Karl Sherratt

@kincaid.org.uk

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Nerd. Brewer. Fiddler of tech 🦕 Trans rights 🦖 He/him

Map showing Hill Street in Birmingham
A screenshot of the blitzortung.org site, showing lots of lightning over the M1 in the UK around Watford Gap
Sergeant from It Ain't Alf Ot Mum saying Oh dear, how sad, never mind
Photo of the Artemis heat shield taken from under water after landing. It is a circular tiled structure, tinted blue
A photo of a rainy car dealership's lot. There are about 50 sleek Geely Evs of unknown model in tge middle, circled
Hardcover book called Ab Antiquo. It has a painting of a dinosaur on the cover, in broen tones. The dinosaur is looking right, and has a horny shield on its snout
A red paint holder. It has nine holes for little paint tins, one of which is installed. It has vertical wings on the left, right and back to stack on top of each other
An apple with a vertical groove that makes it look like buttocks. It is light green wirh a blush of red around the top of the buttoc...I mean near the stalk Behind is my jean clad leg. That is not at all sexeh
It's a black square. As it's pissing down and still dark at 9.30
Photo of the sunrise over the river Trent. Across the river on the far bank is a line of trees. Behind it the sky is layers if oink and orange. Everything is tinged pink. The sky is reflected in the water
Black and white photo of an old bellows camera, a bottle of whiskey ( good bushmills), on the table in front is a photo of a woman (Mae West) and a magnifying glass. In front smoke rises from an ash tray It's all very film noir detective
Glass of red wine - Kinzmarauli from Romania
Nearly empty wine glass
A white man is a blue shirt drinking from a white mug. The mug is bigger than his head
A rectangular shrinkwrapped parcel of peeled garlic clives. 1kg. Plastic has red text and a stylised drawing of a garlic bulb
Person in yellow hazmat suit dancing in the street. There are ither people behind, and trees in the background
Photo of a railway brudge over a road. Painted on the bridge are the words FONE. MEDS Someone local obviously always forgets... A blue and yellow metro train is crossing the bridge
Thought I had alt txted this... Water main has blown out at a road junction. There is a fountain about 5m high. It is fenced off by red barriers.A few hi-vis warriers are scratching their heads. A large white building is in the background
Ginger kitton staning on its hind legs, looking at the camera, caption is "guys christmas is in 4 days"
Photo of a snowy woodland in the format of a captcha with the caption 'select all squares with a Finnish sniper", the joke being all of them have an invisible sniper
Rack of 24 depth charges on the deck if a ship. A few officers to the left are 'helping' the two crewman on the right setting it up. B&W photo. Assume WW2
A white centre line of a road is interrupted by a large irregular hole, the tarmac having fallen into a sinkhole, and the surrounding tarmac unsupported by subsoil. Behind the hole is a standard traffic cone
Black and white photo of a Bofors 40mm anti aircraft cannon. Which is technically a machine gun. Picure shows a large gun pointed up and right, on a 4 wheeled carriage, with loads of complex loading and aiming gubbins at the back end
Small white fluffy toy dog sitting on some lineside equipment, look up at the train I'm on. It's a bit damp The boxes are rusty grey brown metal with power sockets on them
Photo of my feshly inked arm, showing a standing cat in outline, in blue ink, legs on far side are shaded grey-blue, facing left and smiling. Words around it say "I am going to be so annoying, on purpose"
Can of beer from Gravity Well brewery held in my sticky mitt. It is black, with a sperical space craft on it, lit orange and blue-white, surrounded by alien 'brambles'
Wire frame Cobra mk3 spaceship from the One True Èlite on the BBC Micro. At the bottom are various status bars in yrlloe green and red and a central radar scanner that still is the best ever. Could get a target in the crosshairs just from the scanner...
Screenshot of Garius and Ed Morrish making the same "there's a saying in the United Kingdom" joke atbthe same time with Blobby Blobby blobby!
A GMC DUKW amphbious vehical. Muddy green ( i like mud m'kaay?) Boat like thing with wheels underneath. Has a faded canvas roof at the back
Small grey-brown sparrow sat on my open hand, in front of a hedge
Two double A batteries side by side, but opposed polarities, like you'd use in devices needing 3V
Heavily rutted track leading away between bare trees, all frozen over, under a clear blue sky
Left view of a green and olive harrier
Photo of a playground at night. There is a climbing frame with a slide to the left, surrounded by a circular metal fence, about a metre high. The fenced area is brightly lit by two lamps, left and right. Between the camera and the fence is a large flat expqnse of snowy grass. A lonely wooden bench is to the right. A leafy branch hangs down in the top centre There are no creepy clowns. But there should be
Close up overhead view of a BSG Viper cockpit. Paint is battered
View over a town, covered in snow, just before dawn. Light is very blue, with scattered yellow windows contrasting. There are cars and trees in the foreground, with hills in the distance
Remains of a glass of rather fine primitivo wine - deep red in a large glass
Deep gorge, with steep cliffs on both sides of a narrow path. Scrubby trees line the top. The rocks are grey and brown
Deacriprions of two smoked beers. I had the 2nd, the Sto Lat Franconia 5.2% Psychocandy With great citru tropical flavour pepper on the A little slice of Bamberg, brewed in Derbyshire. Our award-winning take on the classic German smoked beer. Ve 2.8% Sto Lat Sto Lat. This is a Grodziskie - one of our smoked beers, it's a low-strength Polish style made with 100% oak-smoked wheat and Lublin hops
Image from old game Oregon Trail, a low rez green ox drawn old west waggon, with the words "you have died from engagement" on it
Glass of white wine with a large pile of shopping in the seat opposite
Image shows simplified launch profile, lift off on left, ascent curving to right The events listed below are indicated with pictures of each Event Time (h:mm:ss) Liftoff 0:00:00 Booster Separation 0:03:08 1st Stage Separation 0:04:08 Fairing Jettison 0:04:38 Parking Orbit Insertion 0:07:56 Earth Departure Burn Start 0:47:35 Earth Departure Burn Cutoff 0:50:42 Europa Clipper Separation 1:01:13
Flame like aurora, hint of green on the horizon
Red and green aurora, faint, above some trees
Circular plot showing the UK grid generation at 2pm on Saturday 5th October, showing about 70% renewables, most of the rest nuclear and imports, and 3.5% gas
Screenshot of blitzortung lightning tracker showing east midlands getting hammered
A poster advertising a gym. Image is a woman looking excited staring directly out of image, head and shoulders. And someone has added plate-sized googly eyes over hers. Which make it totally creepy
P51 mustang, in silver and red, front right view
4 bottles of maple syrup sat on a stainless steel fermenter
Tattoo, of the logo of the Perserverance rover, a stylised rover outline, in a red circle. Around it are the words "Dare Mighty Things" the motto of Jet Propulsion Lab who built it
Ratcliff on Soar power station, taken at night from ~500m away showing the cooling towers lit by moonlight. long exposure so the steam plumes are solid and huge. Bright lights of East Midlands Parkeay station are in between the viewer and the towera
Roe deer in the gardens, grass, it is looking into bushes. Other pix are the same
Door with beer clips showing what's on at this beer fest
Roger mellie, the man on the telly, practising saying Hunt before interviewing Jeremy Rhyming slang. When he meets Jeremy he welcomes him as Hunt, then aks "why are you such a cunt"?
A very fluffy brown cat snoozing on a wall
Judge from futurama reading from a paper saying "you are tecnically correct. The best kind of correct". He has white hair and glasses
Martin Sheen as Pres. Bartlett at the end of West Wing's Two Cathedral, soaked, staring down the press
Big military hovercraft, brown, hooning it across the sea
Left side of gun, brown wooden grips, blued metal areas with some brass fittings, and silvered worn areas. Muzzle is silvered Gun is based on a Bergman 1896, long barrel, steeply raked grip, and a semicircular body under the slide with a round hole for the trigger
Part finished mandalorian blaster. Blue silver black finish except the grips, yet to be painted brown for wood. It is a long, old style handgun