Notices by Richard Littler (richard_littler@mastodon.social)

In my experience, 2-3 out of 5 Amazon parcels delivered *by hand* were damaged and needed to be returned. I gave up. Dropping one of their poorly-packed boxes from a height of 2 or 3 metres really isn't going to improve matters.
"Hi, I ordered a single vinyl album and a new iron. They just arrived. The album is now an unplayable quadruple album, and you appear to have killed a 5 year old. And a dog."

https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c0l21992z75o

Haunted food. My mum spiralised a carrot, and the result is like a cross between Thomas the Tank Engine, Pinocchio, and John Carpenter's The Thing.
#CursedCarrot

I've only just realised that #OpenAI's logo is a stylised anal sphincter. Apologies for my childish but apposite observation so early in the morning.
#sora

Aliens: "We don't understand why 8.2 billion humans are just standing by while a tiny (tiny!!) fraction of narcissistic, flagrantly benighted terrestrial fucknuggets ruin the planet and risk the future of the species. It makes no sense."

I stumbled across maps from 1577 online, incl Cheshire, where I'm from. I went down an Elizabethan rabbit hole & bought a book about her advisor Cecil. Then, on Saturday, I went into a local charity shop, and there was map on the wall (in Bern!) And, reading more, I learned it was owned by Cecil! Kismet.

#history #map

Medieval intellects are gonna medieval.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/03/us-israel-iran-war-christian-rhetoric?CMP=share_btn_url

Just spotted.
The sheer, staggering anarchy of Swiss graffiti.

Billionaires should be reclassified as potentially harmful substances, allocated their own little triangle warning symbol, and be regulated accordingly.

People often invoke George Orwell when discussing the grim state of the world, but Hans Christian Andersen, with his story about a vain, gullible emperor, and the townsfolk who are too afraid to challenge his stupidity, doesn't get the credit he's due.

#Davos #WEF

Like fleeing Jeffrey Dahmer's house and running past three verified safe houses to the house of Ted Bundy, above whose front door is sprayed 'I am also a serial killer, and you are my type. lol'

It's like a remake of Big, but in place of Hanks's Josh Baskin, Veruca Salt has taken the lead role.
America: remove this deranged infant without delay. He doesn't care about either US citizens or non-US citizens. His destabilisation of the planet is a purely narcissistic endeavour.

Petty, piss-panted, pro-paedo pompatus presented Peace Prize, paralleling pacifiers pushed into petulant pre-schoolers' peevish pieholes.

Däniken's 'paleo-contact' claims of extraterrestrial influences on early human development, attracted a dedicated following, despite his earlier convictions for theft, fraud and embezzlement (and robust debunking of his theories). Films, soundtracks, and even prog concept albums followed his books.

🧵 Erich von Däniken is dead, aged 90. Many of my generation will remember him as a proponent of the pseudoscientific 'ancient aliens' theory, just one of the many sensationalist supernatural topics that flooded culture in the 1970s.
I've had this book since I was a little kid.

#ancientaliens

When I moved to Switzerland, I discovered he was a local. He built an 'ancient mysteries' theme park, which soon failed, but the buildings still stand. I took some photos a couple of years ago.

The last time I saw The Trial by Orson Welles it was on VHS; the teenage me probably taped a late-night TV broadcast of a cropped, substandard print.
I saw it again last night. Wow. Every frame is a work of art, not least due to cinematographer Edmond Richard.
Here's a short 🧵of frames.

#cinema

Music auto-tagging has become a pain since AI. Even if I switch it off, my albums are constantly updated with the most ludicrous imagery. This supposedly represents Bach's St Matthew Passion. AI is like irreparable cognitive impairment resulting from severe brain trauma. 'hEre'S PASsionATe mAtthEw'

#ai #aislop

Current research obsession: I thought I'd tracked down this Babes in the Wood #pantomime poster, but I was mistaken. I'm guessing it dates from sometime between 1883 and 1900. Likely a production from the Manchester area, although posters were recycled by theatres all over the country.

#Cloudflare: "We'll just plug in your life-support system over here, ok?"

I see Oasis are touring again.