A boring thread about the joy of official documents, the systems that record them, and names with symbols in. My marriage certificate is the only document that records the fact I'm technically known by two names, which actually is the same name, just one with/without a hyphen. 1/~

I'm still sad about what happened to the Whitechapel Bell Foundry. I visited the foundry back in 2016; I walked past it last month, and besides it looking very unloved and no longer a hive of activity, the site has stood still since operations ceased in the spring of 2017. #London #FilmPhotography

What the hell are you up to, Wes Anderson…

When you look up ‘karma’ in the dictionary 🌚

Hard-hitting journalism from the capital's premier conker competition. Great to report this one for @londonermag.bsky.social! www.the-londoner.co.uk/they-came-th...

Last weekend, I met Kit Mackintosh. Sat at a typewriter in the middle of Covent Garden, he invited people to pay what they want for a poem on a topic of their choosing. I asked him to write a poem about overcoming sadness. www.version3point1.co.uk/blog/sadness #FilmPhotography #London #Poetry

maybe this is what happens when you try and pick a 2025 team on 2022 vibes

‘Then and now: London's Transport in Photographs’ is on display at the London Transport Museum in Covent Garden. Thank you to the Museum curators and @analoguewonderland.bsky.social for the freedom to work exclusively with film for this exhibition. #FilmIsNotDead Press portrait ©️ Alick Cotterill

Never have I seen a place so desperate to be vandalised as Old Street station at this moment

Or the cue to launch into an epic Madness song

My name is Angus and I photoshop my cat in to photos of trains.

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People getting confused about the relationship between accent, class, money, and identity

Been busy with a photography commission (for an exhibition) the last few months (migraines permitting). Tying up a few loose ends still as there’s some cataloguing that needs to be done, paperwork/admin, and a few more bits and pieces. One final push until I’m over the line..!

I feel like my pinned post is a bit of a self-own at this point looking at the bin fire that is Current Affairs 💀

Hordes of bots are using AI-images to automate fake #gaming influencers and fake #gamedev / #indiedev accounts. I'm compiling a huge blocklist. Help quell the bots by: 1) Subscribe to the list and click block: bsky.app/profile/did:... 2) Share the list 3) Report bots I missed 4) -or false positives

Current assignment is coming along well and we will be looking to send out a Press Release in the coming months to formally announce the project that I've been working on these last few months.

I've been quite busy. It has been a while since I posted anything on here, but I enjoyed dialling down some of my Social Media use, given I've sadly seen the damage that it has done to a now ex-friend (who is clearly suffering from addiction/compulsion, which has manifested a toxic personality).

This week in history — In January 2018, a Norwegian 737 carrying a group of 85 plumbers to a convention in Munich had to turn back to Oslo... because the toilets stopped working.

Just some @cinestillfilm.bsky.social 800T (box speed), but without any post-lab scan colour correction. It really is a vibe, but do you tweak the colours or leave it? Dev/scan by @analoguewonderland.bsky.social. #BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #London

Over £1,200 in vintage camera repairs in the last 12 months, when I could just shoot with modern, digital equipment like most normal people. 😆 Just picked up my Canon New F-1 and a few lenses from Sendean Cameras, who also happened to do a job on my Agfa Optima 1535 Sensor rangefinder last summer.

Amtrak desperately needs to bring these gorgeous timetables back. (Link below)

For what it's worth - the current transport purgatory that is Acton Town Station has no business looking this amazing in the (rare) afternoon winter sun (I'm actually offended, given the recent Uxbridge branch/rolling stock dramas). #London #FilmPhotography

I've been hideously busy with day job burning me out (back-to-back 7-in-a-rows) and then having to negotiate the side hustle and other life things outside of work. There's been a lot going on in the background photography-wise with a very large commission, as well as navigating personal projects...

The London Underground, the world's oldest metro system & 'great engineering triumph of the day', opened #OTD 1863. London Transport Museum

Yeah. So having to be at work on the #MemeRailway at 04:45 this morning was quite the anti-climax to an anti-climax of a NYE, but at least I was back home in bed by 11:30. #MetLineChronicles

2020 🤝 2021 🤝 2022 🤝 2023 🤝 2024 🤝 2025

A sedate Christmas/Boxing Day in Kent. In-laws recently moved to outside Canterbury, so our first Christmas there (& also walked off some of the seasonal excess in Ramsgate). As we float in the space between 25th Dec & NYE (where nobody knows what day it is); best wishes to you all for 2025. 💛

Last night was ‘hump’ day (shift no. 4 in a run of 7) for me. Every day this week, something has happened on the #MemeRailway. _Shattered._ Yesterday my windscreen wiper jammed IN THE RAIN burning out the motor. No spare trains, so I had to sit around to get it fixed. #MetLineChronicles #Tubegeek

I used to enjoy the sound of rain, until I became a victim of typhoon Ondoy, with floods that reached the ceiling (we evacuated early). Now, when I do hear the rain in real life, I feel anxious. How sad, for a tragedy like that to steal the old pleasure I had of the sound of rain 🌧️ #climatechange

Rounded off the working week with a job interview (ft. li’l yellow trains), a metal crab, and an edible snowman.

James Webb telescope just dropped its latest image, Neptune, and its rings.

Our guy @mitchelmor.uk doing the Lord’s work this morning as I start another day on the #MemeRailway. Thank you, bro. 🙏 #MetLineChronicles #RailwayFamily

Just a reminder to all my non-linguist friends that prescriptivism is not your friend. Or at least it’s not going to make you and I friends in the long run. 😂

2024 me ruing the patriarchy is potentially going to outlive my existence via an interview/oral history recording tomorrow at our head office for our Corporate Archives collection. 💀 Haven’t been told what I’ll be asked except that they want me to run through my employment history since 2007.

It’s a BigJetTV kind of weekend. 😬 #StormDarragh

Bit of a dodgy journey to work this morning at 07:00 with the storm. 😬 A wee bit slippery today with the railhead & a bit of a fussy train with it on first half of the duty; a better time of it with second train later in the day. And thankfully no trampolines/gazebos #MetLineChronicles #MemeRailway

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Yesterday I had to give up a job I enjoy doing & demote myself cos of a culture of unfairness that others are unwilling to change. One of the worst things about the male-dominated railway industry is when _other women_ in positions of power gatekeep/put other women down to keep the status quo.

JONI MITCHELL: They took all the trees, put 'em in a tree museum / And they charged the people a dollar an' a half just to see 'em TECH BRO: Sounds awesome but can we make it a monthly subscription

Yet everyone in my local, or in the TV room at work, bursts out into song in this surreal unison every time it plays. 😂

Day 2 of a run of earlies and 02:30 alarms. 😴 My weekend off after a run of nine lates was needed, but it also feels like it was in another life. #MetLineChronicles #RailwayFamily

One of the reasons I got interested in #Linguistics, enough to pursue it for my undergrad as a mature student, is the evolution of language. It’s amazing! With thanks of course to @susiedent.com in Dictionary Corner and @gretchenmcc.bsky.social’s excellent (+ very accessible!) ‘Because Internet’.

Your IKEA product name is your name spelled backwards with an umlaut. So according to these fairly loose linguistic rules, I am SÄGNINAM, but I feel more like an annually-occuring week-long arts and crafts festival that starts on the third Sunday of April, rather than an IKEA product.

In other news, I have *finally* reached my day (and weekend) off after working nine days in a row and the fatigue whiplash is quite strong, but I have some location scouting to do in town and some test rolls to shoot, so the spinning of many plates continues.

I mean, we've been saying this wouldn't happen since that hilarious 1977 Evening Standard article, which had the headline 'DRIVERLESS TUBES BY 1990'. 😂 #MemeRailway

Supportive text-based services are just as much a lifeline as telephone ones especially if, like me, you become non-verbal in times of acute distress/anxiety.