Well, well, well. If it isn't me, in the sunshine, implanting Fediverse thoughts into everyone around through the power of subliminal advertising. #Photography #Mastodon #Fediverse #tshirt #teeshirt

For #schiffssamstag this is Alliance, an Italian ship designed to generate low noise so as not to interfere with its main purpose of oceanographic research for NATO, such as climate effects in the Arctic and the impact on sonar. #Photography #schiffsamstag #shipsaturday #ship #NATO

Penalties would have been fair. That was such a good game. Argentina can be proud that they managed to beat Cabo Verde because they were properly challenged. Cabo Verde, so close, so very close. Damn, but also well done everyone. #argcpv #FIFAWorldCup #Football

How can players be cramping when they're getting so many hydration breaks? #argcpv #FIFAWorldCup #Football

3-2 to Argentina. Come on Cabo Verde! Loads of time to pull this back again. #argcpv #FIFAWorldCup #Football

What a goal! 2-2!!!! #argcpv #FIFAWorldCup #Football

Great thumping finish for the goal to lead. Plenty of time to come back yet. #argcpv #FIFAWorldCup #Football

Oh, fantastic! 1-1. #argcpv #FIFAWorldCup #Football

1-0 down at the half for Cabo Verde. I like how they're committing a few players when they win possession but not over-committing or just holding back. They had to know they were never going to keep a clean sheet so they've got to make and take some chances. #argcpv #FIFAWorldCup #Football

Can't even hit the target from there? Overrated. #argcpv #FIFAWorldCup #Football

⚽ #FediFC #FIFAWorldCup #Soccer #Football 😆 🤣

Right. We've only been to Argentina - and we bloody loved it there - so we should support Argentina. But how could we not want Cabo Verde to stage an upset too? Tricky. A classic case of "May the best team win" here. #argcpv #FIFAWorldCup #Football

Well done, Egypt. Unlucky, Socceroos. Felt the fairest result, but that's no consolation. #ausegy #FIFAWorldCup #Football

Strewth! It's penalties! Again! #ausegy #FIFAWorldCup #Football

In my head Australia are far bigger underdogs than the world rankings of these two teams suggest, and while I do like an underdog it does feel that Egypt deserve the win here. #ausegy #FIFAWorldCup #Football

Chaka Khan is wearing Derelicte by Mugatu. #totp

Play Public Enemy. #totp

Monie! #totp

My favourite Bond theme. And favourite Bond. #totp

Reminded that I received the Max Headroom Annual for Christmas 1986. Happy to see it's on the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/MaxHeadroomAnnual/mode/2up #totp #maxheadroom

Very Duran Duran-style video for Bucks Fizz. #totp

My wife just started singing along to this children horror before I think she realised I could hear her. #totp

Is Sam Fox better than I remembered her being? Maybe. #totp

Switched back to that terrible 2000s episode of #totp during the footy hydration break to see if it had, by some miracle, improved, just in time to hear that Manic Sreet Preachers were number one. So it had actually got much, much worse.

"U Know What's Up" by "I Don't Even Know Who U Are" #totp

#FotoVorschlag - Man kann es hören Photo theme - You can hear it A punk saxophonist from 2008 here in Portsmouth. One of those occasions when roads are closed, traders set up, buskers appear. #Photography #StreetPhotography #Punk #Music #saxophone #BlackAndWhite #monochrome #portsmouth

I ought to take backups of my website more often but at least I've remembered to do it today. It's a beast that could do with trimming as the .tar.gz file is currently just shy of 50GB in size but I don't like to delete things.

We're going away on a short break, middle of next week, and my wife finished work for the year yesterday. A parting gift from the school she works at appears to be a cold that's coming on strongly. Good chance I'll now catch it in time for both of us to suffer while we're away. And this is why […]

A bar in Akureyri for #fensterfreitag today, taken almost exactly four years ago. We'd spent the morning exploring the area around the town followed by a couple of hours in the town itself when we spotted a bar, and kinda had to pop in. #Photography #Travel #Iceland #akureyri #bar #windowfriday

Did that ball touch the Croatian player? Here's one incredibly far-away angle that doesn't prove it one way or another so you can assign your own bias. No, no of course we don't have any nearer cameras. They're all pointed at Ronaldo. Fucking bullshit. #espaut #FIFAWorldCup #Football

Get in!!! #espaut #FIFAWorldCup #Football

It was a good goal, but man, Portugal's football team are fabulously easy to hate. #espaut #FIFAWorldCup #Football

Slight touch on the player, player dives like a salmon, and it's a penalty because it's a chance to show more Ronaldo. And this is different to Kane and England because... fuck knows. #espaut #FIFAWorldCup #Football

I can get up late for work so I should be able to catch all of Portugal v Croatia so long as it finishes in normal time. Been to both countries and like them a lot, but only one has Ronaldo playing for them so that's why I'll be supporting Croatia. #porcro #FIFAWorldCup #Football

I often feel that Gary Legum of Wonkette is the only reporter making sense about the Trump regime. This, on the regime’s planned fireworks display in DC, is an example. https://www.wonkette.com/p/park-service-warns-public-to-avoid

They should rename these as Boo Breaks at this point. #espaut #FIFAWorldCup #Football

A good thing I didn't post what I'd just started typing about Spain not being decisive enough in this game they should be winning comfortably. #espaut #FIFAWorldCup #Football

Wife picked up a cheap pack of ten pre-made cocktails in cans from Iceland (the store, not the country) on her way home from work today to mark the end of exam-invigilating for the year. Now enjoying evening warmth outside, having just tried the Mojitos. Music on. So many bumble bees flitting […]

One of our neighbours has become quite adept at burning food. It's simultaneously quite revolting yet also hunger-inducing.

#FotoVorschlag Landschaft in Schwarzweiß Photo theme - landscape in black and white A view along the Aurlandsfjord, part of the larger Sognefjord in Norway, taken in 2023 after a day spent in one of our favourite Norwegian locations, Flåm. #Photography […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

For #ThrowBackThursday this is my wife's Great Aunt Rose of whom I know nothing at all, but this is clearly her wedding day. I can't even guess at the location or decade with any certainty. #Photography #vintage #wedding #family

RE: https://writing.exchange/@ernie/116847516732642910 An enjoyable trip down memory lane for those of us who've been on the web for far too long. The days of being an SA Goon or of tinkering with phpBB.

Ah, such a bloody shame. To lose on penalties, to lose from a goal in open play, that's one thing. But a penalty that was from an admitted foul when the player was going for the ball feels like an injustice. Well done on the fightback, Belgium. Damn shame, Senegal. #belsen #FIFAWorldCup #Football

This is going to be such a cruel way to lose, if Belgium score. #belsen #FIFAWorldCup #Football

Oh my! 2-2. #belsen #FIFAWorldCup #Football

Game on. Maybe. #belsen #FIFAWorldCup #Football

What a fantastic goal. 2-0 to Senegal. #belsen #FIFAWorldCup #Football

Honestly don't mind who wins this. By our usual rules we should support Belgium as it's the only country playing we've visited (many times, and more planned). Plus, love their Magritte-inspired kit. But Senegal play lovely football. Bring on the entertainment. #belsen #FIFAWorldCup #Football

Lovely build-up to that goal. That's been coming for a while. #belsen #FIFAWorldCup #Football

Not the nicest of hashtags to use for this game. #belsen #FIFAWorldCup #Football