Alex Christian
alexschristian.bsky.social
Alex Christian
@alexschristian.bsky.social
Design & illustration at @thefence.bsky.social‬ by night, non-profit comms by day, embarrassingly online all the time
I quite enjoy the implied lateral movement
November 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM
...and so compounded by being self-inflicted
October 31, 2025 at 8:06 PM
One night at a festival this summer I saw a tennis ball on the ground. Drunk, decided to boot it as far as I could – turned out it was covering the protruding end of a pole anchor in the ground.

Still got a bruised section of my big toenail three months down the line
October 31, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I remember being taken aback that their quant guy was doing better qual than anyone else in the room
October 31, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I’d always wondered how employers turned it around so slowly until I was on the two-person shortlisting panel for a job with 80 applicants
October 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Lad at my school made two grave mistakes. The first: he bookmarked a porn site on his family computer but renamed the bookmark to “Capital FM”, which his mum clicked on. The second, fatal: he told people at school, which led to “Capital FM” being his nickname and me recounting this 15 years later
October 7, 2025 at 9:41 PM
I’ve just gone back and done some recent ones and not got above 8 – going along fine and then there’s some regional American thing that’s basically ungettable
September 26, 2025 at 11:26 AM
When I watched it last year the word that kept coming to mind was “sumptuous” – such a rich mix of cinematography, set design and costume
September 26, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Ooh that’s a good game

#460 - 9/10 🎉
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September 26, 2025 at 10:19 AM
The caesura into “Sonst” is a big sonnet move, but the stumbling-over-itself rhyme scheme of the tercets and the short last sentence obscure its sonnetry
September 5, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Good little sonnet that, by my reckoning the best I’ve ever read
September 5, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I like the Standard’s Backlash vertical
standard.co.uk/topic/backlash
August 13, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Waschbär is excellent though
August 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I was going to bring up “Faultier” – and then remembered that we basically call them “Faulheit” so we’re in no place to judge
August 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Of course the Lollards started this when they were distributing cracked copies of the Bible
August 12, 2025 at 12:22 PM
An fantastic place, and the only pub I know where you’ll see a 90-year-old belting out “What’s Going On” at 11pm on a Friday
August 7, 2025 at 4:07 PM
It should be a “no iquids ue”, the hypocrites
August 5, 2025 at 2:51 PM