M-Rob

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Editor from Canada, living elsewhere. Has worked in journalism. For personal reasons, staying semi-anonymous on here for now. Likes coffee and enjoys the Beatles. Thinks the Robinson is the best-looking map projection, hands down. (cf. xkcd 977)

Score sheet from the France-England bronze final at the 2026 World Cup, screenshotted from The Guardian. England England football crest — 6 Declan Rice (3) Ezri Konsa (18) Bukayo Saka (37) Bukayo Saka (45 +0:52) Bukayo Saka (87 pen) Jude Bellingham (90 +7:15) France France football crest — 4 Kylian Mbappe (48) Bradley Barcola (54) Kylian Mbappe (66) Ousmane Dembele (90 +5:23)
The painting Napoleon on Board the Bellerophon by William Quiller Orchardson. The emperor, having surrendered at the end of the Hundred Days, looks dejectedly into the distance while a group of British officers watch him
A reversed version of the two-panel meme where a gull has its head folder back and mouth open with the caption “inhales”, followed by a panel where it yells something. In this version, the gull first yells “Guuuuuuuullllllllll” then inhales, mimicking the chorus of Girl by the Beatles
Screen grab from Nolan's Interstellar of Cooper sitting in a spacecraft, talking to his crewmates, looking exhausted as he says "Honestly, it might" in response to Amelia Brand saying that wanting to see he her loved one again doesn't mean she's wrong
A picture of two wet tomatoes, one with a leafy stem, and one without, on a light-coloued wooden table. Arrangement somewhat matches the photo in the post I'm replying to.
Screenshot from the Wikipedia article “FIFA World Cup Trophy” showing the following text: On 20 March 1966, four months before the 1966 FIFA World Cup in England, the trophy was stolen during a public exhibition at Westminster Central Hall. It was found seven days later wrapped in newspaper at the bottom of a suburban garden hedge in Beulah Hill, Upper Norwood, south London, by a black and white collie dog named Pickles.
The Information panel for the painting in my main reply above, written in both Danish and English. Some of the English text is transcribed below. Artist: Laurits Andersen Ring, 1854–1933, Danish Title: At the French Windows, The Artist’s Wife (1897) Medium: Oil on canvas Description: Ring was married in 1896. The following year he painted this declaration of love for his wife, Sigrid Kahler… [description continues; I can try to transcribe the rest on request]
An oil painting hanging in a gallery in a simple dark wooden frame. It depicts a Danish woman in a yellow and cream dress, visibly pregnant, leaning against the doorway of a house in summer looking pensive but happy, with one hand resting on her belly. The yellow in her dress beautifully pairs with orange drapes and carpet inside the doorway and a terracotta flowerpot across from here, from which a short shrub rises, its green leaves in turn matching the grass and trees in the garden outside, which while vivid and lively in colour form a twisted and tangles mass in contrast to the simple lines of the woman and the house.
A screenshot from Oblivion showing another view of the table from the post above. Behind the table stand a couple of unbotherd-looking non-player characters. Next to the table lies the corpse of a man in the armour of the Bravil City Watch.
A cropped screenshot from the video came The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, showing a medieval-looking red dining table strewn with food items, wine bottles, and pewter vessels (one of which, a bowl, contains a possibly human skull resting on a pile of blackberries). In the middle foreground a red apple rests on a piece of green cloth, very loosely resembling the image in the post this is replying to. The game reticle hovers over the apple, taking the shape of a red hand (which in this game signifies an item that would count as theft if taken) and hovering under it is the text “Apple”, under which are symbols indicating it is worth 1 coin and weighs 0.2 (don’t ask what unit of weight).
A list of songs in cursive handwriting in blue ink on yellow paper (title – artist): * Northwest Passage – Stan Rogers * Trustful Hands – The Dø * Hey Bulldog – The Beatles * Unto Us a Child Is Born – Handel * Michael Row the Boat Ashore – some Black folk on the Sea Islands * Restless – Gordon Lightfoot * Reflection of Him – Smith & Dragoman * A Case of You – Joni Mitchell * Cleaning Out My Closet – Eminem * [crossed out] La goualante de pauvre Jean – Edith Piaf * Circumstances – Rush The blue Lamy Safari fountain pen used to write it is lying at the bottom, and lying on the table next to it is the broken end of a pencil.
Photo of a white board with a line drawing in blue marker, showing a vague attempt at drawing OP's photo of an olive and pimento on a plate
A pensive-looking Japanese man sits in a small, tall bath tub filled almost to the brim, in a somewhat shabby-looking bathroom, holding a pale and about to scoop some water.
A still from the film Arrival, showing a misty scene, with a huge, dark, seven-legged figure looming over a tiny-looking woman, who looks up at it in awe. The figure is one of the pair of Heptapods who the characters named Abbott and Costello.
A man with blond hair in a black hoodie stares menacingly at too other men over the burger he's devouring. It's The Master (aka Harold Saxon) in the Doctor Who episode The End of Time
The old "Kilroy was here" doodle, with a little round-headed guy peaking up over the edge of something. The photo in the quoted post has the Earth peaking over the edge of the Moon.
An old photo of Canadian politician Bob Rae giving a thumbs up with a kind of goofy smile
Mission control for the Artemis II mission. A line of serious looking NASA and Canadian Space Agency staff sitting or standing in front of various computer terminals at a desk labelled CAPCOM. At the end of the line, though is a lady eating a delicious sandwich.
Screenshot of the NSA live-stream of the Artemis II mission, showing the view from a camera on the outside of the Orion spacecraft. Against a pitch-black background, on the left we see the bright white form of the spacecraft, and on the right, comparatively almost as large, is the gibbous moon (it looked tiny in comparison a couple of hours ago). In the bottom-right is a bug showing the text “Voice of Victor Glover Artemis II Pilot” next to his portrait. At the top is a snippet of closed captioning saying “… as a pair, we just learn and grow together. And that’s …”
Screenshot of a NASA visualization of the Artemis II mission, showing the Integrity spacecraft’s current location (as of 15 or so minutes before this post). The blue trail of the spacecraft’s projected path is shown looping through empty space along the moon’s path, with the moon itself still off to the right. When watching the visualization live, the moon has visible motion.
A video of a sports bar, with a tense, quiet crowd watching a big screen, until they suddenly explode in exuberant celebration. But the video is edited so that, instead of whatever sport event they were actually watching, they are watching a scene from the Yasujiro Ozu film Tokyo Story, with one woman saying "Life is disappointing, isn't it?", and Noriko responding "Yes, it is."
Still from the film A Bridge Too Far. General Horrocks stands in from of a huge map of the area around Nijmegen, Netherlands, labelled “82 DIV” (for the 82nd Airborne Division). Dialogue from the movie captioned at the bottom: “The plan is called Operation Market Garden. Market is the airborne element, and Garden is the ground forces. (That’s us.)”
A screenshot of my Bluesky feed, showing the above post immediately followed by a post about the company Palantir, with an image showing the company logo
Jean Hackman as Polish General Sosabowski in A Bridge Too Far, shouting about the weather
At the edge of the skating rink for the 2026 Olympic Figure Skating Gala, two men stand waving both hands in the air. On the right is men’s gold medalist Mikhail Shaidorov on the ice dressed as a panda. On the left is JACKIE CHAN waving two panda dolls in the air
That meme of the car taking the highway off ramp at the last moment, leaving smoke and skid marks behind. The text inserted on the sign above shows “Automation” straight ahead and “Theory of Mind” for the exit.
Historical black and white photo from the 1950s or '60s (Source: Railway Museum of Eastern Ontario Facebook page) showing the area along the Rideau Canal in Ottawa highlighted in the post above. On the right, the straight canal stretches to a distant curve, and on the far side is the same linear park that can be seen today. Im the centre of the image are a several parallel railway tracks right up along the canal, looking busy with passenger trains and a few workers. On the left are some work buildings and cars parked on muddy ground, then a line of trees.
A still from The Last Samurai (2003). It is a wide frame with the centre foreground taken up by a man in a late 19th century US army uniform, aiming down the sights of what looks like a classic Colt revolver. Behind him, out of focus, are a few ranks of Imperial Japanese Army soldiers, noticeably lower than the American, who is probably mounted. A green field stretches behind them.
A screenshot of from Genius Lyrics showing words from the Talking Heads song Once in a Lifetime: [Verse 3] Water dissolving, and water removing There is water at the bottom of the ocean Under the water, carry the water Remove the water at the bottom of the ocean Water dissolving, and water removing [Chorus 2] Letting the days go by Let the water hold me down Letting the days go by Water flowing underground Into the blue again Into the silent water Under the rocks and stones There is water underground Letting the days go by Let the water hold me down Letting the days go by Water flowing underground Into the blue again After the money's gone Once in a lifetime Water flowing underground
Italian Olympic gymnast Giorgia Villa does the splits across four massive roundels of Parmesan in a publicity shot for Big Cheese
Frame from the quoted post with the Merriem-Webster logo, the heading "Your 2026 Word" and in bold black text below, the single word "mortifying"
Emmylou Harris — Luxury Liner
A phone photo of tonight's lunar eclipse. The moon looks like a tiny marble since it's a wide lense. It is heading toward totality, so there is still a crescent of full illumination on the southward side, while the rest is faintly red-orange in colour, illuminated by a thousand sun(sets/rises)
The 19th century famous image from Punch Magazine titled The Rhodes Colossus, depicting Cecil Rhodes straddling Africa, holding aloft the Cairo–Cape Town telegraph line
Hayao Miyazaki’s Porco Rosso, a man whose face has been turned in to a pig’s face, saying “Better a pig than a Fascist.”
Still from the Godfather Part II, with Fredo looking defeated in a reclining chair.
Poster for the Kyrgyz film Aurora (2018)
A still from the 1970s Doctor Who episode The Green Death. The Third Doctor, a white-haired man in a tartan overcoat, holds up his hands and is mid-speech.
My ballot for the New York Times best movies of the 21st century readers' poll: NOPE (2022) The Bourne Identity (2002) 24 City (2009) After the Storm (2017) Certified Copy (2011) Moonrise Kingdom (2012) Before Sunset (2004) Aftersun (2022) Extraordinary Stories (2011) El despertar de las hormigas (2019)
Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars Episode II saying "That's... why I'm here."
Screenshot of a Letterboxd list titled "The 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century". Several movies from Lego Bionicle franchise are shown, along with Tokyo drift and Edward Yang's masterpiece Yi Yi.
Photo of the Leaside Towers in Toronto, two enormous 44–story brutalist condo towers that were built in the late '60s
A still from Hirokazu Kore-eda’s film "Like Father, Like Son". Two Japanese men sit at a table at kids' restaurant (their families are off-screen). A blue toy robot sits on the table between them.
The "someone lived this" scene from Blade Runner 2049. A woman dressed in white looks up from a large white microscope-like apparatus with tears streaming. We are looking at her through a pane of glass, in which we see a vague reflection of the man she is looking at.
A still from the Peter Jackson film of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. Grima Wormtounge whispers in the ear of a frail Theoden King.
The full moon shinning brilliantly above some coniferous trees with a few stars around it. Its light is so bright it's causing lense flare in the camera
A beautifully composed shot from Liberty Valance, a black-and-white film set in the Old West. In the centre, a man facing the camera, who is an immigrant but is white, proudly shows a US citizenship certificate to election officials who sit facing away from the camera in the foreground. In the background, looking tiny and pushed off to the left side, can be seen the face of Pompey, a Black man who is prepared to protect an election meeting he cannot participate in.
Various small ivory figures in a typical Inuit style in a museum display case (I forget how old they were).
Establishing shot of Dex's Diner from Star Wars Episode II. Basically a classic American streamline diner dropped into a futuristic city, with various aliens walking by.
A photo of two men in business suits shaking hands in a carpeted room with traditional Japanese screem walls. On the right is Crown Prince Guillaume of Luxembourg in a suit that looks okay (worst thing is that the trousers bunch up around the ankles), but pales in comparison to the fine tailoring (including perfectly hanging trousers) seen on the man on the left, Emperor Naruhito of Japan. This is a screenshot from the Japanese Imperial Household Instagram page, and the handle kunaicho_jp is visible at the top.
Bluesky screenshot showing one of them "I disagree" bots responding to a post complaining about bots with a clearly LLM-generated defence of bots
Scene from A Hard Day's Night
A still from Pulp Fiction: Vince and Jules in the car, talking about the menu options in at McDonald's in France
Screenshot of the "Add muted words and tags" page in the settings of the Bluesky Android app, showing me about to mute the word "echo" for seven days.
A piece of scrap paper with a mosquito drawn on it. It is outlined in squiggly red pen marks, and filled in with pencil.
Transcript of Morse code message sent my RMS Titanic reading: 12:27 a.m. TITANIC CQD I REQUIRE ASSISTANCE IMMEDIATELY. STRUCK BY ICEBERG IN 41.46N 50.14W
German, Jewish actor and filmmaker Kurt Gerron in a 1929 portait by artist Shalom Sebba.