I don't always remember to post my street art stuff on here, but I quite like how my Laika piece turned out. She sold for a good cause too, which is cool, I didn't think anyone would be able to fit an 8 ft tall painting in their house, but in the end 3 people had a little bidding war! :)

Happy 18th birthday ggplot2! #rstats

I just saw the author/comedian @callybeaton.bsky.social post that women our age weren't raised to say that we are proud of our work / what we do (I'm doing her a slight disservice as she is 2 years younger than me) But she's right, we should be able to. Here's some recent work I'm proud of:

This is extraordinary. To cut the ribbon at the opening of the National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC in 1976, they got the Viking spacecraft, then orbiting Mars, to send a signal to the arm from the engineering model of the Viking lander. And poof! It burnt through the ribbon.

To be fair, he did warn us all that we were never going to survive unless we get a little crazy.

oof

Oh no, not again! I had fun painting this today at Norton College in Worcester, I'm hoping it will encourage some of the kids to give the books a read :) #HitchhikersGuide #42

One of my birthday presents this year was this cool phrenology head. I've called him Dom because he kind of reminds me of Dominic Cummings :D

Highlights from my birthday trip to London town yesterday (It's impossible to pick 4! Facebook got 80)

Possibly my movie of the year so far. VERY glad I went in blind, as having watched the trailer since I got home, it would have spoilt so much. So avoid the trailers, peeps, and go see this banger! (stick around at the end too. mid creds AND post creds) #SinnersMovie

Apparently we can upload videos here now? Here's a little ⚽️ themed bedroom wall makeover that I painted for a local football crazy kiddo last weekend: #NUFC #footballmural

The #SixTheMusical pro shot was even better than I thought! Soooo hard not to sing along, but for the sake of the rest of the Cineworld audience, I controlled myself :)

Accurate :) And rather catchy!

Last night: Descendents, Circle Jerks & Negative Approach in Bristol First time I've seen any of these bands since the mid 80s and they've still got it! The fact that they are all older than me but still have bundles of life and energy, gives me hope that maybe I ain't past it just yet :D

OK this whole thread has me laughing so much I'm weeping :)

This was so much fun to paint, thanks for the opportunity and chats Johnny O!

we all live in @cgcumber.bsky.social -world

“It shows what you can do with a plan that you put into action…we said we would do this, I’m pleased we’ve done it, I acknowledge much more to do” Keir Starmer on meeting pledge of two million extra NHS appointments

The world is falling apart, but when you have a day out with friends with good tunes playing, lots of hugs, and we all get to paint our favourite kaiju, it seems a teeny bit less awful Tunnel Rats jam, Oxford My lil King Ghidorah and his derpy lil faces :)

MORE FUNDRAISING NEWS! We've just made our latest donation to the amazing #cancer support charity Maggie's Cambridge from sales of these #zines by @vjs411.bsky.social and @implausible17.bsky.social Somehow neglected to buy them all? Tsk - what are you like? 🙄 Head to bit.ly/welovemaggies

I rarely do visuals, I'm a number cruncher not a word cruncher, but I needed a few wordclouds with lots of custom stop words, so I thought rather than use an online tool, I'd code them up in #Rstats so it was easy to access all the data directly. Actually quite pleased with this output, go me!

Google's AI overview being super useful and great at maths Hardly seems worth me travelling all the way to London for a show that lasts 25 minutes (including the interval)

Hmm. I might have already seen my worst film of 2025, and it's only half way through January. The practical effects were nicely done. But sadly I have very little else positive to say about it. Sorry! #wolfman

Literally every company now youtube.com/shorts/hL9pl...

One of the defining artists of his time and one of my primary inspirations. I can only say thank you.

Reeeeeeally, Duolingo?? :) In a section named "talk about Ireland", after some fairly innocuous bits about the Taoiseach and the President, and the GAA, we're straight into "the men work in the bog" :)

good thread

The Scarred For Life podcast reminded me of this frankly quite terrifying intro sequence to Shadows, a supernatural anthology show that was on the telly when I was about 8/9 years old. It's no less spooky to adult me! Especially the skipping shadow. Shudder :) love it! youtube.com/watch?v=p1Cc...

I can tell that last night was the coldest one yet this winter, as it's the first time my iPad didn't manage to charge up overnight. I shall have to dig out its special winter charging blanket (yes it actually has one, it's one of my son's old cot blankies) Does anyone else have this problem?

yesssss!!!! I'm not much of a YouTube person but a new Bobby Fingers video arriving is an EVENT

I've seen out the year watching the last couple of episodes of the 12th and final season of Letterkenny. I've kind of been putting it off because I didn't want it to end! I sure am going to miss those hicks, skids and hockey players (and Glen and Tanis!) How am I now? Sad, and you? #letterkenny

Word of the Day is one I keep posting at the end of the year, hoping its time will come. ‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair. Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.

It's that time of year again #ArtVsArtist 2024 These are mainly things I've painted over the last year for paint festivals or just for funsies (a bit more "me" than most of my commissioned mural work) Looking forward to getting back out there in 2025 in the springtime when the weather picks up

Without downloading any new pics, what is your energy (or lack of) going into 2025?

I wrote about how much, how fiercely and why, I hate A.I. On eternal cons, a dying earth and talking dogs. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-3/

Wasn't expecting this to make me cry so much that I now feel fully dehydrated. Maybe I just needed a good weep, and this gave me the excuse. The monkey thing works strangely well. #betterman 1/3

Wishing a big fat Happy Christmas to everyone I've had the pleasure of interacting with on here this year 🎄🎅🎁 I didn't have time this year to go out and paint a piece of Christmassy street art like I usually do 😢, so here are re-runs from the last 3 years to make up for my slacking:

Share your favourite photo of yourself from 2024.... I mean, there are more flattering pics but I guess this one wins

Freaks and Geeks is still so goooood. Nostalgia bomb. I miss the early 80s. I'm so old. I was definitely a Lindsay. Half freak, half geek. Nothing changes eh.

I unashamedly loved LOSP :)

I follow the news closely, but wasn't aware of a single one of these: bylinetimes.com/2024/12/20/l... Yes, this gov could be way better at comms, but the key issue, I think, is that political journalism has become addicted to reporting fights/gossip, and has forgotten how to report on policy/action

I've had a month off painting murals, as the last one I did took weeks and half killed me :D But I managed to fit one in this weekend. The client wanted a beach but just the damp sand ripples, no sea, no sky, no deckchairs, nothing but sand... had to be finished in one weekend so loooooong hours

#AdventOfCode Day 17 #RStats Still short on time but I thought this one looked like fun and not too difficult (part 1 at least :) ), so I gave it a quick go. This puts me on 30 stars, matching my personal best AoC from 2022 - so I have to get at least one more ⭐ this year for a new PB...

Last week, the government undertook some of the most wide-reaching policy initiatives we've seen in years. And hardly anyone seems to know a damn thing about it. inews.co.uk/opinion/fina...

#AdventOfCode day 15 #RStats Thankfully, despite me being too tired/stupid to find the letter v on a keyboard 🤦‍♀️, part 1 turned out not to be too bad at all when it came to the coding bit, thanks Head Elf, I REALLY didn't want to be up till 2am like I was yesterday with D14p2 One ⭐ will do for now

#AdventOfCode day 15 #RStats Finally have a second to sit down and take a look at the day 15 puzzle. It's late here in the UK and to give an example of how tired I am, it just took me a minute to find the "down arrow" on my keyboard. It's a blooming v, you wazzock :) not a promising start :D

#AdventOfCode day 15 Haven’t even had a minute yet to look at today’s puzzle, let alone solve it. I think I may have reached the point that I do each year, where the conflict between the ever more tricky puzzles and other Christmas commitments clash, and I can’t keep up, at least not on the day :(

#AdventOfCode day 14 #RStats My clever idea I had while out shopping didn't really work, boo - so instead I ended up bruteforcing this one a tad. I looped through the entire cycle looking for suspiciously non random patterns, only 1 second fit the bill & hey presto, the tree, and my second star :)