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Mild Peril @perilmild.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

me to Google photos, every time I need to take a photo out of Google photos and use it in something else

An image of Regina George in Mean girls saying "Strop trying to make .heic happen"

Mild Peril @perilmild.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Got an email form @letterboxd.social about some films in my watchlist hitting Prime and the posters are pleasingly similar

A screenshot of an email showing the poster’s for Meek’s Cutoff and Rogue Male. Both have a person on the right hand side pointing a long-barreled gun to the left, with the title appearing just below halfway down.

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Mild Peril @perilmild.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Mediocre sewing machine technology failure

The top of a sewing machine with a reel of thread, and a bobbin held on by blu-tack.

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Mild Peril @perilmild.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We all got this one for five points, yeah?

A screenshot from Only Connect, showing the clues “Same-sex fan fiction relationship” and “Closed HTML tag”

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Mild Peril @perilmild.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

At the other end of the scale, the audiobook of Have His Carcase by Dorothy L Sayers reads this page of cipher as pairs of letters and it takes six unbearable minutes

An open book showing chapter 26: The Evidence of the Bay Mare. A page of it is just garbled capital letters.

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Mild Peril @perilmild.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My beloved has been sending me pictures of my other beloved

A round grey cat sleeps on a white bedspread, a tiny bit of pink tongue poking out of his mouth.

A round grey cat sleeps on a white bedspread, a tiny bit of pink tongue poking out of his mouth. Except this time the photo is a very close crop with an intense focus on the little pink tongue.

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Mild Peril @perilmild.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Forgot that Gil Chesterton shows up in The Prestige

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Mild Peril @perilmild.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Made my favourite pasta earlier (roast chicken and juices, garlic, parsley, cream, onions lightly browned in chicken fat and butter) which meant disassembling the weekend’s chicken carcass, which is very difficult to do with the intensity of Bird’s focus on you

A kitchen worksurface with a pile of chicken skin and bones and a pile of shredded chicken meat. A large grey cat looks on with great hope in his eyes.

A blue and white bowl with pasta in a pale sauce, sprinkled heavily with parsley.

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Mild Peril @perilmild.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

QRP your bird art! I loved making this goldwork starling five years ago and I didn’t get to keep it so I must make another. It was for the Coat of Hopes project and you can see it in the torso: www.instagram.com/coatofhopes?...

A white square of wool fabric with an embroidered starling made of shiny metal threads.

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Mild Peril @perilmild.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Spent all afternoon thinking about this panel and have logged off of work to wrap myself de Groot style in a furious blanket cocoon.

A panel from Giant Days 27 by John Allison, illustrated by Max Sarin. An angry goth woman is furiously wrapped in a blanket and sulking.

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Mild Peril @perilmild.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This is Bird. Upside down is just the way of the British Shorthair.

A large grey cat lies on his back, all four paws in the air.

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Mild Peril @perilmild.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Which cat? Obviously the Wretched Criminal

A ginger and white cat sits in a too-small box. His front leg (elbow?) is draped over the side, like a white van man leaning out of his window.

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Mild Peril @perilmild.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The RA Summer Exhibition this year included a Jaws poster embroidered in the style of the Bayeux Tapestry, it was excellent

An embroidered shark face on natural fabric, looming from the bottom of the frame emulating the poster from Jaws.

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Mild Peril @perilmild.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Resolving some of these are included in the top item on my To Do list, but I am very behind schedule

A screenshot that says To Do, with an unchecked item “Pullman vs Paxton: get a mnemonic, also for Kyle Chandler and not Kyle Chandler”, dated 19/07/2026

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Mild Peril @perilmild.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The stamp cards are for finishing craft projects, if I am motivated enough to finish ten craft projects instead of neglecting and abandoning them then I can have a celebratory ice cream

A photograph of a stamp card. It says “I finished a thing! Finish then things and redeem for one (1) ice cream.”. There are ten circles, nine of which say FIN and the last one has an ice cream emoji.

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Mild Peril @perilmild.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This is everything I have just removed from my desk because I am a terrible untidy goblin

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Mild Peril @perilmild.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The second half of the book is a phenomenal exercise in name-dropping, the first half on his childhood and time in the army is equally fascinating. And the man knows how to open a book, this was the first paragraph:

A screenshot of the first paragraph from David Niven’s autobiography.

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Mild Peril @perilmild.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Hop across the street to Fortnum and Mason for a stupidly large cherry knickerbocker glory with torched Italian meringue, my goodness the whole place is a theme park for tourists but how wonderful to have too much ice cream in a tall glass

An ice cream sundae in dark cherry pink and white, with blowtorched meringue and a cherry on top.

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Mild Peril @perilmild.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Went to the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition for the first time, enjoyed some Art and was judgey about a some other Art

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Mild Peril @perilmild.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Went round Regent’s Park on a pedalo, kissed under the kissing tree (the willow that overlaps the water), saw the Trevor Howard bridge, got SUPER CLOSE to a cormorant, one of my favourites of all the Wet Birds

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Mild Peril @perilmild.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

You can tells the weather has turned because I have a lap full of cat, aggressively rubbing his horrible waxy ears against my fingers

An enormous bulk of grey cat sits in a lap, and he sort of squints towards the camera. A pale right arm is fussing his left ear, and the cat’s paw is draped over the arm possessively.

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Mild Peril @perilmild.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Been to office, now watching Avengers: Age of Ultron which was a bit filmed at my office while it was pretending to be Johannesburg

A screenshot from Avengers: Age of Ultron showing The Hulk and Iron Man fighting in the atrium of a large office

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Mild Peril @perilmild.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Took the colander for a trip to the bath shop wall as it was the only sunny part of the street, also got some very good effects through the trees.

A brick wall. It has a shadow of a person holding a colander up in the air.

A brick wall with dappled shadows against it.

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Mild Peril @perilmild.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Also apart from one minor blip (nothing in ‘87, two in ‘88) this could have all been Harrison Ford films and you’d think it was fine. Ten films in ten years and somehow the worst reviewed one is Working Girl, which is obviously magnificent

A screenshot of Letterboxd showing Harrison Ford’s ten 1980s feature films.

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Mild Peril @perilmild.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Figured out how to make the printer do monochrome that wasn’t green, put the image on card, sewed on that instead, embroidery unfucked and now I have a nice card for my friend on her 80th birthday

A cream card showing a black and white photograph of two women, with embroidered golden rays surrounding them.

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Mild Peril @perilmild.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

We also have Dizzy who is a demented little goblin and whose magic is less easily captured by the camera, but look at his dangly little pouch!

A ginger and white cat sits upright on a cat tree.

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Mild Peril @perilmild.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

My beautiful roly-poly man! His name is Bird and he sleeps better than anyone I have ever met.

A round grey cat lies on his back with all four paws in the air.

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Mild Peril @perilmild.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Eleven layers of cake, because it’s Friday (4x chocolate sponge, 4x a very butter-forward chocolate ganache, 3x whipped salted caramel)

A tall chocolate cake on a small plate, iced in smears of dark brown ganache and light brown salted caramel

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Mild Peril @perilmild.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Just seen someone who says they have a two kilogram cat. Two! That is less than a third of a Bird

A large grey cat with amber eyes sit on a chair in front of some embroidery.

A large grey cat with amber eyes lays sprawled on the floor batting at a foot stool.

A large grey cat with lies on his back with all four paws in the air.

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Mild Peril @perilmild.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Made a carrot cake, heavily spiced, crushed pineapple, cream cheese icing, caramel sauce, candied pecans for crunch.

A photograph of a narrow, tall cake with white frosting and a circle of toasted candied nuts on its outer rim.

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Mild Peril @perilmild.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Also, I knew buying this would be a risk, but it was £5 and I didn’t want to leave it behind and miss an opportunity forever.

A copy of the novel Busman’s Honeymoon by Dorothy L Sayers. It has a vivid, minimalist design in stark green and back, and shows a set of stairs with a crumpled white body at the bottom.

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Mild Peril @perilmild.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Fun Fact: You’ll know if you have a first edition of Busman’s Honeymoon because it’ll contain an erratum slip, which corrects the frankly unforgivable error of Lord Peter Wimsey being a bit wrong about wine.

A small slip of paper glued to a page in a book. It says ERRATUM: For ‘Hermitage’ in the last line of this page read ‘Léoville’.

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Mild Peril @perilmild.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

We’ve watched ludicrous 1997 film The Edge, in which Anthony Hopkins and Alex Baldwin are stranded in the wilderness and manage to kill a bear with sharpened sticks. In the next scene, maybe a day later, they are seen wearing the skin of the bear they killed.

Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin wearing bearskins against a forested and mountainous background.

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Mild Peril @perilmild.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I have once again had to submit a correction to The Guardian because one of their frivolous nonsense articles got a fact wrong, this time about the nature of the popular meme monkeys that live in our hearts.

Dear Editors,

I am writing with a correction to your recent article 'Who is Jimothy? Seven things you need to know about the internet’s favourite raccoon' at https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/jul/22/who-is-jimothy-seven-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-internets-favourite-raccoon.

Early on includes the article includes the sentence:
'Punch the Japanese macaque orphaned in Ikea is so February.'

However, Punch the Japanese macaque was neither orphaned nor in Ikea. He was born at the Itchikawa City Zoo in Japan and abandoned by his mother. The Ikea association is because his keepers gave him a stuffed ourang-outang toy from Ikea to cling to as a surrogate mother, see the WIkipedia entry on Punch and its sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch_(monkey)

I suspect you are conflating Punch with Japanese macaque with Darwin the Japanese macaque, who was found in a Canadian Ikea store in 2012 wearing a particularly stylish coat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(monkey)

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Mild Peril @perilmild.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I have a pin of this on my work bag!

Four Frasier-themed enamel pins on a black and white backpack: Frasier and Niles clinking coffee cups, Martin in his armchair, Roz holding a sign that says I’M UNION, and Niles with Baby the cockatoo perched on his head.

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Mild Peril @perilmild.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Aaah, I also have a Lego Wall-E! Looks like a different edition, though?

A grey and yellow Lego version of Wall-E the robot.

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Mild Peril @perilmild.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Re-roping the cat tree and I have only achieved this much in 40 minutes, my staple gun broke after the first staple, and I have five hot glue burns.

Three mostly bare headboard tubes, one has coils of rope on the bottom quarter.

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Mild Peril @perilmild.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness

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Mild Peril @perilmild.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

RIVERKNITS IS CLOSING, I have panic-bought a yarn rainbow after lusting after it for years: www.riverknits.co.uk/product/bril...

A loose spiral of yarn skeins in a bright rainbow gradient.

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Mild Peril @perilmild.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I think 1.2 might be more illustrative. The number of households that own outright has continued to rise, compared to people with mortgages that hasn’t returned to pre-2008 levels. PRS is has seen a big rise in the same period www.gov.uk/government/s...

A graph showing households by tenure type in England, from the English Housing Survey.

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Mild Peril @perilmild.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I appreciate I am 37 years late to this party but just in case you have also never seen Timothy Dalton in a wet t-shirt:

Timothy Dalton as James Bond, shoulder deep in water hiding under the prow of a boat. He is wearing a tight, wet black t-shirt and it is hot af.

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Mild Peril @perilmild.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Describe yourself in three characters

Tiffany Aching from the Discworld books by Terry Pratchett. A young girl with brown hair, she is wearing a blue dress and apron, and holding a cast iron pan and a book as weapons. She is wearing enormous boots and around her feet are the Nac Mac Feegle, little blue pictsies.

Niles Crane from Frasier. A slender man with foppish hair, wearing a striped white shirt and ostentatious 90s tie and braces.

Data the android from Star Trek: The Next Generation. He has pale, slightly silvery skin, and is wearing a Starfleet uniform.

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Mild Peril @perilmild.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

No-one will ever be as relaxed as Bird

An enormous grey cat lies upside down with his paws in the air. His eyes are closed, his face an expression of pure, relaxed bliss, and just a tiny hint of fang can been seen in a slightly open mouth.

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Mild Peril @perilmild.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

If you have a paid account it allows you browse by service - it’ll list all the services you’ve said you have access to. Then you can pick a service in particular or view them all, to see everything they’ve got available and filter by year or genre. No idea where to find it on the web version.

A screenshot of the Letterboxd search function

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Mild Peril @perilmild.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

And I make a very good salad! But I crave meatballs and spiced rice with lamb and crispy chicken in a gochujang cream sauce.

A photograph of a black worksurface holding a white bowl decorated with small blue stars. It holds a layered salad of spelt, spinach leaves, cherry tomatoes, roasted peppers, sliced roasted chicken, Parmesan shavings, toasted pumpkin seeds and a balsamic vinaigrette.

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