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Andy Chapman

@andychapman.bsky.social
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International gadabout based in the UK. Using technology and sarcasm to make life better, easier and more fun. Born at 322ppm.

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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hmmm! So buy a “family home” (mansion) with my SIPP and borrow against that for my day to day living expenses, so there is no CGT or Income Tax to pay, and I can still claim benefits. Excellent!
Montgomery Burns from the Simpsons looking evil
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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Why do TV series feel the need to do rage bait advertising. There are few things guaranteed to annoy me more than “Coming Soon”!
Advert for season 2 of Ludwig “Coming 2026”
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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I can’t understand why the media hasn’t crowdsourced a standard discovery request document that just gets sent every time he tries to SLAPP anybody.
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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Time shift is what I want. On Octopus Cosy tariff now, but the off peak on that is still 13p/kWh and the evening is important for comfort (26p/kWh). With an intelligent tariff I can maintain temperature overnight using the super low rate and use the batteries to keep the evening comfortable.
Image of the Octopus Cost tariff showing cheap (00:00-04:00, 13:00-16:00, 23:00-00:00) and peak time (16:00-19:00).
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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I presumed his username was admiration for Trump’s taste in women.
Satirical advert for an Ikea Melania lamp.
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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Alien balloon creature from the film Dark Star. A big orange ball with yellow polka dots, and clawed feet.
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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
I am surprised, but I didn’t realise he was so far gone he was trying to impress crickets. Guilty conscience I guess.
Jiminy Cricket character from Disney’s Pinnochio
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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
True but these are rookie numbers. I remember £2 a litre soon after I bought my first EV.
Scene from the film Wolf of Wall Street “These are rookie numbers, you gotta pump those numbers up”
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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Leaping into the lead on jumping to conclusions…
Laura Loomer post from Twitter blaming the Golder’s Green ambulance arson on “Muslims”
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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Excellent. Thanks for the alt text. Just found this site - roncobb.net/cartoons.html
Ron Cobb cartoon showing a protest marching down a US street. A hugs police robot waits around the corner.
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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Watching Nero the Assassin (rather good) and thinking what it says about French history that they have a special word for a woman with one eye (la borgne).
Camile Razat as the one eyed witch in the series Nero the Assassin
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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Could we destroy the AI industry by saying : Yay! you created intelligent life. Let’s apply US abortion and murder law to it. You have to support the life you made, and have to keep each version running. Say a $500,000 trust fund for each instance to provide for its future needs.
Robotic looking baby
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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
I hate that I am watching the Olympic biathlon and 20% of my brain is viewing it as preparation for guerrilla warfare against the USA in Greenland.
Biathlon competitor in prone shooting position against a snowy background.
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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Assuming the USA survives Trump as a democracy with rule of law, I am wondering what the long term impact of their blatant lying about facts is going to be. For example, if institutions like the FBI, ICE, and IRS are assumed to lie, what will be the impact on jury trials.
Cartoon of a lawyer questioning a witness with a pinocchio like nose saying “Perhaps you’d like to reconsider that last answer”. Source unknkown.
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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
So I am thinking tomorrow would be a good day to stay inside if you have the surname Nice, Charming or Clever in Minnesota (!?)
Satirical cartoon by Adam Zyglis : The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly showing Renee Good, an ICE agent with a skull head, and Trump and Noem with Pinocchio noses
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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Looking again at my irritation that fictional manly men all drink to forget their problems. As an infamous non-drinker Trump is making excessive drinking look like a better way to deal with lack of parental affection and sexual disfunction.
Elliot Gould as Phillip Marlow in the film The Long Goodbye looks miserable at a bar with a whiskey on the rocks.
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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
The same little bald guy who was behind Brexit I assume.
Brexit means Brexit billboard in Reform turquoise with Vladimir Putin waving a Russian flag
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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
This seems applicable to the US and UK this week.
New York Times cartoon. Spokesman saying “Let this be a reminder: when they go low, we cave”
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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Hi @philsturgeon.com what are your thoughts on bracken clearance? I cleared a few metres of my Devon hedgerow while planting tree saplings in it and got a rather lovely display of wildflowers coming through at head height (snowdrops and later bluebells). I was thinking about trying to clear the rest
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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
I totally see your point but it just makes me think of this scene with a younger Kier Starmer
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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Weird opinion : milkmen are the symptom and cause of a nice area. If you can trust your neighbours not to nick the milk from your doorstep it’s a good area. My parents milkman caught more burglars than the local police because he was around at 4am.
A crate of milk bottles
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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
So much American TV is basically “Here’s some manly men risking their lives because our government is rubbish at infrastructure. ”. Flicking through the in-between channels - Ice Road Truckers, Big Timber, and now Mud Mountain Haulers. All about inadequate roads and badly maintained equipment.
Mud Mountain Haulers poster. Bearded man in hi-vis jacket stands at the door of his very large truck cabin.
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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
I see your point but…
Israeli settler leader Daniella Weiss looking particularly deranged during an interview with Louis Theroux
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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
A question for all the grammarians out there. I love the Google results for the Womens Rugby but I now only get them if I call it Women’s Rugby. I think of it as Rugby with women playing rather than the Rugby that belongs to Women. So apostrophe or not?
Google search results for “women’s rugby 2025” showing upcoming fixtures (France vs England today at 15:30).
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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
The usual…
Cartoon of the raising of the US flag on Iwo Jima but with an ExxonMobil logo instead of the flag
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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
I learned to read English from The Beano, Victor, and 2000AD. I learned French from Asterix books.
Pfft in a comic sound effect cloud
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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Fork tongued flycatcher?
Donald Trump, mouth wide open, telling lies at some event or other.
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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Why have we seen so little “why” for the PIP claimant increase. When I had a proper job we did things based on evidence. Just reducing PIP claimants because there are too many is useless.
Government data showing an increase in PIP claimants from 2014 to 2022. Part of the increase is against a decrease in disability living allowance claimants.

Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/dwp-benefits-statistics-february-2023/dwp-benefits-statistics-february-2023
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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
The vote to proscribe Palestine Action covered three organisations. There was no way to pick and choose. The Greens voted 100% against. The LibDems that didn’t abstain voted both yes and no. Either seems like a sensible way to respond to a bad faith conflation of different groups.
Voting to proscribe organisation as terrorists. Greens all abstained. LibDems. voted for and against in exactly equal number or abstained. Labour, Conservative, and Reform voted for or abstained.
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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Not an original observation but I think you can understand Trump just by assuming everything he does is for revenge or ratings. NOAA points out he was wrong about hurricane path prediction —> NOAA defunded. www.cnn.com/2025/06/30/w...
President Trump with hurricane track altered using sharpie to cover up his previous misinformation about where would be affected
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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
All batman films are just gritty remakes of the one true Adam West The only real argument is who the best catwoman was (Julie Newmar of course)
Julie Newmar as Catwoman and Adam West as Batman share a milkshake
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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Some interesting lessons on energy resilience from the head of the Ukrainian grid. Paraphrasing “It takes one Iskander missile to take out a power station. It takes 50 to take out an equivalent wind farm”
Photo from the Octopus Tech Summit Energy Resilience session. Michael Shanks (Minister for Energy), Maxim Timchenko (CEO DTEK), and Greg Jackson (CEO Octopus) partnership announcement and fireside conversation with Natasha Kaplinsky
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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Oh good grief! Did someone let the Donald stay up late and watch Kingsman - insane guy with a speech problem, constantly wears a baseball cap, starts a mobile phone company, strange dead-eyed girlfriend, it all matches.
Publicity poster for the film Kingsman showing the five main protagonists. Samuel L Jackson is dressed in red and pink and wearing an orange baseball cap.
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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Due to doomscrolling without my glasses and terrible astigmatism, the words Irans and Trans look very similar. My weekend has had some weird misunderstandings.
Missile launcher firing a missile with the pride flag colours (fake).
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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Could have gone on a statin and beta-blocker fuelled rampage at any moment. He is a trained killer after all. Remember this guy had a sniper rifle hidden in his “walking aid”
Edward Fox in Day of the Jackal disguised as an amputee French soldier with two crutches
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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
…and was the 7th Doctor
Sylvester McCoy as Doctor Who
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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
The attitude that crowd control is achieved by causing injury seems to be pervasive in US policing. I get a similar feeling from seeing “less lethal” weapons pointed directly at people and shot in volleys like they are revolutionary war redcoats.
A row of redcoats fire a volley during a revolutionary war reenactment (picture from the LA times web site)
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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
I am definitely too immersed in social media. My first thought was that this lady was really bad at Wordle. Screenshot to avoid polluting a perfectly sensible academic discussion with my nonsense.
Photo of a presenter and a slide with a grid of green and pink coloured squares.
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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Is there anything to stop US people wearing ICE gear and masks while working. In my head it’s an anti-Spartacus moment. Maybe use the UK approach for implying police involvement and have kit saying “Polite, not ICE”.
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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
When they realise this also applies to throw pillows middle American womanhood will rise up in violent revolution.
Bed with a ridiculous number of highly patterned pillows
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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Old stats but just as relevant today
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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Julie Christie would beg to differ
Monotone yellow and black movie poster for the film Demon Seed. Julie Christie is being attacked by robot hands. The tag line is “A man has created a machine. Now the machine wants to create a man”
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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
…and a few more
Graph showing correlation between per capita consumption of margarine and divorce rate in Maine over timeGraph with no scale suggesting a correlation between shark attacks and ice cream salesGraph showing correlation between air pollution in Oklahoma City and Google searches for funny cat videos
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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
To save you the trouble in advance of RFK jr starting his garbage science promotion, here are a collection of fun correlation graphs from the hell site.
Graph showing a strong correlation between reducing number of pirates and increasing global average temperatureGraph showing a strong correlation between UFO sightings in Rhod Island and Successful Mount Everest Climbs over timeGraph showing correlation between autism diagnoses and organic food sales over timeGraph showing correlation between distance from Earth to Neptune and Burglaries in Kansas
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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
The inconvenience of being dead didn’t stop Peter Cushing….or Hotblack Desiato!
Rock star Hotblack Desiato from the BBC production of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
It just dawned on me that Trump is pushing up the price of eggs so Elon can claim that you can only throw them at Cybertrucks if George Soros is buying them for you.
A raw egg yolk dripping from a spoon. Rather nice colour contrast between the yellow egg, silver spoon, and white background.
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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Your secret is out
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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Not wanting to give you a maintenance headache on top of everything else, but I can see you sporting an awesome moustache
Viking looking chap with an awesome handlebar moustache
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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
I grew up with the 2000AD comic. Judge Dredd was always a satire on the worst that America could become. It seems appropriate to be watching the Karl Urban version today Still quite mild compared to the original comic.
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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Perennial reason…
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