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Daniel Douglas Howell @shinydan.northsky.social · 17/10/2026

#Wrestlesky Everyone knows what an asthma inhaler looks like, right? It's a vaguely L-shaped blue thing. No. Not all the time. If you have a reliever and it's not that, make sure your friends know what yours looks like. This is not about me. But here's mine.

A colour photograph. A pink and white Fostair asthma inhaler.

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Daniel Douglas Howell @shinydan.northsky.social · 14/10/2026

I don't wish to know that. Kindly ban yourself from ringside!

From English comedians Murray and Mooney's Wikipedia page. Key text: After hearing the punchline, Murray would conclude by saying "I don't wish to know that – kindly leave the stage."[3] The format became well-known and stereotypical, and was often satirised by later performers.

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Daniel Douglas Howell @shinydan.northsky.social · 02/10/2026

Bizarrely, he shares a name with a professional wrestler.

A white man with bouffant hair points theatrically to the camera.

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Daniel Douglas Howell @shinydan.northsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm not usually a comic book person, but this look is making me think of Sue "Invisible Woman" Storm. Specifically her earliest housewifey looks, and the post-modern take on her from "First Steps". I can see her going out in team colours like this...

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Daniel Douglas Howell @shinydan.northsky.social · 23/09/2026

Happy Bisexual Visibility Day to the 2 Dudes With Attitudes who gave me the key to my own closet door, even if I wasn't ready to unlock it for years.

Kevin "Diesel" Nash and Shawn "Heartbreak Kid" Michaels, dressed mostly in leather and holding the then-WWF World and Intercontinental Championship title belts

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Daniel Douglas Howell @shinydan.northsky.social · 17/09/2026

Just submitted my 'Doctor Who' tender bid.

The "Six Idiots" team behind "Ghosts UK" and "Horrible Histories", dressed as people from different historical periods.

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Daniel Douglas Howell @shinydan.northsky.social · 08/08/2026

What a brilliant day. My aunt, my kid and my partner at the zoo.

A colour photograph. A snow leopard's front end emerges from a cave hewn out of a rock face.

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Daniel Douglas Howell @shinydan.northsky.social · 07/08/2026

I haven't got a scooby why I'm The Tide. And frankly I thought my Lexicon would be higher. b.mino.mobi

A green-on-black polygon with the following scores attached
Cadence 100, Vigil 8, Lexicon 36, Polish 91, Drift 35, Chorus 42.
Under that, it reads
56 Ordinary Primate, The Tide.

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Daniel Douglas Howell @shinydan.northsky.social · 18/06/2026

I don't see how I count as a Veteran. I wasn't here for Alf Hog.

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Daniel Douglas Howell @shinydan.northsky.social · 13/06/2026

First time playing #5StarBooker and I'm very happy with this card.

5 Star Booker: 5 Star Show Of The Year
Live from Lewiston Armory, Lewiston, Maine, USE
5.75 Stars: Andre the Giant def. Cody Rhodes
4.25 Stars: Mayu Awatani def. Dump Matsumoto
5.5 Stars: Sting def. Sanada
5.5 Stars: Awesome Kong def. Emi Sakura
4.25 Stars: Killer Kross def. Mistico

I booked a 5 Star Show, think you can book five stars?

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Daniel Douglas Howell @shinydan.northsky.social · 28/05/2026

I'm being unfair to something I haven't watched yet.

In front of a glowing multicoloured nebula, the words "THE MICKEY MOUSE SHITEHOUSE"

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Daniel Douglas Howell @shinydan.northsky.social · 26/05/2026

Oh, that reminds me. It's Threads Day!

A DVD case. A nuclear mushroom cloud occupies the centre of the image. Above it are the words "The end of the world as we know it". Under it are the words "Threads". Under that are various characters from the film, most notably the traffic warden whose face is covered in bandages. Under them is the text, "The closest you'll ever want to come to nuclear war".

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Daniel Douglas Howell @shinydan.northsky.social · 08/05/2026

"Give us your favourite non-Trek performance by a Trek actor"

A white man with brown hair in a dark suit and leather gloves points a silver gun towards the right of the image. Just visible, on his left breast, is a golden badge bearing the Greek letter PSI. (Walter Koenig as ALFRED BESTER, "Babylon 5")

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Daniel Douglas Howell @shinydan.northsky.social · 16/04/2026

Do you take submissions? Details in alt text.

A colour, live-action image. A tall man with long hair and a muscular body stands, gripping another man by the hair. The other man appears to be kneeling, and is gripping a pair of wrestling ring ropes to pull himself up. The camera angle makes both men appear naked. (Jay White and Kota Ibushi, New Japan Pro Wrestling)

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Daniel Douglas Howell @shinydan.northsky.social · 25/02/2026

I had a poke around, and I wonder if traffic lights in the 60s were just very bluey-green. beno.uk/trafficlight/

A pair of 1960s traffic lights from Dover Castle, both showing a very bluish green.

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Daniel Douglas Howell @shinydan.northsky.social · 14/01/2026

Post a picture YOU took, just a picture NO description.

A rusted steel bell, held in a large square marble display. Behind it, trees and bushes can be seen. Inlaid in black on the front of the marble panel nearest the viewer is the text: "Translation of inscription on the bell - Come pleasant weather and gentle rain. The empire happy at peace again."

Taken in Victoria Park, Portsmouth, United Kingdom

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Daniel Douglas Howell @shinydan.northsky.social · 06/01/2026

The first Japanese animation that survives to the present day was three seconds long, and was found almost by accident in a pile of other short films from 1917.

A still from an animation of a child in a cap, with a badly matched red overlay of the cap above it. Above him are four Japanese characters which read "Katsudo Shashin" - "Moving Picture".

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Daniel Douglas Howell @shinydan.northsky.social · 31/12/2025

What was your biggest impact on the internet? Not a lot, especially compared to several people in this chain, but it's mine.

21 Jun 1994 : The a.f.p. drinking game is conceived. The game is a big success, to say the least: for months, the newsgroup has more one-line "<glug>" replies than normal articles.

From: Dan Howell
Subject: The Alt.Fan.Pratchett Drinking Game
Date: Tue 21 Jun 1994 18:36:28 GMT

Well, someone has to do it...

- 1 whenever a newbie posts.
- 1 for every food thread.
- 1 for every alcohol thread.
- 1 for every "My university's better than yours..."
- 1 for the first time you see Pterry post in a day.
- 1 for every casting thread.
- 2 if it includes the phrase "James Earl Jones".
- 1 for every Pratchett quote. (Sigs not included)
- 2 if it's non-Discworld.
- 2 if it's oblique.
- 1 for every use of the word "merkin".
- 1 every time someone complains about books not being available.
- 1 for the use of the word "o/ook"
- 3 if it turns into a flamewar about the number of Ohs.
- Tip the bottle down the sink if anyone posts anything R...(sssch! you know what...)
- Drink the entire contents if Pterry quits writing...you'll need to.

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Daniel Douglas Howell @shinydan.northsky.social · 29/12/2025

Ruin two bands by combining them Nirvanana

Two white men sit together in a black and white photograph, one wearing a woolen coat and the other in a jester's smock. In blobby 1960s text in front of them is the word "NIRVANA".

in a black and white picture, three white men stand together. the one on the left is looking to the left, the long-haired one in the middle is wearing black and white sunglasses and a Foxes t-shirt, and the one on the right's face is obscured by a baseball cap.

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Daniel Douglas Howell @shinydan.northsky.social · 09/12/2025

"To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job." Douglas Adams, "The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe"

A brightly coloured copy of "The Hitch-hikers Guide To The Galaxy" by Douglas Adams

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Daniel Douglas Howell @shinydan.northsky.social · 07/11/2025

Did you see Captain BROCK Centos earlier this year?

A Space Marine figure in armour painted in Ultramarine colours - blue and gold. He holds an enormous gun in one hand, and a banner pokes out of his backpack. His facial sculpt and paintjob makes him look a lot like Brock Lesnar.

A muscular white man with short blond hair, shaved at the sides, stands in an aggressive pose. He wears black UFC-branded fighting gloves and black and white knee-length shorts. He bears a striking resemblance to Ultramarine Captain Centos.

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Daniel Douglas Howell @shinydan.northsky.social · 29/10/2025

Post something random or you'll have an awful November.

A ginger cat snarls directly at the screen, it's white fangs and red tongue clearly visible.

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Daniel Douglas Howell @shinydan.northsky.social · 19/10/2025

In the grand tradition of sumo. The winner of each Grand Basho back in Japan gets vast quantities of beer, beef, sake and, thanks to the French government, a enormous ceremonial macaron.

A man, standing behind a microphone, in a sumo ring behind a table covered with purple cloth. He is reading from a large piece of paper. In front of the table and to the viewers' right, a young person in a green shirt and brown trousers is squatting and holding an enormous macaron.

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Daniel Douglas Howell @shinydan.northsky.social · 16/10/2025

I am hereby putting the term "cluebat" back into common usage. If you have the ability, need, resources and desire to give someone the clue they desperately need, here is your opportunity. Please don't actually hit anyone. Please.