Perry Byrne

@evilflea.bsky.social

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Silly artwork, puns, Maths. Possibly some stand-up/poetry/writing if I find the time. Occasional cryptic crossword setter. Had the evilflea handle for ages, trying out a stage/pen name.

Fathers Dougal and Ted in sequinned jackets, singing My Lovely Horse
Comic strip. Panel 1: a football is saying "Maybe it is time I went home. What's been happening in the old country anyway?" Panel 2: the football looks at its smart phone Panel 3: the football is sat outside a café in Paris, saying "Fuck that."
BBC headline: The Odyssey is a 'colossal piece of cinema', critics say in race reviews
oh no
Panel one, bird is sat on a log, toasting a marshmallow. "Life is like roasting a marshmallow." Panel two, "You have to keep it moving, so it cooks evenly." Panel three, bird looks at watch. "It takes time and patience. Panel four, the marshmallow is on fire. "F*CK%NG $H*T!"
BBC Get Involved: "Everyone moaning about VAR this morning. He touched it, it's offside. Move on. No place for sentimentality in sport." Christian
It is the first time Pearson has delivered the Key Stage 2 tests, which are sat by Year 6 pupils in England, after a change in the contract run by the Standards and Testing Agency (STA).
"My arse" - Jim Royle
'If Streeting is not running, what are we waiting for?' - Badenoch On social media, Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch reacts to Wes Streeting's decision to support Andy Burnham, rather then pursue his own leadership ambitions. "If you're not running, what are we waiting for?" she asks - seemingly referring to the timetable to replace Keir Starmer.
Father's day card drawn by my daughter, "Have a toasty day", with a marshmallow on a stick, on fire.
Massively oversized advertising screen at the motorway services with hardly any actual adverts: Today's News: "Not a football fan? Here's how to sound like a World Cup expert. Not a football supporter? Try these conversation starters to sound like an expert. "
Kenyon, who was elected as a Reform UK councillor for the Bryn with Ashton-in-Makerfield North ward in last month's local elections, said he "wouldn't make any crass comments" now "because everything you do say is under a microscope".
BBC News headline: Britain's onboard train wi-fi is one of Europe's worst. This is how people manage
Geisbet warns that getting a vaccine from the laboratory to rollout, with trials and manufacturing, can cost more than $1bn (£745m). It is an investment with "a whole bunch of zeros behind the dollars", he says - and one pharmaceutical companies so far have not seen as being profitable.
Anger with Ottawa has long been longstanding
Anger with Ottawa has long been longstanding
Review: Big fan of Japanese literature 3 stars
An awful awful cheap nasty Disney's Stitch costume from Home Bargains, modelled by a child pretending to be pleased about it.
BBC News Elections 2026 headline: Can Starmer survive as PM? Seven scenarios for what might happen next
The 50 cent piece is missing from the music puns crossword.
Kara Kennedy: Angry young women are driving men into the arms of cougars
Numskulls comic, where tiny people operate a man's brain
Unch crossword magazine, issue 3, sitting on the envelope it just arrived in.
Israeli defence minister threatens Iran with 'even more painful' strikes published at 15:09 Israel's Defence Minister Israel Katz talks during a meeting with his Greek counterpart Nikos Dendias, in Athens, Greece, January 20, 2026 Image source,Reuters Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz has warned that his country will launch "even more painful" strikes against Iran if it does not agree a deal in negotiations with the United States. "Iran is facing a historic crossroads. This is their moment of choice - between a bridge to the future and an abyss of isolation and destruction," he says. He says if Iran chooses the latter option, it will "very quickly discover" that targets Israel has not yet struck are "even more painful that the ones we have already attacked". "The choice is in their hands and the consequences are on them," he concludes.
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Grey and white moggy lying on her side in the hallway, cuddling her pink mouse on a string and looking up at me, hoping for more play.
Laura Alliss, 38, who lives in Abersoch, said she initially threw away a council notice about Article 4 before she said she realised it affected everyone in Gwynedd. "I just threw it in the bin because it just said it only affected you if you were a second homeowner, which we weren't," said Laura, although she did later go on to buy a second home, which she now runs as a holiday let.
ANDREW GARFIELD: 'The spiderweb of nature is what feeds my soul'
Across the country, 201 people have been killed, including at least 108 in an explosion at a girls' school in southern Iran.
BBC News: Sperm swim more quickly in summer, study finds
A group of gnarly trees on Madeira.
Twisty tree like a Flump.
BBC News: "Dual nationals face scramble for UK passports as new rules come into force"
BBC Sport headline: "Late goals are destroying Liverpool's season and solution isn't obvious"
Jaws Lego!
Braverman accuses Tories of betrayal as she defects to Reform
From the article: “All of the sources support the mass deportation agenda, but have serious hesitations about the way it is being carried out and the messaging that comes with it,” Melugin added. “Many of the sources have expressed frustration that ICE is routinely blamed for the actions of Border Patrol, a completely separate agency.”
Unch, the cryptic crossword magazine, issue 2, has arrived. Tattersail cat looks annoyed. (Really she's just pleased to see me and wants to rub her face on my hand and be given bonus food.)
Shaking Hands With Death by Terry Pratchett
Two velociraptors in their kitchen, turning their heads at the slightest noise
The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus: The Mathematics of Christmas, by Dr Hannah Fry and Thomas Oléron Evans
Hogfather by the late great Terry Pratchett, in front of a Christmas tree