Jason Piper

@jv8p.bsky.social

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Same mostly harmless tax nerd, cynic & petrolhead; same character-lite handle. Occasional music & cat content.

Screen grab of a cropped section of Google's search results, showing that it relied on nine sources. Poster has scrolled through the list of sources and the fourth, under the heading "A Brief History of Accounting: Where did it start?" reads: "Regular paragraph copy lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, constetur..."
A bright red Aston Martin DB4 raises a plume of dust on a dirt road somewhere in Colorado.
A rather poorly composed photograph of a silver trophy in the shape of a steering wheel on the bonnet of a vintage car.
A steam train which has departed the station via an external 1st floor wall. The locomotive is resting nose first on the pavement and the tender dangles precariously above it. The rest of the train seems still to be attached, but is within the station.
A steam train whose internal boiler tubing is no longer internal. This is the image you get is you search "Cthulhu Train". It is not something you would want to have anywhere near anything you might want to travel on.
A young girl in pink and white spotted dress and sunhat stands in front of a dark green sportscar (Aston Martin DB5 drophead coupe Vantage) with a look of amazement and wonder on her face and her arms thrown up gesturing towards the car behind her.
Several vintage racing cars and lots of people milling about with trees in the background
A 1932 Aston Martin ‘New International’ in the evening sun.
Screengrab of email newsletter: Headline reads Britcoin vs Bitcoin:Central banks stepping into the digital currency arena. Body text follows: Certain governments around the world are exploring the possibility of central bank issued digital currencies using disturbed ledger technology (DLT)
The entire car from two posts ago (the one with the little price sticker reading £3,000,000). It's a dark green Aston Martin DB4GT; very rare, very fast and very desirable if that's what you're into. Also very expensive.
A matchbox style model of Aston Martin AMR1 race car in a plastic blister pack. It has a printed label reading £3000.
Top corner of a car windscreen with a price label, in the simple format of a rectangular white sticker as you'd find in a corner shop or an old fashioned iron mongers. It's for £3,000,000.
Screengrab of an old tweet, which reads "something to bear in mind when you use a grandiose title on LinkedIn". The image is of a split-screen TV interview, with on one side "David Shing, AOL Digital Prophet" looking like someone whose prophecies you'd take with a whole damn bucketload of salt. On the other side is an earnest looking middle-aged bloke, whose caption reads "Tim Berners Lee. Web developer". (It predates his knighthood).
Rear view of a Porsche 911 Carrera, with a stick-on placard attached to the number plate reading "Temporary transport: Aston Martin on order". The poster is captioned "Mr Groves had very quickly tired of explaining to people why he was no driving a Porsche", with the placard highlighted in a bubble boxout.
Still from the titles sequence of Hardcastle & McCormick
A London street in WC2N, just off the Strand, lined with American cars fro the 1980s used to complete the illusion, alongside replacing building numbers, covering blue plaques etc.
Screen grab of UK Cardle announcing "Well done! The answer is Alvis TC 21". The guesses were XK 140, Wolseley and finally Alvis - make only, no model designation. Previously, the site rejected Dodge Viper for Dodge Viper and Volvo 850 T-5R for Volvo 850 T-5R among others.
A ginger cat curled up inside a red velvet lined violin case - he's in the main body bit; there's a bright yellow duster in the headstock section.
Screen grab of a cropped section of Google's search results, showing that it relied on nine sources. Poster has scrolled through the list of sources and the fourth, under the heading "A Brief History of Accounting: Where did it start?" reads: "Regular paragraph copy lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, constetur..."
Screen grab of the cardle.co.uk page (a full screen 3/4 view of the car, which players are supposed to identify from successively more revealing crops over five gueses), showing five completed answers, the second of which was "Reliant Kitten" and the result "Unlucky, the answer is... Reliant Kitten".
3 yellow Aston martin DB7s in a row; a "Driving Dynamics" i6 Volante, an i6 Coupe and the original Works Development i6 Volante.
A biright yellow Aston Martin DB7 Volante in a spotless workshop, flanked by 15 engineers in blue overalls and one individual in black trousers, white shirt & dark stripy tie; presumably the Works Development manager.
The mem known as "Jealous Girlfriend", but the distracted/unfaithful male is labelled "Historical illiterates talking about transformative technologies", and his attention has been caught by the girl in the red dress, labelled "Gen AI". The disgusted girl in the blue dress is labelled "Vaccines, antibiotics, internal combustion, the steam engine, the seed drill, the loom etc. etc...". We could also add refrigeration, the washing machine, basic surgical hygene, bronze, electricity...
Screenshot of MapTap results page, showing Singapore score of "0% Distance: 17,502km".
A curiously formed parsnip rests its 'head' on the handle of a chef's knife on a wooden chpping board. The top half of the parsnip is barrel shaped, but has two malformed side roots which look like arms with the hands thrust into jacket pockets, while the bottom half has split in two and the rotts ha crossed over so look like crossed legs.
A magazine article with a picture of the bright yellow Aston Martin DB7 Volante works development car, and the title "Pulling a fast one" with the letters "A S T O N" from the last two words highlighted to read "Aston"
Screen cap of an iPhone search page, showing results for "yellow car - one image of a shopping list, and the other of one of the information diaplay boards in the new Queen Elizabeth Garden in The Regents Park.
Screenshot of a tweet from 16 April 2016. The picture shows a bleak snow covered moor photographed from a moving car, under a bleak grey sky; the caption reads "Come on the Flying Scotsman Rally they said. It'll be a lovely springtime jaunt they said."
Screenshot of a tweet frmo 16 April 2016. The picture shows a bleak snow covered moor photographed from a moving car, under a bleak grey sky; the caption reads "Come on the Flying Scotsman Rally they said. It'll be a lovely springtime jaunt they said."
A publicity shot for 1980s TV series "Hardcastle and McCormick". THe two lead characters are pictured against a backdrop showing the Coyote, a racing prototype which one of the lead characters drove (and which frequently featured as a plot device)
A publicity shot from the TV series "Hardcastle & McCormick" showing the two lead characters and a background shot of the Coyote, a racing prototype which one of the characters drove.
Screen shot from a historical drama of a judge in an English court wearing a black cap, traditionally worn only when passing a death sentence.
A jet black vibraphone with black keys and black resonators - basically looks like a big orchestral xylophone on a wheeled stand but with a pedal hanging down in the middle.
Screen grab of two posts; the first from a procurement professional, responding to image of an email from workday which starts “Still reading your contracts? AI is the…” - she simply responds “Stares in procurement” The second post, reacting to the first, reads “I, for one, am looking forward to AI’s help in the continuing redeployment of legal fees from my colleagues in non-contentious law to those of us who deal with dispute resolution…”
An extremely rusty two-tone Willys jeep with red radiator grille and lower works and bright yellow bonnet and window surrounds. The fixed roof appears to be canvas, and while there is long grass growing up around the wheels the tyres look fresh with plenty of grip. However the whole car looks slightly twisted, as though something vital has rusted through somewhere.
An extremely robust looking vibraphone with black powder coated heavy duty frame, crackle black resonators and satin black keys.
Screengrab of a tweet from Thameslink rail services atarting with a big green tick and reading "#Streatham - services are no longer affected by this problem".
A delivery company tracking graphic, with text "Your parcel journey started at 10:21" at the top of the page, then a stylised illustration of a delivery truck making its way along a "route" (although it's actually shown facing as if it were heading back to the depot) and the legend "Your driver is on the way to stop number 67". At the bottom of the page is large red text reading "You are stop number 127"
A mostly blank screenshot; White text on a grey background at the top reads "Your parcel journey started at 10:21 Keep track of your pracel below", with what might be a stylised route shwon in white against the palest of grey background, then in red at the bottom of the screen "you are stop number 127". There is no indication of when they might reach Stop Number 127.
3 yellow DB7s - from left to right, Driving Dynamics Volante (works demonstrator), "standard" i6 coupe, Volante Works Development car.
Cropped image of the stage at Wavendon showing just the upper part of the backdrop with the words "BLMK Battle of the Bands 2026 WINNERS" projected onto it.
A rock band on stage, all in black suits apart from the singer wearing a gold evening dress. The band name, Edith Dog, is projected on the backdrop.
A typically Icelandic vista; jagged black lava hills outlined against a pale blue sky in the background and jagged black lava bedrock poking up through golden sand and marsh grass in the foreground. Across the midground of the photo, a lone sheep grazes to the right, while on the left of the frame a simple black chapel with white framed windows stands out against the grey backdrop of the distant lava hills.
Two books, "Bluff your way in accountancy" and "Bluff your way in tax". Just what you want to see on the desk of someone whose job title is "Head of Tax and Business Law" at a global accountancy body. (I do also have a copy of "Bluff your way in law" but couldn't find it for this post. Organisational skills are also important for senior policy advisers)
"Creative Accounting: How to make your profits what you want them to be" by Ian Griffiths; the cover image is a typewritten sum, 2+2=5 Per back cover & frontispiece, ISBN 0-04-657003-9, although google suggests "Big Bath Accounting", a Swedish academic paper. for that reference. Which is either an astounding piece of performance art or Someone On The Internet Is Wrong.
The Merriam Webster Online Thesaurus entry for "disdain" (noun, as in contempt). The final synonym in the last column is "cattiness".
A pen barrel on a white table top with a plastic tyre valve dust cap next to it.
Screen grab of a cropped section of Google's search results, showing that it relied on nine sources. Poster has scrolled through the list of sources and the fourth, under the heading "A Brief History of Accounting: Where did it start?" reads: "Regular paragraph copy lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, constetur..."
Screen grab of a cropped section of Google's search results, showing that it relied on nine sources. Poster has scrolled through the list of sources and the fourth, under the heading "A Brief History of Accounting: Where did it start?" reads: "Regular paragraph copy lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, constetur..."
Mirror selfie, with an extremely interested Abyssinian cat centre screen, perched on the photographer's shoulder and apparently glaring at the phone screen.
A head on shot of three yellow Aston Martin DB7s lined up alongside each other.
A 1920s limed oak dressing table with three adjustable mirrors. Eight draws, four in each side, and cupboard space in the middle. It's around five feet wide and the taller middle mirror reaches about six feet from the floor.
A slightly out of focus photo of lots of Aston Martin Valkyries in the grounds of the Royal Chelsea hospital in 2024
A slide from PwC showing a map with the EU in red and the UK in yellow, accompanied by the text "The EU Referendum: What's next for FS?"
Three Abyssinian cats (a cream silver, usual silver and sorrel silver, or to put it another way, blonde, rabbit coloured and solid ginger) lined up and looking disapproving on a kitchen island unit.
A floor level shot of the front of an Aston Martin racing car. Damage to the carbon fibre bodywirk under the radiator opening is clearly visible.
A mildly tweaked image of red Aston Martin DB4 sliding sideways, all four wheels locked and smoke pouring out of the wheelarches, with the caption "And he who shall be last shall be sideways and smiling" overlayed across it.
A red Aston Martin DB4 in Monument Valley, Arizona
Screen cap of part of the wikipedia page for "Green Monster" land speed record cars detailing how Art Arfons 'rescued' a jet engine which the air force had written off. "He tested it by tying it to trees in his garden, a procedure which drew complaints from his neighbours".