heimlich Maneuver is that it’s impossible to pronounce if you’re choking
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los 🦦 @los-los.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Cars should have lights we can turn on to let people know we have to pee
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Mark D @markjd84.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Burnham should totally do something supporting EVs for key workers, if everyone's concerned about affordability The average driver would save ~£750/year in an EV by my calcs Obviously lack of driveways is an issue for some, but there's so many opportunities
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Mark D @markjd84.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Most of Nottingham's drivers can't seem to do half that without looking at their phone 🙃
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Mark D @markjd84.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
with driveways. The UK also needs a big rollout of on-street charging, or better yet, ebikes, but those are another story...
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Mark D @markjd84.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Yeh i was assuming 6-7p a mile because last time I checked the overnight/EV elec tariffs are poor value for shorter distance drivers - Octopus or whoever will just rip you off on your standing charge And a home EV charger is £600-£1200, so not nothing But either way, big savings for those [...]
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Mark D @markjd84.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"are you ok hun? you've barely touched your green chocolate FrankenLincoln..."
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 24/09/2026
NEW – Analysis: EVs are now nine times cheaper than petrol or diesel to drive in the UK ✍️ Written by @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org 📊 Data analysis by Ho Woo Nam Read here: buff.ly/VpxOLE5
EVs are now up to nine times cheaper per mile than diesel cars. Pence per mile. A chart shows diesel highest at around 21p, petrol at 20p, EV at price cap at 7p, and EV off peak lowest at under 2.5p. Source: Carbon Brief analysis, DESNZ, Ofgem, Zapmap. - (alt text generated by Google Gemini)
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Mark D @markjd84.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Burnham should totally do something supporting EVs for key workers, if everyone's concerned about affordability The average driver would save ~£750/year in an EV by my calcs Obviously lack of driveways is an issue for some, but there's so many opportunities
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