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Giles Sutcliffe
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Ex-chemist turned database coder. Into TTRPGs, SF, science, tech, real ale, whisky. Fan of Banks/Pratchett/Stross etc. May emit horrible puns without warning. He/him. Brum, UK
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It is now far too late...
Birmingham Moor St station concourse at 20:45, on my return from a long day trip to London. It is dark outside, again...
September 24, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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It is FAR too early.
A picture of the concourse at Moor St Station in Brum at 5:45am. It is dark outside.
September 24, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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Salmon!
September 7, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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This was utterly spectacular. There's a creamy risotto and some melted burrata (I think) under all the fish. Wonderful.
An amazing plate of seafood. Lobster tail, prawns clams and a piece of white fish, on top of a lovely risotto with melted burrata, some cooked cherry tomatoes, and some fort of tomato relish.
September 1, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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It's called The Wave, apparently, and not The Tongue
A sculpture, disturbingly shaped like a giant tongue sticking out of the ground.
September 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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I mean, this is from the seafront beer garden. That's HMCS Sackville
A harbour. Sunny and blue skies. A museum warship is moored across the water.
September 1, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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It is just glorious here on the Halifax seafront today. Apparently Canada hasn't heard about rain for public holidays...
The Halifax boardwalk. The sun is out, sky is blue with tiny clouds, there are boats and flags and people enjoying it all.
September 1, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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There are worse places to be on a Monday morning
A view from Halifax citadel, Nova Scotia, out over the harbour and the Atlantic beyond. It's a sunny day and it shines off the water.
September 1, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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The curse of Madri reaches Canada...
The bar menu at the Dukes Pub in Halifax NS. Madri is lurking in the middle of the list.
August 31, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Some avian nonsense to brighten your timeline: owlsintowels.org
An owl has been wrapped in a red towel so it can be handled safely. The towel resembles a cowled robe; the owl is staring indignantly out from the hood.
May 27, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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A golfer retriever is sitting on his haunches in a pub, looking at his human. He would very clearly like to go home.
April 15, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Screenshot attached is the name of a real law firm in the USA (whose leadership appear to have no spines, incidentally). Writer friends, am I right in thinking this would be rejected if you put it in a novel?
A company sign board. Name is, all in block caps, "Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP". Bronze text on a slate grey background.
April 2, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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March 30, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Found this in a local Sainsbury's. Wondering if there's something in the water.
A pack of Sainsbury's party food chicken nuggets. The caption reads "Gingerbread Shaped People with ketchup". The nuggets are little breaded homunculi.
December 21, 2024 at 10:06 PM
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There's an experimental option to push bits from your other feeds into Following - it's not that somehow is it?
A screenshot of the Bsky Following Feed Preferences, to show the experimental option at the bottom
November 30, 2024 at 10:26 AM
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Strong @smolrobots.bsky.social feel to the air mattress compressor on the end of my hospital bed here
The end of a UK hospital bed. Hooked over the end with black metal arms is a grey, ovoid shape, maybe 20cm wide and 5cm high. Two screws and a handhold give it a wide, smiling face. It has one job, which is to keep my air mattress inflated. It's very good at it. Thanks NHS
May 30, 2024 at 10:39 PM
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Too good a point to be left festering in the Musklands:
A typical Frazetta; the Lord of the Nazgul looms over a kneeling Eowyn. She's wearing the most entirely form-fitting chainmail and armour-plate leotard, with pronounced breasts and a high-cut thigh.
May 4, 2024 at 6:37 PM
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Some time earlier...
An old road sign on a wall. It reads A55 Bangor
February 1, 2024 at 9:55 AM
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New arrangement of deckchairs may decide fate of Titanic
BBC Headline: Kuenssberg: New health secretary could decide Tory party's fate
December 2, 2023 at 11:05 PM