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<Primary Salutation> @stevesparshott.bsky.social · Apr 27

Repost with your Friday energy. Repost with your mental state. Pick a single image from your gallery that represents your Bluesky posting style.

It’s this. It’s always this. My energy going into 2025 will be this.

An ice cream cone, possibly vanilla, dropped on a a gravel road surface.

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<Primary Salutation> @stevesparshott.bsky.social · 11m

I greatly enjoy her telling all and sundry – the audience, Greg, other competitors, props – to fuck off. Also…

<Primary Salutation> @stevesparshott.bsky.social · 3d

Caught up with Taskmaster last night. I rather admire the way Sanjeev Bhaskar does not give the slightest shit about his wardrobe.

<Primary Salutation> @stevesparshott.bsky.social · 1h

Seems like a reasonable reaction.

<Primary Salutation> @stevesparshott.bsky.social · 1h

“It’s the same picture”

<Primary Salutation> @stevesparshott.bsky.social · 1h

No.

<Primary Salutation> @stevesparshott.bsky.social · 1h

Cor, Liz Phair’s ‘Fuck and Run’ on the Riot Women soundtrack. But will it get as far as the chorus?

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<Primary Salutation> @stevesparshott.bsky.social · 2h

It’s a fella.

<Primary Salutation> @stevesparshott.bsky.social · 6h

Insightful reply: blimey!

<Primary Salutation> @stevesparshott.bsky.social · 7h

They were made of wood.

Medieval Military Medicine @medmilmedicine.bsky.social · 14h

Struggles with medieval contact lenses - 14th century, Exeter College MS. 47, f. 122r

<Primary Salutation> @stevesparshott.bsky.social · 7h

Silly thing to focus on but that’s a nice looking chair.

<Primary Salutation> @stevesparshott.bsky.social · 7h

I understand New Order’s importance, but I *really* don’t want to listen to them.

<Primary Salutation> @stevesparshott.bsky.social · 7h

Disappoints Jared Leto.

<Primary Salutation> @stevesparshott.bsky.social · 7h

Austin Zanda concept car, 1969

Black and white side view of a very clean wedge shaped, square backed car with light coloured paint and black windows.

Colour rear view; it’s a pale, slightly greenish gold. Twin rectangular exhausts echo the taillights above. Very tidy indeed.

<Primary Salutation> @stevesparshott.bsky.social · 11h

You must have had gourmet organic eels, for that full muddy richness.

<Primary Salutation> @stevesparshott.bsky.social · 11h

Good luck and best wishes.

<Primary Salutation> @stevesparshott.bsky.social · 11h

Happy birthday, Synth Bloke. I have a website-blocking ‘productivity’ app running but it only half works on Bluesky – there’s text but no images. I’ll see you when the block ends at 17:30 BST.

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Big Art Thread @bigartthread.bsky.social · 1d

Posters by Japanese designer Koichi Sato, 1970s-90s.

Poster with the imprint of a hand outlined in blue over a white background. The interior of the palm and fingers is black with constellations, and a pink grid and labels are placed over the image.

Poster with an abstract image of blue-to-pink gradient inside a tall rectangle, outlined by a frame with a yellow, blue, orange, and pink gradient. Pale white squiggles are moving over the entire image.

Poster with an illustration of a figure in silhouette with dragonfly wings, floating over a white expanse with a black sky.

Poster with a dark image of a woman with long hair falling over her face, mostly obscured by shadow, with columns of text on the left and right edges.

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<Primary Salutation> @stevesparshott.bsky.social · 20h

I finally tried jellied eels about 20 years ago, and was disappointed to find they were merely mildly unpleasant, rather than the ‘absolutely revolting’ I’d been hoping for.

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<Primary Salutation> @stevesparshott.bsky.social · 23h

Solo male artists ending in a vowel. Stand by for Avicii, Bonobo, Skepta, Kano and LA Salami.

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<Primary Salutation> @stevesparshott.bsky.social · 1d

They’re ridiculously cute.

<Primary Salutation> @stevesparshott.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sure there have been many songs called ‘Lover’, but the one that’s now earworming me is by Dan Reed Network, from 1989. I do not recommend this situation.

<Primary Salutation> @stevesparshott.bsky.social · 1d

Big posse of little birds swirling round the garden. Don’t know what’s got them so excited; plenty of great tits, a few blues, A COUPLE OF LONG TAILS, robins and wrens. Various representatives came up to the balcony to check out the olive tree.

<Primary Salutation> @stevesparshott.bsky.social · 1d

Coool

<Primary Salutation> @stevesparshott.bsky.social · 1d

I hate to break this to you, but 1979 was THIRTY-ONE years ago.

Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 1d

How can these iconic 70s stars all suddenly be dying only 20 years after their iconic roles, because the 70s are about 20 years ago, right?

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<Primary Salutation> @stevesparshott.bsky.social · 1d

I only remember it being ‘not bad’, but it definitely fulfils your requirement.