Ian Pattinson

Ian Pattinson

@spinneyhead.bsky.social

Just trying to think of words. YT- https://www.youtube.com/@SpinneyworldModels Books - https://books2read.com/ap/xrjrPx/Ian-Pattinson & https://books2read.com/ap/xbAkP8/Garth-Owen Blog - http://spinneyhead.co.uk/ Hobby shop - https://spinneyworld.com/

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I love my bike. But do I love it enough to pay enough to buy a pretty good new bike so the bike shop can replace almost every component? (The answer is probably yes, but I'm having a crisis thinking about it.)

I could have got a shiny new gravel bike for the money, but chose to get the old one fixed instead. So many components are being replaced that it'll almost feel like a new bike anyway.

I was learning Unreal Engine, thinking I could use it for backgrounds in comics. Now I think I'll just delete everything Epic, and learn how to render in Blender instead.

I can't afford to hire an artist right now, but I'm reposting so I might be able to find this again when I can.

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I see we're having a debate about whether it's okay to go back to "X," the site owned by a trillionaire fascist who is currently bankrolling the GOP's midterm, throttled Ukraine's war effort, and still winkingly allows vast amounts of CSAM on his service Answer: No, what the fuck is wrong with you

Just told YouTube to stop showing me two modelling channels because they used obviously AI thumbnails. If your videos are about your creative hobby, why the hell are you using the slop machines to pitch them?

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I don't care if it produced an endless supply of hot delicious churros straight out of the glovebox, I will never buy a fucking Tesla

I do limited promotion on Facebook, but that business page dies now. I actually deleted my personal account a couple of years ago, but found I still had one for a stuffed toy, so returned to get myself a Green MP. Should have deleted it after the campaign ended.

Scott Rose@rprose.bsky.social

wow what a fun reason to delete all of mark zuckerberg's websites and never think about any of them ever again if you needed another one www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/meta...

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Johnny Marr providing perfectly good lead vocals on his new solo material (both live and recorded) raises the question of whether Morrissey was in fact ever necessary…

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That time someone dumped a toy house on the cemetery wall and, when I crouched a bit, some ✨ Hollywood Magic ✨ occurred.

The only thing Trump could do to improve the world would be to leave it. Maybe then he could get a posthumous Nobel for spreading so much joy with one simple action.

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1/x Two of the best-known coats on any high street began as working kit for sailors on cold decks. Both carry names from my little corner of the North Sea: Duffel, a small town near Antwerp, and the Dutch word "pij". The story of the duffel coat and the peacoat. #maritimehistory

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Replying to @dieworkwear.bsky.social

‘Freelance Pie Advisor’ is the fantasy job of a very high percentage of British men - reaching levels where it exceeds ‘spaceman’ and ‘England centre forward’ for blokes in north west England.

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This gets said constantly, but it worth reiterating: Games Workshop being bigger than fishing is important to shout about because you wouldn't know it from government talking points, which are rarely about anything creative or artistic. Growth won't involve fish or steel, it will involve goblins.

Reading a book about Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs, and the wild characters who swirled around them. Fascinating stuff, but somehow, and despite a cameo by Kinsey, the author can't get his head around the concept of bisexuality.

This is why I told the transphobe on Piccadilly Gardens to fuck off, and why this year's Pride parade felt more emotional. I want to do more to help. I will do more to help. I just don't know what that will be yet.

I'd rather Google didn't stalk me through my phone, but the monthly round up of what they've watched me do is fascinating. Apparently, last month I went skiing for 4 miles. I'd love to know where and when they think I did that, because I don't remember it.

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How do we incentivize people to paint wizards on their vans again I haven’t seen a wizard van in a decade and it feels like we lost something precious Can we offer up a tax credit? Little bags of shrooms? Start a wizard van painting program at vocational schools?