A friend of mine (face obscured to protect the innocent) posted this this morning. I thought she was at a special, festive Bring Me The Horizon gig. I was so jealous! Until I realised that, no, she's in Bournemouth :)

Well - I only got half way this year in #AdventOfCode :( It has been an insanely busy December and I just didn't have the time! I always say I will come back in January and finish it off, but I never do. Maybe when I retire :) Here's #AoCDay6 using #RStats Happy Christmas R-heads!

Oops - I forgot to post #AdventOfCode day 5 #AoCDay5 #RStats I was a bit smug about this one because I solved it fairly quickly - and part 2 (which seemed to trip a lot of other people up) was an absolute doddle, because I'd already done most of the work in part 1 - pure luck really

This year's #ArtVsArtist round up. These are some of the street art pieces (plus one canvas) I painted in 2025 just for fun. For my commissioned work (a little less technicolor! :) ) please see @murals_bysarah on insta. Happy christmas all, and all the best for 2026

I was on an #AdventOfCode roll last night - completing both #Day4 and day5 (but I'll post day 5 tomorrow) For once I had an evening free of commitments to work or family - so I could attend to my commitment to the elves :) First matrix puzzle this year #AoCDay4 #RStats

I'm so behind with these!! but it has been a busy month, sometimes the elves have to take a back seat, sorry elves #AdventOfCode day 3 - I basically used the exact same approach for parts 1 and 2, so here they both are #AoCDay3 #RStats

Don't you just love it when a #AdventOfCode part 2 is easier than the part 1? Luckily I had this niggling feeling that I'd seen someone use a regex to identify repeating patterns in an old AoC puzzle a couple of years back, and clever past Sarah had made a note of it, go me! #AoCDay2Part2 #RStats

S940 - Square root

Merry Krampus Kristmas everyone! Painted today in Stroud, Gloucestershire.

And it is so blooming good! I had the privilege of being one of the first people to see this anthology as I helped with some proof reading etc, and I was blown away. Loads of pages for your money, all killer no filler, proceeds to a great cause. What more do you want?

Had a ton of fun today in Cheltenham, painting this homage to one of my favourite movies of all time. The Wicker Man (1973)

I was late to starting #AdventOfCode this year as I've been a bit busy - I didn't even realise that we only have 12 puzzles for 2025. Sob. Probably just as well as I am rusty as a rusty thing, and made a bit of a pig's ear of the second bit of this one!! Day 1 parts 1 and 2 #RStats #AoCDay1

I've only got time for a Part 1 today - so here is #AdventOfCode day 2 part 1, using #RStats I am quite certain that there is a more elegant way of solving this one, but it worked first time and I have other shizz to do tonight, so it will have to suffice! #AoCDay2

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/