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James Lydon
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Bakes a bit. Creates stuff. Manages systems. Numquam scienter sub eisdem. 🏳️‍🌈🇬🇧

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I made the cake, which was 12" wide and contained over 2kg of cream filling (alongside raspberry, several ways)
November 22, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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At my niece's 21st birthday party and a family friend has turned up in scarily accurate Claudia-Winkleman-in-The-Traitors fancy dress costume.

#TheTraitors #CelebrityTraitors #ClaudiaWinkleman
Scarily accurate Claudia-Winkleman-in-The-Traitors fancy dress costume.
November 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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I made the executive decision on bedding last night.

(Ignore the prominent cat - she's for all seasons 😻)
Christmassy bedding featuring a red and blue nordic pattern. A white, black and ginger calico cat is dozing in the foreground.
November 21, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Mindy is a black cat. Heidi is a calico cat in white, black and ginger. Gizmo is a brown and ginger tortoiseshell.
November 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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James for going to bed
November 8, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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What movie do you consider perfect?
Beverly Sutphin brandishes just one of her deadly weapons
October 31, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Amazon: a lie in two screengrabs
An email from Amazon and Morrisons claiming to have failed to find my address A still from Ring doorbell footage showing the Morrisons courier easily finding my address but failing to bring the second of two bags
October 28, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Literally not a dinosaur, BBC Earth.
Instagram story from BBC Earth advertising dinosaur-themed clothing but the t-shirt shown does not bear a dinosaur
October 20, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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The adventure me and my trolley just went on at the supermarket. I encountered severe gravimetric forces and was, ultimately, beaten into submission:
Four panels depicting the bridge crew of the USS Voyager, lost in the Delta Quadrant (a.k.a. the big Sainsburys in Derby). Panel one shows Lieutenant Paris at the helm, saying "Captain, we are caught in a severe gravimetric disturbance!". Panel two shows the estimable Captain Janeway in her command seat, asking "Mister Tuvok - analysis?". Panel three shows Lieutenant Commander Tuvok at the Security/Tactical station, observing "It appears to be emanating from the chilled desserts aisle in Sainsbury's". Panel four shows Captain Janeway requesting that the anomoly be shown on the viewscreen. Two further panels showing the exciting conclusion to this scene on "Voyager: Encounter In Sainsbury's". Panel 5 looks over Captain Janeway's shoulder at the viewscreen where an unclear image of some sort of overly delicious dessert is seen. "Magnify...", she asks. The final panel causes Janeway to shout "It's a trap... get us out of here!" as the true majesty of the threat is revealed: a close-up of the label on a Taste the Difference Caramel Custart Tart (Limited Edition)
October 10, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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I like the gamut of responses I'm getting to the Rayner story due to my choices of who to follow. Covering all the bases.
Bluesky posts from Sooz and David, both on the subject of Angela Rayner but approaching the error from quite different angles
September 5, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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I've just gone back to the beginning and have the Melon Buffet paused on my screen right now 😍🍈
A television showing a tall from the very first episode of Taskmaster - a white table in a white room into which a white man has walked wearing a white disposable suit. He approaches a watermelon
September 1, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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oh no
The Gang off of It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia
August 21, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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A week ago, I was reading this at my brilliant little brother's wedding to my equally brilliant new brother-in-law (it was penned by the grooms themselves).

Says it all, don't it just? The Doctor and his companions. Frodo and his hobbitses.
A white piece of paper with a wedding reading printed on it, which says: "In stories, the journey is never just about the monsters or the mountains. It's about who you travel with. Companionship is what changes everything. The Doctor doesn't wander through time and space alone. Frodo doesn't travel Middle-Earth by himself. The real magic is always in having someone by your side, to carry the pack when it gets heavy, to argue with when you're lost, and to laugh with when you finally figure out where you're going. Dani and Stu have already been on quite the adventure. Not one drawn with swords or sonic screwdrivers (though let's be honest, there's probably a cosplay cape and an inordinate number of toy Daleks involved) but one built in real time, with late-night chats, shared interests, moving homes, and finding joy in the details. Today isn't the start of their quest. It's more like a key point in the storyline, the part where the heroes say: this is my companion. Through all the strange, beautiful, unpredictable chapters ahead, we choose to walk together. And yes: two men, genuinely in love, choosing to make that journey hand in hand. That's not a subplot. That's the heart of the story."
August 9, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Less smug now. #ChairDown
A damp garden patio where one rattan chair has succumbed to the wind and toppled over.
August 4, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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There is a board game...
Box containing the board game adaptation of the animated movie 'Flow'
July 19, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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What actor’s expression in a movie will stay with you for the rest of your life?
Kathleen Turner as Beverly Sutphin in Serial Mom, brandishing with glee a weaponised leg of lamb over the head of a woman who refused to rewind her rental videotape
June 24, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Unusual amount of bravery from Disney, here, to have the original wording.
Christian Slater in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves dropping an f-bomb
June 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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This owes a lot to family caravanning holidays in the 1980s more than my recent travels. I also almost forgot I lived in Staffordshire for a bit 😬

Cute project, though!
Multicoloured map of the UK indicating which regions I have been to, to varying degrees
May 30, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Perfect.
Diane Morgan sitcom Ann Droid coming to BBC One
May 21, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Kosh, the Vorlon Ambassador off of Babylon 5, in their encounter suit, ready for the Met Gala.
May 6, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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Emma Thompson as Viv Rook, the loathsome leader of an opaquely-funded "upstart" fascist political party celebrating an entirely predictable electoral win having spent a political career constantly offering populist and grossly simplistic answers to deeply complex issues.
May 2, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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Also, just saw this and I think you'll appreciate it:
A poster for Star Trek II The Wrath of Madeline Khan
April 20, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Celebrating the 20th anniversary of "Yes!" from Do Me Bad Things by making it the soundtrack to my shopping trip to Uttoxeter this morning.

It's what they would have wanted.
A car infotainment display shows a song playing: it is "Sprezzatura" by Do Me Bad Things, which is in honour of the 20th anniversary of the release of the album it is from, "Yes!"
April 11, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Had to do a proper "Gizmo, noooo!" at the cat as she pissed on the mat in the kitchen.
Parker Posey as Victoria Ratliff in 'The White Lotus' s3, probably saying "Piper, noooo!"
April 4, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Post a ship that isn’t Star Wars or Star Trek
March 24, 2025 at 1:21 AM