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Pooh Sticks @dynamicalsystem.com · 09/05/2026
Since we are between the EOY and Mid Year charts... all you nice folk should go to the AlgoTrance event at The Carpet Shop in a couple of weeks. The loveliest music scene in the world.
Tuesday, 19th May 2026

7PM - 11PM The Carpet Shop, SE15 4ST

LIVECODED TRANCE MUSIC

ABSTRAKTOR
BOGGO
CHAU
DEAXMACHINA
GLOSSING
INFU
JAMES HOLDEN
LADY SINSÉ
MEMOCRIME
MIKE
NADYA VIA PROXY
PORTAL_.AURA
PIPIPRI
TODEPOND
SHAPESANDJAPES
SIVITCH ANGEL + LoFi.SciFi
SYNTEL8
V21

AlgoTrance
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Pooh Sticks @dynamicalsystem.com · 06/04/2026
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Pooh Sticks @dynamicalsystem.com · 21/12/2025
Angela Hartnett's fridge is glorious.
An open fridge in Angela Hartnett's kitchen. Top shelf is cheese, including what looks like about half a kilo of parmesan. 2nd shelf is cured meats. Three, four and the door are condiments and preserves. The crisper has no salad.
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Pooh Sticks @dynamicalsystem.com · 21/11/2025
The "here's Margot Robbie in a bubble bath to explain," scene in "The Big Short."

Robbie is saying "so now he's going to 'short' the bonds," referring to Michael Burry's use of CDSs to bet against the US housing market ahead of the GFC.

Burry recently closed his fund after exposing it to a huge naked put on AI darling Palantir.

It's sometimes said that we find out who's not wearing pants when the tide goes out. Burry was on the beach as it still rolled in.  Robbie, despite being in hot water, is fully covered.

I guess we'll find out about Ellison.
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Pooh Sticks @dynamicalsystem.com · 08/11/2025
The Gordon x Big Floppa meme from Hλlf Life decorated with "The half life of meme... ... has a half life."
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Pooh Sticks @dynamicalsystem.com · 18/10/2025
2006 - used it this morning...
A Garmin Forerunner 305. Found it in a box a couple of months ago, booted it and it just worked including syncing with Garmin Connect over Garmin Express.
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Pooh Sticks @dynamicalsystem.com · 10/09/2025
A leaflet from the wild west era of traveling tincture peddlers. This one describes Clark Stanley's Snake Oil Liniment. It reminds us that the medicine grift has a long tradition in the US, making it a cultural vulnerability.
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Pooh Sticks @dynamicalsystem.com · 22/08/2025
If you could recommend one black-and-white movie to someone who dislikes them, what would it be? 🖤
A still from The Third Man, 1949, starring Orson Welles. Directed by Carol Reed from a screenplay by Grahame Green.
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Pooh Sticks @dynamicalsystem.com · 29/06/2025
So much peace to be found In people's faces
Kae Tempest spreading love
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Pooh Sticks @dynamicalsystem.com · 21/06/2025
Webb, a Labrador Retriever is hot but happy.
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Pooh Sticks @dynamicalsystem.com · 18/06/2025
Matt pays 3.5% of income to fund state of the art NY state tax art. Matt is a philanthropist.
"We talked about this back in 2022. As a person with a job, this has always struck me as mildly unfair (I don't get unlimited state income tax deductions), but also aesthetically pleasing (I do enjoy tax structuring), so I don't complain too much."
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Pooh Sticks @dynamicalsystem.com · 23/05/2025
Show a moment from TV/Film that broke your heart.
Elizabeth Corday attends to Mark Greene's deathbed. Waves lap the Hawaiian shore. In the future a purple balloon will fly away above the chimney pots.
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Pooh Sticks @dynamicalsystem.com · 16/05/2025
I have a recently acquired love of The Accountant after shelving it when the "Solomon Grundy" rhyme broke me fifteen minutes in. A friend urged me to rewatch it and it's amazing for: - The 50 cal sound stage at 17' - The understated moments of autistic humour - The sibling relationship
Opening credits voiced by Young Chris singing "Worse on Friday, Died on Saturday"Ben Affleck as The Accountant, deadpan repeats Anna Kendrick's character's surname after she introduces herself:
"Cummings."
The wilful suppression of an impulsive response is almost imperceptible.Affleck replying to Kendrick's disbelief with "I don't use sarcasm. It's irritation."
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Pooh Sticks @dynamicalsystem.com · 14/05/2025
Jamie Lee Curtis as Donna Berzatto draws hard on a cigarette, eyes closed, mouth pinched. Her blood red acrylics are filed to vampiric blades. The subtitles say "Yeah. Yeah."

It's a still from the season 2 episode "Fishes". It's known colloquially as "Christmas".
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Pooh Sticks @dynamicalsystem.com · 14/05/2025
This seems a bit giddy.
Three paragraphs from the linked article... the highlighted one bracketed by ‼️ here.

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In fact, those U.S. financial assets represent claims on future U.S. production. Thus, when foreign central banks and investors purchase trillions in Treasury bonds, they're essentially deferring their consumption of U.S. goods and services to some unspecified future date. Rather than letting foreigners continue accumulating these future claims on U.S. output, the Trump administration's goal is to see those claims exchanged for current production, creating jobs and higher incomes for Americans today.

‼️
That's why threats to 'dump US Treasuries' aren't threats at all — they're promises to buy more American exports! If foreigners sold $1 trillion in US bonds, those dollars would ultimately flow back to purchase $1 trillion in American-made goods and services.
‼️

Capital flow tools aren't about restricting trade
— they're about redirecting foreign dollars from Wall Street to Main Street.
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Pooh Sticks @dynamicalsystem.com · 13/05/2025
Best car
A text message from "Yesterday 08:13"
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Hi [redacted] is dropped off ok. My car is making the most awful noise again so l have to take it to the garage now.
Depending on what they say I may go home do my meeting from there and then pick
[redacted] up. Thank you for the offer though
»
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Pooh Sticks @dynamicalsystem.com · 05/05/2025
Muahahahahahah
A cardboard punnet of blackberries thinking only one move ahead.
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Pooh Sticks @dynamicalsystem.com · 25/04/2025
Shameless shill
A tightly cropped photo of a black T with dark grey writing which says "...undus Sin..." on the top line and "aesaribus" on the second. There is a partially visible butterfly decal inside the back neck. It's light grey.
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Pooh Sticks @dynamicalsystem.com · 20/04/2025
Frankly...
A NY Times Spelling Bee screenshot showing the word "BOLLOX" being summarily dismissed as "Not in word list."
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Pooh Sticks @dynamicalsystem.com · 18/04/2025
Excellent wet bank holiday pastime
Image of Mole Mole, a Turn by Turn Reptonesque puzzle game with death notices like "NO FASCISTS AT THIS PARTY" in a fabulous 3x4 block font.
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Pooh Sticks @dynamicalsystem.com · 08/04/2025
Hats off to @katie0martin.ft.com for introducing us to the concept of jabberwocky policy this morning.
Front page of the FT on which Katie Martin describes Trumps tariffs as "jabberwocky trade taxes" in describing widespread institutional sell off of traditionally safe assets to fund margin calls and redemption demands.
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Pooh Sticks @dynamicalsystem.com · 31/03/2025
A Marks & Spencer promo for their "Dippy Egg Hot Cross Buns". The buns are fondant-oozing chocolate egg-shaped cakes, crossed with yolky sugar, dripping their over-sweet goo from gaping, moist, roughly hewn holes.
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Pooh Sticks @dynamicalsystem.com · 16/03/2025
Strong BBC1 COLOUR vibes coming off this dead macbook.
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Pooh Sticks @dynamicalsystem.com · 16/03/2025
Lord Spikeheart.
Lord Spikeheart, in an orange haze of sodium and dry ice, flinging his locks in front of the audience at Judgement Hall 2025.Lord Spikeheart howling, on bended knee, on spattered concrete, into Barnabas Church's void.
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Pooh Sticks @dynamicalsystem.com · 10/03/2025
Repost with one of the greatest villains in cinema history...
Linda Fiorentino as Bridget Gregory and Wendy Kroy in John Dahl's The Last Seduction, 1994.
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Pooh Sticks @dynamicalsystem.com · 07/03/2025
And bitten lip behaves well...
Bitten lip + befuddlement = cripes
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Pooh Sticks @dynamicalsystem.com · 06/03/2025
Show me a badass female character.
Michelle Yeoh plays Yu Shu Lien in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon."

She is wielding a sword in a classic wuxia pose.
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Pooh Sticks @dynamicalsystem.com · 05/03/2025
Webb really likes Little Simz' "Little Q, Pt. 2."
A golden retriever perks up and looks engaged.
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Pooh Sticks @dynamicalsystem.com · 22/02/2025
Charles Darwin and his thousand yard stare.
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Pooh Sticks @dynamicalsystem.com · 21/02/2025
Ben Zhou wearing a Bybit t-shirt which has been photoshopped to say "You lost it when you BYBIT"
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Pooh Sticks @dynamicalsystem.com · 21/02/2025
Schedule optimism
Three chaps tow wheeled suitcases towards museum trains.
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Pooh Sticks @dynamicalsystem.com · 17/02/2025
Seems pretty obvious anything else would be so off brand it wouldn't make it through marketing sign off.
Billie Lou Hatfield, played by Ellen McElduff, deadpans "...and pro wrestling is real," as the punch line to a self deprecating joke in Homicide: Life on the Street.
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Pooh Sticks @dynamicalsystem.com · 15/02/2025
What's your sign?
A white picket gate leads to to some steep concrete stairs bordered by scaffold pipe handrails and meadow banks. There are two signs on the gate. One looks official and says "Warning - Do not trespass on the Railway - Penalty £1000." It is red with white writing.

The other sign is white with black capital lettering and affixed with zip ties.  It says "YOU ARE ON THE DOWN SIDE."
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Pooh Sticks @dynamicalsystem.com · 11/02/2025
A golden retriever studiously ignores some modern music.
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Pooh Sticks @dynamicalsystem.com · 06/02/2025
Screen shot of the game "Two Words with Susie Dent" showing a victory against Wordsworth.
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Pooh Sticks @dynamicalsystem.com · 06/02/2025
Obvious "Do all 'SWFs Seek Same'?" sub ed failure.
Promo photo from the 1992 movie "Single White Female" starring Bridget Fonda and Jennifer Jason Leigh. The film was adapted from the 1990 book "SWF Seeks Same," by John Lutz.
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Pooh Sticks @dynamicalsystem.com · 03/02/2025
umm... just spin the planet until the Kiwis are on the centre line?
Map of the world spun on the vertical axis to put the Americas on the right hand side...
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Pooh Sticks @dynamicalsystem.com · 02/02/2025
Seems like choking's the outlier preference, tbh.
A pair of charts comparing homicides per million people by method in 2023, US numbers then UK.

Shooting 40.4, 0.4
Knives 4.7, 3.6
Hands, fists 2, 1.6
Blunt objects 0.9, 0.5
Poison or drugs 0.7, 0.1
Strangulation, asphyxiation 0.3, 0.6

Chart: Tom Calver | The Times and The Sunday Times
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Pooh Sticks @dynamicalsystem.com · 29/01/2025
iPhone VoiceOver already does this if you switch it on. It's a bit disjointed... I don't see any way to use "Text Detect" features in combination with VO. There are also some app specific features which suck... in bsky's case the media bar at the bottom of the compose screen isn't resolvable by VO.
iPhone Settings screen:
Settings -> VoiceOver -> Voiceover Recognition -> Screen Recognition

Your iPhone will automatically improve the accessibility of apps that have no accessibility information, such as identifying the state of buttons or toggles, and by grouping related items together. In other apps, Screen Recognition can be accessed through the rotor.

Apply to Apps
Bluesky >iPhone Settings Screen
Settings -> VoiceOver -> VoiceOver Recognition

The second item covers Image Descriptions
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Pooh Sticks @dynamicalsystem.com · 28/01/2025
Post a concert photo you took this year... More Eaze (left) and Seth Graham (floor) at the ICA performing as ---__--___
More Eaze (left) and Seth Graham (floor) at the ICA performing as ---__--___
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Pooh Sticks @dynamicalsystem.com · 26/01/2025
Apologies for the hiatus on album opinions, btw... I went on holiday and the Pooh Sticks Data Centre fell off the network again.
A stickered 2015 MacBook which keeps gutting its own wifi connection for some reason. Stickers represent music, beer, HK, and rare disease research.
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Pooh Sticks @dynamicalsystem.com · 24/01/2025
A snip of the OP's chart, zooming in on an area which represents ~4% as consuming the same volume of space as ~15%. The incongruity is highlighted by the words "big" and "small".
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Pooh Sticks @dynamicalsystem.com · 24/01/2025
Quote post with a bridge from your gallery.
View of a covered pedestrian walkway bridging a complicated road system in Central, Hong Kong. Taken from the public rooftop space on the IFC Mall.
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Pooh Sticks @dynamicalsystem.com · 21/01/2025
Meltohtia
A plastic figurine of Toht, the sadistic Nazi from Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Arc in his wide brim hat and black pin stripe suit.
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Pooh Sticks @dynamicalsystem.com · 14/01/2025
Post Your favourite #DoctorWho, wrong answers only.
Little Simz contemplates the time line on a space chair wearing a blue and yellow large-chequered suit.Little Simz takes delight in winning over a meeting of the time lord council.Little Simz is frozen in time and space by the Documentarians of Wonderland while wearing a voluminous red suit featuring cargo pants and a shirt which is mocking out a drape jacket.Little Simz in eight-bit paisley cammo while visiting the Gardeners.
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Pooh Sticks @dynamicalsystem.com · 12/01/2025
These things used to be in every alpine chalet and Czech lodge.
Radiator humidifier - a ceramic bowl shaped to fit between the fins of a cast iron domestic radiator. When filled with water it humidifies the room using the heat to evaporate.
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Pooh Sticks @dynamicalsystem.com · 01/01/2025
"Wait! Is that it? Is that really all there is?" "What else would there be?"
Gawain kneels before the Green Knight's axe to complete his year long quest.
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Pooh Sticks @dynamicalsystem.com · 22/12/2024
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF TIME TRAVEL by KATE MASCARENHAS
"Genre-defying... witty and inventive" Guardian
"Intriguing and multi-layered" Daily Mail
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Pooh Sticks @dynamicalsystem.com · 02/12/2024
Web cocks his head and say "raoup."
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Pooh Sticks @dynamicalsystem.com · 01/12/2024
Web has a new dance partner
Two golden retrievers play fighting on their hind legs.
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