Jamie・ジェイミ・ˈdʒeɪmi

@jspieve.bsky.social

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Writer, reader, engineer, coder, would-be linguist

Street race scene from American Graffiti
Jackie Brown and Max Cherry looking into each other’s eyes
A quotation from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: “After a fairly shaky start to the day, Arthur's mind was beginning to reassemble itself from the shell-shocked fragments the previous day had left him with. He had found a Nutri-Matic machine which had provided him with a plastic cup filled with a liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea. The way it functioned was very interesting. When the Drink button was pressed it made an instant but highly detailed examination of the subject's taste buds, a spectroscopic analysis of the subject's metabolism and then sent tiny experimental signals down the neural pathways to the taste centers of the subject's brain to see what was likely to go down well. However, no one knew quite why it did this because it invariably delivered a cupful of liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.” Douglas Adams
Elon Musk @elonmusk • 5h My car is currently orbiting Mars Jonathan McDowell @planet4589 • 3h Well, no. It's orbiting the Sun, and occasionally passes the orbit of Mars. Not the same thing. Alonso @TGT_OAR • 3h Who died and made you the orbital police? Jonathan McDowell @planet4589 Replying to @TGT_OAR @elonmusk and @muratpak Johannes Kepler.
A painting called “The Irritating Gentleman” by German artist Berthold Woltze. It shows a man leaning over the back of a train seat to talk to a seated woman. She does look a little like the barmaid in the Manet painting
Someone called "Laura Loomer" posts on Twitter: "What the hell is this illegal alien farm worker non English shit on my TV. Someone call @ICEgov."
Rant from Trump about how the polls must be fake because he is so great
A tweet from someone called Karoline Leavitt denying that Trump repeatedly referred to Iceland: “No he didn't, Libby. His written remarks referred to Greenland as a "piece of ice" because that's what it is. You're the only one mixing anything up here.”
If there's a Nazi at the table and ten other people sitting there talking to him, you’ve got a table with eleven Nazis.
Screenshot from Mr Bean’s Wikipedia page showing his birth name as Shaun Mark Bean
A person wearing a lab coat alights from a time machine. "I went back to warn them, but they already knew and didn't seem to care."
XKCD cartoon. On the left two male characters at a whiteboard. One is writing a nonsensical equation and the other says "Wow, you suck at math." On the right, two figures at the whiteboard. The (apparently) female character is writing the same equation. The male character says "Wow, girls suck at math."
Some idiotic Republican saying “Up to 40% of Obamacare enrollees never file a claim. That's billions in taxpayer dollars flowing to insurance companies for people who don't even use the system.”
Okay, for those of you who are totally okay with people experiencing food insecurity during a month that has an national holiday that is pretty much entirely about food because "MY TAXPAYER DOLARS SHOULDN'T BE GOING TO A BUNCH OF LAZY PEOPLE!", here are a few facts: 1. How much you pay PER YEAR to fund SNAP: $36. That's it. Less than one dinner for 2 at a mid-range restaurant. 2. The majority of non-disabled working-age people who are on food assistance DO have jobs; they just don't make enough to cover their food costs. So you're not actually subsidizing THEM, you are subsidizing the companies who don't pay them enough to live on. 3. The majority of people who benefit from SNAP are children, the elderly, and the disabled.
Street sign for There and Back Again Lane in Bristol
A news headline: “ICE arrested a carpenter named Jesus.”
“On one family vacation, my father pleaded with me to close my book long enough to look at the Grand Canyon.” Francine Prose in Reading Like a Writer
A man wearing a pagoda-shoulder suit by Pierre Cardin
An optician in France called “Fovea” (the sign is an interesting purplish colour)
A crusty, fluffy, highly-toastable loaf, fresh out of the oven
Headline from the BBC: "Trump says achieving stability in Middle East 'not a complex thing to do'"
The stainless steel tray from a Delonghi "Dedica" espresso maker. It has two drainage holes that look like eyes. Below them is a slot with a bit of red plastic poking through, which looks a bit like the mouth and tongue.
Illustration of various types of orthographic / axonometric projections
Melania Trump in the outfit described above raising her arm in some sort of salute
Scene from Star Trek with Neelix pouring Captain Janeway a cup of coffee from a fancy stainless steel coffee maker
A quotation from the textbook General Relativity: An Introduction for Physicists: "The simplest calculation involves summing the quantum mechanical zero-point energies of all the fields known in Nature. This gives an answer about 120 orders of magnitude higher than the upper limits... set by cosmological observations. This is probably the worst theoretical prediction in the history of physics! Nobody knows how to make sense of this result. Some physics mechanism must exist that makes the cosmological constant very small."
A dish of sausages baked in Yorkshire pudding batter, a.k.a Toad in the Hole