Andy O'Brien

@spadge.bsky.social

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Originally from Scotland. I'm a guest in Aotearoa, who works in public service. I try to do IT Security stuff. He/Him.🏳️‍⚧️Ally.

Cartoon by Gary Larson. Titled 'How nature says, "Do not touch." Drawings of a Rattlesnake, Puffer fish, angry cat, and a man with a boot on his head, wearng a heavy raincoat and a flotation device, carrying a bazooka.
Hi-score board for the game. "BUM" is 4th with 15000 votes.
Photo of the music group: Paul McCartney & Wings
Close up of a washing machine dial. "Whitest Whites" is lit with a green LED.
Bluesky timeline - a quote from the film 'Jaws' - "You guys okay over there?", above, a photo of some dumbass circus, by the White House, with lots of military personnel hanging around, and very few attendees. Topping this off, a beautifully drawn bird with the text "This is litterally the dumbest shit I have ever seen". (from @effinbirds)
Scene from Star Trek The Next Generation, where the Enterprise is flying alongside a comet. The title is "Earth is that-away", implying that the Enterprise is guiding the comet to the planet.
Scene from Star Trek (Original series) but the title was changed to "Yeah. 2026 was a shit year."
Screenshot of ShakeNet application, showing a seismic event.
Late 60s/Early 70s cartoon 'Wacky Races' with the villain 'Dick Dastardly' and his sidekick 'Mutley' in their rocket powered car '00'.
Toshirō Mifune striding through a smoke filled village in Akira Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai"
Ladybird book. "Everything I don't like is woke". "A book for basic dickheads". Picture of a boy pointing at a motorcar engine. "This engine is woke"
Two photos of the same cute little grey kitten. Left photo shows the kitten looking to the side with a concerned expression. Text says "Oh No". Right photo shows same kitten looking back at the camera with a vacant expression. Text says "Anyway".
Photo of a ridiculously large coffee mug. Had this for nearly 30 years.
Screenshot of home seismograph in Ōtaki. All nice & quiet, then big jolt.
Picture of a blue furry mouse playing bagpipes, but has stopped and is staring with a rather concerned expression. Text says "happy music stops"
Poster of the new 'Dune' movie (I guess?). But headline is "Spicy Take", and subheader is "We don't even know what this is"
Screencap 'cos otherwise too many words for Bsky. "I’m thrilled to share a major milestone from earlier today. I took some time to focus on a high-impact internal release, and I have to say, the results were substantial. It was a deeply rewarding process that allowed me to clear out the backlog and optimize my internal systems. Feeling refreshed, streamlined, and ready to tackle the next challenge with a clear mindset! #GrowthMindset #Efficiency #PersonalDevelopment #Optimization"
Picture of Homer Simpson celebrating with a big "Woo Hoo!"
Graphic image, text is "I Miss Ten Seconds ago" followed by "When I didn't know this thing existed".
Portrait of some obscenely rich Australian billionaire, who didn't like it, apparently.
Scene from the Lion King cartoon where Simba is shown to the gathered crowd, however he is yeeted into the distance and the crowd goes wild (Literally!)
A 'smart' highway sign with the text "CAN SOMEONE PLZ BE PROUD OF ME LIKE FUCK IM TRYING"
Screenshot of an updated BNZ banking mobile app. "New security features. When you're in the app, we collect information about behaviour like how you type, scroll and swipe. We also collect details about your device, including the apps you've installed." "Other ways to bank are available if you don't want to share this information."
Photo of Nicola Willis with feet on a desk.
Photo of the "Blood Moon". A bit blurry, but not too shabby.
A scene from 'Independence Day' - multiple hands are tapping vigorously on Morse Code switches.
Photograph of the western edge of the Tararua range. The peaks are covered in snow.
A close up photograph of a Monarch butterfly on a lawn.
A photgraph of some lenticular cloud formations above Aotearoa.
Image from the film "Tucker & Dale Vs Evil". Definitely not the cast of Friends.
Screenshot of the magnitude 5.4 quake off the south coast of the South Island, as presented by the GeoNet Earthquake map. Surprisingly, the expected "Extreme" report from someone in Auckland was not present.
A green plastic bottle, with a vomity yellow label. "Olde English" Cider. Yes. It was that bad.
A box for a Binatone TV Master Mk 6, a really early 'video game' console, consisting of four games - Tennis, Football (Tennis with four players), Squash (solo) and Squash (two players), players used a 'paddle' to move their rectangle up and down the screen. There were some adjustable options (speed/deflection angle, auto-serve, bat size) to make the game easier or more challenging.
Image of the 'G-Man' from Half-Life 2. A dead-eyed, dead-skinned pasty bureaucrat with menacing vibes. Very much like most GOP members.
Scene from Blackadder the Third - King George and two 'Actors' all stand with legs akimbo - apparently a 'powerful posture' or something. Blackadder commented "Here are my goolies, please kick them." (Or very similar)
Screengrab of a tweet about Trump's stupid AI picture of what he thought was Canada, but was actually the Matterhorn in Switzerland.
A mockup of Kellogg's Corn Flakes, but renamed to "Khaaaan!! Flakes" and a picture of Captain Kirk yelling angrily.
Some dude with a reality TV grifter, and a sex offender all hugging in a river, naked from the waist up.
Screenshot of a RNZ article link. The body is 'Ministry of Defence seeks advice for plant to have drones scour Pacific' with a photo of Minister Judith Collins. The headline above the article is 'Scott Robertson dumped as All Blacks coach'
Ascii representation of a fire, as used in the closing credits of the awesome game 'Portal'.
A drawing depicting the exclamation "Christ on a bike!"
Buncha whiny shite aboot weans in Glesga no spoutin inglis. (Translation: Post by Reform UK - "Nearly 1 in 3 schoolchildren in Glasgow do not speak English as their first language. This is not diversity. This is culture smashing. Reform Ik will make this a big issue in our campaign." Reform UK can go fuck themselves.
Classic FAFO meme. Anime cartoon, two people sprinting along a road. The front runner is labelled "Fucking Around", the pursuer is labelled "Finding Out". A commentator is talking to a cameraman close behind. "As you can see, the gap is narrowing..."
Photograph of the National Library of New Zealand, in Wellington. Brutalist architecture strikingly similar to that of the Boston City Hall.
Ok it's not a native, but I couldn't resist. A one-legged Californian Quail, perched on a gate, with the northern edge of Kāpiti island in the background.
Scene from "Shallow Grave". The three main protagonists (Kerry Fox, Christopher Ecclestone, Ewan MacGregor) stare at the camera in a rather disturbing manner. Go watch it, it's brilliant!
A brief video of the artwork by Pepper Raccoon, projected onto the sound reflector thingy, at Kawaiicon.
Scene from the '60s TV series 'The Prisoner', the lead protagonist is in the fore of the scene, being followed by Rover - a very large white spherical ball.
Cartoon character Homer Simpson, with an image of a performing monkey in his head, clashing a pair of cymbals.
Screenshot of a skeet from AFP News - "BREAKING UK (well that bit is right) Prime Minister Keith Starmer on Friday".....wait what? "Keith" Starmer? LOL.
A ceiling light shade, coloured purple.
Image of Douglas - the Aardman animated mascot made of Lurpak butter.
Janey Godley, in a hospital bed, holding up a t-shirt, and laughing. T-shirt has "TRUMP IS STILL A CUNT" in large lettering.
PIcture of the mouth of Sauron. from the Lord of the Rings film. I can't help but see this everytime I hear about Speaker Johnson. This is literally all he is. All mouth and no heart (or spine, or brain).
Halloween Costume meme - this time it has a t-shirt for 'Conservative Guy Scared of Cities'. Subheadings are: 'Saw that thing on the news', 'Too many of "Those" people there', 'Can't park Ford Super Duty', and 'Not scared ,bro'. Adult Size costume, One size fits most'. Image is of a pasty white dude with a close cropped beard, vacant stare, and a beige t-shirt with some stupid logo on it, oh and what appears to be an american flag on the sleeve. Go figure.
Photograph of the Piwakawaka, also know as the fantail. A native to Aotearoa/New Zealand, it uses it's tail feathers to startle insects into flight, where it will chase and catch them. It is also perpetually very very angry.
A row of deodorant cans, with the name 'Lynx'. Each can is a different 'fragrance'. It definitely lived up to it's street name 'Stynx'.
Two photos of the same small grey kitten. The left photo shows the kitten looking off to the side. Presumably the tweet below on a screen. The text says 'OH NO'. The right photo shows the kitten looking to the camera, no real change in expression. The text says 'ANYWAY'.
Scene from British Comedy series 'Blackadder III' - 'Ink and incapability'. The main protagonist (Blackadder, played by Rowan Atkinson) is pronouncing gibberish words, while the gentleman on the left (Dr Samuel Johnson, played by Robbie Coltraine) is writing those words into his newly created dictionary.