James Stapley
@discusfish.bsky.social
Ichthyologist doing IT. You could say I moved from fish into chips.
Overheard in Britain (affect a mental pair of Estuary English accents): "Had a Vietnamese last night." "Don't know what that is." "A fresh-tasting Chinese, really."
Anyone else have a weird way to mark the passing of seasons? It's summer when seasoning oil is liquid. Not summer when it is solid!
Public Service Announcement: slow motion puppaccino videos are the new cats on the Internet.
Pretty crazy to watch Crufts and know a dog and handler in the Flyball.
Why call it vivipary when Womb Service was right there?
Nerrrrrrrrrrrds! To celebrate getting 100,000 followers on Bluesky, I am offering some of you fine folks the chance to join me on a 2026 shark research expedition. Really! Enter here: forms.gle/iq3YQG31kbAC... Terms and conditions in thread below:
a man in red swim trunks is standing in the ocean
ALT: a man in red swim trunks is standing in the ocean
media.tenor.com
I feel like London needs a restaurant chain where you pick your food ingredients and they fry it in front of you. The advert tag line? See it Say it Sautéed.
USPS airmail is scandalously slow for how expensive it is. "International Airmail Shipments usually arrive in 2-4 weeks depending on customs."
South Africans: time to find out if your flatties can pull this off. "It's not flying, it's falling with style!".
Jen Cross@jencross.bsky.social · 9mo agoRead more about these amazing flying spiders in this article. There is also linked video. #Aarchtober news.berkeley.edu/2015/08/18/b...
🚨Back by popular demand — I revisit the old Baker's Dozen blog post series 🍩 that my former colleagues at Renesys used to publish. The analysis ranks the top transit ASes of the internet but this time we're extending it over 20 years, using a nifty interactive viz. www.kentik.com/blog/crumb-b...
A Network Crumb Back Story: A Baker’s Dozen Retrospective
Loaf and behold, this retrospective covers nearly 20 years of the Baker’s Dozen style annual ranking of the biggest ASes of the internet. In it we discuss the DFZ, de-peerings, and partitions. It was ...
kentik.com
Deep Ocean: Kingdom of the Coelacanth review — Attenborough peps up a very slow fish 🧪🌎🦑🐠
Deep Ocean: Kingdom of the Coelacanth review — Attenborough peps up a very slow fish
In this quiet, deeply immersive documentary, David Attenborough reveals the fascinating story of the coelacanth
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Modern AI tools emulate the classic con-man tricks of mentalism, tricking people into believing that they’re far more clever - and sapient - than they actually are. Fantastic piece by @baldurbjarnason.com : softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...
The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models rep…
The new era of tech seems to be built on superstitious behaviour
softwarecrisis.dev
Researchers Determine Coelacanth Faked Own Extinction To Escape Massive Gambling Debt theonion.com/researc...
Hey. When's the last time you thought about eels? I think you should probably think about eels every day for 24 days straight. Art by the amazing @ehrenenglish.bsky.social Learn about eels, support @skypeascientist.bsky.social, look at awesome art. Get one here: squidfacts.bigcartel.com
I feel like this product... will not do well in South Africa, other than as a novelty gag.
We've got 2 great talks this evening; if you're even remotely interested in network automation, you're going to want to be here! netldn.uk/2025/07/07/n...
NetLdn@netldn.bsky.social · last yr.This Thursday it's an automation double-whammy at #NetLdn Meeting from 1830hrs, talks start promptly at 1900hrs, at our new venue: Henry’s Den, Downstairs @ Finch’s 12a Finsbury Square, EC2A 1AN netldn.uk/2025/07/07/n...
For anyone not at #NetUK2 today it's being live streamed via YouTube so anyone can watch indico.netuk.org/event/2/time...
NetUK2
NetUK2 will be held on 7th & 8th of July 2025 in London. NetUK is an open and vibrant community of individuals and organisations that are passionate about network infrastructure and wider internet tec...
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