Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋

@danielrigal.bsky.social

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I am British and grumpy. Tories, Brexit and most other things make me grumpy. I'm a ridiculous blue rectangle in a silly green hat and I demand to be taken seriously! Born 1970s Unable to age verify so no DMs danielrigal.co.uk @DanielRigal@mastodon.social

Incomprehensible clipping from the front page of the Telegraph: "Johnson: Mandarins to blame for 'Boriswave'" (No, I have no idea what they are talking about either but it seems likely to be something racist.)
Clipping from the front page of The Times: "Mariella Frostrup: What not to say to my daughter"
The "Fetch happen" meme adapted to say "Stop trying to make The Fountainhead happen. It's not going to happen." Yes, I know it's a lame old meme but it's not like Elon deserves any better.
Screenshot from the ARTE website where I am being maliciously offered a documentary programme called "20 Year of Dubstep".
The front page of tomorrow's Daily Express saying "EXPRESS CRUSADE. GIVE US A PROPER BREXIT" with their stupid crusader logo superimposed over the white cliffs of Dover. No, I am not making this up as a prank blind readers. I swear that this is an accurate description! Ask a sighted person to confirm if you don't believe me. I won't blame you if you don't. I can barely believe it myself.
A cyberman helmet from Doctor Who: A silver grey metal head with a lamp on top and the classic "handles" on the sides. The eyes are cutouts with a notch at the bottom that resembles a tear. The OP in the thread shows a cartoon of Starmer with a very similar tear. My intention is to draw a comparison between one inhuman monster and another.
Screenshot of a tweet: Lilly Wachowski replying "Fuck both of you". This was originally posted in reply to Elon Musk and Ivanka Trump in 2020 but I think the sentiment can be applied more broadly.
Text "2 person inflatable Pegasus" rendered in the style of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles logo. Created via http://glench.com/tmnt/#2_person_inflatable_Pegasus
"2 person inflatable Pegasus". No, that's not me being cryptic. That's literally what it says on the box. But what does that mean, you might well ask? I'm not entirely sure. It seems to be some sort of goofy looking inflatable pool toy. I saw it on sale in The Range in Penge. I didn't buy it. I suspect that nobody else bought it either.
A sign, with text so badly mangled that it can only be the result of a tragic collision with the speech to text feature.
Dril tweet: "turning a big dial taht says 'Racism' on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right."
Telegraph headline: "Sainsbury's stops selling brown eggs over net zero" Yes, that's what is says. No, I don't know what it means.
Screenshot of a BBC News article: "BBC presenter apologises for misquoting Nigel Farage"
A ludicrously over-elaborate baroque style gold picture frame. The ugly frame takes up more space than the picture itself would.
A Robert Crumb comic where a short, sniveling character named "Snoid" expresses his dislike of a heedless "Normal Guy."
Meme image taken from the move Pulp Fiction: A man with a shotgun saying "Nah, man. I'm pretty fucking far from OK."
Britannia brand beef dripping covered with the Union Flag for some reason.
Abstract painting of two circles, one above the other, seemingly reflected vertically, each with a rainbow coloured segment within a triangle. Apart from the rainbow parts the colours are muted pinks and browns.
A BBC News thumbnail: An awful watercolour courtroom sketch of Elon Musk (although it doesn't look like him even slightly) and others with the absolutely idiotic headline "Why the AI industry is the real winner of the Musk-Altman trial".
Cartoon character Marvin the Martian with his hands extended in confused exasperation.
Bluesky Notifications page, as seen from a web browser. Broken, with the error "The server gave an invalid response and may be out of date."
BBC headline: I joined the Tories for the partying, says Kemi Badenoch
BBC headline: As the world inches back to a pre-WW2 order, the 'middle powers' face a grave new challenge
Thumbnail image of a BBC InDepth article: "How the NHS became the battleground in the trans debate facing workplaces".
BBC headline: "Badenoch warns Tory MPs against plotting and psychodrama"
Screenshot of Bluesky Notifications being broken, brokenly. It says "The server gave an invalid response and may be out of date."
Concrete dinosaurs at Crystal Palace Park wrapped in white plastic.
The text "Windows Modules Installer Worker" rendered in the style of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles logo.
An "article" from the front page of the Daily Telegraph saying "Is the BBC to blame for the death of Diana?". I shit you not! They cut down trees to print this on. Any one of those trees would make a better editor than whoever wrote this desperate shite. Even American hedge funds are embarrassed by this.
The Daily Telegraph, on the front page no less, speculating that alleged DNA tests may prove that Hitler really did only have one testicle.
Mural mashing up Care Bears, Garfield and other carton characters.
Creepy advert running on YouTube: "Realistic AI Girlfriend. You choose how she looks. And what she says." Sponsored. [URL redacted]
The Sainsbury's website is selling loose broccoli. It is in the "Mothers Day" aisle for some reason. What?
Sign saying "Advanced notice. Buses replace trains..."
The "I sleep" meme: Hobnobbing with a fascist? I sleep. Fishing without a licence? Real shit
Photograph of an orange-brown butterfly taken from the other side of a window it is resting on. Instead of the usual top view of the wings, we see it from below showing its legs, abdomen, antennae and big eyes.
Hurrah, die Butter ist alle! (Hurrah, There’s No Butter Left!) by John Heartfield (1935) A photomontage showing a Nazi family enthusiastically trying to eat iron goods, including an axe and a bicycle, in lieu of actual food. https://www.johnheartfield.com/John-Heartfield-Exhibition/john-heartfield-art/famous-anti-fascist-art/heartfield-posters-aiz/butter-is-all
A pool toy shaped like an ice lolly in the colours of the bisexual pride flag.
The goose chase meme. Goose: "Kind of evil?" [Chasing after the man] Goose: "Kind of???"
Ludicrous headline on the front page of the Telegraph saying: "Dunkirk's little ships diverted to make way for migrant small boat". Pathetic.
Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born. Aneurin Bevan
Detail from a screenshot of Twitter: "Politics. Trending. Satan. 64.7K posts."
Classic dril tweet: "issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding the terror group ISIL. you do not, under any circumstances, 'gotta hand it to them.'"
The Goose Chase meme: An angry goose chases after a man demanding "Unexpectedly? Unexpectedly, tariff boy???"
Screenshot of my latest follows: 4 spambot accounts all with pathetically similar names.Liizzey, Liiizy, Liizy and Lizzia.
Stock certificate for Marcel Duchamp's satirical roulette scheme company. The certificate features Duchamp covered in shaving foam with his hair styled to look like demonic horns. He looks like an idiot.
A pile of discarded Christmas trees that never made it to Twelfth Night. London. Dec 30 2024.