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50-something, Gen X, left of centre gay man. I have epilepsy, mostly controlled. Here mainly to doomscroll while awaiting the apocalypse (big smiley face), particularly after Twitter became unbearable. Trans people exist and are welcome.
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Long past time for billionaires, millionaires and corporations to be brought to heal so that they stop buying politicians to protect their greed. No one should be a billionaire in a world with rampant poverty, illiteracy and ill health.
A picture that says: I’m fed up with people who make $10000 an hour convincing people who make $30 an hour that people making $12 an hour are greedy and asking for too much.
December 1, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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The Muppets from Space (Tim Hill, 1999 - not a classic).
A cover of the DVD for the movie The Muppets from Space. It has the title and, below that, the main Muppets shown coming out of the top of a UFO against a background of the moon and the stars.
November 30, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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A fantastic satire of Hollywood. The whole cast is awesome. If you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend watching it.
The image is a poster for Blake Edward’s 1981 Hollywood satire S.O.B. It shows an anthropomorphic bull sat in a move director’s chair wearing sunglasses and smoking a cigar with a bullhorn and film canister on each side.
October 31, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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This is the bathroom from the Gallier House, built/installed in 1859. If Trump was really concerned about historical accuracy and making the bathroom look like it was from Lincoln’s time, he would have done it this way. He isn’t and he didn’t. It’s just the usual bad taste bullshit from Trump.
A screenshot of a bathroom. The bath is wooden with brass taps. Directly adjoining it to the right of the picture is a wooden lavatory with porcelain bowl and wooden cover (the cover is raised in the photo). The bathroom was installed/completed in 1859. Below the photo of the bathroom is the sentence saying “The bathroom at Gallier House was considered very modern when it was built”.
October 31, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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The trouble with taking my glasses off is that I can’t find the fuckers when I try to put them back on. Arm of the chair? No. Table? No. Top of my head? No. In my lap? No. On my thigh? No. Fallen on the floor for me to discover by treading on them? Yes. Mystery solved.
Man with glasses that will undoubtedly be lost in the next few seconds. Lost? Or stolen by the glasses pixies?
October 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Reminds me of Little Edie of Grey Gardens.
A photograph of “Little” Edie Bouvier outside of her home, Grey Gardens. She’s wearing a scarf over hair and a fur coat. Behind her is her dilapidated family home, Grey Gardens. Edie was a member of the extended Bouvier family that included Jaqueline Kennedy (JFK’s widow). Little Edie and her mom, “Big” Edie, were filmed in 1975’s documentary Grey Gardens, which was about their story of going from riches to rags. It showed their life of living in squalor. Both Little and Big Edie were called that because they were daughter and mother. They had both been socialites and considered beauties of their respective eras.
October 28, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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Why is there a Wraith figure over Tucker’s junk?
This picture is a malevolent Wraith that is hovering. It is a hooded spectre with a hidden face and a long black shroud that is shredded at the arms and bottom length. Skeleton arms and hands protrude through the arm holes. Wraiths are a type of ghost, spectre, or apparition, that can refer to a malevolent vengeful spirit. The one in the Tucker Carlson photo appears to be hovering over his trouser-wrapped (thank Buddha) genitals. Origin of image: unknown author and date, clipped from the internet via a Google search for Wraith.
October 25, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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How very Dutch.

Do you have an advance referral to Rheumatology for incipient gout?

Joking aside, it looks lovely and delicious.
Floris van Dijck’s painting Still life with Cheeses, Grapes, Apples and Pears on pewter and porcelain Plates with a Roemer, Bread Roll and Nuts (c. 1616). Held in the UK’s National Gallery. The rich setting and the abundance of cheese and fruit signify both the wealth and power of the Dutch Golden Age and the reality of mortality and decay: everything comes to an end eventually. Another Floris van Dijck’s painting: Still Life with Cheese (c. 1615). Held in the Netherlands’ Rijksmuseum. This painting also shows a rich setting with an abundance of cheese and fruit signifying both the wealth and power of the Dutch Golden Age and the reality of mortality and decay.
October 19, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Reminds me a bit of …
A photo of Bouguereau’s Dante and Virgil painting (1850). Details of Bouguereau’s Dante and Virgil (1850) painting from the catalogue of the Musee d’Orsay in Paris, where it is part of the museum’s collection.
October 9, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Some people just don’t have time for these mundane tasks. Gus is one of those people. He is clearly carrying out complex mathematical equations behind those eyes.

The beautiful, super smart, kind maniac below always used to try to catch with her front paws. It never worked in 16 years. Miss her.
A beautiful blue roan English Cocker Spaniel. She is sitting down facing the camera.
September 29, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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… And then I saw this …
Screenshot of a post from Rep Thomas Massie. It says: “Tonight, Congress will vote to lower the age to prosecute minors as adults from 16 down to 14 in DC. Let me get this straight: Congress wants to persecute 14 yr. olds as adults, but they don’t want to prosecute adults who sexually abuse 14 year olds? Release the Epstein files.”
September 18, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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If only it were. This maniac would have kissed everyone.
A beautiful and much missed Cocker Spaniel. Adorable but quite quite mad.
September 12, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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I’ll go further and name a whole musical:

Sail Away with music, lyrics and book by Noel Coward and directed by Noel Coward. Produced on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre in 1961 and the West End at The Savoy Theatre in 1962. Elaine Stritch was nominated for a Tony as Best Actress in a Musical.
The front page of the Play Bill from the 1961/1962 Broadway production of Sail Away. It shows Elaine Stritch and Noel Coward leaning over rail of an ocean going ship, which was part of the set. It has the name of the theatre, The Broadhurst Theatre, in the top left hand corner.
September 12, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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In my defence, it does say “Ask anything”.

But trust AI to take the fun out of things. “O brave new world that has such [technology] in’t.”
Screenshot of AI response to the question “Is Trump dead?” The AI response is no, it was a rumour based on social media, and that the rumours have been debunked after recent public appearances, including at a golf course today (30th August 2025).
August 30, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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I wonder what happened on the Wednesday for the news to be at number 9 in the most watched of that week?

I checked. It might be any of these. Or something else but don’t know what.
A screenshot listing UK specific and international events from that week ending 27th August 1978. It lists the following. International: Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt. Earthquake disaster in Iran. Airline disaster with Pacific Southwest Airlines UK: Premier of the musical Evita in the West End in London. The BBC band the Sex Pistols’ song “No One is Innocent”.
August 28, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Sadly, he wasn’t able to become old. He didn’t get to benefit from the improvements in HIV/AIDS medication that now largely makes HIV a chronic illness rather than the fatal one it was.
A copy of Haring’s Silence = Death lithograph. The image is in landscape format. At the top are words saying IGNORANCE = FEAR, in the middle are three ‘dancing’ figures covering their eyes, ears, mouth (representing see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil and thus propagating ignorance about the dangers of HIV/AIDS), and on the bottom are the words saying SILENCE = DEATH. Next to the bottom words is a pink triangle (the symbol of gay liberation in the 1970’s and 1980’s and taken from the patch that the Nazis used to identify gay people - many of whom were killed in the concentration camps). Next to the pink triangle are the smaller words in capital letters that say FIGHT AIDS ACT UP (Act Up was a protest organisation critical in fighting for research and funding into HIV/AIDS). On the right of the painting are the words (c) K Harding 89 going from bottom to top in a column. They show the copyright, artist, year of production. The image is a screenshot of the lithograph held at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
August 6, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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A poster for the film Theatre of Blood starring Vincent Price.
August 4, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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… And no, he wasn’t playing a synthesiser on stage.
Close up screenshot of the pianist playing the piano keys rather than a synthesiser. The latter could have accounted for the pipe organ sound, but playing an ordinary piano could not.
August 1, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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I am old.
A photo showing a school film projector using reel to reel tape. Common in the 1970’s and earlier before the use of videotape machines that attached to televisions. Schools used to buy or rent films for use, typically for geography, history, health education (the latter usually when teachers were too embarrassed or too unsure themselves about a topic to teach it).
July 27, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Beautiful, a great singer, very intelligent and insightful as well as inspiring. You’re a great all rounder Goose. 30/10. Keep up the good work!

You remind me of this maniac. He was Sam and is much missed over the last 30 years.
A close up picture of a handsome/beautiful yellow Labrador. There is a child’s arm (mine) over one of the Labrador’s shoulders cuddling him as he looks into the distance (no doubt at food - food was one of his main hobbies, along with walks, swimming, general mischief and zoomies. He rarely played catch or fetch as he believed that if you wanted the stick, you should just keep the stick).
July 22, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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This all feels like Brave New World but where the Epsilons have been put in charge. We’re in a race to limiting creativity, where everything is judged on how it contributes to consumerism. There will be no imagination or valuing society except where it builds products that can be sold and bought.
The picture shows a pyramid broken down into levels of Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons with descriptions next to each. These are the categories that Aldous Huxley used in his 1931/1932 novel “A Brave New World”. The novel imagined a new society set in the future. The society would be divided into categories using genetic engineering and assigning people to defined roles. The categories would go from Alphas, the highest, most intelligent, most creative in society, down to the Epsilons, who were genetically engineered to be created as twins and to be the least intelligent and doing only the most menial work (they are also referred to “semi-morons” or as “Epsilon semi-morons” in the novel text).
July 12, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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The Tall Guy (1989).
A still photo from the 1989 comedy film The Tall Guy. It shows the two stars of the movie, Jeff Goldblum and Emma Thompson, standing together in character. The movie was released shortly before their they became famous in the 1990’s through their better known films.
July 11, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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It’s a good thing Trump didn’t do anything stupid like cut funding for an essential service that identifies severe weather risks & gives early warnings. It’s even better that he didn’t do it given that he was warned how stupid & reckless it would be. All this winning.
Screenshot of Reuters news agency showing President Trump signing an order cutting funding at national/federal weather service.
July 5, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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An amazing time to be alive.

Meanwhile, the Metropolitan Police … (apologies it’s from the Sun)
A headline from the infamously crappy UK newspaper the Sun, notorious for being trash. Its headline is “Cop axed - Met cop sacked after farting in female officer’s face …”.
July 4, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Is it me, or does he a look a goofy?
A cropped image of a book called Satan. The book cover shows a creature that looks like a dragon with extra horns. Presumably it’s meant to be scary and show the Devil but, on close up, the face seems to have crossed eyes and a somewhat stupid looking smile (as in the creature is stupid). The overall effect is not so much frightening and more of a comical, goofy look on the being’s face.
June 5, 2025 at 2:44 PM