Simon Watkins

@simonywaking.bsky.social

693 Followers 1605 Following

Interested in finance, economics, politics, philosophy, literature and childish humour.

Bob Dylan sitting on motorcycle.
Text from FT, quoting someone called Beckelman immediately next to an ad featuring David Beckham.
Cover of M John Harrison’s The End of Everything.
Photo of man wearing sock suspenders.
Computer screen from Alien (1979). Shows date as June 3.
Galileo thermometer - glass tube filled with liquid and floating glass baubles. Baubles rise and fall according to temperature.
Menu. Item 11 reads: Box of meat.
Black cat. Curled up on sofa, but looking cross and contemptuous.
Warning on streaming video: flashing lights, nudity, violence, alcohol use, smoking, foul language, sexual content.
Question to Google: Can you eat Capybara? Google suggest a range of more detailed questions including: can you eat Capybara during lent? And Can you eat capybara in Islam?
The same picture as the post beibg reposted.
A dead mayfly floating in a swimming pool.
A image showing a selection of Le Creuset cookware.
List of my top listened to albums according to Spotify. Captain Lockheed, Flat Baroque and Berserk, Hunky Dory, Bullinamingvase and Diary of a Madman.
Spotify assessment that I am 73 years old.
Bottle of Armagnac - 25% already used.
Pic of David the development executive from BBC comedy W1A.
Scene from BBC series Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
Denis Hopper character in Apocalypse Now.
Image of Charlie the cat from ‘Charlie says’ UK public service cartoons.Charlie is grinning and looks rather like the mosaic wolf (well I think so).
Subway sandwich shop T-shirt.
Che Guevara T-shirt.
Copy of Rapa Nui statue. It has broken in half and the head lies on its side in the dirt.
Telegraph pole, painted with bizarre fantastic images.
Times headline:Jane Austen would be cancelled over her letters… Note, and as story says, almost no letters by Jane Austen have survived.
Statue of Thomas Aquinas in a recessed wall space.
Photo of Peter Sellars as Inspector Clouseau.
Picture of a screen, showing a picture of a pick.
A black cat asleep under a multicoloured blanket. Only his head is visible.
Medieval recipe for Swan
Scene from Deer Hunter. Christopher Walken playing Russian Roulette.
Basil Fawlty giving recalcitrant car a dressing down.
New air fryer in its first ever use.
Black cat. Looking moody and Panther-like.
Cagney struggling with execution guards - shown only by shadows on the wall.
James Cagney in Angels with Dirty Faces - walking to the electric chair.
Clint Eastwood from Fistful of Dollars film poster. Cheroot in corner of mouth. Gun raised.
Luminous orange monster outlined in ray-gun fire. A ‘monster from the Id’ from the film Forbidden Planet.
Cover of Ken Hom’s Illustrated Chinese Cookery.
Cover of Marvel comic Ka-zar, showing implausible scene of Tarzan lookalike and his sabre-toothed tiger sidekick fighting alien creatures riding on flying sharks.
Hideous hi-fi system in a faux-wooden cabinet. (Probably an Amstrad).
Barbecue, small table, and bags of charcoal on a lawn. Barbecue is unlit but clearly ready for action.
Scene from I Claudius. Emperor Tiberius and Aelius Sejanus glaring at each other.
Black cat lying defiantly across papers and a notepad on desk.