John Tush

@jlctush.bsky.social

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36 he/him - Wales Recovering agoraphobe, dabble with baking, cooking, guitar, painting mini's, video games, reading, puzzles. Trying to get better and putting myself out there, always down for a natter!

This week's two loaves of sourdough looking lovely
A hardback copy of Lords and Ladies by Terry Pratchett, the book is a white-grey backdrop with somewhat minimalist art portraying three witches flying their brooms under a gold foil crescent moon over a stone circle containing another figure surrounded by a swell of gold foil energy. It is very very pretty.
Two video thumbnails, one depicting a weather system that looks a lot like a cock and balls over Wisconsin from the channel Max Velocity, another from Chubbyemu's page with an image of a head/brain and the caption "It's Over", the video title is "Gonorrhea is Evolving Like Never Before In Michigan"
Fat bearded fella playing Entry of the Gladiators on an electric guitar
A screenshot of video editing software, Da Vinci Resolve, showing the opening frame of a video/stinger animation featuring a large red and white striped big top circus tent with the name UMAD CIRCUS over the door, subtitles to the opening of an introduction, "Step right up, step right up" and a hideous rendition of my face with poorly drawn Kefka make-up, white with a purple rictus grin and pink spikes around the eyes. It all comes together in a manner that suggest it is absolutely for the best that I distract myself with stuff like this and not subject society at large to my personality.
Three characters in the arena of FFXIV raid boss The Lindwurm, M12S. An Au-ra Astrologian, Hyur Viper and Roegadyn Ninja munching on a hard-boiled egg stand victorious!
A copy of Pratchett, Stewart and Cohens Scoence of the Discworld II: The Globe sits on a garden table, garden in the background, under glorious sun
Ugly ass fish in FF14 with a hand in the foreground making a rude gesture towards it
A screenshot from the FFXIV special site for patch 7.5, text says New Dungeon - The Clyteum
Depictions of a mechanic from the third boss of Another Merchants Tale in FFXIV drawn in excel
The screen fell cause I waS TRYING TO GET THE **BIRDS OUT**
An email from Origin Coffee Roast with the title "Celebrating Women in Coffee"
Huxley, George and Piggles, left to right, walking away (arses on display) towards the orchard at my parents house on a glorious summer day in 2023
Piggles doing his best cosplay of me, a black pot belly pig with long strands of blonde hay draped over his head like a wig standing in a field
Andrew "Pedophile Previously Known as Prince" Mountbatten-Windsor in the back of a cop car doing an impression of Phillip doing an impression of Weekend at Bernies.
Four FFXIV characters stand successful in front of the exit portal at the end of a dungeon.
A piece of terrain from Games Workshop, a floating island with waterfalls dropping from it is chained to the ground and a staircase.
1:Influencer, Influencer! I just can't seem to make my Youtube channel pop off, I can't seem to increase my reach, my viewcounts are dropping if anything 2:Ahhh good sir! I know exactly the man you need to speak to, he created millions of views from nothing, truly a master of the craft, seek him out and he will guide you to your Youtube plaques and lucrative sponsorship deals! 1:I'll try anything, who is this man, whom do I seek?! 2: The great Chicken Connoisseur, of course! 1: But..Influencer...I am the Chicken Connoisseur
Fat hairy lad in a grey jumper playing a semi-acoustic guitar, again you're really not missing out on the visuals, apologies for the audio
A fat hairy lad playing a semi-acoustic guitar, not much to look at and barely more to listen to tbh
A cap with "Let any fish who meets my gaze learn the true meaning of fear for I am the harbinger of death" on the dome and "The bane of creatures subaqueous, My rod is true and unwavering as I cast into the aquatic abyss, A man, scorned by this uncaring Earth finds solace in the sea, my only friend the worm upon my hook, wriggling, writhing, struggling to surmount the mortal pointlessness that permeates this barren world, I am alone, I am empty, and yet, I fish" on the comically large peak
A screenshot of a discord conversaion in the fishing testing and discovery channel showing people wishing eachother good luck before the test window started, and moments after it began, me posting that I'd caught the fish
A screenshot of an FFXIV screen with a fortune declaring that my 2026 will contain "GRAVE MISFORTUNE"
Progress graph from tomestone.gg, of particular note is the segment at the end where in hundreds of runs barely any reached P5 at all.
A partial screenshot of the Chronos Vanquished screen from Hades 2
Image of Clumsy Goats website showing a bag of Honduran coffee alongside my review which says; Take no joy in saying this is genuinely the worst coffee I have ever bought I try not to read reviews before ordering stuff these days 'cause it's impossible to know which are exaggerated, which are fake, the asymmetric motivations to review mean you're never getting an accurate spread of opinions etc, but boy how I wish I'd read the reviews for this before ordering. People aren't kidding when they say this is an *extremely* dark roast for a supposed medium, I've never seen coffee this dark, I opened the bag and could smell what I can only liken to a heady mix of bitumen and cigarette smoke. Others reviewers seemingly reckon this can be salvaged if you make espresso but I only have a V60 and this coffee is borderline undrinkable, I spent days trying to dial it in and make it enjoyable but in the end I've settled on burying it under milk and flavoured syrup 'cause I can't afford to just throw a bag of coffee away. At worst it tastes like week old dogends, at best you can find a way to make it taste of as close to nothing as possible. At some point in the future I'll swing back around and give something else from Clumsy Goat a go but as of right now it's hard for me to recommend them, sadly.
Top down image of a sourdough loaf cooling on a rack
The wiring in the back of an oven, only thing of visual note is the insulation looks like a cracking beard and moustache
The top of a very pleasant looking tiger loaf, a great golden brown colour with a thin crackled top, possibly the best I've ever managed
A loaf of sourdough sits on a chopping board, its a nice amber brown colour with an impressive ear revealing a lighter inner layer
The first three Discworld novels by Pratchett, The Colour of Magic, The Light Fantastic and Equal Rites in brightly coloured hardback with foil accents and scribbled illustrations of major characters
A tiger loaf with two slices removed sits on a chopping board on a kitchen counter
Izzy Roland is dancing on the Game Changer set in front of a red curtain, meanwhile to the right 3 cartoon buttholes barely pay attention, one is wearing a butt-shaped hat and smoking a cigarette while two smaller buttholes are also there
An image showing a log of a P3: Oracle of Darkness pull from FRU, an Ultimate raid in FFXIV
A round loaf of sourdough sat on a cutting board with a couple pieces cut off to show a relatively airy and uniform crumb.
The start of the day in Loughborough, already 20+ degC at 7am, my big bearded face in sunglasses with the backdrop of a bright blue sky, a chimney and some foliage
A much more dishevelled me, on a different train
The top 2/3 of my big ol' head against the backdrop of a train interior
Big ol' fat lad with long blonde hair, a big brown bushy beard with white patches on either side of his face and some "would be cool on anyone else" large squarish sunglasses sat in front of some foliage and a bright blue sky, hey that's the name of this site!
A copy of the book "How a Game Lives"
Headline reading "Glastonbury Festival yurt glampers ticketless as Yurtel goes bust" with the synopsis underneath "Festivalgoers who booked through Yurtel have been left ticketless and out of pocket"
The same train enters again towards the bottom right, the text box this time mimics the combat options in FF6 with "Fight - Item - Blitz", Blitz is selected revealing "Suplex", which is then selected and Sabin, with my head plastered over his, appears and suplexes the train
The Phantom train again enters towards the bottom right of the screen towing a blue text box with the words "The hype train has levelled up!" while the train flashes different colours before disappearing
An image of a train (the phantom train from FF6) enters towards the bottom right of the screen, towing in a blue text box with the words "A hype train has begun" in a style reminiscent of FF6
A facsimile of the Wii Sports "Nice Shot" overlay with "Nice Prog" in blue writing over a sliding translucent white bar
An edited clip from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, two angelic figures are reeling up a title card that originally said "The Quest for the Holy Grail" and now says "This is the one" as a fanfare plays, the editing is rough in places but the overall effect works well enough for a dumb joke between pals
A zoomed out image of the jokiperuna in situ
With an offensively Swedish accent, I'm singing "jokiperuna istuu joessa, minä laulan laulun" which I think means "the riverpotato sits in the river, I am singing a song" as we stare lovingly at 2025's jokiperuna
A camera shakily zooms in on a potato sat on the lip of a waterfall in the river Ennig as I sing a tune from Lord of the Rings
The rear end of George, a smallish black pig sporting a receding hairline from the wrong end
My character in FFXIV hovering over a lake with trees in the foreground, equipped with the Wings of the Knighthood mount, a drop from Recollection EX
8 characters posing in FFXIV around the unconscious body of a raid boss who tried to kill us with the power of disco, and tbf, succeeded several times before we finally bested him!
Fat beardy fella playing a slightly jazzy version of Rose of May on guitar
Its me. Fat lad with a beard in a salmon shirt with gold aviator sunglasses looking damn cool (not)
Old Andy Tate declaring that "Foods awful and eating sucks", "Men who think cooking makes them manly are cucks" etc etc it's all drivel
A round sourdough loaf fresh out of the oven, with some slightly skewiff scoring
A loaf of sourdough fresh from the oven
Four books; Right Hand Left Hand by Chris McManus, Kants Critique of Pure Reason, Erasmus' Praise of Folly and Voltaire's Candide
The start of a youtube mix with songs by OCT, Ennaria, Bo Burnham, Maustetytöt, Electric Callboy, Protest the Hero, Mura Masa x Charli XCX and Kero Kero Bonito
Mrak Proskch dressed as Tom Hanks character from the Polar Express, gormless as ever standing in pure stupor