Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026He’s a cult figure on social media but it’s a shame that whoever filmed this for the Japanese ambassador to the UK doesn’t know the basics of filming on a phone: audio without an external mic in a loud environment will be bad; not locking the focus gives that horrible pulsing effect.  020
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026At first, it’s an impressive waterfall…only to be revealed as a weir on the River Gade, on the outskirts of Watford. 130
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Wincing at the prominent and respected broadcaster who says on a podcast released this week “I genuinely find that I make less mistakes when I am handwriting”static.klipy.comGame Of Thrones GotALT: Game Of Thrones Got 130
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Impressive from @vodafonegroup.bsky.social. This email about helping set up broadband arrived 1030 Friday…when the broadband service was installed Wednesday 1130 🙄 The guy installing it flagged up I needed the app, meaning I had service soon after. But if he hadn’t, would I still be waiting? 010
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I know I don’t use Instagram much but even so I was surprised to see this 11 year old video about Jeremy Clarkson so prominent on the BBC News page. Is there a logical reason for that? 010
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 16/09/2026They don’t make them like this any more, do they? (Both the illuminated board and the programmes themselves) 061
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Very surreal to be back at TVC, more than twenty years after I first worked here. It’s my first visit since 2010 (?) and while it’s changed a lot, there’s much still eerily familiar. 130
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Very tempted to enquire about the retail price for the canine in this shop’s glass-fronted display. (Or is there a better way to ask that question?) 150
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Much as I love Arsenal, I cannot defend this. I dread to think how many people have received this email and the really terrible spelling error.  010
Reposted by Marc SettleLightWeave @trylightweave.com · 09/09/2026LightWeave Ravel is a new interactive video maker for iPhone and iPad, with Android on the way. We've written a short post about why we made Ravel and why we think you may like to use it! Read it here: prsmtc.link/48emmw #trylightweave #interactivevideoprsmtc.linkLightWeave Ravel is now available on the App Store!Ravel is an interactive video maker available for iPhone and iPad (Android version is coming very soon!). As we launch our first public version, we’d like to talk about why we created Ravel, why you... 011
Reposted by Marc SettleTerence Eden @edent.tel · 05/09/2026This photo has been doing the rounds for six years at least. See www.reddit.com/r/funny/comm... Took seconds to find that. Why would a BSky account with so many followers just pretend it was their own content? Do they think people dont know how to reverse image search? 2318
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Is car sickness no longer a thing for kids (or even adults?) When I was young (some decades ago, sadly…) I was sick moderately often - after car journeys & occasionally during them. Yet my kids can merrily read books during a long journey with no ill effects. Maybe car suspension has improved…? 1840
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 03/09/2026It’s the start of the new school year & the 7am alarm caused a LOT of grumbling. “It’s really early, this is so unfair!” “Can I stay in bed for five more minutes?” “You can’t *make* me get out of bed” But my wife told me to stop whining & to get up and make sure the kids were ready for school. 0100
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Following the news that the BBC is axing Ski Sunday, am I allowed to say that our critics might use this as an opportunity to say it’s proof that sport on the BBC is going downhill?static.klipy.comSkiing Fail SkiingALT: Skiing Fail Skiing 010
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Disappointed that the shop wasn’t a lot smaller, to be honest.  2143
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 30/08/2026A clever cartoon in this week’s Private Eye… even if a pendant would point out that in order for the words on the clapperboard to be filmed by the glasses, the clapperboard would need to be at a very different angle and probably not visible by the woman.  020
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Given the relentlessly hot, sunny and dry summer most of England has had, there must be brides, grooms and wedding parties across the country cursing their luck for scheduling their big day on the last Saturday of August, given it’s chucking it down almost everywhere for most of the day. 040
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I gather it’s raining in large parts of the UK today? I know it’s needed but i like my current view. 20°c and breezy - blissful 010
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I realise that Danes are broadly wealthy and they have a good social and healthcare system, but even so I was blown away by this emergency vehicle 1196
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Bonkers that I’ve got a 5G signal good enough to boast about having a good 5G signal…when it’s so often a challenge in central London. 230
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Today I learned that an incredibly still body of water - this happens to be the Skaggerak south of Oslo and north of Denmark - both confuses the lens cleaning suggestion (it appeared even though my lens was scrupulously clean) and the level meter (check the horizon) 040
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Always look up. Things might not be as bad as they first appear. 030
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Marvelling again at the free WiFi at a Premier Inn 020
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 19/08/2026This reply will make little sense to a random American on Twitter, but it amused me which is what it’s all about, I guess. 5767
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Fair enough that when news breaks, you can’t expect interviewees to have good sound/acoustics in a well-lit room but why in 2026 are we allowing guests - some even co-presenting shows - to broadcast from their kitchens with huge lights overhead, and with cameras pointing up their noses? 050
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 17/08/2026While we’re expecting the weather to break FINALLY and see temperatures in London approaching normal for late August, this doesn’t seem to be wholly accurate? 000
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 15/08/2026I’m on the Brittany Ferries ship Gallicia where passengers get 90 minutes free Wi-Fi - but only once per device, per crossing. Unless of course someone* is tech-savvy enough to know the incredibly convoluted workaround whereby…er tapping “forget this network” is sufficient to reset the clock. 😬 *me 0100
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Quite something that the free WiFi on Brittany Ferries as we cross the Bay of Biscay, hundreds of miles from land, is faster than your average Premier Inn 130
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Day one of force-closing TikTok on seeing this. How long can I do it for…? 010
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I’m not saying the Spanish Met Office as is unreliable as the UK’s, but there’s quite a difference between what their app is saying the weather is like here…and what the weather IS actually like here 040
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I mean…it looks *fairly* green. Not the deepest I’ve ever seen though, but whatever.  140
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 12/08/2026On the one hand, it looks like cloudy skies will ruin my #Eclipse experience here in northern Spain; on the other, I now own the strongest ND filter possible. 030
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Absolutely fantastic conditions for the total solar #eclipse where I am in northern Spain. The eagle-eyed among you (or those who saw the alt text) will have spotted that this is for 8pm *tomorrow* Today, it’s terrible - thick cloud cover. 100
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Come to Northern Spain for the eclipse they said; it’s going to be great, they said.  24 hours before the eclipse, this is “partly cloudy”; tomorrow, it’s due to be “overcast” so I fear we will have travelled this far for nothing.  220
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 07/08/2026@spacekate.bsky.social hello! Hope you’re well (genuinely mean that, not just a pleasantry) We’re off to Spain for the eclipse & my 12 y.o. son has questions I can’t answer: Does the moon also go dark during the E? It is only lit by the sun & it’ll be in front of it. Is the “dark side” being lit? 010
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Guess which bit of Spain I’m travelling to for the eclipse next week :-( 000
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 03/08/2026I’m not sure I have many feelings about the app I use to submit my expenses; were any to somehow develop, I seriously doubt that “love” would be one of them. 051
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Zuckerberg understands me so well. I can think of nothing I’d like to do more with a photo of my kids getting themselves an ice cream than use an AI app to turn it into a tarot card 🤨 1112
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 01/08/2026This is curiously phrased? The next total solar eclipse isn’t “expected” on 23 Sept 2090 - it’s an astronomical certainty. So it WILL happen on 23/9/90 (barring astronomically unlikely events like the Moon moving off its current orbit because of an “accident” at the MuskTrump Space Base ™️ in 2078) 1122
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Finally - an exercise machine at an outdoor gym which promises me less a six pack and more a cup of tea. 0102
Reposted by Marc SettleWytse Vellinga @wytsevellinga.eurosky.social · 31/07/2026Google made faking reality even easier. Because, according to the company, "it is fun". It is not. @henkvaness.bsky.social explaines the problem on his substack and website. Worth reading. www.digitaldigging.org/p/how-to-pla...digitaldigging.orgHow to plant a nuclear plant in IranThe question is: what on earth is Google doing? 242
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Bagged another example for my training courses, where I use Arsenal videos to show basic mojo mistakes. 011
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Took me a moment to get this, as I tried to work out what a “fat clog” was and why anyone would ever cook one. 011
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Late July and it’s chucking it down. Typical British summer 🙄 320
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Shout out to all the other parents in the UK *still* taking their children to school this morning. (At least the school run takes half the time it usually does…) 010
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 23/07/2026On first reading this headline, did you think: A/ the teenager has started action against Meta B/ the teenager has ended the action against Meta? read the full article find out if you were right here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 110
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 22/07/2026I’m sure the Golden Gate Bridge looked more…golden, the last time I was here? 210
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social · 21/07/2026How many people would be confused that using an iPhone 16e triggers an email about an iPhone 17,5? (And don’t get me started on the abomination that is 08.45pm) 210