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Jason C. Cole @theduckmachine.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Not a bad night at the #WT20 up in the lock balcony. Danni Wyatt-Hodge made utter mincemeat of the target of 165. 🏏 #TheCricket

View of the women's T20 between England and New Zealand from the Lock Balcony at the oval

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Jason C. Cole @theduckmachine.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Shameless cricket team sponsor plug! Need cricket or hockey gear in Cambridge area? Get yourself out to Mr Cricket Hockey in but we'll, or go online. #cricket 🏏

Mr Cricket Hockey sponsor my cricket team in Fen Ditton. They are a great place for cricket and hockey gear

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Jason C. Cole @theduckmachine.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Gardening is tiring, but I'm kinda happy with this. It was an uncultivated mess a few days ago.

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Jason C. Cole @theduckmachine.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

For spurs fans, my favourite Peppa Pig cartoon ever: credit, copied from imgflp.com

A cartoon of mummy pig asking whether the doctor can cure Peppa Pig. The doctor replies of course and takes Peppa to the curing room. Afterwards, he presents mummy pig with some cured ham.

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Jason C. Cole @theduckmachine.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Anyone else think this could be a ghost ship? It's actually just a photo of the inside of my cereal bowl from this morning after I'd eaten my fruit and fibre with greek yoghurt. #RandomArt

An image that looks like a ghost ship bearing down on a smaller schooner. It looks drawn but is intact just a random thing that appeared in my yoghurt bowl after I'd eaten it this morning

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Jason C. Cole @theduckmachine.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

If you want an example of how stupid AI is, here are a set of options I was just given by an appointment scheduling system

A set of options for an appointment that are all identical, Hobson's choice.

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Jason C. Cole @theduckmachine.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Time to roll out this meme again I think #thecricket 🏏

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Jason C. Cole @theduckmachine.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

The cricket coverage seems to think that Scots have been *very busy*, or a lot of people have moved there recently. #T20WorldCup

Summary of Scotland showing it's population as 5.5 Billion rather than 5.5 Million

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Jason C. Cole @theduckmachine.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

This really sad. My uncle took a photo of the waves battering the pier this morning.

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Jason C. Cole @theduckmachine.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

This doesn't really do it justice but we have an amazing halo moon tonight. No idea why you get a halo moon.

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Jason C. Cole @theduckmachine.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Reminds me of this excellent Matt cartoon

Matt Cartoon, where old age pensioners are protesting against the rise in retirement age saying "What do we want? Why did we come here? What were we saying?*

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Jason C. Cole @theduckmachine.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

I was searching for cheese knobs on Google .. I didn't think to add quotes, but then I didn't think Amazon would sell this ...

Amazon advertising "Shop Knob cheese" .. wide range of Knob cheese. Deals every day for your kitchen and home Free UK delivery on eligible orders!

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Jason C. Cole @theduckmachine.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Ok, in nicer news my father is an artist and hand glass engraves stuff for people. Here's his latest creation which I think is amazing. Black Labrador on glass. #GlassEngraving #art

I glass jug hand engraved with an image of a black Labrador.

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Jason C. Cole @theduckmachine.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Come on @virginmediatv.bsky.social .. we are up to episode 7 ... Now we'd like to watch episode 8 ...🤬🤬🤬

Image of Virgin Media offering episodes 1-5 of a series and episode 10, but not episodes 6-9...

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Jason C. Cole @theduckmachine.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

From the brilliant @xkcd.com ... You'd be surprised how true this is.

XKCD comic strip that highlights how all modern digital infrastructure is reliant on rather unstable foundations

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Jason C. Cole @theduckmachine.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

So far Ireland have been a bit like this

A bus being parked. Taken from

https://www.vecteezy.com/free-vector/parking

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Jason C. Cole @theduckmachine.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Have patience with the lovely folk running the show. I estimate the current rate of sign ups is 900 a minute and that's going to be a challenge (image from bsky-users.theo.io)

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Jason C. Cole @theduckmachine.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Ha! Taken from here: Got to admire the chutzpah www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Text shot from the paper that references a bunch of papers but says they are irrelevant

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Jason C. Cole @theduckmachine.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Fascinating how an editor has toned this down. Heres a screenshot from the BBC website

Screen shot of what a headline now says for the same story, namely Justin Welby steps down after a report into a child abuser associated with the Church of England

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Jason C. Cole @theduckmachine.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Sorry vegetarians, but this amazing joint from our local butchers (the chop shop in Histon, highly recommended) deserves sharing

A glorious image of a rolled pork joint cooked and ready to eat.

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Jason C. Cole @theduckmachine.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

This is completely crazy. Lily, Jonas and Nic did so much work on this and it's amazing to see 3500+ downloads after 10 days live. journals.iucr.org/b/issues/202...

Image of the Iucr web site showing the number of reads of the crystal structure prediction blind test paper, featuring the number of reads (in excess of 3000)

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Jason C. Cole @theduckmachine.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

I have to wonder if we offended our waitress somehow ...

A coffee with a rather unique pattern on the top ...

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Jason C. Cole @theduckmachine.bsky.social · 27/09/2024

That's nice: @japplcryst.bsky.social is currently featuring our API paper on its front page. Here's a link if you are interested in using software to probe chemical data in the CSD, and other things! journals.iucr.org/paper?oc5038 #ChemSky

Picture of J. Appl. Cryst. currently featuring our API paper

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Jason C. Cole @theduckmachine.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

No idea what sort of moth this is, but it was a big one. Body length was at least 4 cm. He's in the garden now!

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Jason C. Cole @theduckmachine.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

Lovely sunset tonight. Photo doesn't really do it justice.

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Jason C. Cole @theduckmachine.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

You think that's bad ... We took online delivery from a well respected retailer (badrhino) of a new coat. Here's a picture of what we found in it. Yep. That's a shop antitheft tag. Still don't know how to get it out!

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Jason C. Cole @theduckmachine.bsky.social · 07/09/2024

It's Saturday and, just because I can, here is a photo of beautiful Knaresborough near York. #RandomPhoto

A photo of the river Nidd and famous train viaduct crossing it.

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Jason C. Cole @theduckmachine.bsky.social · 29/08/2024

When I was a child I was taken for a drive by a mafia man from Naples in his open top alfa romeo.

An image saying "Tell us a true one-sentence story from your life that absolutely opens more questions than it answers and demands further context"

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Jason C. Cole @theduckmachine.bsky.social · 18/08/2024

This could be straight out of a Thomas the Tank Engine story.

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