Re-visiting Fleming's Bond novels, he regularly mentions characters 'sunburned', 'sunburnt' 'burnt and burned by the sun'. Never meaning what we understand today, red, raw, he means tanned, dark or brown, a healthy glow. Was this a general switch or just Fleming? @susiedentwords.bsky.social #Bond
As @hebtroco.bsky.social have been discovering since they started... people will tell you they want to shop ethically, they'll tell you they want to 'bring back manufacturing' etc. then when you tell them how much the real cost is... ...well it gets to ugly name calling about hipsters real quick
What Andy Burnham's £80 T-shirt really tells us
This isn't just a story about expensive clothes. It's about where things are made, about why you can't really trust what it says on the label and about what happens after the "end of geography"
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old bloke in my local wearing this t-shirt yesterday. It's a case study in quite a few things isn't it? @nateo.bsky.social It wasn't actually this 'design' but the exact wording. Which is its own tale about AI slop and the ability to churn out cheap viral t-shirts.
A rare find at Audlem Festival of Transport... never seen a VW XL1 before! A curio from back when diesel was a possible green solution. 310 mpg was incredible. So was £120k for a 1 litre VW.
Teams of scientists and engineers working around the clock at SpaceX on one of the most challenging problems facing the world today. Can they come up with the incredible technology that allows Elon Musk to 'land' a joke? Huge if true! cartoon by the always amazing @smoothdunk2.bsky.social
That silly happiness when a number pops up that tickles your particular nerdery... off on holiday from Manchester airport @sniffpetrol.com #Porsche
I've realised why May's comment cuts through. He's one of 'their guys'. Also he's flipped it to a driving skills issue... go further make it into a Moto Gymkhana challenge. Who can drive at exactly 20mph through the course? Look the Stig can do it! Are you a good driver? Are you?
Kate Bevan@katebevan.com · 4w agoalmost impressed by the guy who's been in my mentions since last night arguing that 20mph is a trap and too slow and that he's a careful driver in the face of *gestures broadly* everyone else saying "just stick to the speed limit, it's there because it saves lives".
You know when you listen to a well loved track on different headphones and suddenly hear something new? Sat at work and Holding Out For a Hero has a great choppy guitar part in the right channel I'd never heard before... I mean its not like Jim Steinman to add layers right? RIP Bonnie Tyler
this is a generationally niche post, and I'm here for it...
Fourfoot@fourfoot.bsky.social · 4w agoHe’s Robin Hood from Maid Marian and her Merry Men but two divorces and a failed micro brewery in.
Me on my Enfield in India in... 1993/4? For the longest time I was a weirdo enthusiast for the brand. Incredible to see what has happened to it #MotoSky
the first time I heard of David Hockney was Painting With Light 1987. 'Six painters create pictures that exist only on your television set at home. Howard Hodgkin, Sir Sidney Nolan, Richard Hamilton and tonight, David Hockney, are confronted with the extraordinary Quantel Paintbox.' It changed me.
'Painting With Light' Episode 1: David Hockney's first digital art, created on a Quantel Paintbox
YouTube video by Quantel Paintbox
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For the first time in a very long time I revisited Dr No. Also going through the original books. Always stayed in my mind a bit of a dud film. Old fashioned looking and lacking the 'proper' Bond set pieces, gadgets and stunts. To a 10-12 year old it just didn't cut it. #Bond [1]
"...if they ever asked me to make a Bond film now, my answer would be: you can’t afford me.” Hate to tell you Steven, got nowt to do with the Broccoli family any more, and the new lads... they definitely could.
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An incredible photo. Sad that I see something composed and created so well that it triggers suspicion... Ach... don't worry this is the real deal.
Brian Groom@groomb.bsky.social · 2mo agoBlackpool, 1982, photo by Chris Steele-Perkins.
just used www.writetothem.com/write to implore my MP @adamjogee.bsky.social to get all government communication OFF twitter. Great tool from @mysociety.org
WriteToThem
WriteToThem is a website which provides an easy way to contact MPs, councillors and other elected representatives.
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When I used to freelance I was often asked if there was work I wouldn't do. 'Yeah I won't design for racists'. Who knew a tech would arrive to remove such troublemakers? Tech for people who can't read to incite people who can't think. Pushed by billionaires who hate all of them.
Experimenting with a base global colour that make generating alternate versions far quicker. Also an experiment to see if I can embed a mindworm for the rest of the day... Drums keep pounding a rhythm to the brain #Illustrator #Vector @sniffpetrol.com La de da de de La de da de da
Beautiful day to give the new flat-screen nav a test. Verdict good, but the ear buds are a drama. Alright going into the helmet but a pain taking it off... does anybody do a helmet friendly ear bud? #MotoSky
Thrilled with the success of the pond for encouraging invertebrates. No wonder the tadpole numbers dropped, dragonfly nymphs are scary pond predators!
Every paper that you read Says tomorrow's your lucky day Well, here's your lucky day
Every time I see this I think Douglas Adams did a project with a young and dashing René Artois
HG2G Scrapbook@hg2g-scrapbook.bsky.social · 3mo ago
