Shallowthing @shallowthing.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Still my favourite G1 toy, and my favourite G1 character. They could have done so much more with him if it wasn't for all the tiresome real-world legal issues. 010 0
Shallowthing @shallowthing.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I always hoped we'd get to hear him say that in-character as Optimus, but it's enough for me that we heard him say it at all. 030 0
Shallowthing @shallowthing.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Also, if he grew up in the UK between 1978 and 1996, he’s getting arrested for reaching speeds not otherwise attainable on public roads. 080 0
Shallowthing @shallowthing.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Stay out of the human soup, folks. Read the whole thread. 000 0
Shallowthing @shallowthing.bsky.social · 30/03/2026I’ve had at least four fesses published. Interestingly, they were all safer, blander ones I thought wouldn’t make it through. The ones I thought might get good engagement haven’t been published. Yes, everything I’ve submitted has been completely true. The tedious “dIdN’t hApPeN” crowd mystify me. 1110 0
Shallowthing @shallowthing.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Prevent everything after Aliens being made. If there absolutely have to be sequels, adapt the Dark Horse comics instead. 000 0
Shallowthing @shallowthing.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Automatically picked up on the photo-finish camera. bsky.app/profile/mich... 010 0
Shallowthing @shallowthing.bsky.social · 15/02/2026The RSPB's social media game remains unmatched. 020 0
Shallowthing @shallowthing.bsky.social · 24/12/2025Has there been – or will there ever be – an episode about the UK version of the Zoids toyline? I loved it so much as a kid, and it maddens me that it's never been reissued. 100 0
Shallowthing @shallowthing.bsky.social · 02/12/2025Oh no. Are they going for the latter-day “Some Transformers are wearing masks for some reason, or have been mutilated” angle? Rather than the original, far more inclusive “Some Transformers just look like this; no reason to even mention it” approach? 000 0
Reposted by Shallowthing👻Cassie🎃 @cassiefacie.bsky.social · 14/08/2025The point of computer is not having to speak words. This should be illegal 1142 0
Reposted by ShallowthingNick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 06/08/2025I'll tell you who the hardest one out of The Spice Girls was: 0387 0
Shallowthing @shallowthing.bsky.social · 24/07/2025They've certainly got *me* excited, anyway. Missing Link Sunstreaker is the first Transformer I've bought since... well, Missing Link Bumblebee and Cliffjumper. 010 0
Shallowthing @shallowthing.bsky.social · 23/07/2025All great choices, but for me the huge-honking-obvious "We can dream, can't we?" contender has to be Jetfire. The character means more to me than any other except perhaps the Dinobots, and how incredible would an already amazing toy be with extra range of motion in the hips and ankles? 050 0
Reposted by ShallowthingDr Alan Montgomery @classicalalan.bsky.social · 17/07/2025I love the bilingual signage at Rough Castle Roman fort in Scotland - England and Latin of course, handy if any ancient Roman soldier happens to be walking their dog in the area...also useful if you have ever wondered how to say 'car park' in Latin. #RomanFortThursday 417850 0
Shallowthing @shallowthing.bsky.social · 17/07/2025Wow, I've been mishearing 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' worse than I thought. 010 0
Shallowthing @shallowthing.bsky.social · 16/07/2025He looks very nice, but I didn't buy him. He didn't appear in the western Transformers fiction at the time, so I have zero emotional connection to the character. I'm very happy with my Missing Link Sunstreaker, though. 000 0
Shallowthing @shallowthing.bsky.social · 13/06/2025And 'Angel Witch', by the band Angel Witch, from their debut album Angel Witch. 040 0
Shallowthing @shallowthing.bsky.social · 11/06/2025If not, do the contents of the original spreadsheet still survive at all? Is there any way we can see them? We used to be able to, and I enjoyed reading the stuff that never made it through to the main account. 000 0
Shallowthing @shallowthing.bsky.social · 11/06/2025When you say that the old form stopped working, exactly how broken is it? Are those first 300,000 fesses just gone? Is that the reason for the regular “Fesshole is looking for YOUR confessions” posts now? 100 0
Shallowthing @shallowthing.bsky.social · 22/05/2025The pandemic taught me that all the people I thought were my friends were actually just people who went to the same pubs and clubs. 000 0
Shallowthing @shallowthing.bsky.social · 12/05/2025I once saw a thing that said something like “Golf only exists because men are too fragile to admit they want to go for a walk with their friends.” 021 0
Shallowthing @shallowthing.bsky.social · 09/05/2025You said you had something like 300,000 confessions – so many the original form stopped working. Did you lose access to it or something? If not, maybe you could dip back in and publish some fesses that aren’t from adults who have difficulty toileting and people who won’t talk to their partners? 000 0
Shallowthing @shallowthing.bsky.social · 08/05/2025All the ones that only have cartoon-accurate versions. Hopefully we'll get more toy-accurate ones instead! 000 0
Shallowthing @shallowthing.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Nothing is more disappointing than when a podcaster you like decides to be a YouTuber, and their podcast just turns into the audio taken from their videos, including them making repeated references to stuff you can’t see, and never explaining what it is. Rather bigger downgrade. 000 0
Shallowthing @shallowthing.bsky.social · 02/05/2025MP-10 – the Takara one, with the correct darker colours – is far from perfect, but remains the best of this bunch. I've found all subsequent attempts disappointing. 000 0
Shallowthing @shallowthing.bsky.social · 16/04/2025I'm not bothered about Ultra Magnus, but I'd buy a full set of Missing Link Dinobots. Missing Link is the most excited I've been about official Transformers since the Shogo Hasui days of the Masterpiece line. 000 0
Reposted by ShallowthingThe Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 15/04/2025On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain... 216132395371 0
Shallowthing @shallowthing.bsky.social · 26/03/2025This was all a decade or more before Fury Road. Now, when I think back, I sometimes wonder that when somebody did something that would now be accompanied by a cry of “WITNESS ME”, I was the poor bloody witness they’d have been referring to, whether I wanted to be or not. 000 0
Shallowthing @shallowthing.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Then there was the time I arrived for a party to find the stairwell strewn with plaster. The ceiling above had fallen in due to a water leak. “What’s with the plaster all over the floor?” I asked when I got inside. “What plaster all over the floor?” came the reply. They hadn’t even noticed. 100 0
Shallowthing @shallowthing.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Like the guy who inexplicably had one of those big Victorian-style cast-iron bed with the wheels. When he moved out he disassembled it, reassembled it in the street outside, piled all his possessions on top of it, and then just wheeled the whole lot away, never to be seen or heard from again. 110 0
Shallowthing @shallowthing.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Even after he finally left, his disgusting underwear lay on the bathroom floor under the sink for longer than I dare to think. When it was finally removed – using a broom handle and a black plastic bag – there were mushrooms growing on the linoleum underneath it. 110 0
Shallowthing @shallowthing.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Like the other guy who lived on their sofa for several weeks and didn’t wash the whole time. Eventually the stench got so bad a couple of the women who actually did live there lured him into the bathroom under false pretences, bodily shoved him into the bath, and forcibly washed him. 110 0
Shallowthing @shallowthing.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Like the one guy who was old enough to be everyone else’s dad smoking something he should have known better than to believe was weed before staggering away into the night, only to be found collapsed in a gutter hours later by a couple of passing sex workers, who took him in and looked after him. 110 0
Shallowthing @shallowthing.bsky.social · 26/03/2025I’m the one who was too boring to live there myself, but who visited often and saw or heard of something insane every time. Like the microwave exploding because someone overdid the trick with the CDs. Followed by someone else opening it, inhaling the fumes, and passing out on the kitchen floor. 110 0
Shallowthing @shallowthing.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Arcee’s coming, M.A.S.K. is back... fingers crossed for Zoids. Don't need anything fancy. Straight reissue is fine with me. 010 0
Shallowthing @shallowthing.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Rumble is red Frenzy is blue It's right there on the packaging, for fuck's sake Just because the cartoon was wrong doesn't mean you have to be too. 000 0
Shallowthing @shallowthing.bsky.social · 25/01/2025YOU START WEARING BLUE AND BROWN YOU’RE WORKING FOR THE CLAM DOWN 010 0
Shallowthing @shallowthing.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Live episode of Triple Takeover recorded with the three of you inside. 010 0
Shallowthing @shallowthing.bsky.social · 15/01/2025I've never been able to see anything in them at all. Not then, not now. To the point where I wondered whether it was entirely an emperor's-new-clothes thing, and I was just too socially inept to know I should be joining in with all the real humans. 010 0
Shallowthing @shallowthing.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Feels weird that you’re letting Phoenix go. It was stumbling across your photos of him – followed by your shots of Grinder and the Iron Dibots – that got me back into Transformers collecting after decades away. 100 0
Shallowthing @shallowthing.bsky.social · 02/01/2025(This is my personal pile of deactivated Transformers, and I will die on it, like Galvatron yelling “I DEFY YOU!” at the time rift.) 000 0
Shallowthing @shallowthing.bsky.social · 02/01/2025The events of the movie never happen at all, because Unicron was destroyed in 1991. The Autobots aren’t on Earth in 1995, so Arcee is never created, and the “Loud, brash and totally brain dead” Hot Rod certainly never becomes Prime. 100 0
Shallowthing @shallowthing.bsky.social · 02/01/2025I've also seen it suggested she's a Time Lord. Her bag and umbrella are clearly Gallifreyan technology. 1180 0
Shallowthing @shallowthing.bsky.social · 26/12/2024I grew up poor-ish in old, cold houses. To this day I’m most comfortable sleeping in a cold room bundled up in two duvets. Then I visit Normal People™ and they have it like a sauna. Later, when they’re complaining about their heating bill, it’s an effort not to yell “HAVE YOU TRIED WEARING SOCKS?” 160 0
