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Simon M. Clabby

@smclabby.bsky.social
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I'm just full of Bizarre Ideas and Odd Connections. All opinions my own. That's not a disclaimer, I'm just very possessive.

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Simon M. Clabby @smclabby.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Nice to see ASDA have finally realised that animal skeletons don't have boney ears, and did this on their new Halloween designs!
A plush cushion of a skeleton dog, with no boney ears, just the outlive of them in black.A drawing of a skeleton cat, with the outline of a furry one around it. There are no bones in the ears
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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
*blackadder theme* His head is bigger than a fence He breathes, and everything gets warmer His urge to trample represents A nation's nuclear war trauma Godzilla! Godzilla! The scourge of beast and man! Godzilla! Godzilla! He's flattening Japan!
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Simon M. Clabby @smclabby.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Shatnerverse is basically a series of examples of why Kirk, and to a lesser extent the TOS crew is better than the TNG crew In one of the later books the crew of the Enterprise E conduct a complex escape plan, which turns out to be a trap and they immediately get recaptured.
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Simon M. Clabby @smclabby.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is when he starts having dreams about a cloaked figure coming out of an inner city church...
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Simon M. Clabby @smclabby.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is why hyphens are important, or at least not allowing words to flow onto the next line...
A 3D printable version of Spock, looking sad on a 3D printer, with the title "Sad Spock Sitting on a Ledge - Star Trek Fig urine!"
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Simon M. Clabby @smclabby.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Likewise, Helen of Troy suggests there are also Helens of Scott, Jones, Nelson and Winter.
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Simon M. Clabby @smclabby.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Peter Capaldi implies the existence of Peter Caplidl
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
On this day 7th Sept 1838 Grace Darling and her father rescued sailors from from the shipwrecked Forfarshire Artist: John Berry
Grace and her father handle their small boat as it’s tossed in rough seas while we see the wrecked ship in the background, beneath stormy skies 
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Simon M. Clabby @smclabby.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
You thought that pterosaur skeletal drawings were being contaminated by a certain website? You ain't seen nothing yet...
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Simon M. Clabby @smclabby.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
"So I tied an Snoopy to my belt, which was the style at the time" #ToTP
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Andy Farke @andyfarke.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The genesis of every bizarrely specific museum warning placard.
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Simon M. Clabby @smclabby.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
#Spoilers for #SpidermanBrandNewDay
V'ger from Star Trek the Motion Picture.
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Simon M. Clabby @smclabby.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Bluesky: You do realize that not everybody is lucky enough to actually own a cup, let alone something to put in it. Maybe you should think of that before posting. Also, you need to put alt text in the image of the cup.
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Simon M. Clabby @smclabby.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
There is a very high risk of wildfires nationally. Residents, landowners and visitors from Mars should not undertake any activity that could start a fire, including launching cylinders into Surrey or the use of heat rays against humanity.
A fire warning sign on a tree near the sandpit on Horsell Common, the location of the Martian landing in The War of the Worlds
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Simon M. Clabby @smclabby.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Might as well increase the number of Eclipse pics out there...
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Simon M. Clabby @smclabby.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Is #OnlyConnect suggesting that Sir Killalot doesn't have a knighthood?
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Simon M. Clabby @smclabby.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Much like with Jurassic Park's T. rex in the Jurassic World movies, the shark is now on the side of the humans, and only appears to save the protagonists from a bigger threat.
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Simon M. Clabby @smclabby.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Love Historic Ships? There's up to 40% off on all the designs in my Redbubble store, so if you worship HMS Warrior, very keen on HMS Victory, or there's just something about Mary Rose, check it out! www.redbubble.com/people/smcla...
a woman wearing an HMS Victory hoodiea flask with an HMS Warrior stickera printed canvas bag featuring the Mary Rose
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Simon M. Clabby @smclabby.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I'm on Tiktok in my own right now, mostly Heritage stuff but I might do a bit of other stuff too. www.tiktok.com/@smclabby
QR code for my TikTok account
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Simon M. Clabby @smclabby.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Wonder who Audible found to read this, hopefully someone who gives it the dignity it deserves... @tetzoo.bsky.social
A screenshot of an Audible advert on Instagram featuring pseudoscientific nonsense book "Too Big To Walk" by Brian Ford.
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Simon M. Clabby @smclabby.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
"Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed of because no one was really poor - at least no one worth speaking of."
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Simon M. Clabby @smclabby.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
You suddenly get a narrator describing your life and there’s no way to turn it off - everyone can hear it. While shopping, at work, at home, with friends - the voice narrating your every move goes on. Who do you hope is the voice of this narrator?
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Simon M. Clabby @smclabby.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
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Simon M. Clabby @smclabby.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Everyone talks about the Welsh bloke saying "diarrhea-ah!" in the Pepto Bismol advert, but nobody talks about the fact that nobody at the back is doing the right dance. Wonder if that's why they were put at the back...
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Simon M. Clabby @smclabby.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Watching this #odyssey film, and there are some serious liberties being taken with the historical accuracy. It's set 25 years ago, yet they've already visited a moonbase, and now they're on a spaceship going to Jupiter!
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Simon M. Clabby @smclabby.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Inspector Gadget. Worst adaptation of anything I've seen at the cinema, and I saw the 1998 Avengers movie...
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Simon M. Clabby @smclabby.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Saw the trailer for The Odyssey earlier, didn't see anything controversial, but then again I'm not looking for it. Well, I know a character used the term "dad", but unless you're doing the whole thing in ancient Greek, it's going to be filtered through the language of a later age anyway.
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Wearing My Helmet Odysseus
ALT: Wearing My Helmet Odysseus
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Simon M. Clabby @smclabby.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT? WITH AN OWL?!?!?!
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Simon M. Clabby @smclabby.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Three Lions is older than the events of the 1966 World Cup were when it came out. Will they ever update it to "sixty years of hurt"? youtu.be/RJqimlFcJsM?...
youtu.be
Baddiel & Skinner & Lightning Seeds - Three Lions (Football's Coming Home) (Official Video)
YouTube video by LightningSeedsVEVO
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Simon M. Clabby @smclabby.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr...
bbc.co.uk
Sam Neill, Jurassic Park actor, dies aged 78
The New Zealand actor, who was born in Northern Ireland, died in Sydney. He had recovered from cancer and "the loss was sudden and unexpected", his family says.
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Simon M. Clabby @smclabby.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Happy 45th birthday to my boney canine chum Hatch, the ship's dog on the Mary Rose, rediscovered on the seabed on this day in 1981. @hatchthedog.bsky.social
Me and my skeleton doggyThe skull of Hatch on the seabedThe first newspaper coverage of Hatch - with the headline "Divers find dog and pig"
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Simon M. Clabby @smclabby.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Happy 45th birthday to my boney canine chum Hatch, the ship's dog on the Mary Rose, rediscovered on the seabed on this day in 1981. @hatchthedog.bsky.social
Me and my skeleton doggyThe skull of Hatch on the seabedThe first newspaper coverage of Hatch - with the headline "Divers find dog and pig"
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EverGemma @evergemma.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I wonder if the pilot of this plane gets War of the Worlds stuck in his head when he has to fly this plane.
Skycards screenshot showing a dassault falcon 7x flying east 9f Ljubljana. It hass the registration oo-lahA close up of the registration to make it clear what the reference is about
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Simon M. Clabby @smclabby.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Anyone know where the Prime Minister job is being advertised? Asking for a friend...
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Simon M. Clabby @smclabby.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
One thing I'll give this film credit for over the original - people actually saw them bust their first ghost. In the original, they just destroy a ballroom and emerge with a smoky box. The hotel had no proof that they'd done anything other than vandalism, so it's a mystery why they agreed to pay.
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Simon M. Clabby @smclabby.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Today is the 496th anniversary of one of my favourite stories - the take of Richard 'Skenthroppe' Baker, Robert Grygges, William Oram and Marmaduke Colman, four caretakers for the mothballed Mary Rose who went out drinking, and made some very silly mistakes... maryrose.org/what-did-the...
maryrose.org
What did they do with the drunken sailors? - Mary Rose
In June 1539, four of the Mary Rose's crew went drinking, and their drunken shenanigans would end up going down in history...
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Simon M. Clabby @smclabby.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Just in case anybody needs to know, blogs get more attention if you tell people about them.
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Simon M. Clabby @smclabby.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Oh no... #StarTrek
"It's a Chakotay episode"
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Simon M. Clabby @smclabby.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Post a meme made by you.
Why don't they raise the Titanic, like they did with the Mary Rose?
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Simon M. Clabby @smclabby.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
I'm guessing a dinosaur, although I'd not be surprised if it ends up being about Pokémon, since the @nhm-london.bsky.social did something with them recently...
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Simon M. Clabby @smclabby.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
I once stopped a filming session because I noticed a speck of dust drift past the camera, and didn't want it being seen and the venue being credited as having ghosts...
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Simon M. Clabby @smclabby.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
I remember photographing it and measuring it for my dissertation in 2001!
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Simon M. Clabby @smclabby.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
That when I half-arse someone, it's still better than what most people achieve with their entire arse.
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Simon M. Clabby @smclabby.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I seem to have picked up some new followers! Hello folks, I'm probably less entertaining here than I was when representing certain cultural institutions, but I'll do my best!
Positive potato believes in you
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 30/04/2026
📰 Roman cup depicting Hadrian's Wall found in Spain may have been a souvenir of a soldier's time stationed on the frontier. 🏺 #ArchaeologyNews via @livescience.com www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
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1,900-year-old souvenir cup featuring Hadrian's Wall and Roman forts discovered in Spain
Archaeologists think a broken bronze cup found in Spain was made for a soldier as a memento of his time stationed at Hadrian's Wall in England.
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Simon M. Clabby @smclabby.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
If ever you think that kids today are into strange trends, just remember that there was once a trend for painting horse vertebrae to look like Methodist preacher John Wesley... wesleysheritage.org.uk/object/verte...
A horse vertebra, painted to look like a preacher, his head on the condyle and the hands on the transverse processes.A horse vertebra, painted to look like a preacher, his head on the condyle and the hands on the transverse processes. This one looks bald, and seems to have a moustache.A horse vertebra, painted to look like a preacher, his head on the condyle and the hands on the transverse processes. His dog collar is more of a bibA horse vertebra, painted to look like a preacher, his head on the condyle and the hands on the transverse processes. He's bald, and no moustache.
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Simon M. Clabby @smclabby.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
That when I half-arse someone, it's still better than what most people achieve with their entire arse.
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Simon M. Clabby @smclabby.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
"And Saint Attila raised the hand grenade up on high, saying, 'O Lord, bless this thy hand grenade, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits. in thy mercy'"
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Simon M. Clabby @smclabby.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Nice to see Iguanodon make it into the "Other" category, shame YouGove can't spell it though, or follow ICZN guidelines...
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Simon M. Clabby @smclabby.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Nearly a year ago!
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