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Marius Kiely @mariuskiely.uk · 11/10/2026

Happy Birthday! And of course:

Jon Nettles as Chief Inspector Barnaby with one of his many faithful sidekicks, Jason Hughes as DS Ben Jones. As police detectives, they both wear non-descript dark grey suits, boring ties and have quizzical, concerned looks on their faces.

Marius Kiely @mariuskiely.uk · 26/09/2026

Binge-watched the Obi Wan Kenobi series over the last few days... (setting myself up for an impromptu viewing of Ep IV this evening.) Struck by a much under-rated example of the (very, very) many pairings in the galaxy far, far away: Tala and NED-B. Rather wonderful, in a very understated way.

A still from the penultimate episode of the Obi Wan Kenobi series, showing Indira Varma as 'Tala' and Dustin Ceithamer as the loader-droid 'NED-B', at the point of their tragic but heroic demise on Jabiin.

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Marius Kiely @mariuskiely.uk · 26/09/2026

I hear you! But, in the galaxy far far away, I am much more partial to Cad Bane... that voice, that hat! 😁 Outside the galaxy far far away? Gotta be Dick Dastardly... Hilarious 🤣

Dick Dastardly, the cartoon villain from Whacky Races. He is twirling his thin, pencil moustache, sporting an evil grin and his usual purple and red costume, including striped flying hat and goggles.

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Marius Kiely @mariuskiely.uk · 26/09/2026

All hail Colonel Stanislav Petrov: (And would AI manage to take this decision?)

"He went on to insist he was just doing his duty.

That may well be true, but it is also slightly misleading. On that September morning Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov stopped and thought, rather than blindly followed orders. In doing so he did indeed do his duty, but it was not just to his country — it was to the human race.

And for that he deserves to be remembered."

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Marius Kiely @mariuskiely.uk · 19/09/2026

The whole article could probably have been this paragraph, with the addition of #BuildingSafetyCrisis and #CladdingScandal. These are all why I am trapped in my flat unable to sell as lenders will not give a new mortgage on it. @vickyfoxcroftmp.bsky.social @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social

screenshot of a paragraph from the article

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Marius Kiely @mariuskiely.uk · 10/09/2026

Oh for fuck's sake, BBCNews...

The BBC News headline should read "Trump offers illegal unfunded BRIBE"

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Marius Kiely @mariuskiely.uk · 08/09/2026

£1.17 for actual heating and hot water. £56 for the 'privilege' of access to heating and hot water. Daylight ****ing robbery. #Galliards #DistrictHeating #CommunalHeating #Unregulated #CEP #BunchofBandits @vickyfoxcroftmp.bsky.social @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social 🤬

A scan of an invoice for communal heating, showing EIGHT standing charges.

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Marius Kiely @mariuskiely.uk · 06/09/2026

We seem to have a new resident. Mr Fox sleeps on the gabion wall most days now... he's totally oblivious to the comings and goings of the rest of us.

An urban fox curled up asleep on a gabion wall, by the bik racks, surrounded by greenery.

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Marius Kiely @mariuskiely.uk · 12/08/2026

I often wish I controlled the giant Monty Python cartoon foot... I would use it, liberally, on those cars that have massive bass speakers filling the boot that make buildings shake as they drive past... *Splat*

The Monty Python giant cartoon foot, which Terry Gilliam would despatch from on high to flatten some poor unsuspecting soul...

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Marius Kiely @mariuskiely.uk · 12/08/2026

I find this geology absolutely extraordinary... 🤔 🌏

A screenshot from Google maps of the Bering Sea. It shows the extraordinary marine shelf between Russia and Alaska. It looks like the sickle from the old USSR hammer & sickle...

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Marius Kiely @mariuskiely.uk · 11/08/2026

That means it is very definitely the right thing to do... #Corruption #PedoPresident #CriminlainChief

Screenshot of BBC News article that says "Trump says it would be 'terrible mistake' to remove Infantino.
That means Infantino needs to removed forthwith (along with the convicted felon and sex pest squatting in and destroying 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue)

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Marius Kiely @mariuskiely.uk · 01/08/2026

And the first plums... 🤤

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Marius Kiely @mariuskiely.uk · 31/07/2026

The thick sweet smell of these plump blackberries is amazing... 🤤 😁

A close up photo of plump blackberries on a verdant bramble.

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Marius Kiely @mariuskiely.uk · 30/07/2026

It is a good look! (Hope all goes OK and all not too ghastly 😘)

Sir Pat Stew as Jean Luc Picard during his time assimilated into the Borg as Locutus of Borg. He was a black rubber uniform with black biomechanic enhancements wrapped around his face and skull. I'd love to do this look for Hallowe'en one year...

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Marius Kiely @mariuskiely.uk · 25/07/2026

And there are LOTS of blackberries... I'll take a tub of today's pickings into the office for people to make crumble...

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Marius Kiely @mariuskiely.uk · 25/07/2026

But there will be fat juicy plums... 🤪

A bunch of fat juicy plums not yet starting to ripen, amongst green leaves in an orchard. The grass is a parched pale yellow...

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Marius Kiely @mariuskiely.uk · 25/07/2026

Grapes are small this year, as it is so dry. I expect they will be sweet though...

Grapes on a vine in a greenhouse. They are just starting to colour in the ripening process. They are smaller than usual.

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Marius Kiely @mariuskiely.uk · 15/07/2026

Woohoo! That was an excellent #MapTap today! www.maptap.gg July 15 100🎯 100🎯 100🎯 97🔥 98🎯 Final score: 985 And extra badges to boot! 🥳

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Marius Kiely @mariuskiely.uk · 15/07/2026

"After record heat, the Atlantic will make Britain's weather even more extreme." There, #BBCNews, I fixed your headline for you... #Twats 🙄😖

A screenshot from BBC website showing a headline that asks a fatuous, completely "no-shit-Sherlock" headline.

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Marius Kiely @mariuskiely.uk · 11/07/2026

A rather wonderfully designed new 'eco-house', built low into the old Victorian walled kitchen garden of the local stately pile. Have watched it being built, nearly finished...

A newly built house with a zigzag roof hunkers down in a red brick walled kitchen garden in mid Kent. It is surrounded by orchards.

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Marius Kiely @mariuskiely.uk · 11/07/2026

Tree of the day - a partially variegated maple (I think) - the leaves at top left are not variegated at all...

A beautifuuly shaped tree, the leaves of which that face south are variegated; the ones on the northern side not so.

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Marius Kiely @mariuskiely.uk · 11/07/2026

Magnificent magenta Buddleia:

A magenta Buddleia bloom in the hazy sunshine, against sage green leaves.

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Marius Kiely @mariuskiely.uk · 11/07/2026

Brambles starting early in Kent:

A small bunch of ripening blackberries on a bramble bush. A verdant background.

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Marius Kiely @mariuskiely.uk · 10/07/2026

#Maptap www.maptap.gg July 10 90👑 100🎯 95🏅 97🔥 88🎉 Final score: 935 😁 Whoop whoop - new badges again!

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Marius Kiely @mariuskiely.uk · 09/07/2026

Gosh - new achievement notifications on #MapTap today... #OverAchiever www.maptap.gg July 9 100🎯 99🎯 97🔥 80✨ 90👑 Final score: 903 Hmph! Argentina... 😘

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Marius Kiely @mariuskiely.uk · 01/07/2026

Says "improving", but I think I might have a bit of a plateau situation happening... #MapTap

Screenshot of my Maptap monthly rolling average.

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Marius Kiely @mariuskiely.uk · 26/06/2026

The water trucks that keep the dust down at Burning Man:

At the Burning Man event in the Nevada desert salt flats, a water truck sprays water on the 'streets' to keep the dust down... event participants follow in various states of undress to take advantage of the free cold shower...
It's a delightful way to cool off and get clean.

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Marius Kiely @mariuskiely.uk · 12/06/2026

Oh dear... very sorry to hear this news. Adieu David Hockney 😢 An incredible body of work as his legacy, however.

The David Hockney painting 'Portrait of Sir David Webster'. An elegant gentleman in a bottle green suit, red tie and blue pocket square sits on a cantilever chair designed by Mies van der Rohe in front of an Altra coffee table designed by Zeev Aram on which stands a ceramic vase of magenta and white variegated tulips. It is a wonderful portrait.

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Marius Kiely @mariuskiely.uk · 12/06/2026

Looking good! 😏😇😁

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Marius Kiely @mariuskiely.uk · 07/06/2026

My Jasmine is a-poppin'... but it's not really warm enough at the moment for the scent to really sing... hoping for a warm evening before it goes over... 🌿🌼 #Jasmine

Verdant waves of star Jasmine just starting to bloom...

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Marius Kiely @mariuskiely.uk · 07/06/2026

One for #PrivateEye 's "Separated At Birth" page...

Two pictures side by side, one of the demagogue Nigel Farage and one of the Demagorgon from 'Stranger Things'. In the manner of Private Eye's Separated At Birth column, the names 'Demagogue' and 'Demagorgon' are switched... Both have wide open, salivating maws, out of which spew the foulest, most vitriolic streams of hatred...
Well, I thought it was amusing, at least...

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Marius Kiely @mariuskiely.uk · 03/06/2026

Anyone aware of Shopify having crashed?? I'm being told my store does not exist...! *Screeeeeeeeaaaaaams*

Anima Damnata - the Bernini sculpture of a man screaming in untold agony...

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Marius Kiely @mariuskiely.uk · 26/05/2026

Bizarrely, there is no Google Streetview at that end of Kingsway, but this would be the only way to get into the tunnel the wrong way from the north... (without having gone the wrong way on the wrong side of the road for quite a bit of Kingsway...)

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Marius Kiely @mariuskiely.uk · 26/05/2026

It's the Strand Underpass, one way north from Waterloo Bridge to Kingsway, following the line of Aldwych. The Waymo car is facing south, meaning it has gone the wrong way down the whole one-lane, one-way tunnel... Incredibly hard to get into from the north...

Google maps of Lancaster Place at Waterloo Bridge, London UK

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Marius Kiely @mariuskiely.uk · 24/05/2026

It's a real 'Rear Window' night... As dusk falls, people come home from their days out, lights go on in the flats across the courtyard...

A still from the Hitchcock film 'Rear Window': a sultry summer evening at dusk - the last glow in the sky in the background. The lives of his neighbours - that Jimmy Stewart found so fascinatign - play out before him...

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Marius Kiely @mariuskiely.uk · 21/05/2026

Here's mine... about twelve years old now...

An evergreen star jasmine on a balcony on a new-build block in zlondon. It is most verdant but not yet in flower. There is a wisteria and a dwarf rose in the background.

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Marius Kiely @mariuskiely.uk · 20/05/2026

Now *this* is an Ami...! 😁

A 1968 Citroen Ami6 in sea green with a cream roof and wheels. It is a very idiosyncratic looking car.

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Marius Kiely @mariuskiely.uk · 19/05/2026

If AI were a person... 🤬

A screenshot of Ardal O'Hanlan as Father Dougal from the sitcom Father Ted. Father Dougal is the living personification of the nature of AI... absolute confidence in telling you total and utter bullshit, simply because it doesn't know it's bullshit until you tell it... god, it boils my piss...

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Marius Kiely @mariuskiely.uk · 17/05/2026

Ruined my upward trajectory...

A screen shot from Maptap showing my scores for the last 30 days. The last five have been a good solid increase, brought down by today's score.

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Marius Kiely @mariuskiely.uk · 13/05/2026

I think I can allow myself a slightly smug smile... 😁

A screenshot of my global standing this month on the MapTap.

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Marius Kiely @mariuskiely.uk · 10/05/2026

Mmm, yes, Sakura Buffet in Auburn NY... AI slop vs Reality:

An AI photo - it's fake, it's not worth describing, except to say it looks like a nice village-y downtown shopping street... showing the Sakura Buffet.

The reality, from Google streetview, of the Sakura Buffet in Auburn New York, which is in a wide open mall, low-rise, single storey concrete box. Nothing like the Ai fake...

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Marius Kiely @mariuskiely.uk · 07/05/2026

Looking healthier now... (Still would be nice to get it over 90%! 😁)

"Should Brexit be revered? Yes - I think so = 70%" etc

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Marius Kiely @mariuskiely.uk · 04/05/2026

Threepio and K-2 hope you've all had a splendid #StarWarsDay! I have, with plenty of #Andor, #Rebels, and #Maul. May the Fourth be with you, always...

Lego models of the Star Wars droids C-3PO, in gold, and K-2SO, in black and grey.

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