M-Rob

@mirobin

Editor from Canada, living elsewhere. Has worked in journalism. For personal reasons, staying semi-anonymous on here for now. Likes coffee and enjoys the Beatles. Thinks the Robinson is the best-looking map projection, hands down. (cf. xkcd 977)

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M-Rob@mirobin· 25d

Madness

Score sheet from the France-England bronze final at the 2026 World Cup, screenshotted from The Guardian.

England
England football crest — 6

Declan Rice (3)
Ezri Konsa (18)
Bukayo Saka (37)
Bukayo Saka (45 +0:52)
Bukayo Saka (87 pen)
Jude Bellingham (90 +7:15)

France
France football crest — 4

Kylian Mbappe (48)
Bradley Barcola (54)
Kylian Mbappe (66)
Ousmane Dembele (90 +5:23)

M-Rob@mirobin· 25d

The painting Napoleon on Board the Bellerophon by William Quiller Orchardson. The emperor, having surrendered at the end of the Hundred Days, looks dejectedly into the distance while a group of British officers watch him

M-Rob@mirobin· 27d

A reversed version of the two-panel meme where a gull has its head folder back and mouth open with the caption “inhales”, followed by a panel where it yells something. In this version, the gull first yells “Guuuuuuuullllllllll” then inhales, mimicking the chorus of Girl by the Beatles

M-Rob@mirobin· 27d

Honestly… they might*

M-Rob@mirobin· Jul 3

Real low effort on this one. Hope I'll have time to do more for the next one #OliveArtClub

A picture of two wet tomatoes, one with a leafy stem, and one without, on a light-coloued wooden table. Arrangement somewhat matches the photo in the post I'm replying to.

M-Rob@mirobin· Jun 27

I like the inclusion of this vital information about the good boi who retrieved it a previous time it was stolen

Screenshot from the Wikipedia article “FIFA World Cup Trophy” showing the following text:

On 20 March 1966, four months before the 1966 FIFA World Cup in England, the trophy was stolen during a public exhibition at Westminster Central Hall. It was found seven days later wrapped in newspaper at the bottom of a suburban garden hedge in Beulah Hill, Upper Norwood, south London, by a black and white collie dog named Pickles.

M-Rob@mirobin· Jun 20

This was in the Danish national art museum in Copenhagen. Here’s the information panel for the painting:

The Information panel for the painting in my main reply above, written in both Danish and English. Some of the English text is transcribed below.

Artist: Laurits Andersen Ring, 1854–1933, Danish
Title: At the French Windows, The Artist’s Wife (1897)
Medium: Oil on canvas

Description: Ring was married in 1896. The following year he painted this declaration of love for his wife, Sigrid Kahler… [description continues; I can try to transcribe the rest on request]

M-Rob@mirobin· Jun 20

An oil painting hanging in a gallery in a simple dark wooden frame. It depicts a Danish woman in a yellow and cream dress, visibly pregnant, leaning against the doorway of a house in summer looking pensive but happy, with one hand resting on her belly. The yellow in her dress beautifully pairs with orange drapes and carpet inside the doorway and a terracotta flowerpot across from here, from which a short shrub rises, its green leaves in turn matching the grass and trees in the garden outside, which while vivid and lively in colour form a twisted and tangles mass in contrast to the simple lines of the woman and the house.

M-Rob@mirobin· Jun 2

Had to stop part way through the photo shoot to fight the guard who came to arrest me for stealing the apple from Castle Bravil.

A screenshot from Oblivion showing another view of the table from the post above. Behind the table stand a couple of unbotherd-looking non-player characters. Next to the table lies the corpse of a man in the armour of the Bravil City Watch.

M-Rob@mirobin· Jun 2

Still Life with Apple In-game screenshot (The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion)

A cropped screenshot from the video came The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, showing a medieval-looking red dining table strewn with food items, wine bottles, and pewter vessels (one of which, a bowl, contains a possibly human skull resting on a pile of blackberries). In the middle foreground a red apple rests on a piece of green cloth, very loosely resembling the image in the post this is replying to. The game reticle hovers over the apple, taking the shape of a red hand (which in this game signifies an item that would count as theft if taken) and hovering under it is the text “Apple”, under which are symbols indicating it is worth 1 coin and weighs 0.2 (don’t ask what unit of weight).

M-Rob@mirobin· May 13

I was thinking too hard when I first saw this and had to stop. Now I've jotted down a list. Still had to be pedantic about the definition of song and exclude all instrumental pieces

A list of songs in cursive handwriting in blue ink on yellow paper (title – artist):

* Northwest Passage – Stan Rogers
* Trustful Hands – The Dø
* Hey Bulldog – The Beatles
* Unto Us a Child Is Born – Handel
* Michael Row the Boat Ashore – some Black folk on the Sea Islands
* Restless – Gordon Lightfoot
* Reflection of Him – Smith & Dragoman
* A Case of You – Joni Mitchell
* Cleaning Out My Closet – Eminem
* [crossed out] La goualante de pauvre Jean – Edith Piaf
* Circumstances – Rush

The blue Lamy Safari fountain pen used to write it is lying at the bottom, and lying on the table next to it is the broken end of a pencil.

M-Rob@mirobin· May 11

Dry erase marker on white board

Photo of a white board with a line drawing in blue marker, showing a vague attempt at drawing OP's photo of an olive and pimento on a plate

M-Rob@mirobin· May 6

After the Storm (Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2016)

A pensive-looking Japanese man sits in a small, tall bath tub filled almost to the brim, in a somewhat shabby-looking bathroom, holding a pale and about to scoop some water.

M-Rob@mirobin· Apr 17

Maybe he's talking about this guy

A still from the film Arrival, showing a misty scene, with a huge, dark, seven-legged figure looming over a tiny-looking woman, who looks up at it in awe. The figure is one of the pair of Heptapods who the characters named Abbott and Costello.

M-Rob@mirobin· Apr 12

"I am SO HUNGARY"

A man with blond hair in a black hoodie stares menacingly at too other men over the burger he's devouring. It's The Master (aka Harold Saxon) in the Doctor Who episode The End of Time

M-Rob@mirobin· Apr 11

The old "Kilroy was here" doodle, with a little round-headed guy peaking up over the edge of something. The photo in the quoted post has the Earth peaking over the edge of the Moon.

M-Rob@mirobin· Apr 10

Bob approves of this message

An old photo of Canadian politician Bob Rae giving a thumbs up with a kind of goofy smile

M-Rob@mirobin· Apr 7

Lunch at mission control is a sandwich.

Mission control for the Artemis II mission. A line of serious looking NASA and Canadian Space Agency staff sitting or standing in front of various computer terminals at a desk labelled CAPCOM. At the end of the line, though is a lady eating a delicious sandwich.

M-Rob@mirobin· Apr 6

I love his

Screenshot of the NSA live-stream of the Artemis II mission, showing the view from a camera on the outside of the Orion spacecraft. Against a pitch-black background, on the left we see the bright white form of the spacecraft, and on the right, comparatively almost as large, is the gibbous moon (it looked tiny in comparison a couple of hours ago). In the bottom-right is a bug showing the text “Voice of Victor Glover Artemis II Pilot” next to his portrait. At the top is a snippet of closed captioning saying “… as a pair, we just learn and grow together. And that’s …”

M-Rob@mirobin· Apr 6

You know you can know something intellectually and still not be fully, intuitively conscious of it. Now I’m understanding something about the moon: it moves. It’s not a rock that sits there getting lit and unlit. It moves, and is not yet in the place it will be when they circle it. #Artemis #moon

Screenshot of a NASA visualization of the Artemis II mission, showing the Integrity spacecraft’s current location (as of 15 or so minutes before this post). The blue trail of the spacecraft’s projected path is shown looping through empty space along the moon’s path, with the moon itself still off to the right. When watching the visualization live, the moon has visible motion.

M-Rob@mirobin· Mar 30

"Isn't life disappointing?"

M-Rob@mirobin· Mar 26

Still from the film A Bridge Too Far. General Horrocks stands in from of a huge map of the area around Nijmegen, Netherlands, labelled “82 DIV” (for the 82nd Airborne Division). Dialogue from the movie captioned at the bottom: “The plan is called Operation Market Garden. Market is the airborne element, and Garden is the ground forces. (That’s us.)”

Another still from the same film: Michael Caine’s character rises from the crowd and speaks. Caption (joke dialogue, not actually from the movie): “Umm, it’s an island, sir.”

A third still from the movie: Horrocks stares back. No dialogue.

The original image returns, but this time with the caption “The plan is called Operation Market!”

M-Rob@mirobin· Mar 9

Exhibit: No one is going around naming their evil corporations after any of Beorn's possessions.

M-Rob@mirobin· Feb 28

The weather? Cristos!

Jean Hackman as Polish General Sosabowski in A Bridge Too Far, shouting about the weather

M-Rob@mirobin· Feb 21

This was one of the great moments in Olympic history. And then it got better #MilanoCortina2026

At the edge of the skating rink for the 2026 Olympic Figure Skating Gala, two men stand waving both hands in the air. On the right is men’s gold medalist Mikhail Shaidorov on the ice dressed as a panda. On the left is JACKIE CHAN waving two panda dolls in the air

M-Rob@mirobin· Feb 7

That meme of the car taking the highway off ramp at the last moment, leaving smoke and skid marks behind. The text inserted on the sign above shows “Automation” straight ahead and “Theory of Mind” for the exit.

M-Rob@mirobin· Feb 3

Same area decades ago. It's really too bad that rail-to-trail conversion is an irreversible process

Historical black and white photo from the 1950s or '60s (Source: Railway Museum of Eastern Ontario Facebook page) showing the area along the Rideau Canal in Ottawa highlighted in the post above. On the right, the straight canal stretches to a distant curve, and on the far side is the same linear park that can be seen today. Im the centre of the image are a several parallel railway tracks right up along the canal, looking busy with passenger trains and a few workers. On the left are some work buildings and cars parked on muddy ground, then a line of trees.

M-Rob@mirobin· Jan 30

Given decades of interplay between Westerns and Japanese samurai films, The Last Samurai is kind of interesting in the way it closes the loop by having characters from the Old West show up in a jidai geki.

A still from The Last Samurai (2003). It is a wide frame with the centre foreground taken up by a man in a late 19th century US army uniform, aiming down the sights of what looks like a classic Colt revolver. Behind him, out of focus, are a few ranks of Imperial Japanese Army soldiers, noticeably lower than the American, who is probably mounted. A green field stretches behind them.

M-Rob@mirobin· Jan 27

Just as The Talking Heads predicted

A screenshot of from Genius Lyrics showing words from the Talking Heads song Once in a Lifetime:

[Verse 3]
Water dissolving, and water removing
There is water at the bottom of the ocean
Under the water, carry the water
Remove the water at the bottom of the ocean
Water dissolving, and water removing

[Chorus 2]
Letting the days go by
Let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by
Water flowing underground
Into the blue again
Into the silent water
Under the rocks and stones
There is water underground
Letting the days go by
Let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by
Water flowing underground
Into the blue again
After the money's gone
Once in a lifetime
Water flowing underground

M-Rob@mirobin· Jan 2

Is she friends with Giorgia Villa?