ian
@thedimpau.se
a twitter of inconsequent vitality ― @thedimpause in a lot of places ― 🗒 blog at thedimpau.se ― 🕸️ website at nntk.net ― ℹ️ info at ianmason.me ― he/him
And a half-century for Jofra Archer 😮👏
50 from 97.
His first Test 50.
50 from 97.
His first Test 50.
December 19, 2025 at 12:38 AM
And a half-century for Jofra Archer 😮👏
50 from 97.
His first Test 50.
50 from 97.
His first Test 50.
Ben Stokes gets his half-century - off 159 balls
December 18, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Ben Stokes gets his half-century - off 159 balls
Australia v England - 3rd Test, Day 3 🏏
Stokes and Archer still batting …
Stokes and Archer still batting …
December 18, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Australia v England - 3rd Test, Day 3 🏏
Stokes and Archer still batting …
Stokes and Archer still batting …
Watched: Troy, 2004 - ★★★★ 🎥
@ the dim pause
Watched: Troy, 2004 - ★★★★ 🎥
thedimpau.se
December 17, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Watched: Troy, 2004 - ★★★★ 🎥
🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Big Special (76 plays), clipping. (31), Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, José Carreras, Tatiana Troyanos, Kurt Ollmann & Marilyn Horne (26), Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (18), mitropoulos (14)
@ the dim pause
🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Big Special (76 plays), clipping. (31), Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, José Carreras, Tatiana Troyanos, Kurt Ollmann & Marilyn Horne (26), Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (18), mitropoulos (14)
thedimpau.se
December 14, 2025 at 7:38 AM
🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Big Special (76 plays), clipping. (31), Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, José Carreras, Tatiana Troyanos, Kurt Ollmann & Marilyn Horne (26), Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (18), mitropoulos (14)
BBC Hoddinott Hall 🎵
Jaime Martín, BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Elizaveta Ivanova, flute
Greig Peer Gynt Suite No. 1
Nielsen Flute Concerto Tchaikovsky Swan Lake (selections from)
Jaime Martín, BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Elizaveta Ivanova, flute
Greig Peer Gynt Suite No. 1
Nielsen Flute Concerto Tchaikovsky Swan Lake (selections from)
December 11, 2025 at 8:29 PM
BBC Hoddinott Hall 🎵
Jaime Martín, BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Elizaveta Ivanova, flute
Greig Peer Gynt Suite No. 1
Nielsen Flute Concerto Tchaikovsky Swan Lake (selections from)
Jaime Martín, BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Elizaveta Ivanova, flute
Greig Peer Gynt Suite No. 1
Nielsen Flute Concerto Tchaikovsky Swan Lake (selections from)
Watching my nephew (red skull cap) playing rugby in the Principality Stadium - Road to Principality: Schools and Dewar Shield Finals Day 🏉
Unfortunately we had tickets to a concert in the Wales Millennium Centre tonight so couldn’t attend - reduced to watching the match on a phone in the bar 🍷
Unfortunately we had tickets to a concert in the Wales Millennium Centre tonight so couldn’t attend - reduced to watching the match on a phone in the bar 🍷
December 11, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Watching my nephew (red skull cap) playing rugby in the Principality Stadium - Road to Principality: Schools and Dewar Shield Finals Day 🏉
Unfortunately we had tickets to a concert in the Wales Millennium Centre tonight so couldn’t attend - reduced to watching the match on a phone in the bar 🍷
Unfortunately we had tickets to a concert in the Wales Millennium Centre tonight so couldn’t attend - reduced to watching the match on a phone in the bar 🍷
Reposted by ian
Great news as Asa Tribe commits to Glamorgan for the next three seasons. We're only just getting started!!
glamorgancricket.com/news/tribe-c...
#OhGlammyGlammy
glamorgancricket.com/news/tribe-c...
#OhGlammyGlammy
December 10, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Great news as Asa Tribe commits to Glamorgan for the next three seasons. We're only just getting started!!
glamorgancricket.com/news/tribe-c...
#OhGlammyGlammy
glamorgancricket.com/news/tribe-c...
#OhGlammyGlammy
Watched: The Roses, 2025 - ★★★½ 🎥
The Roses
Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Ivy and Theo: successful careers, a loving marriage, great kids. But beneath the façade of their supposed ideal life, a storm is brewing – as Theo's career nosedives while Ivy's own ambitions take off, a tinderbox of fierce competition and hidden resentment ignites.
www.themoviedb.org
December 9, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Watched: The Roses, 2025 - ★★★½ 🎥
Watched: West Side Story, 2021 - ★★★★ 🎥
West Side Story
Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.
www.themoviedb.org
December 7, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Watched: West Side Story, 2021 - ★★★★ 🎥
Jalfrezi 🌶️
Ashes 🏏 breakfast, with hash browns
Ashes 🏏 breakfast, with hash browns
December 7, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Jalfrezi 🌶️
Ashes 🏏 breakfast, with hash browns
Ashes 🏏 breakfast, with hash browns
🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Big Special (29 plays), The Utopia Strong (14), Yannick Nézet-Séguin, PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA (12), Petrenko, Vasily (3)
nntk’s Music Profile | Last.fm
Listen to music from nntk’s library (106,714 tracks played). nntk’s top artists: Big Special, The Utopia Strong, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA. Get your own music profile at Last.fm, the world’s largest social music platform.
www.last.fm
December 7, 2025 at 6:25 AM
🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Big Special (29 plays), The Utopia Strong (14), Yannick Nézet-Séguin, PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA (12), Petrenko, Vasily (3)
Now going to listen to a couple of cricket podcasts, which is going to depress the mood. The episode title of the first is Darkness Descends 🙉
December 6, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Now going to listen to a couple of cricket podcasts, which is going to depress the mood. The episode title of the first is Darkness Descends 🙉
Great pressure, great goal from Villa to take the last minute win. Fantastic game 👏⚽️
December 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Great pressure, great goal from Villa to take the last minute win. Fantastic game 👏⚽️
Watching the second half after catching up with an hour’s sleep. At least Villa v Arsenal is a good, competitive game. A goal apiece at the moment ⚽️
December 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Watching the second half after catching up with an hour’s sleep. At least Villa v Arsenal is a good, competitive game. A goal apiece at the moment ⚽️
Disappointing Ashes 🏏 viewing this morning, dare I watch Aston Villa v Arsenal ⚽️ ?
December 6, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Disappointing Ashes 🏏 viewing this morning, dare I watch Aston Villa v Arsenal ⚽️ ?
The football World Cup 2026 Draw is on TV now for 2 hours 😮⚽️
December 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
The football World Cup 2026 Draw is on TV now for 2 hours 😮⚽️
🔗 Three-year-old chess prodigy becomes youngest player to earn official rating ♟️
"Kushwaha defeated three rated players in events across his state and other parts of the country to secure his record-breaking status."
"Kushwaha defeated three rated players in events across his state and other parts of the country to secure his record-breaking status."
Three-year-old chess prodigy becomes youngest player to earn official rating
Indian boy Sarwagya Singh Kushwaha practises for four to five hours each day and beat multiple adults to secure record-breaking status
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:22 AM
🔗 Three-year-old chess prodigy becomes youngest player to earn official rating ♟️
"Kushwaha defeated three rated players in events across his state and other parts of the country to secure his record-breaking status."
"Kushwaha defeated three rated players in events across his state and other parts of the country to secure his record-breaking status."
All action in the first overs. Mitchell Starc is England’s nemesis 🏏
December 4, 2025 at 4:26 AM
All action in the first overs. Mitchell Starc is England’s nemesis 🏏
The Ashes, 2nd Test at The Gabba 🏏
Large coffee ☕️, small whisky 🥃
Large coffee ☕️, small whisky 🥃
December 4, 2025 at 4:06 AM
The Ashes, 2nd Test at The Gabba 🏏
Large coffee ☕️, small whisky 🥃
Large coffee ☕️, small whisky 🥃
Another exciting Premier League match tonight. Brighton 3-4 Aston Villa ⚽️
Villa, after being 2 goals down, then 2 goals up, survive a late Brighton resurgence 👏
Villa, after being 2 goals down, then 2 goals up, survive a late Brighton resurgence 👏
December 3, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Another exciting Premier League match tonight. Brighton 3-4 Aston Villa ⚽️
Villa, after being 2 goals down, then 2 goals up, survive a late Brighton resurgence 👏
Villa, after being 2 goals down, then 2 goals up, survive a late Brighton resurgence 👏
Fulham v Manchester City match tonight is very eventful ⚽️
December 2, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Fulham v Manchester City match tonight is very eventful ⚽️
Watched: It’s What’s Inside, 2024 - ★★★ 🎥
It's What's Inside
A pre-wedding reunion descends into a psychological nightmare for a group of college friends when a surprise guest arrives with a mysterious suitcase.
www.themoviedb.org
December 2, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Watched: It’s What’s Inside, 2024 - ★★★ 🎥
🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Big Special (29 plays), George Xiaoyuan Fu (19), The Utopia Strong (17), sombr (12), Primal Scream (11)
nntk’s Music Profile | Last.fm
Listen to music from nntk’s library (106,656 tracks played). nntk’s top artists: Big Special, George Xiaoyuan Fu, The Utopia Strong. Get your own music profile at Last.fm, the world’s largest social music platform.
www.last.fm
November 30, 2025 at 9:43 AM
🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Big Special (29 plays), George Xiaoyuan Fu (19), The Utopia Strong (17), sombr (12), Primal Scream (11)
Wales 🏴 v 🇿🇦 South Africa 🏉
Slightly amusing 🫤
Slightly amusing 🫤
November 29, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Wales 🏴 v 🇿🇦 South Africa 🏉
Slightly amusing 🫤
Slightly amusing 🫤