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Major Clanger
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Cat minion, collector of Lego / old calculators / cake moulds. Baker, middle-aged weightlifter and convert to gardening. Has a growing assortment of Master's degrees including electronics, law and forensics.
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Indeed yes.
Two double beds in a hotel room with colourful pillows looking like maritime signal flags. One is red and yellow diagonal stripes one is black and yellow quadrants, one is four diagonal quarters in black, yellow, blue and red, and one is two diagonal halves in red and yellow.
November 12, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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John Cage would have approved. #NewGlenn #EscaPADE #BlueOrigin
A distant view of a rocket on a launch pad, with the countdown showing "L -0 04 33" and "HOLD".
November 9, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Deconstructed Ship of Theseus.
A wall display in a garden centre shop, with a sign 'Garden Tidying' over a rack of broom handles and broom heads.
November 9, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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T Ocellus from #AlienEarth - as a pumpkin.
A pumpkin lit from within. It has had most of the rind removed save for several circles carved to resemble the iris and pupil of an eye, if an eyeball had several of them.
October 31, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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I am not feeding our coffee beans through this delinquent fluffball. She is mad enough without caffeine.
A grey and white tuxedo Maine Coon with a quizzical expression, no doubt planning mayhem.
October 25, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Over on Threads and I think we’ve discovered RFK’s secret sock-puppet account.
A screenshot of a Threads post. Text reads: “Coffee might be worse for you than cigarettes. Use a white mug for your coffee for a month straight and watch how quickly it gets stained brown. Now, imagine what that same coffee is doing to your lungs.”
October 21, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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On a visit to Bodnant Gardens in Wales recently I noticed several swallows flying to and from nests in the eaves. I used the rapid shooting burst mode on my Canon R7 to get a dozen or so photos and then stacked and merged them in Adobe Lightroom to get a composite showing the birds' flight paths.
A photograph showing trees on the left and the corner of a stonebuilt house with wooden eaves on the other side. Between them are several streams of birds. The photograph shows swallows flying to and from nests in the eaves of the house, and has been created as a composite of several pictures taken in quick succession so that each bird flight path appears as a trail of bird images.
October 11, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Private Eye is going to have to come up with a lot of little speech bubbles for its cover next week.
Dozens of generals and admirals, plus their senior NCO aides, stare stonily ahead or look at each other in disbelief at the Hesgeth / Trump briefing yesterday. At least one is facepalming.
October 1, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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Ahem! As an adoptive Brummie I am obliged to point to Perrott's Folly and Edgbaston Waterworks Tower, standing close together not far from where JRRT spend some of his youth.
A tall redbrick octagonal tower with a line of vaulted windows up on of its faces and a crenellated top. A tall redbrick tower with gothic ornamentation.
September 9, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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I am absolutely loving how well the set designers are paying homage to the original 1979 work of Cobb and others.

I think I may actually have punched the air in delight at the close-up of the keyboard for MUTHUR.
A close up screenshot from ALIEN:EARTH showing a keyboard. The keys are large, full-height with concave tops, light beige and have a variety of odd mathematical and geometric symbols and doodles on them instead of any recognisable script.
September 5, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Indeed so. Mrs Clanger's squash patch has produced this, which looks like it should be one of those adverts reminding men to check down there for uneven size or lumps.
A squash. It is undeniably very reminiscent of a scrotum, albeit a hairless and worryingly orange one.
September 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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“I am not a number, I am a pint of stout!”
A pint glass of black stout beer, on a polished wooded table next to a brown bottle with the logo from ‘The Prisoner’, a penny farthing bicycle with a sunshade and a large red ‘6’.
August 27, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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I believe this one actually won an award.
Front page of Dundee Evening Telegraph from 19 July 2019, with huge full-page headline 'Everybody was Flung Poo Fighting: Battle over discarded dog waste'
August 2, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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The Flying Scotsman, crossing the River Severn at the Victoria Bridge this morning while on its visit to the Severn Valley Railway.
A drone photograph, taken looking slightly downwards from a distance, showing a green steam engine as it pulls brown passenger carriages with white roofs across a Victorian-era iron arch bridge over a river. The train line emerges from thick woodland on the steep far slope of the river. A small group of spectators watch from a footpath to the right of the bridge.
July 27, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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In case anyone is wondering how the UK is doing 50 years into metrication, this router bit is specified in a mixture of inches and millimetres, with the width being quoted as the mm equivalent of 9/16 of an inch.
A small plastic square cross-section tube (transparent with a blue stopper) containing a router bit. The label says “TCT Straight Router ϕ 14.3 30H 1/4D 2F”. This means it is 14.3mm (9/16 inch) diameter, 30mm cutting depth, 1/4 inch shank, and has 2 flutes (cutting edges).
July 21, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Our echinops are pretty much a buffet for bees and butterflies.
An echinops flowerhead (a round purple spiky ball) with a white butterfly feeding from it. There are out-of-focus vegetables in the background. An echinops flowerhead (a round purple spiky ball) with two bees gathering pollen. Behind it are more echinops, and blurred vegetables and a red-brick shed.
July 19, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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“I apologise for the slightly crumpled state of my skeleton argument and authorities but my cat thought I had printed them out for her to lie on.”
A rather floofy grey and white Maine Coon cat lying on top of a pile of printed paper next to a desk fan. She looks very comfortable and rather surprised that I might have another use for her new bedding.
July 18, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Things I learned today: that Adidas invented the levitated pit smart soccer ball.
Two Adidas smart footballs. One is intact showing the characteristic truncated icosahedron pattern. The other has been sectioned to show the sensor ball suspended in the centre.
July 7, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Post your favourite Doctor Who, wrong answers only.
Gary Oldman as Jackson Lamb from 'Slow Horses', a slovenly-looking middle-aged white man with lank collar-length hair, glasses, wearing a shabby raincoat. He is holding an ice cream cone.
June 30, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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They've gone Full Gerry Anderson.
'Thunderbirds' title screenshot, showing the word SUPERMARIONATION over a series of massive explosions.
June 19, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Live updates from SpaceX Starbase Texas.
A clip from the title sequence of Gerry Anderson tv show 'Thunderbirds', showing a series of huge explosions with 'SUPERMARIONATION' superimposed in huge stretched letters.
June 19, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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One of Taura’s eyebrow whiskers is sticking up and it looks like she’s trying to tune in to VHF.
A very floofy Maine Coon cat lying on a blue duvet. She has long white whiskers, one of which is sticking up vertically like an antenna.
June 12, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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Mrs Clanger: Can we do a quick trip to the garden centre after work?
A view into the boot of a hatchback car, which is now rather full of an assortment of bedding plants and shrubs.
June 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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On the way back from an errand to Worcester this morning Mrs Clanger and I found ourselves behind a car sporting this.
Yes, a giant pink wind-up key.
A view of the rear of a small silver Toyota hatchback (taken from the passenger seat of the car behind). The Toyota has a giant pink key, shaped like the wind-up key for a clockwork toy, stuck to the roof. For the full experience, imagine a Scotswoman saying "what the actual f**k is that?" next to you.
June 9, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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The Equal Treatment Bench Book (the guide for judges and magistrates in England and Wales regarding equality and discrimination) has just been updated. Here is one of the changes in the section on Trans people in court.
2024: “Deadnaming” is a term used where a trans person, in the course of transitioning or having transitioned, is called by their birth name, or when their birth name is otherwise referred to, instead of their chosen name. 2025: “Deadnaming” is a term used where a trans person, in the course of transitioning or having transitioned, is called by their birth name, or where their birth name is otherwise referred to, instead of their chosen name. In court, witnesses may refer to a person by their deadname if this is how they knew them.
May 30, 2025 at 8:32 PM