Brandon

@brandonmm

May have an adverse effect on activity and attention. No thoughts, head empty, but on the rare occasions I do have a thought, you'll see it here.

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Brandon@brandonmm· 7d

A question for #CarBluesky #WeirdCarBS and potentially @adrianclarke.bsky.social (before your time at JLR, but still) Why do early XFs have those weird headlights? The later ones are obviously how it's *supposed* to look, maybe they ran out of time or something?

Brandon@brandonmm· 8d

She has searched the whole of the UK for the one patch of green grass

Skye, a golden retriever/ German shepherd cross, on a lawn. Most of the grass is brown and dry, but she has found a patch of green grass

Brandon@brandonmm· 10d

There can't be many cars with parking sensors, satnav (it still works!) and... a tape deck.

Brandon@brandonmm· 12d

This isn't as precarious as it looks, but weirdly it being so wonky hasn't affected our aim as much as we expected. Maybe we're all rubbish at it (except @hammers091.bsky.social, who is still in the lead and no-one else has come close)

A board for the game sjoelen. This is a long wooden board, with another piece of wood with 4 slots close to the end of the board. There are 30 wooden discs, all slightly smaller than the slots in the wood.

Brandon@brandonmm· 13d

The energy I hope to bring to the weekend

A round label on a bag of sweets. It reads "full volume fruity"

Brandon@brandonmm· 18d

Any car that's cool enough to be noticed next to a DBS must be pretty special

Brandon@brandonmm· 22d

Can't I just long in with this email address? The learn more link takes me to a 404 page

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Brandon@brandonmm· 25d

What a lovely day to go outside. Let's see if this cursed combo ruins it, or is somehow magically delicious

Brandon@brandonmm· Jul 9

What did you just call me?

A colourful ice lolly (popsicle), still in its clear plastic wrapping. On the wrapper, the words "rainbow fruit" and the best before date are printed

Brandon@brandonmm· Jul 5

Brandon@brandonmm· Jul 3

Unexpected Cadillac!

A Cadillac, a long luxury car, parked on a UK street. This photo is taken from the front left corner

A Cadillac, a long luxury car, parked on a UK street. This photo is taken from the rear left corner of the car

Brandon@brandonmm· Jun 30

I see this often, good to see it's still in daily use for shopping trips. I need one, it's much more stable than it's wobbly reputation would have you believe, would be a ton of fun

A Reliant Robin. This is a small car from the 1980s. It looks like there are no front wheels, as there are no wheelarches where you'd expect to see them, but there is in fact one front wheel, hidden in the middle.

This specific one is a faintly turquoise shade of green, parked in a Sainsbury's supermarket car park, next to various modern cars

Brandon@brandonmm· Jun 25

...wait, what? And yes, it is that one

A CD case, of an audiobook. The book is Angels of Lovely Lane, by an apparent number one bestseller Nadine Dorrie. The cover depicts nurses in pink uniform

Brandon@brandonmm· Jun 24

Perfect timing

Brandon@brandonmm· Jun 22

5th-16th April 2005? Eccleston had already resigned in March, General Election called on the 5th (I'm counting that as looking as a PM, roll with it), Tennant was announced on the 16th. Daniel Craig not announced as Bond 'til October

Is this the first time the UK has been looking for a new Prime Minister, James Bond, and Doctor Who at the same time?

Brandon@brandonmm· Jun 22

I'm sure it's well-paid, but acting in the soaps must feel like

Mr Burns next to a Don't Forget, You're Here Forever sign, in The Simpsons

Brandon@brandonmm· Jun 19

All the effort they've gone to cover up the Tesco logos, where the architecture is really distinctive and there's still a logo by the door

An Ikea building with googly eyes, looming over what is obviously a Tesco supermarket. They've covered up almost all of the Tesco logos, except for one small one by the door, but the building has the distinctive shape of an older Tesco.

Brandon@brandonmm· Jun 17

Big fan of the blob thing going on with the 207

Brandon@brandonmm· Jun 15

My favourite cold quantity of paper

A photo of the screen of a self-service checkout. It says "ice ream" with a small picture of a chocolate ice lolly

Brandon@brandonmm· Jun 11

Probably Food?

A screenshot of a headline from My London, on Google News. "I ate three course meal at The Ritz London, and can describe it in two words"

Brandon@brandonmm· Jun 10

I was reminded of this the other day, by seeing a Seat Altea. "We're going to build our own version of the Golf Plus" "Yep, the Altea" "but we're going to make a long version, roughly the same length as the Jetta" "Seems sensible, yeah, the XL" "... then cut the top half of the boot off" "¿QUÉ?"

A Seat Altea. A tall car, with a slightly curvy design

A Seat Altea XL. As the name suggests, it's a slightly longer version of the car in the previous pic

A Seat Toledo. This is similar to the XL, but with a chunk cut out of the top half of the rear section

Brandon@brandonmm· Jun 6

Watching one of these cleaning robots trundling around, I want to stick googly eyes on it

An automatic floor-scrubbing robot. This is a turquoise box with a handle and two small wheels at the back, with brushes at the front. On the front face, there is a round camera lens

Brandon@brandonmm· Jun 5

Someone's a fan of #WeirdCarBS, I can't see any other reason why anyone would have both of these

Two ugly cars, parked on the same driveway

Brandon@brandonmm· Jun 3

After that Chris Spargo video on bins, I'm noticing the different types everywhere. This is a Broxap Derby, apparently

A metal litter bin. It is black, with gold vinyl stripes stuck on. It's sort of a square, but with a bit cut off the corners

Brandon@brandonmm· May 31

I love it when cities have their own distinctive colour scheme for taxis, so much better than looking at a sea of silver Skodas. This, for example, from Porto (my terrible photo from a couple of months back)

3 cars lining up at a taxi rank. The first and third cars are Mercedes, the middle car is a large Hyundai of some sort. All 3 cars are black with turquoise roof

Brandon@brandonmm· May 30

I could have sworn I posted these here before, but I can't see them in my media tab. Wondered why some adorable childhood drawings had been kept, in a folder with a random week's worth of schoolwork. Turns out it was evidence of restricted, repetitive patterns of interests for my autism assessment

A felt-tip drawing of a gold Dalek (a cylinder with a domed top) with orange details, next to a light blue TARDIS (a shed-like rectangular phone box, complete with a flashing light!) and the robot dog K9, in a very dark green

A pencil drawing of the centre console of the TARDIS, coloured in with colouring pencils. We are looking at it from exactly side on, so the sloped sides make the main section of it look like a trapezium. This is covered in various buttons, switches and gizmos, most of these in red and purple. On top of the white trapezium, there is a white cylinder with a horizontal red stripe

Another TARDIS console, this time a felt-tip in green and brown, with a taller column

Brandon@brandonmm· May 30

It's just hit me why I felt like I recognised Safonov, despite not knowing the name. Not a good omen for PSG

Lorius Karius, Liverpool goalkeeper in the 2018 Champions League final

Safonov, goalkeeper for Paris Saint-Germain. He has a similar unfortunate haircut (long, blond, bad ponytail)

Brandon@brandonmm· May 27

A friend is buying this extraordinarily rare car, does anyone from #WeirdCarBsky #WeirdCarBS want to guess what it is, from the graph? This graph is only for one variant, but the other models showed a grand total left on the road of... zero.

A line graph. The X axis (along the bottom) runs from the year 1995 to 2025. The Y axis up the side is zero to 555 cars licensed. The line sits around 500 until a steep drop from 2004 to 2008, where there are around 100 cars left. This decline continues until there are only 3 remaining in 2025

Brandon@brandonmm· May 20

How am I supposed to identify this, exactly? (I still got it right on nothing but vibes)

Brandon@brandonmm· May 19

Post something from your camera roll that comes up when you search yellow car Is this yellow? Google Photos thinks so