MꙬse Allain

MꙬse Allain

@mooseallain.bsky.social

Historically inaccurate He/him https://www.mooseallain.co.uk

40.3K followers848 following7.2K posts

MꙬse Allain reposted

Once more we enter the season of bandwagon-jumping ads. 'You'll be TERRIFIED by how cheap these socks are!' 'These deals will to make you rouse the dead from their graves and tell them to buy a sofa!' 'Order pizza or we'll fucking kill you with an axe!'

Took in a parcel for a neighbour recently. I dropped it round later and after I’d handed it over I got my phone out and said “I just need a picture…” Oh how 50% of us laughed!

Things I saw from the train: A field folded in two Water organised in lines Two farmers kissing A kissing gate The wind fighting everything Broken fields stitched together with power lines Crows tumbling through gaps in the air An archdeacon dithering A sad ghost (reflection?)

View full thread

A child waving at us from a gate. I wave back but I’m already a mile or two away, regret has settled on me and it’s too late but the gesture will do. A field lying fallow, a man standing fallow with his dog sitting fallow beside him. A billipede, longer than the train.

Someone walking their dog by the side of a ploughed field. We are not to know that we once stayed in adjacent rooms in a hotel far away, June 2003. Life is full of these unseen, unknowable, meaningless coincidences A lark rises, but it has forgotten what to sing

Things I saw from the train: A field folded in two Water organised in lines Two farmers kissing A kissing gate The wind fighting everything Broken fields stitched together with power lines Crows tumbling through gaps in the air An archdeacon dithering A sad ghost (reflection?)

View full thread

A tractor weaving tartan An abandoned handshake Loops of Union Jack bunting largely faded to surrender white Red kites wheeling above a merry-go-round Rain only falling under the trees half an hour after the shower Squirrels trying to be as much fun as monkeys

Mist rising to meet fog falling Three lovers meeting at an awkward angle Two lovers meeting but they are the wrong lovers in the wrong place. Yet they love on One lover meeting One person speaking their hurt by a weir, where they know the other can’t hear

Things I saw from the train: A field folded in two Water organised in lines Two farmers kissing A kissing gate The wind fighting everything Broken fields stitched together with power lines Crows tumbling through gaps in the air An archdeacon dithering A sad ghost (reflection?)

Dog on a see-saw, running from end to end A child’s tricycle stuck in a tree Two hares boxing and unboxing A gate in the middle of a field A level crossing and a devil crossing A fox with a long way to go A race against time and a race against place Bright jacketed men pouring a new road

MꙬse Allain reposted

Replying to @mooseallain.bsky.social

Oh no. I once had to sneeze whilst eating a quite stale cheese scone. It was like a cloud of dust, and I genuinely considered leaving at the next station out of the sheer awkwardness.

MꙬse Allain reposted

Replying to @mooseallain.bsky.social

Express Dublin-Cork train, c.2003. PACKED. Hot. I had a pastry covered in icing sugar, and as I lifted it for the first bite, my body decided I needed a sneeze, and tried to inhale in preparation. I inhaled the sugar, which turned the sneeze nuclear (and included a fart), spraying everyone.

MꙬse Allain reposted

Replying to @robmanuel.b3ta.com

If you enjoyed this, I put the same humour and retro computing obsessions into my new book "81 Jokes For The ZX81". Do pre-order it, out early December in time for Christmas. An ideal gift for you or your ZX81 loving partner. I've put so much love into this. Order now: spelk.press/gb/products/...

MꙬse Allain reposted

Gasped when Jesus said “The person I think is the traitor… It’s yourself, Judas. I’m sorry, I just thought the way you kissed me was very suspicious.”

MꙬse Allain@mooseallain.bsky.social

Bloody hell, someone's just posted that he rises again on the third day! SPOILERS, PEOPLE. For those of us like me who haven't read it, some consideration please!

Bloody hell, someone's just posted that he rises again on the third day! SPOILERS, PEOPLE. For those of us like me who haven't read it, some consideration please!