P.C. Hipsta @pchipsta.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Would have made the cut but wasn't in the database: And the original Jungle Book soundtrack. 001
P.C. Hipsta @pchipsta.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Imagine the sheer unalloyed joy of wrestling the rear wheel out to discover the brake pads you researched minutely are the wrong ones. Arghh! Fire it all back together. #MotoSky 261
P.C. Hipsta @pchipsta.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Very strange. If I was cynical I might suggest that ridiculous amounts of pressure were exerted from the US for a statement that slightly diluted their senior figures looking like stupid pricks. but I don't know jack @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social 010
P.C. Hipsta @pchipsta.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Guardian lead yesterday - “strong indications” that Iran played a role... Andy Burnham has said. Today *crickets* have to work to even find the story. A story that was moving towards 'local idiots get caught' was suddenly a major foreign terror signalled by the Prime Minister no less. 110
P.C. Hipsta @pchipsta.bsky.social · 21/09/2026If you publish a second edition @themodernist.bsky.social please consider indexing it. I know it's an extra expense, but it would make it so much more usable, cheers :) 001
P.C. Hipsta @pchipsta.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Delighted to have been a funder for @themodernist.bsky.social Modernist Scotland. Got to tick off an entry today on a Highland mooch. 100
P.C. Hipsta @pchipsta.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Took a Heritage Open Day visit to Brackenfell, a modernist house built in 1938 by Sadie Speight and Leslie Martin for Alistair Morton, artist and director of Morton Sundour textiles and Edinburgh Weavers. Such generosity from the owner, thanks! @grindrod.bsky.social 181
P.C. Hipsta @pchipsta.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Did Morrisons get feedback that cat owners sight is failing? (Guilty) Either way I'm here for this incredibly legible design. #accessible 000
P.C. Hipsta @pchipsta.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Macromedia liked to change the keyboard shortcuts version to version in their software. Which was... a choice. 000
P.C. Hipsta @pchipsta.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Me when I keep hearing on the wireless about Brent Crude 160
P.C. Hipsta @pchipsta.bsky.social · 15/09/2026there's very little point in telling somebody, '...well actually that book isn't really very good, there's a whole load of better ones in the genre' if it captured their heart. 010
P.C. Hipsta @pchipsta.bsky.social · 15/09/2026like Holy Diver, I consumed the books at a formative age and therefore cannot judge them fairly... unconditional love. Thinking about it this might have something to do with the Rowling 'problem' for a generation? 130
P.C. Hipsta @pchipsta.bsky.social · 14/09/2026my OH works with him occasionally, it isn't an act, he will get verklempt talking about pottery with anybody. Top bloke. 000
P.C. Hipsta @pchipsta.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Happy retirement! I will have to now limit my enjoyment of Gardener's World to singing PARKLIFE! every time Adam Frost comes on screen. #Photoshop #MontyDon 070
P.C. Hipsta @pchipsta.bsky.social · 02/09/2026All I'm saying is that Brent Crude is a great character name. 000
P.C. Hipsta @pchipsta.bsky.social · 28/08/2026are all B3ta sponsors clothes making Brants? @hebtroco.bsky.social 210
P.C. Hipsta @pchipsta.bsky.social · 27/08/2026likewise incredible Proustian rush. My dad had a very early laptop from British Telecom and this was on it... hours happily spent 000
P.C. Hipsta @pchipsta.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Halfway through The Golden Road @willdalrymple.bsky.social really enjoying it, but so glad you got in and highlighted it might come across as slightly Indian dad from GGM before someone else did :) It has raised my anthropeum.com game significantly, those Indians sure got around. 061
P.C. Hipsta @pchipsta.bsky.social · 25/08/2026there are undoubtably, many, many more... but they are so ingrained that I don't even notice them. My Eyes! The Goggles Do Nothing! 161
P.C. Hipsta @pchipsta.bsky.social · 25/08/2026It seems slightly pointless, but with my boring hat on, it is always useful to set a brief... making rules brings out the creativity. See motorsport for countless examples where they push the limit of the rulebook. 000
P.C. Hipsta @pchipsta.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Luxuriating in the musical warm bath of listening to TV Theme Tunes and I discover something that seems highly unlikely about Fawlty Towers, I feel @dirtyfeed.org would surely have mentioned it..? Yeah, nah Spotify en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_... 120
P.C. Hipsta @pchipsta.bsky.social · 19/08/2026the reactions to Barbara Castle, Minister of Transport introducing the Road Safety Act 1967 (70mph speed limit, drink driving) are incredible. Challenged by a BBC journalist who described the policy as a "rotten idea" and asked her: "You're only a woman, you don't drive, what do you know about it?" 050
P.C. Hipsta @pchipsta.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Plays Berlin - Take My Breath Away with any luck?youtube.comPEUGEOT 405 ADVERTYouTube video by 9thChevron 370
P.C. Hipsta @pchipsta.bsky.social · 14/08/2026I have to say the swift, coordinated response from the core parties to bodyswerve Clacton was a great move. Chef's kiss Whichever SPAD had to spend a tortuous hour explaining to Badenoch that there was such a thing as working with opponents for the greater good... chapeau! 030
P.C. Hipsta @pchipsta.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Guessing from the thumbnails that this was a Facel Vega! Nope. Incredible stuff... 010
P.C. Hipsta @pchipsta.bsky.social · 09/08/2026It might not seem like much speed but they really go... 2 seconds slower than Superbikes at Laguna Seca. And I imagine a whole load of physical work to pedal one that fast! 020
P.C. Hipsta @pchipsta.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Camping trip to Borth, and I think we may have blown this cold case right open... 000
P.C. Hipsta @pchipsta.bsky.social · 04/08/2026This book, thumbed, grease-marked in different sections - each one a tell-tale of my relationship with my first car and my dad. Both gone now. The memories. 020
P.C. Hipsta @pchipsta.bsky.social · 04/08/2026imagine the frustration... Clarckson thought he'd get a solid three days of provocateur mileage from his latest hot take and was out-cunted on the day. 000
P.C. Hipsta @pchipsta.bsky.social · 03/08/2026You would imagine that Boris 'highest paid journalist' Johnson... so clever and funny would have volumes of collected work right? Nothing. Sweet fuck all. 000
P.C. Hipsta @pchipsta.bsky.social · 03/08/2026I now want to play Holy Diver at volume 11, but my other half has chosen this day to share the home office (a staggeringly rare occurence) and has a strict no music policy as she does important work and must concentrate (I draw things, so can blast tunes all day). Gaggghh! 020
P.C. Hipsta @pchipsta.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Back then it was very unfashionable to be 'good' at playing an instrument. Metallers did not GAF. 110
P.C. Hipsta @pchipsta.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Whole album bangs. There's a specific selection of metal that I have no idea whether it is actually any good, because I got into it hard at that age where you love something utterly. 150
P.C. Hipsta @pchipsta.bsky.social · 01/08/2026The UK Prime Minister Spencer Perceval, assassinated in 1812 had his autopsy in the Cat and Bagpipes, Downing Street. wizzley.com/the-cat-and-...wizzley.comThe Cat and Bagpipes- WestminsterThrough its tavern doors came the famous of London - including a dead prime minister. 140
P.C. Hipsta @pchipsta.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Was thinking about this watching a YT about how good Paul Verhoeven's blocking is... some folk regard it as odd that schlock contains craft! You learn a LOT when you just make work, lots of work. 020
P.C. Hipsta @pchipsta.bsky.social · 30/07/2026He also has a habit of describing facial features as 'cruel'. Eyes and mouths in particular... I think he might even have described someone's hair as cruel once. Not sure how any of it actually works(imagine making the photofit!) but it works superbly in his style of taut paperback prose. #bond 110
P.C. Hipsta @pchipsta.bsky.social · 30/07/2026were mahogany foxes like George Hamilton and Cary Grant described as constantly 'sun burnt' in the fifties and sixties? 100
P.C. Hipsta @pchipsta.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Re-visiting Fleming's Bond novels, he regularly mentions characters 'sunburned', 'sunburnt' 'burnt and burned by the sun'. Never meaning what we understand today, red, raw, he means tanned, dark or brown, a healthy glow. Was this a general switch or just Fleming? @susiedentwords.bsky.social #Bond 210
P.C. Hipsta @pchipsta.bsky.social · 29/07/2026I designed the set of textbooks and DVD covers etc. (almost certainly the last set they produced) for Open University U101 'Design thinking: creativity for the 21st century'. Designs typically lasted ~ 8 – 10 years before a refresh. Helluva challenge coming up with digi-tech covers that won't age. 011
P.C. Hipsta @pchipsta.bsky.social · 29/07/2026As @hebtroco.bsky.social have been discovering since they started... people will tell you they want to shop ethically, they'll tell you they want to 'bring back manufacturing' etc. then when you tell them how much the real cost is... ...well it gets to ugly name calling about hipsters real quickedconway.substack.comWhat Andy Burnham's £80 T-shirt really tells usThis isn't just a story about expensive clothes. It's about where things are made, about why you can't really trust what it says on the label and about what happens after the "end of geography" 130
