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'Tis the season..

Yea, all the clockwork Santas did turn towards the East and make their way to Bethlehem.

And the animals and the trolls and the Moomins kept company with them, for to give them succour.

And they found the Holy Family wrought in dowling, watched over by a clicky-clacky penguin.
December 5, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Fear not. We will always have Amanda Root.
Picture of the peerless Amanda Root and Ciarán Hinds as Anne Elliott and Captain Wentworth in Persuasion.
September 14, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Using one photo already on your phone, what is the announcement tomorrow at 2?
Poster for ‘Godzilla - Attack on Tokyo’
September 2, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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I, for one, welcome our new Danish ferry overlords.
Photo of the DFDS ferry from Karlshamn to Klaipeda as it enters the Coronia Lagoon.
August 9, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Homer Simpson’s dad yells at cloud.
August 5, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Surely..?
A picture of Comte cheese.
July 25, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Why is it GER/ESP, rather than DEU/ESP or GER/SPA?

#Euro25
Screenshot of a television, showing the GER/ESP score line.
July 23, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Da cat is in da cube
Picture of my grey British Short Hair cat, curled up in the cuboid space at the bottom of a scratching post.
July 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Drop something blue from your gallery.
Mount Fuji against a blue sky, taken from the bullet train from Osaka to Tokyo.
July 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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He’s far too busy sorting out his gifts.

Farage on his own has blagged nearly 10% of the total gifts received by MPs in the last 12 months.
MPs have received £1mn in gifts over the last 12 months. 10% of which have gone to Nigel Farage.
July 4, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Oh dear.
The Blues Brothers. Who are very unlikely to be able to rescue me.
June 12, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Painting of a Sad Boy ‘entertaining’ a group of women who were perfectly happy without him by singing his songs at them whilst playing his guitar.
May 17, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Advanced Engineering from Germany.
The AEG logo.
May 10, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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Yes. Much as I love Miranda.

Needed to be a tall Texan. With a moustache.
Head shot of a grizzled Texan man, with a moustache. Height unclear.
April 12, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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Looks like people have heard the news.
Tesla’s share price dropping like a big ol’ stone, for the last hour or so. This may be a response to the recall of 46,000 faulty Teslas.
March 20, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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I have to admit, I asked ChatGPT to translate it for me, which helped! I’ve put the translation in the alt-text.

Although I don’t know why anyone would think that *more* jobs than expected might get added to the US payroll right now.
This message is discussing the upcoming **Non-Farm Payrolls (NFP)** report, which is a key economic indicator released every month in the United States. The NFP report shows the number of jobs added to the U.S. economy (excluding agriculture). - **Consensus at 160K**: The general expectation is that 160,000 jobs will have been added in the report. - **Whisper at 125K**: This is the "whisper number," which refers to a less publicized, unofficial estimate from insiders or analysts. It suggests a lower number of 125,000 jobs added. The rest of the message is about how the report is expected to play out: - **Unlikely to see a big miss**: This means it’s unlikely the actual job numbers will significantly differ from the consensus (e.g., a big drop or increase that would cause major surprise). - **Second-order impact of DOGE cuts or economic slowdown**: This refers to indirect effects that could influence the market. "DOGE cuts" might refer to the impact of changes in speculative markets or digital currency volatility (like Dogecoin). Economic slowdown could also impact job growth, but neither is expected to cause a big disruption in the NFP results this month. - **Chaos print over 200K**: If the NFP report comes in at over 200,000 jobs (a number higher than expected), it would likely cause significant market reactions, often described as "chaos" because of how much the market might move in response. - **$ goes 🚀🚀🚀**: The "$" refers to the U.S. dollar. If the report shows over 200K jobs, the dollar is expected to rise significantly in value, as strong job growth often signals a healthier economy and can lead to interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve. In summary, the message is predicting that while the consensus for the NFP report is 160K jobs, if the report exceeds 200K, it could cause the U.S. dollar to soar.
March 7, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Trumpspotting.
Expect less life.
Assuming that the past six weeks are predictive of what's coming next, expect an age of anxiety, expect the elimination of tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of jobs, expect the decimation of liberal institutions to go on for all four years of Trump's second term, expect government services to deteriorate, expect reduced funding of the safety net, expect more homelessness, hunger and disease. Expect poverty, expect the financial starvation of universities and of nongovernmental organizations, expect unannounced raids, unreliable data, an America increasingly aligned with authoritarians worldwide, expect a pervasive climate of suspicion and a preoccupation with revenge. Expect more suffering, more fear, less security and less happiness. In other words, expect the worst.
March 4, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Without downloading any new pics, where are you at mentally?
My two cats, staring the fuck out of you.
January 31, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Black and white ‘Homemaker’ pattern plate. Probably from the 1970s, so at least 50 years old.
January 25, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Bridge over the river Thames. Child throwing pebbles from the shore in the foreground. St Paul’s Cathdral in the background.
January 23, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Douglas Adams. ❤️💔
Today is Thursday.
Quote from Douglas Adams, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl sitting on her own in a small café in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything.
January 23, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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You’re going to have to take my word for it but this is a dozen goldfinches perched on a hawthorn tree near my kitchen window.

Never seen so many here all at once.

❤️🐦‍⬛ #birds
A misty morning. A dozen tiny goldfinches perch on the top branches of a straggly hawthorn tree.
January 18, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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DCC is virtually bankrupt. Its children’s services, particularly, are a disaster.

(Pictures from Private Eye.)
Pictures of a Private Eye article from December which describes how near-bankrupt DCC spent half a million quid employing two private consultants who were supposed to improve their children’s services. But the CQC found ‘widespread and systemic failings’ learning to ‘significant concerns’ for young people in the county. Pictures of a Private Eye article from December which describes how near-bankrupt DCC spent half a million quid employing two private consultants who were supposed to improve their children’s services. But the CQC found ‘widespread and systemic failings’ learning to ‘significant concerns’ for young people in the county.
January 11, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Barry Lewis, the Tory leader of Derbyshire County Council, has a long article in our local paper about how he believes ‘the truth is out there’.
Picture of the Buxton Advertiser column in which the leader of DCC, Barry Lewis, muses on the possibility of extra-terrestrial life rather than explaining what he’s going to do about the parlous state of DCC’s finances or why he seems to be trying to evade council elections in May.
January 11, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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(Pardon me. Apparently it’s a rolling gear bag, not a wheelie suitcase. 🙄)
North Face’s Rolling Thunder rolling gear bag.
January 9, 2025 at 12:20 PM