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PJ @pjarvis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Toy Mauser were around from the 60's. Probably not this exact one but something similar.

A black toy Mauser machine gun pistol from the 1960s made in Hong Kong.

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PJ @pjarvis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Appropriate album cover too!

A CD album cover of Fatboy Slim's album Better Living Through Chemistry. It features a blue 3.5 inch floppy disk with the title written on it.

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PJ @pjarvis.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The Kandy Man had that kind of vibe, freaked me out a bit back in 1988.

A monster in the TV series Doctor Who. The Kandy Man is a human shaped monster made up of sweets and robotics. His head is a blue licorice allsort with wild eyes and a tin moustache.

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PJ @pjarvis.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Looks like it is (was) The Riviera Hotel (now Hotel Opportune) on Robson Street.

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PJ @pjarvis.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Achievement unlocked! (Need to work on 2 hour and 1 hour now ...)

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PJ @pjarvis.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Always makes me think it's what an Osteopath would call her dog (which in my head, is a Scotty Terrier).

A handsome black Scottish Terrier dog, who may be named Mr Clavicular, standing proud in some winter grassland.

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PJ @pjarvis.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

I had a neat little compact Sony Cyber Shot DSCW80, which used one of those memory cards. Really nice before phone cameras took over. Still have it somewhere.

A small silver Sony digital camera featuring a Carl Zeiss lens.

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PJ @pjarvis.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Swap the olives out for walnuts and goats cheese and...

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PJ @pjarvis.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Sometimes you see such a crazy bet that you have to place a wager...

A winning betting slip. The bet was placed 10th Dec 2021 for Liz Truss to be the next Prime Minister after Boris Johnson. It paid out on 5th Sept 2022.

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PJ @pjarvis.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

We know where this leads...

A movie poster for the 1980s film "Runaway" showing a lethal robot climbing up the front of the poster.

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PJ @pjarvis.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Not ours, but it's a better picture than I have to hand. Typical ROV used with a pair of robot arms. About the size of a mid sized car for scale.

A Schilling UHD Remote Operated Vehicle (ROV) in yellow and grey. It has a couple of robot arms mounted at the front.

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PJ @pjarvis.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Watch out for the statues...

A Weeping Angel stone statue covering its eyes with its hands, from the TV series Doctor Who.

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PJ @pjarvis.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

That they ever thought that people would pay $3000+ to look this silly will never not be funny to me.

The cover of Vanity Fair magazine. Tim Cook the CEO of Apple is sitting at his desk in casual clothes wearing the Apple Vision VR headset. He looks ridiculous. Very not cool. Kinda sad old man trying to be cool but failing.

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PJ @pjarvis.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Someone's been using the "AI enhanced" version of Excel...

Screenshot of Microsoft Excel, the user has asked the co-pilot AI to sum a column of three numbers; 1,2 and 3. The AI has given the answer: 15.

The comment above the screenshot says "This will crash the global economy".

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PJ @pjarvis.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Current stage of US economy

Wile E Coyote has come to a screeching halt, unfortunately for him about 3 feet off a cliff edge and both gravity and reality have yet to kick in.

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PJ @pjarvis.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Have a read of Cory's post above. He details why it's not the same as Dot Com and why it doesn't scale in the same way. Machine Learning and "AI" have uses, but they do not even remotely support the expenditure and it is unsustainable. Making Excel shite at maths isn't worth 1+ trillion dollars.

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PJ @pjarvis.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

One of my favourite albums is Astronomy for Dogs by The Aliens.

An album cover showing an evening sky with the sun just below the horizon and some stars visible. In the foreground in silhouette is a telescope and a dog looking through it.

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PJ @pjarvis.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

The exhibition of Ray Harryhausen's work with many of his original models is excellent if you get the chance to go and see it I'd recommend.

A model skeleton from the film Jason and the Argonauts.

A model statue of Talos from the film Jason and the Argonauts

A model of Kali from the film 7th Voyage of Sinbad

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PJ @pjarvis.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

One of the more popular unisex fragrances in the UK (CK One) smells like Pritt Stick glue to me 🤷‍♂️ people still seem to like it.

A white tube of Pritt Stick glue with a cartoon glue-man smiling on the front.

A bottle of unisex perfume CK one by Calvin Klein next to the box it's sold in.

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PJ @pjarvis.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Always loved this photo c1890 demonstrating the principles of a cantilever bridge prior to construction of the Forth Rail Bridge (which is still in use and I cross every month).

Three men in the late Victorian period, two seated with large bricks used as counter-balance to hold up a third person in midair between them.

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PJ @pjarvis.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

General Zod for me, first scary bad guy of my childhood.

A black and white photo of Terence Stamp playing General Zod in the 1976 film, Superman.

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PJ @pjarvis.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

I think you're right, found this on some fishing website, it's supposed to be dissolvable PVA mesh with bait inside. The spongy balls could be what's left of boilies (normally carp fishing, but who knows!)