"Everyone thinks they know the story of Dick Turpin's highway glory..." www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYU-...

I witnessed a miracle on my way to work this morning

Movie you've watched more than 6 times with a gif. No Star Wars or Trek, Marvel or LOTR

Marvelling at the range of involuntary noises “one” finds “oneself” emitting in middle age: *Standing up - dying manatee winched from mineshaft *Sitting down - air escaping from punctured pouffe *Bending over - concussed bison wrestled into sack *Sneezing - final roar of once-proud warrior race

Chilly up at Moorswater today, but worth it for the light when sun came out from behind the clouds.

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to: Manic Street Preachers Pet Shop Boys Crowded House Elbow OMD

*Superb* trade advert for Python's Holy Grail soundtrack album. I love this, and I don't think I've ever seen it before.

Fifteen Years xkcd.com/3172/

Great Western's few surviving Castle HST sets have only a couple of weeks left in service, so I made the most of the sun and went out to take photos. First near Ivybridge...

It's believed we've lost the true name for bear in Germanic languages - "bear" roughly means "brown one," a euphemism used instead of the true name because it was believed that saying their true name would summon the bear.

He stees you when you're stleeping.

Tough time for freelance artists and the amazingly talented @gailmyerscough.co.uk is having a tough week sales wise. Have a look at her wonderful site! I’d be very grateful (as would she!). Please share! Thank you! www.gailmyerscough.co.uk

This is a live cam of the sky in Iceland. If you’re in the US, it could give you a few hours heads up on what kind of night it might be! And if you live somewhere cloudy, well, it’s also useful then lavacentre.is/live/norther...

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The worst thing about flags and poppies being stolen as performative tokens by cunts, is the implication that the members of my own family who fought and died over the last century or so were corned-beef nostalgists who mainly climbed into Lancasters and foxholes to stick it to the libs.

I prefer the singular possessive, "Oh, for fuck's sake." It just sounds more professional.

The modern world in old Ladybird books. The diesel. “It is sad to think that the last steam locomotive to be built in Britain left the workshops in March, 1960” Artist: Robert Ayton (1961)

Happypotamus www.worldofmoose.com/collections/...

Who's solving the Louvre robbery? Right answers only.

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

I am unable to log into your website because your CAPTCHA insists that I identify a Vespa as a motorcycle which I refuse to do on moral grounds.

Higgledy piggledy Timothée Chalamet Has a name meriting Endless design Much like his forerunner Benedict Cumberbatch: Hexasyllabically, Easy to rhyme

This made me laugh more than it probably should 😂 #funny

Also, two Taskmaster references for the price of one

Another nice sunset this evening. The last for a while, I fear, looking at the weather forecast.

Let me sing you the song of my people

A cartoon from my new book PHYSICS FOR CATS which comes out a week tomorrow! Preorder at you local bookshop or online: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2

I think I have a new earworm.

Nice sunset this evening.

Happy Feast of St Michael and All Angles to those who celebrate.

*clears throat* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Proper job!

Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

It's been an enjoyable few days of nice weather. Here are a few of the things I've seen.

An enjoyable afternoon jaunt on the motorbike today to visit two of my favourite bridges.

A breezy and damp evening on the Barbican, Plymouth, but a scenic one nonetheless.

Saw Midge Ure at Princess Theatre Torquay last night, performing a hits set. Had almost forgotten what absolute bangers some of Ultravox's lesser known songs are (eg The Voice, We all Stood Still), never mind Vienna! Thanks to my brother for finding the gig, and doing the driving on a foul night.

My late dad's rescue cat Chelsea, asleep in a typically dignified pose #proofofcat

Sunday 1st September was a good day for vintage transport in my neck of the woods.