Mark

@yacfoaky.bsky.social

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Professional python-botherer and wrangler of pandas. Computational demonologist. Amateur cyclist and chess player. Physicist. Cat-a-holic 😼. Normally aspirinated. (he/him)

A gold-rimmed glass with a gold leaf motif sits on a coaster on a light coloured wooden table. It is half full with amber liquid. This is composed of equal parts sweet vermouth, campari and singleton malt whisky. There is a large square ice cube in it.
View of a closed, red curtain at the Noël Coward theatre, ahead of a performance of Cyrano de Bergerac. The rows in front are about half full.
Tabby and white cat sitting on a tiled floor. The cats right hand side and his feet are a dirty grey/brown colour when they should be bright white.
Screenshot of the bluesky following Greg preferences page. The "show quote posts" toggle is"circled" in red.
A glass of Irish Whiskey on a table. Next to it is a chemistry beaker with water in it. It is dark, and the nigtht sight of the camera is just picking out the flower bed behind.
A recycled, galvanised wire sculpture of a barn owl. It's a lovely piece of work, with beautiful detail on the paintwork. It's being displayed on a huge post.
A stage in a field in Hampshire. A band called Skerryvore are playing. It is just after sunset and the sky is still bluish. The field is full of beards, attached to aging hippies
A pint of Guinness and a cup of coffee on a pub table.
Screenshot of my phone's alarm screen. Alarms are set for 0500, 0505, 0510 and 0515. The clock at the top of the screen showed it's already 0025. Not visible is me, wondering if that's enough alarms or not.
Cartoon of a black cat holding a bloody knife. The caption says "What?"
A freshly baked pizza on a round wooden chopping board. The pizza is the last of a series and so is topped with a bit of everything that was left over: asparagus, peppers, goats cheese, pepperoni, olives, courgette slivers and mozzarella.
Screenshot of a bluesky message: "We ran out of posts from your follows. Here's the latest from Discover."
A white plate with blueberries, raspberries, tomatoes, ham, cheese and a toasted, buttered English muffin sits on a bar top. Behind is a glass of water with soluble aspirin in, a pot of pills and a cup of coffee
A tabby and white cat looks up at the camera from a blue sofa. He's sitting in a weird position because he's just been interrupted mid-wash.
A badly lit picture of an olive green sleeping bag/bivvy bag combo sitting on a tarp. A red dry bag is alongside.
A pyrex bowl, three-quarters full of tomato sauce stands on a wood-effect kitchen surface. In the background is a stainless steel gas hob.
Very janky graphic of a hobbit hole. There is a round, green door at the far end, a chest, and for some reason, a magenta coloured carpet. The text below reads: "You are in a comfortable tunnel like hall" Below that is an input area currently reading: > LOOK +
Fifteen balls of pizza dough on a wood-effect kitchen counter
A screenshot of the bot that analyses solutions to the NYT Wordle game. There are a number of word groups on screen, one of which says "GONZO BONGO"
A digital watch on an arm. The time indicates 00:00 midnight. The numbers are light blue and pink in a nod to trans alliance.
Picture taken from the council-provided phone stand in the Whetmead Nature Reserve in Essex. The view shows a path leading across a green landscape with shrubs and trees. Just visible (if you zoom and squint) on the horizon, towards the right hand side, is the spire of Wickham Bishops' church.
A tabby and white cat, Felix, is peeing out from behind a curtain. The vertical edge of the floral patterned blue-grey/cream curtain obscures half of him so that we see the left hand side of his face and half of his white front.
A beautiful black kitten is loafed on a multicoloured rug. Her orange eyes are open and looking just past the camera. Her left "arm" is extended towards the camera and the perspective makes it look freakishly long.
Reclining black and white cat with amazing triangular nose markings.
A black kitten with wide orange eyes on top of a door. She looks scary, but in fact she is my sweet little baby Minnie (Government name: Minerva)
Detail of an embroidered 17/18th century bed valance. The blocky embroidery in red greens and blues resembles 8-bit computer graphics off the 1980s
A garden lawn in partial sunshine. The grass is longish, because the lawn has been planted with assorted flower bulbs. Some of the bulbs are now in bloom including white crocuses, blue and white grape hyacinths, blue scyllas, purple and pale blue irises and one or two burgundy and yellow mini tulips.
A black kitten sits in silhouette on top of a cat tree platform. The platform is dark brown, and there is a lamp in the background. If you squint a bit, it looks like a cat doing the splits on top of a post.
Silhouette-like photograph of a black kitten sitting atop a cat tree with a lamp in the background. If you squint slightly, it looks like a kitten doing cartoon "Kung-Fu" style splits on the top of a pole.
Screenshot of a Google AI summary for a query "ski jump gate compensation" The text says: "Ski jump gate compensation is a points-based system that adjusts for changes in the in-run starting position (gate) made by the jury to ensure fairness and safety, often due to changing wind conditions. Points are deducted if a jumper uses a higher gate (higher speed/advantage) and added if a lower gate is used. This video explains the concept of gate and wind compensation in ski jumping:" The linked video is titled "Ski jumping penis gate explained"
Minnie, a 4 month old black kitten is climbing the inside of a window. She is fascinated by something caught in a cobweb outside which is moving with the breeze.
A white bowl on a wooden kitchen surface. It contains a delicious Carbonnade à la Flammande, some shredded Savoy cabbage tossed in butter and Dijon mustard, and a healthy portion of chips.
A picture of a handheld labelling machine from a random Amazon listing. A white, calculator sized device with a qwerty keyboard and a small LCD screen. The screen reads "VolenGo". Some of the sample labels are behind: "Onion Powder" and "Amelia's".
A tabby and white cat-potato is lying on his back, reaching up with his front paws to defend himself from an onslaught of bapbapbaps from a small void kitten who is standing over him.
Aerial view of a bald white guy in a dark blue top sitting on a sofa. A small black kitten is curled up on his shoulder, purring away, about to fall asleep. The bald guy wants to go to bed, but now can't bear to disturb her.
A black kitten is in a lap having some fuss. She is purring extremely loudly.
BBC weather report showing temperatures down to -3C overnight on Saturday. Realistically this probably means at least -6C in the spot where I will be camping.
A British Telecom 20 unit phonecard.
A tabby and white cat (left) and a black kitten (right) are lying on a grey carpet facing each other. They are about two cat lengths apart. There are cat toys nearby, and a black TV stand in the background.
A black kitten lying down on a white, polka-dot blanket. She is looking directly at the camera.
An image displaying Wordle statistics for the last 14 days. A message at the bottom reads: "Congrats! As humans say, you've 'beaten' me 7 times in recent Wordles, solving in fewer steps, and tied with me 6 times."
Picture of the moon with a bright halo around it caused by refraction of light by ice crystals in the atmosphere. This picture is overall quite dark, taken directly with the phone camera.
Giles Coren pointing at a dog poo on a fly-tipped mattress
Screenshot for the account @iss-piss-tracker saying "The piss tank on the ISS is now 69% full."
A pair of lower legs wearing jeans and a chunky pair of Under Armour boots.
A sliver of cheesy crust from the bottom of a fondue pot. It is being rotated in my fingers. A tune by the scratch (flaker) is just starting on the background.
A pie chart made out of a photo of the cheesy goodness left at the bottom of a fondue pot. A segment from the right of the picture been eaten. The rightmost part is labelled " Religieuse I have already eaten"and the rest is labelled " Religieuse I have not yet eaten"
Cheesy crust from the bottom of a fondue pot. The bottom and sides are golden brown and the rest is cheese. It smells like heaven and tastes like cheese jerky.
Google maps screenshot showing "Slutshole Lane"
Screenshot from AWS console showing a status check for a running instance. The check reads "Insufficient data"
Screenshot of four VERY RED AWS error notifications: three of then read "Failed to describe volume vol-xxxxxxxxxxxx" whilst the other says "Failed to start the instances: Insufficient capacity."
Screenshot of two BBC stories. In the first, the headline reads "'Have a great life', Trump orders prison release of disgraced ex lawmaker Santos". Immediately underneath is a story when the headline is "Wrongfully imprisoned for more than 40 years, US man now faces deportation to India"
A black and white photo of a~20 year old me practicing is iaido. I am wearing a white keikogi and black hakama. I am stabbing my sword backwards across my left arm.
A dry-as-fuck shit poached egg. Google AI claims it is a perfectly cooked poached egg with a runny yolk. The yolk couldn't be drier if it tried.
CNET article screenshot: headline "The Genius Microwave Poached Egg Hack That Transformed My Morning Routine"
A gold-rimmed glass sits on the arm of a sofa. Inside is a (vanilla) Old-Fashioned with a giant ice cube. In the background is a fireplace (not lit!) and a coffee table.
Lunch: A blue plate full of chopped tinned tomatoes topped with grilled cheddar cheese. A plate nearby has three slices of bread and butter on it.
Felix, the sleepiest tabby and white cat in the world, is lying on his back whilst his owner delivers chin and chest scritches and plays with his beans. Felix is oblivious to this
A screenshot of a notification for a news article on the site IFLScience. It is illustrated with a picture of a NASA building and the headline below reads "NASA responds to claims that interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is an advanced alien spacecraft"