Tom Pickard

@oddtwang.bsky.social

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PhD in NLP @ Sheffield | Tell me your favourite idioms! | Occasional crossword puzzles.

A screenshot of an advert for The Sheep Detectives, featuring a sheep's face and the words "From a director of Minions"
Seth Milchick from the TV show Severance. The image is captioned "devour feculence".
A square of the colour #DECAFF (in hexadecimal colour notation). It's a pale lilac / purple.
A gif of the Cat from Red Dwarf singing "I'm gonna eat you, little fishies" as he tries to catch goldfish with a tea strainer.
A Guardian headline: "Mistakenly released prisoner turns himself in". Below is a panel titled "An incredible self-own".
The rear panel of a red van. The first letter of the Peugeot logo is missing, so it reads "EUGEOT".
A Funko pop in its box on a shelf. It is labelled "Ron Weasley". The dangling parts of his hat look like he has long hair in bunches.
Two self-checkout machines in a Sainsbury's Local. Each has a piece of A4 paper taped to it which look like they were printed on an office printer. The first says "Cash and card payments", the second "Card and cash payments".
A photo of a mostly empty reduced to clear fridge in Tesco. A yellow bottle labelled "This Is Food" is producing an ominous aura.
A photo of four posters on a green wall, taken in Basel, Switzerland. The first has the URL industrienacht.com, and the other three are black-and-white photos of 3 feminine people with the text "Ramstein Optik" printed on them.
The robot news presenters from the Galactic News Network, as featured in the videogame Master of Orion
A photo taken in Wanstead Park. A pigeon is perched on a "Feeding the birds" sign, and appears to be reading it.
A jigsaw puzzle cover. Mike Jupp's "I Love Car Boot Sales", a busy cartoon filled with shit jokes, racist and sexist stereotypes and caricatures, etc.
A jigsaw puzzle by "Mind Fulness". A photo of an alpine lake with reflected trees, overlaid with a "zen proverb" in a faux-calligraphy font; "Obstacles do not block the path. They are the path."
A murder mystery jigsaw puzzle titled "Murder in the Year 2000". The cover is a bad photo collage in which a man seems to be fleeing from a door.
A jigsaw puzzle cover. An old painting of three people at a table. They look unimpressed to be there. A woman on the left has a large, incredibly square hairdo.
A jigsaw cover. A painting in which a traction engine is crashing into a haybarn causing chaos.
A tourist guidebook titled "Around Iceland"
A section of a carved wooden panel from the National Museum of Iceland. A long-haired Jesus type appears to be berating a short, bald Shrek-looking person with prominent ears.
The Doctor whispering into Rose Tyler's ear. Text in a green font similar to the Wicked poster reads "Defy Mavity"