Evil Jim O’Donnell

@eatyourgreens.org.uk

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Research software engineer. Comics lover. Accessibility enthusiast. https://mastodon.social/@eatyourgreens Oxford RSE: https://www.rse.ox.ac.uk Professional bio: https://www.rse.ox.ac.uk/dr-jim-odonnell

Oliver Twist (from the 1968 film) but he’s saying; please sir, can I have some less?
A metal, barred gate across a path border by hedges. A sign on the gate says geese only beyond this point.
4 Australian pelicans resting on a sandy beach area.
Opus the penguin, grinning nervously while wearing a red bow tie and a Bill The Cat t-shirt.
Hi I'm Troy Mcclure, you probably remember me from reacts such as 'What the fuck is that?', 'Why did i have to see this?' and 'I miss 20 seconds ago when I didn't know this shit existed'.
A paperback French translation of the Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels.
A selfie with a plushy of Judy Hopps, from Zootopia, attached magnetically to my flat cap, so that she’s sitting on my head. In a window behind me, you can see a reflection of an outdoor seated area in Disneyland Paris.
Flyer for the Grenfell 9th anniversary silent march, 6pm 14 June 2026 at Notting Hill Methodist church.
Grenfell Tower from Lancaster Road, still burning at 10.30am. A crowd of journalists are filming the fire.
The trade paperback of Exquisite Corpses vol. 2, featuring a murderous rabbit on the cover.
GitHub Classroom is evolving – explore what’s next.
A cookie banner for Mumsnet, offering the option to pay to remove ads.
Henry Moore’s Oval With Points, on display at Kew and framing a view of the natural landscape of the gardens.
Selfie with Christian Ward at Forbidden Planet London.
I Contain Multitudes, by Ed Yong, and On Modern Architecture, by Richard Rogers.
“72 lives lost” spray-painted above green Grenfell hearts on the side of the old Barclays bank in Ladbroke Grove.
Umbriel, a black rabbit with white highlights, looking directly at the camera.
A GitHub repo page with a box that says: Uh oh! There was an error while loading. Please reload this page. The error message is weirdly squashed into a vertical column only a few characters wide.
An advert from 1940, aimed at women. It shows a photo of a beautiful, happy young woman with the caption: stay fit and slim by taking amphetamine.
Mini Yoda with an almost empty pint of stout in the Lamb & Flag in Oxford.
A selfie: I’m wearing a purple t-shirt that says perceivable & operable & understandable & robust & punch Nazis.
Shaun striking a silly pose In Nando’s, with Mini Yoda on the table in front of him.
Page 42 of James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time.
Mini Yoda on the podium at State of the Browser 2025, with a laptop and the presentation screen behind him.
Lyra, our white dwarf rabbit, sitting on the windowsill and looking cute.
Our white rabbit, Lyra, sitting on the windowsill and looking very cute.
The Harrow Club in Freston Road, W10. Formerly the Church of the Holy Trinity when Freston Road was Latimer Road, it features a large, traceried Gothic arched window.
A handmade ceramic Japanese teapot, illustrating the principle of kyūsu.
A group of deer grazing under a large tree, on a late winter afternoon in Richmond Park.
Lyra face-on, in the animal carrier, so that you can see the black highlights around both her enormous eyes.
Four wooden pencils shaped like woodland animals; bear, moose, rabbit and fox. The French label says “crayons des bois”.
Hi I'm Troy Mcclure, you probably remember me from reacts such as 'What the fuck is that?', 'Why did i have to see this?' and 'I miss 20 seconds ago when I didn't know this shit existed'.
A Kindle decorated with a drawing of Boba Fett pointing a gun at the viewer, above a second sticker saying “respectfully, no.”
James Tynion IV, Mini Yoda, and me at Gosh! Comics for a signing of Exquisite Corpses vol 1.
Title page of The Casebook of Stamford Hawksmoor, signed by Bryan Talbot with a drawing of a rabbit in a bowler hat and dickie bow.
A silver replica of Mannekin Pis in the window of a Brussels sex shop, wearing a black leather chest harness.
Film poster for Lionel Bart’s musical, Oliver!
A gray A5 notebook with a black-and-white vinyl sticker of Boba Fett, pointing his gun at the viewer.
A small selection of vinyl stickers; “I find your lack of treats disturbing”, Akira, and Boba Fett.
A Far Side cartoon: two chimps sit in a tree. The female chimp (with horn-rimmed glasses) inspects the male chimp’s fur and says, “Well, well – another blond hair. Conducting a little more ‘research’ with that Jane Goodall tramp?”
A tweet from Guillermo Rauch: President Trump builds with Next.js. What are you waiting for?
Umbriel, one of our rabbits. He’s black with a white nose and eyes, and one ear permanently flopped down.
Hamurabi, a text-based resource management game for the PDP-8.
A large crowd of anti-Trump protesters, flying Palestinian flags, outside Broadcasting House.
Dr Strange written and drawn by Christian Ward. Here, he reflects on how he saw patients as rungs on a ladder, opportunities to prove his prowess as a surgeon. “I was no doctor.”
Life-size bronze elephants by Gillie and Marc (21 babies with 1 adult behind them) outside Spitalfields Market. Hawksmoor’s church is visible in the background.
Local community members, some in keffiyehs, painting a new Palestine mural on the hoardings underneath the Westway, near the football pitches.
Hi I'm Troy Mcclure, you probably remember me from reacts such as 'What the fuck is that?', 'Why did i have to see this?' and 'I miss 20 seconds ago when I didn't know this shit existed'.
New banner in the BlueSky app: The laws in your location require you to verify you're an adult to access certain features. Tap to learn more.
A bottle of 11.3% strength Trappist Rochefort 10. The label is basically the name of the beer, the address of the abbey, and the percentage strength.
The entrance to the former Nazi camp at Terezín. “Arbeit Macht Frei” is written above the arch of the main gate.
Cans of Vocation Brewery Love & Hate and Vault City Jungle Juice. Both cans have very stylised, brightly coloured artwork. Love & Hate (7.2%) is orange with red cupids and winged devils. Jungle Juice (8.0%) is a stylised jungle scene with a constrictor snake crushing a bunch of tropical fruit.
Eli Wallach, Clint Eastwood, and Lee Van Cleef in the stand-off at the end of The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly.
A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M Miller Jr. The cover shows someone in Catholic religious robes beneath a large, cross-shaped spaceship, with a large, red, nuclear mushroom cloud in the background.
The cast of Kelly’s Heroes, including Donald Sutherland and Clint Eastwood, in costume on the turret of their Sherman tank.
The LP cover for Genesis: Three Sides Live, along with the inner sleeve. The inner sleeve has a ‘home taping is killing music (and it’s illegal)’ logo, which is a stylised skull and crossbones pirate flag. The skull is a cassette tape.
Giant Days omnibus volume 2, signed by John Allison with a sketch of Susan.
Cassini, a white guinea pig with black highlights around his eyes, parks himself on top of the bum of Galileo, a black and white guinea pig. They’re both sitting on a cushion at the back of their cage.
Sausage by Dior, a photoshop of the Johnny Depp Sauvage advert.
A video of the snowfall script running on my phone. Each flake has a unique shape. The flakes fall in bursts, as the script dynamically calculates the animation rate.