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Mark @yacfoaky.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

OTOH I've never seen a boy en-route to our local school wearing leggings.

A picture captioned "Eva Patterson in her school trousers, which she was told were 'too tight' to meet uniform standards. (Image: Danielle Gregory / SWNS)" which appears to show a pair of skin-tight leggings.

Mark @yacfoaky.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The skirt pictured in the article is way longer than any that pupils at the local school here are wearing but the "trousers" pictured look more like leggings than trousers.

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Mark @yacfoaky.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Of course if you are using your laptop as an actual _mobile_ device then this doesn't work.

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Mark @yacfoaky.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is probably less than helpful TBH, but for writing I find a real, "clicky", external keyboard much more comfortable than any laptop I've ever owned, and I can keep it when I change laptops (or switch between work and personal devices).

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Mark @yacfoaky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ivan (no no longer with us): always on some form of special diet, always not keen. Felix: too easily bullied off his normal food

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Mark @yacfoaky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pit viper venom crashes blood pressure and gave us a whole class of ACE inhibitors. Lisinopril and ramipril were a large part of how I'm still here. (Don't take them any more because my BP is now less capricious, but back in the day lisinopril was the only thing that reliably controlled it).

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Mark @yacfoaky.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

4 coffees (2x 3shot and 2x 2shot Americano-style)

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Mark @yacfoaky.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Lol, his eyes lined up with the bluesky button bar as I was scrolling, so it looks like he's extra spaced out.

Screenshot of a bluesky post cut off at the bottom of the screen. The picture of a black cat in the post is lined up with the DM and notification icons so it looks like the cat has extra-crazy eyes.

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Mark @yacfoaky.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I can smell that someone on this train has a Gregg's steak and stilton pastie and I haven't. Now I'm hungry.

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Mark @yacfoaky.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

How many wheels does a motorbike have, Daniel?

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Mark @yacfoaky.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Carb-loading! Definitely counts as preparation at the very least, if not training.

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Mark @yacfoaky.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Going back a bit - Alan Shearer

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Mark @yacfoaky.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The Vilnius-Riga-Talinn train is great.

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Mark @yacfoaky.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I'd say just block random character username reply guy and move on.

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Mark @yacfoaky.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Also, Finns buy a lot of booze on board to take home.

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Mark @yacfoaky.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I have, just this second, realised that the "coff" in "Biscoff" refers to coffee.

A mostly empty, white coffee cup on a wooden slatted table outside a cafe.

There is an empty Lotus Biscoff wrapper on the saucer.

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Mark @yacfoaky.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

For any pedants, I know that the IEA is based on Lord North Street and not at 55 Tufton St. I'm lumping all Westminster based, shadily funded, right wing think tanks together under that label.

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Mark @yacfoaky.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Still boggling at the Tuftonisation of BBC R4 Broadcasting House earlier this morning... Kathleen Stock /and/ Julian Jessop on.

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Mark @yacfoaky.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

"hotel toast" - great name for it!

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Mark @yacfoaky.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I do that occasionally, for a treat/change. I usually prefer to melt as much butter into hot toast as possible, but every now and then I like to let the toast cool (it absolutely needs to be crispy, though) and enjoy it spread with cold unmelted butter.

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Mark @yacfoaky.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Looks like my list subscriptions already have him covered

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Mark @yacfoaky.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Point the camera at your hands?

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Mark @yacfoaky.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

He exists in a tangent space to here and now.

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Mark @yacfoaky.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Love it. A lie as promised but almost truth-adjacent. Thank you Sam!

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Mark @yacfoaky.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Dropping this in quickly before international cat day is over...

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Mark @yacfoaky.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Anybody need some fany flora?

A florist shop in Bratislava, Slovakia. The shop front is painted sage green and the name on the awning reads "www.fanyflora.sk".

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Bearded Pip @beardedpip.myatproto.social · 04/08/2026

Insulting Discworld on BlueSky? I hope he gets the day he deserves.

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Mark @yacfoaky.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I've been out of contact, watching Judas Priest. I don't suppose "it" happened while I was gone?

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Mark @yacfoaky.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

So at some point it stopped saving and you couldn't even open up a fresh Word and copy/paste/save in there.

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Mark @yacfoaky.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

When I did the control-s mashing in an overnight panic document preparation session, sometime around that era, I ended up discovering that word a) leaked file descriptors and b) shared them between all instances on the machine

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Mark @yacfoaky.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Bratislava, I am in you!

View of an airport terminal under a bright blue sky with a sign reading "Bratislava"

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Mark @yacfoaky.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Drivers of the two (2) cars in front of me who drove past two (2) signs starting "pre-book only" on the way into the car park: what exactly were you expecting to happen when you got to - and blocked - the two (2) entry barriers?

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Mark @yacfoaky.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

A Boulevardier, objectively, should be less dangerous than an Old Fashioned, especially if I made both myself, right? This one feels fucking deadly and ISTG I didn't add more than one third whisky.

A gold-rimmed glass with a gold leaf motif sits on a coaster on a light coloured wooden table.

It is half full with amber liquid.

This is composed of equal parts sweet vermouth, campari and singleton malt whisky. There is a large square ice cube in it.

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Mark @yacfoaky.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I just realised "black mold gold" was right there. 🤦‍♀️

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Mark @yacfoaky.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

No fixed side, but except for certain edge cases it is deterministic. My wife always sleeps on the side furthest from the door. At home I'm on the right, but hotels vary based on geometry.

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Mark @yacfoaky.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Adrian Lester in Cyrano de Bergerac at the Noël Coward theatre. Well that was amazing. Definitely go and see it if you are able.

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Mark @yacfoaky.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I actually got to shout "it's fucking huge"!

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Mark @yacfoaky.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Preparing my "Oi! Bignose!" heckle.

View of a closed, red curtain at the Noël Coward theatre, ahead of a performance of Cyrano de Bergerac.

The rows in front are about half full.

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Mark @yacfoaky.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Keep seeking these and wondering the same. I'm not going to waste a click on one to find out though.

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Mark @yacfoaky.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

If I turn this off for my follow feed, what happens? Do I A) no longer see quote posts that people I follow make themselves B) no longer see quote posts by random people of posts made by people I follow C) both D) some other behaviour

Screenshot of the bluesky following Greg preferences page. The "show quote posts" toggle is"circled" in red.

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Mark @yacfoaky.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Out in the garden at 0130 on a "school night". Sampling my duty-free (Connemara Malt Whiskey). Listening to tunes by The Scratch, The Pogues, Flogging Molly etc. Don't feel like going to bed just yet.

A glass of Irish Whiskey on a table. Next to it is a chemistry beaker with water in it.

It is dark, and the nigtht sight of the camera is just picking out the flower bed behind.

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