Nick Stone
@typejunky.bsky.social
In other news, I’ve got eczema on one eyelid. An attractive affliction, not unlike having a duelling scar, except it’s just a boring genetic itchy thing that makes me look like one eye doesn’t fit properly.
February 10, 2026 at 12:19 AM
In other news, I’ve got eczema on one eyelid. An attractive affliction, not unlike having a duelling scar, except it’s just a boring genetic itchy thing that makes me look like one eye doesn’t fit properly.
I did an executive dysfunction test earlier, but I lost interest half way through and put up a shelf I don’t need instead.
February 10, 2026 at 12:09 AM
I did an executive dysfunction test earlier, but I lost interest half way through and put up a shelf I don’t need instead.
Found it. Miniature grot mags.
Wanna see a really tiny damp cardboard box of grot mags? Course you do.
February 9, 2026 at 11:58 PM
Found it. Miniature grot mags.
Dear Labour. If you want support, nationalise water, make buses and trains affordable outside London, tax billionaires, and stop-being trans and immigrant bashing arseholes.
February 9, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Dear Labour. If you want support, nationalise water, make buses and trains affordable outside London, tax billionaires, and stop-being trans and immigrant bashing arseholes.
Nice to see someone else using miniaturised grot mags.
February 9, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Nice to see someone else using miniaturised grot mags.
Just remembered this old bit of writing, it might be of interest to about ten people on here who live in Norwich. Walking the Past, St George’s. This street is likely to vanish soon. www.invisibleworks.co.uk/walking-the-...
Walking the past: St Georges Street – Part One | Invisible Works
I’ve recently been trying to get back into the habit of walking again, going out at all if I’m honest. I started lockdown with no work and plenty of time and walked frequently, over the last 18 months...
www.invisibleworks.co.uk
February 7, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Just remembered this old bit of writing, it might be of interest to about ten people on here who live in Norwich. Walking the Past, St George’s. This street is likely to vanish soon. www.invisibleworks.co.uk/walking-the-...
Now do this at the Anglia Square development.
A real pleasure to meet George Clarke and hear about his experiences growing up on a council estate. We both know the positive impact social housing can have on families’ lives.
That’s why I’m determined to continue delivering more council homes as we build a fairer London for everyone.
That’s why I’m determined to continue delivering more council homes as we build a fairer London for everyone.
February 7, 2026 at 1:05 PM
Now do this at the Anglia Square development.
Look at this skip find. I've always been quite proud of the clothes airer I hauled out of a skip in 1988 (still in use), but this is something else.
Here's our find. An album of hundreds of QSL cards. Sent by radio hams to each other to acknowledge contact. Most are from the late 1930s and from all over the world. Dumped in in a skip after a house clearance. Found the family and offered to send them the album. They didn't reply.
February 6, 2026 at 10:17 AM
Look at this skip find. I've always been quite proud of the clothes airer I hauled out of a skip in 1988 (still in use), but this is something else.
Early warning also that I acquired this huge collection of frankly fuck knows what from the recycling centre.
February 6, 2026 at 9:28 AM
Early warning also that I acquired this huge collection of frankly fuck knows what from the recycling centre.
A thread, like what I used to do in them olden days.
Who wants another lovely found photo to break up the misery and dreariness? You do? Right then. This is a stunner, a corker. In fact I’d go so far as to say an absolute belter… and, I think I’ve worked out who she is.
February 6, 2026 at 8:43 AM
A thread, like what I used to do in them olden days.
Reposted by Nick Stone
Anyway, here she is again, I’d guess maybe 10 years later. I think I’m right in saying, meet Doris Piggin.
February 5, 2026 at 8:38 PM
Anyway, here she is again, I’d guess maybe 10 years later. I think I’m right in saying, meet Doris Piggin.
Who wants another lovely found photo to break up the misery and dreariness? You do? Right then. This is a stunner, a corker. In fact I’d go so far as to say an absolute belter… and, I think I’ve worked out who she is.
February 5, 2026 at 8:03 PM
Who wants another lovely found photo to break up the misery and dreariness? You do? Right then. This is a stunner, a corker. In fact I’d go so far as to say an absolute belter… and, I think I’ve worked out who she is.
And just have one tick box with ‘please god not Wes Streeting’ next to it.
Should have been a compulsory follow-up, without prompts: 'Which Labour politician do you think should replace him?'
By 50% to 24%, Britons say Keir Starmer should step down as prime minister
2024 Labour voters are split, with 37% wanting him to stand down and 40% wanting him to stay
yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
2024 Labour voters are split, with 37% wanting him to stand down and 40% wanting him to stay
yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
February 5, 2026 at 5:51 PM
And just have one tick box with ‘please god not Wes Streeting’ next to it.
I said hello to Richie from the Manics in a hospital car park, he said hello back.
One of my academic colleagues looks a bit like Bob Mortimer. One time near our labs I saw him walking towards me and I warmly said Hey Kevin. It was Bob Mortimer.
Please share your very low impact celebrity encounters here.
Please share your very low impact celebrity encounters here.
Fun low level anecdote: I once sat near Peter Mandelson in a theatre but I had a name blank and said rather too loudly ‘ooh look it’s Michael Portillo!’
He was visibly unamused.
He was visibly unamused.
February 5, 2026 at 3:44 PM
I said hello to Richie from the Manics in a hospital car park, he said hello back.
Reposted by Nick Stone
Once bumped into Ian Hislop in the Natural History Museum. My brother happened to be wearing a homemade t-shirt with Angus Deayton's face on it.
One of my academic colleagues looks a bit like Bob Mortimer. One time near our labs I saw him walking towards me and I warmly said Hey Kevin. It was Bob Mortimer.
Please share your very low impact celebrity encounters here.
Please share your very low impact celebrity encounters here.
Fun low level anecdote: I once sat near Peter Mandelson in a theatre but I had a name blank and said rather too loudly ‘ooh look it’s Michael Portillo!’
He was visibly unamused.
He was visibly unamused.
February 5, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Once bumped into Ian Hislop in the Natural History Museum. My brother happened to be wearing a homemade t-shirt with Angus Deayton's face on it.
Reposted by Nick Stone
I went to school with Mani from The Stone Roses, and once after PE we accidentally went home wearing each other's trousers.
One of my academic colleagues looks a bit like Bob Mortimer. One time near our labs I saw him walking towards me and I warmly said Hey Kevin. It was Bob Mortimer.
Please share your very low impact celebrity encounters here.
Please share your very low impact celebrity encounters here.
Fun low level anecdote: I once sat near Peter Mandelson in a theatre but I had a name blank and said rather too loudly ‘ooh look it’s Michael Portillo!’
He was visibly unamused.
He was visibly unamused.
February 5, 2026 at 3:15 PM
I went to school with Mani from The Stone Roses, and once after PE we accidentally went home wearing each other's trousers.
A Bag of cans.
What "core British values" has "the left" not defended? Can someone ask this sentient fucking saucepan what he means?
Keir Starmer attacks the racism of Reform and Matt Goodwin but then adds that "Britain has also been let down by a mindset on the left of politics that is too slow to defend core British values"
February 5, 2026 at 2:31 PM
A Bag of cans.
I don't think I've ever known a Labour Party as completely fucking clueless as this, and I remember Neil Kinnock falling over in the sea, and Callaghan forgetting to call an election.
February 5, 2026 at 2:03 PM
I don't think I've ever known a Labour Party as completely fucking clueless as this, and I remember Neil Kinnock falling over in the sea, and Callaghan forgetting to call an election.
Bit more on Lloyd.
Apparently Lloyd Allen Kimes a member of the soccer club and the "paint and patch" club in high school (images from Ancestry.com). Photo in Army uniform with no additional notes. Private in the army, enlisted April 2nd 1943.
February 4, 2026 at 8:50 PM
Bit more on Lloyd.
Here we go. Here’s our Lloyd.
February 4, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Here we go. Here’s our Lloyd.
Well that’s a good start. Lloyd survived and returned to Pennsylvania, and made it to 83. It also states he served in the US Army.
February 4, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Well that’s a good start. Lloyd survived and returned to Pennsylvania, and made it to 83. It also states he served in the US Army.
Thought I’d share this because it’s such a fantastic photo. Will explain more below. But basically it’s from an album found in a chazza. Look at these fellas.
February 4, 2026 at 7:36 PM
Thought I’d share this because it’s such a fantastic photo. Will explain more below. But basically it’s from an album found in a chazza. Look at these fellas.
Distinct smell of nonce in the Norfolk gulag tonight.
February 4, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Distinct smell of nonce in the Norfolk gulag tonight.
Yet again it all proves, those who seek power are rarely fit to rule.
February 4, 2026 at 1:55 PM
Yet again it all proves, those who seek power are rarely fit to rule.
Reposted by Nick Stone
Original colour photographs of the Vimy Memorial, dated ca. September 1944.
Unfortunately, colour photographs of the Second World War taken by official photographers are often unattributed and undated.
📸: LAC MIKAN 4233735, 4233247, 4233248, 4233244, 4233731, 4233732.
Unfortunately, colour photographs of the Second World War taken by official photographers are often unattributed and undated.
📸: LAC MIKAN 4233735, 4233247, 4233248, 4233244, 4233731, 4233732.
February 2, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Original colour photographs of the Vimy Memorial, dated ca. September 1944.
Unfortunately, colour photographs of the Second World War taken by official photographers are often unattributed and undated.
📸: LAC MIKAN 4233735, 4233247, 4233248, 4233244, 4233731, 4233732.
Unfortunately, colour photographs of the Second World War taken by official photographers are often unattributed and undated.
📸: LAC MIKAN 4233735, 4233247, 4233248, 4233244, 4233731, 4233732.