Jymbob

@jymbob

Human. Technophile. Linguaphile. Bibliophile. Epistemophile. Husband. Dad. I also like other things. Profile is a cartoon person who looks a bit like me. Banner is from This Is Not My Hat, a children's thriller by Jon Klassen A guy. Who replies.

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Jymbob@jymbob· 19d

Excuse me, even his Wikipedia page is a comedy masterclass

Screenshot from Wikipedia

In April 2022, Carrey announced that he was considering retirement, saying: "I have enough. I've done enough. I am enough." He said he would return to acting if "angels bring some sort of script that's written in gold ink that says to me that it's going to be really important for people to see". In February 2024, it was announced that Carrey would reprise his role as Dr. Ivo Robotnik in Sonic the Hedgehog 3.

Jymbob@jymbob· 21d

Scotland responds

Jymbob@jymbob· Jul 24

Went for a walk. Looked for a footpath. Instead I just found the bottom 30cm of a post.

A metal post disappears into a dense bush. The grass is dry, and the pavement is just visible in the bottom right corner. This is, allegedly, a public footpath.

Close up of the same bush. A flash of dark green paint can be seen at the top of the metal pole. Once, it was a sign which said "public footpath" but now there appears to be no lettering at all.

Jymbob@jymbob· Jul 13

"verify your age" I helped test Gmail.

Screenshot of an email, dated Fri, Jul 2, 2004, 3:54 PM
From: Gmail Team <gmail-noreply@google.com>
To: me

First off, welcome. And thanks for agreeing to help us test Gmail. By now you probably know the key ways in which Gmail differs from traditional webmail services. Searching instead of filing. A free gigabyte of storage. Messages displayed in context as conversations.

Jymbob@jymbob· May 2

If you see this, post a bird!

A blackbird, I think. Sat atop a wooden fence. Taken in my garden. Hedge behind

Jymbob@jymbob· Mar 14

Okay, this has all the hallmarks of a cover-up

Chrome browser page for tfl.gov.uk/buses/status

Sorry, that page cannot be found

This might be because:

• The page you were looking for has been moved, updated or deleted
• You are using an old bookmark or you have typed in the web address incorrectly

Jymbob@jymbob· Jan 9

Currently in the UK:

in the UK?
too tired to go to work?
try 5 to 10cm of snow

5 to 10cm of snow: stops all
traffic and flights

looks warm and fluffy but is
actually very cold and wet

makes pretty patterns and also causes people to fall over

you will certainly not regret 5 to 10cm of snow

Picture shows this text over a photo of a few cm of snow on a table in my back garden. There is a blue plant pot on the table with some grass and some snow

Jymbob@jymbob· Dec 28

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden or Alice in Chains. John Henry by They Might Be Giants in 1994. This album goes hard, and for me firmly established that @tmbg.bsky.social could hold their own in the big leagues.

The cover of John Henry by They Might Be Giants. A young girls aged somewhere between 12 and 16 with long, straight strawberry blonde hair kneels on the grass, holding a large tack hammer in her lap. She is wearing a blue demon skirt and a pink tie-dyed top. She is staring directly at the camera with an intense expression. She is well lit, but the trees behind her are blurry and dark in contrast. The words "THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS" are on the left of her, and "JOHN HENRY" on the right, both in white in angular, distressed, hand-written text which looks almost scratched into the black.

Jymbob@jymbob· Nov 18

Wired is getting a bit threatening, ngl

Bold text. Black on white. Plenty of space around the edges to make sure I read it.

"You've read your last free article."

No further context. Is this a statement or a thread? What happens if I try to read another article? Does Wired know where I live? Is Wired outside right now? Are my children safe?

Jymbob@jymbob· Nov 16

*looks around furtively* Pals I think there might be an Antimemetics division after all

Three copies of a book entitled "There is no Antimemetics Division" by qntm with three different covers. The central book is the original issue, flanked by the "version 2" releases with both the US and UK covers. They are positioned slightly offset from each other on an oak countertop

Jymbob@jymbob· Sep 23

Found a mysterious portal but it wasn't the rapture, just the interplay of photons, shading and woodland paths.

A dirt path in some British woodland. At the end of the woods there is a field. It is being brightly illuminated by the morning sun, giving the effect of a glowing circle where the path emerges.

Jymbob@jymbob· Aug 29

Found the place all the kids are on about

An empty train station platform in the UK. Uncomfortable metal seats, a digital sign with a security camera, limp plants in a concrete coloured plant pot. Cars parked beyond the fence. The station sign reads "Brough" which might potentially be pronounced "Bruh" - it isn't, but when have we let pesky facts get in the way of a good joke? Or even a bad one?

Jymbob@jymbob· Aug 28

The ratio on this post claiming there's an NPC problem here is hilarious, especially given the quality of those replies

Bluesky screenshot

Fidelio @seldomused.bsky.social - 4d
The only reason Bluesky is worse is because X is a sewer trap filled with nothing but NPCs and a few Barstool personalities. Amazing to me that people still use X for discourse.

Thomas Chatterton Williams @chatterton.bsky.social - 4d
This is almost all NPCs
198 replies 77 reposts 6 likes

Jymbob@jymbob· Aug 11

Jymbob@jymbob· Aug 3

Yes, my DeNial also comes in that flavour. With it I can forgo sleep forever*

A bag of Kenya AA from CoffeeLink. It purports to have been established in 2005 and announces the contents were roasted in Suffolk

Jymbob@jymbob· Jul 26

I spent most of my day today fixing a computer. That's not particularly unusual in itself, but this computer was an ARM laptop. From 1992. #riscos #retrolaptop #acorn

An Acorn A4 laptop. The greyscale 640x480 screen has a text window open on it. The text in the window reads "Hello from 1992!"

The same Acorn A4 with various covers removed to allow access to the cables and battery I needed to replace. The screen is showing an image for the first time in over 20 years. Two wires run from where the original CMOS battery was soldered on to a new one not yet rehomed inside the case. Behind the machine is a soldering iron and so rolls of solder and other tools. The tools are not mine, but belong to the Nottingham Hackspace where I was working on it

Jymbob@jymbob· Jun 15

Excuse ME, but I have a #1 Dad t-shirt which was conferred upon me personally & confirmed as genuine by @ryannorth.ca's strict vetting process. I'm sure it was an honest mistake, but you may want to check the source of your card as this reselling of unofficial "best dad" merch damages the profession

#1 dad t-shirt. It is full of additional text explaining that the status of #1 dad has been conferred on me. I am assured it is legally airtight.

Jymbob@jymbob· May 20

Thanks to a timely comment, my Discworld re-read is going to involve a rare date line-up How do they rise up?

UK mass market paperback edition of Night Watch by Terry Pratchett, on a white table. The cover is by Paul Kirdy and features characters from the book, many in armour holding weapons. A monk in orange with a broom is juxtaposed alongside the military figures. He is sweeping some purple flowers on the floor. The style and layout is an homage to the famous Rembrandt painting The Night Watch. A small partially drunk espresso macchiato is in the corner of the photo, because it is taken in a coffee shop.

Jymbob@jymbob· Mar 7

This has got to be satire right? Right? YouTube? Guys?

A screenshot of my subscriptions tab on YouTube. A heading states:
"Post that you might like from communities"
The post is from Veritasium's community, by a user called Vince. It reads: "This is terrible. I only want my subscribed YouTube channels on my subscription feed, not random users posts."

I do not know Vince. This is a random user's post. On my subscription feed.

Jymbob@jymbob· Feb 16

I been hacked. all my eggs gone. this just sold please help me

Jymbob@jymbob· Feb 13

The infection has broken containment and is now present in the UK, albeit currently held at bay by parentheses

A label on Google Maps for the Gulf of Mexico. Underneath it says (Gulf of America) because the people in charge at Alphabet are either fascists or cowards, or both.

Jymbob@jymbob· Feb 9

By the way, here's a photo I took the other night. Nice clear Orion, and I'm reasonably sure I've got Mars and Jupiter in there too. Not bad for a phone camera

A photo of stars in the night sky. In the bottom left a 1950s English house obscuring a corner of sky. The Orion constellation is clearly visible. A bright dot in Gemini (top left) is likely Mars

Jymbob@jymbob· Jan 25

When I clicked that link I just got this which, while a reasonable summary of where we are, is probably not the intended article

Jymbob@jymbob· Jan 23

If you see this post, quote with a bridge from your gallery

Some daft bloke (me) sitting on the bank of a river giving two thumbs up in front of a road bridge in Derby. It's a bright autumn afternoon and an open canoe can just be seen at the lower edge of the photo.

Jymbob@jymbob· Jan 10

The number one movie at the box office on your 10th birthday is how 2025 will turn out for you. Well, here's hoping.

Poster (cropped) for A Few Good Men.
Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson and Demi Moore's names in large letters, their faces below in military looking hats.

A Rob Reiner Film

Kevin Bacon, Kiefer Sutherland, Kevin Pollak

Jymbob@jymbob· Jan 5

You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?

Agents of SHIELD, featuring Phil Coulson, Melinda May, Jemma Simmons and Leo Fitz, Daisy "Quake" Johnson, Grant Ward (I know, but Mrs Jymbob doesn't yet. Shhh. She doesn't know about "Sky" either)

Jymbob@jymbob· Jan 1

Happy Ne-COUGHCOUGHCOUGH ... COUGHCOUGH ... -ew Year. Send more tissues.

A photo of a coffee cup on a saucer, except instead of the usual biscoff biscuit there is a half used packet of "Max Strength Cold & Flu Tablets," a packet of throat sweets and a marzipan fruit because IT'S CHRISTMAS DAMNIT.

Surrounding the coffee cup is fantasy novel Krondor: The Assassins by Raymond E Feist, two bags of coffee beans from Volcano Coffee Works and an open box of tissues.

At the edge of the frame is some random stuff I couldn't be bothered to move further out of shot because I have been coughing for two weeks and am therefore pretty fricking low on spoons.

Jymbob@jymbob· Dec 16

@bigbenclock.bsky.social appears to be double posting for the last couple of hours.

A screenshot of the Big Ben Clock account recent posts. There are two posts marked as from 9 minutes ago, both containing "BONG BONG BONG". Two further posts marked as from 1 hour ago both contain "BONG BONG"

Jymbob@jymbob· Nov 17

Is that not UP though?

Post by OP from further up the thread

Ultra Pasteurization (UP) - that's heading milk to 280°F (138°C) for at least two seconds. This is where /most national milks fall in/

Jymbob@jymbob· Nov 15

Celebrating 30 years since Flood a metre 4 years late @tmbg.bsky.social