Mark Stephens

@mark-stephens.bsky.social

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Understanding, interpreting and explanation seems to be my niche, historically around digital electronic and software systems. I need a better picture of myself.

A screen shot of what may be a scam verification phishing webpage.
A Heinkel Kabine bubble car from the 1950s and 1960s. This tiny 3 wheeler vehicle has two front wheels and the only door is across the full front of the car.
A rear view of a female model wearing a black t-shirt and black shorts emblazoned with the word “Juicy” in big lettering using a gothic fount similar to Old London and using sparkly dots to make the letter shapes.
Tom and Barbara Good from the TV sitcom “The Good Life“ would be the stereotypical Green Party voters in the 1970s
A spaceship in the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind makes such a loud noise it shatters the glass of a viewing tower causing Richard Dreyfus to flinch dramatically.
A screenshot of a picture of Rob Manuel’s Casio watch displaying Tu 22 as the day/date but the screenshot I took shows today as 21 Apr 2026. Some say Rob is ahead of his time but I think he’s forgotten how to set the date on his watch.
A Doctor Fun cartoon from 7 May 1998. A man looking out the window at at squirrels wearing protective clothing exclaims “Damn squirrels! Now they’re trying to build a fast reactor on the bird feeder!”
Disaster girl meme. A young girl is watching a house burn down but looking back at the camera as if she is the main character.
Iscored 26 / 30 in the 80's music quiz with a Time Elapsed: 3 minutes 40 seconds
Casio Power LCD Digital Black Resin Strap Watch
Citizen Men's Eco-Drive Analogue Green Canvas Strap Watch available from Argos.
A 1kg box of Scott’s Porage Oats Original featuring a kilted Scotsman putting the shot as he would in a Highland games. This maybe the most widely used use of Scott with double T.
A Doro phone designed for someone with cognitive difficulties having a simplified keypad. No digits just A B C D keys and a space to write a name next to each letter.
The album cover of "Ragged Glory" by Neil Young and Crazy Horse showing a fish-eye lens view of the band in what could be a log cabin somewhere.
A Rotring 600 fountain pen and matching propelling pencil. Both have a distinctive hexagonal barrel.
The front cover of “Tales from the Trigan Empire” featuring Janno, Peric the Emporor Trigo and a bug eyed sharp toothed multi-armed sea monster.
The cover of “Nine Knives” graphic novel by Nigel Auchterlounie.
A chocolate snack bar popular in the UK is the McVities Penguin bar which features a picture of a penguin on the wrapper.
A jar of Vegemite yeast extract spread.
Zooming in to the background of the picture of Boris Johnson holding spaghetti you can see a framed certificate “Politician of the Year” awarded to Boris Johnson. My suspicion is aroused that the whole picture is fake for who would have awarded such an accolade to Boris?
From the video above the same man has NYPD on his coat but ICE on his hat suggesting that the video is synthetic and generated by AI.
This cartoon is captioned "A nature walk with Mr Paranoid." A woman out hiking points to the sky and declares "Ooh look, a rainbow", while the man alongside her thinks to himself "So ... gays control the weather now." This is a cartoon by Doctor Fun (AKA David Farley) published on 16 September 1997.
An African elephant, with tusks of different lengths, strides purposefully towards the camera and along a murram road in a Kenyan safari park. In the background is luscious green foliage that is mostly obscured by the broad expanse of its ears. This image always reminds me of the theory as to why elephants have big ears, … it is because Noddy wouldn't pay the ransom.
The Taras Shevchenko monument in Kharkiv with the poet atop the pedestal and around the base are characters from his works. Taken in July 2008.
Olena Zelenska and Volodymyr Zelensky hold hands as they descend the aircraft steps on arrival in Saudi Arabia.