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I write sometimes. I take photos sometimes. I even leave the house sometimes.

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Couldn’t decide, so one of each colour ordered.
A meme of an old painting with a woman and child. The weary woman has paper in her hand showing the latest post by 1 of 100 with their new sweatshirts. The caption reads, “‘New sweatshirts on 1 of 100’. Oil on canvas.”
March 14, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Peak 1980s album cover posing from two of the cats this morning.

Happy new year, everyone.
Two cats stare moodily in opposite directions. The front cat - a tuxedo - has more whiskers than any cat should have, and most of them point in different directions. The cat at the back - a ragdoll - is a bumbling idiot.
January 1, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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I have three screens for working at home.

I like to say it’s so I can have spreadsheets open across all three, but in reality it’s so I can put YouTube ‘videos for cats’ on one screen each morning to keep one of my unpaid interns busy.

He’s never actually seen a mouse - I suspect he’d run a mile.
A ragdoll cat looking at mice on a computer screen. A ragdoll cat looking at mice on a computer screen.
December 10, 2024 at 10:45 AM
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“Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings…”

The Alps (inc. Mont Blanc).

(📸 by me, yesterday)
A view from an aircraft looking down over the Alps as they start to reach towards the sky, their slopes and peaks covered in snow. A view from an aircraft looking down over the snow-covered Alps, including Mont Blanc. The flatter land stretching in the distance towards the horizon. A view from an aircraft looking down over the snow-covered Alps, including Mont Blanc. The flatter land stretching in the distance towards the horizon. A view from an aircraft looking down over the snow-covered Alps.
November 30, 2024 at 9:50 AM
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Oh man. Just had a look and it seems they’re correct.
The 1 of 100 website with some photos of lagged pipes over the top. It’s less funny when I’m typing this Alt Text.
November 30, 2024 at 9:12 AM
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I’ve been lucky enough to visit Rome’s Colosseum several times over the years, and yet only on today’s visit did I find out that the Colosseum has a cat flap.
The Colosseum cat flap. The Colosseum cat flap.
November 28, 2024 at 11:01 PM
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The San Siro is such an iconic stadium, especially for old folk like me who remember Italia 90. Brilliant to finally visit.

Plus a beer and a hot dog at the football. An alien world to Scotland. The Italian reaction to a sad burnt pie and a tepid Bovril would be quite the sight.
The San Siro before the Champions League game between Inter and RB Leipzig. The stadium lights are dimmed as the fans raise their phone torches. Like a Coldplay concert but with more Italian swear words.
November 27, 2024 at 7:20 AM
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Great news, everyone. Baxter the cat has decided to make a start on my beer advent calendar, so I want to wish you all a very happy December 8th. 🍻
A photograph of the red and green coloured doors of a large advent calendar for beer, with the door for number 8 already prised open.
November 23, 2024 at 9:15 AM
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Love that colour. Quality choice. How exciting it must be to see it all coming together.

Surely this sign is coming soon. I know I certainly want one. A cardigan. Not a sign.

Might even need to head west to come find the shop.

#BanditCountry
November 22, 2024 at 10:43 AM
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‘Garlic is the mother of all onions.’
An excerpt of a conversation in a published diary from 1924: “I talk a little while to him at the corner of Dudhope Street, when he says : "Do you feel the smell of onions off me?" "No! I can't say that I do, but I'm not very sensitive to smells." "I thought you did; I've been taking Garlic." " Garlic! What's that?" "The best medicine that anybody can take for killing germs of any sort. Garlic is the mother of all onions.” The inside cover image and text from ‘Gahan’s Diary - A year of my life and people I have met (1924)’, published in 1926. James Gahan was a Dundee man who published a year of his diary for family and friends.
November 21, 2024 at 11:04 AM
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Love these. Highlight of visiting Bologna a few years back was wandering down to the anatomy museum to see the waxes. So amazingly detailed.
November 18, 2024 at 4:34 PM
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Me: I’m going to put the laptop on today and have peace to get caught up. No distractions. I’ll get so much done.

Me 5 mins later: My Work Prevention Officer has decreed that all employment-related activities must cease.
My daftest cat lying upside down across my desk, ready to grab my mouse hand if I inch towards it.
November 17, 2024 at 12:41 PM
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This slightly amended advice seems reasonable.
A red stone church lit by streetlight, with an altered message for Sarah around going to more gigs. She should definitely wash that top though.
November 17, 2024 at 4:24 AM
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There are times on @bsky.app when there is no character count for how much of your Saturday evening you can spend making something simply because a post in your timeline gave you an idea.

Behold.
November 16, 2024 at 9:39 PM
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The heat map of Brian’s cat looks eerily familiar… @profbriancox.bsky.social
November 16, 2024 at 8:32 PM
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This can’t be right.
November 15, 2024 at 11:45 PM
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Hear me out, @weare1of100.
November 15, 2024 at 8:02 PM
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Bluesky October 2024 vs November 2024.

(pre-text 📽️ credit: unknown)
November 15, 2024 at 12:58 PM
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I have no justification for this other than the dull Teams call I’m currently a comatose participant in, but on seeing your skeet I felt an urge to mark the resurrection of said celebration with a photo I took in Pompeii. And I may or may not have added a flag.
A photo of a naked male statue in Pompeii with a flag added, um, strategically to celebrate Phallic Thursday. The statue has no hands. Where else was I to stick it?
November 15, 2024 at 11:44 AM
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Happy to offer up this beautiful lunatic as my emergency timeline cat offering.
A blue-eyed ragdoll cat. He’s beautiful but impossibly dense. A treacle brain wrapped in gold.
November 15, 2024 at 11:07 AM
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Keep your Stonehenge solstice or New York’s Manhattanhenge.

A mid-November sunrise lined up behind Dundee’s Tay Road Bridge is where it’s at.
The sun rises over the Fife end of the Tay Road Bridge from Dundee. Some would say the Fife is the lesser side. Some would argue that it’s the best side as they get to look at Dundee all day.
November 15, 2024 at 11:00 AM
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Look, I’m not saying that these three ARE producing this year’s best rap album about their complicated relationship with the laser pen, their shared love for chicken slices and why belly rubs do often need to end in violence, I’m just saying that if they WERE, this would be the cover.
A tuxedo cat, a ragdoll and a grey cat sit together in the garden. A tuxedo cat, a ragdoll and a grey cat sit together in the garden. But this time it’s an album cover for their new LP, ‘Straight Outta Cat Food’.
November 15, 2024 at 8:03 AM
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Me after only a few days on Bluesky, casually soaking up all the many album and book recommendations I’ve seen from those I now follow.
An old photo from god knows when or where with a bloke that has two large metal shapes stuck to the side of his head as some sort of listening device. The kind of thing I always wanted as a kid to get early warning of an ice cream van 28 streets away but getting closer.
November 14, 2024 at 11:03 PM
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Where does everyone else stash their lunatics?
November 14, 2024 at 7:45 AM
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My favourite trivia around the Maradona mural in Napoli is that it’s the window to a bloke’s bathroom who can no longer open his shutters but does manage to hang his bath mat out like it’s catching drool from Diego’s chin.

(📸 mockchopped, Nov 2023)
The face of Diego Maradona on his mural in Napoli with a bathmat sticking out of the shutters below his chin. The face of Diego Maradona on his mural in Napoli with a bathmat sticking out of the shutters below his chin.
November 12, 2024 at 4:10 PM