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Ian Badcoe
@ianbadcoe.itch.io
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(he/they) nonbinary, poet, father, husband, gardener, *retired* game-dev from Sumo Digital...
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A false colour image of the surface of the Sun...
A coffee cup with blotchy curved liny patterns a bit like convection cells...
November 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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A painting by Munch
A Cappuccino with froth somewhat in the shape of Edvard Munch's "The Scream"
November 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Which shouldn't be surprising because I previously found:

A section of the Jovian atmosphere...
A near-empty coffee cup containing swirly brown patterns
November 10, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Hi all!
I wrote another book... "All the tales a spy might tell." This time it's a hybrid poetry pamphlet and 1950s SciFi Spy story with cosmic horror overtones... [1/3]
A bark blue book entitled "All the tales a spy might tell" with faux battered cover... One page from a poem spread across two pages. The poem is called "Roland's Gambit" and consists of an introductory quatrain: He stalls upon the stairs, these rear and damp and peeling paint, the seldom travelled access Stairs, he's had such thoughts as lead him here, but much now fails to fall out clear, because An arrow points to a large opening brace, inside which are more quatrains. Giving the impression of the start of process to be concluded on the next page (not shown...) All the merry things which do not happen That one small suburb, of the capital declares independence turns back an expeditionary force by force of firm parking regulations two boy scouts and a good stout stick. Cigarette cards showing deeply unlikely things footballers who don't exist cars which never reached production films not made in this universe. That one day in childhood when Mother buys chocolate of a brand never seen before or since and which you loved and she denies was ever real. The thing about the things which do not happen is they usually are as boring as the ones which did. What is it to you, if, under rigorous conditions and thorough shuffling of the deck Part of a two page poem entitled "Side effects". The poem is presented as a 5x5 table with white, grey and black cells, text can be read from cell to cell in any direction, giving the impression of confused and disjointed thought processes. It is not possible to describe the intricate 2D arrangement that makes connections between text in adjoining cells here, but a couple of illustrative cells are: "pretend nothing to say pretend you know nothing pretend you do not understand pretend you are pretend there are" and to the right of that: "you read reports a doctor's reports who doctors the doctor's reports doctors' studies (a skeleton) birds singing" Such that the last two lines can optionally be read across from cell to cell, and other lines do not grammatically read across, but hold related meanings so they comment on each other...
November 10, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Planet Plum's orbit (not to scale) is surprisingly circular...
A large plum, dark maroon with greyish surface bloom, sitting on a dark glass hob exactly on the circular line which marks the position of the heating element.
November 10, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Not any major thing to report, but I tried changed pain pills and blew my sleep cycle up meaning this the first development I've done for a month... [1/3]
Simple computer game graphic showing a basic train, some trucks have 2x4 arrays of little circular holes on top, and some holes have white barrels slotted into them.
November 8, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Finally, now where did we leave the portal?
A large but simple key, lying on the floor, with a tag tied to it that says "GATE..."
November 3, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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Seem to have grown a pine forest in my coffee cup...
A view into an empty, dirty coffee cup. The wet grounds, in running down to one edge, have produced a series of overlapping, thin, serrated shapes, similar to a side view of close-growing pines...
November 1, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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How many of these should I expect to see before they stops being "unexpected" errors?

#error #unexpected #ExpectTheUnexpected
A Mastodon screenshot with 5 unexpected errors listed at the bottom left...
October 14, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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It might be a G #rune . It might mean #Gandalf was here...

"What would it mean, if it were made by Gandalf?"

I should say, answered #Strider it is a G and an arrow, and it's a sign that Gandalf is here, right now, and sneaking up behind us... [1/2]
A tarmac pavement with a capital G, a line, and an arrow pointing at the viewer...
October 13, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Sometimes a #flaw in the fabric of #reality is more easily spotted than others...
A section of brick pavement split down the middle with a straight line that cuts diagonally across the bricks. The bricks to either side, match in neither colour nor size, although their orientation is consistent...
October 3, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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#light #shadows #carpet #photo
My feet (in stripey socks) and legs casting long shadows across our red hall carpet.
September 28, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Anyone else got more than a #foot of #books on their #ToBeRead pile?
A foot in an orange and white stripey socks, posed in front of a large vertical stack of books
September 25, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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I never knew you could get pills to help with difficulty exploring the delta quadrant...
Three pills arranged on a dark background so they look a little like the Star Trek "Voyager" starship...
September 25, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Damnit! Looks like I missed a call from my old mate Suspect...
An Android notification saying "Missed Call / Suspected Scam"
September 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Hmm, I did not expect #BlueSky to be the one to fall short here, let me see if I can attach the gif directly...

Ah, I can, so that's not going to work for cross-site purposes :-( but a fairly small limitation, since I am not Mr GIF-posting,, generally.
September 22, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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The State of the #Pickle Shelf #Pickles #vegetables #Chillies #cabbage #preserves #WheresTheCheese ?
A shelf in a cupboard filled, in a semi-organised way, with more than one layer of homemade pickles.
September 21, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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#Brick Thing one year in...

Getting #moss established generally around the base.

Front middle is a compact ajuga, that may be too spready, but time will tell...

Middle left is Sicilian #mint , which is also quite aggressive but v. low growing. [1/4]
A bonsai "folly" made of cut down bricks and mortar with various plants (see main text for details...)
September 19, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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This is no use at all, it's a public fire...
An old wooden panelled door labelled "Private Fire Apparatus"...
September 13, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Presumably where they store the occasional tables...
An old wooden panelled door labelled "Periodical Room"
September 13, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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This coffee speaks of the chaos rooted in the heart of the world...

...unless that's just me?
A latte with the, now obligatory, complex patterns in the foam.
September 13, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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This photo doesn't do justice to the sheer scale of this #gunnera at #BrooksbyHall ...
A sign post lost in the leaves of a huge gunnera
September 6, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Met this #huge #fungus walking down to collect the car from the garage...
Close up of a large array of bracket fungus growing on a tree stump
September 6, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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#ladybird #ladybug sunning itself on what I think is a #yarrow in our garden...

It's been a good year for ladybirds, and insects in general, this year.
A close up of what I believe is yarrow with a ladybird (ladybug) on it...
September 6, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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There's shrubs, there's hedges, and then there's geometry, and here they like geometry...

I love the way the line of this hedge cuts so absolutely straight through three different plants.
A view of the centre of a long hedge, growing advice a stone wall, where the line of the hedge runs absolutely straight through three different bushes.
September 6, 2025 at 10:21 AM