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Alastair Lawless
@alastairlawless.bsky.social
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Actor, milonguero, law reformer. SVQ in furniture-making. Will answer to “Hi!” or to any loud cry.
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Not sure about the scoring tbh
Result of a colour vision test. I score 20. A perfect score is zero, yet the test says the best score for my gender is -2147483648
November 15, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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I can’t see this without thinking of the author’s alarming beard.

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A man, William Empson, with a white moustache and white neck beard.
October 29, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.
A comic panel with Modesty Blaise and Willie Garvin.
October 21, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Modesty Blaise
October 19, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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On the 80th anniversary of the end of WWII, remembering my grandfather, Capt. John Smith.
Photograph of British Army Captain, captioned “John: return from Burma”
August 15, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Arthur Daley
August 2, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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A photo showing the main characters of A Very Peculiar Practice.
August 1, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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Reliving lost youth in Oxford: big fry-up at Browns, pint at the King’s Arms and enjoying the gasps of tourists entering the Norrington Room.
A pint of beer in the back room of The King’s Arms, Oxford.
July 8, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Kevin the Gerbil
June 22, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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What’s your sign?
Sign in museum display case: “This object has been temporarily removed as we revise its facial expression, which was deemed zoologically improbable and/or terrifying to small children.”
June 15, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Important safety tip.

This, otoh, is gorgeous (straight, and maybe with mixers though I’m unlikely ever to find out):
A bottle of Isle of Raasay single malt scotch whisky.
June 15, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Nuffink human is alien to me, Terence.
Picture of Arthur Daley, as played by the late George Cole.
June 3, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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XKCD cartoon. A crypto nerd’s imagination: “His laptop’s encrypted. Let’s build a million-dollar cluster to crack it” “No good! It’s 4096 bit RSA!“ “Blast! Our evil plan is foiled!“. What would actually happen: “His laptop’s encrypted. Drug him and hit him with his $5 wrench until he tells us the password“ “got it“
May 25, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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Celebrate VE Day, but remember those like my grandfather who had months of war yet to go.
Captain John Smith, Royal Corps of Signals, on his return from fighting in Burma during World War II.
May 5, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Pursuing my true vocation as cat furniture.
A ginger cat sits on my lap. She is not mine, but I am very definitely hers.
April 26, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Grud on a Greenie! this AI is not to be trusted.
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Google AI confidently bullshits an explanation of Judge Anderson’s occasional exclamation “Grud on a greenie!”
April 23, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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Robbie Coltrane as pope in The Pope Must Die!
April 21, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Robbie Coltrane IS the Pope in “The Pope Must Die” (or, for the American market, “The Pope Must Diet!”, which is just as offensive but in a different dimension).
April 21, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Snoopy lounges atop his kennel.
April 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Christ, what an asshole.
Donald Trump “Truth” announcing a 90-day pause of most of his tariffs.
April 9, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Spanish newspaper: The Baldwins irritate in US
March 29, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Smith, Jones
March 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Alas
Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones, head to head. One for the kids there.
March 28, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Alas
Smith and Jones
March 28, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Sign in Catalan bar toilet: “Throw paper in the bin, thanks :)” To which someone has added “and fascism too!!”
March 15, 2025 at 1:14 PM