Murphy's Lawyer

@menageri.org.uk

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He/him. Online since before the Eternal September. Remembers when Woke used to be called treating others with respect and decency. You can find me elsewhere at and via https://murphys-lawyer.dreamwidth.org/ Signal: PayneHA.71

Royal Artillery Coastal Defence Battery at Shornemead Fort in Kent, 1940. Servicemen rehearsing for a drag show had to pause and man the guns because of a Luftwaffe raid.
Fan art of Link and Zelda by Malin Falch, a homage to “God Speed” by Edmund Blair Leighton (1881). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leighton-God_Speed!.jpg
Tortoiseshell cat on a red towel.
The Met Office weather app showing hourly forecasts for Monday 13 July 2026 for Birmingham.
A border next to a low stone wall.
A Smeg refrigerator.
A pack of Mr. Brains pork faggots.
A screenshot gacked from pran_man on X. Text: with other parties confirming they’re not fielding candidates in the by-election, Clayton now has the chance to do the funniest thing ever. Picture: Count Binface in the style of the Barack Obama ‘Hope’ poster.
Really, really old software manuals. Psion Series 3. Demon Internet. HTML and CSS. And an iPod guide which I keep because I still have an iPod of that vintage.
Pinkish flower. Possibly a Mallow.
The two-fingered salute given by Brits to someone they disapprove of. No proof that it goes back to the Anglo-French wars where the French threatened to cut off the working fingers of any captured archers, but it’s a nice myth.
Three cybermats from Doctor Who. Large, agressive, metallic woodlice.
“Many have tried it and some are still alive, Having it away in a Sinclair C5…”
Ginger cat sitting on a ledge
Eight tits on the bird feeders. Working brunch?
London skyline around the Buck House area, looking North-ish to the Telecom Tower. Satellite dishes on a building in between, and a lovely mostly blue sky.
Rick Wakeman and his modest keyboard collection for ‘The six wives of Henry VIII’.
Peter Stormare as Lucifer in Constantine (2095)
Pamela says that the recent increase in minimum wage has had an unintended negative consequence for society. “Previously, when we advertised for staff, we would get two or three applicants. Now we get 200. We used to love employing students, the ones who had no choice but to wait tables to support their studies at one of the two universities here in Brighton. Mostly, they were inexperienced and sometimes hungover. Now, at the higher wage point, we can only justify hiring experienced staff.”
A very young Bluetit on a feeding stand.
A ginger cat enjoying a profound and refreshing slumber on a light wood table.
Freddie Mercury, in a tasteful shirt, happily holding two cats. One ginger, one white and dark brown/grey.
A sticker of a cute green frog holding a lit Molotov cocktail. The caption reads “Be the light you want to see in the world”.
A pack of two partially cooked rib racks with the contents next to it. Each rack is slightly over half as long as the box.
Clouds over a roof. Heavy, black and pendulous.
Fuck off, you! - And when you get there, fuck off from there, too. Then fuck off some more. Keep fucking off until you get back here. Then fuck off again.
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A picture of a convicted felon and adjudicated rapist that crossed my timeline today.
Three bathroom doors marked “Ladies”, “Men”, and “Colored”.
A tabby cat in an open, half packed suitcase on a bed.
A shot of a Marvel Snap card depicting Thor in disco gear.
Obelix, Asterix, Dogmatix, and three wild boars!
A Duolingo avatar in a hot dog costume. Someone thinks this meme is still funny.
A parody of an Evangelical meme. A handsome white couple lying tastefully on a bed. Him: I want to draw it. Her: I want to see it. Mastercard and Visa logos: I DON’T! Isn’t there some random payment processor you forgot to ask? Title: the myth of artistic freedom.
Mark Hamill gargles Gershwin gorgeously with Angus McGonnagal the gargling gargoyle. On the Muppet Show, of course.
Screenshot from the Daily Telegraph. “Trans Women are women”, new Health Secretary said. James Murray defended a transgender swimmer competing against female athletes in a 2022 interview.
Captain America “I understood that reference”. Picture courtesy of https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-understood-that-reference
A ginger cat sitting in front of a door on a wooden floor looks askance at a stuffed Bad Batz Maru doll as if to say “And what the everlasting frod do you expect me to do with this?”
A white van parked on double yellow lines leaving no space to walk past it on the pavement, forcing pedestrians to step out onto a busy road.
Sir Kier Starmer seated at a desk making a telephone call.
A first generation Apple iPod Shuffle from 2005, encased in a solid aluminium Griffith case.
A screenshot from Lords of Midnight. A row of horned horsemen are in front of a citadel. There are forests to either side. The screen caption reads: “Luxor the Moonprince he stands on the plains of Iserath, looking East the Citadel of Shimeril”.
A ginger cat sleeping on a beige armchair.
Rod Hull and Emu
A still of Tim Curry as the Grand Wizard in The Worst Witch. The video clip's out there. Knock yourselves out.
A still from the Godzilla Minus Zero teaser. The Big G is looming over the Statue of Liberty, who is hoping that if she stays very, very still he won't notice her.
A tabby cat looks like she’s whispering in a ginger cat’s ear.
A large glass of tomato juice, liberally doused with…
Ranma-chan from Rumiko Takahashi's Ranma 1/2, in a pink, white and blue wedding dress and holding a bouquet, emerging from an egg. Sometimes the symbolism just paints itself.
Fan art by Malin Falch of Link and Zelda from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. They are posed as the Lady and the Knight from “La BelleDame Sans Merci” (translated by Michael Flanders as “The beautiful lady who never says thankyou”.
Screenshot from Radio Garden: Users in the United Kingdom are restricted from tuning in to stations outside of the UK for an indefinite period due to copyright and neighbouring rights related matters that require clarification. Stations situated in the UK continue to be available. For more information please read the statement in the ‘Settings’ section. Completely unrelated: https://protonvpn.com
A drawing by Rumiko Takahashi of Fern brushing Frieren's hair.
Fron Star Wars: Rebels, Season 3, Episode 20: "Twin suns". Obi-Wan cradles a dying Maul who he has just bested in a duel.
Partially redacted text: We apologise that we have had to cancel your pneumococcal vaccination appointment as we’ve reviewed your record and found that you’re not currently eligible. Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.
A photo of a Greggs.
Photo of part of a garden. The two foot strip in front of a low stone wall has been aerated, raked, and sieved. Next step: turning over the soil and sieving it.
A ginger cat, judging you.
A panel from the graphic novel series ‘Preacher’. Jesse Custer, aka Preacher, addresses a White Supremacist thusly: “Why is it the greatest champions of the white race always turn out to be the worst examples of it? YOU!” WS: “Wh- wh- wh-“ JC: “WHERE THE FUCK IS YOUR CHIN?”
A quarter scale figure of Erina Nakiri in a Bunny Girl costume. Yours for a mere £160, today only.
Large, reasonably affordable figures. Time for them to take up space on someone else’s shelf.