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@theeponymousbob.bsky.social
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Computer botherer and occasional physicist. What I lack in talent I more than lack in enthusiasm.

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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
A movie couple who would definitely have a podcast.
Robert Downey Jr. bickering while pointing guns in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Yes! Some jokes you can’t help but visualise. E.g. this classic
ste(ph)en
 @stephenjmolloy
 X.com
 *air horn sound*
 *second air horn sound*
 Me: "This isn't deodorant."
 20:36 • 27/01/2016
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Seen near our house. Just don’t open the packages!
Sign on a unit in a nearby business park. Reads “Quantum packaging”
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
“Watch what you say, lads, I’m starting to think we may have an imposter among us.”
Photograph from local supermarket showing a 3-tier stack of 2 litre Pepsi vanilla bottles, where one space is occupied by a tall butternut squash. The squash has a very similar colour to the Pepsi labels.
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
@mooseallain.bsky.social Saw this,and it sounds like something you might draw:
Picture of a Christmas gift from a supermarket pets aisle, labelled “Duck strips for dogs”.
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
THAT DUCK IS TWERKING.
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Because I’m a #MessyBitch.
A photo of a bottle of Zip firelighter fluid in my kitchen, right next to a Tundra aerosol fire extinguisher.
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
And now my iPad’s throwing shade.
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Miscegenation!
Photo of part of a restaurant menu including the option of “Half native lobster”
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
I do love a good daytime moon.
Clear blue sky over some distant trees, with a crescent moon barely visible above.
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
What if I’m a middle child? #Physics
Excerpt from a physics textbook with section title “The First Born Approximation”
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Good crop/bad crop.
Picture of a smiling policeman.Picture of part of a smiling policeman, with much of him out of the frame.
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
I think this might have been my all-time most successful tweet.
Dara Ó Briain  @daraobriain • 12/12/2012
 This was always going to happen eventually RT @Pontifex Enough with the fake tweets, everybody! Some of you are douches. #notcool
 #itsasin
 
 TheEponymousBob @TheEponymousBob
 @daraobriain It's all so lame. EVERYONE knows the Pope isn't real—
 it's just your mum and dad.
 17:39 • 12/12/2012
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
@joshspero.ft.com Apropos of nothing, your banner image works well in the Skeets iPad app:
Screenshot of Josh’s profile showing his profile picture coinciding with the lane rope in his swimming banner image.
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
I left my apple downstairs and accidentally created this year’s Turner Prize winning entry.
A “spiked” draining board with a Granny Smith apple perched on top of some of the spikes.
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
New euphemism just dropped.
Edinburgh tourist shop advertising “Kilt packages (from £60)”
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
@astrokatie.com A while back, I was surprised to discover via Marvel comics that people knew the link between aerosol deodorants and the ozone layer *in 1975* - around 10 years before the holes made news. Marvel Defenders #76, Aug 1975:
Panel from a 1975 comic showing a blazing sun and text "WE DECIDED WE VALUED DRY ARMPITS ANO
 THE 3-BILLION-DOLLAR AEROSOL INOUSTRY
 OVER OUR FLOWERS, OUR FOOD, AND ULTI-
 MATELY OUR HEALTH. OH, THE SCIENTISTS
 WARNEO US... !
 "THEY SAID THE GAS IN THOSE
 CANS WOULO BREAK DOWN
 THE OZONE LAYER -- THE
 WORLD'S PROTECTION FROM
 THE SUN'S ULTRAVIOLET
 RAYS-- BUT WE DIDN'T
 BELIEVE IT. NOT UNTIL
 THE FIRST SKIN CANCER
 EPIDEMIC IN 1982.
 "NOT UNTIL A WALK IN THE
 SUN BECAME SO DEADLY
 THAT EVEN TO CROSS THE
 STREET, WE NEEDED PRO-
 TECTIVE CLOTHING OVER
 EVERY SQUARE INCH OF
 OUR BODIES.
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I’m just pissed off they marked this as wrong:
Fill in the blank
 Je ne peux pas courir avec toi ce soir parce que j'ai:

 mal au dos
 une bouteille d'eau
 un gros chat (selected)
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
And now, we move on to incompatible observables…”
A still of Father Ted receiving his Golden Cleric award.
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Pork Pi’s. #PiDay
A genuine photo of a pack of Sainsbury’s Mini Melton Mowbray pies, reduced in price to £3.14
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Post a picture of your pet when he was little. Loki, burdened with glorious floof.
Black kitten Loki lying on his back on a sofa and cushions with paws up - one front paw slightly blurred as he swipes at something off-camera. His tongue is poking out as though in deep concentration.
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
1) Loki. 2) Draw me like one of your French cats 3) MOTH.
Black cat Loki sitting beneath a picture of a black cat with a Marvel Loki helmet on.Black cat Loki flaunting himself disgracefully on a faux fur throw.Black cat Loki staring up at something with saucer-like eyes.
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
@skeetsapp.com Hi, I’m using 1.22.1 and have noticed that none of the sub-menus in Settings are clickable. E.g. nothing happens when I tap any of the categories below. Is this known?
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Ourusboros
A male-female USB cable with the male end plugged into the female end.
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Watching Alec Guinness’ Smiley’s People, and greatly enjoyed Alan Rickman’s blink-and-you’ll-miss-it rôle as a hotel receptionist in episode 2
Still from the episode showing Rickman receiving a bag for storage in the guest safe.
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Black kitten Loki on the back of a chair, mid-mlem.
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Um…
Screenshot of an IBM multifactor authentication setup asking:

 Is IBM Security Verify installed on your device?
 • Yes, it is already installed.
 • No, it is already installed.
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Interesting: this client (Skeets) seems to use asterisks for italics.
A screenshot of Moose’s “wring places” post without asterisks, but with occasional italic text.
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Hey, @duolingo, my well-fed cat would like to complain about the correct answer being marked wrong here:
Fill in the blank
 Je ne peux pas courir avec toi ce soir parce que j'ai…
 mal au dos
 une bouteille d'eau
 un gros chat (selected)
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Now that is a tiny horse.
Photo of a white van with “Horses” written on it, zoomed into the windscreen, showing a small dog sitting inside.
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Lots of seasonal driving between parents and in-laws at the moment. On a wholly unrelated note, from @stephencollins (stephencollinsillustration.com/shop)
Multi-panel comic relating Odysseus returning from his journey and greeting his father, who grills Odysseus about which route he took.
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
This time last year, my local Sainsbury’s were being pretty ‘on message’ too:
A robin perched on one of the aisles in the alcohol section of a supermarket
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Surely this should be the 30.48 cm? #Metric #LiveItOut
Screenshot of web store offering a limited edition 12 inch vinyl of Live It Out by the band Metric.
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
That I don’t have a go-to coffee shop?
Telegraph news alert:
“What your go-to coffee shop says about you”
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Black cat Loki as a tiny kitten, on his back on a sofa, with back legs sticking up. One fore-paw is motion blurred as he swipes at something off-screen. His tongue is just showing, as though he’s deep in concentration.
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
@pinkbicyclegirl.bsky.social Flashback to when Tesco were putting wine pairings on crisps…
Back of a packet of posh crisps including
 WINE RECOMMENDATION
 Finest Tingleup Riesling
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
With hindsight, letting the #TwelfthDoctor have a pair of sonic sunglasses opened the door to all kinds of silliness. #DoctorWho #Marvel #AIM
A clip from a Marvel Strange Tales comic with two yellow-clad A.I.M henches being thrown into disarray. One asks “What’s happening? The screen has gone blank! And the room - it’s beginning to quiver and shake!”
The other replies “Take cover - quickly! They’re trying to smash their way in here by using a sonic vibrator!”
The first says “Incredible! We never credited Fury with so much intelligence!”
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
1. Null. 2. Null pointer. 3. Null pointer exception. #Programming #Marvel #Defenders
Clipping from a Marvel Defenders comic with Valkyrie, The Cat, Devil Slayer and Clea face a massive, purple, 8-eyed cloud. 
Clea is saying “Omnipotent Oshtur! Who - what - are you?”
The cloud replies “Null - The Living Darkness!”Clipping from a Marvel Defenders comic with Clea pointing at Null - The Living Darkness.
Clea is saying “Isaac! This is our foeman! His power feeds these souls!”
“My sorcerous energies are useless against him, but maybe you…!”Clipping from a Marvel Defenders comic with the same image as the previous one, but with Clea’s body air-brushed out.
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
#Loki
Black cat Loki on his back with his paws in the air, flaunting a floofy tummy on his faux fur throw.
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Not to forget:
Guardian headline and subheading: 

Earthquakes caused by nudity, short
 skirts, gay marriage and other
 scapegoats

 The recent Malaysian earthquake was blamed on a group
 taking naked pictures on a sacred mountain. At least it
 wasn't the 'fault' of gay people for once...
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
#Christmas lights at the #Edinburgh #BotanicGardens
Nine multicoloured tapering spiral cones of light on a small pond, rippled reflections below, with a couple of uninterested ducks. A green lit tree is visible in the background.
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
🎵 #Christmas time, Benecol and #wine… 🎵 (credit th’wife)
Picture of a coffee table with a bottle and glass of wine next to a small bottle of Benecol yoghurt drink
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
It’s too early for this nonsense. #Harvey #Kitten #Socks
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Dara Ó Briain ® @daraobriain • 12/12/2012
 This was always going to happen eventually RT @Pontifex Enough with
 the fake tweets, everybody! Some of you are douches. #notcool
 #itsasin
 
 @daraobriain It's all so lame. EVERYONE knows the Pope isn't real—
 it's just your mum and dad.
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Black cat Loki as a kitten, perched on top of an Ikea Poang chair, with tongue poking out.
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
#Sunset clouds outside my office window last night.
Skyscape outside my office window showing light yellow under-lit clouds on a darkening sky
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Just don’t open the box. #Physics #Cats #NotCats
A blue sign on an industrial unit building with company name and logo for “quantum packaging”
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
@daraobriain.bsky.social And. I’m. Spent.
Screenshot of Spotify showing the final track in the 288h Now That’s What I Call Music 1–114 playlist has just finished playing.
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Can confirm: from the Ducks in Literature collection
A cartoon of a duck and a man. The man is angrily pointing, while the duck looks ashamedly at something on the carpet. The caption is “Duck and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky”
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
“I am #Loki of Asgard, and I am burdened with glorious #floof”. #BlackCat
A poster hangs on a wall, featuring a black cat looking to camera, wearing a helmet with curved horns inspired by the Marvel version of Loki. Another Loki, our black cat, sits beneath, also looking to camera.
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