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Bob

@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 · 07/10/2026
As is the nut, though subtler. I actually quite like it, but that’s not much of a recommendation.
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Irk the purists.
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Any questions?” “How do I get out of this chicken shit outfit?” Anyway, I’m currently unemployed.
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
God they’re good. I want to hear a collaboration between them and Igorrr/Gautier Serre. They have the same sense of playfulness.
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Yoink!
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Ibuprofen, you buprofen, we all buprofen for ibuprofen.
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Dreamed last night that M&S rich tea biscuits had raisins in. You can use that one, @stephenking.bsky.social.
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Yeah, sex is great, but have you ever read a textbook in which the author says “The astute reader may have noticed” something you noticed?
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Recently attended a talk by Al Gore about investing in AI businesses due to the environmental benefits (largely identifying and dealing with inefficiencies). I’m not an expert, but I’m willing to believe he’s someone who can be trusted on this.
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
It’s filling in gaps in derivations that I then follow myself. If it gets something wrong (which it hasn’t, yet) I would know, because I wouldn’t be able to follow. I don’t use it to generate anything that I trust blindly.
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
“Tolerate” is a strong term. I’m self-teaching physics from textbooks and Google AI has made a huge difference, giving me gentle nudges when I get stumped by things the author elides, and feedback on exercises. Like all tools, it’s where and how you use it that matters.
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
There’s an old anecdote (almost certainly apocryphal) about some council re-painting a 2-lane road to a 3-lane to increase capacity by 50%. Led to more accidents, so repainted to 2-lane, decreasing capacity by 33%. That’s a 17% win overall!
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Me: I cannot stress highly enough… My brain: Challenge accepted.
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Taxi cabs are named after taxi meters, not the other way round.
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Some years ago, during a silly conversation with my wife, I ended up googling “does anybody hate Judi Dench?”. Top hit was a Facebook page (sadly no longer in existence) titled “Don’t You Hate It When Dame Judi Dench Puts A Calippo In Your Exhaust Pipe?”
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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 · 07/04/2026
Don’t know if you’re familiar with Public Service Broadcasting’s The Race For Space album, but it has a track called The Other Side that gives me shivers every damn time.
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
I confess, I often skim past IoC stuff; not because I disagree with them, but these days I struggle for headspace. But this is *staggeringly* awful.
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
The biscuits in the pack above the tear strip don’t count, right?
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
So sorry. Sending love.
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
According to Argent, it’s “never too late to work 9 to 5”, but what about 6?
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
It has come to my attention that successˈlessness is a word.
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Giving Predator to Dan Trachtenberg was like giving Mission Impossible to Chris McQuarrie. Wonderful what people with a genuine love for the material can produce.
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Hah!We just finished it too. Refreshingly unique.
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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 · 07/02/2026
I know nobody hears me on this platform, but I just want to say that the most wonderful thing about #Dark is the (perhaps ironical) fact that every time I finish watching it, I feel compelled to rewatch it from the beginning again.
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
I’m not allowed to reply to this, but I feel it so god damned hard.
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Think of the sheepdog court artists.
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I once borrowed Caroline Quentin’s pen to get Paul Merton’s autograph. Then gave Caroline Quentin her pen back.
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Life hack: Keep, and carefully tend, a to-don’t list.
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I prefer kittens.
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Oh I’m so sorry to hear that. Sending love to all.
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
When xkcd teaches you about something cool you weren’t previously aware of.
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Saw a car whose registration plate ended “UGH” today, and its a philosophy I can get behind.
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
The Shape of Water?
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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 · 24/12/2025
Loved it. Though what I *really* want to see is the Loser of Losers. Kearns Wang Baddiel Beaumont Kumar
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
❤️
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
4.7% does not a session ale make.
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Just been past a butcher and a baker next door to each other. Anyone got any good books on making candles?
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Tried to guess the acronym, but could only come up with “Mixed Martial Tarts”. Which I now want.
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
If you see a cat do a big stretch and don’t say “Big stretch!” you are dead inside.
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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 · 06/10/2025
Charlie Cale, because that would tend to imply that I had spent my last days in the presence of Charlie Cale.
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Whenever we watch Taskmaster with subtitles, it warns us of “adult humour” but says nothing at all about the downright puerile humour.
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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 · 01/07/2025
Can everyone imagine I have just posted a pixel-perfect photoshop of Kavan Novak on a Star Wars poster, titled NANDOR and skip straight to telling me how impressive my skillz are, please?
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Bob @theeponymousbob.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
New stock phrase.
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