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Cobweb 🏳️‍⚧️ @cobwebmadeoflego.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

So, the simple act of existing in this weather has given me a headache. I have just sliced a toe on a ladder that is in exactly the same position it always is. What's next? Stab myself in the face with a fork? It feels like a third thing is probably inevitable, given I am a dyspraxic idiot.

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Cobweb 🏳️‍⚧️ @cobwebmadeoflego.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

So, standing in the kitchen chopping frozen fruit and adding it to jelly (to have with not as much ice-cream than if it was just ice-cream, so it's a bit less naughty) is too much activity and now I have a headache. Fuck this weather and the fossil fuel barons it rode in on.

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Cobweb 🏳️‍⚧️ @cobwebmadeoflego.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I should go to sleep but people keep posting more #Jimothy and I mean just LOOK at him!!!

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Cobweb 🏳️‍⚧️ @cobwebmadeoflego.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Just as I'm thinking it's maybe starting to look a bit gloomy out, I hear sounds that might indicate the beginnings of the festival at our local ruined abbey. I'd say "Never change Yorkshire weather!" Except that it does. All the damned time.

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Cobweb 🏳️‍⚧️ @cobwebmadeoflego.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Two words I did not expect to see next to each other are 'classical' and 'didgeridooist.' I guess you really do learn something new every day, this thanks to Men At Work via #Vegemite (which apparently tastes of #Australia).

en.wikipedia.org

Down Under (song) - Wikipedia

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Cobweb 🏳️‍⚧️ @cobwebmadeoflego.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Change is possible. (And no amount of authoritarianism will make us go away.)

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Cobweb 🏳️‍⚧️ @cobwebmadeoflego.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

So, just standing in the bathroom, brushing my teeth, and I suddenly remember the eight-legged gift I left in an empty pickle jar (lid on loose), in front of the microwave, night before last. It was very late and other occupant was asleep so no opening doors. Totally forgot to ask about that. Oops.

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Cobweb 🏳️‍⚧️ @cobwebmadeoflego.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

OMG I think I just died of cute! I've had a butterfly sit on the palm of my hand with its tongue unfurled. It got in the house so I managed to catch it in my hands to take out. I think I'd got some sugar on me, plus critters seem to like me. Eventually had to gently blow on it to get it to leave!

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Cobweb 🏳️‍⚧️ @cobwebmadeoflego.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Okay, so I've been reminded (again) that I ought to repost this and get the attribution right this time. Not sure how I managed to screw that up. Sorry, Jim! Anyway, the original cartoon is, in fact, by @jimbenton.bsky.social.

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Cobweb 🏳️‍⚧️ @cobwebmadeoflego.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Pursuant to previous post, let's see how many minifig photos I can upload to rebrickable today. Started as documenting all standard grin figs I head-swapped, then noticed some 2-faced figs did not have pics of both on above site, others had bad pics, etc. ~300 pics later I still have loads to go...

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Cobweb 🏳️‍⚧️ @cobwebmadeoflego.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Hobbyless behaviour is a societal cancer. It gives us TERs, fascists, mindless hate. Doing something for fun, for the simple enjoyment of doing it, is not a waste of time: it is healthy, an inoculation against becoming a terrible person. Let yourself play and never 'grow up.'

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Cobweb 🏳️‍⚧️ @cobwebmadeoflego.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Argh. I hear a slightly louder than expected cheep and I'm instantly paranoid that today is going to be a two bird day. Please, no 😆

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Cobweb 🏳️‍⚧️ @cobwebmadeoflego.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Oh, yay. My computer sounds like it's about to take off. Must be a Compile All The Things day. The joy of running a source-based distro.

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Cobweb 🏳️‍⚧️ @cobwebmadeoflego.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

So, this morning's discovery is that my brain apparently contains a Milli Vanilli song. No, I don't know why, either. Please send help.

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Cobweb 🏳️‍⚧️ @cobwebmadeoflego.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Oh good grief. The first series of Collectable Minifigures was released 16 years ago! Nooooo! The only ones I got from that first series were these guys, 8683-7 - Robot and 8683-8 - Demolition Dummy. The robot because obviously. Crash test dummy guy I got because he exists I guess? #LEGO #AFOL

A photograph of a very 50's Sci-fi style grey Lego minifig robot with large silver helmet out of which two red eyes peer. He has one normal minifigure arm and one silver mechanical arm with claw. The red eyes may suggest evil but this guy is actually our friend.

A photograph of a Lego minifigure Demolition Dummy, with yellow body and black roundels as you would find on a crash test dummy.

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Cobweb 🏳️‍⚧️ @cobwebmadeoflego.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Kirk Hammerton... surely that's a pornstar parody of Kirk Cameron, not the name of a probably quaint place near York...? I should stop looking for odd place names and get back to editing 3.15 gazillion photos of minifigs. Why do I do this to myself and when are rebrickable going to tell me to stop?

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Cobweb 🏳️‍⚧️ @cobwebmadeoflego.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Either Thor is throwing a major strop or someone's decided to rearrange the furniture in Valhalla... there's an awful lot of unexpected banging going on up there...

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Cobweb 🏳️‍⚧️ @cobwebmadeoflego.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Just going to look at a lightning tracker and I'm reminded of one reason I love Yorkshire... some of the place names around here are quite honestly absurd, such as Lingbob and Wibsey. But I guess they used themselves up on the likes of Lumbutts and Mankinholes and had nought left for poor old Shelf.

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Cobweb 🏳️‍⚧️ @cobwebmadeoflego.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

If you love cute critters, animation, and all around wholesome silliness, you really should check out @kekeflipnote.bsky.social I love this so much 😍

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Cobweb 🏳️‍⚧️ @cobwebmadeoflego.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Since I was reminded of her, do have a picture of Sweet Mayhem, from The Lego Movies, wielding a translucent pink A350 blaster rifle. Because why not. (It was a freebie, with a bunch of other Brickarms Star Wars stuff I bought, that I thought I would never find a use for.)

A photograph of a Lego Minidoll figure called Sweet Mayhem. She is a very cute figure with shiny blue hair in bunches, wearing a white spacesuit with sparkly, translucent blue wings. In one hand she is holding a large, blue ice-cream, and in the other an unfeasibly large, translucent pink A350 blaster rifle.

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Cobweb 🏳️‍⚧️ @cobwebmadeoflego.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Curse you, Sainsburys, for missing stuff off my grocery order and forcing me to use mouth words via telephony. And curse you again for your telephone robot, just because. 😡

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Cobweb 🏳️‍⚧️ @cobwebmadeoflego.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

So I'm going through a bunch minifig pics for my own reference purposes and chucking some at Rebrickable, in case they want some better ones, and get to Clock King... How the hell have I only just noticed that all the clock faces show different times when I've had the fig since <checks notes> 2018!?

A photograph of a LEGO minifigure of DC Comics Supervillain Clock King, as he appears in the Lego DC Super-Villains game. This is the William Tockman version, who was primarily an enemy of Green Arrow.

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Cobweb 🏳️‍⚧️ @cobwebmadeoflego.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

So, it's the start of another week, time to see what new fresh hell we have in store and HOLY FUCKING SHIT. Who knew the antichrist would be so fucking stupid?

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Cobweb 🏳️‍⚧️ @cobwebmadeoflego.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Youtube could do the funniest thing right now and put Dr Strangelove up for free. (Yeah, I know... But a twisted sense of humour and helpless flailing is all I've got at this point)

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Cobweb 🏳️‍⚧️ @cobwebmadeoflego.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

They're on their way home after being farther away from it than any other humans have ever been.

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Cobweb 🏳️‍⚧️ @cobwebmadeoflego.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

So it turns out that there is indeed an answer to the question just pondered in my presence: "Is there an 'Abbot' cheese to go with the 'Castello'?" Yes, and it only originates from a bit north of us! (I love having the whole internet available to answer stupid questions as if they're serious).

cheese-encyclopedia.com

Abbots Gold: semi-hard cow Milk Cheese from Middle East

Discover Abbots Gold, a creamy, crumbly, dense, semi firm cow milk cheese from Middle East. Learn about its unique mild, sweet, tangy profile and perfect pairings.

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Cobweb 🏳️‍⚧️ @cobwebmadeoflego.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Shoutout to the idiot who lost their glasses while bed-making, found them and, two minutes later, lost them again. The idiot being me, of course. Finally found them again, under a stack of pillows, and quite pointedly said aloud "Put them on your stupid head this time!" How do I live in this brain?

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Cobweb 🏳️‍⚧️ @cobwebmadeoflego.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

FYI: Follow-farmers get blocked. I will not auto-follow back. Not here for numbers. Not a US citizen. I am opinionated. I sometimes like/make salty comments on US politics as it has a large blast radius. If you follow me just for that and not the fun stuff I usually post, please: don't bother.

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Cobweb 🏳️‍⚧️ @cobwebmadeoflego.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Okay, how'd it get to 02:40? I guess listening to pre-Khmer Rouge Cambodian pop/rock and 60s Singaporean Canto-pop is good for productivity, given I seem to have edited photos of a somewhat startling 41 minifigs today! I was averaging about 10 a day because tedious. I'll finish this one day...

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Cobweb 🏳️‍⚧️ @cobwebmadeoflego.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

So, wandering the fridge in the middle of the night and hacking off chunks of Red Leicester (or eating handfuls of mozarella from the bag), and practically bathing Earl Grey tea is actually brain-care!

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Cobweb 🏳️‍⚧️ @cobwebmadeoflego.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Jesus fucking christ America, way to say there is no bottom to your depths of evil and depravity. THEY WERE THERE FIRST YOU UTTER BELLENDS. You do NOT get to tell indiginous peoples whether they are citizens or not.

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Cobweb 🏳️‍⚧️ @cobwebmadeoflego.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

You know, one of the best things about photo-editing is playing a game of "is that speck of dust on the thing in the photo or on my screen?" <sigh>

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Cobweb 🏳️‍⚧️ @cobwebmadeoflego.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

The Bombay Mix is open. I guess we are officially commencing the run-up to Yule... 🎍 🎄🎍

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Cobweb 🏳️‍⚧️ @cobwebmadeoflego.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Oh dear. I think Kat asking me about my potential desire for sausages has woken my stomach up. It's almost like she thinks I've forgotten to eat the entire time she's been asleep...

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Cobweb 🏳️‍⚧️ @cobwebmadeoflego.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

So, allegedly only (hah!) 225 DIY minifigs, out of 775, left to have their photos tidied up, text added, etc.. Getting somewhere, I think to myself. Until I remember there's probably 30 or so that still need photographing. And some rework on some custom-painted bits and, and... Why do I do this?

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Cobweb 🏳️‍⚧️ @cobwebmadeoflego.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Not having the first damn clue about what SEC Championship was about, having seen it trending, my first thought was "Oh! Do they have a competition for Year's Biggest Fraudster, or some-such?" Disappointed to discover that it's just 'football.'

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Cobweb 🏳️‍⚧️ @cobwebmadeoflego.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

I should try that sleep thing. Not sure how well that will go given I keep chuckling at having referred to a now non-existent far-right podcaster as a not very good Pez dispenser, single-use, gone to landfill. How did everything get so crazy/weird/screwed-up/stupid/delete-as-applicable...? Le sigh

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Cobweb 🏳️‍⚧️ @cobwebmadeoflego.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

If, when this all inevitably implodes, there is talk of bailouts, we need to break some shit. They want us to let them erase our humanity and kill the planet. Time to take a lesson from the French.

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Cobweb 🏳️‍⚧️ @cobwebmadeoflego.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Which Myst Uru dev thought the time one has to wait for $thing to happen after "Rest[ing] in the light" should be 14 minutes? If I rest in the light any bleedin' longer, after umpteen tries, I'll be permanently resting! Climbed the curtains. Maybe even gone to join the choir invisibule 💀 AAAARGH! 👿

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Cobweb 🏳️‍⚧️ @cobwebmadeoflego.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Ah, the inimitable Smol Paul! I recommend watching all of these videos at least 3 times to get the full effect. Hurrah for the wobbliest of yeets!

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Cobweb 🏳️‍⚧️ @cobwebmadeoflego.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

"That's not a [cat], it's a watermelon with fur"

A classic Tumblr post featuring a photograph of a near-spherical tabby cat. Below is an exchange between several commenters:
Iampsareoeopletoo: thats not even a cat its like a bowling ball
spirallightofvenus: that is not a bowling ball it is a watermelon with fur
princess-lullaby: It is a potato
invokes: a furry potato
weepingangelofjotunheim: Furtato
iaira: nelly furtato

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Cobweb 🏳️‍⚧️ @cobwebmadeoflego.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Ugh. I am beginning to think that being awake is a bit too much like being awake.

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Cobweb 🏳️‍⚧️ @cobwebmadeoflego.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

<sees Stephen Miller, NATO and the CDC trending> So, what fresh new hell have I awoken to today...? I mean, that's like maybe three out of the four Horsemen... That said, one could probably argue that Miller is all of them rolled into one. I'm sure he'd like that.

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Cobweb 🏳️‍⚧️ @cobwebmadeoflego.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Call me a philistine if you wish but mozzarella on toast is delicious. It's also the business on crumpets. Maybe @kayelem23.bsky.social will stop nagging me about those two crusts and the cheese that needs eating now...

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