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Ian B
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I'm being blackmailed by Wes Anderson again :(
A graphic made in the style of Wes Anderson movie title cards, with a soft pink background and yellow text in Futura font. The text reads 'Send me £500,000 or your family gets it'. The 'Your Family' bit is large and centered in the frame. It is 'letterboxed' like a film, with black bars at the top and bottom.
August 31, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Could've remade this but they chose to be cowards.
Key artwork for an NES game adaptation of James Bond Junior, the 1991 kids animated tv show. It carries the old THQ logo, the full Nintendo Entertainment System logo, and the Offical Nintendo Seal of quality. The art itself features James Bond Jr himself in blue jeans and white satin bomber jacker with red tshirt, against a backdrop of the show's villains, a bit of an explosion, and a red sports car.
June 4, 2025 at 10:13 PM
theadmiral.bsky.social
The train in Spain stalls vainly sans the mains
Screenshot of a BBC News headline. It reads: ‘Cable thefts leave thousands stranded on Spanish trains’
May 5, 2025 at 9:40 PM
theadmiral.bsky.social
Me in the national security team group chat
A still of Sam Reich hosting the game show ‘Game Changer’ on Dropout. The subtitle on the still is his opening catchphrase ‘… I’ve been here the whole time.’
March 25, 2025 at 11:49 PM
theadmiral.bsky.social
“A bothan was accidentally added to the Death Star group chat to bring us this information”
A still of the character Mon Mothma from Star Wars Episode 4: A New Hope. It’s the scene where she’s briefing the rebel fighters on the Death Star plans, before their attack.
March 25, 2025 at 12:16 AM
theadmiral.bsky.social
Please, please, please tax the rich
A screenshot of a BBC News headline. It reads ‘Chancellor confirms accepting Sabrina Carpenter tickets’. There’s also a photo of Sabrina Carpenter.
March 23, 2025 at 10:52 AM
theadmiral.bsky.social
Never expected the looming threat of WW3 to feel like an interminable office email thread
A screenshot from the BBC News website. The headline reads ‘UK and France to discuss Ukraine plan with Trump, says PM’
March 2, 2025 at 12:51 PM
theadmiral.bsky.social
I love Peggle
The back of a blister pack of Vitamin D pills. There’s space for 32 small white circular pills and some have already been removed. They’re laid out a bit like a Peggle board.
February 8, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Appreciate a lot of people are focused on the inauguration but let me tell you it is absolutely kicking off right now on the My Waitrose app
Screenshot showing part of an email sent to members of the ‘My Waitrose’ loyalty scheme. It reads: We're making some changes to the My Waitrose terms and conditions on 27 January 2025. Here's a summary of what the main changes mean for you: • You can now save 20% at the cheese counter on Thursdays. (A small amount of additional text for further bullet points is visible but cut off)
January 20, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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People who do graphics: Does anyone know a good non-Adobe alternative to Illustrator or Photoshop that allows character-level adjustments to kerning, baseline etc?

I'm struggling to find something with this much flexibility. (Pixelmator Pro doesn't quite get there, sadly.)
A screenshot of Adobe Photoshop 2025's character adjustments panel, showing controls for many aspects of selected text.
January 15, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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You’ve got a little boy. He tells you that when he grows up he wants to be a landlord.
A still from the film Blade Runner, from a scene where Harrison Ford’s character Deckard is administering the Voight-Kampff empathy test. Deckard is sat at a highly polished desk, wearing a distressed brown-orange suit jacket. His arms are spread wide and resting on the desk. In front of him is the Voight-Kampff equipment: a device with the footprint of a laptop, made of many blocky components, plus a raised arm holding a small lens.
December 11, 2024 at 9:00 AM
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I see Change.org has taken a turn for the Alan Partridge
A screenshot from my inbox. The top email is from Change.org, and the subject line reads 'Car headlights are too bright'
December 4, 2024 at 4:07 PM
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The ‘sweating superhero button choice’ meme, but just the final panel with the anxious superhero using a cloth to wipe the sweat off his brow. In the original meme, the nervously sweating superhero has to choose between two buttons, usually labelled with two options that make it a difficult decision.
November 16, 2024 at 9:24 AM
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These Boots are made for Woking
Screenshot of the Boots pharmacy website, showing the store locator. The map shows there are three Boots stores in the town of Woking, England.
November 10, 2024 at 9:41 AM
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Violets are blue
Roses are red
‘Dating is fruitless, so I’ve frozen my eggs’. Screenshot of a BBC News headline. The associated image is of a smiling woman, from whom the quote is taken.
November 3, 2024 at 9:40 AM
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When you haven't completed enough of the story mode to unlock David Cameron
A photograph featuring David Cameron, Emmanuel Macron, Olaf Scholz and Joe Biden, taken in Normandy at the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings. They’re standing in a line, against a blue sky background. Due to the way a shadow has fallen, it looks as though David Cameron is ‘greyed out’, like on a video game’s character selection screen. As the original photo caption says, the photo was taken by Benoit Tessler, for Reuters.
November 2, 2024 at 6:45 PM