Mike Trinder

@chthonicionic.bsky.social

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He/Him. B3ta QOTW person and programmer at http://www.millerhare.com. This is my personal a/c - at the moment I don’t have a separate work a/c. I’m also at @chthonicionic@mastodon.online

A street name sign for Sansome Street with a small “formerly Town Ditch” beneath it.
A stack of fibre switches with a Matt Gray “Do not look into laser with remaining eye” sticker on them
A sign on a pole pointing at the ground saying “Free spiders” and then “liberty for the spider 27,000!” underneath in much smaller letters, tempting you into the spider massive to read it
A crowd of people in the sun gathered around a safety fence to try and keep them away from the flames erupting from the organ pipes
Looking up into the branches of an oak tree and the sky. A serious looking black box is strapped to one branch allowing this message to go out
A laptop connected to a radio receiver board in the front of a tent, with a boy on his tablet connected to a transmitter in another tent in the background.
A big green tent in a field with a purple T-shirt with B3ta’s furtive bear logo on it.
Two bikes mounted vertically, stuffed in a small cupboard because that’s sensible.
Two laden bikes, a backpack and half a teen at Paddington Station
A heavy touring bike with two sleeping bags on the front racks, a tent and two panniers full of food and books on the back. Clothes and everything else is going on my back.
An elderly woman with long grey hair leans back on a sofa, takes a long drag in the spliff she’s been rolling and lets fly with what she’s learnt over the years of interacting with her dead husband
A train-trackr weather map showing where it’s raining live. At the moment it’s raining in an arrow formation over the Wash, pointing at a single rain dot over the tip of Cornwall in the SW
Two blokes in shirts stare at a half assembled tent whilst a cat attempts to get inside it
A Sinclair basic program from 1982 by Tim Hartnell that sticks random phrases together. It has an 11 phrase vocabulary plus an ellipsis. It though half the listing must be missing, but no - it loads 12 pieces of data.
A screen shot showing Christhebarker labelled by skywatch.blue as “follow farming”
A plaque dedicated to the Baronne de Bastard
A plastic water bottle on a kitchen worktop. It’s filled with a a brown/green/blue/purple/black liquid and I half expect it to erupt out and strangle me
The Alexandra Palace theatre - rescued from derelict but not over restored, so modern seating and lighting systems sit amongst decaying/missing plaster and old brick. The ceiling and walls are moodily lit in yellow and red and the bright primary hues of the Vox Holloway choir stand out on stage.
A notice board by a lake. “Polite Notice: Do not feed the penguins”
A pictogram from FIFA’s list of banned things. A rectangle with a stick coming out of it and a fluffy end. No idea what it’s supposed to be so I can’t help you here. But it does look like a toilet brush.
Me: “Ok. Well we will meet outside [redacted] at 1:50 and see you whenever. I've got my vuvuzela, flags and your special soundtrack on a portable speaker so all is good” Child:”Fuck off respectfully”
The diarrhoea guy from the peptobismol ad doing his bit
Some discarded black and white polka dot fabric in a gutter in North London
A hand made card with Pretty Decent Dad in cut out letter over cut out flowers
Some spam from a bollard manufacturer promising “Immediate hostile vehicle mitigation for public spaces and critical sites”
A cat, being proud of taking up a whole chair
A sign saying “Unstable Gravestones, Please be Careful” badly altered to read “Constable Gravestones… etc”
A low shot looking up from behind our hero, a skyscraper and a construction crane arch into the sky in an extreme perspective, the hook of the crane dangling down ominously towards his head
A top down shot of an alley lit from the left. Our hero in black walks through a wet shiny part that reflects lots of light. His tail in white is in the deep shadows behind, but picked out by his clothing
A bike line road marking that points directly at a new flower bed
The far side cartoon captioned “Donning his new canine decoder, Professor Schwartzman becomes the first human being on Earth to hear what barking dogs are actually saying.” And all the speech bubbles are just “Hey! hey! hey!”
A dumb cat stares disapprovingly at me through the stair bannisters.
A Letteris game in which 7 E’s are jumbled in a heap in the middle of the screen
A hedge as a Henry Moor reclining nude
A framed newspaper cutting titled ”007 meets Arsenal’s No.3” where some stock photo juxtaposition makes it look like bond has shot the player in the nuts
A still from the sitcom “Keeping up appearances”. The two main characters look worried at a heavily decorated dining room table whilst a portrait of Winston Churchill looks down creepily.
A steam engine pulling a number of carriers runs past some trackside workers. The youngest at the top of a ladder waves at the driver. Their elder brother is mostly hidden behind some plants and is staring off into space as usual
The Arsenal champions bus goes past with Gunnersaurus on the back, dancing for their fans
Tony Christie crooning away like he isn’t in his 80s
The interior of the Union Chapel on Highbury Corner. A huge space with multiple alcoves with stained glass everywhere. Some stage lights stab out through the heat from a stage filled only with waiting instruments.
An idiot having a toilet explosion
A new garden, seating and pedestrian area on what was a huge wide road. People are sitting out and having lunch and chatting. In the foreground a bike logo and an arrow pointing directly at a flowerbed has been nearly painted on the road where it ends.
Lowly Worm speeds though Busytown in his apple shaped bubble car.
A stylish corvid swings his feathers to one side as he launches into a crowd favourite as hundreds of adoring fans look up to him on stage
An excited black dog flies head first through the air toward what looks like a stationary tennis ball.
A fish shop called Fishco Inferno
Microsoft’s copilot terms and conditions where it states: “Unless prohibited by law, we may limit, suspend, or permanently revoke your access to or use of Copilot (and potentially all other Services) in our sole discretion, at any time and without notice.” aka don’t threaten me with a good time.
Me as a psychiatrist in The Beard by Fred Van Lente and Alison Sampson
The large Arsenal letters by their stadium, with an electric hire bike stuffed through the triangle of the A And, yes, “Can’t park there, mate”
A label on some duvet packaging that reads PLEASE FLUFF ME GENTLY AFTER REMOVING ME FROM MY PACKAGING AND I PROMISE TO LOFT UP WITHIN 12 HOURS
Lordi on stage singing for Eurovision 2026
A grid from the NYT game Strands. The theme is “You’ve got…” and I’ve hi-lighted the word “Farts”, but that’s not one of the official words so it is grey.
The logo of FML waste solutions on a van door in the sun
A shop shelf with Camelicious long life camel milk on it. Only £3.75
An enormously proud robin with his chest puffed out sat in the fence with next doors frankly enormous elder in flower behind him.
Some semi-frozen yoghurt in an ice-cream machine going round in a nice, thick, pasty way
An ice cream machine stirring around yoghurt, double cream, cherries, honey and a bit of salt
A box with a cat sticking out of it
A metal fence in brick wall with a black arrow on a white piece of paper at one end, pointing towards an almost not visible arrow in another wall about 30m away, which points off camera to your next clue. Could it be your primary goal or some NPC with a crappy side-quest?
A cat peers disdainfully down at the camera between two stair banisters