James Dempster
@cocktaillion.bsky.social
Heraldist, delver into obscure, arcane & occult. Photos, bad art, worse poems. Even stranger than I think I am. Lefty. All views own/odd. He/him. 🩷💛🩵
Christmas came early for whoever writes the headlines for the BBC Sports Desk.
October 7, 2026 at 9:39 AM
Christmas came early for whoever writes the headlines for the BBC Sports Desk.
You couldn't make it up.
September 30, 2026 at 4:10 PM
You couldn't make it up.
Drop some ROBOTS 🤖🖤
September 29, 2026 at 10:30 AM
Drop some ROBOTS 🤖🖤
I do love bad adverts. Someone didn't think this tagline through. 😁🧳
"Dubai, where the welcome arrives before your bags do."
"Dubai, where the welcome arrives before your bags do."
September 24, 2026 at 7:00 AM
I do love bad adverts. Someone didn't think this tagline through. 😁🧳
"Dubai, where the welcome arrives before your bags do."
"Dubai, where the welcome arrives before your bags do."
Reposted by James Dempster
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
September 23, 2026 at 8:49 PM
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
Share an image that tells people how many years you have been online. This was at university, otherwise it would have been a US Robotics Courier v.34.
September 23, 2026 at 9:20 AM
Share an image that tells people how many years you have been online. This was at university, otherwise it would have been a US Robotics Courier v.34.
Leopards say that eating faces is essential as it's the only way to cut taxes for millionaires. This has nothing to do with the £72m in donations says frog in leopard fursuit as they barely pay tax in the UK.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Thinktank linked to Reform UK calls for abolition of state pension
‘Radical’ report likely to influence party’s platform also proposes abolishing inheritance and capital gains taxes
www.theguardian.com
September 23, 2026 at 7:14 AM
Leopards say that eating faces is essential as it's the only way to cut taxes for millionaires. This has nothing to do with the £72m in donations says frog in leopard fursuit as they barely pay tax in the UK.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
You could say that I'm listening to odd things this evening, but it was Cornelius Cardew this morning.
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youtu.be/xhalVCieopQ?...
Birdwatcher
YouTube video by Hilt - Topic
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September 12, 2026 at 9:27 PM
You could say that I'm listening to odd things this evening, but it was Cornelius Cardew this morning.
youtu.be/xhalVCieopQ?...
youtu.be/xhalVCieopQ?...
Great to share this taste of Elliot's revelatory PhD research on Richard Gough's Welsh tours (I'm lucky enough to be second supervisor)
A wealth of new information on antiquities, folklore, and how gentlemen tourists in Wales could learn very little without the locals of all classes who helped them
A wealth of new information on antiquities, folklore, and how gentlemen tourists in Wales could learn very little without the locals of all classes who helped them
'...a pot or urn full of coins was found by a dream last winter near the Gallows'
Our blog returns with an entry from Elliot MacMillan, on the local informants who shared detailed knowledge (and dream visions) with travellers in eighteenth-century Wales
curioustravellers.ac.uk/locals-who-k...
Our blog returns with an entry from Elliot MacMillan, on the local informants who shared detailed knowledge (and dream visions) with travellers in eighteenth-century Wales
curioustravellers.ac.uk/locals-who-k...
September 8, 2026 at 11:27 AM
If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula.
September 1, 2026 at 8:08 PM
If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula.
It was a lovely morning for a walk in the woods and then back along the beach
August 25, 2026 at 2:04 PM
It was a lovely morning for a walk in the woods and then back along the beach
It says something about the people I'm friends with on Social Media (as opposed to algo slop) that I'm seeing many variants on "Donald Trump upset because BBC won't pull out." 🤣
August 18, 2026 at 3:51 PM
It says something about the people I'm friends with on Social Media (as opposed to algo slop) that I'm seeing many variants on "Donald Trump upset because BBC won't pull out." 🤣
Reposted by James Dempster
Please enjoy this owlet learning how gravity works (it's absolutely fine, don't worry!)
Thanks to Bloomberg Philanthropies for supporting this project through their Digital Accelerator, allowing us to improve our technology infrastructure so we can help you connect with the UK's nature and heritage
Thanks to Bloomberg Philanthropies for supporting this project through their Digital Accelerator, allowing us to improve our technology infrastructure so we can help you connect with the UK's nature and heritage
August 16, 2026 at 7:00 AM
Please enjoy this owlet learning how gravity works (it's absolutely fine, don't worry!)
Thanks to Bloomberg Philanthropies for supporting this project through their Digital Accelerator, allowing us to improve our technology infrastructure so we can help you connect with the UK's nature and heritage
Thanks to Bloomberg Philanthropies for supporting this project through their Digital Accelerator, allowing us to improve our technology infrastructure so we can help you connect with the UK's nature and heritage
In this ever more depressing age, a good news story. C'mon the badgers.
Too many holes! Why badgers are digging up Britain’s lovingly maintained golf courses
Thanks to the drought, these black-and-white beauties are struggling to catch worms in the rock-hard earth. But there’s still good foraging on well-watered fairways and greens
www.theguardian.com
August 13, 2026 at 3:51 AM
In this ever more depressing age, a good news story. C'mon the badgers.
This wonderful track just popped up in my feed. Hopefully an omen of season 3.
youtu.be/N972JNfOPk0?...
youtu.be/N972JNfOPk0?...
Spend The Night - Sunspot - Hellier 2 Soundtrack
YouTube video by Sunspot
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August 10, 2026 at 10:09 PM
This wonderful track just popped up in my feed. Hopefully an omen of season 3.
youtu.be/N972JNfOPk0?...
youtu.be/N972JNfOPk0?...
Every now and again you just want Brazilian prog-fusion. Honest, I can give it up anytime.
youtu.be/ogPX-51yK-o?...
youtu.be/ogPX-51yK-o?...
Mi Hermoza
YouTube video by Marcos Valle - Topic
youtu.be
August 1, 2026 at 11:01 PM
Every now and again you just want Brazilian prog-fusion. Honest, I can give it up anytime.
youtu.be/ogPX-51yK-o?...
youtu.be/ogPX-51yK-o?...
Sometimes I love YT. It served up this. At a glance I'm pretty sure he doesn't exist and it isn't from 1950. It was posted 1 day ago on a channel with 177 subscribers, it's had 16 views and I'm 2nd to like.
I Stole Her Telephone by Martin Maye (Original 1950 Live Stage Performance Audio)
YouTube video by Claudius Royale
youtu.be
August 1, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Sometimes I love YT. It served up this. At a glance I'm pretty sure he doesn't exist and it isn't from 1950. It was posted 1 day ago on a channel with 177 subscribers, it's had 16 views and I'm 2nd to like.
I could just have fired up the CD of this, but then I wouldn't have found this video. youtu.be/itKSVUwffsk?...
The Fleur de Lys - Gong With the Luminous Nose
YouTube video by heavenlyblueorange
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August 1, 2026 at 9:19 PM
I could just have fired up the CD of this, but then I wouldn't have found this video. youtu.be/itKSVUwffsk?...
What's up? This is up.
July 23, 2026 at 11:41 AM
What's up? This is up.
Post your last two brain cells
July 23, 2026 at 5:57 AM
Post your last two brain cells
Reposted by James Dempster
An altar to Diana and Apollo which was dedicated by Marcus Cocceius Firmus - a Centurion of the Second Augusta Legion. It was found at Auchendavy Roman Fort in East Dunbartonshire, and is now part of the collections at the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow 📸 My own #EpigraphyTuesday
July 21, 2026 at 6:16 AM
An altar to Diana and Apollo which was dedicated by Marcus Cocceius Firmus - a Centurion of the Second Augusta Legion. It was found at Auchendavy Roman Fort in East Dunbartonshire, and is now part of the collections at the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow 📸 My own #EpigraphyTuesday
Not what I expect to see on YT when I try to fix what it sends me as ads.
July 20, 2026 at 2:34 PM
Not what I expect to see on YT when I try to fix what it sends me as ads.
This automated, wind-powered, wax remover is why you're not allowed to put cotton buds in your ears. 🤣
July 19, 2026 at 8:45 PM
This automated, wind-powered, wax remover is why you're not allowed to put cotton buds in your ears. 🤣
Reposted by James Dempster
The acronyms for cognitive behavioral therapy and cock and ball torture being the same means something, goddammit
July 14, 2026 at 11:39 PM
The acronyms for cognitive behavioral therapy and cock and ball torture being the same means something, goddammit