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internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2025

Who knew you can dig exquisite crystal butt plugs right out of the earth

A clear crystal thing with a faceted knob that is probably a door handle or something in a museum display. There is another black quartzy rock of some kind about which I have nothing facetious to say.

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internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2025

Not as unsettling as the upside-down peas. But I don't like it.

A retail unit under refurbishment with an enormous decal over the whole window and door, featuring two cups of brown liquid being clinked together. The cups are tilted towards each other, but the surface of the liquid is also tilted, revealing that these are photos of level cups that have been rotated. The edges of the cups are not smoothly isolated, very apparent at this large scale. The light details on the cups reveal that one is simply a flipped copy of the other. There is an asbtracted line drawing of each cup superimposed on each cup. The background is a deep orange with a sketchy clip art illustration of the London skyline. Little pen 'clink' lines appear above where the cups almost meet.

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internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2025

Heheh despite everything I love how the school curriculum is pretty woke, how did this stuff survive the Tories?

A photocopied worksheet showing a map of the world. A printed question asks "where is the western part of the map? What countries do you think are included in 'the West's?" In biro, Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand have been highlighted, and the words "SOCIAL CONSTRUCT - THE WEST IS NOT GEOGRAPHICAL" added. A stretch exercise asks for a definition of Eurocentric.

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internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2025

When there are USBs on the bus, you should be able to download an app on your phone and help the driver drive. Come on Sadiq

A USB socket in the back of a bus seat with a cable plugged into it

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internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2025

I love how you can get loads of different things going on in a single Vital patch (obviously if - unlike me - you know what you're doing you can get much more elaborate and musical things happening). #looptober

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internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2025

I got off the bus early to capture this interesting array of stickers.

On a lamp post: sticker of Princess Diana, smiling; sticker of the Never Mind the Bollocks album cover; sticker reading "English Common Law Kevin Annette on Queen Elizabeth YouTube; heart shaped sticker reading "I love free Palestine"; heart shaped sticker reading "English Common Law"

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internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2025

Ahhh Benjamin Myers is really good. Beautifully written book about the friendship between a young man from a mining village and an older bohemian woman who broadens his horizons (not like that). Exemplary characterisation and beautiful language. Also quite a lot […] [Original post on mastodon.art]

The Offing by Benjamin Myers. An illustration of a seaside bay on a summer's day in a kind of mid-century style that I forget the name of.

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internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2025

IKEA, not content with blahaj, further cementing their dominance of the prized Mastodon user demographic

A fake iMac in an IKEA office display. The screen is a decal of a Linux desktop. Nested menu is open - looks like they are trying to configure some audio settings which I understand is a weak point of Linux and the main reason I don't use it

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internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2025

Is this cat part leopard or something? I don't think I've seen markings like that. Also it brought down a gazelle

A domestic cat with leopardy markings on grey/brown. It is investigating underneath a car

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internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2025

Help me not die! Can the new light switch on the safely replace whatever is going on on the right?

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internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2025

Even though I knew it was going to happen, it was kind of shocking to see people just getting arrested right in front of you. #PalestineAction

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internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2025

These two guys got arrested. Not sure what happened to the dog, a copper was leading it away. #PalestineAction

Two older white men sitting in Trafalgar Square. They hold "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action" signs. One of them smokes a rolly. The other holds a lead attached to which is a large fluffy yellow/white dog, lying on its side.

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internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2025

I hardly ever re-read books, but I miss Iain Banks and it's beem 30 years since I read this and I'm glad I picked it up again. I just love how he seemed to be having fun writing*, how he makes the book work tightly in its plot and message, but also makes sure to […] [Original post on mastodon.art]

The Player of Games by Iain M Banks. A stock photo of a silhouetted figure in a suit standing with their arms folded on a stairway. There is a blue light behind them. Absolutely terrible cover, bears no relation to the actual book, just looks like the most generic mass market thriller imaginable, not an SF classic by - at the time of this edition - one of the biggest and most respected writers in both SF and contemporary fiction.

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internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2025

This make of sheep has been bred to be ridiculously cute.

An off white sheep with labradoodle-looking fur gazing up with big eyes.

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internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2025

Good to see craftsmen fashioning their sex toys in the traditional way.

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internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2025

There is still a Johnlock Tumblr community in which my kid can participate, it seems. Not sure what my dad would have done if I'd drawn something like this when I was a teen. He wouldn't have been happy about it though.

Black and white drawing of Cumberbatch as Sherlock clinging on to Freeman as Watson, his legs around his waist. They are both looking deadpan at the viewer. Watson: "Can I put you down now?"
Sherlock: "No."
Watson: " Okay"

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internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2025

I'm sure there is a lot of potential in some kind of mash-up of early Soviet Russian provocateurs, cowboys and Native Americans playing polo, US gangsters and union socialists but that potential has not been achieved here. Honestly reads like a first draft […] [Original post on mastodon.art]

Polostan by Neal Stephenson. The silhouette of a statue of a woman (sure this is either a classical figure or maybe Soviet iconography but not sure) and some 1930s planes against a red/orange background. The cover quote ("Inventive") is notably not from a review of this particular book.

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internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2025

Definite Generation Game conveyor belt vibes from the stuff getting fly tipped round the corner. "A set of crystal decanters..." Audience: "Ooooh!!!"

Five assorted decanters on the ground by a wall.

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internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2025

You know what, with that many E numbers I think I might risk it

Close up of instant ramen packet showing a use by date of 23 August 2025. Many E numbers are listed in the ingredients

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internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2025

It takes them to a poorly catered Burning Man, by the look of whatever is going on in this weird 90s rave flyer cosmic mustache

Poster for Movember with the strap line "Prostate cancer takes 33 men each day". At the top of a black background is a shiny chromey mustache, like if Mr Pringle was a T1000, and reflected in its surface are a bunch of crawling/dead men in a barren desert landscape.

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internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2025

What have I done. I’m meant to be sticking a 3D trajectory in here but I’ve done too many lines and now I’m just staring at it, mesmerised, like when you draw a line in front of a chicken. I could do with making the line with maths rather than just guessing but I’m not sure how to do that.

Detail of an After Effects comp. A simple map of London is on the floor of a grid box/3D graph with red x, y and z axes. There is a white line linking the word 'house' in Balham to 'Kim's office' in Islington, and a blue line above that which is meant to be a the white line but with the z axis employed to show time. There are also a bunch of thin blue vertical guide lines, and a layer is highlighted so its three rotation axis arrows are visible. It is very confusing.

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internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2025

I wonder if A24 know that to British people (or British people over 40 or so anyway) this basically translates as 'The Delightful Contraption ' and we are going to expect a whimsical musical number of that title. How good is Johnson's singing voice? Can you tell what the Rock is humming?

A red London bus, on the side of which is a poster for The Smashing Machine starring Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt. On the poster, Johnson and Blunt are at the side of some kind of fighting ring, presumably mid fight. Not sure what the movie is actually about, probably a Big Daddy biopic.

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internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2025

I think we can all agree that the main flaw with Wolf Hall was that it wasn't narrated by a horny ghost. Well, this historical fiction, about George Sands and Chopin, is narrated by a horny ghost! And you should read it. #bookstodon

Briefly, A Delicious Life, by Nell Stevens. A young woman slowly peels an orange. There is a cover quote from Sarah Waters. Hurry up and write another book, Sarah, stop reading other people's!

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internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2025

So great that Wimbledon has joined the places where from the Pret you can see another branch of Pret.

View from inside a Pret cafe with sandwich shelves etc. Through the window is a bust street, on the other side of which is a second branch of Pret.

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internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2025

Sainsbury's: let me explain something to you about coffee

Packet of ground coffee called "Moments of Calm".

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internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2025

Kid sent me this, no idea if it's an ancient meme of yore or whatever but

Me: Can I take a picture of the moon?
Pisa Tower: yes sorry
Photo of Pisa Tower leaning seemingly out of the way so the moon is visible between it and it's neighbouring building.
text: Thanks mate

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internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2025

The car over the way has laid some eggs! I don't have a driving license so was unaware of this stage in the vehicular life cycle.

The rear of a parked car. On the ground behind it are about seven eggs, very similar in size and colouring to hen eggs, weirdly enough. The car is the same purple of a delicious taro pastry I had in a Filipino bakery one time and looking at it makes me hungry which is annoying because the car is nearly always parked there and it's opposite the window by my desk.

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internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2025

Realised I haven't even thought about Dom Joly for years and years. I wonder where he is now?

Detail of Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights. Dom Joly, a man wearing shades, shouting into a humorously sized early 00s mobile phone, is peeping out of a hole. He is saying "I'M IN THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS". A naked man is shitting coins onto him, and a second naked man is vomiting onto him while a kindly nun (?) holds his head.

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internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2025

Kid has made a pair of pyjama trousers - first seeing machine project. Very proud!

Young teen wearing lumberjack material pyjama trousers, and a green tee with Zelda triforce/bird design.

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internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2025

I enjoyed this a lot. Very skilfully braids and maintains about ten pov characters and a complicated plot. I don't usually do well keeping track of so many characters but McDonald pulls it off as well as Eleanor Catton in Luminaries. #bookstodon

River of Gods by Ian McDonald. Domed Indian buildings overlaid with cramped tenement blocks, marigolds, and a millennial style digital/cyberpunk computery design, murky green swirls, and I think there might be an eye in there

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internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2025

[mh, meds] After ten years or something, this is my last stupid brain pill. Luckily the world is only becoming a more and more relaxing place to live in!

A capsule pill, white and pinky red. It sits on a grey plate with a knife and fork.

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internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2025

My girlfriend in the early 90s. Wonder where she is now?

An alamy stock photo of a white ram with fine curling horns.

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internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2025

I was going to use particles to make the foaming toothpaste but I think I'll just use the default parameters.

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internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy @internetsdairy.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2025

Sad this isn't set dressing from a film set in a far distant future but quite a good deal

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