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Gaz
@gazchap.com
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Software engineer (WordPress and Laravel), transport nerd, motorsport fan and wannabe comedian.

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Yeah, in those days (and possibly today, I don’t follow TCC so no idea if they introduced cost caps like F1?!) money talks.

Also, I guess I’m just conditioned to think this based on the GT-Four, but fuck me, this looks so wrong without a wing on the back 😆
A photo of a Toyota Carina touring car in Castrol livery, on a racetrack.
January 7, 2026 at 7:37 AM
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I don’t know, you go away for a night and when you get back you deserve to have your chest ripped to shreds by the murder mittens.
A photo of me lying in bed, with Ripley, my British Shorthair cat, lying on my chest/stomach. She is looking right at the camera, and her sharp front claws are digging into my chest skin.
January 5, 2026 at 10:09 PM
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A social network for figure skaters and ice hockey players, I’ll call it RinkedIn.
A screen capture of Alan Partridge (played by Steve Coogan) lying on a bed with a dictaphone recording ideas for new TV shows.
January 5, 2026 at 9:48 PM
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The *fuck* is this bullshit? Honestly, it’s fucking impossible to escape politics isn’t it?!
A screenshot of a Promoted post (ad) on Reddit from The Times (thetimes.com) The ad shows a blonde woman wearing a red top, with a just visible caption of “My Maga makeover: how the world saw me [cropped off]” The text on the ad post reads “Republican women’s style is unrepentantly sexy”
January 4, 2026 at 7:48 PM
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Ooh, go on then.
A photo of a roast beef dinner, with the beef pink and served in a giant Yorkshire pudding, with green beans, carrots and other vegetables. A gravy boat full of gravy sits to the side of the plate.
January 4, 2026 at 1:51 PM
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I guess we've got this motherfucker to blame for the sub-zero temperatures. Fancy leaving the door open so all the cold can come out.
A photo of an abandoned fridge freezer standing on a pavement next to a garden fence. The freezer door is wide open, and (except for a small area in front of it) the entire pavement is covered in snow.
January 3, 2026 at 2:56 PM
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Similar story here on one of the exits. Doesn’t seem to affect the other signs on the roundabout. How strange.
A road sign exiting the roundabout from the parent post. Capital A, H, W, N and E, as well as lower case e, and the number 4 are consistently faded.
January 3, 2026 at 11:57 AM
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Some oddly consistent fading on the lettering on this road sign. #Shrewsbury
A photo of a road sign leading to Heathgates Roundabout in Shrewsbury, coming from town centre. Of all of the lettering on the sign, certain letters and numbers are consistently faded — capital A and S, and the number 4.
January 3, 2026 at 11:53 AM
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January 3, 2026 at 9:56 AM
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The most recent photo taken of both.
A photo of Ripley, my British Blue shorthair, yawning. A photo of Sherbet, my yellow Labrador Retriever, laying on my sofa.
January 3, 2026 at 12:03 AM
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Snap! Was a lovely walk, is busy!
A landscape photo of Cardingmill Valley in Shropshire.
January 1, 2026 at 4:13 PM
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Bedtime for me now, perhaps I can fall asleep before all the fireworks kick off again.

Happy New Year, you lot! Hope 2026 gets off to a good start for y'all!
A black and white photo of me wearing a flat cap.
December 31, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Keeping herself relaxed despite the fireworks by holding on to my hand. Christ, not sure it gets much cuter.
December 31, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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A photo of some McVitie's Jaffa Cakes arranged in a pile on a plate, with a number of Jaffa Cake boxes behind.
December 31, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Makes me think of this classic.
A few screengrabs from an interview with James and Oliver Phelps, obvious twins who played Fred and George Weasley in the Harry Potter movies. The interviewer asks them "Are you twins in real life?" and they reply with "No. It's quite a weird story. We met at the audition."
December 31, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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I'm absolutely loving the logo at my local Halfords garage, which is half missing in *every possible sense* 😆
A screen capture from Google Streetview of a Halfords Autocentre sign on the outside of their building in Shrewsbury. Only the "ords" part of the Halfords logo remains, "Half" of the sign has fallen off.
December 31, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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I wouldn’t take a photo of them after they’d died, hah! This one survived a fire in its tank, though (!)
A photo of Rosie, my Chilean Rose tarantula (grammastola rosea) relaxing in her tank, dangling her front legs over the edge of her rock hideout.
December 30, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Do dogs generate as much love as my cat appears to here on Bluesky? Let’s find out.
A photo of my dog, Sherbet — a Labrador Retriever — looking at the camera asking for a nose boop.
December 29, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Is it just me or is this one of the worst logo designs ever, when taking their product into account?
The logo for Newton Trailers. The logo is of what looks like a vehicle trailer, with three axles, with the words "newton trailers" written in the trailer's load space -- except the "ers" at the end of "trailers" is hanging off (and indeed, falling off) the end of the trailer.
December 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Same with mine :D
A photo of Ripley, my British Blue Shorthair cat, yawning.
December 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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I’ve been out for most of the day, so now she won’t leave my side 😍
A photo of my British Blue Shorthair cat, Ripley, curled up with her head on a cushion.
December 27, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Quote post with your origin story book...

I owe pretty much everything to this book. And the John Harris artwork on the cover is phenomenal.
A photo of a ring-bound book, the Sinclair ZX Spectrum BASIC programming guide, with fantastic cover artwork of a sun hiding behind some clouds, in an orange sky, with a futuristic building/ship that looks like a floating city just sitting there in the sky alongside the clouds and the sun.
December 27, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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😉
Congrats. Happy for you. Nice.
December 24, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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The last leg of my journey back from the galactic centre is complete. I’m back in civilised space at long last.

Stopped to admire the view at a gas nebula in the NGC 4463 Sector, and now finally safe and docked at Jameson Memorial. #EliteDangerous
A screenshot of my Mandalay explorer in front of a very colourful section of space. Instead of the usual black, the space around the ship is awash with blues, greens, oranges and reds from a nearby gas nebula. A screenshot of my (very dark) Mandalay flying towards the open docking port of Jameson Memorial, an Orbis starport orbiting the Founder’s World in the Shinrarta Dezhra system.
December 24, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Ooof. Just completed a 13,896 light year jaunt on the Neutron Highway to get myself to a carrier so I could offload my exobio data.

Only took three hours… much quicker than sticking to main sequence jobbers. #EliteDangerous
A screenshot of my ship, a Mandalay, flying towards a neutron star with its jet cone splurging matter all over the immediate area.
December 22, 2025 at 11:07 PM