Dan
@captainmcdan.bsky.social
CaptainMcDan has dedicated his life to hunting down and killing the whale that bit his leg off, this may have sent him a bit funny
The book I am reading has mentioned in passing that Dylan Thomas was a beer drinker in London and only really turned to whisky when he went to America, and now I can't shake the idea that terrible American beer killed Dylan Thomas.
December 6, 2025 at 9:59 PM
The book I am reading has mentioned in passing that Dylan Thomas was a beer drinker in London and only really turned to whisky when he went to America, and now I can't shake the idea that terrible American beer killed Dylan Thomas.
Gonna pay attention to cats when they tell me something useful, not before.
"The team hypothesized that men 'require more explicit vocalizations to notice and respond to the needs of their cats.' In other words, the researchers are suggesting that many cats have concluded that men don’t always listen, and adjusted their behavior accordingly."
To Get a Man’s Attention, Meow Harder
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Gonna pay attention to cats when they tell me something useful, not before.
It is remarkable how many really thorny multithreading problems can be solved using a technique I like to call 'very big array.'
November 24, 2025 at 10:18 AM
It is remarkable how many really thorny multithreading problems can be solved using a technique I like to call 'very big array.'
The "UK Editor of ITV News" complaining about the tyranny of the news cycle
It’s a sign of how insane the news cycle is these days that this historic failure of government policy got just one day of news coverage this week.
Not saying that’s right or wrong, but it’s astonishing how quickly the agenda moves on these days.
Not saying that’s right or wrong, but it’s astonishing how quickly the agenda moves on these days.
BREAKING: UK’s response to Covid was “too little too late”. Acting faster could have saved 23,000 lives in England according to the public inquiry.
Boris Johnson presided over a “toxic, sexist, chaotic culture” in No10, where rule-breaking seriously undermined public confidence.
Boris Johnson presided over a “toxic, sexist, chaotic culture” in No10, where rule-breaking seriously undermined public confidence.
November 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM
The "UK Editor of ITV News" complaining about the tyranny of the news cycle
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The fact that people risk their lives to come to the UK from France says these people are strongly committed to the UK and we should fucking cherish them as opposed to people who hate the BBC and the National Trust and the RNLI and every other British institution who should fuck off to Dubai.
But why are they coming here? How? You're imagining fictional versions of reality based on your own leftist fantasies. You tell me why people are risking their lives to reach the UK, from France.
November 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
The fact that people risk their lives to come to the UK from France says these people are strongly committed to the UK and we should fucking cherish them as opposed to people who hate the BBC and the National Trust and the RNLI and every other British institution who should fuck off to Dubai.
@deserterblog.bsky.social ChatGPT for bum dosser!
The ChatGPT subreddit is absolutely hilarious. LLMs just output statistically likely responses, and a statistically likely response to being asked to do some work is "I'll have that done by...". So apparently in some cases ChatGPT had just been telling users it'll get back to them later.
1/2
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October 26, 2025 at 8:52 AM
@deserterblog.bsky.social ChatGPT for bum dosser!
Rich people are weird, exhibit no. 746644
There's a whole other world out there: www.tes.com/jobs/vacancy...
Private Tutor - London, England, Oxfordshire - Tes Jobs
Tutors International, United Kingdom
www.tes.com
October 21, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Rich people are weird, exhibit no. 746644
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Hoshoryu was gifted a giant soy sauce after becoming Grand Champion in London.
October 19, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Hoshoryu was gifted a giant soy sauce after becoming Grand Champion in London.
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Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."
October 16, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."
Respectable!? I'm old enough to remember when heavy metal bands didn't want to he respectable.
October 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Respectable!? I'm old enough to remember when heavy metal bands didn't want to he respectable.
have finally watched kpop demon hunters and the children are correct - it's great
October 4, 2025 at 5:07 PM
have finally watched kpop demon hunters and the children are correct - it's great
At an Octoberfest thing with an oompah band and badly need an oompah mode for Shazam.
October 4, 2025 at 2:22 PM
At an Octoberfest thing with an oompah band and badly need an oompah mode for Shazam.
Some of the most American Americans I've ever heard quoted in this article. Genuinely couldn't be more American.
‘Men seem to make life for women worse’: single US women share the woes of dating in 2025
Here’s why some women feel like there’s little hope in the current dating pool of men – if they’re still in the market for one
www.theguardian.com
September 28, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Some of the most American Americans I've ever heard quoted in this article. Genuinely couldn't be more American.
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A song to remind me of the most useful phrases I have learnt from Italian Duolingo. (Sound up)
November 18, 2024 at 1:48 PM
A song to remind me of the most useful phrases I have learnt from Italian Duolingo. (Sound up)
@warmovietheatre.bsky.social they're doing a screening of Das Boot on The Belfast www.iwm.org.uk/events/the-u...
The U-Boat Peril: Das Boot and Roger Moorhouse
Join us on board HMS Belfast for a day exploring the U-boat peril which threatened Britain throughout the Battle of the Atlantic. Two very special companion events will show why U-boats struck fear in...
www.iwm.org.uk
September 19, 2025 at 12:50 PM
@warmovietheatre.bsky.social they're doing a screening of Das Boot on The Belfast www.iwm.org.uk/events/the-u...
It got better once the creature turned up and starting killing off Victor's friends and family (which served him right for being a whiny little bitch). The line "I demand a creature of another sex, but as hideous as myself" will never not be hilarious though.
I've a lot of trust in Del Toro, but I'm halfway through reading the source material and it's bunk.
Apparently Guillermo Del Toro has ruined Frankenstein by… being relatively faithful to the source material.
Oh my.
Oh my.
September 18, 2025 at 12:59 PM
It got better once the creature turned up and starting killing off Victor's friends and family (which served him right for being a whiny little bitch). The line "I demand a creature of another sex, but as hideous as myself" will never not be hilarious though.
Having already been forced to learn who Charlie Kirk is this week, I now feel a great sense of despair that I am also going to have to learn what a Groyper is.
September 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Having already been forced to learn who Charlie Kirk is this week, I now feel a great sense of despair that I am also going to have to learn what a Groyper is.
Algorithms have started giving me Warhammer 40K content (which I am not wholly against, but I don't get any of the memes) and when did Space Marines stop having pointy noses?!
September 12, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Algorithms have started giving me Warhammer 40K content (which I am not wholly against, but I don't get any of the memes) and when did Space Marines stop having pointy noses?!
My guess is this reflects a general disappointment with Starmer coupled with a lack of partisan loyalty in the UK (as opposed to the very partisan US where loyalty buoys Trumps numbers), but why did Starmer get almost no honeymoon at all?
How Keir Starmer’s polling became one of the worst in the west – in charts
The UK prime minister’s drop in approval is among the lowest on record – both at home and abroad
www.theguardian.com
September 9, 2025 at 9:49 AM
My guess is this reflects a general disappointment with Starmer coupled with a lack of partisan loyalty in the UK (as opposed to the very partisan US where loyalty buoys Trumps numbers), but why did Starmer get almost no honeymoon at all?
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This frontispiece in my book just made me laugh a lot. Is this Buddhist reincarnation, or some other form of afterlife?
September 7, 2025 at 9:20 PM
This frontispiece in my book just made me laugh a lot. Is this Buddhist reincarnation, or some other form of afterlife?
I've a lot of trust in Del Toro, but I'm halfway through reading the source material and it's bunk.
Apparently Guillermo Del Toro has ruined Frankenstein by… being relatively faithful to the source material.
Oh my.
Oh my.
September 3, 2025 at 5:28 AM
I've a lot of trust in Del Toro, but I'm halfway through reading the source material and it's bunk.
A bunch of people talking about what bluesky is or isn't and... how do they know?
What I experience on bsky is a personally curated list of people I chose to follow. Drawing lessons from it about "bluesky" would be like drawing lessons from my book shelf about all of western literature.
What I experience on bsky is a personally curated list of people I chose to follow. Drawing lessons from it about "bluesky" would be like drawing lessons from my book shelf about all of western literature.
August 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
A bunch of people talking about what bluesky is or isn't and... how do they know?
What I experience on bsky is a personally curated list of people I chose to follow. Drawing lessons from it about "bluesky" would be like drawing lessons from my book shelf about all of western literature.
What I experience on bsky is a personally curated list of people I chose to follow. Drawing lessons from it about "bluesky" would be like drawing lessons from my book shelf about all of western literature.
Spicy NikNaks for drunk people. Strong recommend.
August 28, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Spicy NikNaks for drunk people. Strong recommend.
Strange Google Maps directions yesterday. Travel through Cannon St, get off at Monument, walk back to Cannon St!?!
August 28, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Strange Google Maps directions yesterday. Travel through Cannon St, get off at Monument, walk back to Cannon St!?!
Not sure if the boys at @deserterblog.bsky.social have tried these. Long time since I've eaten the relish in question so can't comment on how similar they are, but I like them, bags of umami and a very satisfying crunch.
August 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Not sure if the boys at @deserterblog.bsky.social have tried these. Long time since I've eaten the relish in question so can't comment on how similar they are, but I like them, bags of umami and a very satisfying crunch.