Mark Richardson

Eater of pies, master of pies. You might say that I like a pie. And you'd be right.

[Mark Richardson @FindusFingers]

As a white, middle class, heterosexual man - I'm frankly sick of all the discrimination I face. If only I could catch a break.

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@PolitlcsUK @GuidoFawkes This is obviously Guido taking the piss, come on lads do some thinking for once

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@AutismCapital @_DHOTYA here’s a cracker

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@BarristerSecret I fixed a leak in my shower yesterday by replacing the sealant and it looks like it worked. So, not all doom and gloom.

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@RoryStewartUK @afneil Well, he wasn’t exactly right either tbh, just less wrong. He thought it would be a few thousand votes in it, which wasn’t the case at all ultimately

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@CamillaTominey Whisper is, but Camilla doesn’t even pretend to be impartial anymore

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@BarbaraRich_law I read this story this morning and was somewhat baffled by why it was on the BBC. It’s basically “student fails her phd” as if such a thing had never happened in the history of the world. It’s also littered with unrelated facts about her.

[Mark Richardson @FindusFingers]

@sscarlettamelie Wait until you hear about foolscap size

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@PippaCrerar Yeah but…. Why though?

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That’s you out of luck then pal

[Russell Brand @rustyrockets]

Nothing is hidden from God.

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@Cole00004 Where are you even seeing this?

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This story is awesome

[Fermat's Library @fermatslibrary]

Revisiting this interesting story during Nobel Prize week:

In the heart of World War II, as the Nazis took control of Copenhagen, a peculiar situation took place at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, led by physicist Niels Bohr. Two Nobel laureates Max von Laue and James Franck, fearing the confiscation of their gold Nobel Prize medals by the Nazis, had sent their medals to Bohr for safekeeping.

On the day the Nazis arrived in Copenhagen, Hungarian chemist Georgy de Hevesy, who was working in Bohr's lab, devised a plan to prevent the discovery of the medals. Initially considering burying the medals, they quickly dismissed the idea, fearing the thorough searches the Nazis would conduct. Instead, de Hevesy proposed a chemical solution — literally. Utilizing a mixture known as "aqua regia" (a blend of hydrochloric and nitric acids), he set about dissolving the gold medals. This concoction is one of the few substances capable of dissolving gold, a notably unreactive element. As the Nazis marched outside, de Hevesy dissolved the precious medals, reducing them to a colorless solution that eventually turned bright orange. The liquid containing the dissolved gold was then placed on a high shelf in the laboratory, where it remained unnoticed throughout the Nazi occupation​.

Post World War II, upon returning to the laboratory after V-E Day, de Hevesy found the beaker undisturbed on the shelf. The gold was recovered from the solution and returned to the Nobel Prize committee, who then reminted the medals and presented them back to Laue and Franck in a ceremony in 1952.

[Mark Richardson @FindusFingers]

@girldrawsghosts The Ashtray Maze is one of my 2-3 peak moments in video games. Absolutely everything is the game just clicks flawlessly for this one 3-4 minute sequence. It’s utterly incredible.

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@JohnJCrace Ask her to explain LDI in detail. Like - what it is, how it works, and why it was such a problem following the mini-budget that the Bank of England had to step in.

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@Dadinho1968 @fermatslibrary I think it’s cube root of e, not 3/e

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Behave Jason. This is such obvious bollocks that reporting it breathlessly like this makes you look thick as mince.

[Jason Groves @JasonGroves1]

NEW: Boris Johnson drew up detailed plans for a special forces raid on a vaccine plant in Holland to recover Covid jabs ‘kidnapped’ by the EU - before finally deciding it would be ‘nuts’ to invade a Nato ally... https://t.co/FH4hHv8GS0 via @MailOnline

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@Rollneck @innes_abby Yeah, I thought that too. It’s hardly last days of Rome type stuff

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@INTERIORPORN1 Gotta be honest… this looks awful. So sterile and empty. No art on the walls, no joy.

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@JamesMelville But the article isn’t based on anything? It just says that some experts say they could. I mean - they could tax the amount of air we breathe, but they’re not going to. Empty nonsense based on nothing.

[@joshfwd.bsky.social @JoshFwd]

for some reason Boris Johnson was missing from that declared accepted gifts chart.

i fixed it.