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Tealin @twirlynoodle.com · 04/10/2026

Well, this looks official

A screenshot of an email subject line and from: field claiming to be from Times Radio. The email address is timesradioofficialzz@gmail.com.

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Tealin @twirlynoodle.com · 28/09/2026

It seems the British Museum have broken new frontiers in the field of immersive exhibits.

A screen capture from an email sent to British Museum members regarding booking for the Bayeux Tapestry exhibition, seeming to promise "a comfortable experience when in the Tapestry itself."

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Tealin @twirlynoodle.com · 19/09/2026

It has been Affirmed. uquiz.com/quiz/zNnazQ/...

A screencap of my result from the It's A Superpower?? personality quiz. It is a brunette dressed as a Victorian ghost whose name is Norah. Her description is: 'Some people choose leadership - others have leadership thrust upon them by everyone else's incompetence. You are cursed with always knowing what needs to be done and how to do it, which unfortunately means you're the one who has to roll their sleeves up and get the fuck on with it. You complain about it, but you're secretly horrified when someone else tries to take over when they DON'T KNOW THE SYSTEM! Sometimes you overdo it and you burn out hard. OK, that "sometimes" is doing some heavy lifting...'

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Tealin @twirlynoodle.com · 18/09/2026

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A Canadian flag but the centre is the blue-and-gold circle of EU stars, with the maple leaf in the middle of that.

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Tealin @twirlynoodle.com · 08/09/2026

This is why 'truthiness' was designated word of the year in 2005. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truthin...

A screen capture from the abstract of the Wikipedia article on Truthiness: "Truthiness is the belief or assertion that a particular statement is true based on the intuition or perceptions of some individual or individuals, without regard to evidence, logic, intellectual examination, or facts. Truthiness can range from ignorant assertions of falsehoods to deliberate duplicity or propaganda intended to sway opinions."

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Tealin @twirlynoodle.com · 30/08/2026

In other news, I accidentally hit the AI search button in looking this up, and uh,

An AI overview of a search for "David Mitchell Hawaiian fascist" intriguingly disambiguates the search terms as indicating both a satirist and a Bahamian murderer.

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Tealin @twirlynoodle.com · 25/08/2026

Resurrecting this underappreciated banger from 2020

The astronaut meme, in which the far astronaut, gazing at the Earth (America view) says 'Wait, America is a genocidal megalomaniac?' and the near astronaut, pointing a space pistol at the first astronaut's head, says 'Always has been.'

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Tealin @twirlynoodle.com · 18/08/2026

Do you now, Terry? *Do* you understand what I'm asking? You didn't even sign your email 😥

Dear Sarah,
Thank you for your thoughtful questions. I completely understand why you would want clarification before moving forward, especially regarding the email address, the contact details, and how the messages were prepared.
You are essentially asking for clear confirmation about who is contacting you, why I reached out directly rather than through a producer, why the email addresses do not match, and whether AI was involved in preparing the correspondence.
I want to make sure you have the information you need to feel comfortable before proceeding with any interview arrangements. Your questions are completely reasonable, and I appreciate you raising them directly.

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Tealin @twirlynoodle.com · 10/08/2026

Attn SCAR2026, there's an IKEA on the other side of the cathedral where, for 39 NOK, you can get a plate that can fit in your bag and, when the time comes, hold some food.

Conference nosh on a spiffy stoneware lunch plate and not a sodding napkin

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Tealin @twirlynoodle.com · 07/08/2026

I have been to see the Art

An enormous inflated PVC blob dwarfs visitors at the Hayward Gallery

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Tealin @twirlynoodle.com · 03/08/2026

Wow, BlueSky's inability to recognise a joke goes all the way to the top.

A screen capture of a previously screened post by badposter.lol, suggesting that Bush was behind Charlie Kirk's assassination because the latter "did 9/11". The moderation note reads "This user is suspected of being part of a terrorist organization called Antifa. Please report any suspicious behaviour"

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Tealin @twirlynoodle.com · 24/07/2026

I'm getting two or three book promotion scam emails a day at my "work" address. One came in this morning "quoting" a prior email which had scraped my bio but put the wrong name on it. For once I actually responded. And maybe a human replied?

A screenshot of an email exchange.

The original email, a reply to an unsolicited offer to promote my book:

I've reported this email to the abuse team at Gmail, as I do every piece of book promotion spam that comes to this address.

The response from the spammer:

Alright
Best of luck regarding that

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Tealin @twirlynoodle.com · 11/07/2026

Right, South Pole Rematch, LET'S GO

A historical photo of Scott, Oates, Wilson, and Evans standing around Amundsen's tent, proof that the Norwegians had beaten Britain to the South Pole by a month.

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Tealin @twirlynoodle.com · 04/07/2026

You won't believe this, but there's a German word for that

Screen cap from a BBC news article on US expansionism, which reads "Now, Trump has changed course, with aims to expand America's physical borders again, and limit the numbers of people the country lets in."

The German word in question is Lebensraum, literally "living space", the policy which saw the annexation of neighbouring countries in the 1930s for ethnic Germans to live in.

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Tealin @twirlynoodle.com · 24/06/2026

In early June 2013, I spent a week in London. It was green and lovely, one or two damp days, but perfect summer weather. Within a short time of getting back to LA we hit 40° and that was when I started my application for a UK visa. How 13 years has changed a place ...

A screen capture of a weather forecast indicating 40°C in a few days' time. A sketched angry woman in a tank top is pointing at this and saying, in large text, NO.

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Tealin @twirlynoodle.com · 03/06/2026

Death by Lightning (the name of the series) was shot in Hungary so I expected some reuse of 19thC locations etc from The Terror, as well as stylistic motives of historical prestige miniseries. I was not expecting them to hire the same calligrapher.

A phone photo of my computer screen showing a close-up of some pastiche 19thC quill cursive

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Tealin @twirlynoodle.com · 26/05/2026

Me listening to Beethoven's 7th mvt 2 during a heat wave, thank you R3 for this beautiful and timely gift

A painting of people passed out in an opium den

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Tealin @twirlynoodle.com · 01/05/2026

About an hour ago, mum brought home a pigeon, and oh the suspense around who got fed unfairly! Now they're all lying around sleeping it off. Quality.

A peregrine falcon standing proudly over her brood of three small fluffy chicks, who are all lying down on a fine gravel surface.

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Tealin @twirlynoodle.com · 01/05/2026

If this site is too much of a downer for you, I highly recommend the Cromer peregrine cam. www.cromerperegrineproject.co.uk/live-cams Three baby sky-death dinosaurs!

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Tealin @twirlynoodle.com · 27/04/2026

Daniel Craig: [cast as James Bond after career of character roles] Everyone: Sexiest man alive! Me: PBS logo

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Tealin @twirlynoodle.com · 27/04/2026

I always said this about Daniel Craig and did anyone give me the time of day? No they did not.

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Tealin @twirlynoodle.com · 27/04/2026

I've heard two otherwise intelligent people get this wrong on Radio 4 in the last week. Don't let it be you! Choose your own mnemonic (alphabetical? ascend/descend?) and don't confuse ancestors and descendants in polite company, or anyone with glancing experience of history or genealogy.

A family tree chart from grandparent to grandchild, with YOU labelled in the middle, ANCESTORS on the top, and DESCENDANTS on the bottom.

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Tealin @twirlynoodle.com · 21/04/2026

Hopefully another few billion years, at least ...

A screencap from the BBC News videos section, with a photo of a partly cloudy sky and the caption "How long will the sun stick around?"

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Tealin @twirlynoodle.com · 13/04/2026

Drop your crime fighting Catholics [much later in life I realised how very, VERY Anglican Cadfael is, but canonically he didn't have the choice.]

A publicity still of Derek Jacobi as crime-fighting, mystery-solving Benedictine monk Brother Cadfael, from the '90s TV adaptations of Ellis Peters' books.

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Tealin @twirlynoodle.com · 13/04/2026

Huh huh .. huh huh huh ... the planes are kissing .. huh huh ... gaaaay

Screenshot of a detail of Trump's ridiculous AI self-insert Jesus picture, showing three(?) crap AI assemblies of shapes that roughly read as fighter jets, wherein two of the three seem to be nose-to-nose.

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Tealin @twirlynoodle.com · 07/04/2026

Was watching The Other Bennet Sister and my willing suspension of disbelief was most cruelly dashed asunder by THIS BASTARD.

A box moth fluttering at a closed window towards the end of Episode 2 of The Other Bennet Sister. I am willing to forgive an anachronistic invasive species for the purpose of visual metaphor, but not one that is MY SWORN ENEMY.

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Tealin @twirlynoodle.com · 26/03/2026

Live footage from the Department of War (jk I doubt there's a Jared Harris character present in the administration anywhere at all)

Screen capture from The Terror (2018), of the wardroom table with Capt. Sir John Franklin (Cíaran Hinds) at its head. Caption: "So as you can see, we have a few challenges, but I'm fully confident that reality will bend in our favour as long as we keep believing in ourselves."

Screen capture from The Terror (2018), closeup on Capt. Francis Crozier (Jared Harris). Caption: "We don't have enough people or resources, and we're running out of time. We need to make tough decisions now to avoid a lot of pain later."

Screen capture from The Terror (2018). Closeup on Cmdr. James Fitzjames (Tobias Menzies) raising his eyebrows across the table at Crozier (offscreen). Caption: "You know what our real problem is? Your negative attitude."

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Tealin @twirlynoodle.com · 22/03/2026

Given that the head of the cathedral has to be the High Altar, which puts the feet at the west end, and you have nominated Ely here, the answer is

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Tealin @twirlynoodle.com · 16/03/2026

I don't usually bother with 'in the papers' but today's had such a perfect distillation of the generational divide...

Front page of the Daily Mail. Main headline: TWO DEAD IN UNIVERSITY MENINGITIS OUTBREAK. Next to this is a photo of Jessie Buckley smiling and laughing. Above is another headline, 'What I do to stay healthy and look this good at 54.'

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Tealin @twirlynoodle.com · 13/03/2026

I hope they've got a lovely view. Not that C-17s have many windows.

screencap of Flightradar24 showing a US military C-17 crossing the North York Moors National Park

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Tealin @twirlynoodle.com · 13/03/2026

Today we've got one tying knots over Bury St Edmunds, presumably burning off fuel before landing at Mildenhall. And another C-17 (the same one?) flying up the Yorskhire coast, heading home I assume.

A screen capture off Flightradar24.com tracking the flight pattern of a KC-135 over Suffolk

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Tealin @twirlynoodle.com · 04/03/2026

I remember thirty years ago when the feminist position was de-segregation in everything! The idea that the shape of your genitals shouldn't determine what you can and can't do seems to have been a historical blip, which makes no sense to me at all.

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Tealin @twirlynoodle.com · 19/02/2026

Toby didn't actually want Christmas dinner (!?!) he just wanted to be on an equal footing with the big hairless monkeys.

A tabby cat standing on a chair at a dinner table set for Christmas

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Tealin @twirlynoodle.com · 17/02/2026

Gung hei fat choy, it's the year of the Red Fire Horse, mofos. Higher res on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/149577...

A scrawny red horse with a skeletal head appears to be on fire, with the number 2026 written below.

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Tealin @twirlynoodle.com · 13/02/2026

New term for incels just dropped

The cover of an old sci-fi paperback by Jack Vance, titled Servants of the Wankh

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Tealin @twirlynoodle.com · 12/02/2026

Geez, Patreon, way to go all Ecclesiastes on me here.

A screen capture of the URL wherein I visit my Patreon page, logged in as me. The variable at the end reads ? vanity = user

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Tealin @twirlynoodle.com · 23/01/2026

The Canadians didn't even need to be on the front lines to be killed ... by the Americans. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarnak_... At the time, there was scuttlebutt (dunno how true) that none of the Allies wanted their base next to the Americans' because they had such a bad reputation for friendly fire.

Screenshot from BBC News article https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czr444j671vo:
Donald Trump's claim that Nato troops stayed "a little off the front lines" during the war in Afghanistan is "disappointing", a minister has said.

Health and Social Care Minister Stephen Kinnock said the UK and other allies had "always stood shoulder to shoulder with the United States" and contributed to US-led missions.

On Thursday, Labour MP Emily Thornberry called it an "absolute insult" to the 457 British service personnel killed in the conflict, while Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said: "How dare he question their sacrifice?"

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Tealin @twirlynoodle.com · 18/01/2026

I see there have been updates.

A screen capture from Duolingo's Danish course, where the user is supposed to speak the sentence "How long has Greenland been a part of the Danish kingdom?"

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Tealin @twirlynoodle.com · 17/01/2026

I am catching up on the Thursday Next books before the new one comes out, and am frequently being reminded that the last time I read them was before I started listening to Radio 4.