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Oliver Turner @oliverturner.cloud · 30/08/2026

It is a truth universally acknowledged that there is a certain 'je ne sais quoi' oh so very special about a firm, young carrot.

Richard Griffiths, resplendent in capacious green velvet and sporting a baby carrot buttonhole, encounters — and is entranced by — Paul McGann’s “I”

Richard E Grant leers, tweedily, from behind

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Oliver Turner @oliverturner.cloud · 25/07/2026

Radiatori Orchid / Parrot Tulip / Wisteria Radiatori mainly because who doesn’t love pasta modelled after an old industrial heating fixture, but also designed to trap sauce

“An orchid”, oil painting by Georgia O’Keeffe

Maybe a basic choice, but there’s a sultry sort of purity to them that I find intoxicating.

An impossibly extravagant black Parrot Tulip

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Oliver Turner @oliverturner.cloud · 21/07/2026

You’ve been murdered. Who do you want on the case?

The pride of the Sûreté, Inspecteur Clouseau (here portrayed by Peter Sellers)

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Oliver Turner @oliverturner.cloud · 18/07/2026

Always fond of the pea mobile…

A car designed to closely resemble a pea

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Oliver Turner @oliverturner.cloud · 18/06/2026

This actually pretty accurate kojira.github.io/bluesky-lice...

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Oliver Turner @oliverturner.cloud · 14/06/2026

That is *adorably* weak 😂

A poorly drawn star saying “there was an attempt”

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Oliver Turner @oliverturner.cloud · 05/06/2026

Lord Rothschild giving it the old college try…

Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild (1868-1937) pictured with his zebra-drawn carriage.

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Oliver Turner @oliverturner.cloud · 02/06/2026

Unless I knip this in the bud I can see myself wasting hours 😂

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Oliver Turner @oliverturner.cloud · 20/05/2026

A “sharpener” always puts me in mind of the sequence immortalised by Bernard Ingham in his account of Sir Dennis Thatcher’s hydration regime…

As Margaret Thatcher's press secretary, Bernard Ingham, once recalled, Denis had many terms for his favourite tipple: "An opener, a brightener, a lifter, a tincture, a large gin and tonic without the tonic, a snifter, a snort, a snorter. And a snorterino, which more or less empties the bottle in one go."

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Oliver Turner @oliverturner.cloud · 16/05/2026

Just discovered that my incredibly talented brother designed this *stunning* new release dk.com/products/978...

Front cover of the newly released “Atlas of Botany”, depicting beautifully painted flowers by Pierre Joseph Redoute against a foil atlas

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Oliver Turner @oliverturner.cloud · 28/04/2026

Similar, in that any time nicotine’s siren call sounded, its previously irresistible association with Left Bank chic — strong black coffee, a paperback thriller, Bacall smouldering in a half-lit poster — melted away as soon as I brought this image to mind…

Nigel Farage smoking a fag. For some inexplicable reason he’s chosen to be photographed in his dressing gown… outside, on a bench?

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Oliver Turner @oliverturner.cloud · 24/04/2026

@orangetronic.bsky.social imagine my delight when, halfway through enjoying an absolute belter of a tribute to #tunegirl, I catch an unanticipated glimpse of this funky adonis!

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Oliver Turner @oliverturner.cloud · 19/04/2026

It’s really just a matter of time before I bite the bullet on some variant of this bad boy… www.lapavoni.com/en/families/...

An extravagantly gorgeous La Pavoni espresso maker

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Oliver Turner @oliverturner.cloud · 06/04/2026

And there I was thinking that chimeric revulsion had peaked with this…

Carl from Aqua Teen Hunger Force in canid form

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Oliver Turner @oliverturner.cloud · 19/03/2026

The RSS link is there though…

A screenshot of terrygodier.com displaying an RSS link

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Oliver Turner @oliverturner.cloud · 12/03/2026

For someone with pretty severe deuteranopia I was quite chuffed…

Your ДЕок JND
0.0115
Solidly below the standard JND. You probably get unreasonably annoyed when someone says two slightly different blues are 'the same colour. You're right, by the way. They're wrong.

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Oliver Turner @oliverturner.cloud · 02/03/2026

The later stanzas of Betjeman’s “Slough” are just as appropriate as its opening “Come friendly bombs” in this context…

And get that man with double chin
Who'll always cheat and always win,
Who washes his repulsive skin
In women's tears:

And smash his desk of polished oak
And smash his hands so used to stroke
And stop his boring dirty joke
And make him yell.

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Oliver Turner @oliverturner.cloud · 01/03/2026

Both references are a bit obscure though, so I would probably just go with “crinkled”

The dictionary definition of “crinkled”

crinkled I'krnkld |
adjective
having small surface creases or wrinkles: a skirt in crinkled fabric.
crinkle |'krkl|
verb
form into small surface creases or wrinkles: [no object]
: Rose's face crinkled in bewilderment | [with object] : he smiled boyishly, crinkling his eyes.
noun
a wrinkle or crease on the surface of something: there was a crinkle of suspicion on her forehead.
ORIGIN
late Middle English: related to Old English crincan (see cringe).

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Oliver Turner @oliverturner.cloud · 01/03/2026

In woodworking, leaving the lip of a turned bowl its natural form creates a “live” edge

A turned wooden bowl with a lip that has been intentionally left unfinished

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Oliver Turner @oliverturner.cloud · 01/03/2026

In paper making, leaving pages untrimmed results in a “deckle edge” (from the “deckle” frame the pulp is pressed in)

Stacks of untrimmed paper showing their crinkled edges

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Oliver Turner @oliverturner.cloud · 26/02/2026

Love this idea! A propos of nothing… “farouche”

The Merriam Webster definition of the word “farouche”

In French, farouche can mean "wild" or "shy," just as it does in English. It is an alteration of the Old French word forasche, which derives via Late Latin forasticus ("living outside") from Latin foras, meaning "outdoors." In its earliest English uses, in the middle of the 18th century, farouche was used to describe someone who was awkward in social situations, perhaps as one who has lived apart from groups of people. The word can also mean "disorderly," as in "farouche ruffians out to cause trouble."

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Oliver Turner @oliverturner.cloud · 10/02/2026

I also missed ⌘⇧C when I switched from Arc to Vivaldi... but the good news is that you can recreate the functionality with a Command Chain 😀

A screenshot demonstrating how to recreate a much missed feature from Arc in Vivaldi: the ⌘⇧C shortcut to copy the current URL

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Oliver Turner @oliverturner.cloud · 08/02/2026

Repost with a photo of yours that would make a good Album cover

A photo of a bollard adorned with a sticker saying “bukkake ruined my carpet”

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Oliver Turner @oliverturner.cloud · 04/02/2026

A comparative assessment of the performances of Patrick Macnee, Donald Monat, Julian Wadham and Ralph Fiennes: Maslow's Hierarchy of Steeds.

The inimitable Patrick Macnee doffing his Coke

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Oliver Turner @oliverturner.cloud · 21/01/2026

Saw this and thought of @davidmalki.com who deeply appreciates verse of this calibre

A caricature of Shakespeare drinking a pint and smoking a fag above a limerick that reads…

Young Shokespeare drank ale by the yard
and fancied himself as quite hard.
One day at an inn
he caused such a din
that the landlord declored: "You are bard!"

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Oliver Turner @oliverturner.cloud · 15/01/2026

Share someone who looks stylish in a beret

David Niven being his inimitable self, bereted to the max

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Oliver Turner @oliverturner.cloud · 12/01/2026

If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula... or Brad pitt.

Poster for the film The Hunger featuring David Bowie, Catherine de Neuve and an uncredited corpse

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Oliver Turner @oliverturner.cloud · 07/01/2026

Yep, I invited you to pop over for some decent grub, and instead of responding sensibly you’re having a little tantrum. Now run along and enjoy your chlorinated chicken 😂

Canned chlorinated chicken: America’s finest.

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Oliver Turner @oliverturner.cloud · 04/01/2026

Which in turn reminds me of the scene Boswell describes in his “Life of Samuel Johnson”

"After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, 'I refute it thus."

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Oliver Turner @oliverturner.cloud · 27/12/2025

Holy moly this takes me back... this was my first in that series, and oh, how treasured it was 🥰

The front cover of "Gods, Men and Monsters from the Greek Myths (World Mythologies Series)", depicting Perseus using his shield as a mirror to observe the Gorgon Medusa

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Oliver Turner @oliverturner.cloud · 27/12/2025

Look, I get it: it’s tempting to avoid providing any evidence to support your baseless claims, but you didn’t even try. Some might call that telling. Given that the article makes it very plain that Khan is talking about the right, I have to ask… did you even read it? 😬

Rupert Lowe, a rightwing independent British MP, said this month of London: "Outside a few select
posh areas right in the middle of the city, it increasingly resembles the third world."
Khan said the rightwing attacks presented a picture of London totally at odds with reality, and that the city was attracting US citizens in record numbers since Trump's re-election in November 2024.

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Oliver Turner @oliverturner.cloud · 27/12/2025

Uhh… it’s a perfectly accurate summary of what he said? Your claim of “framing” and “setting an agenda” requires the FT to have misrepresented the substance of what Khan said. Feel free to provide examples of this happening.

"You are seeing politicians and commentators in the UK, Europe and across the globe attacking London," he said. "They are often populists, nativists and unilateralists.
"I can see that they are worried about London's success. That's because we are a diverse,
progressive, liberal and multicultural city that's incredibly successful. We're the antithesis of all the stuff they talk about."

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Oliver Turner @oliverturner.cloud · 09/12/2025

I believe the Belgian Tuile may fit the bill: - No fruit filling - Not Rich Tea - BUT can be used to drink tea (dynamic) - From the Low Countries (like Bramus) - Traditional (continuity) - Baseline widely available (from M&S)

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Oliver Turner @oliverturner.cloud · 01/12/2025

In fairness this is only because I have been tricked into caring about 🟪 far more than I ought.

The purple-first indicator showing my snail-like progress towards a new badge: 58/75

Why yes, I have heard of Sisyphus… why do you ask?

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Oliver Turner @oliverturner.cloud · 24/11/2025

They should do an AB test and offer the next version in two flavours: with and without AI. See which one is more popular and whether there’s actually an “AI race” that users give a single solitary 💩 about

Apple won't quite launch 'zero new features' like they claimed with OS X Snow Leopar back in 2009, however. According to Gurman, Apple still plans to release a number of new Al features with iOS 27, so the company doesn't continue to fall behind in the Al race

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Oliver Turner @oliverturner.cloud · 20/11/2025

Incredible "Come Dine With Me" vibes from ReallyNiceDerek there

Tubby loser Peter insulting Jane, the winning contestant, a woman whose only crime was to be much better than him

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Oliver Turner @oliverturner.cloud · 17/11/2025

Looking forward to it! I went with “what if Web but Quaint?”

My study featuring my grandfather’s desk, a Georgian hanging cupboard, a Moroccan leather pouffe and a kilim

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Oliver Turner @oliverturner.cloud · 03/11/2025

I expect it’s because, without strict Same Origin Policy, a malicious site that you visited could potentially access your session cookie on nordcraft.com by making a request for the VTT resource portswigger.net/web-security...

Why is the same-origin policy necessary?
When a browser sends an HTTP request from one origin to another, any cookies, including authentication session cookies, relevant to the other domain are also
sent as part of the request. This means that the response will be generated within the user's session, and include any relevant data that is specific to the user. Without the same-origin policy, if you visited a malicious website, it would be able to read your emails from GMail, private messages from Facebook, etc.

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Oliver Turner @oliverturner.cloud · 01/11/2025

As long as one is the original…

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Oliver Turner @oliverturner.cloud · 01/11/2025

I’d have refreshed the hairline. Not because balding is bad, but once you’ve decided that hairs are your aerials and that they pick up signals from the cosmos, and transmit them directly into the brain… well, then you’ll end up very uptight when your plugs start falling out

Danny the Dealer from Withnail & I proffering a concentrated Rogaine pill

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Oliver Turner @oliverturner.cloud · 31/10/2025

Betteridge’s Law strikes again en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteri...

Betteridge's law of headlines
Article
Talk
Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states:
"Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." It is based on the assumption that if the publishers were confident that the answer was yes, they would have presented it as an assertion; by presenting it as a question, they are not accountable for whether it is correct or not.

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