Mark Schnitzius @mustermark.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Somebody's gotta go back and get a shitload of dimes! 000
Mark Schnitzius @mustermark.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Public executions will continue until Trump is awarded the Peace Prize. 000
Mark Schnitzius @mustermark.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The reflecting pool will be fixed, and Mexico is going to pay for it! 010
Mark Schnitzius @mustermark.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Point of order, I don't think Schmitt confused "Hawks" with "Hawkeyes" -- I think he just saw basketball mentioned, looked up only NBA games for that date, and saw the Hawks game was the only one. Still a grandstanding dipshit though. 000
Mark Schnitzius @mustermark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The writer of the first song in history was probably unpopular, as it would get stuck in people's heads and there was no other song to replace it. 020
Mark Schnitzius @mustermark.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The moment Richard Dawkins jumped the shark. He was a fantastic science writer who decided to become a b-grade public philosopher. I say that as a confirmed atheist too. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10...telegraph.co.uk 020
Mark Schnitzius @mustermark.bsky.social · 02/10/2026That was my previous dog. She did not approve of our regular kitchen dance-offs. We used to tell her "no barking on the dance floor" :) 020
Mark Schnitzius @mustermark.bsky.social · 30/09/2026In the UK, we get Chris Rock and Samuel L Jackson. 041
Mark Schnitzius @mustermark.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Today's satire, but tomorrow's truth regurgitated by AI. 000
Mark Schnitzius @mustermark.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Wife and I used to get mock-jealous when people posted them online: "Ooh, look at Mr Big Shot...". Then we saw one on a visit to the amazing Merritt Island nature preserve (at the ranger station feeder). Now we are mock-blasé: "Seen it..." :) 000
Mark Schnitzius @mustermark.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The camera operators on The Office were suspiciously good at always getting the key shot. I have a working theory that the whole thing was faked. 010
Mark Schnitzius @mustermark.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I was thinking about this the other day while I was watching Rosebud Is The Name Of His Childhood Sled. 010
Mark Schnitzius @mustermark.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Grace under pressure. On the punt at Cambridge. #birdoftheday #elegant 180
Mark Schnitzius @mustermark.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I'm glad we're not in the days of songs by old men lusting after underage little girls anymore. There were so many of them. I just came across "Art Lover" by The Kinks, and just *ick*. 010
Mark Schnitzius @mustermark.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Wow, we waited seven years for the Up series supposed final episode (70 Up), and it was all recap with a few scraps of new content thrown in, and minimal clarity on what's now happening for these people. Most of the players seemed to get just a few seconds. What a big disappointment. 000
Mark Schnitzius @mustermark.bsky.social · 12/09/2026en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_...en.wikipedia.orgPhilip Warwick - Wikipedia 020
Mark Schnitzius @mustermark.bsky.social · 11/09/2026It's actually on my life list, thanks to an awesome trip to Kruger NP :) 041
Mark Schnitzius @mustermark.bsky.social · 09/09/2026There's loads of ways to use AI that are stupid and wasteful, but solving N-S isn't one of them. This is important stuff. To quote top math guy Terrance Tao: "(T)he actual solving of these problems is only a proxy goal for the primary goal of developing mathematical understanding and insight". 010
Mark Schnitzius @mustermark.bsky.social · 09/09/2026After posting this, I thought wow, I'm going to regret posting such nonsense. Now 3 weeks later and OpenAI is claiming to have the Navier-Stokes problem solved, with a Lean proof and all. Now I'm wondering how quickly all the Millennial problems will fall. 111
Mark Schnitzius @mustermark.bsky.social · 07/09/2026#birdoftheday #heronsandegrets with a messed up story. Mom had died an hour before, in the room where I was standing when this green heron appeared. (Dad had died only a month prior.) An hour later, I got a call from my wife saying please come, MY mother is dying. She did, 3 days later. 3110
Mark Schnitzius @mustermark.bsky.social · 07/09/2026#birdoftheday #heronsandegrets And you thought egrets were stealth hunters. Reddish egrets are like "omg fish" and run their fool heads off. It's a riot. 10/10 must see if you get the chance. 2282
Mark Schnitzius @mustermark.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I've seen a few bee-eaters, in Singapore and Australia, and they are among my favourites. Any day you see one is a good day, so it would be amazing to live in a place where they come through en masse. 110
Mark Schnitzius @mustermark.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Probably not much. Maybe we all need to dance ourselves clean :) youtu.be/60gl-M38xFI?...youtu.beLCD Soundsystem - Dance Yourself Clean. HD Music VideoYouTube video by BoredomworkZ 010
Mark Schnitzius @mustermark.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I don't even mean to diss Metallica specifically (though I've never gotten them). Just the incongruity between high technical accomplishment and development of taste. But yeah, there's the whole question of novelty vs what people want to hear. How much new stuff do we really need? 100
Mark Schnitzius @mustermark.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Bookends. It's a good system. #birdoftheday #sittingonwater Milton Country Park, just outside of Cambridge UK. 170
Mark Schnitzius @mustermark.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I don't even know where Pinoso is, but I want to move there. 110
Mark Schnitzius @mustermark.bsky.social · 06/09/2026All these little kids who can shred Metallica (etc) on guitar at a young age are probably irreparably damaged for life, taste-wise. 210
Mark Schnitzius @mustermark.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Can't believe this place doesn't have separate toilets for men and women!! That does it, I'm never flying this airline again. 010
Mark Schnitzius @mustermark.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Potato quality (shot through binoculars), but this was my first thought for #birdoftheday #contrast -- lilac-breasted roller spotted in Kruger NP, South Africa. 090
Mark Schnitzius @mustermark.bsky.social · 04/09/2026/r/gifsthatendtoosoon What happens when they need to move the hour hand as well? 010
Mark Schnitzius @mustermark.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I honestly think so much of it flows out of people's unwillingness to change their views on things they learned as a child, or to have their children be taught something different. 010
Mark Schnitzius @mustermark.bsky.social · 03/09/2026The day I fully accepted that there are smarter people than me was the day someone posted a version of that Rick Astley song, that they claimed sped up every time he says "never". So I watched it, but then IT NEVER DID. My hat is still off to them. 010
Mark Schnitzius @mustermark.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Use "floundering" when you want to mean "struggling clumsily". Use "foundering" only when you want to correct someone for using "floundering". 010
Mark Schnitzius @mustermark.bsky.social · 31/08/2026It was sleeting the last time my wife and I went to France, so we looked up the word for it: "neige fondue", which translates to "snow fondue". 100
Mark Schnitzius @mustermark.bsky.social · 27/08/2026The OTHER thing I love about this clip is seeing her (momentarily) forget where she is in the song. She slows down, remembers, and proceeds. Like Macca said, there's no reason to be nervous while performing, because mistakes just humanise you. Easier said than done though I guess. 040
Mark Schnitzius @mustermark.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Tbh Jimothy looks like my dog when he's in poop stance. 010
Mark Schnitzius @mustermark.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Hamish the wonder dog, 16.5 and still kicking on. #InternationalDogDay 030
Mark Schnitzius @mustermark.bsky.social · 25/08/2026We are not replacing saints at the rate they're dying off. 000
Mark Schnitzius @mustermark.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Buck up, Daily Mail... You'll needlessly harass the right woman next time. 000
Mark Schnitzius @mustermark.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I mean, what the hell. I guess we grew out of believing cucumbers were poisonous, but then what did Mr Newburne die of? 110
Mark Schnitzius @mustermark.bsky.social · 18/08/2026In mathematics, I am but a dilettante, but I just get the feeling that the Riemann Hypothesis is going to fall soon. AI lately seems to be mostly resolving negatives, and as RH is likely positive, it's not as easy. But you know some formidable firepower is being thrown at it, and by competing teams. 011
Mark Schnitzius @mustermark.bsky.social · 16/08/2026The same bird was going to be my #UnusualPlaces post, as my brother reported the first purple swamp hen in the USA (Florida), and used to have people calling him up to come try to see one in the lake behind his house. Fortunately or not, they are now well established... 010
