David A. Ashton @davidaashton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Just when I've set my expectations at their lowest... They get my hopes back up again. 000
David A. Ashton @davidaashton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I think my weather app just quickly added 'rain' to the forecast and is now pretending it was there all along. 000
David A. Ashton @davidaashton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Silent movies were a passing fad. The trend didn't last long because it was a lot of trouble for the film makers to remove all the sound and audiences found it easier to follow the story if they could hear it while they were looking at their phone. 100
Reposted by David A. Ashtonpixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy 168124082648
David A. Ashton @davidaashton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Not now slow-moving planetary-scale Kelvin wave. 010
David A. Ashton @davidaashton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Just realised that The Beatles aren't really famous, I've just been living in a social media bubble. 000
David A. Ashton @davidaashton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Ed Sheeran's a shoe-in for the next season of Celebrity Traitors. 000
David A. Ashton @davidaashton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Steam engine just puffed through Essendon station. What's all that about? 000
David A. Ashton @davidaashton.bsky.social · 30/08/2026FFS! Wordle 1,899 X/6* ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 100
David A. Ashton @davidaashton.bsky.social · 27/08/2026If I was going to die I'd like to go like this: disintegrating into a thrashing pile of spare parts before some men with a stretcher appear comically quickly and take the pieces away. 000
David A. Ashton @davidaashton.bsky.social · 19/08/2026William Faulkner's early success with Chitty Chitty Bang Bang gave him the financial security he needed to write As I Lay Dying. 000
David A. Ashton @davidaashton.bsky.social · 19/08/2026This cafe is playing The Friend Catcher by The Birthday Party and I approve. 010
David A. Ashton @davidaashton.bsky.social · 10/08/2026I've never been more sure these are the end times. 000
David A. Ashton @davidaashton.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Try to take my headphones away and you'll find out just how fast you can die on that hill. 000
David A. Ashton @davidaashton.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Fun food fact: Baby carrots are not actually made from babies. They taste quite different. In France they legally must be called 'baby-style vegetable product.' 000
David A. Ashton @davidaashton.bsky.social · 31/07/2026The only cinema opinion I can really get behind is "I should go to the cinema more often." 020
David A. Ashton @davidaashton.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Alternatively: What if Jeff Wayne had done a musical version of The Pescatons? 031
David A. Ashton @davidaashton.bsky.social · 29/07/2026My only hot take about The Odyssey is that Circe was trying to feed Odysseus pho. 010
David A. Ashton @davidaashton.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Y'know a lot of time and money could be saved if you replaced the whole court/justice system with Santa Claus - he knows who's been naughty etc. 000
Reposted by David A. AshtonOlaf Falafel @ofalafel.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Genuinely thought this bin was levitating 422526502
Reposted by David A. Ashtoniknowthezarbi 🏳️🌈 @iknowthezarbi.bsky.social · 22/07/2026The only serious contender with Shada + The Daleks (1st Dalek story) for “most versions you can buy of the same tale”. What’s mad is that a proposed graphic novel of Genesis wasn’t approved, but LOOK AT THE ART!!! 7112
David A. Ashton @davidaashton.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Is capitalism a skinner box? I feel like Bitcoin and NFTs and maybe even the stock market work like a skinner box. 000
David A. Ashton @davidaashton.bsky.social · 16/07/2026There's probably a word in German for the rush of joy you get when you're reminded of something you once really enjoyed but then completely forgot existed. 100
David A. Ashton @davidaashton.bsky.social · 14/07/2026If you told the kids today that there was a TV detective whose thing was that he was bald and his other thing was that he was always sucking a lollipop and his other thing was that his catchphrase was "Who loves ya baby?" they wouldn't believe you. 000
Reposted by David A. AshtonAdequateEmily @adequateemily.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Losing my mind at this Murder, She Wrote promo 182134544701
Reposted by David A. AshtonRiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 08/07/2026 celebs walking muppets: thread 17535120
David A. Ashton @davidaashton.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Oh God, Trump's going to start bombing Iran again isn't he? 000
David A. Ashton @davidaashton.bsky.social · 30/06/2026A cat photobombing a Cocteau Twins album cover. 000
David A. Ashton @davidaashton.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Ginger Rogers didn't do all that backwards and in high heels just so you could tell me that AI was "inevitable." 010
David A. Ashton @davidaashton.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Big crowd at Federation Square here to watch Australia play the world cup. 111
David A. Ashton @davidaashton.bsky.social · 11/06/2026I appreciate that fans are trying to feel positive but I remember 1989 when the BBC were saying identical things about finding an outside production company to make Doctor Who for them. I think it will be a long wait for any new episodes. 100
David A. Ashton @davidaashton.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Glad that kids have moved on from "six-seven" and are now into... (checks notes)... "liminal spaces" 000
David A. Ashton @davidaashton.bsky.social · 02/06/2026"Music is, like, this thing humans are into. It's a really cool thing. You probably haven't heard of it." 000