Cairnage

@cairnage.bsky.social

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What fresh hell

A tiny dinosaur onesie for a little dolly. It’s got tiny little feets!
St Paul’s Cathedral fringed by trees and set against a near-cloudless blue sky
A text from my American pal Ashley, in which she asks, regarding Count Binface, "Is this real?"
Survey statement that reads "It is funny when people with shitty political views die." to which I have replied "Strongly Agree"
The results of that political spectrum survey thing that's going around showing that my closest match is Zohran Mamdani
A screenshot from lightningmaps showing a ln intense storm over London (and Kent and Essex, but no one cares about them)
Hellraiser star Doug Bradley being made up as Pinhead, wearing a dressing gown, smoking a cig and looking weary and pissed off
A black cat (Pip) in a carrier. All you can see of her through the mesh is two yellow eyes.
A pink neon sign reading “one more wine?” reflected in a glass of red wine. I had to flip *and* rotate the pic. The things I do for you.
A peacock strutting towards me and looking at me. 😍
A black cat (Pip), lying in her side with her front legs curled in but her back legs stretched out.
Hermann Gottlieb in Pacific Rim, explaining that the Kaiju attacks are getting more frequent.
A black cat lying on a sofa, looking up. Her head is kind of upside down.
A composite picture purporting to show the relative heights of Mark Zuckerberg, Elton John, Paul Mescal, Tom Hanks and Michael B Jordan. It actually shows Zuckerberg, John, Mescal, Hanks and Colman Domingo.
A black cat (Pip) loafing on the sofa and looking directly at the camera, with all four paws up in the air.
An Egyptian goose and no fewer than ELEVEN Egyptian goslings, sailing towards me in a vaguely threatening yet very cute manner
A black cat (Pip) sitting on the arm of a brown leather sofa. Behind her are bookshelves, an open door and a guitar case.
Pipistrelle, a glossy black cat, is standing on her hind legs appearing to reach for some bottles of booze atop a cabinet.
The familiar Friends characters, clockwise from left: Marsha, Mike, Brian, Twist, Tim and Daisy. (OK, it's the Spaced gang.)
My partner flambéing some crêpes Suzette. Enjoy those diacritics, I did them for you.
A pile of Fontana Books of Great Horror Stories, can’t be bothered to write the numbers, soz
A pile of books comprising the second, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, 15th, 17th, 18th and 20th Pan Books of Horror Stories.
My copy of the Sixth Pan Book of Horror Stories
A portrait of Henry V showing him in profile. He is dressed in red silk and brown furs, and has an extreme pudding bowl haircut.
A screenshot of Apple’s weather app, showing rain for the next nine days, and then a sunny day where the temperature will hover around the zero degree mark. Sigh.
A dry gin martini atop a marble bar. Next to it is a small glass flask with more martini in it, nestling in a larger glass full of crushed ice.
My right hand, with lurid pink ink stains on my index and middle fingers and my thumb. The pen leaked, ok?
The garden of a house in London. A smallish fox cub is sitting on the lawn, looking contemplative.
A screenshot of my Letterboxd entry for It Was Just an Accident, which I just watched. It was excellent.
A shot of my telly in my front room, showing the title card for Die Hard… 2?
A largish silver brooch in the shape of a spider. The abdomen and eyes are black stones and the cephalothorax and legs are made with clear stones. It even has tiny silver fangs!
Mamdani campaign poster style thing that says: THERE ARE FOR lights. (This is a reference to the Star Trek TNG episode Chain of Command.)
A sticky toffee apple crumble tart. What even is that.
A black and white cat (Jess) lounging on a kitchen table behind a vase of irises.
A black and white cat (Jess) relaxing in a guitar case.
A text purporting to be from the Department for Work and Pensions suggesting I claim my winter fuel payment. It came from a number with a Morocco country code.
A negroni and a martini on a bar. The martini’s mine, hands off.
A text alert from an unknown number which simply says, “Hey there”
Margaret Qualley as Sue in The Substance
Edward Elizabeth Hitler - OK, OK, it's Adrian Edmondson - as Atom Eins in Alien: Earth. He is wearing a suit jacket with lapels similar to those worn by Paul Reiser as Carter Burke in Aliens (1986).
A drawing, by the estimable Kate Beaton, of a small black Scottish terrier. The caption reads “My Little Shadow - Agnes, 2016-2025”
A clipping from the Guardian's over-by-over coverage of the fourth England-India Test match, reading: 100th over: England 428-4 (Root 119, Stokes 32) Ricky Ponting enters the commentary box just in time to see Joe Root join him on 13,378 Test runs. Only Sachin Tendulkar has scored more. I don’t know about you but I’m almost numb to Joe Root’s greatness.
A weird black cat (Pip) sits sort of hunched over, looking at the camera.
A still from Ice Cold in Alex. John Mills has just sunk a beer and Sylvia Syms is looking at him like 😍
Me at an Iron Maiden gig in London earlier tonight 🤟🏻
My top 10 films of the 21st century: The Substance (2024) All of Us Strangers (2023) Brick (2006) In the Mood for Love (2001) Nightcrawler (2014) The Lobster (2016) Paddington 2 (2018) Girlhood (2014) Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) Moonlight (2016)
My left hand, with newly painted gunmetal glitter acrylics
An eye with two pupils
A pic of my laptop keyboard. The button between “alt gr” and “<“ has been removed.
A screenshot of my quiz results, reading: "You got... 10/10. We hope you enjoyed the semicolon quiz ;)"
A dry martini with a twist of lemon.
A bag of clothes WITH A CAT IN IT!!