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James Stapley

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Ichthyologist doing IT. You could say I moved from fish into chips.

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Compare that to sales. Recently heard somewhere I worked handed out 20% of margin made on deals. Imagine you do millions in margin (quite plausible there).

07.03.2026 07:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Alternative septic system... Toss the chamberpot in the street. Much cheaper. :)

06.03.2026 18:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

In a story where they call a fish that isn't a flatfish "flouder", you've got no chance of getting anatomically plausible inverts.

06.03.2026 11:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"We'll need six million dollars"
"Sorry no, what do you think this funding stream is even like, we were thinking more like $200, tops!"
"But we can rebuilt himb..." :(

05.03.2026 07:25 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Probably still more effective than some people who are not only eligible, but got elected. :C

04.03.2026 20:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Lil MRI might be ok.
Lil Transient Ischaemic Attack is never going to catch on
Lil TIA is a banger though.

04.03.2026 18:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I feel like the elder scrolls has city sized crabs people built inside of on Morrowind.

04.03.2026 18:47 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

That looks suspiciously like a beaver

04.03.2026 18:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Pretty sure the priests in the UK declared geese to be fish in the middle ages so Friday dinners were not just eel.

04.03.2026 18:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Famous in saaarf laaahdaaahn

04.03.2026 18:36 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If it goes wrong, you might have to migrate to CouchDB.

03.03.2026 22:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 11 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Or a 50-100 feral hogger.

02.03.2026 17:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
6 bad doodles with text under each one.
horseshoe crab is literally the animal horseshoe crab.
shoehorse crab is a crab riding a shoe, cowboy style.
crabshoe horse is a horse wearing literal crabs as shoes.
shoecrab horse is a horse telling a crab to go away.
crabhorse shoe is a pair of shoes, left one crab shaped, right one horse shaped.
horsecrab shoe is literally the same pair of shoes, flipped.

6 bad doodles with text under each one. horseshoe crab is literally the animal horseshoe crab. shoehorse crab is a crab riding a shoe, cowboy style. crabshoe horse is a horse wearing literal crabs as shoes. shoecrab horse is a horse telling a crab to go away. crabhorse shoe is a pair of shoes, left one crab shaped, right one horse shaped. horsecrab shoe is literally the same pair of shoes, flipped.

#InvertebrateShitposting as per @joabaldwin.com's request

19.02.2026 07:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 1517 ๐Ÿ” 508 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 22 ๐Ÿ“Œ 17

What the coming Arthropod Intelligence (AI) revolution means for your business.

28.02.2026 13:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Can you imagine LinkedIn for Daphnia?

What a drying up puddle taught me about business.

Being low down in the food chain taught me to hustle and I made 18 billion rotifers in 6 weeks.

Someone called me a jerk today. That's just how I move. What I learned about discrimination in the workplace.

28.02.2026 09:09 ๐Ÿ‘ 19 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The nanos with the screens are so cute. I replaced the battery in my wife's one a few years ago, gave it a new lease of life.

27.02.2026 23:53 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

At least you're not going on a Canada Geas.

27.02.2026 23:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Box of frozen durian fruit. "musang king" brand.

Box of frozen durian fruit. "musang king" brand.

Saw this, realised this was your job title.

27.02.2026 19:19 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Might also be a robber crab in a zebra costume.

26.02.2026 08:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

More of a banshee, I'd say :D

26.02.2026 08:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The loudest thing in any datacentre I have been in (other than a big Cisco, briefly, on startup) is a bunch of Dragen servers that has the fans turned permanently to 100%. You can hear them outside the datacentre through the double steel doors and some distance down the corridor past more fire doors

26.02.2026 07:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Here's a bunch of random chunks of As Ts Gs and Cs. Good luck lining those up, peasants.

26.02.2026 07:33 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Some cave monster has nearly finished his daily eel.

26.02.2026 07:09 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

NSS. Non-sanger-sequencing.

26.02.2026 07:05 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Preview
Project Natick - Wikipedia

Not just talking about it, they made a pilot deployment.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project...

25.02.2026 19:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

When you've been in the DC for 12 straight hours and you're thirsty AF, remember your cable water.

25.02.2026 08:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Huh. My brain thought horseshoe crabs were only in America. Now there's a thing I know. Nice.

21.02.2026 11:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

For every 3 American Sweet Shops over here, we have one Harry Potter shop.

We are tangentially (diagon alley?) aware of Mr. Potter and his shenanigans.

20.02.2026 07:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Some headlines, taglines and brands from that timeline...

"DinoBites: It's true, everything does taste like chicken."

Ethically Farmed Extinct Creatures: the new Palaeo Diet.

Long Dead Lobster(TM)

20.02.2026 07:16 ๐Ÿ‘ 7 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I imagine the evolutionary arms race has a particular frequency range one could work outside of.

19.02.2026 22:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0