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M.B. Drapier

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A jumped-up egg. I can neither confirm nor deny that I am the Queen of the May.

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M.B. Drapier @mbdrapier.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

A spoof of the /It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia/ title card: the centred text

"The Gang Gets Hooked on Nicotine,
Again"

in centred white text on a portrait-oriented black background. The text is vertically in the centre and stretches nearly to both sides. The font is a "fun", dated-looking handwriting-style font (similar to Lucida Big Casual or Apple Textile).

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M.B. Drapier @mbdrapier.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Oh, so *now* you're finally willing to give the Abundance agenda a hearing?

A cartoon image, a still from the Simpsons in the art style of that TV show: a landscape-oriented three-quarter shot of a thin, elderly white (yellow, in the art style) man in a dark business suit (Mr. Burns) holding a roughly-constructed, blocky remote control. The remote control has several buttons including one large red button at the top and centre of the front panel. An awkard-looking antenna component appears to be sticking out of the top right of the remote control. Behind the man is a bookcase with a motley selection of books with different spine colours (no text is visible on the spines). Mr Burns is holding his left hand (not visible) behind his back, while his right hand is showing off the remote control, holding the it up at about the height of his head and a little away from it. Burns is looking nearly into the camera and is grinning with a look of cunning and self-assurance. Both Burns and the bookcase are dramatically illuminated by a strong light from above and to the left of the image which creates sharp areas of shadow and light.

Burns is standing bent forward, mostly at his upper back. He has a white shirt with a plain collar and a black tie. The right sleeve of his jacket is very short, revealing a long shirt cuff. He is looking nearly into the camera. He has a long spindly nose which tilts down a little more near the very tip. He is bald except for a long tonsure of rear hair which begins a little in front of his visible left ear. Three large spots are visible on his head above eye level and above his left ear. His eyes are a little closed: the clenched eyelid muscles underneath are visible. His brow overhangs his eyes a little. His chin is weak and his upper but not lower teeth can be seen.

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M.B. Drapier @mbdrapier.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_... An interesting choice of model for future UK policy:

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Arrest and imprisonment
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After six years of missionary labour, Southwell was arrested at Uxendon Hall, Harrow. He was in the habit of visiting the house of Richard Bellamy who lived near Harrow and was under suspicion on account of his connection with Jerome Bellamy, who had been executed for sharing in Anthony Babington's plot. One of the daughters, Anne Bellamy, was arrested and imprisoned in the gatehouse of Holborn for being linked to the situation. Having been interrogated and raped by Richard Topcliffe, the Queen's chief priest-hunter and torturer, she revealed Southwell's movements and he was immediately arrested.[2]

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He was first taken to Topcliffe's own house, adjoining the Gatehouse Prison, where Topcliffe subjected him to the torture of "the manacles". He remained silent in Topcliffe's custody for forty hours. The queen then ordered Southwell moved to the Gatehouse, where a team of Privy Council torturers went to work on him. When they proved equally unsuccessful, he was left "hurt, starving, covered with maggots and lice, to lie in his own filth". After about a month he was moved by order

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M.B. Drapier @mbdrapier.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

A narrow colum of the following text, in black serif text on a white background:

**Entering the Nazi Suicide Pact**

There was always in National Socialism a profoundly pessimistic streak. Defeat in 1918 had seemed to bear out earlier intimations among the far right of national decline.21 The manic swagger affected by the leaders of the supposed master race was in part over-compensation; and it continued to alternate with moments of deepest gloom.22 At times, this took the form of a pronounced death wish. It was not just Hitler who repeatedly

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luxuriated in the thought of Germany’s utter annihilation in battle. For if their destruction as Nazis and as Germans was decreed, then they wanted to embrace it and feel that at least they and their nation had died like men.23 ‘Life’, as Johst himself would later write on the eve of Stalingrad, ‘was about learning to die.’ 24

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M.B. Drapier @mbdrapier.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Obligatory

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M.B. Drapier @mbdrapier.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Sorry, I think I was wrong about this part, at least in as far as most hardware for 4-bit or 8-bit FP can still be retasked to 32-bit FP.

An image of a Bluesky message. A large semi-transparent red X has been drawn over the whole message. On the top left is the user icon (showing the face of Simpson character Martin Prince), and to the icon's right is

M.B. Drapier
@mbdrapier.bsky.social

The main text is:

(As I assuem many of you know.) But also: IIUC, in the past couple of years the HW for AI has been becoming increasingly specialised, with eg. extremely low-precision floating-point units which are optimal for AI but near-useless for "normal" scientific computation or even graphics gaming.

The bottom right has:

October 21, 2025 at 4:57 PM

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M.B. Drapier @mbdrapier.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Maybe the greatest of all Peanuts strips: November 10 1959 www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1959... .

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M.B. Drapier @mbdrapier.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Readers provided context: The world's richest and now most *politicially* divorced man happened to have posted this on Twitter a few hours earlier (the time would say 12:57 PM if the timezone were the same as for the Yang screenshot): x.com/elonmusk/sta.... I assume Yang is trying to catch the wind.

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M.B. Drapier @mbdrapier.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

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M.B. Drapier @mbdrapier.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Remember that Musk himself predicted this days before the election. (Tho that was partly based on a large increase in deportations, not in evidence yet, as well as gov. cuts.) @cnbc.com's Bob Wile & @lorak.bsky.social in fact reported it well: www.nbcnews.com/business/eco.... x.com/elonmusk/sta...

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M.B. Drapier @mbdrapier.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Obligatory static.wikia.nocookie.net/simpsons/ima...

The TV intertitle from the “Municipal Roundtable” gag from season 4, episode 3 (“Homer the Heretic”) of /The Simpsons/. A 4:3 landscape-ratio drawing in the style of season 4 of /The Simpsons/: a centred, straight-on view of the convex-sided screen of an old CRT television with its surrounding purple-coloured fascia. The TV screen is showing an image of two young or early-middle-aged white (in fact yellow, in accordance with the Simpsons art style) men in business suits and striped ties fighting hand-to-hand on top of an extremely tall and narrow clifftop outcrop which rises sharply. Both men have noticeably bulky, heavily-built arms and chests, contrasting with their normal legs and waists. They are seen side-on, and they take up about the top half and middle third of the screen. The man on the right (from the viewer’s perspective) is standing on the very edge of the outcrop, with his back foot right on the edge. He is scowling and baring his teeth as he raises his arms and swings a two-handed flail with a comically large iron ball at the man on the left. The man on the left is likewise scowling as he holds up a briefcase towards his enemy, at about the height of his head, ready to block the flail. The outcrop rises from the left half of the bottom of the screen to put them there. Behind them is an orange sky and a slightly lighter-orange cloud which takes up roughly the bottom half of the background. Two large lightning bolts (drawn in a simple and cartoony style) appear in roughly the top half of the background, one in the left side and one in the right.

A title is superimposed just below the men, centred on the screen. In large black letters in a sans-serif font it reads

MUNICIPAL
ROUNDTABLE

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M.B. Drapier @mbdrapier.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

If you’re here because of Twitter’s block-policy change, welcome, but please bear in mind:

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M.B. Drapier @mbdrapier.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

Ironically this is already the case on the Bluesky protocol isn’t it? The official app may not permit it but there’s nothing to stop 3rd-party apps from showing them.

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