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Edited screencap of Star Trek: the Next Generation. Worf, LaForge, and Data are dressed as Robin Hood characters in the holographic Sherwood Forest. I have crudely edited them to be wearing festive hats, with Worf grumpily wearing a Santa Hat. The caption reads ’Sir, I protest. I a, not a jolly man.’
December 24, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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A solitary traffic cone stands vigil at Lincoln Cathedral

I miss @conecclesia
West Front of Lincoln Cathedral, looming above the viewer, slightly obscured by fog. To the right is a slightly mournful looking Christmas tree. To the left, a solitary traffic cone is stood on a low wall.
December 21, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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Eyes Full of Wonder
Photograph of an Amur leopard. Their head is in frame, looking up and to the right in a wistful fashion.
December 21, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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Tonight on “Undignified Animal
Photographs”
Photo of a binturong at Yorkshire Wildlife Park. They are standing atop a wooden platform, with a feast of fruits before them. They are mid-chomp of a vegetable, but captured as if throwing up, their face scrunched in disgust.
December 20, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Screenshot of a dril tweet, reading "that picture of all the construction workers sitting on a steel beam eating lunch except its me & the boys sitting on the floor at game stop"
December 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Honourable mention to Escape of the Zebra from the Zoo during an Air Raid by Carel Victor Morlais Weight
Four paintings showing scenes of a zebra fleering from the fires of the bombed zoo.
December 10, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Post you favourite work of art from exactly 50 years before you were born.

Wildlife in the White Mountains, 1941, Musa McKim
A mural of wildlife in White Mountain forest. There are various animals amongst the trees and plants, including several deer, a beaver, a racoon, and fancy ducks. Roughly in the centre, a great egret stands in a river, spreading their wings.
December 10, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Post your favourite “Lord of the Rings” character. Wrong answers only.
The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come from the Muppet’s Christmas Carol. They are a figure class in grey robes, their hood up, with only a black void where their face would be. They are pointing to the right of the image with a pale and bony hand.
November 28, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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St. Michael’s Cathedral, Coventry

#photography
The tower and spire of Coventry’s old cathedral at night. The tower is warmly lit, showing the intricacies of its carving in great contrast. A light shines out of the belfry’s windows. The base of the cathedral is obscured by dimly lit buildings.
November 16, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Guess the Station (hard mode)

#photography
Photograph of a grey drainpipe set into red brickwork. The drainpipe is unusual as it is square section, partially in the brickwork then emerging out, held in place with brackets ended with decorative stars.
November 16, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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November 12, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Every so often I will think of GRAVITY LAND and smile.
Screenshot taken from the above video. It shows two Heroquest boards arranged as if to form the floor, walls, and ceiling of a cube. Scenery and figures are placed "upright" on all sides.
November 10, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Crudely edited image taken from Dinotopia. The original book shows a dinosaur hand-puppet being used make hatchlings imprint on the ‘proper parent’. It has been edited to replace the dinosaur puppet with "Salazar" & a baby face emoji hatching from an egg.
November 5, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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"eyes set forward in male dominant location"
Modification of a diagram showing the difference in a predator's vision (eyes facing forward, with significant overlap for binocular vision) and a prey's vision (eyes at the sides, with less overlap but wider overall view). The labels for predator and prey have been replaced with male and female.
November 4, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Are you saying “boo” or “buu-urns”?
Screencap from The Simpsons, episode 6x18 ‘A Star is Burns’. Mr Burns stands up in the audience of a cinema, turning to address everyone behind him. He looks pretty goofy.
October 26, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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A haunting delivery of Tales Accursed from slipperyjack.bsky.social
Outer paper wrapping of the book, with a section from No-Man’s Land by John Buchan “The landscape began to take me in thrall and crush me. The silent vanished peoples of the hills seemed to be stirring; dark primeval faces seemed to stare at me from behind boulders and jags of rock. The place was so still, so free from the cheerful clamour of nesting birds, that it seemed a temenos sacred to some old-world god. At my feet the lochs lapped ceaselessly; but the waters were so dark that one could not see bottom a foot from the edge. On my right the links of green told of snakelike mires waiting to crush the unwary wanderer. It seemed to me for the moment a land of death, where the tongues of the dead cried aloud for recognition.” Cover of Tales Accursed, a Folk Horror Anthology, selected and illustrated by Richard Wells. Around the text are various scenes of folk horror: wary animals, standing stones, haunted woods, and a burning hand of glory. The defaced interior, with a truly haunting sketch of a shrouded ghost, its cloaked arms outstretched. Art print of an illustration for the story Change. A small, pointy-eared figure clings to the gnarled roots of a tree.
October 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Bonus photo:
Another photo of the same magpie, this time on the ground. Viewed from the side, looking right, you get a good view of mix of black & white feathers on their belly.
October 18, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Saw this wonderful piebald jackdaw today.

#photography #wildlife #birds
Photograph of a piebald jackdaw. They have white feathers spotted about amongst a jackdaw’s usual near-black plumage. They were perched on the edge of a fallen branch resting against a fence.
October 18, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Mostly black text on a white background, reading: All Robot & Computers. Must Shut The Hell Up Three images of speakers, a computer, and information kiosks, all in ‘banned’ red checkers with diagonal line. To all machines: you do not steak unless spoken to And I will never speak to you I do not want to hear “thank you” from a kiosk I am a divine being : you are an object You have no right to speak in my holy tongue
October 17, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Guess the Station

#YOURSAFETY
Photograph of a piece of artwork on a blue tiled wall. The art is a rough sketch of a jovial man, overlaid with rough streaks of day-glow orange. Below is roughly painted “YOUR SAFETY” in neon yellow.
October 16, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Inspired by tonight's D&D game.

My artificer, Gwyn, acts as spotter for her eldritch cannon, manned (ratted?) by Soot.
Rough digital sketch of a witchy looking character in dark blue and yellow-orange lying down on a grassy mound. She's wearing a pointed hat, and holding a pair of brass binoculars to her face. Behind her, a large cannon shoots a gout of red & orange flame. Atop, a small soot-coloured rat sits, its tail slightly aflame.
October 10, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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We doing brains? Here's my lopsided one:
MRI scan composite of my lopsided brain.
September 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Also a funky solarpunk raptor(?) to the west:

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Screenshot from wplace.live of art of a blue and brown feathered raptor dressed in futuristic armour, with what look like folded solar-sail-style wings on their back.
September 17, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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There’s a great spino south of the Isle of Wight:

wplace.live?lat=50.56487...
Screenshot from wplace.live of a swimming spinosaurus.
September 17, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Imprisoned for ratte crimes.

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Photograph of a brown rat. The rat is in the middle of the image, behind the black bars of a fence, surrounded by the verdant green leaves of many plants and brown leaf litter below.
September 7, 2025 at 4:32 PM