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martinwidlake.bsky.social
Retired Oracle performance expert. President of SYM42. I love science (especially biology & genetics), cats, beer, and community. Presenter, blogger, ex Oracle ACE director. Did I mention I love cats? I currently serve 2 rescued ones. Failed scientist.
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submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

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submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

You know it's time to call it a day on the gardening when it gets so cold & miserable the light drizzle starts bouncing.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Today I learnt there is a public list of vexatious litigants in the UK! If you don’t know, vexatious litigants are people who constantly raise meritless or futile lawsuits, usually to bully people, “make a point”, or they are just nutters. Yes, I checked the list. No, I knew none of them. 1/2

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

I'm honestly curious: If you say "Yes" to cookies on a website, as in allow all of them from that site, does that site every ask you again? To check if you are still OK with the cookies? As they never f*****g stop asking if you say no.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

This is an “automobile association” kiosk key. If you go back 50 years or so you would regularly see AA kiosks by the roadside (in the UK). If you were a member you could get a key. In the kiosk was a phone to call for help, a torch, maps…I think there might also have been tools.

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

No 58 in my list of Things That Make Me Panic which shouldn’t: The self-serve supermarket till demanding my shopping be re-scanned. What does it know? Could I have missed something?! It’s all I can do to not scream “It was a mistake! Don't send me to jail!” as the staff member comes over to me.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Visitor to garden! Bluesky is utterly refusing to accept the video I recorded though 😒

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Well, to me this smells of vicious, small-minded vengence by Trump,Fauci called out Trump's stupidity. Trump thought you could beat Covid-19 with lethal UV, injecting disinfectant, chloroquine & lord knows what else! I'm on the side of science, not the crazy man-baby www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

"The Lunatics Have Taken Over The Asylum" just came on my play list. I don't know why, but it just felt very... apt. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWLd...

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

I’m enjoying a Colchester number one before our annual trip to see the Pantomime at Colchester mercury theatre. It’s behind you! Well, it’s in front of me actually!

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

It's interesting how my opinons on some of the music from "my generation" have changed over the last few years. If Oasis come on my random playlist, I'll often skip it. Wham/George Michael which really was not my thing at the time... yeah, let's have a bit of that.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments