Acceptable in the sense they were once secret and them being secret was an important part of their function.

I think at that point it no longer counts as wanking

Not for the first time either. Much of Chicago’s modern history is about drainage and effluence.

And since he refers to it, and it doesn’t require headphones or a willing audience, here is a blog post he wrote which obliquely (at best) relates, but is germane and equally lovely (with some cripy edges - like a good steak or chip) thecosmicshamblesnetwork.substack.com/p/the-speed-...

Still need a pre-paid IdF mobilités “ticket”/carnet but can at least buy that without an extra app directly from with your apple/google wallet. Not much good if you can’t or don’t want to use a smart phone though… but some progress.

Some might even say extreme!

That’s Nestle Croydon on the right. An object lesson in commercial to resi conversion. Vacant since 2012. No idea why it was chosen but an interesting write up of this “Multiverse” of idents from 2022 theident.gallery/itv1-2022.php

Can’t help on the origin bu it’s NOT quasi judicial. Hackney used to assert it was but J found it not to be the case in Holborn Studios

And here’s BA’s piece from the latest High Life magazine bahighlife.com/destinations...

Oh helpful. Though I suspect a little costly with storage space given the relative poor quality of the original material. I’ve just been comb filtering and transcoding to H.264/MP4 25fps rate and fixed bit rate to get then a sensible size.

Are the jellies wobbling erotically though?

The likes of @bloor and @cybergibbons over on X have done a lot work on this proprietary system over the last few years including some almost identical combos only a few hundred meters apart - ie plausibly correct but fatally wrong.

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Interestingly they would fail accessibility standards if used to differentiate elements next to each other on a web page but of course they aren’t really used that way on the map where we have other devices to distinguish them