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Ian Badcoe @ianbadcoe.itch.io · 26/09/2026

There are two types of people in the world... #Hobby #Pottery #Figurine #Sadness ? #Clanger ??

Two amateur pottery figures, one a possibly sad contemplative human female, the other a Clanger (tm) popping out of a crater (tm)...

Ian Badcoe @ianbadcoe.itch.io · 31/08/2026

Nobody now knows how the ancients achieved this eerie "floating tomb" effect... #Ancient #Mystery #MonumuntalMasonry #HiddenWisdom #MustBeAliens

A small monument in an English churchyard. It's very worn and stands on four undecorated skinny metal bars, where whatever more ornate support there one was is now missing...

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Ian Badcoe @ianbadcoe.itch.io · 27/08/2026

I don't know what you're doing, but it isn't fooling anyone, Larry... #photo #pole #hat #Undercover #disguise #TryToBlendIn

Three of those chrome pillars that are used to put up tape and direct queues. One of them is wearing a hat.

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Ian Badcoe @ianbadcoe.itch.io · 26/08/2026

The stars sure are close together here in the centre of the galaxy... #Photo #ceiling #lights #cafe #GalacticCore #NoObviousBlackHole

A cafe ceiling crowded with light bulbs, paper lanterns and coloured balls.

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Ian Badcoe @ianbadcoe.itch.io · 15/08/2026

#Godot #Gimp #Icons #Iconic #Desktop #UI #Oops Why can I never remember which of these is which, I am always clicking the wrong one...

A snippet of my task-bar with Godot and Gimp right next to each other...

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Ian Badcoe @ianbadcoe.itch.io · 13/06/2026

*This* crack in the fabric of reality, dammit!

A crack in a tarmac footpath with yellow arrows on either side, pointing inwards at it...

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Ian Badcoe @ianbadcoe.itch.io · 20/05/2026

This might be useful, although it is only sporadically active these days: groups.google.com/g/proceduralconte… My picture, attached, shows a few more grid based transforms I have thought about over the years... [1/5]

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Ian Badcoe @ianbadcoe.itch.io · 04/05/2026

I totally agree that people should not be fishing for ducks but they could have proofread the sign a bit before putting it up... #sign #ducks #dusk #DadJoke #WellIAmADad

A sign reading: fishing is not shower after dusk

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Ian Badcoe @ianbadcoe.itch.io · 09/04/2026

I joined your Patreon, but this feels more hivemindy than I was expecting, unless it means I am now your left arm?

Email subject clipped from my inbox, reading "Congrats Ian Badcoe, you're now a member of Fay Roberts"

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Ian Badcoe @ianbadcoe.itch.io · 31/03/2026

A #horror goes, #interacting with #users is a bit too close to the knuckle...

Snip from a game store page showing "horror" and "users interact"...

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Ian Badcoe @ianbadcoe.itch.io · 31/03/2026

Cultivate #Synthetic #Tranquility , foster a sense of #Artificial #Detachment as you dust your #Plastic #Bonsai using authentic ancient techniques...

A "Zen Garden Set" featuring "artificial bonsai", "artificial moss balls" and (presumably real) stones...

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Ian Badcoe @ianbadcoe.itch.io · 30/03/2026

Disregarded on principle. May be sarcastic.

Screenshot of text saying "Generated from sources. May be inaccurate."

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Ian Badcoe @ianbadcoe.itch.io · 18/02/2026

IDK what it is, but it's evil and made from spilled beer...

A puddle on a dark wood surface that's a bit like a leafy seahorse, if it was evil. A light reflection gives it a glaring eye...

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Ian Badcoe @ianbadcoe.itch.io · 12/01/2026

Our space probe approaches the planetesimal "Sm-0 Kedet Ector" ...

A light fitting which, suitably rotated and cropped, somewhat resembles a deep space probe...

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Ian Badcoe @ianbadcoe.itch.io · 27/12/2025

#Joy #Complexity #Richness #Rust #Paint #Corrosion #Decay #Beauty #Moss #Nature #Weathering As we countdown the last few days of the year, please take a moment to consider how beautiful, rich and detailed the world is. [1/5]

Close up of a length of iron fence, angle so it recedes into the distance. The paint us peeling and the exposed metal rusty, and patches of bright green moss have colinised the exposed, horizontal surfaces.

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Ian Badcoe @ianbadcoe.itch.io · 15/12/2025

#Google #Maps has become slightly more awkward to route plan with in the last couple of weeks...

A map of the UK absolutely swamped in location markers...

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Ian Badcoe @ianbadcoe.itch.io · 14/12/2025

@hallamlondon.bsky.social FYI - might be a place we could get more traction with h our work...

A post from Mastodon asking artists to send their music videos to Indie Beat TV" or "Fedi MTV"

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Ian Badcoe @ianbadcoe.itch.io · 03/12/2025

Google maps has a really good grasp of how to get from my drive to my house... Apart from it doesn't know the car *is* on the drive, so there's no need to actually walk to the road before spending 1min driving 6' to get "home"

Google maps route showing hobi could walk to the road, dive 6', get out, then walk back down the drive when I want to go in the house....

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Ian Badcoe @ianbadcoe.itch.io · 20/11/2025

I see the show asking cells whether joining together into a multicellular organism is working out for them is back...

Thumbnail for a TV show, cut off by the edge of the screen so it reads:
"I'm a cel-
Get me out-"

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Ian Badcoe @ianbadcoe.itch.io · 18/11/2025

Or a deciduous forest, on the shore if a lake...

The bottom of a coffee cup, tilted, with a little coffee on the lower side and the grounds making a spreading tree pattern above.

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Ian Badcoe @ianbadcoe.itch.io · 13/11/2025

"When the corn crake creaks, with the last light if Boron's day, the shadow of the book pile shall fall upon the keyhole." #LoTR #Tolkein #Door #SecretDoor #DoorWhatDoor #WhatPartOfSecretDidYouNotUnderstand #Photo

A large, precarious pile of books, on a side table with various ornaments, casting a shadow on a nearby wall.

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Ian Badcoe @ianbadcoe.itch.io · 10/11/2025

A false colour image of the surface of the Sun...

A coffee cup with blotchy curved liny patterns a bit like convection cells...

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Ian Badcoe @ianbadcoe.itch.io · 10/11/2025

Which shouldn't be surprising because I previously found: A section of the Jovian atmosphere...

A near-empty coffee cup containing swirly brown patterns

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Ian Badcoe @ianbadcoe.itch.io · 10/11/2025

Hi all! I wrote another book... "All the tales a spy might tell." This time it's a hybrid poetry pamphlet and 1950s SciFi Spy story with cosmic horror overtones... [1/3]

A bark blue book entitled "All the tales a spy might tell" with faux battered cover...

One page from a poem spread across two pages. The poem is called "Roland's Gambit" and consists of an introductory quatrain:

He stalls upon the stairs, these rear and damp
and peeling paint, the seldom travelled access
Stairs, he's had such thoughts as lead him here,
but much now fails to fall out clear, because

An arrow points to a large opening brace, inside which are more quatrains. Giving the impression of the start of process to be concluded on the next page (not shown...)

Part of a two page poem entitled "Side effects". The poem is presented as a 5x5 table with white, grey and black cells, text can be read from cell to cell in any direction, giving the impression of confused and disjointed thought processes.

It is not possible to describe the intricate 2D arrangement that makes connections between text in adjoining cells here, but a couple of illustrative cells are:

"pretend nothing
to say pretend
you know nothing
pretend you do
not understand
pretend you are
pretend there are"

and to the right of that:

"you read reports
a doctor's reports
who doctors the
doctor's reports
doctors' studies
(a skeleton)
birds singing"

Such that the last two lines can optionally be read across from cell to cell, and other lines do not grammatically read across, but hold related meanings so they comment on each other...

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Ian Badcoe @ianbadcoe.itch.io · 10/11/2025

Planet Plum's orbit (not to scale) is surprisingly circular...

A large plum, dark maroon with greyish surface bloom, sitting on a dark glass hob exactly on the circular line which marks the position of the heating element.

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Ian Badcoe @ianbadcoe.itch.io · 08/11/2025

Not any major thing to report, but I tried changed pain pills and blew my sleep cycle up meaning this the first development I've done for a month... [1/3]

Simple computer game graphic showing a basic train, some trucks have 2x4 arrays of little circular holes on top, and some holes have white barrels slotted into them.

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Ian Badcoe @ianbadcoe.itch.io · 03/11/2025

Finally, now where did we leave the portal?

A large but simple key, lying on the floor, with a tag tied to it that says "GATE..."

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Ian Badcoe @ianbadcoe.itch.io · 01/11/2025

Seem to have grown a pine forest in my coffee cup...

A view into an empty, dirty coffee cup. The wet grounds, in running down to one edge, have produced a series of overlapping, thin, serrated shapes, similar to a side view of close-growing pines...

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Ian Badcoe @ianbadcoe.itch.io · 14/10/2025

How many of these should I expect to see before they stops being "unexpected" errors? #error #unexpected #ExpectTheUnexpected

A Mastodon screenshot with 5 unexpected errors listed at the bottom left...

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Ian Badcoe @ianbadcoe.itch.io · 13/10/2025

It might be a G #rune . It might mean #Gandalf was here... "What would it mean, if it were made by Gandalf?" I should say, answered #Strider it is a G and an arrow, and it's a sign that Gandalf is here, right now, and sneaking up behind us... [1/2]

A tarmac pavement with a capital G, a line, and an arrow pointing at the viewer...

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Ian Badcoe @ianbadcoe.itch.io · 03/10/2025

Sometimes a #flaw in the fabric of #reality is more easily spotted than others...

A section of brick pavement split down the middle with a straight line that cuts diagonally across the bricks. The bricks to either side, match in neither colour nor size, although their orientation is consistent...

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Ian Badcoe @ianbadcoe.itch.io · 25/09/2025

Anyone else got more than a #foot of #books on their #ToBeRead pile?

A foot in an orange and white stripey socks, posed in front of a large vertical stack of books

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Ian Badcoe @ianbadcoe.itch.io · 25/09/2025

I never knew you could get pills to help with difficulty exploring the delta quadrant...

Three pills arranged on a dark background so they look a little like the Star Trek "Voyager" starship...

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Ian Badcoe @ianbadcoe.itch.io · 24/09/2025

Damnit! Looks like I missed a call from my old mate Suspect...

An Android notification saying "Missed Call / Suspected Scam"

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Ian Badcoe @ianbadcoe.itch.io · 22/09/2025

Hmm, I did not expect #BlueSky to be the one to fall short here, let me see if I can attach the gif directly... Ah, I can, so that's not going to work for cross-site purposes :-( but a fairly small limitation, since I am not Mr GIF-posting,, generally.

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Ian Badcoe @ianbadcoe.itch.io · 19/09/2025

#Brick Thing one year in... Getting #moss established generally around the base. Front middle is a compact ajuga, that may be too spready, but time will tell... Middle left is Sicilian #mint , which is also quite aggressive but v. low growing. [1/4]

A bonsai "folly" made of cut down bricks and mortar with various plants (see main text for details...)

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Ian Badcoe @ianbadcoe.itch.io · 13/09/2025

This is no use at all, it's a public fire...

An old wooden panelled door labelled "Private Fire Apparatus"...

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Ian Badcoe @ianbadcoe.itch.io · 13/09/2025

Presumably where they store the occasional tables...

An old wooden panelled door labelled "Periodical Room"

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