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Richard K

@rkemb.bsky.social

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A company for carrying out an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is.

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Richard K @rkemb.bsky.social · 8h

but dan this is postantifascism

Richard K @rkemb.bsky.social · 8h

There's a great article somewhere by the guy who invented banoffee pie and - more importantly - its name*, describing how he saw it spread around the world.

* The recipe was a revival and variation of an old one, but the spread of the name allowed the infection to be accurately tracked.

Richard K @rkemb.bsky.social · 8h

I mean it's just a weird warm milkshake right

Richard K @rkemb.bsky.social · 8h

Amazingly no gravy (presumably handled by the college chefs), and I don't know what the hell this is.

Richard K @rkemb.bsky.social · 8h

Just about to check this for gravy content.

Richard K @rkemb.bsky.social · 8h

Smoking pipes

Richard K @rkemb.bsky.social · 8h

Remember reading about people on the ISS managing to have a roast dinner in zero gravity through the use of very thick gravy and surely this is what British science is for.

Richard K @rkemb.bsky.social · 9h

Linus Pauling fell down a vitamin C rabbit hole.

Richard K @rkemb.bsky.social · 9h

I object, sometimes it's Gaussian processes.

Richard K @rkemb.bsky.social · 9h

Wir sin nur ganz normalen Menschen

Richard K @rkemb.bsky.social · 9h

This is just the British equivalent of pumpkin spice latte.

Anita Chaudhuri @anitachaudhuri.bsky.social · 10h

This madness must be stopped.

Richard K @rkemb.bsky.social · 9h

Jeden Tisch ein Stammtisch

Richard K @rkemb.bsky.social · 10h

Richard K @rkemb.bsky.social · 11h

In gothic script

Richard K @rkemb.bsky.social · 11h

Suspicious thing to feel you have to put on your website.

Wir sind
Eine ganz normale Bayerische Gaststätte
"We are a totally normal Bavarian inn"

Richard K @rkemb.bsky.social · 13h

Also to burn the retinas of the people wearing them.

Richard K @rkemb.bsky.social · 13h

Just filing a patent for countermeasure glasses featuring high-intensity infra-red LEDs to overwhelm the pervert glass CCDs.

Richard K @rkemb.bsky.social · 13h

"Which room?

"Third door on the—"

"The left, right."

Richard K @rkemb.bsky.social · 13h

Burns up in the atmosphere on the way down. 32% of shooting stars are just astronaut piss.

Richard K @rkemb.bsky.social · 15h

Ooh, go to the Bundesbank museum and pick up a bundle of €1mn in shredded notes for €50.

Richard K @rkemb.bsky.social · 15h

"BlueSky is a nice friendly place."

"Well, actually..."

Richard K @rkemb.bsky.social · 16h

Grid-ready in five years

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 21h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 21h

"The chancellor approved it"

Richard K @rkemb.bsky.social · 16h

British teeth used to be the envy of the world because of toffee pennies

Richard K @rkemb.bsky.social · 18h

Too many people losing fillings to them

Richard K @rkemb.bsky.social · 21h

This is perfectly possible with Britain's cheap, fast, and comfortable rail services.