Nigel Moss 🌻

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PHP web developer. Musician. RPM Challenge participant. He/him 💻 nigenet.org.uk 📝 blog.nigenet.org.uk 🎹 nigenet.bandcamp.com 🐘

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Nigel Moss 🌻@nigenet· 1d

Nigel Moss 🌻@nigenet· 2d

I think XKCD summed it up quite well in xkcd.com/2030/

A comic in 5 panels, featuring stick-people
Panel 1 (titled "Asking aircraft designers about airplane safety"). A woman is interviewing a woman and a man. The woman being interviewed says "Nothing is ever foolproof, but modern airliners are incredibly resilient. Flying is the safest way to travel"
Panel 2 (titled "Asking building engineers about elevator safety"). A man is interviewing another man who says "Elevators are protected by multiple tried-and-tested failsafe mechanisms. They're nearly incapable of falling"
Panel 3 (titled "Asking software engineers about computerized voting"). A woman is interviewing a woman and a man. The woman being interviewed says "That's terrifying"
Panel 4. Same scene as panel 3, with dialogue as follows:
Interviewer: "Wait, really?"
Woman: "Don't trust voting software and don't listen to anyone who tells you it's safe"
Interviewer: "Why?"
Woman: "I don't quite know how to put this, but our entire field is bad at what we do, and if you rely on us, everyone will die"
Panel 5 continues the dialogue from panel 4 as follows:
Interviewer: "They say they've fixed it with something called 'blockchain'"
Woman: (screams)
Man: "Whatever they sold you, don't touch it"
Woman: "Bury it in the desert"
Man: "Wear gloves"

Nigel Moss 🌻@nigenet· 2d

"Downing Street cat mouse-hunt"

A still image from an Alan Partridge TV show. A man (Alan Partridge - a middle-aged man wearing a greenish shirt with the sleeves rolled up and dark trousers) is lying on a bed, talking into a dictaphone (a small hand-held cassette recorder)

Nigel Moss 🌻@nigenet· 4d

Hi UK Gov... I've fixed that #EmergencyAlert for you

"Gov.UK Emergency Alert... Stop setting everything on fire you twats!"

Nigel Moss 🌻@nigenet· 6d

"It! Was! My! Chocolate!"

Nigel Moss 🌻@nigenet· 6d

Evidence of the #eclipse on Kate Morley's UK power generation stats page grid.iamkate.com. The yellow line is solar generation, which drops and then pops back up again during the period of the eclipse

A graph showing various forms of electricity generation in the UK for the past 24 hours. A yellow line shows the solar generation, which shows a drop at the time of the partial solar eclipse, then goes back up again for a little while, before dropping off again as the sun sets

Nigel Moss 🌻@nigenet· 6d

The last few partial eclipses I've seen here, I've watched from the drive. Being aware that the sun would be very close to disappearing behind the big hill near my house at the maximum point of the #eclipse, I decided to get to the top of the hill instead. Many other people chose to do that too! 😎

A partial eclipse of the sun. Most of the sun covered by the moon, leaving just a thin reddish sliver of a crescent

A collection of people in separate groups, some stood, some sat at the top of a grassy hill, facing toward the sun. The light is quite subdued and the shadows are long

A man and a woman stood at the top of a grassy hill. The woman is holding a colander, which is projecting many small images of a partial solar eclipse onto a piece of white card (or paper) which the man is holding

Nigel Moss 🌻@nigenet· Jul 13

"Verify your age" This was my first computer (it didn't have the 16K RAM extension when I got it, that came later)

A Sinclair ZX81 computer. It is a small black plastic box with a flat, membrane keyboard

Nigel Moss 🌻@nigenet· Jul 11

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Nigel Moss 🌻@nigenet· Jul 8

Nigel Moss 🌻@nigenet· Jul 4

"Location Location Location: Eyam"

A green plaque fastened to the wall of a house. In large text at the top it reads "West End Cottage". Underneath, it reads "The cottage was built in 1553 and the following victims of the plague died here." It then lists 9 names, all with the same surname (Willson) and the dates of their deaths (from December 22 1665 to September 10 1666)

Nigel Moss 🌻@nigenet· Jul 4

Nigel Moss 🌻@nigenet· Jun 29

"What's paninis's, hobbits?"

Still image of a scene from one of the Lord of the Rings films. Samwise (a hobbit) is facing slightly off-camera and speaking. The scene is where he says "Po-ta-toes" to Gollum. A caption at the bottom of the image says "Pa-ni-ni"

Nigel Moss 🌻@nigenet· Jun 21

A still from the 1990s satirical news programme "The Day Today". A news anchorman wearing a pinstripe suit and with slicked back hair is looking toward the camera. A "The Day Today" ident image is to the side of him

Nigel Moss 🌻@nigenet· Jun 12

The Star Wars "Somehow, Palpatine returned" meme. A man (Poe Dameron) speaks with his eyes closed, saying "Somehow, the Ed Stone returned"

Nigel Moss 🌻@nigenet· Jun 12

4-panel Anakin & Padme meme. The two characters are Anakin Skywalker (a young man) and Padme Amadala (a young woman). In the first panel, Anakin is saying "I like this design. Make it look exactly like this". In the second panel, Padme (looking happy) says "You know this is just a sharpie sketch, right? You'll want it doing properly, yeah?". In the third panel, Anakin is staring moodily. In the fourth panel, Padme looks worried

Nigel Moss 🌻@nigenet· Jun 12

New music? Yay! Sounds like a really interesting theme! 🙂 Your notepad looks a LOT neater than mine 😂😂

A notepad on top of a music keyboard. There are a lot of haphazard scribblings on it...

Nigel Moss 🌻@nigenet· Jun 10

Does this help? I can print it off and send it to them if they like. They'll need their own frame though

A venn diagram with two overlapping circles. The first circle has "Rooms 201-218" in it with a label of an arrow pointing to the left. The second circle contains the text "Rooms 306-443" with a label of an arrow pointing to the right. In the intersection of the two circles is the text "Rooms 219 - 305"

Nigel Moss 🌻@nigenet· Jun 4

Make a Doctor Who title less scary

An early BBC Doctor Who title card, with swirling red lines. The text on top of the image reads "Trevor of the Autons"

Nigel Moss 🌻@nigenet· May 30

Quote with a fictional band that is not spinal tap

Nigel Moss 🌻@nigenet· May 29

Happy Fibre To The Premises Installation Day to all who celebrate! Before and after speed tests 🙂

Screenshot from an internet speed test, showing a download speed of 73.80 Mbps, and an upload speed of 18.45 Mbps

Screenshot from an internet speed test, showing a download speed of 310.28 Mbps, and an upload speed of 48.68 Mbps

Nigel Moss 🌻@nigenet· May 28

A Doctor Who title card, with the text "Somehow, David Tennant returned..."

Nigel Moss 🌻@nigenet· May 23

Star Trek: The Next Generation title card. The TNG-era Enterprise on screen with the title above in blue letters which read "Nem fogom megvenni ezt a lemezt. Karcos" (a Google Translate translation of the phrase "I will not buy this record, it is scratched" into Hungarian)

Nigel Moss 🌻@nigenet· May 20

Nigel Moss 🌻@nigenet· May 19

Drop an Alien that's not from Star Wars or Star Trek.

Nigel Moss 🌻@nigenet· May 16

Pick a Bond from photos you already have in your phone

Photograph of a statue shaped like a person, formed out of items found in an old railway depot

Nigel Moss 🌻@nigenet· May 8

Happy #BaconButtyFriday everyone! 🥓🙂

Nigel Moss 🌻@nigenet· May 2

The woods near my flat always put on a fantastic display of bluebells for a few weeks each spring. I was worried I might have left it too late to see them this year... ... I had not 🙂