Phil Hare's Ghost

@mrlepus.bsky.social

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Idiot. Dog lover owned by a cat. NHS superfan. Harassing Tories. Lego. Religiophobic Humanist. Occasional #Wülferhampton mud slinger.

The poster for "Happy Death Day" (2017)
The front cover of "A CITY ON MARS: CAN WE SETTLE SPACE, SHOULD WE SETTLE SPACE, AND HAVE WE REALLY THOUGHT THIS THEOUGH?" by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith.
A painting of a woman looking skyward as if in despair, holding a floral wreath. The words THIS TOO SHALL PASS, BUT HOLY FUCK are written across the image
Miscellaneous bottles in an understair cupboard, many of which are on their side.
Mog the black cat reclining on the sofa.
BSky profile page for @thegordiancut.bsky.social . If you really want to read it gi there.
A sign which reads "you are now entering ANKH-MORPORK" with a smaller sign which reads "ANKH-MORPORK welcomes careful invaders" beneath it.
A screenshot of Tesco's website showing both 500ml and 1.5 litres of Oasis Summer fruits. The former is priced at £2.15, the latter £2.05.
Mog, a black cat, sat in our garden amongst household detritus including an overturned waste paper bin with a flower motif, a plastic bucket type thing, miscellaneous flora, and a statue, staring directly into the camera and looking grumpy.
A grumpy looking Mog peering out from under a box covered with a towel in the vet's holding cell.
A picture of a deeply annoyed black cat named Mog behind the bars of a cat carrier. She is sticking her nose through the grid of the cage.
A black cat standing with her head pressed against a speaker.
The cast of Space Cowboys (James Garner, Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, and Donald Sutherland) in NASA flight suits posing together.
Screenshot of an email from Google. Text reads: Hi Phil, We are getting in touch to notify you of an upcoming update to our storage policies, along with new controls designed to give you more control over your Android backups. The policy update: Effective in 45 days, all data included in your Android device backups will begin counting towards your Google Account storage limit. Photos and videos in Google Photos and MMS data already count towards your Google Account storage today. With this change, all other backed-up data such as SMS messages, call history, device settings and app settings will also count towards your Google Account storage. The storage used by your device backup may increase once this policy takes effect. If your Google Account exceeds its storage limit, your automatic backups will pause until you free up space or upgrade your plan. New controls for you: With this change, we are also introducing granular app backup toggles in your Android backup settings. If you are on Android 9 or higher, you can now select exactly which data types and individual apps you want to back up, ensuring that you only use storage for what matters most to you. Your current storage status: Your estimated increase in Android device backup will be 0.2 GB after this change. You've used 11.13 GB of your 15 GB storage. If you use more storage, you might run out once your Android device backup is added. How to manage your storage: To make room, you can clean up your Google storage, get more storage or disable Android backup. You can find out how much storage you are using for your device backup in your Google One storage manager. For a complete list of changes, please visit our Help Centre article. If you have any questions or need assistance, our support team is ready to help.
A cardboard box from Republic Of Cats, with a label saying "For Mog" on it (Mog is the cat that owns me).
A screen capture of the line graph of temperatures recorded by the weather station nailed to our shed. It shows a peak temperature of 31.5°C at around 14:00, which has dropped back down to just under 25°C. There are noticeable brief spikes in temperature after the peak, probably caused by breaks in the gathering clouds.
A painting of the Death Of Rats, from Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels. A rat's skeleton wearing a black robe and carrying a scythe. The artist is Paul Kidby, who has inexplicably managed to make said enrobed rodent anthropomorphic personification look cheerful, despite the absense of skin.
The front cover of "A CITY ON MARS: CAN WE SETTLE SPACE, SHOULD WE SETTLE SPACE, AND HAVE WE REALLY THOUGHT THIS THROUGH?" by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith.
The character Gozer from the 1984 film Ghostbusters, with her eyes in a sullen half open manner.
The front cover of "A City On Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, And Have We Really Thought This Through?"
A cheeky monkey in the form of a black cat sprawled on my preferred bit of the settee.
A photo of the new McLaren MCL-HY being driven up the Goodwood hill by Gregoire SAUCY.
General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett, VC, KCB, DSO (As played by Stephen Fry in Blackadder Goes Forth)
The poster for The Passion Of The Christ
A screen capture of the titular aircraft in the film "Firefox". It shows many characteristics of modern and experimental aircraft, including forward canards, air intakes on top of the fuselage, and sharp, angular surfaces, including a flat, beak like nose, instead of a point. It probably wouldn't have flown, let alone avoid radar detection, but it looks really cool.
A black cat on a faux tile lino kitchen floor.
A photo of the Sagadra Familia
A photo of General Melchett from Blackadder, with the quote "If nothing else works, a total pig-headed unwillingness to look facts in the face will see us through."
A close crop of John Everett Millais's 1852 painting "Ophelia", in which the subject, a young Caucasian woman with pale skin and long red hair wearing a simple dress, is laying back into the water of a river or lake, flowers floating around her. Her eyes and mouth are open, yet there is ambiguity as to if she is alive or dead.
The two holes for the tie chord on my trousers. One hole has the chord coming out of it. The other does not.
A photo of a Lego Cat that's had its head replaced with that of a Lego Star-Wars AT-ST.
A photo of a packet of "Chicken Mole" Sauce Kit.
A photo of a display of various lego flowers and greenery, the majority of which are in darker shades, including dark reds, purple, and black. Three lighter coloured daisies, one white and two in different shades of pink, offer some contrast relief.
An inforgraphic ahowing the early and late symptoms of Ebola: Early: Headache, fatigue, sore throat, fever, muscle oain, red or bloodshot eyes, abdominal pain Late: Diarrhea, vomiting, rash, internal/external bleeding, impared kidney and liver function
A photo of the steering wheel on a Spyker C5. It is essentially a solid metal four-bladed propeller, supporting a leather-bound ring around its outside. Even a low speed impact would probably result in hospital involvement.
A black cat named Mog, sleeping with her head upside down on the back of a sofa because apparently that's normal.
An audible app prompt telling me I have 1 credit and another on the way, and then the question "Why not try 'The Lovers'?" Let me be absolutely clear: I am the least likely person in the entire Anglophone world to read a book called "The Lovers". For reasons I won't go into, descriptions of intimacy, romantic involvement, or any form of lovey-dovery invokes a visceral panic response in me. I am pretty sure my aversion to such things will be fairly obvious from my listening history.
A bottle of "Rubicon Twist" flavoured water.
A headline which reads "Mo & A Turned a Mitsubishi Taillight Into a Night Stand", with a picture showing what looks like a portable heater from the 70s with an 80s rear light assembly rammed into the vent.
A man riding a Dodge Viper V10 powered bike, leaning into what appears to be a fairly gentle corner.
A photo of a man riding a motorbike with a Dodge Viper V10 engine. Whilst he is having to lean quite a way forward over the fuel tank, he doesn't appear to be stretching to the point of discomfort.
The Audible page for Green Wing: Resuscitated Series 2.
A black cat lying stretched out on the carpet.
A black cat named Mog draped across my lap.
The poster for "The Exorcist".
Screen capture of a Top Gear headline which reads "This new hypercar has a superbike seating position and... wait, what now?"
A photo of the display for a weather station, which includes the outside temperature showing as being 32.9°C.
A new and sealed copy of 2000AD "The Ultimate Collection" issue 102: Mercy Heights. The cover features what appear to be three humans and four aliens of differing species, all wearing similar uniforms with a logo with a red cross on them.
The cat that owns me spinning about on her back, on the driveway in bright sunshine.
The current leaderboard for the daily challenge of the Sagrada puzzle game. Yours truly is currently ranked number 1, with a score of 69.
Suella Braverman
My cat moge, watching a fluffy mouse toy attached to a bit of string on the end of a stick, which I have sellotaped on to the top of a rotating fan on the floor, with keen interest.
A screenshot of a tweet from X by Tom Gara. It reads: Randomly on this subject, my (Egyptian) wife had never heard of Stonehenge when I mentioned it recently, so I showed her photos of it, assuming she’d recognize the look but not the name etc, and she was just like, this is pathetic, your ancestors were small and weak
A black cat named Mog, sleeping in a divot she has fashioned in the back of our sofa cushion.
The front cover of "Play" by M. Patrick Furry, in the style of an old, worn VHS tape cover, with a picture of a video rental store called "Play It Again Video" in neon lights on the cover.