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Lucretius Bourgeois
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Lefty, office boy, ageing goth. he/him. Likes Everton, video games, Cricket and Landlords.
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Strangely my very much indoor palm with a layer of gravel designed to keep things out of the soil has fungus in the pot. I don't know how it's happened. But also the mushroom looks like this.
Amid a mess of leaves and gravel, a white mushroom, very much in the shape of a guy, with a head, shoulders and torso, though no arms. Also I've drawn eyes on him.
November 10, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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The second tweet was my favourite part.
Two tweets white on black by "classy warfare" The first reads, "The war on Christmas cannot end until Christmas stops its illegal occupation of November" The second,"I am calling on the Klaus regime to return to the borders agreed upon in the Black Friday Agreement"
November 4, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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The polka dots on my begonia look fake.
A dark green leaf with white spots that look like they're painted on, badly
November 3, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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a rough map of the UK. The North West 7/8ths are blue denoting "Can't afford horses". The bottom 8th is purple denoting "Loves Horses". A small circle around Newcastle is circled red denoting "Punches horses"
October 29, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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The perfect taxi already exists
the screen is mostly filled by a close up of the side window of an aquamarine vehicle. It says "johnny cab" on the side, black on yellow. In the back is Arnold Schwarzenegger, a very large white man in a green coat. In the front is a small plastic looking chauffeur in a matching aquamarine jacket and hat. It's from the film Total Recall.
October 29, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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A white man with slick side parted hair and spectacles with a speech bubble. The person is an actor playing Gussie Fink-Nottle from the ITV adaptation of Jeeves and Wooster
October 28, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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A red sign on a stand has white text "caution, heavy plant crossing" Below the sign, black text reads, "I'm scared of triffids"
October 28, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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I've a friend whose beautiful cat has gone senile. She's fine, mostly, just weird and sits in her water bowl quite a lot.

Does anyone know any resources for advice? I've never encountered it before.

She's not sure how best to help the cat.
A very pretty long haired brown and slightly orange cat sat on a bit of brightly coloured linoleum. Which is on top of grey wood laminate, because rental property. Underneath her is a water dish
October 27, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Mmmmmm capitalism stars in another feelgood story.
Text, black on white reads, "Waitrose has reversed its decision not to offer paid work to an autistic man after initially saying he had to stop stacking shelves at the store where he had volunteered for four years." "He gave over 600 hours of his time purely because he wanted to belong, contribute, and make a difference," said his mum.
October 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Danny Ash has let himself go.
a very pale man's head with red lipstick and dark eyeliner, with big fluffy 80s hair is sat atop a red covered silver platter. There's slightly eerie green lighting and it looks like he's in a box. It's actually a dumb waiter.
October 22, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Drop an old person you're going to turn into in the future
A painting of Mr Badger from wind in the willows. He's wearing what looks like a giraffe print dressing gown with blue trim. He's peeking out of a green door with a "Mr Badger" sign next to it and a pull cord presumably for a bell
October 21, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Oh no. I had a terrible accident. Years of yeasty goodness is getting wet and will wash away.
A serrated bread knife is vertical though the photo with a white and grey handle poking out the bottom of the frame. It's in a metal sink with some splashes of water on the blade. There's a plug hole to the right
October 21, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Was it the massive reliance by every online company of one of three different infrastructures, meaning that everyone can be held to ransom by a handful massive pricks? Why yes it was.
A white hand holding a large phone with a yellow screen. The text, black on white, reads, "What has caused the outage at more than 1,000 companies?"
October 20, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Get your calipers round this absolute beauty.
A white man, head and shoulders, wearing a blue open necked shirt. And what a head. It's about 5 times longer than it is wide. It's like a caricature of Lawrence Fox. It's an astonishing length.
October 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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There is an alternative though.
Tweet from 'Taylor Swift Updates', "Update as most of you know, I haven't been active in the past couple of months because I was in prison. I am back now though, more Taylor Swift updates to follow" A reply asks "OMG why" The Taylor Swift fan account replies, "I refused to join the IDF lmao"
October 17, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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They're bring back the "Microsoft watches everything you do on your PC and stores it" function, but this time with added "feeding it into the Ai slop machine".
Text, black on white, except the first two words, which are blue, reads, " Recall (preview) introduces a smarter way to search your past activity using AI-powered snapshots of apps, websites, and documents. Users opt in and authenticate with Windows Hello, with full control to pause or reset snapshot collection. A personalized homepage highlights recent snapshots and frequently used apps, while new export options allow secure sharing with third-party apps using a one-time code. Filters and navigation improvements make Recall easier to manage and use."
October 16, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Oh, the future might not be that bleak after all...
a white man with white hair and a white beard stands on the right of the frame, wearing a black coat. He's in some sort of indoor orchard lit by orange lights. The subtitle reads "They used to hang AI sympathisers there."
October 15, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Amazing algorithms from the smartest people in the world. What would he like to watch? Well he's watched these videos, so let's recommend something similar... or indeed exactly the same.
5 youtube video recommendations, 4 from technology connections, one from NoClip, with thumbnails and a big red bar because I have watched them all previously.
October 13, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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The slightly disgusted look on the robin's face is because I keep saying I will bring some meal worms and I always forget.

Hope the brain improves soon.
Centre left of the photo is a robin showing its bright orange breast. It's looking to our right and looks a bit pissed off. He is perched on the top of the fork part of a big garden fork, rather than as is traditional, the handle. Everything aside from the robin and the fork going up the middle is rather dark. A pied wagtail, a small black and white bird, standing on a railing, looking like it is dancing, with the nearer leg raised up. It's facing left in profile against a blurred brown background. A small owl, quite possibly a little owl, but I don't recall. It is dark brown around wide open, furious looking yellow eyes, the rest of it is mottled mid brown and cream. It's shown from the mid body upwards, looking slightly to our left. The background is a mid brown blur. in the centre left of the frame, a long tailed tit, a small mostly white with grey bits, is perching on an ornate bit of metal. They are facing right, but the head is tilted over at 45 degrees making it look like it's very curious about what we're doing. The background is a medley of greens and reds from out of focus leaves.
October 13, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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The perfect pairing, the gout and gastro wombo combo.
On the bottom right on a dark, round plate is three cheeses and bread. Top left is a schooner or vase of port.
October 10, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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He's been about quite a while!
Liam Neeson sporting a tasteful top bun, head and very armour clad shoulders and a big beard, in very soft focus from Excalibur (1981)
October 9, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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I am usually really opposed to acting in football. Usually it's cheating.

But James Tarkowski as Ed Gein is a really nice surprise. He does it surprisingly well!

(there were scenes where he looked far more alike, but Netflix's bizarre decision to not allow sscreenshots hampered me)
a white guy with a razor cut, side parting, wide jaw and jug ears is looking into a mirror, wearing a red and black check shirt. It's not actually James Tarkowski, but it does look like him a bit.
October 7, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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I really need some wireless earphones that aren't utter arse.

I am surviving on a £15 from B&M pair that are awful in every way. Except the LED display, which is cute.

Recommendations for not wildly expensive ones?
a lozenge shaped container for earphones. The top quarter is mid metallic grey and says "Goodmans". The remainder is matt black and has "100" in a white LCD display in the centre.
October 3, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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This was the only thing that stopped me dying from embarrassment
Text, white on dark blue saying "an error occured when trying to load the video"
October 2, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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I was just checking I correctly remembered the property of a chemical for purposes of being a smart arse and...

I'm confused.
Against a white background from left to right is a small dish with very dark granules of a mineral type thing, an upside down teardrop shaped thing with a stem and a wide base (it's butt plug shaped) and a jar half full of violet coloured liquid. At the bottom right it says potassium permanganate, which presumably all three of those things are
September 30, 2025 at 1:44 PM