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Dave McKay @mckay.me.uk · 06/10/2026
It should be obvious.
Two identical pictures of the face of a sausage dog. The one on the right has a Hitler moustache.
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Dave McKay @mckay.me.uk · 06/10/2026
You're 1000x off!
206,100,084 / 84,439 = 2,472.736
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Dave McKay @mckay.me.uk · 04/10/2026
Amazing. Also, I need to know more about this chap.
Some thing. Maybe a half-tree, half-owl giving a power salute.
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Dave McKay @mckay.me.uk · 30/09/2026
One for @jaunty.art. 😁
The Numberblocks logo, but spelling Eldritch Horror instead.
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Dave McKay @mckay.me.uk · 29/09/2026
I know Andy Burnham likes his music, but basing Conference on an Atomic Kitten song still seems strange to me.
Andy Burnham striding across the Labour Party conference stage. The slogan behind him reads: LABOUR - WHOLE AGAIN
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Dave McKay @mckay.me.uk · 28/09/2026
His defining moment.
A gravestone, reading:
The Right Honourable
Sir Keir Rodney Starmer KCB KC
1962-2045
He rebuilt Prince Russell
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Dave McKay @mckay.me.uk · 25/09/2026
"Have ye barred 'em?" - Javier Bardem.
A picture of the actor Javier Bardem. Below, the headline reads: Bardem calls for singer Pink to be removed as UNICEF ambassador over Palestine stance
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Dave McKay @mckay.me.uk · 19/09/2026
Oh, no! Where will we get our right-wing disinformation and propaganda?
A handwritten sign on a newspaper rack.

"Delivery issue this morning. No Mails, Express, or IPaper. Sorry for any inconvenience."
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Dave McKay @mckay.me.uk · 17/09/2026
Finally, a competition Helen Glover can enter with her husband.
BBC News Headline: River home to 500 crocodiles chosen as Olympic rowing venue
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Dave McKay @mckay.me.uk · 14/09/2026
An astonishing AI hallucination on the BBC regarding the BCP tram proposal. The entire geography has been rearranged. Compare the left, AI, with the right, from Google Maps. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
An AI image of Bournemouth. Boscombe pier is west of the Vitality Stadium, and impossibly near Bournemouth pier. Kings Park is above the Vitality. Charminster is above Kings Park instead of much further west. Castlepoint shopping centre is on the A31. The airport is east of the A338, which seems to join the A31 at Castlepoint.A satellite map of the area, showing where everything ought to be.
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Dave McKay @mckay.me.uk · 10/09/2026
Have short kids?
BBC headline: Man shares secrets behind growing vegetables that are taller than kids.

Picture is of man with Very Long Carrot.

(This is not a euphemism)
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Dave McKay @mckay.me.uk · 10/09/2026
How long are we giving the neighbours' staging before it starts bowing outwards?
A flatbed lorry with the sign "Rickett's Scaffolding Ltd".
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Dave McKay @mckay.me.uk · 08/09/2026
He looks like one of those 19th century portraits of big rectangular cows.
A Shorthorn Cow
Henry Stafford (1830–1873)
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Dave McKay @mckay.me.uk · 31/08/2026
My Pixel occasionally serves up Australian news for some algorithmic reason or other. Took me a beat to figure out that we're not actually digging up convicts to fix the infrastructure.
"Victorian prisoners to be sent out to repair roads under Labor’s pothole plan"
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Dave McKay @mckay.me.uk · 29/08/2026
Yes, reader, there was meant to be an image attached. 🙄
A photo of The Lost Films of Hollywood by David Quantick and Chris Barker, together with one of the bonus postcards which were included.
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Dave McKay @mckay.me.uk · 27/08/2026
Someone's working on a shitty gen-AI "welcome to heaven, dead European monarch" prompt now, aren't they? With Elizabeth II; Rainier III; Henry VIII; Colin Firth; Olav V; and a rubbish Freddie Mercury¹. [1] from Queen
BBC News headline reading: Norway's royal family gathers at King Harald's bedside as his condition worsens
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Dave McKay @mckay.me.uk · 20/08/2026
I'm impressed by Carl L using a watermark to ensure his work isn't plagiarised or anonymised, even if the latter would be, at the very least, entirely understandable.
Carl L's entry, incorporating his actual family name.
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Dave McKay @mckay.me.uk · 19/08/2026
Please tell me this happened at the end of the school week.
The Long Good Friday cinema poster inexpertly altered to read The Long Pood Friday. Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren have been almost imperceptively replaced by Stacey Jarvis and Jayden Hunter. Jayden is a normal looking 8-9 year old boy. Stacey is a 31 year old woman with eyebrows-by-Sharpie.
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Dave McKay @mckay.me.uk · 19/08/2026
He's still here.
A blue playmat, partially underwater, with interweaving raindrop rings.
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Dave McKay @mckay.me.uk · 14/08/2026
Me: he won't be *that* near. ABK: I think you'll find …
Googled directions showing a ten minute drive.
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Dave McKay @mckay.me.uk · 12/08/2026
Don't knock it until you try!
Images of the March 2025 partial eclipse cast through a colander.
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Dave McKay @mckay.me.uk · 12/08/2026
Doesn't read like her accent was the issue, but let's not let that get in the way. www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...

BBC Weather forecasts by Judith Ralston, August 2026

11 August 2026

Summary of complaint

We received complaints regarding the audio quality during weather forecasts presented by Judith Ralston.

Our response

Unfortunately, a technical issue affected some of Judith Raltson’s weather forecasts during the first week of August, causing the audio levels to be lower than intended. We apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused and are pleased to confirm that the issue has now been fully resolved.
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Dave McKay @mckay.me.uk · 12/08/2026
I think you'll find that's a pigeon.
A photo of a pigeon, with the subtitled caption "pelkään".
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Dave McKay @mckay.me.uk · 11/08/2026
I'm ready for the eclipse.
That scene from A Clockwork Orange. Malcolm McDowell with his eyes wired open.
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Dave McKay @mckay.me.uk · 10/08/2026
Don't forget the Bud Neill/Lobey Dosser statue in Glasgow!
The Lobey Dosser statue in Woodlands Road, Glasgow.
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Dave McKay @mckay.me.uk · 08/08/2026
A "Now That's What I Call Music" album cover, but saying "now is the winter of our discontent" instead.
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Dave McKay @mckay.me.uk · 08/08/2026
Oh dear. Our 10yo is on Scout camp in Eryri National Park, looking forward to viewing the eclipse from the mountains. 🫤
A pinned location in Eryri National Park, North Wales.
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Dave McKay @mckay.me.uk · 04/08/2026
It's an interesting use of the word "affordability", I'll grant you.
Affordability
Monthly repayments £97,784
Property: £ 19,500,000
Deposit: £ 1,950,000
Interest rate: 5.33%
Term: 30 years
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Dave McKay @mckay.me.uk · 03/08/2026
How many though?
The Not The Nine O'clock News "toilets" sketch.
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Dave McKay @mckay.me.uk · 01/08/2026
I hope they asked for their parents' permission first.
BBC News headline: William and Kate bring children to Commonwealth Games.
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Dave McKay @mckay.me.uk · 31/07/2026
The BBC there, having difficulty remembering the name of one of their F1 presenters. You know, the chap who ran that team. What was it called again? www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/a...
A picture of Jake Humphrey, Eddie *Jordan*, and David Coulthard, above a caption claiming Eddie's surname was actually Hearn.
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Dave McKay @mckay.me.uk · 30/07/2026
Have you looked for "mid sleepers"? We have one of these for the 10yo. Alas, this one's no longer available, but similar should be around.
A single "mid sleeper" bed, with a raised mattress above drawers and a cupboard. There's also a desk which can be wheeled out.
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Dave McKay @mckay.me.uk · 30/07/2026
Astride them all, like a Colossus.
An extrapolation of the notoriously scaled "women's height" graphic (which has a 5'0" Indian woman looking like Thumbelina), showing a nominally 5'10.5" woman as something like a giant.
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Dave McKay @mckay.me.uk · 25/07/2026
Steven Toast
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Dave McKay @mckay.me.uk · 19/07/2026
How small is Messi? #TheFootball
Messi standing next to a massive World Cup trophy. Or is he?
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Dave McKay @mckay.me.uk · 18/07/2026
Apparently it's twelve years since I drew this.
A cartoon. Robert Plant is standing in a large pot.

The caption: "Hello, we ordered a rubber plant for the office, but …"
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Dave McKay @mckay.me.uk · 17/07/2026
One of these is not like the others.
Suggestions for a partial Google search of "Orkney by". Many methods of transport are listed, e.g. "Orkney by ferry", but also there's "Orkney by Amy Sackville".
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Dave McKay @mckay.me.uk · 16/07/2026
Just figured out where I think Tuchel got his defensive strategy from last night. #TheFootball
A still from the classic "Toilets" sketch from Not The Nine O'Clock News. A small bathroom design has seven toilets.
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Dave McKay @mckay.me.uk · 09/07/2026
Fuck's sake, BBC.
BBC live reporting on Bonnie Tyler's death:

"The singer, known for hits including Total Eclipse of the Heart, Holding on for a Hero and It's a Heartache, has died at the age of 75."

It's Holding *OUT* For a Hero.
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Dave McKay @mckay.me.uk · 08/07/2026
Egypt were this close to making it a West European/North African lockout.
A map of the last 8 team in the World Cup. Apart from Argentina, all the countries are in Western Europe/North Africa.
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Dave McKay @mckay.me.uk · 07/07/2026
He'd be a shoo-in for Timothy Claypole in any Rentaghost revival.
Timothy Claypole from Rentaghost, clad in his jester clothes.
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Dave McKay @mckay.me.uk · 07/07/2026
Egypt and Switzerland have the chance to do the funniest thing later. #EuropeAndNorthAfricaCup
A world map highlighting most of the last 32 in the World Cup (sorry, Japan and Australia), and whether or not they've been eliminated. The six through to the quarters so far are all in Europe or North Africa, withe potentially two more to come.
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Dave McKay @mckay.me.uk · 02/07/2026
Reminded me of this from some years back.
The front cover of a  book called "The Woman Who Changed Her Brain", but the price sticker is hiding the "in" of "brain".
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Dave McKay @mckay.me.uk · 29/06/2026
"He is intelligent, but not experienced. His pattern indicates 2 dimensional thinking."
A map of the UK (and Ireland, and a little France). Makerfield isn't even halfway up.
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Dave McKay @mckay.me.uk · 27/06/2026
All right. Let's do this. Happy 100th birthday¹, Mel Brooks! [1] In some places.
The opening title to Young Frankenstein.
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Dave McKay @mckay.me.uk · 27/06/2026
Sky Sports phoning in their programme descriptions at the moment.
"3rd Test, Day 3: England v New Zealand" Live coverage from a Test match, a contest between two intemational teams played over five days.
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Dave McKay @mckay.me.uk · 23/06/2026
Tell me about it.
A packet of Walkers Oven Baked crisps. 

Sea salt flavour.
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Dave McKay @mckay.me.uk · 23/06/2026
I think we're all feeling the same way as the office chair in that particular room.
The back of an office chair. It's got two cutouts towards the top for some ergonomic reason, but they look like eyes. Pareidolia makes it look like it has an entirely unimpressed face, perhaps bordering on disappointment.
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Dave McKay @mckay.me.uk · 18/06/2026
"The North"?
A map of the UK (and Ireland, and a teeny bit of France), with Makerfield highlighted.

Makerfield is more than halfway down the map.
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Dave McKay @mckay.me.uk · 14/06/2026
I want to know the narrative between these two characters. I think one is trying to convince the other not to throw itself over the edge. "Jason, don't do it. You've got your whole life ahead of you."
Two wheely bins are perched on a narrow, paved platform reached by two chunky steps. The platform is bordered by two high brick walls, one of which has a white door.
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