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ArcadianAeon @basilbrushoff.bsky.social · 7h

Make a war film rubbish: Where The Eagles Dare

album cover of Hotel California by The Eagles

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ArcadianAeon @basilbrushoff.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Although obviously also (evergreen)

Gillian Anderson as Dana Scully in The X-Files

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ArcadianAeon @basilbrushoff.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Age yourself with a celebrity crush

Melanie and Martina Grant, from UK kids' TV show Fun House

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ArcadianAeon @basilbrushoff.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Your favourite tag team's favourite tag team

Richard E Grant and Paul McGann in Withnail and I, standing in the rain

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ArcadianAeon @basilbrushoff.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

So normal even as recently as 1989 that it was a stereotype.

A photo of the home from The Simpsons intro - detached house, four or five bedooms, picket fence, two-car garage, two cars. Homer supported all this on one blue-collar salary in a power plant. Just saying.

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ArcadianAeon @basilbrushoff.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Today in “Things I Slightly Doubted Ever Happened”:

An almost empty glass ink bottle with a black cap, sitting on a pen to let the remaining drop of blue-black ink to pool at one end. That drop of ink is even smaller than I thought, nowhere near enough to actually use.

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ArcadianAeon @basilbrushoff.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

OH MY GOD SERIOUSLY ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME IT'S DELAYED?!?!?! #Silksong

A "Your shipment is delayed" email from Amazon for Hollow Knight: Silksong for the Nintendo Switch 2, changing the arrival date to Friday 27 November 2026. It was previously 16 October.

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ArcadianAeon @basilbrushoff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Also, adventures in bearing maintenance while I watch the MLMC race at Silverstone. I really should just bin these and replace them, but they’re for spare wheels and I’m cheap, so…

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ArcadianAeon @basilbrushoff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Catching up on a bit of sewing, as my roller derby retirement seems to be failing…

Photo of the back of a grey hoodie, with a series of officials patches sewn on: British Roller Derby Championships 2017, 2018, and 2020 (with ‘Rona-inspired green virus accents), South West Season 2017, Five Nations Roller Derby 2022, and Louisey Rider Cup 2022

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ArcadianAeon @basilbrushoff.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

incredible, couldn't make it up, 10/10, no notes

from the Adver liveblog: '8:16pm, 09/09/26. One neighbour, a couple doors down from where police were seen, slammed his front door in our reporter's face and repeatedly shouted through an open window to "go report something somewhere else".'

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ArcadianAeon @basilbrushoff.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Revisiting some old photos of Wales and I always chuckle to myself that the same town can be roughly the same distance away in two opposite directions...

photo of a blue motorcycle, a Suzuki VanVan 125 with sand tires and a tank bag, next to a grassy hillside and a roadsign. on the roadsign pointing left reads "Rhayader 9" (miles), while pointing right reads "Rhayader 8" and "Mountain Road to Aberystwyth".

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ArcadianAeon @basilbrushoff.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I wonder if the Faux-rarri is included in the price

throwing the reg plate into Halfords' tyre checker, the "Ferrari" on the drive comes back as a "TOYOTA MR2 IMPORT"

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ArcadianAeon @basilbrushoff.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Old v New (OK, left is Yahoo's, but is basically the same as Google used to have). Big Yikes.

Yahoo Finance's portfolio manager interface, with form fields for ticker, price, volume, date, buy/sell, etc. Y"know, what you'd expect. Google Finance used to be like this.

Google Finance's new "Create a portfolio" interface. The only options are to upload a file such as a spreadsheet, or an AI prompt field labelled "Or describe what's in your portfolio". There's even a microphone button FFS

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ArcadianAeon @basilbrushoff.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Shiny new toys. Very excited to get out on these!

A pair of black quad roller skates with white laces sitting on a desk (Bauer XLP 2.0 boots, Avanti frames, and blue Sims Street Snake wheels, for the skate nerds).

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ArcadianAeon @basilbrushoff.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I don’t think I’ve got a future as a Blue Peter presenter - or a photographer - but it kinda worked!

A pinhole eclipse viewer made from an empty cereal box and some aluminium foil

A photo of the eclipse from inside the makeshift viewer. It’s kinda blurry but a crescent is kinda there.

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ArcadianAeon @basilbrushoff.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

haven't seen one of these in years

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ArcadianAeon @basilbrushoff.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I remember seeing this Very Serious Academic Article come out a couple of years ago: "The Greggs-Pret Index: a Machine Learning analysis of consumer habits as a metric for the socio-economic North-South divide in England" arxiv.org/pdf/2304.00326

Screenshot of a figure from the linked article, showing Greggs and Pret shops plotted on a map and a statistical dividing line running broadly southwest

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ArcadianAeon @basilbrushoff.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

If I ONLY used my car for commuting, and spread the cost of everything - insurance, MOT, tax, even breakdown cover and the cost of the car itself - across 75 trips to work per year, it STILL works out far cheaper than the train. Plus I have a car to use for other fun things like visiting family.

Screenshot of a hasty Excel spreadsheet, costing out 75 trips/year (1-2 days/week:

Car £1200 (6k over 5 years)
Petrol £750
Parking £187.50
Insurance £360
Tax £200
Breakdown £120
MOT/servicing £250

Total £3,067.50
Per trip £40.90

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ArcadianAeon @basilbrushoff.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I wonder if I can buy one of these for inside my house #24SPA

screenshot from the race coverage of, basically, a MASSIVE water sprayer misting cool water into one of the grandstands

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ArcadianAeon @basilbrushoff.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

We are a very sensible country with functioning public services

Red flier from Royal Mail, reads “2nd Class Mail is changing” and “to deliver a better all-round service”

Guardian screen clipping, headline “Royal Mail investigated again as almost a quarter of first-class post arrives late”

Another Guardian clip, from today, headline “Royal Mail boss’s pay soars to £6.9m despite profits slide”

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ArcadianAeon @basilbrushoff.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Yes, you can access YouTube without an age challenge... for now. But once this is rolled out, they'll likely have to gate everything not explicitly labelled "Made for Kids" behind age verification. YouTube already captures this data on every upload:

Screenshot of part of YouTube's video management page, headed "Audience" with two pairs of Yes/No radio buttons for whether the video is labelled as "Made for Kids" or not, and restricted to viewers over 18 or not. Both options influence whether things like personalised ads, comments, and monetisation will be available for creators.

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ArcadianAeon @basilbrushoff.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I’m the craftiest motherfucker alive

A photo of the desk fan pointed directly at my face. I have creatively arranged four blue camping cool blocks on an upturned dish rack so that the fan blows air over them before hitting me. It’s more effective than you’d think.

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ArcadianAeon @basilbrushoff.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Travel sweets are the medium size version of the Danish Butter Biscuits tin. Instead of a sewing kit, there are AA batteries in this one. If an Altoids tin is the small, this medium, and a Danish Biscuit tin a large, what other sizes of “This Tin Never Contains What It Says” are there?

A closed tin labelled Simpkins Forest Fruit Travel Sweets, on a grey felt desk mat

The same tin but with the lid removed. Inside are about ten black and green AmazonBasics rechargeable AA batteries.

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ArcadianAeon @basilbrushoff.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

The two genders: Diet Coke edition

Photo of the labels from two 2L Diet Coke bottles. The label on the left has a promo for the new The Devil Wears Prada movie, while the one on the right has a promo for the Panini sticker collection for the FIFA World Cup 2026

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ArcadianAeon @basilbrushoff.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Fucking hell, all I want to do is go to the tip. Having to book an appointment at all is ridiculous enough but this is taking the piss

Screenshot of the booking page for my local council's recycling centre/tip. it's 9th May and the next available slot is on MONDAY THE TWENTY FIFTH

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