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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 02/10/2026

I always knew she was a wrong'un

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 18/09/2026

Strong Cornish blue & cream vibes

A selection of Cornish blue & cream pottery.

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 12/09/2026

Here's the same area, seen in 2013, with only minor damage.

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 12/09/2026

The shocking state of Kenneth Budd's fine "Horsefair 1908" mural in Birmingham; many pieces of which are lying on the ground below the work (and far more missing completely). Seen yesterday. Birmingham City Council are responsible for its upkeep.

An area of mural, about bout 3m tall by 4m, 40% of whose 1cm tesserae (tiles) are missing. Several tesserae are lying on the floor. The remaining parts depict the front end of a horse and a crowd of people.

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 12/09/2026

At a Wikimedia UK event; we brainstormed (an incomplete list of) the types of activities undertaken by Wikimedia volunteers.

List of 30-odd activities. Link to transcription in comment.

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 08/09/2026

North Birmingham, just now. No filter (note the blue), just slightly under-exposed

An orange and blue sunset, with the silhouettes of houses and cars in the foreground. The house windows and car windscreens reflect the sky.

An orange and blue sunset, with the silhouettes of houses in the foreground. The house windows reflect the sky.

An orange and blue sunset, with the silhouettes of trees in the foreground.

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 05/09/2026

[3/4] But you make no mention of the fact that that contraflow is mapped in OSM; and has been since 1 November 2025. That data is freely available to all open-source satnav apps

Screenshot of OSM data (web view) including the tags "name=Waterloo Street"; "oneway=yes"; "oneway:bicycle=no"

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 03/09/2026

I'll just pop that on iNaturalist, then, shall I?

A yellow and black striped insect on a red rose, The phone-camera has focussed instead on foliage in the middle distance, meaning that the insect is just a blur.

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 25/08/2026

These wonderful illustrations are from one of three volumes, titled 'Fungi Collected in Shropshire and other Neighbourhoods', compiled 1862-1902 by M.F. Lewis, aka "Miss Lewis". [Link in reply] Nobody knows who she was, nor anything else about her. The answers must be out there somewhere!

Watercolour sketches of toadstools and bracket fungi, labelled "Ludlow, Whitcliff Woods Nov 1960"

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 25/08/2026

Thanks for showing up, er, everyone. #Influencer

Screenshot of LinkedIn email, saying:

"Andy, your posts made an impact and your audience showed up.

"Here’s a glimpse at how your content performed the week of 8/17/2026 – 8/23/2026.

"6 Impressions"

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 21/08/2026

More #Tesco shenanigans - Pork "reduced from £8 per Kg to £5" with Clubcard - but the non-offer product on the same shelf, otherwise identical, is priced £7, not £8 per Kg.

Pork joints on a supermarket shelf. The shelf label says "£8 / £5 with Clubcard". The individual joints are priced £7 (all per Kg).

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 15/08/2026

Fasciated sunflower, in my Dad's garden - an elongated flower, from a single bud.

A double-headed sunflower - looking like someone has cut a slice off two flowers, and joined the cut edges of the flowers together.

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 12/08/2026

My welding mask laughs at your puny cardboard eclipse glasses

A well-used welding mask, with dinks and scratches, but still usable.

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 09/08/2026

Depends on the workplace, surely?

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 02/08/2026

Same writer as the first one. Real or trolling? Poe's law applies...

Screenshot of comment reading "These partial eclipses have become more and more frequent since industrialisation. Just more proof that climate change is real and happening right before our eyes".

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 02/08/2026

Daily Mail readers' comments on the forthcoming partial (in the UK) solar eclipse A thread...

Screenshot of comment reading "I watched the sun setting a couple of weeks ago, when it was at the horizon I was able to look at it through binoculars. I didn’t expect much but It was absolutely spectacular! I could see sunspots, one was there the whole time and another just exploded into life as I was looking."

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 30/07/2026

Not an issue in OpenStreetMap

Screenshot of OSM map of southern England. with Oxford at north, Canterbury at east, Salisbury to west and Portsmouth (and Isle of Wight) to south. Brighton is one of six other cites shown.

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 28/07/2026

I guess me and hotel curtains are jinxed Thanks, Ibis 19th Arrondisment

A pair of black curtains with sunlight streaming through horizontal and vertical bare patches, where they have been creased.

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 27/07/2026

Glad to say all my, er, souvenirs of Paris made it back safe #Wikimania2026

Two half-bottles and one mini bottle of red wine, three cans of beer and four bottles of beer. The wine and all but one of the beers are French.

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 25/07/2026

If #Wikimania2026 had an award for the coolest necklace

A necklace made up of upper-case letter cubes, reading "Citation needed".

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 12/07/2026

This is a creepy pub sign. No matter where you stand, it's like he's looking at you

A pub called "The Jeremy Bentham". The sign is a relief sculpture of Bentham's face.

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 03/07/2026

I won a Wikimedia UK Silver Jubilee Award (one of five, present by Jimmy Wales)

A glass star, inscribed "Thank you from Wikimedia UK for your outstanding contribution to open knowledge", sat in a blue silk-lined box.

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 03/07/2026

TravelodgeUK boast about their "blackout" curtains

A pair of dark curtains, with sunlight streaming around every side. Objects on a nearby table are clearly lit by the sun.

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 29/06/2026

Go home, Goodreads, you're drunk

Screenshot reading " Memoirs on diphtheria. From the writings of Bretonneau, Guersant, Trousseau, Bouchut, Empis and Daviot. Selected and translated by Robert Hunter Semple. With a bibliographical appendix, by John Chatto.
by [Diptheria]."

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 29/06/2026

This is BY FAR the best Cheddar I've found. Sharp as a razor blade, yet very competitively priced. And, unlike other popular (and supermarket-own) brands, unerringly consistent in quality. Ignore the best-before date, it never lasts that long in my house! 👏👏👏

Marks & Spencer Extra Mature Cheddar. 550g block for £4.25 (£7.73 per kilo). Shelf label says "This is remarkable value".

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 25/06/2026

Of course, Bluesky declined to show the image in its preview

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 13/06/2026

Dispersal - most of the aircraft flew over Heathrow (including the Red Arrows at about 1000 feet, along the main runway). Anyone know why?

Screenshot of aircraft after crossing London - most heading WNW, the faster fighters breaking NW, and the Chinooks heading SE.

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 13/06/2026

Here they come; line shows path of Red Arrows

A line of aircraft approaching London. The Red Arrows are at the rear, having flown along the coast from the Wash to approximately Southwold, where they turned inland.

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 13/06/2026

Aircraft preparing for the Trooping of the Colour flypast - Red Arrows in Lincolnshire

ADSB website screenshot - most of the aircraft are over the North Sea.

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 01/06/2026

Google Translate hallucinates "Three children", for a family with five. 'Mit ihr hatte er die Kinder' means 'With her he had the children', not 'They had three children'.

Google thinks the German 'Mit ihr hatte er die Kinder' means 'They had three children'.

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