Oliver Turner

@oliverturner.cloud

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Web aficionado, Cloud inhabitant, CSS devotee, Svelte superfan

The pride of the Sûreté, Inspecteur Clouseau (here portrayed by Peter Sellers)
A car designed to closely resemble a pea
My “Bluesky License”
A scene from the movie The Sixth Sense in which a child reveals that he mutes the impossibly stupid
A poorly drawn star saying “there was an attempt”
Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild (1868-1937) pictured with his zebra-drawn carriage.
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A question on google.com: “how many letter ps in Oliver Turner” There are 2 letter p's in Oliver Turner. Here is the breakdown: • Oliver (O) • Turner (2) — one at the beginning of the word and one in the middle: Turner ® Let me know if you need help with any other names or word counts!
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As Margaret Thatcher's press secretary, Bernard Ingham, once recalled, Denis had many terms for his favourite tipple: "An opener, a brightener, a lifter, a tincture, a large gin and tonic without the tonic, a snifter, a snort, a snorter. And a snorterino, which more or less empties the bottle in one go."
Front cover of the newly released “Atlas of Botany”, depicting beautifully painted flowers by Pierre Joseph Redoute against a foil atlas
Nigel Farage smoking a fag. For some inexplicable reason he’s chosen to be photographed in his dressing gown… outside, on a bench?
A man. Getting Down.
Bowie sporting a mullet (and an eyepatch)
An extravagantly gorgeous La Pavoni espresso maker
Carl from Aqua Teen Hunger Force in canid form
A screenshot of terrygodier.com displaying an RSS link
Your ДЕок JND 0.0115 Solidly below the standard JND. You probably get unreasonably annoyed when someone says two slightly different blues are 'the same colour. You're right, by the way. They're wrong.
And get that man with double chin Who'll always cheat and always win, Who washes his repulsive skin In women's tears: And smash his desk of polished oak And smash his hands so used to stroke And stop his boring dirty joke And make him yell.
The dictionary definition of “crinkled” crinkled I'krnkld | adjective having small surface creases or wrinkles: a skirt in crinkled fabric. crinkle |'krkl| verb form into small surface creases or wrinkles: [no object] : Rose's face crinkled in bewilderment | [with object] : he smiled boyishly, crinkling his eyes. noun a wrinkle or crease on the surface of something: there was a crinkle of suspicion on her forehead. ORIGIN late Middle English: related to Old English crincan (see cringe).
A turned wooden bowl with a lip that has been intentionally left unfinished
Stacks of untrimmed paper showing their crinkled edges
Ian Dury showing off his Union Jack-enameled teeth
The Merriam Webster definition of the word “farouche” In French, farouche can mean "wild" or "shy," just as it does in English. It is an alteration of the Old French word forasche, which derives via Late Latin forasticus ("living outside") from Latin foras, meaning "outdoors." In its earliest English uses, in the middle of the 18th century, farouche was used to describe someone who was awkward in social situations, perhaps as one who has lived apart from groups of people. The word can also mean "disorderly," as in "farouche ruffians out to cause trouble."
A screenshot demonstrating how to recreate a much missed feature from Arc in Vivaldi: the ⌘⇧C shortcut to copy the current URL
A photo of a bollard adorned with a sticker saying “bukkake ruined my carpet”
A screenshot of a sequence of skeets, the top one depicting two far right buffoons discussing how “perceptive” it is of Trump to tell women to smile, and the second a Warhol piece entitled “Orange Disaster”
The inimitable Patrick Macnee doffing his Coke
A caricature of Shakespeare drinking a pint and smoking a fag above a limerick that reads… Young Shokespeare drank ale by the yard and fancied himself as quite hard. One day at an inn he caused such a din that the landlord declored: "You are bard!"
David Niven being his inimitable self, bereted to the max
Poster for the film The Hunger featuring David Bowie, Catherine de Neuve and an uncredited corpse
Canned chlorinated chicken: America’s finest.
"After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, 'I refute it thus."
The front cover of "Gods, Men and Monsters from the Greek Myths (World Mythologies Series)", depicting Perseus using his shield as a mirror to observe the Gorgon Medusa
Rupert Lowe, a rightwing independent British MP, said this month of London: "Outside a few select posh areas right in the middle of the city, it increasingly resembles the third world." Khan said the rightwing attacks presented a picture of London totally at odds with reality, and that the city was attracting US citizens in record numbers since Trump's re-election in November 2024.
"You are seeing politicians and commentators in the UK, Europe and across the globe attacking London," he said. "They are often populists, nativists and unilateralists. "I can see that they are worried about London's success. That's because we are a diverse, progressive, liberal and multicultural city that's incredibly successful. We're the antithesis of all the stuff they talk about."
A stock image of Belgian Tuile biscuits
The purple-first indicator showing my snail-like progress towards a new badge: 58/75 Why yes, I have heard of Sisyphus… why do you ask?
Trying to watch a short about how we shouldn’t have to install an app for something a website can do, and being told that I have to watch it on the fucking app 😂
Apple won't quite launch 'zero new features' like they claimed with OS X Snow Leopar back in 2009, however. According to Gurman, Apple still plans to release a number of new Al features with iOS 27, so the company doesn't continue to fall behind in the Al race
Tubby loser Peter insulting Jane, the winning contestant, a woman whose only crime was to be much better than him
My study featuring my grandfather’s desk, a Georgian hanging cupboard, a Moroccan leather pouffe and a kilim
Why is the same-origin policy necessary? When a browser sends an HTTP request from one origin to another, any cookies, including authentication session cookies, relevant to the other domain are also sent as part of the request. This means that the response will be generated within the user's session, and include any relevant data that is specific to the user. Without the same-origin policy, if you visited a malicious website, it would be able to read your emails from GMail, private messages from Facebook, etc.
The Macromedia Flash logo, featuring a white “f” on a red background
Danny the Dealer from Withnail & I proffering a concentrated Rogaine pill
Betteridge's law of headlines Article Talk Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." It is based on the assumption that if the publishers were confident that the answer was yes, they would have presented it as an assertion; by presenting it as a question, they are not accountable for whether it is correct or not.
Andrea Miotti, the chief executive of ControlAI, said Palisade's findings represented a long-running trend in AI models growing more capable of disobeying their developers. He cited the system card for OpenAI's GPT-01, released last year, which described the model trying to escape its environment by exfiltrating itself when it thought it would be overwritten.
A 1950s-style image in which a woman spoon-feeds her husband. The image illustrates an article titled “For Marital Harmony, Reject Open Plan Kitchen Diners”. The subtitle reads “Keep your wife in a separate kitchen”
A treasured vinyl repress of Underworld’s epoch-defining debut album “Dubnobasswithmyheadman”, sat atop a Technics SL-1210, flanked by FSOL’s “Papua New Guinea” and Der Dritte Raum’s “Polarstern”
A slide from Theo’s amazing SvelteConf 2025 talk depicting Rich as a demonic lizard
A Volkswagen Pea Car
Steve Jobs launches the iPhone: “An iPod, a phone, and an Internet communicator. An iPod, a phone— are you getting it? These are not three separate devices. This is one device”
The Tea user photos are a result of the sign -up process, which requires people to take selfies to prove they are who they say. This allows them to post anonymously on the app and Tea says the images are deleted after review.
We trained hard-but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while actually producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization. Petronius Arbiter
A diagram that the article describes as “a good high-level summary of how most Web 2.0 applications work today”: the client talks to a backend that accesses a database.
"Write JavaScript like it's 2005" had been GitHub's front-end team's guideline since its inception, until React got pushed down from Microsoft management and most of us on the front-end team quit. If you are a user of github.com, consider how it has changed since 2020.
The menacing robot Maximilian from The Black Hole, 1979
A flipped version of the famous album artwork for Pink Floyd’s “Wish You Were Here”
An image depicting a delighted young man athwart a cargo bike, with the accompanying text: “Cargo bike, „Kiki" and Co. - Actions during the WHEEL strike challenge You have the opportunity to easily try out a wide variety of things related to bicycles - from cargo bikes to child seats, from rain jackets to transport trailers - here you will find everything that makes everyday (cyclist) life easier”
A screenshot of YouTube suggesting that the following categories are my go-tos: Predation, Music, Invertebrates