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Stew Elliott @stewcelliott.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just got some film back from the lab and it's a roll where I had to open the back of the camera a couple of times to unjam the film, exposing it to the light. Lots of photos ruined and one massively improved.

A badly light-degraded Kodak Ultramax film fram of a cat looking into the camera with half lidded eyes. The light leak has caused the top part of the image to look very blue and the bottom part to look pink in a manner reminiscent of the bisexual pride flag.

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Stew Elliott @stewcelliott.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I know it's LLM generated but it's reflective of how these things are covered. Sweeping right wing reforms are just "reforms" while even modest slightly left-of-centre changes are "socialist reforms". Only one side of the spectrum gets the scary ideological prefix

Bluesky's trending topics panel with "Andy Burnham pushes socialist reforms" in the number one spot.

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Stew Elliott @stewcelliott.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Spam bot usernames on Instagram really lacking the ol' razzle dazzle these days.

A notification from Instagram informing me that "giraffe.57361933" and "gazelle.4971627" liked one of my posts

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Stew Elliott @stewcelliott.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

(Insincere Dennis Reynolds voice) oh no that's...god..that's...terrible

Residents in a Staffordshire Moorlands village say they are being hemmed in by towering trees that "block out the sky" and leave them feeling like they're "living in the woods".

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Stew Elliott @stewcelliott.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Also can't believe they gave the Klingons the shallow casserole dish. Won't get much gagh in that!

A dark blue shallow casserole dish from Le Creuset, the handle is shaped like the Klingon Imperial Emblem.

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Stew Elliott @stewcelliott.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Cannot believe they've done Talosian, Balok and Gorn Cocottes but not a Ferengi one. The handles would make perfect ears!

A green Le Creuset cocotte in the shape of a Gorn head. The cocotte has large, ear like handles.

A turquoise Le Creuset cocotte in the shape of Balok's head. The cocotte has large, ear like handles.

A pink Le Creuset cocotte in the shape of a Talosian's head. The cocotte has large, ear like handles.

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Stew Elliott @stewcelliott.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

📍 Cotswold Wildlife Park 📷 Pentax 17 🎞️ Kodak Gold #hff

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Stew Elliott @stewcelliott.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Well it won't win any awards but at least the sun was not behind the buildings

A photograph of a partial solar eclipse in the sky, silhouetting a church spire and some trees in the foreground.

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Stew Elliott @stewcelliott.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Saved this in 2020 and it keeps being relevant.

A photograph of a page in a book featuring a short poem titled "The Underfunder's Utopia" which reads

"the state hospital
with one bed

always full
always efficient"

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Stew Elliott @stewcelliott.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Happened to notice the most looked-up word whilst on the site and...is this good?

The top lookups on Merriam-Websters site, number one is "existential".

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Stew Elliott @stewcelliott.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Took myself for a bike ride after work during an exceptionally hot and dry summer with most of the country in drought and three months without any meaningful rain so naturally I got caught in a downpour.

A rainbow set against a stormy sky with some brightly sunlit fields in the foreground.

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Stew Elliott @stewcelliott.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Pairing an Altman quote with a Ruskin quote is the equivalent of doing a murder. Ruskin's words are florid and passionate, Altman's is hollow and built around a bullshit formula in a desperate attempt to sound smart whilst carping on about optimisation and maximisation. The man is barren.

"Language matters." Compare John Ruskin and Sam Altman on art and creativity, for example. Ruskin argued "that great art, whether expressing itself in words, colours, or stones, does not say the same thing over and over again; that the merit of architectural, as of every other art, consists in its saying new and different things; that to repeat itself is no more characteristic of genius in marble that it is of genius in print...Nothing is a great work of art, for the production of which either rules or models can be given".

A couple of centuries later, Altman had this to say: "Everything 'creative' is a remix of things that happened in the past, plus epsilon and times the quality of the feedback loop and number of iterations. People think they should maximise epsilon but the trick is to maximise the other two"."

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Stew Elliott @stewcelliott.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

People on low incomes or benefits when they hear the Prime Minister start talking about "difficult decisions".

A screen cap of Peep Show showing Mark sitting in a chair looking pensive with the caption "I've started to get this feeling that I'm totally, totally fucked."

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Stew Elliott @stewcelliott.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Gosh this aerial shot is so depressing though. Why do so many towns and cities view their waterfront as free real estate for enormous roads?

Brighton seafront from the air, showing the city separated from its beach by four lanes of car traffic and a line of car parking spaces.

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Stew Elliott @stewcelliott.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Ah yes, meetings that leave you feeling like this, good times.

A screencap from Andor showing Syril lying despondent on exhausted on his bed.

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Stew Elliott @stewcelliott.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Did anyone check the half-time interviews from the French team?

A two‑panel Futurama scene shows a basketball player in a red, white, and blue uniform sitting on a bench beside a jar containing a preserved human head wearing headphones. Behind them, spectators sit in bleachers. The captions read: “It was always our plan to trail at the half,” and “thus deepening England’s eventual humiliation.”

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Stew Elliott @stewcelliott.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

How to even respond to this. She's pointing at the sign.

A Reading Chronicle headline that reads "Thousands of bus lane fines in Reading blamed on 'poor signage'" illustrated with a photo of a woman pointing at some giant letters that say "Bus Gate".

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Stew Elliott @stewcelliott.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I first reported this to the council a month ago, when it wasn't quite this bad, but no response or action taken and the situation has deteriorated to the point that the only pedestrian and bike infrastructure between our estate and the rest of the town is basically unusable.

A pavement completely blocked by drooping branches.

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Stew Elliott @stewcelliott.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Why has the piss tank post woken up again?

A screenshot of my notifications, showing a post from a few weeks ago that reads "Piss tank at 8% captain!" over a gif of the Enterprise crew being rocked on the bridge doing numbers once again. The post was a QP of the ISS piss tank account.

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Stew Elliott @stewcelliott.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

This photo got rejected from a group on Flickr because it "looks AI". I am going to become The Joker.

A very much not AI photo of a steam train

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Stew Elliott @stewcelliott.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

It's also the origin of the "dudes used to just hand you particles" meme

A post captions "what happened to this style of graphic design" featuring an image of Tim Allen holding a graphical representation of an atom and Sam Neill holding a miniature CGI star. Both are holding them out towards the camera and smiling.

The reply to the post reads "dudes used to just hand you particles".

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Stew Elliott @stewcelliott.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Someone's even added it as a landmark on Google Maps

A Google Maps "historical landmark" called "The Great Bike Mountain", situated in the back garden of a house repeatedly raided and found to be trafficking in stolen bicycles.

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Stew Elliott @stewcelliott.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I didn't know about this feature in Chrome, a pity Firefox doesn't have similar BUT prepending "qr" to a URL in the DuckDuckGo search box will generate a QR code for you as well.

A screenshot of DuckDuckGo with the search term "qr https://example.com" and the generated QR code that results.

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Stew Elliott @stewcelliott.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I was a kid before the internet so sometimes I would stare at this for an hour

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Stew Elliott @stewcelliott.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Only 15 degrees in Inverness in late June! So much for global warming.

A screenshot of a temperature map of the UK and near continent. Scotland is orange to green and Inverness is circled, showing a temperature of 15C. Large parts of England and the near continent are deep red indicating temperatures in the mid to high thirties.

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Stew Elliott @stewcelliott.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I don't know the original artist but this just keeps getting more relevant

An artists impression of a fictitious Sun front page. The banner features the words "IT'S A SCORCHER" in bright orange text next to an exploding thermometer indicating 42C.

The main story, a Sun Exclusive, has the headline "EVERYONE IS DEAD", featuring a human skill on a beach next to two sun loungers.

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Stew Elliott @stewcelliott.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Yeah on the one hand parts of the world that never used to see these temperatures have to endure them annually but on the other hand oil companies would have had to make only a few billion instead of lots of billions so we made the right choice, clearly

Weather forecast for the 23rd through 25th of June showing peak daytime temperatures of 37, 39 and 38C.

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Stew Elliott @stewcelliott.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Always fascinated how they pick the images of the respective people involved for these kinds of stories. "Nice argument, unfortunately I have already depicted myself as an erudite Newsnight guest calmly explaining the situation and you as being stunned into silence by the force of my argument."

A story from Left Foot Forward headlined "Mick Lynch humiliates Reform candidate in fiery Newsnight clash". Lynch looks calm and collected in a photo juxtaposed with a photo of the Reform candidate looking speechless.

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Stew Elliott @stewcelliott.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

The NX-01 bridge has aged a bit worse, primarily because those monitors are just so obviously chonky 2000s era LCD monitors. But ignoring the LCD-ness of them, you could argue their chonk is to make them more robust.

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Stew Elliott @stewcelliott.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

It's funny how, to my eye, the 2009 Enterprise bridge looks super-dated now whilst all the bridges from TNG, DS9 and VOY hold up pretty well IMO. The Apple store aesthetic just aged like milk.

The cast of TNG pose on the Enterprise D bridge (the set reconstructed for Star Trek Picard).

The bridge of the USS Defiant from Deep Space Nine.

The bridge of the USS Voyager, from Voyager.

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Stew Elliott @stewcelliott.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Can't explain it, but it's the sort of garden these guys would have.

Four men in *extremely* tight jeans that are also too short, wearing shoes either without socks or with low ankle socks with bared, muscular tattooed arms.

People you wouldn't leave your drink unattended around, essentially.

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Stew Elliott @stewcelliott.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

"Boy I sure do love reading books" "Well why not read this book by this date and then get together with other people who've read the same book and talk about it?"

Pingu, his arms folded with a stubborn expression on his face with the caption "well now I am not doing it".

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Stew Elliott @stewcelliott.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Outrageous how spectacularly naive marketplace-of-ideas enthusiasts can just shut down the hospitality industry in the city centre on what should be one of their best days of the year.

An Oxford Mail headline that reads "Pubs and cafes shut early over protest fears during World Cup England opener".

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Stew Elliott @stewcelliott.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

What kind of shop? The best damn pet shop in town!

A BBC News story with the headline "Shop ordered to remove illegal floor".

A screencap from The Simpsons. Moe is pleading with a man smoking a cigar saying "You got to give me back my floor. My customers are walking around on the pipes!"

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Stew Elliott @stewcelliott.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The website has literally crashed for me now so here you go, read it and weep.

"Today we’re announcing an update on plans for the future of Doctor Who.

As part of securing the next phase of the show for future generations, and in line with the BBC’s Charter and Agreement requirements, the BBC will put Doctor Who out to competitive tender this year. Doctor Who remains an important part of the BBC and this tender underpins the BBC’s continued commitment to Doctor Who ensuring audiences will enjoy the show for years to come.

After careful consideration, the BBC, Russell T Davies and Bad Wolf have collectively decided not to go ahead with the previously announced Doctor Who Christmas episode. This decision was not taken lightly, and we know it will be disappointing for fans, but in order to set the show up for future series, it was decided that rather than bridge the gap with a one off special, we are choosing to push forward to invest in the long-term future of the show which ensures that when the TARDIS lands once more, it does so in all its glory.

The previously announced new Doctor Who animation series for CBeebies is currently in production.

Details of the tender will be announced in due course.

The BBC retains all IP in Doctor Who. BBC Studios will continue to lead the global distribution of Doctor Who as well as licensing, consumer products, digital and immersive experiences on behalf of the BBC. "

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