Mark Norman Francis

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

While the election result in #Brazil is obviously good news, we should remember that countless American wannabe-fascists poured $billions into achieving the opposite result and now have nothing to show for it, so it's not just good news, but also objectively hilarious.

Counterpoint: CEOs should look at their companies as if they needed to provide a service for every citizen, constantly renew their social licence to operate, and plan for the long term wellbeing of the whole country. www.ft.com/content/8255...

My child has a 9° tilt for a touch of whimsy

Couldn’t make an actual sandwich (out of crisps) but here’s a drawing of one in lieu of the real thing #art #CrispSandwichDay

Rewarding myself after fixing a washing machine emergency with M&S beef and onion crisps rolls for this day, the greatest day, #CrispSandwichDay. Yes, I opened the bag from the bottom, don’t at me.

Crisp Sandwich Day #daily #tshirt norm.hasworn.com/tshirts/cris... — This is the fifth time I've worn this since October 2022. It is my 118th most frequently worn tshirt. I wear it on average every 365 days. #CrispSandwichDay

The Royal Society is hiding all posts that mention that they still refuse to remove noted White Supremacist Elon Musk from their number.

so we asked him about Ray, and enjoyed drinks, and a good night was had. and i still have the brontosaur, because i remembered to drunkenly grab it at last orders, after which we never saw him again. anyway. at walthamstow bus station now. so be good to each other and find your own brontosauruses

Put a box under your laptop, and look at the camera. Thank me later. (That's literally the only difference between these pictures, taken 30 seconds apart in identical lighting)

Today's my birthday!! 🍰 So as a treat here's my work! And you can keep the tradition alive and make me famous for the day :3 Love you all! May you also have a fantastic monday!

Lol. Not seen a better demonstration of 'desire path'

Seeing Oklab enjoyed and used by so many is mind-boggling! I still can’t quite comprehend that I wrote a blog post that ended up as a web standard and in software everywhere. Best part is seeing so many people say they enjoy Oklab and that it is a tool they regularly use.

I have finally been, and I have sampled, and I have not found it wanting. Ladies and gentlemen, this is my favourite whisky. 🥃

this goes incredible places and I love everyone involved

It’s pretty damn disappointing certainly. It’s weird how often straight, white men say they don’t see any of the reasons the rest of us had to leave X. Wracking my brain, I struggle to work out why that might be. Any thoughts?

“It can’t be a Nazi bar. When I go there, all my fellow straight, white men are super nice to me.”

What a weird world we live in - Ukraine hits a data centre deep in Russia - Irish twitter users see racist posts about IPAS centres in Offaly fall off a cliff

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

I don’t think I’m the only person who will appreciate this

thys nys no partye! thys nys no disco! thys nys no jestinge arounde! thys nys no taverne! nor roade-syde playhous! Ich ne have tyme for that nowe!

Tried the Oreo “golden sandwich”. It’s a worse custard cream at 3x the price of custard creams. Checks out.

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

When you tell people that ITV used to fill gaps in the shows with some music featuring robots in baroque clothes playing classical music while a spacecraft kidnaps them and steals the city they're in, and people look at you as if you're mad... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4Fr...

This man has gotten more done in 9 months in office than most politicians achieve in their ENTIRE CAREERS all with that extreme good-muppet energy and that's why everybody else can't stand him because he gets it done, has receipts to back his words, and then just moves on to the next.

Weirdly, it's why Disney's Robin Hood is arguably the most "faithful" adaption. Because it lifts whole chunks of its plot directly from the Geste of Robin Hood. The very first printed version. it's the animated fox, not any subsequent gritty reboot, that has the strongest claim on authenticity 🫪😆

Good work Battersea!

Happy to announce that the internet’s no.1 crisp sandwich stock site will be getting an update in time for Crisp Sandwich Day, a whole new category of content vole.wtf/buttystock/

The RNLI is the closest you will ever get to actual Batman. When rescue is visibly, viscerally, obviously impossible; when the water is a smothering, thundering black wall and the wind is screaming straight from Hell; when you are absolutely going to die: someone’s hand pulls you out and you don’t.

Fixed it for you

happy #caturday

Lord give me the arrogance of a tax exile who feels the right to comment on the tax policies and general running of a country who you have deprived of billions by registering yourself in Monaco

We told everyone that programming wasn't the hard part, but no one believed us. The reason LLMs can excrete sort-of-okay code is that sort-of-okay code has been a commodity good for 20+ years. Then, just like now, the bottleneck was understanding what people actually want.

Reading proofs from book & remembering what I wrote in 2015: "I am very concerned about the future of AI. Not because of the risk of rogue machines taking over. But because of the homogeneous, one-dimensional group of men who are currently involved in advancing the technology.”

I did a somewhat deep dive into the recent OpenAI and Anthropic "hacks" for an upcoming interview. IMO, the AI companies are better off running with the "rogue AI" story because the real story is actually pretty embarrassing. Like making your Wi-Fi password "wifi" embarrassing. 🧵

Apparently the commander of the International Space Station brought her dancing pants to space with her

Can't believe it's been 27 years since them slags blew the moon out of its orbit, it still freaks my nut out to this day.

Bare minimum for holding a conversation: Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray, South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio, Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television, North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe. (posts i make after midnight don't count)

PAUL: What’s in the box? REVEREND MOTHER: Pain. [PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.] REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn,

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🥪 Crisp Sandwich Day is next month, so please do get in touch if you want to do something daft for it, whether it’s a workplace thing or you run a pub/cafe or you’re going to run around in a crisp sandwich suit, whatever

I don’t wanna be biased and I know all trends come and go but the 80s will never die. The visuals, sounds, heart and emotion is unmatched and it will never not be cool, I’ve said what I’ve said 😂

Ea-nāṣir would absolutely love these times