2025 in a nutshell

So that was 2025… The year in which fascism had a really good year; the year in which the orange dickhead carried on being both orange and a dickhead; the year in which the Andrew formerly known as Prince still, as far as we know, was not questioned under caution; the year in which I turned bloody sixty!

On the plus side, Jen and I went on lots of trips, I got a whizz-bang new camera, and I took some more photos. So here’s my fifteenth annual video slide-show review of the year:

Consistent as ever, as in the previous fourteen years, this year’s slide-show contains 97 photos.

Once again, I composed the ambient pap backing track. It is called Havana Brew:

See also: All of my yearly nutshell videos

2024 in a nutshell

So that was 2024… The year in which Dame Maggie Smith died. The year in which so-called ‘A.I.’ continued to infect the internet with specious dreck. The year in which the country that styles itself as the guardian of the free world elected a mentally unstable compulsive liar and convicted criminal as president.

On the plus side, the UK temporarily kicked out its own brand of window-licking fascists, and I took some more photos. So here’s my fourteenth annual video slide-show review of the year:

Consistent as ever, as in the previous thirteen years, this year’s slide-show contains 97 photos.

Once again, I composed the ambient pap backing track. It is called Gui-tardigrade:

See also: All of my yearly nutshell videos

Science FTW!

BBC: Spacecraft attempts closest-ever approach to Sun

Nasa: Parker Solar Probe

A Nasa spacecraft is attempting to make history with the closest-ever approach to the Sun. The Parker Solar Probe is plunging into our star's outer atmosphere, enduring brutal temperatures and extreme radiation.

Genius move on behalf of Nasa to time this rendezvous to happen during mid-winter, when the sun’s at its coolest!

…But it would have been an even more genius move to make it happen at night.

Charles Rex(otropia)

These new-fangled fivers…

Charles III fiver

look more closely…

Charles III fiver detail

…There’s no polite way of saying this: the Charles formerly known as Prince appears to be wall-eyed. His right eye is looking straight at us, while his left eye is glancing over our right shoulders.

(In the good old days, an observation like this would no doubt have earned me a one-way trip to the Tower. Thank goodness we live in a modern, twenty-first-century democracy!)

Worst Carpool Karaoke ever!

Karaoke
🎵 If you're blue, and you don't know where to go to,
Why don't you go where fashion sits?
…Putin on the Ritz! 🎶
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