Alasdair Swanson
@alasdairswanson.bsky.social
No interpersonal skills.
Films, birds, books, science and so on. Socialist, atheist, AuDHD, guitar botherer. Officially not psychotic, will probably blame Thatcher, may post pictures of cats.
Laminated with Clarifoil™
Films, birds, books, science and so on. Socialist, atheist, AuDHD, guitar botherer. Officially not psychotic, will probably blame Thatcher, may post pictures of cats.
Laminated with Clarifoil™
Pinned
Now that I'm in my 50s I realise that most conversations I have are a variation on
Them: Just be yourself
Me: OK [is self]
Them: Not like that
Them: Just be yourself
Me: OK [is self]
Them: Not like that
Should be fun, the first series is far less camp than you would expect.
This Christmas 'Channel D' will open on #TPTV Channel Premiere! Classic Spy-Fiction Series begins Sunday 28th Dec at 4pm! THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. (1964) #TPTVsubtitles Stars #DavidMcCallum #RobertVaughn
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Talking Pictures TV Sky 328 Freeview 82 Virgin 445 Freesat 306
www.youtube.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Should be fun, the first series is far less camp than you would expect.
The Blue Carbuncle is a great bit christmas TV. Thanks for the reminder.
Well, that’s my annual rewatch of Sherlock Holmes: The Blue Carbuncle done, followed by a classic Ghost Story for Christmas: A View from a Hill.
Now I feel Christmassy!
Now I feel Christmassy!
a man in a suit and tie sitting in a chair
ALT: a man in a suit and tie sitting in a chair
media.tenor.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:33 PM
The Blue Carbuncle is a great bit christmas TV. Thanks for the reminder.
I get fed up with dunk sites (EWW, Pitch Meeting etc) fairly quickly as they rapidly turn into the same sketch every time. TV Tropes I liked because their examples would often suggest new things to watch, read or listen to.
The paragraph about TV Tropes is spot on. I can't bear that approach to criticism where the main aim seems to be asserting superiority to the work. People who'll identify an influence and be like "Ah, rumbled!" episodes.ghost.io/art-criticis...
You are not smarter than the art you critique
Here's my best advice for young critics: Don't presume you know better.
episodes.ghost.io
December 23, 2025 at 11:20 AM
I get fed up with dunk sites (EWW, Pitch Meeting etc) fairly quickly as they rapidly turn into the same sketch every time. TV Tropes I liked because their examples would often suggest new things to watch, read or listen to.
Hello language guys! I found a note in my annotated Python scripts that says "squiffy" (as in "What ho, Squiffy") derives from "Asquith" and is thus upper-class. However OED just says "Of unknown origin". I assume separate uses then but anyone know of an Asquith-squiffy connection? #NotVeryXmassy
December 23, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Hello language guys! I found a note in my annotated Python scripts that says "squiffy" (as in "What ho, Squiffy") derives from "Asquith" and is thus upper-class. However OED just says "Of unknown origin". I assume separate uses then but anyone know of an Asquith-squiffy connection? #NotVeryXmassy
As I'm on my Christmas hols, I think I should watch a Christmas movie
December 22, 2025 at 9:34 PM
As I'm on my Christmas hols, I think I should watch a Christmas movie
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The light was better when I was photographing from ground level. At this time of the year the sun goes behind the town and hills to the south-west so you don't get to see the whole stack in golden hour light.
Bow Fiddle Rock #Scotland
#CanonR5ii
Bow Fiddle Rock #Scotland
#CanonR5ii
December 22, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The light was better when I was photographing from ground level. At this time of the year the sun goes behind the town and hills to the south-west so you don't get to see the whole stack in golden hour light.
Bow Fiddle Rock #Scotland
#CanonR5ii
Bow Fiddle Rock #Scotland
#CanonR5ii
Was watching Soft Top Hard Shoulder last week and this morning thought "I wonder if Chris Rea is still alive?" at just the wrong moment.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz-e...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz-e...
December 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Was watching Soft Top Hard Shoulder last week and this morning thought "I wonder if Chris Rea is still alive?" at just the wrong moment.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz-e...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz-e...
Very much enjoyed this series.
Listening to www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... which features the very Yorkshire for a series set in Buckinghamshire line "Eat the parkin!" @eddierobson.bsky.social @edmorrish.bsky.social
Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully - Series 2 - Tempting Fete - BBC Sounds
Tempers rise preparing for the village fete, and Lucy discovers guitar irritates aliens.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 22, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Very much enjoyed this series.
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December 21, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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got my adhd upgraded to ad4k
December 21, 2025 at 6:52 AM
got my adhd upgraded to ad4k
Our old blind dog looking in the mirror where it seems a different dog is looking out.
December 21, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Our old blind dog looking in the mirror where it seems a different dog is looking out.
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People with ADHD have been asking many questions. Questions such as, “where the fuck is the thing that was in my hand five seconds ago?” And “why am I sitting on the loo reading Wikipedia about castle drawbridge design when I finished pissing half an hour ago?”
December 21, 2025 at 8:40 PM
People with ADHD have been asking many questions. Questions such as, “where the fuck is the thing that was in my hand five seconds ago?” And “why am I sitting on the loo reading Wikipedia about castle drawbridge design when I finished pissing half an hour ago?”
Had a brief doubletake that this was from The Onion
Scotland officials weigh up smoking ban exception for supervised crack use
Scotland officials weigh up smoking ban exception for supervised crack use
Move follows increase in drug users switching from injecting heroin to smoking crack in Glasgow and Edinburgh
Scottish ministers are considering a change in the law banning smoking in public places to allow drug users to smoke crack cocaine in special facilities in Glasgow and Edinburgh.
Health experts said there had been a significant increase in the number of users switching from injecting heroin to smoking crack in both cities, which they said raised new health challenges and opportunities. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Had a brief doubletake that this was from The Onion
Seems reasonable.
My assumption on the Walliams thing has been that his book sales probably took a nosedive this year due to the whole nazi salute and the "Got Talent" comments thing and that the new CEO just squinted at the curve, saw where it was heading in 2026, and decided to get credit for dropping him early?
December 21, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Seems reasonable.
It seems youtubers have been fighting professional boxers, presumably in the belief that fame=ability. I missed these fights but that's apparently because I blinked.
December 21, 2025 at 1:03 PM
It seems youtubers have been fighting professional boxers, presumably in the belief that fame=ability. I missed these fights but that's apparently because I blinked.
The way we've always known that Trump was the major character in the epstein files is that if he wasn't you'd have been able to buy them in leatherette-bound folio editions from Trump Publishing (printed in China) for a year or more.
December 20, 2025 at 9:24 PM
The way we've always known that Trump was the major character in the epstein files is that if he wasn't you'd have been able to buy them in leatherette-bound folio editions from Trump Publishing (printed in China) for a year or more.
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Little wind, golden hour light, and low tide at one of the most beautiful estuaries = drone result!
Durness #Scotland
#DJIMavic3Pro #DronePhotography
Durness #Scotland
#DJIMavic3Pro #DronePhotography
December 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Little wind, golden hour light, and low tide at one of the most beautiful estuaries = drone result!
Durness #Scotland
#DJIMavic3Pro #DronePhotography
Durness #Scotland
#DJIMavic3Pro #DronePhotography
Refused a UK certification for over 25 years, available in an excellent MoC issue, *definitely* worth your time.
Daringly bestial pre-code perversion so shocking author Wells hated it. Superb sadism with a brilliantly depraved lead from Laughton. 1932
#horrorcommunity #horrorfamily #horrormovie #horrorfilm #horrorfan #classichorror #horroraddict #filmsky #horrorsky #mutantfam #horrorfam #monsterfam #belalugosi
#horrorcommunity #horrorfamily #horrormovie #horrorfilm #horrorfan #classichorror #horroraddict #filmsky #horrorsky #mutantfam #horrorfam #monsterfam #belalugosi
December 20, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Refused a UK certification for over 25 years, available in an excellent MoC issue, *definitely* worth your time.
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December 20th. A partially rubberised torso stands on the corner of Edward Street and screams for thirty seconds before vanishing.
December 20, 2025 at 6:51 PM
December 20th. A partially rubberised torso stands on the corner of Edward Street and screams for thirty seconds before vanishing.
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I don’t know who needs to hear this but here goes:
In high school my art teacher told me I didn’t know how to draw because cartooning wasn’t real art.
I have wanted to be in The New Yorker Magazine since I was 19. I’m 53 and this happened yesterday:
In high school my art teacher told me I didn’t know how to draw because cartooning wasn’t real art.
I have wanted to be in The New Yorker Magazine since I was 19. I’m 53 and this happened yesterday:
December 20, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I don’t know who needs to hear this but here goes:
In high school my art teacher told me I didn’t know how to draw because cartooning wasn’t real art.
I have wanted to be in The New Yorker Magazine since I was 19. I’m 53 and this happened yesterday:
In high school my art teacher told me I didn’t know how to draw because cartooning wasn’t real art.
I have wanted to be in The New Yorker Magazine since I was 19. I’m 53 and this happened yesterday:
This little thread is wonderful for language folks.
Random question but when did “making love” go from meaning “wooing” to fucking?
December 20, 2025 at 4:56 PM
This little thread is wonderful for language folks.
We got panicky while calling together all the housework people and needed someone to break it up so we called the cluster duster muster fluster buster. #sorry
December 19, 2025 at 5:47 PM
We got panicky while calling together all the housework people and needed someone to break it up so we called the cluster duster muster fluster buster. #sorry
That's me finished work for the year. Time to start writing the Christmas cards
December 19, 2025 at 2:55 PM
That's me finished work for the year. Time to start writing the Christmas cards
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It's that time of the year again, so once again I offer up my thanks and sympathies to everyone working in retail, this week and next. May you be blessed with kindly, smart, and above all, speedy customers, who get what they want and sod off.
December 18, 2025 at 9:59 AM
It's that time of the year again, so once again I offer up my thanks and sympathies to everyone working in retail, this week and next. May you be blessed with kindly, smart, and above all, speedy customers, who get what they want and sod off.
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I'm sharing this here, as I have on Facebook and Instagram, but there's no account on here to share from, and I just think this is wonderful.
A really good balance of design and implementation, and appears to achieve everything it set out to do, and it *SO* appeals to my inner 'work nerd'.
A really good balance of design and implementation, and appears to achieve everything it set out to do, and it *SO* appeals to my inner 'work nerd'.
December 18, 2025 at 9:24 AM
I'm sharing this here, as I have on Facebook and Instagram, but there's no account on here to share from, and I just think this is wonderful.
A really good balance of design and implementation, and appears to achieve everything it set out to do, and it *SO* appeals to my inner 'work nerd'.
A really good balance of design and implementation, and appears to achieve everything it set out to do, and it *SO* appeals to my inner 'work nerd'.