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mrjalco

@mrjalco.bsky.social

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Cars, art, design, sci-fi, Calvin & Hobbes and dogs, mostly. 🚫AI. One of those vegan petrolheads you hear about. YouTube: https://youtube.com/@mrjalco Website: www.mrjalco.co.uk

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mrjalco @mrjalco.bsky.social · Jan 14

It’s about time I introduced myself again. I’m James, an illustrator, designer and writer from the UK.

My obsessions are cars, my dog Winnie and sci-fi. I’m currently working on a new sci-fi IP.

You can see my nonsense at mrjalco.co.uk or www.youtube.com/@MostlyAboutDriving

Cheers!

A collection of hand drawn and digitally drawn art pieces, including race cars, science-fiction, Batman, a bird and Star Wars.

A collection of hand drawn and digitally drawn art pieces, including Ken Miles GT40, a Honda CRX, a series of “Mini Mashup” pieces and a very lovely blonde Labrador.

A collection of hand drawn and digitally drawn art pieces, including race cars, a mashup of a Star Wars TIE bomber and a VW camper van, a sci-fi spaceship and a black and white comic strip featuring a VW Polo G40.

A collection of hand drawn and digitally drawn art pieces, including race cars, a Wipeout ship, a Star Wars scene and a fake movie poster for an imagined Judge Dredd “megacity multiverse” film.

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Alex Connolly ▞ @alexconnolly.bsky.social · 3h

Stewart Lee when confronted by a podcaster brandishing ChatGPT-generated questions.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Marcus T Ward @twod.net · 22h

Puzzles #103

*Hangram now has 12 lives*

New daily puzzles for #Twen25ive and #Hangram are live.

Twen25ive 🔗 twod.net/25/

Hangram 🔗 twod.net/hangram/

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mrjalco @mrjalco.bsky.social · 17h

That’s daft. You’d think they’d use whatever supplier has the stock.

Might be worth speaking to @upndown.bsky.social - I bet he’d take the bodywork on.

mrjalco @mrjalco.bsky.social · 17h

Yeah. I found that with the last couple of cars I sold. I’m dreading listing Ruby.

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Mclouj @mclouj.bsky.social · Sep 9

Well I never thought I would sell this car, but here we are. 10 years is the longest I have owned a vehicle for, and 7 other cars have come and gone while I have owned the Clio. Time to move on.

carsales.com.au/details/SSE-...

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Vipère @troglodette.bsky.social · 20h

We really need to stop with the self fulfilling "it's here to stay" prophecy, or the silly "if we don't use it others will" narrative...
if my neighbor wants to chug bleach so be it, no FOMO on my side 🤷‍♀️

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 1d

Jason Blum says Hollywood should 'embrace AI' and viewers 'don't care if what they’re looking at is AI"

"it’s here to stay. It’s very important to use it ethically and legally, and for studios and guilds to protect the copyright of the artists"

(via Variety)

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 18h

HE'S HERE!!!

Cartoon. At the top it says in large text 'THE FOX THAT ROX!'. Small, at the bottom of the page is a fox playing a guitar. Written next to the guitar are the words 'Plink Plink'.

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mrjalco @mrjalco.bsky.social · 18h

Where are you mate? I can recommend a couple of really good places in the midlands.

In terms of the windscreen - I had the same problem with the Probe. Contact Pilkington. They can make one. Not cheap, but sometimes the only option.

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mrjalco @mrjalco.bsky.social · 21h

If you like orange and fancy a big, supercar-fast open-top tourer, I wrote about something that may well be your bag…

www.pistonheads.com/buy/listing/...

2014 BMW M6 Convertible Competition for sale by auction

Check out this 2014 BMW M6 Convertible Competition auction on PistonHeads. Stop dreaming and start driving.

www.pistonheads.com

mrjalco @mrjalco.bsky.social · 23h

Ditto. Think it may be from another market too…

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The Motoring Podcast @motoringpodcast.com · 1d

Better news about the JLR hack. They are stumping up £500M for suppliers. Some production begins. Gov STILL hasn't signed guarantee for part of loan.

Available now!

To 👂 via streaming click 👉 www.motoringpodcast.com/episodes/202...
To 👂 via other services click 👉 mpnewsshow.captivate.fm/listen

Fudge - 7 October 2025 - Motoring Podcast

We start with Follow Up as JLR’s woes still continue but there is more progress. September 2025 new car registrations are covered. Renault are looking to shed up to 3,000 jobs. Renault and Dacia UK cu...

www.motoringpodcast.com

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mrjalco @mrjalco.bsky.social · 1d

This week is just not happening for me.

Cardle 5/5

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Guess the car in 5 tries. A new car is available each day.

www.playcardle.com

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mrjalco @mrjalco.bsky.social · 1d

From where I grew up: Old Hill (“owd’ill” to locals)

From where I lived as an adult: Aspatria (“spee-at-tree” to locals)

mrjalco @mrjalco.bsky.social · 1d

Beautiful work mate. That’s a lovely work space.

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Des Walsh @deswalsh.bsky.social · 1d

To celebrate finally finishing my new table set I got some little touches to make it feel more useable in them encroaching long nights. The overground tube fabric cushion was more silly a idea but now feels incredibly fitting. Now to make the rest of the space as nice. #woodworking

Now completed workshop table set with standing and rolling table

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Ian @hubnut.bsky.social · 1d

My first time in a six-cylinder Rover SD1! 2300S with Triumph's final engine. Great day at work! youtu.be/JjGoxo-zO7E

Triumph's final engine, in a Rover? SD1 2300S automatic is so HubNut!

YouTube video by HubNut

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mrjalco @mrjalco.bsky.social · 1d

Too kind fella. And company that I don’t really deserve to be in. But thank you 👍👊

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Juanma is Creating Lightly 🎨🖌😬 @creatinglightly.art · 1d

I tell artists often to "keep inspiring" or that they "inspired me" with their art.

This is exactly what I mean.

I remember having told this to people like @alfie.photography @mrjalco.bsky.social @liamwong.com @paulscottcanavan.com @ziqqix.bsky.social @maddybellwoar.com @willpierce.bsky.social ❤️

Kelly Turnbull @coelasquid.bsky.social · Aug 31

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

Frustrated little dude gripping a pencil saying “how do I pack this down into something I can actually share?” While swirling rainbows labeled “INFINITE POTENTIAL” float around them.

Little dude frowns at a tiny grey box, exclaiming “all that work for THIS?!”

Little dude shoves the grey box into another little guy’s hands; Frowning, stomping off, and saying “Here you go, I made this, it sucks.”

Second little dude cracks open the box, swirling rainbows project out onto their face.

Second little dude stares in awe at all the swirling rainbows now floating around them.

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mrjalco @mrjalco.bsky.social · 1d

We all have different spheres of knowledge - this was very much in my blind spot.

mrjalco @mrjalco.bsky.social · 2d

Striking out two days in a row. Bummer.

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Guess the car in 5 tries. A new car is available each day.

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Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 2d

Mileships outtake

Digital painting, a flock of flying ships at sunset. Or sunrise

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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 2d

Quick spaceship sketch. 'Spiteful Interceptor', built by Jeffery & Co.

#Spaceship #Illustration #SciFi

A digital illustration of a spaceship. Wedge-shaped, with a small cockpit right at the front. A section of the middle is cut away. Grey and red in colour.

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Bring a Trailer @bringatrailer.bsky.social · 2d

23k-Mile 1989 Ford Mustang Saleen SSC

Bid for the chance to own a 23k-Mile 1989 Ford Mustang Saleen SSC at auction with Bring a Trailer, the home of the best vintage and classic cars online. Lot #214,555.

bringatrailer.com

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 2d

This is Eeyore. He led a sheriff's deputy to his grandma after she fell during their walk. We are awarding him the incredibly rare 15/10 (FB: OkaloosaSheriff)

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