The Raggedyman
@raggedyman.bsky.social
A strange adventure where the cutting edge of science meets the unstoppable force of the sofa.
Except posts about films, cats, creative projects, and the ungodly horrors of existence.
Except posts about films, cats, creative projects, and the ungodly horrors of existence.
Show Me Your Friday Face!
December 5, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Show Me Your Friday Face!
My normal position on UK education and exams is "it was hard then, it'll be hard now", but I can't help feeling anymore doing interwar Germany for History GCSE/A-Level has now got an unfair advantage from living through our own slid into facism.
December 2, 2025 at 7:35 AM
My normal position on UK education and exams is "it was hard then, it'll be hard now", but I can't help feeling anymore doing interwar Germany for History GCSE/A-Level has now got an unfair advantage from living through our own slid into facism.
Watching the absolute banger that is The Naked Gun (1988) because it's amazing.
November 25, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Watching the absolute banger that is The Naked Gun (1988) because it's amazing.
Headline "Nigel Farage found eating swans in Regents Park"
Reform commenters "but what about the swans Starmer ate?"
Reform commenters "but what about the swans Starmer ate?"
November 25, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Headline "Nigel Farage found eating swans in Regents Park"
Reform commenters "but what about the swans Starmer ate?"
Reform commenters "but what about the swans Starmer ate?"
It was the Ant of times,
It was the Dec of times.
It was the Dec of times.
November 22, 2025 at 6:58 PM
It was the Ant of times,
It was the Dec of times.
It was the Dec of times.
Gryphon in Clan Space Weeb colours for #battletech. The shoulder plates are supposed to look like ablative armour,rather than fixed body parts, and I'm quite proud of how the "one layer of red over a solid silver, leaving the silver showing at the edges" technique conveyed that.
October 31, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Gryphon in Clan Space Weeb colours for #battletech. The shoulder plates are supposed to look like ablative armour,rather than fixed body parts, and I'm quite proud of how the "one layer of red over a solid silver, leaving the silver showing at the edges" technique conveyed that.
Logically speaking, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023), is the most realistic of the movies. If you could sufficiently train four prime-of-adolesence humanoid turtles to the levels of kung-fu movies, they would absolutely kick that exact amount of arse.
#TMNT
#TMNT
October 17, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Logically speaking, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023), is the most realistic of the movies. If you could sufficiently train four prime-of-adolesence humanoid turtles to the levels of kung-fu movies, they would absolutely kick that exact amount of arse.
#TMNT
#TMNT
I love that, for all the changes made to enhance the Netflix #Ranma1/2 reboot, they have stuck to the core principle that every character is a fucking idiot. Smoother story, clearer goals, less filler, twice as much dumbass.
October 5, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I love that, for all the changes made to enhance the Netflix #Ranma1/2 reboot, they have stuck to the core principle that every character is a fucking idiot. Smoother story, clearer goals, less filler, twice as much dumbass.
SubSpecies is a very dull film with a couple of moments of really okay horror effects. SubSpecies 2 has even less plot going on, such that the best version of it is the 5 minutes recap at the start of SubSpecies 3. And, incredibly, SubSpecies 3 is even duller with less plot.
Only two more to go
Only two more to go
September 29, 2025 at 11:59 AM
SubSpecies is a very dull film with a couple of moments of really okay horror effects. SubSpecies 2 has even less plot going on, such that the best version of it is the 5 minutes recap at the start of SubSpecies 3. And, incredibly, SubSpecies 3 is even duller with less plot.
Only two more to go
Only two more to go
This is the country I grew up in.
I recognise the violence, the hate, and the bigotry.
This is who we are.
I recognise the violence, the hate, and the bigotry.
This is who we are.
September 14, 2025 at 6:47 AM
This is the country I grew up in.
I recognise the violence, the hate, and the bigotry.
This is who we are.
I recognise the violence, the hate, and the bigotry.
This is who we are.
So, that was a perfectly watchable bit of kid friendly horror. Not amazing, but fun and well put together.
So far, #FiveNightsAtFreedy's (2023) answer's the question, "What if Roald Dahl wrote a big budget teen slasher for a huge wadge of cash?"?. I never played the game before, so I can't say if it's a good adaptation of the game or its story and themes; I'm just saying it might not suck as a movie.
September 13, 2025 at 5:40 AM
So, that was a perfectly watchable bit of kid friendly horror. Not amazing, but fun and well put together.
So far, #FiveNightsAtFreedy's (2023) answer's the question, "What if Roald Dahl wrote a big budget teen slasher for a huge wadge of cash?"?. I never played the game before, so I can't say if it's a good adaptation of the game or its story and themes; I'm just saying it might not suck as a movie.
September 12, 2025 at 6:27 PM
So far, #FiveNightsAtFreedy's (2023) answer's the question, "What if Roald Dahl wrote a big budget teen slasher for a huge wadge of cash?"?. I never played the game before, so I can't say if it's a good adaptation of the game or its story and themes; I'm just saying it might not suck as a movie.
"We never thought leopards would eat one of our faces" insists family of man who campaigned to have packs of face eating leopards run loose everywhere.
September 11, 2025 at 8:03 AM
"We never thought leopards would eat one of our faces" insists family of man who campaigned to have packs of face eating leopards run loose everywhere.
"Better late than never" isn't really a saying in the anaphylactic shock scene.
September 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
"Better late than never" isn't really a saying in the anaphylactic shock scene.
Thanksgiving (2023) has both Opinions and A Message. They're written in well chewed crayons, but they are proud of them. I Know What You Did Last Media Cycle for the young horror enthusiasts whose favourite slasher is Capitalism.
September 7, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Thanksgiving (2023) has both Opinions and A Message. They're written in well chewed crayons, but they are proud of them. I Know What You Did Last Media Cycle for the young horror enthusiasts whose favourite slasher is Capitalism.
Watching 40 Minutes: Voices Of The City (1984). It's amazing how many of the issues raised in it are so relevant to our model world: such as media misinformation, economic hardship, and (apparently) everyone in Newcastle being miserable.
September 4, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Watching 40 Minutes: Voices Of The City (1984). It's amazing how many of the issues raised in it are so relevant to our model world: such as media misinformation, economic hardship, and (apparently) everyone in Newcastle being miserable.
Basil Rathbone, Lon Chany jr, John Carradine, Bela Lugosi, and Tor Johnson in one film‽ The Black Sheep (1956) says "yes!", so I'm going in....
September 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Basil Rathbone, Lon Chany jr, John Carradine, Bela Lugosi, and Tor Johnson in one film‽ The Black Sheep (1956) says "yes!", so I'm going in....
I refuse to speculate on Trump's announcement later today, as it could be anything.
Anything.
"I'm alive"
Okay
"I've given this person a job"
Sure
"This person is awful"
It's a Tuesday
"The Marines are being deployed"
Fine
"Mint causes cancer in lettuce"
Standard
Anything.
Anything.
"I'm alive"
Okay
"I've given this person a job"
Sure
"This person is awful"
It's a Tuesday
"The Marines are being deployed"
Fine
"Mint causes cancer in lettuce"
Standard
Anything.
September 2, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I refuse to speculate on Trump's announcement later today, as it could be anything.
Anything.
"I'm alive"
Okay
"I've given this person a job"
Sure
"This person is awful"
It's a Tuesday
"The Marines are being deployed"
Fine
"Mint causes cancer in lettuce"
Standard
Anything.
Anything.
"I'm alive"
Okay
"I've given this person a job"
Sure
"This person is awful"
It's a Tuesday
"The Marines are being deployed"
Fine
"Mint causes cancer in lettuce"
Standard
Anything.
That's not a good thing
On Prolific, "we estimate that about 34% of online study participants use LLMs to answer open-ended questions atleast some of the time..."
Seems like a very timely paper for behavioural scientists using online samples: osf.io/preprints/so... ;
We really need more papers on this issue
Seems like a very timely paper for behavioural scientists using online samples: osf.io/preprints/so... ;
We really need more papers on this issue
August 30, 2025 at 1:55 PM
That's not a good thing
People claim that transgender individuals haven't been accepted by American society. But this week I've seen countless commentators defend the rights of trans folks to murder kids with guns, and that's just heartwarming.
August 29, 2025 at 10:36 AM
People claim that transgender individuals haven't been accepted by American society. But this week I've seen countless commentators defend the rights of trans folks to murder kids with guns, and that's just heartwarming.
Guns don't kill people.
People with easy access to guns, in a society that considers easy access to guns more important than any number of dead people, kill people.
People with easy access to guns, in a society that considers easy access to guns more important than any number of dead people, kill people.
August 28, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Guns don't kill people.
People with easy access to guns, in a society that considers easy access to guns more important than any number of dead people, kill people.
People with easy access to guns, in a society that considers easy access to guns more important than any number of dead people, kill people.
WHY the *fuck* is a party political broadcast by Nigel Farage being misreported as "Breaking News"?
August 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM