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Purple Wyrm
@purplewyrm.bsky.social
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Curmudgeonly autistic weirdo. He/Him/Dat Fing. Trans Rights = Human Rights
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1930s Warhammer was WEIRD
A page from the 1930s comic "The Super Wizard Emperor" which as any fule kno is the original version of Warhammer 40,000. This issue concerns the Emperor (the most remarkable man that ever lived) using his marvelously equipped observatory in the Himalayas to detect Chaos crime in Ultramar - instigated by the strongest Fifth Column in history, the dastardly Alpha Legion!
December 7, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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A picture of a worried looking Roman soldier in a cloak, against a snowy background with the caption "When you're chillin with the homies in Teutoburg Forest and the trees begin playing Du Hast".
December 5, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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A photograph of a hedgehog (held aloft in a human hand) raising its fist in triumph. The caption reads "This hedgehog is cheering for you because you can do anything".
December 2, 2025 at 10:27 AM
purplewyrm.bsky.social
It is 7:00am on the first day of summer (as we count it in the southlands) and I'm already having to put up with this kind of intolerable nonsense
A screenshot from the Bureau of Meteorology showing that at 7:00 in the morning it's already 25.9°C (78.6°F) and the predicted maximum is 37°C (98.6°F)
November 30, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Happy (slightly late) birthday to the Doctor!
A full colour drawing of the 15th Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa), holding open one side of his coat to show portraits of his 14 predecessors. The artist's signature reads "BANDA'25"
November 24, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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I have read far too much Ramsey Campbell to find this image relaxing
A peaceful Cotswold village with cottages of golden stone, and a bubbling brook. There's no one in sight - presumably because they're all worshiping some kind of ancient blasphemy in a hidden cavern that pre-dates the coming of the Romans.
November 23, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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Just finished "This Way Up" by @jayforeman.bsky.social
and @markcooperjones.bsky.social. Not just a highly entertaining read but it provided me a plausible explanation for how the thing below ended up on "Joanna Lumley's Spice Trail Adventure"
A screenshot from the TV series "Joanna Lumley's Spice Trail Adventure" that purports to be a map of Zanzibar but is quite clearly a map of Madagascar dropped on top of Zanzibar, which is probably down to someone turning on the wrong layer in Photoshop.
November 21, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Post something random...
An old newspaper headline reading "SEA SERPENT CHASES VESSEL IN KINDLY STYLE - This Monster Is Real Amiable Sort of Freak, Just Keeping Pace. - HAS VERY WIDE SMILE."
November 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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A supportive hedgehog, held aloft with a fist raised, captioned "This hedgehog is cheering for you because you can do anything"
November 21, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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You may well accuse me of seeing Dagoth Ur everywhere, but you have to admit that the new Ozostium Aranthus model for Necromunda has serious Dagoth Ur energy...

('serious Dagoth Ur energy' is not a phrase anyone should ever have to type)
Ozostium Aranthus welcomes you my sweet persistent friend... Nerevar, friend or traitor, come and look look upon the heart.
November 11, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Today's sunset. Not bad!
The sun setting behind the South Perth skyline from Long Neck at Point Fraser The sun setting behind the South Perth skyline from Point Fraser The sun setting behind the South Perth skyline from Point Fraser
November 9, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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I made this, and I am not ashamed!
A piece of ceramic tile mounted to a board labeled "A FRAGMENT OF THE MORLEY MARKETS - MORLEY, WESTERN AUSTRALIA - DESTROYED BY FIRE SEPTEMBER 3RD 2025"
November 9, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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My belated discovery that the most mysterious song on the internet is no longer a mystery means I've had to remove the reference to it in my timeline of Otherworld One. I've replaced it with a callback to the somewhat different fate of the Titanic in that universe.
BEFORE - July 1983: The song Bind the Wind (Check it in, Check it Out) by German New Wave band Unterbahn hits the top five across Europe, holding the number one positions in Austria and Denmark for three weeks. AFTER - 23rd March 1998: At the 70th Academy Awards James Cameron's World War I epic 'Titanic' wins a record breaking 12 Oscars including Best Picture, and Best Actor for male lead Jude Law.
November 7, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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If you're having a rough day, try thinking about the wise and noble ankylosaurus, which watches over all of us from the dinosaur afterlife
A plastic ankylosaurus toy from Schleich. It is green, wise and noble
November 4, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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These are all the place in the Fallout games!

(Hit them with a couple of bullets and they go up like Fukushima)
Screenshot of a wrecked, nuclear powered car from the computer game Fallout 4. There is text over the image reading "How to move abandoned cars" because I shamelessly nicked it from a YouTube video preview.
November 4, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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A man wearing a horned helmet sits at a desk outdoors. Attached to the front of said desk is a sign reading "The song Cotton Eye Joe is actually about the sea peoples - Change my mind!"
October 28, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Is he strong?

Listen bud, he's got radioactive blood!

So he's strong then?

No! He has radioactive blood! He's severely ill! He's probably going to die!!
Spiderman - in full costume - lying in a hospital bed. There's a glass, a thermometer and a bottle of medication on a nightstand next to him.
October 26, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Did what I've been meaning to do for ages and traced the design from a photo of a 1930s radio that @fakehistoryhunter.net posted a few years back
A photograph of a 1930s art deco radio. It's pastel green with black knobs, shaped like a cross between the Empire State Building and a jelly mould and is probably made of bakelite. There's a brass plaque on the front with a couple of vaguely Greek figures engraved over a background of circles, zig-zags and waves. An art-deco linework design of two more-or-less Greek figures standing in front of a design of circles, zig-zags and waves. On the left is a woman wearing a hat and a long skirt but with bare breasts. She's looking right and reaching her right arm out and downwards. Wavy lines expand down from the palm of her hand. On the right is a man wearing a fancy helmet, and a short skirt. There are pauldrons his shoulders, greaves on his shins, and his left hand rests a sword against his leg. He is looking left and extending his left arm down and outwards. Wavy lines extend upwards from the back of his fist. There are stylised columns to the outside of the figures.
October 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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I've had the blueprints for my dream house in my head for many years, and it's startling how close it is to this...
A set of cartoon diagrams of "Introvert Dream house". Features include a library with a reading nook, a tower with a glass ceiling for star gazing, a trap-door disguised as a welcome mat, a media room with a giant TV, an art studio, and a set of secret passageways for avoiding company. It's signed "@introvertdoodles"
October 25, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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A medieval illustration of a man in Papal robes, wearing the Papal Tiara being whacked over the head with a wooden bat by an animated corpse. It is subtitled "Pope Nicholas IV personally discovers why the Book of Leviticus prohibits the creation of undead baseball teams"
October 11, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Two characters you like. Tag five others to do the same.

The 7th Doctor, Colonel Commissar Ibram Gaunt

@fieryfredgater.bsky.social
@csharpminor.bsky.social
@fourinchcats.bsky.social
@paultavatgis.bsky.social
@jumezat.bsky.social

(Sorry, but when you're tagged you must pass on the contagion!)
Sylvester McCoy as the 7th - and undoubtedly best - Doctor. A formal portrait of Colonel Commissar Ibram Gaunt from Dan Abnett's "Gaunt's Ghosts" novels.
October 3, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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RIP the great Jane Goodall

(for the record she loved this cartoon)
A Far Side cartoon by Gary Larson. A female chimpanzee (wearing flamboyant 1950s glasses) is grooming a (presumably) male chimpanzee on a tree branch. She is examining a hair she pulled from him and saying "Well, well - another blond hair... Conducting a little more 'research' with that Jane Goodall tramp?"
October 1, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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*drops knife down side of oven*

Oh hell! How am I going to get that out!

*assembles knife retrieval tool in under five minutes from contents of loungeroom*

That's how!
A fabulous invention for retrieving items from down the side of the oven, constructed in five minutes from items in my loungeroom. It consists of a stack of neodymium ring magnets threaded onto a screw which is driven into the end of a length of wooden dowel. A stainless steel butter knife embossed with the image of a wheat sheaf is firmly attached to the magnets.
September 28, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Well! We're just going to have to disagree then!
The Magnificent The Caproni Ca.60 Transaereo. A nine winged, eight engined float plane constructed in Italy in 1919 and intended for cross-Atlantic passenger travel. Resembling a houseboat crossed with scaffolding warehouse it sits serenely on the waters of Lake Maggiore and is attended by a group of men in a small boat. Soon it shall rise magnificently into the air for all of thirty seconds before bravely plunging into the lake and breaking into pieces!
September 28, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Was about to say that I have this - then realised I have this instead, which was also published in 1980
The cover of a book titled "Animal Ghosts: A new collection edited by Richard Davis". The cover image is a close up of an owl's eyes and beak peering menacingly out of a bunch of foliage.
September 21, 2025 at 11:38 PM