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Mike Trinder

@chthonicionic.bsky.social
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He/Him. B3ta QOTW person and programmer at www.millerhare.com. This is my personal a/c - at the moment I don’t have a separate work a/c. I’m also at @chthonicionic@mastodon.online

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Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 18h
On Lesbos at Easter, they have a special service to bless local horses. There’s a high up window that the priest can lean out of as they pass. It’s beautiful chaos and, as can be seen, takes a Mediterranean approach to safety by giving a man in double denim a rope. Distinct lack of pythons though
A young Greek man on a beautifully decked out horse rides up a slope towards the viewer. Below a man helpfully holds a single rope as a vague nod to crowd safety. The same horse rearing up on the edge of a quite large drop. Greek men in suits look up admiringly.
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Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 21h
This is my great-uncle. I kinda want a top hat now - but only for work.
My great uncle standing by a “Noise Annoys” campaign sign whilst wearing a fricking morning suit and top hat.
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Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 21h
Trans pride sky over london tonight.
A sunset sky with horizontal stripes of pale hlur and (sort of) pink. Colours a lot more accurate in real life, but that’s always the way with phone cameras
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Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 23h
Found where Elon desperately hopes to secretly meet up with J-Lo should they both happen to be in London.
A building with a name sign outside that says “Space House, The Block”
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Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 23h
Switching to targeting computer
A verdigris lion with a ring in its mouth with a bright orange grid overlay from some metal fencing.
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Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The lovely @dbrb2.bsky.social has sent me some cat proof gloves for my birthday. Nice.
A package of Durable Gloves that offer “Excellent Protection”Me wearing the gloves. With badly added wolverine claws
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Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I have toilet wine for my birthday. Hooray!
A bottle of Bobby Fingers, Toilet Wine lying on a quilt
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Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Everyone likes a good rummage
A photoshopped black and white image of 4 women with their hands under the covers of a bandaged man in a hospital bed. 

Strapline reads “Having a good rummage was by far the best perk of the job”
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Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Too damn right I’m clicking “show full thread” to find out how Lucky Pierre ended up in the middle of this
The top and tail (fnaar) of a Bluesky thread that starts with *that video* about Auschwitz catering and ends with a mention of Lucky Pierre
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Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Origin for playing games: Wizardry on the Apple ][ - archive.org/details/Wiza... But origin for hacking and modding games? Bungie’s Marathon. Took that sucker apart with a hex editor
Craig Mullins’ artwork for the original Marathon game. An exhausted master Chief sits next to a dead alien in front of a hazy sunlit future cityThe opening titles of Wizardry. Running on my phone via the internet archive. Incredible stuff
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Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Looked up from my book because of a chirping noise - this guy was thrashing his tail about and really annoyed with me for some reason.
A grey squirrel on a fence post against some ivy looking really pissed off at the cameraA grey squirrel on a fence post against some ivy looking really pissed off at the camera, a different tail position because he was really thrashing it about
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Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Oh god. I really want one
A tiny red bubble car. Text underneath reads “Trident 4-Wheeler
Limited production slots available
A hand-built continuation inspired by the original 1960s Peel Trident.
Built in Britain to original proportions, re-engineered for modern use.”
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Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Framed my lovely @happytoast.co.uk cats. I cocked up the size of the mount so these aren’t quite straight yet. Going to have to get my scalpel out again and recut it.
Four black cats with super long legs on mottled blue backgrounds arranged on a row in a black frame
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Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A photo of the Talyllyn railway in 1956, taken by my dad as a teenager on his first visit, 5 years after it became the first preserved railway
A black and white photo of a narrow gauge steam engine “No. 6 - Douglas” taking on water. 4 people stand around whilst one directs water
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Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Ooh I’ve got 11 days to go till my 1/4 century
From my b3ta profile page:
“A member for 25 years, 11 months and 20 days”
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Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Cursed graphs that significantly change with covid, an ongoing series…
A line graph with two lines one of which reverses direction at the start of 2020
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Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Just look at the beauty of this mechanism (although it’s quite hard to do single handed the wrong way around).
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Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
“Giant sausage” written on a chalkboard in a field.
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Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A snapshot of Amberley Museum’s Facebook page with a photo of the Zorin rail engine in front of the gated off “mine” entrance, and the cardboard cut out Roger Moore.

Insert joke about his acting here
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Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
It’s the five inch gun all over again
A daily star article confusing how guns are measured “We just blew £183m on a five inch gun, but it's 'good value for taxpayers'” with a CGI of the ship and the comment: “The weapon - which is the length of a toothbrush - will be placed on combat ships that are still in the factory”
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Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Nice
A delayed train that left Chippenham 69 minutes late
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Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Quantum of Solace guy for reference
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Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Was watching Fargo the other night and notice this guy “sweeping” in the background. Was the Quantum of Solace sweeping guy a tribute to Fargo?
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Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Man, doing this on your phone is hard :(
The Remains of the Daytona 500
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Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I don’t know why I made this, but thought it might be quite funny to wear to @brainmage.bsky.social’s next gig and pretend I have no idea what it is about
A black t-shirt mockup with Turbot Carp written on it
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Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
For some* reason we have a stone painted with the Days Of Thunder logo and colours in our garden. *we found it in Morecambe Bay about 12 years ago
A roughly rectangular stone painted green/yellow with Days of Thunder 44 in black on it
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Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Ooh. Arrived and picked up just before the cat could pee on it (it’s a thing at the moment 🤬) @christhebarker.bsky.social @quantick.bsky.social
Page from The Lost Films of Hollywood featuring films that were “late remade” - this one is the Three Stooges and Shirley Temple in 3 Men and a Little Lady
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Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Also, this arrived last night from @pollollups.bsky.social to illustrate that the cats need feeding
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Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I love that @pollollups.bsky.social discovered this fruit bowl fits this table exactly.
A round flat wooden bowl with hemispherical blobs around it sits on top of a round table of the same diameter and similar colour wood, filled with fruit
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Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
That and the brave soul going the wrong way round the chairoplane ride
A detail of the poster. The chair-o-plane ride has three riders going one way, and one going the other
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Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
There’s a vertical variant with different errors - I quite like the combination Hook-A-Duck and Balloon Dart stall, although the injury rates may be a little higher than you’d want
A vertical variant of the same AI funfair poster.
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Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Nothing quite says “I don’t give a shit what my posters look like, AI did them for free” than calling the kiddies teacup ride “TON CUNT”
An AI generated poster. Amongst other egregious errors, the teacup ride tent has a big sign, front and centre, saying “Ton Cunt”
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Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Many years ago I thought mixing cream into a setting strawberry jelly would make a nice creamy desert for the then toddlers. And meat-baby was born. For the same toddlers 17th birthday, they’ve asked that I make another one…
A strawberry jelly with curdled cream set into it in the shape of a happy sloth. The curdled mixture has set to look just like shiny meat.
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Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
There’s a similar opportunity (but tighter) at Farringdon, the light on the cabling and rails is so cool there too
The tracks leaving Farringdon station - the light glinting off the curved rails and the cabling on the walls makes it look like the floor and walls are a continuous surface
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Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Real Bird Fake Bird has gone existential today realbirdfakebird.com
A real bird fake bird game where there is no category and no question. Just the prompt “Are these real?”, a yellow square and two buttons “Fake” and “Real”
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Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
*hollywood hotel elevator, desperately clasping a copy of moby dick under arm* “But, Mr Nolan, what if we… *scribbles on printout* …” *waits nervously as the floors count down*
A website link showing a picture of a whale fluke against an iceberg captioned “Giant whales move” where an i has been added so it reads movie
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Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Was sweeping in the garden and realised I was being watched from next door
A wooden fence of vertical slats. Through one of the gaps, bathed in sunlight is the head of a fox with eyes squinted closed.
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Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Chickens are framed and hung to annoy the foxes @gingertotty.bsky.social
Four framed pictures (one embroidery, one print and two watercolour prints) - two of foxes looking at two of chickensThe same four pictures in context with a bunch of other prints as we try and cover every wall in ART
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Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Post a picture that should be an album cover (if you could get the rights)
Nic Cage holding up an id badge that says “Academic” in bold capital letters
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Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Post a picture that should be an album cover
A tube of sausage meat with googly eyes just above a crack that looks like a mouth side-eyes a woman in a magazine photo that the sausage meat is resting on.

Which is a long title for an album to be honest.
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Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
If I fits, I sleeps. Unpacked a parcel, turned around and it was full again.
Two halves of a cardboard box on a blue carpet. One half has some folded bubble wrap in it, the other has a folded cat in it
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Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
FFS thank god we wasted all that power and water making this happen
A hazy golden hour aerial photo of Battersea Power Station captioned “A Woman is sitting on a chair in a living room. Description generated by AI” by some automated process for some reason
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Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Very much a tree spirit from Princess Mononoke
A tree spirit from the Ghibli film Princess Mononoke. A white little guy with a big head tilted to one side with big eyes and a round mouth
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Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Bailey has interrupted her mid morning ablutions to say happy birthday. (I don’t know how old she is as she’s a rescue. But around 8/9)
A cat. In a sink. Looking like she’s barely tolerating your presence in this, her bathroom
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Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Eclipse was pretty good - but for the huge black thing in the way, blocking my view
The 2001 monolith blocking most of the sun with a crescent moon above
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Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
It works! Have had lots of randoms looking in the box and getting excited
Me and eldest looking into a box
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Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
(Partial) eclipse viewer activated.
A cardboard box with two holes in. One is covered by tinfoil with a tiny hole in the other for sticking your nose and one eye in. Inside I’ve lined it with white paper
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Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Oh acrobat you little scamp
A screenshot from Acrobat Pro where I’m attempting to combine multiple PDfs into one except Acrobat has decided to reject most (but not all) of them because it “Cannot convert file type to PDF”
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Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Youngest has updated their @natgrayy.es sticker. Yay!
A Nat Gray Is Trying sticker on a laptop
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Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
This is a crackingly tall spire - super pointy from a distance
A pointed church spire that just goes up and up to a sharp point against a cloudy sky
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