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Groucho Merckx
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Mostly cat pictures. 🇵🇸 Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. He/him
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RETVRN
A fancy shop front that used to be a pub. Green and black tiles with gold lettering reading THE SHAKESPEARE Another fancy former pub. Two-tone green tiles and some scrollwork above the name, Masham Hotel
November 17, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Age yourself with gaming
A screenshot from the 1984 ZX Spectrum version of Ghostbusters
November 12, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Chucking a pic in the thread for posterity

(from www.kentonline.co.uk/sheerness/ne... )
A big mural on a building. A mermaid is lying on a beach holding a TNT plunger with a cable leading out to the masts of SS Montgomery at sea. Words read: "Welcome to Sheerness: you'll have a blast"
November 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Might have got different results with a full-throttle Peter Bellamy impersonation instead of some gentle Gordon Bok
A small black cat looking serene, perhaps vacant The same cat looking slightly to her left with much the same expression
November 11, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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A black cat lying on a brown blanket. In her head are no thoughts, only void
November 7, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Friends fear he's trying to make sense of one of the densest novels in the western canon again
The cover of Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon, featuring a weird skull-headed guy contorted inside a circular map of the stars
November 7, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Vince from Rex the Runt wielding a fork towards Rex, who has been minced into spaghetti
November 6, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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nope, must be a typo
a screenshot from what3words, failing to find an address for “misinformation.kills.monkeys”
November 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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And home. Time elapsed between opening the back door and being shouted at for food by Not My Cat: 30 seconds. He's not notably thinner despite me not having fed him for three weeks
A tubby black cat sitting outside a back door looking at a bowl of biscuits just inside
October 19, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Robin Hood's Bay at sunrise with the tide out, under a lovely silvery-gold light
October 19, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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The Ravenscar headland seen from Robin Hood's Bay, with a light sea mist coming in
October 18, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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phwoar
Another steam loco (Battle of Britain-class Bulleid Pacific, of COURSE this is important) pictured from the front as it sits, smoking away, at the platform in Grosmont
October 18, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Yessss
A dark green steam locomotive (OK, OK, Schools-class 4-4-0 no926 Repton) carrying a Moors Explorer badge, at the platform at Whitby station
October 18, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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The headland of Ravenscar seen from the Robin Hood's Bay slipway with the sea in between. By night the sea and sky are the same colour so the headland appears to float
October 17, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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The sea under grey evening skies, with a rocky reef protruding from the water. On the horizon a single cargo ship is plodding along
October 17, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Hey that reminds me, I walked past your secret Yorkshire hideout earlier. But don't worry, I didn't tell anyone about it
An OS map screenshot showing a waterfall, Falling Foss, next to a house called Midge Hall
October 16, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Boots in the water. Cumbrian quartz pebble consigned to the North Sea. The Wainwright coast to coast is DONE and I might have

a little

sit

down.
The beach at Robin Hood's Bay with the tide going out
October 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Nearly there
Rocky cliffs overlooking a calm North Sea
October 16, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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"Hi! Do you have, or could you be, food?"
A load of chickens behind some... chicken wire
October 16, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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An acorn and Alfred Wainwright's initials carved into a tree stump
October 16, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Whitby!
The ruins of Whitby Abbey in the far distance, across a moor and valley, with the North Sea behind
October 16, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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For one final time this walk: mornin'
A stone road bridge with high arches over a peaty brown river
October 16, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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They know how to deal with Auditors in North Yorkshire
A sign on a garage saying "This is a private sign: do not read"
October 15, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Mornin'
Faint early sun over a moorland ridge, with a stone forecourt in the foreground
October 15, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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😍😍😍
A screenshot from the Met Office app showing lovely, lovely, beautiful cool grey weather tomorrow
October 14, 2025 at 4:25 PM