Chris Cowan
@rhubarbfool.bsky.social
Cambridge (U.K.) based software engineer.
I keep getting higher.
July 16, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I keep getting higher.
The US economy moves from metaphorical to literal vampire.
www.newsweek.com/two-percent-...
www.newsweek.com/two-percent-...
2% of U.S. Export Income Comes From Selling Blood
The United States is a major exporter of many different resources, but one market segment is surprisingly large: human blood.
www.newsweek.com
July 1, 2025 at 1:21 PM
The US economy moves from metaphorical to literal vampire.
www.newsweek.com/two-percent-...
www.newsweek.com/two-percent-...
Styscraper 🐷🏗️ porcine physics game
Build a tower of junk and rise high above the muck!
vole.wtf
June 16, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Reposted by Chris Cowan
Gisnep | Daily Quote Puzzle
You Need One More Daily Puzzle In Your Life
gisnep.com
April 25, 2025 at 6:12 AM
I loved this film. It was in my local charity shop and is a great history of VHS pricing. Not available on streaming as far as I can tell.
April 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I loved this film. It was in my local charity shop and is a great history of VHS pricing. Not available on streaming as far as I can tell.
For Trans Day of Visibility an appropriate poppy tune from 1994,
youtu.be/vjtwDM0kTOU?...
youtu.be/vjtwDM0kTOU?...
Bandit Queen - Miss Dandys
YouTube video by Doing It For The Vids
youtu.be
March 31, 2025 at 5:07 PM
For Trans Day of Visibility an appropriate poppy tune from 1994,
youtu.be/vjtwDM0kTOU?...
youtu.be/vjtwDM0kTOU?...
Best guess at what Putin's portrait gift of Trump to Trump shows?
Perhaps both of them riding the same horse bareback.
Perhaps both of them riding the same horse bareback.
March 28, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Best guess at what Putin's portrait gift of Trump to Trump shows?
Perhaps both of them riding the same horse bareback.
Perhaps both of them riding the same horse bareback.
Does anyone else think Trump is going to throw Vance under the bus (is there an equivalent U.S> idiom?) within the next couple of months?
March 5, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Does anyone else think Trump is going to throw Vance under the bus (is there an equivalent U.S> idiom?) within the next couple of months?
Sees a knight, post a knight
live.staticflickr.com/8465/8105773...
live.staticflickr.com/8465/8105773...
February 17, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Sees a knight, post a knight
live.staticflickr.com/8465/8105773...
live.staticflickr.com/8465/8105773...
Reposted by Chris Cowan
Scoop: The databases powering DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it:
www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...
www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...
Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website
"THESE 'EXPERTS' LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN."
www.404media.co
February 14, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Scoop: The databases powering DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it:
www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...
www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...
Discovered this wonderful bench while wandering around Waterbeach
February 2, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Discovered this wonderful bench while wandering around Waterbeach
A.I. is presented as a Librarian when it's really a bloke down the pub after 3 pints. Sure, Jeff will write an essay on neo-classical architecture for you but it will probably need some rewriting.
January 30, 2025 at 11:25 AM
A.I. is presented as a Librarian when it's really a bloke down the pub after 3 pints. Sure, Jeff will write an essay on neo-classical architecture for you but it will probably need some rewriting.
In transferring from X to BlueSky I was looking here for the North West performance poet Thick Richard (thickrichard.wordpress.com) all I got was lots of stuff about Reform MP Richard Tice.
THICK RICHARD
Writer, performer, poet
thickrichard.wordpress.com
January 27, 2025 at 11:33 AM
In transferring from X to BlueSky I was looking here for the North West performance poet Thick Richard (thickrichard.wordpress.com) all I got was lots of stuff about Reform MP Richard Tice.
A.I. has managed to transform the computing adage of GIGO to just GO.
December 24, 2024 at 9:44 AM
A.I. has managed to transform the computing adage of GIGO to just GO.
Just discovered that the new Reform UK treasurer is called Nick Candy. #NominativeDeterminism
December 17, 2024 at 5:45 PM
Just discovered that the new Reform UK treasurer is called Nick Candy. #NominativeDeterminism
For anyone looking for fun positive children's TV vibes I'd heartily recommend Matty Long's Super Happy Magic Forest available on the iplayer in the UK. Trailer : youtu.be/f1F6P3hxgos?...
Warning the theme tune is quite an ear worm.
Warning the theme tune is quite an ear worm.
Super Happy Magic Forest | Official Trailer | CBBC
YouTube video by CBBC
youtu.be
December 5, 2024 at 10:01 AM
For anyone looking for fun positive children's TV vibes I'd heartily recommend Matty Long's Super Happy Magic Forest available on the iplayer in the UK. Trailer : youtu.be/f1F6P3hxgos?...
Warning the theme tune is quite an ear worm.
Warning the theme tune is quite an ear worm.
If you see this post a vampire.
November 16, 2024 at 8:38 AM
If you see this post a vampire.
Reposted by Chris Cowan
This was Austrian Airlines' final post over on the Twitter.
November 13, 2024 at 6:08 PM
This was Austrian Airlines' final post over on the Twitter.
I'm enjoying the rediscovered British comic and magazine TV ads from the 1950s and 1960s. The naffness of the free gifts seems apparent to us but I'm sure the free gifts from the 2000AD's of my childhood would seem equally naff if they weren't nostalgia treasures.
movingimage.nls.uk/search?perso...
movingimage.nls.uk/search?perso...
Biography of 'D.C. Thomson' - Moving Image Archive catalogue
movingimage.nls.uk
September 29, 2024 at 4:04 PM
I'm enjoying the rediscovered British comic and magazine TV ads from the 1950s and 1960s. The naffness of the free gifts seems apparent to us but I'm sure the free gifts from the 2000AD's of my childhood would seem equally naff if they weren't nostalgia treasures.
movingimage.nls.uk/search?perso...
movingimage.nls.uk/search?perso...
Reposted by Chris Cowan
I present to you what might be the most subtle easter egg in pinball history.
Notice what the start button does at the end of the game (sound on)
Notice what the start button does at the end of the game (sound on)
September 19, 2024 at 3:36 PM
I present to you what might be the most subtle easter egg in pinball history.
Notice what the start button does at the end of the game (sound on)
Notice what the start button does at the end of the game (sound on)
A Perfect album which came out when I was 21.
There were quite a few but the one I've consistently listened to would be www.discogs.com/master/18747....
There were quite a few but the one I've consistently listened to would be www.discogs.com/master/18747....
September 16, 2024 at 9:49 AM
A Perfect album which came out when I was 21.
There were quite a few but the one I've consistently listened to would be www.discogs.com/master/18747....
There were quite a few but the one I've consistently listened to would be www.discogs.com/master/18747....
September 13, 2024 at 10:26 AM
A Lovely Bit of Internet
Admittedly this blog post regarding the rather obscure Malvern based nineties band Blessed Ethel is now over ten years old but has a great punchline at the end of the comments.
becausemidwaystillarentcomingback.blogspot.com/2008/02/bles...
Admittedly this blog post regarding the rather obscure Malvern based nineties band Blessed Ethel is now over ten years old but has a great punchline at the end of the comments.
becausemidwaystillarentcomingback.blogspot.com/2008/02/bles...
Blessed Ethel
Right then, let's get February underway with Blessed Ethel . Now, I've a nasty feeling that this lot were American; they're certainly likene...
becausemidwaystillarentcomingback.blogspot.com
September 10, 2024 at 10:21 AM
A Lovely Bit of Internet
Admittedly this blog post regarding the rather obscure Malvern based nineties band Blessed Ethel is now over ten years old but has a great punchline at the end of the comments.
becausemidwaystillarentcomingback.blogspot.com/2008/02/bles...
Admittedly this blog post regarding the rather obscure Malvern based nineties band Blessed Ethel is now over ten years old but has a great punchline at the end of the comments.
becausemidwaystillarentcomingback.blogspot.com/2008/02/bles...
The far right using EnoughIsEnough as a call to thuggish arms are obviously unaware of the Chumbawumba track and in particular what one of the lyrics to follow is.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD0R...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD0R...
Chumbawamba & Credit To The Nation - Enough Is Enough
The promo for Chumbawamba's single with Credit To The Nation.
www.youtube.com
August 6, 2024 at 3:45 PM
The far right using EnoughIsEnough as a call to thuggish arms are obviously unaware of the Chumbawumba track and in particular what one of the lyrics to follow is.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD0R...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD0R...