Xander Flatt

@xanderflatt.bsky.social

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Working in local government policy, data (analysis and visualisation), and making information accessible. Interested in film, music, art, culture, politics, sport, news and the weather. East Lothian/Edinburgh Nae Paseran He/him

A black iron gate across a path that leads into a garden. The sign on it reads "Welcome to the Garden. Please respect the rules"
A stage with four empty seats behind two desks. The background is a poster for the podcast "You're Dead to Me" in the style of the Bayeux EMBROIDERY.
An image of a man. It is framed from the shoulders up. He is wearing a black polo shirt, has stubble and has male pattern baldness. The image is famous for accompanying a story on The Onion with the headline "Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Good Point"
Legendary Radio One DJ John Peel sits behind a mixing desk.
A man in a suit and tie sits in the driver's seat of a moving car. He is holding a Dictaphone up to his mouth and saying "Diane, 11.30am. February 24th. Entering the town of Twin Peaks"
The home screen is Disney plus. It shows a link to "The Emperor's New Groove", but the accompanying image is from Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith"
A close up picture of the top of a pair of trousers. The buttons, belt loop and pocket form a face that looks like it's seen some things. Things you people wouldn't believe. Like, attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. C-beams glistening at the Tannhauser Gate....
Screenshot of the BBC news website. The headline reads "partial victory for nurse in NHS trans changing room row" The nurse in question overwhelmingly lost the case she brought but one small point was upheld.
A panel from the graphic novel "Watchmen". It shows the ghostly apparition of a human circulatory system appearing in a kitchen as several horrified people look on.
A magazine advert for a knitting machine designed to work with the Nintendo NES.
A mugshot of a man who participated in a riot targeting minorities who was hit in the groin with a brick. It was thoroughly deserved
A picture of a roast potato. The caption underneath says "Let the potato rest for five minutes".
A man, David Tennant, is dressed in a blue parka jacket, a red woollen jumper and a dark blue woollen hat. He is looking at a skull that he is holding up in his right hand.
"We apologise for the Princess Diana page one headline DI GOES SEX MAD, which is still on the stands at some locations. It is currently being replaced with a special 72-page tribute issue: A FAREWELL TO THE PRINCESS WE ALL LOVED." Statement published by the National Enquirer, August 31, 1997
A graph showing the correlation between the percentage of British people surveyed who viewed immigration as an important issue, and the percentage of daily mail articles mentioning immigration
Two old men with long grey hair and beards wearing robes stand in front of a large green metal box. The box is Deep Thought. A supercomputer from Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Deep thought was programmed to give the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything. After thinking for 7.5 million years, it gave the answer "42". And then was tasked with designing an even more super computer that took 10 million years to figure out what the question actually was.
Legendary radio DJ John Peel. A black and white photo a bearded man with large headphones and a wooly jumper sits behind a mixing desk during a radio broadcast
Jesus of Nazareth playing a fender telecaster. This is not historically accurate as the guitar player for Nazareth was actually Manny Charlton, who played a Les Paul
A list of teams that have won the English premier League since 1992. Man united 13, Man City 8, Chelsea 5, Arsenal 3, Liverpool 2, Blackburn 1, Leicester 1
William Shatner: "I had thought that going into space would be the ultimate catharsis of that connection I had been looking for between all living things-that being up there would be the next beautiful step to understanding the harmony of the universe. In the film "Contact," when Jodie Foster's character goes to space and looks out into the heavens, she lets out an astonished whisper, "They should've sent a poet." I had a different experience, because I discovered that the beauty isn't out there, it's down here, with all of us. Leaving that behind made my connection to our tiny planet even more profound. It was among the strongest feelings of grief I have ever encountered. The contrast between the vicious coldness of space and the warm nurturing of Earth below filled me with overwhelming sadness. Every day, we are confronted with the knowledge of further destruction of Earth at our hands: the extinction of animal species, of flora and fauna... things that took five billion years to evolve, and suddenly we will never see them again because of the interference of mankind. It filled me with dread. My trip to space was supposed to be a celebration; instead, it felt like a funeral."
A sign above a cinema advertising "Gladiator 2, Paddington 3"
A man in a black woollen beanie hat and yellow jacket stands in front of a green hillside. The man in Paul Whiteouse's character from the Fast Show, famous for enthusiastically calling everything "brilliant"
The stage at CPAC 2021. The layout is a recreation of a nazi symbol.
A still from the film "All the President's Men" A man seated at a typewriter showing pages to a second man sitting on the edge of the desk. The two men are Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, journalists for the Washington Post investigating the Watergate affair back when the newspaper cared about exposing corrupt Presidents and holding them to account.
A newsreader in a dark grey suit yells "I hate Sebastian Coe"
An image of a man in a black shirt with dark hair and a cross drawn on his forehead. The chyron reads "Mark Wahlberg's 40 day challenge" The man is Mark Wahlberg who in 1986, at the age of 15 threw rocks at black children and called them the n-word and threatened to kill them. Then he did it again the next day. Then in 1988 he was convicted of the racially-motivated assault of a Vietnamese-American man. Then in 1992 he was charged with the unprovoked assault of a neighbour after stamping on his head while someone held him down.
An, excuse me, damn fine cup of coffee
A map of the Gulf of Mexico renamed the gulf of Ulfulfalulf
A screenshot of the guardian website. The text refers to Israelis held by Palestine as "hostages" but Palestinians held by Israel are "prisoners" and "detainees"
Poster for "Alien" depicting a rib cage and nervous system with eyes
Film poster for "Apocalypse Now" with an oil painting of Marlon Brando. There are many scuffs and brush marks across his face
A black and white image of Robert De Niro with spikes instead of a face
A poster for "Raiders of the Lost Ark" by Jakub Erol. It shows a skull with elongated teeth with a bullwhip coiled through it like a snake
A polish poster advertising the film "Cabaret" it depicts a swastika made of showgirls' legs with Liza Minelli's face in the middle
A grey coffee cup and saucer sitting on a table. It is, excuse me, a damn fine cup of coffee.
A page from the appendices of The Lord of the Rings showing that the fellowship departed Imladris on Christmas Day. At dusk, which probably means they hung around for dinner but then left before helping with the washing up. It was probably Boromir's suggestion, but there's no way Merry or Pippin had a problem with it.
A page from the appendices of The Lord of the Rings showing that the fellowship departed from Rivendell on December 25th
A Canon XL-1 dv camera
A diagram of a WW2 aeroplane. Red dots cover every part of it except the engines, cockpit and narrow parts of the body
Poster for Netflix' "Mary". It shows some actors' faces but not the right wing mega-church funding or the cultural insensitivities.
Elon Musk's net worth is $351.2billion
A screenshot of a google calendar. It shows February 2027, the first falls on a Monday, the 28th on a Sunday
A screenshot of a bluesky account claiming to be Elon Musk. The chances of this being true are similar to the chances of Elon Musk being a decent human being... In all likelihood, zero.
A still from I Love Lucy with two extras in the background out of focus.
The Marley brothers from the Muppet Christmas Carol visiting Scrooge
An image of a tweet by elon musk suggesting that America will go bankrupt because it spends more per year than it brings in through taxation.
A still from "Back to the Future" where Marty McFly says "I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet, but your kids are gonna love it."
Image features a tweet quoting empire magazine. It says that series two of Andor will feature Orson Krennic trying to raise funds because the building of the death star is behind schedule and over budget
A satellite photo of a car park/parking lot. The location is tagged "paradise".
A television screen with the words "Gerry Adams has always denied being a member of the IRA or participating in any IRA-related violence". The font and the colouring closely resemble the introduction to the Star Wars films
A map of Scotland showing the live location of trucks laying grit on public roads. They all have pun-based names like Spready Mercury and Taylor Drift
The top picture is of a trimming from a fir tree branch. The bottom picture shows the parts of the branch separated and arranged like a bar chart
A recent photo of Axl Rose, formerly of Guns 'n' Roses. He is wearing a black leather cowboy hat, large sunglasses, gold chains and a leather jacket