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Alistair
@funkyalchemist.bsky.social
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Drawer, makerspace overlord and inveterate tinkerer. Regular forays into baking and cooking
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Alistair @funkyalchemist.bsky.social · 38m
Yesterday’s inktober was wholly an experiment - “rivals” blue and orange water based inks drawn onto damp paper #inktober #inktober2025
Fuzzy drawing of two fiddler crabs competing. Blue and orange ink line drawing on white paper but the lines have bled and diffused away from where they were originally drawn and hazy colour has washed across the surface
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Alistair @funkyalchemist.bsky.social · 4h
Double congratulations!
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Alistair @funkyalchemist.bsky.social · 6h
We have to assume one of them was the Emu War which was bubbling up again and threatening to explode again after 92 years of tension
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Q: Considering the trade surplus that the US enjoys with Australia, would you consider lowering the tariffs?

TRUMP: The tariffs have been amazing because tariffs have been really a reason that I was able to settle almost all of the -- you know, I've settled eight wars.
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Alistair @funkyalchemist.bsky.social · 6h
A UK crim by the name of Jack Hughes who is unchargeable in French courts because of the confusion that ensues every time he is up before them
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Alistair @funkyalchemist.bsky.social · 6h
The fact that I noticed and was pleased that pouring a portion of chocolates from the bag randomly resulted in an even number that I could eat in colour matched pairs probably explains many of the recommended posts and ads I get on instagram and facebook
Peanut M&Ms in a white serving dish. 6 red, 4 blue, 2 brown, 2 yellow and 2 orange
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Alistair @funkyalchemist.bsky.social · 1d
Incredibly niche euphemism
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Alistair @funkyalchemist.bsky.social · 1d
Thank you again Isobel for another lovely Paints & Pints session at The Wineport, Cladach. Great and varied portraits from everyone!
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Alistair @funkyalchemist.bsky.social · 2d
Really nicely done
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Alistair @funkyalchemist.bsky.social · 2d
“Arctic” for inktober’s prompt of the day - I thought I’d try and do something semi abstract based on the edge of sea ice #inktober #inktober2025 (p.s. cobalt blue Indian ink, black Quink fountain pen ink and Chinese White watercolour)
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Alistair @funkyalchemist.bsky.social · 2d
I flung some more blue ink around
Ted Lasso character drawn in black and blue ink
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Alistair @funkyalchemist.bsky.social · 3d
Thank you! You can find the “official” prompts at inktober.com/rules and there a lot more people using the tags on instagram if you want to see how other folks respond to them
Rules & Prompts — Inktober
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Alistair @funkyalchemist.bsky.social · 3d
For inktober’s prompt today of “Deal” I thought about deal, or pine, furniture and the platonic idea of a table. I worked through the process in an odd-orange stationery blogpost (oddorange.co.uk/blogs/news/b...) of drawing, tracing it, then repeatedly drawing from memory #inktober #inktober2025
5 repeated line drawings in orange ink of a plain deal table A photograph of a pine table (ex Habitat) on a white background
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Alistair @funkyalchemist.bsky.social · 4d
New insult just dropped
qi.com Quite Interesting @qi.com · 4d
The vertebrate with the smallest brain-to-body weight ratio is the bony-eared assfish.
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Alistair @funkyalchemist.bsky.social · 4d
inktober prompt 17 “ornate” - Unipin 0.2mm fineliner #inktober #inktober2025
Fine and very simple black pen line drawing of Ted from Ted Lasso TV series with an arrow, him and a question mark
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Alistair @funkyalchemist.bsky.social · 5d
We’ve seen this before - the Goths sack Washington and in a few hundred years a definitive multi volume work “The decline and fall of the American Empire” gets written
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Alistair @funkyalchemist.bsky.social · 5d
Day 16 of Inktober “blunder” - Fine Unipin pens (& the non deliberate metablunder included is my decision to use fine pens for filling in a large expanse of black) #inktober #inktober2025
A black pen drawing of an ink bottle sitting on its side in the middle of a pool of black ink
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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 5d
Quite the spectacle to see media outlets who've cheered on austerity saying 'oh god, SEND spending is out of control'. Well, if you gut councils, fail to provide local special school spaces, collapse SureStart and leave public/collective transport to rot, that's what happens. Cuts are expensive
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Alistair @funkyalchemist.bsky.social · 5d
Portrait of a woman in red/blue coloured pencil on white paper
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Alistair @funkyalchemist.bsky.social · 5d
15min a time - Draw Each Other portraits over zoom. Thank you to our sitters and hosts (Koh-i-noor multicolour magic pencil)
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Alistair @funkyalchemist.bsky.social · 5d
While weeding I found one of my allies in the battle against slugs
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 6d
The neurologist Oliver Sacks found that the social-media era resembles a neurological catastrophe on a gigantic scale.
The Machine Stops
The neurologist Oliver Sacks on steam engines, smartphones, and fearing the future.
www.newyorker.com
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Alistair @funkyalchemist.bsky.social · 6d
p.s. his social commentary from early in the last century of a self defeating working class, predatory capitalism, mealy mouthed religion and corrupt officialdom which must seem strange and quaint and anchronistic to the modern reader living in more enlightened times
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Alistair @funkyalchemist.bsky.social · 6d
“Ragged” was the prompt for @inktober today so - a drawing in fine pen and wash of Robert Noonan author of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (as Robert Tressell) #inktober #inktober2025
An ink pen and wash drawing of an Edwardian man sitting on a wooden fence
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Alistair @funkyalchemist.bsky.social · 6d
Finally we get to hear of the other side of the Hansel and Gretel story
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Alistair @funkyalchemist.bsky.social · 6d
Drawing a person as a portrait or figure it is like the opposite of a voodoo doll. You all of the care, attention, hope and love you can find in yourself and cram as much as you possibly can fit of it into a little icon of the sitter. It is the most brilliant, positive magic I can think of
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