gerry
geraldmellor.bsky.social
gerry
@geraldmellor.bsky.social
Permanently exhausted dad. Programmer. Tea drinker. Plant eater (he/him)

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South Australia/Scotland
I did just watch Skin of Evil, which didn’t work out all that well for everybody
November 26, 2025 at 8:36 AM
But Adam! Scientists (all of them) say so!
November 26, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Trump has seen nicknames in quotation marks and he doesn’t know that’s not how you write middle names
November 20, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Thank you! Last night he was telling me he thinks quarks must be made of smaller particles (a turtles all the way down situation), but he does not have the same intuition about electrons and neutrinos. I do think this book will be right up his alley
October 29, 2025 at 4:52 AM
I (extremely white, mostly anglo) grew up calling my parents’ friends uncle and aunty. I’m going with disingenuous
October 29, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Hi Daniel, do you think a (smart and curious) 11 year old would enjoy your book, or should I wait until he at least has some high school physics under his belt? (said 11 year old claims to be sick of dad jokes but I’m holding onto the belief that he secretly loves them)
October 29, 2025 at 1:05 AM
This is making me anxious that the Perth and Adelaide dates have been cancelled. Please throw a little reassurance my way
October 21, 2025 at 4:53 AM
I know Kevin didn’t mean it this way, but “traitor to the West” is very white-supremacy-coded language
October 21, 2025 at 12:30 AM
I know someone who holds his phone this way solely because he thinks holding it to his ear will fry his brain with radiation. Any time I see someone do this I assume it’s for the same reason
October 20, 2025 at 1:44 AM
I was born and raised in Edinburgh and I still know vastly more about NYC politics
October 17, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Has his respectability always been in question? I remember reading Hyperspace at high school in the 90s but I haven’t paid him much attention in recent years.
October 15, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Classic in the sense that this could be Twitter 10 years ago? Yep
October 15, 2025 at 6:17 AM
I really like Ed but I think now that he has a podcast there’s an army of unhinged parasocially-invested folks ready to pile on at the slightest provocation
October 15, 2025 at 6:03 AM