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Mister Alex
@awp.christies.org.uk
Clinical informatician by day, woodworker/maker by night.

www.redkitecraft.co.uk

I have a cat, he might get mentioned occasionally.

Was once @awpchristie on Twitter.
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Dad has taken to sending the WhatsApp group he has with just me and brother in a photo from his daily morning walk each day.

It's rather lovely.
"I've a good idea, my lord"
Love those famous sitcom catchphrases
February 18, 2026 at 11:15 PM
A favourite photo I've taken: this snoozy kitty.

Ruaha National Park, Tanzania, 2014.
February 18, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.
February 18, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Oh look, Elon Musk is again stating that his software can provide a second opinion on your medical conditions.

@mhragovuk.bsky.social care to offer an opinion on the intended use of this software and whether it has a medical purpose...?
Elon posted this yesterday. Just for fun I did it with my before/after cancer PET scans that I had already posted online. In the "before" scan Grok missed the massive tumor lighting up my liver, and in both scans it flagged a non-existent "area of concern" in my chest. Other than that, works great!
February 18, 2026 at 4:20 PM
🎼ORIGINAL WOMAN stay away from meeeee
ORIGINAL WOMAN Evie let me beeee
Don't come showing on my door
No-one reads magazines no more..🎶
< wrestling announcer voice >

the BIBLE'S!! OOOOOOOOOORIGINAL!!!!!WOOOOOMAANNNNN!!!!!!! < airhorns >
February 18, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.

And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.
I’m constantly astounded at the sheer level of artistic production coming out of Iceland. Novels, movies, music. Amazing.
February 18, 2026 at 2:23 PM
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To give you an idea of how deranged the UK has become about gender stuff, here's Enid Blyton - the absolute avatar of classic English conservatism and a huge fan of racist "gollywogs" - casually describing a gender non-conforming kid in the 1940s and having their friends be totally cool with it.
February 14, 2026 at 11:33 AM
Well this level of violence towards the scratching post is new... 😬

#FreshCatContent
#SleepingOneEyeOpen
February 17, 2026 at 5:27 PM
HEY IT'S NEARLY FIVE PM AND IT'S ONLY GREY OUTSIDE NOT PITCH BLACK!
February 17, 2026 at 4:54 PM
First aid kit goals.
We went to visit the search and rescue helicopter and they had a stretcher just for polar bears
February 17, 2026 at 4:26 PM
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I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
February 17, 2026 at 11:41 AM
CAT RAMP SUCCESS!

Proof he uses it (for down, at least) 🥰
February 17, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Pheasants running down a narrow country road and then taking off: "shitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitfuckitI'mouttahereohgodohgodohgod"
Meanwhile herons always fly like they have just been sent on a top secret mission to a magic parallel dimension where all language is whispered.
This makes me remember someone describing cormorants as always flying like they've left the house ten minutes late for a really important appointment.
February 17, 2026 at 12:12 PM
Meanwhile swans land like they've read some very graphic descriptions of what happens to bodies when hitting water at high speed/from a great height.

Every 'sploooossssffffsssshhhhhhhhh' is followed by a little shake of the head and a little sigh of relief.

"got away with it again"
This makes me remember someone describing cormorants as always flying like they've left the house ten minutes late for a really important appointment.
All pheasants run like they're frantically saying "shit-shit-shit" to themselves.
February 17, 2026 at 11:50 AM
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Yes... Ha Ha Ha... YES
February 17, 2026 at 11:39 AM
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a nice neat “quartz of course” generator

https://marshdeer.github.io/xkcd2501-generator/
February 17, 2026 at 7:23 AM
If the year of the fire whores leads to a burning sensation please access your local gum clinic.
Happy 12-year anniversary to my favourite broadcast subtitle mistake

And a happy year of the whores to you all
February 17, 2026 at 9:52 AM
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The good news is the astronauts have arrived safely, the bad news is that no one on Earth has any record of sending them and when the other astronauts on the station try to talk to them or read the patches on their oddly-designed suits, they're striken with visions of the unending void.
Four new astronauts arrive at the International Space Station to replace NASA’s evacuated crew
The International Space Station returned to full strength with Saturday’s arrival of four new astronauts to replace colleagues who bailed early because of health concerns.
www.ctvnews.ca
February 17, 2026 at 2:13 AM
Sink Laundry works for me, but then, this is a house with a "Cold Cupboard" (fridge) and a "Hot box" (combi microwave/oven) due to similar fuzzy brain moments...
My brain couldn't come up with the phrase "wash the dishes" so I just told my wife I needed to "do the sink laundry"
February 16, 2026 at 11:01 PM
I suddenly feel much better about the fact that as a toddler, my daughter used to point at the picture of Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall on the front of River Cottage recipe books and say "Daddy ona book!"
February 16, 2026 at 7:31 PM
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I misread this as Rowling and yet it still sort of made sense.
not quite as funny as the british rowing strategy which afaict is literally just going up to tall women and saying "wanna row?"
February 16, 2026 at 2:06 PM
I wish to sit at my desk chair 😭
February 16, 2026 at 1:32 PM
Good morning to nobody except this spectacular brown lad, who deserves all the best things today.

That is all.
Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon.

Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.
February 15, 2026 at 8:15 AM
Is there anything nicer than a purring cat? Really tho?
February 14, 2026 at 8:27 PM
"Cat's new ladder", a story in two acts
February 14, 2026 at 3:51 PM