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obandsoller.bsky.social
@obandsoller.bsky.social
(he/him)
Left: After dying last time (Sunshine)
Middle: Day before dying it this time
Right: After dying it a couple of days ago. (Vampire Red)

About 4 months since I last dyed it. It had faded a lot more than I realised.
August 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
1) the original research was in 2009, mythbusters did their episode in 2010.

2) so what if someone has done it before? It's important to reproduce results and I'm just guessing here, but I expect they tried to do more than the earlier researchers to test questions raised by earlier research.
June 29, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Left: After dying it Sunshine
Middle: Yesterday before dying it.
Right: After dying it Sunshine again (but with a somewhat different effect)
April 17, 2025 at 5:37 PM
That seemed like bullshit so I looked it up. She was born in London.

But she was conceived in Swastika, Ontario. I'm not sure if that seems less plausible or not!
January 18, 2025 at 10:39 AM
January 10, 2025 at 7:56 PM
January 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM
There's a little strip of the road that's made out of a different material, and the leaves seem to stick to that part.
November 22, 2024 at 9:15 PM
I really like lights reflecting on pavements like that. It reminds me of a picture I took of the bird cage outside King's Cross ages ago.
November 20, 2024 at 11:13 AM
Hi, I'd like to buy the audiobook.
But if I follow the link to audible link from this website
static.macmillan.com/static/smp/s...
then I get the following message telling me the audiobook isn't available in the UK.

Is there somewhere else I can buy it? Or is it not actually available worldwide?
September 25, 2024 at 6:25 PM
Pretty late to the party!
September 17, 2024 at 6:52 AM
September 14, 2024 at 9:45 PM
I said "Get well soon!" and that comment violated community standards.
I guess it's because it's automated.
September 8, 2024 at 11:55 PM
Left: After dying it with 2 pots Rockabilly Blue and Electric Banana.
Middle: Yesterday before dying it.
Right: After dying it Sunshine

About 6 months since I last dyed it so more than time for an update.
August 31, 2024 at 12:26 PM
I really like that etymology. I found it because the cover of Raymond Chandler's The Lady in the Lake had that spelling, and it seemed very odd.
August 22, 2024 at 11:19 AM
July 29, 2024 at 7:03 PM
When I was learning words for scrabble I tried to learn their definitions too, a bunch were something like "a type of bird" which isn't all that helpful in giving you something to hook onto. But it did cause me to look up AUK.
May 18, 2024 at 3:30 PM
I think that you need to respond to the entire argument. Not just the bit that was clipped. I am not sure I agree with him, lol he doesn't understand Cage isn't engaging with what he actually said.

Here's the rest.
April 24, 2024 at 1:15 PM
Thank you! Lovely to meet you!

Here's the fig and balsamic sorbet with goat's cheese and toasted walnuts.
April 4, 2024 at 9:33 PM
Left: After dying it Electric Banana.
Middle: Yesterday before dying it.
Right: After dying it with 2 pots Rockabilly Blue and Electric Banana.
March 27, 2024 at 1:36 PM
My husband feels the same. Not everything is red. But we have quite a bit of it.
March 8, 2024 at 5:18 PM
There are days where I get annoyed at Americans who seem to have their entire idea of England from Monty Python or something, and there are days I look up what a googly is to try and explain it to a friend and see this.
December 9, 2023 at 5:06 PM
The second part reminds me of those Edward Hopper paintings that are a skewed rectangle of light against a wall in am empty room.
November 10, 2023 at 4:40 AM
Strawberry short cake and black sesame latte. Not a great pairing, but that's my bad.
October 20, 2023 at 1:17 PM
September 26, 2023 at 4:09 PM
Another year older.
September 12, 2023 at 10:53 PM