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Richard McCarthy

@ricalamc

AFOL in Scotland Will talk Lego, films, games, and heritage. Occasional salt. He/they http://www.arid-charm.com/

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it’s twin peaks day ☕

24.02.2026 19:30 👍 703 🔁 233 💬 5 📌 19
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Looking forward to Misty Isle Bricks next month, and our now yearly Skye mini holiday!

Lots more Lego shows and days planned for the year ahead 🤞🏻🧡

18.02.2026 20:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Anything not saved will be lost.

I made a small save point for my upcoming Medieval Fantasy Village Lego MOC, a marker for adventurers/players to visit.

Can’t be too careful with all those rogues, mages, and city guards about, better save just in case!

#lego #moc #afol #legomoc #legodnd

13.02.2026 14:16 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I didnt imagine those prices. Definitely not awesome.

12.01.2026 20:32 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
1 Screenshots from the movie "Blade Runner" (1982): First, a close-up of a futuristic computer screen displaying information about a character named "Roy Batty." The screen includes a blurry photograph of a man in a headband, labeled as a "Replicant (M)" with details such as "NEXUS 6," an inception date of "8 JAN, 2016," and notes about his function and physical/mental level classifications. The image is bathed in a blue neon glow, with a high-tech, dystopian aesthetic.

1 Screenshots from the movie "Blade Runner" (1982): First, a close-up of a futuristic computer screen displaying information about a character named "Roy Batty." The screen includes a blurry photograph of a man in a headband, labeled as a "Replicant (M)" with details such as "NEXUS 6," an inception date of "8 JAN, 2016," and notes about his function and physical/mental level classifications. The image is bathed in a blue neon glow, with a high-tech, dystopian aesthetic.

Jan 8th 2016 - The replicant Roy Batty was incepted.

📽️📅 Blade Runner (1982)

08.01.2026 14:30 👍 73 🔁 27 💬 2 📌 5
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Xmas Annual Leave, you were joyous, fun, and long needed.

My situation challenge advice tarot reading was bang on/blindingly obvious too 🫣

04.01.2026 19:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Boxing Day pilgrimage to the Xmas serpent.

We wished for more crisps.

26.12.2025 15:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Spent the last week sneaking out on school nights to go to the Inverness Film Festival, and it’s the *best* time ive had in a while.

Defo helped winter blues. More next year please.

13.11.2025 23:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Tasty bit of videogame reading arrived, just in time for the weekend! @apwot.bsky.social

07.11.2025 14:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Lynne Ramsay is a generational -and national- talent and you should go see Die My Love. 

(my first film watched of my first Inverness Film Festival attended!)

06.11.2025 22:15 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Happy Halloween to my mum who would often calm any worries my younger sister had about ghosts with the reassurance that "It's not ghosts you want to be worried about, its murderers climbing in through the window"

31.10.2025 13:28 👍 26 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

One of my favourite cinema experiences tbh.

Went in completely blind to the source material. Massive cinematography. Incredible soundscapes.

Desert power.

22.10.2025 18:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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After 5 seasons, 51 episodes, and a whole lot of variables along the way, our Fargo rewatch is complete. I can easily say it’s the best TV ive ever watched. Beautifully profound. Staggeringly so.

S3 > S2 > S1 > S5 > S4

I have a *lot* of feelings about it. Ask me about it next time you see me.

17.10.2025 08:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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13.08.2025 20:52 👍 3264 🔁 1489 💬 11 📌 11

Yes.

Also now suddenly wishing I was friends with a mechanic, too.

31.07.2025 15:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The new minifigure factions are great, but even by Creator standards the castle looks quite blocky/unfinished.

Cant wait to see what remixes other AFOLs do with it though!

31.07.2025 14:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
[that dog who is on fire but everything is fine] I should make a spreadsheet to manage this.

[that dog who is on fire but everything is fine] I should make a spreadsheet to manage this.

my response to every situation

11.07.2025 23:44 👍 259 🔁 62 💬 1 📌 8

Learning this the hard way this summer.

Its not even that hot outside 😭

30.06.2025 14:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A screengrab of Tumblr user Gemini Zines's text post reads "i think everyone should make zines. about everything all the time. make a zine about a playlist, about a good sandwich you made, about a cool bug you saw, about a skill you can teach, about a cause you care about. put them everywhere. pin them to community boards and tape them to poles and leave them in cafes and in between library books. i hate how social media has been taken over more than ever now by big greedy corporations and people and has become a mess of churning shit out for the algorithm. zines have no algorithm it is just the love in your heart the passion in your soul whatever your pencil decides to put on paper!! and it's beautiful!! make zines now!"

A screengrab of Tumblr user Gemini Zines's text post reads "i think everyone should make zines. about everything all the time. make a zine about a playlist, about a good sandwich you made, about a cool bug you saw, about a skill you can teach, about a cause you care about. put them everywhere. pin them to community boards and tape them to poles and leave them in cafes and in between library books. i hate how social media has been taken over more than ever now by big greedy corporations and people and has become a mess of churning shit out for the algorithm. zines have no algorithm it is just the love in your heart the passion in your soul whatever your pencil decides to put on paper!! and it's beautiful!! make zines now!"

"zines have no algorithm" 💘

27.06.2025 23:31 👍 258 🔁 109 💬 0 📌 4
1 Screenshot from the movie "Taxi Driver" (1976): First, a man in a yellow T-shirt strains to do a pull-up on a bar installed in a doorway, lit by a bare bulb in a cluttered room. The subtitles read, "June 29th. I gotta get in shape now. Too much sitting has ruined my body."

1 Screenshot from the movie "Taxi Driver" (1976): First, a man in a yellow T-shirt strains to do a pull-up on a bar installed in a doorway, lit by a bare bulb in a cluttered room. The subtitles read, "June 29th. I gotta get in shape now. Too much sitting has ruined my body."

Jun 29th - Travis Bickle wrote in his diary that he's started eating right and exercising regularly.

📽️📅 Taxi Driver (1976)

29.06.2025 13:24 👍 95 🔁 31 💬 0 📌 5
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Loving the Switch 2.

Excellent console, phenomenal controller design.

19.06.2025 21:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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It's Pride month, so they legally have to let me put my gay nonsense in the paper

12.06.2025 17:27 👍 233 🔁 13 💬 14 📌 0
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Drafting the Archaeological Mental Model of Blue Prince Back in January 2023, I ran an online study in which I got participants to play a game about a ruined village and tell me what they thought happened to it. That game was Nothing Beside Remains, a 2…

It's finally done!📝

In this blog post, I apply my theory of an archaeological gameworld mental model to Blue Prince, and argue that half the fun of the game is in what happens off-screen:

florencesmithnicholls.com/2025/06/03/d...

03.06.2025 16:59 👍 128 🔁 46 💬 8 📌 5
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Hope you all have a magic weekend!

Small build featuring some of my @lego B&P order from this week! Ive wanted to do some magical fantasy esque builds for a while, so here we are!

#lego #afol #legoinscotland

30.05.2025 14:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My first swimming lesson with baby this morning.

Big kicks, smiles, and splashes, they really came alive- a proper swim baby! Never been prouder 😭

26.05.2025 18:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Is the Nintendo Switch the best console of its generation – or just the most meaningful to me? For years, the Switch has been ​a companion through life’s changes​, gaming milestones​ and a lifeline to fun in chaotic times

A little sentimentality is forgivable at the end of an era, so here's me saying farewell to the Nintendo Switch, the console that accompanied me through some of the toughest and most rewarding years of my life when I was a new parent

www.theguardian.com/games/2025/m...

21.05.2025 14:07 👍 88 🔁 11 💬 6 📌 0
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Credits rolled on Blue Prince after 44 in game days racking my brain, solving puzzles, and opening door after door.

Brilliant game.

And I know there’s still more to discover…

16.05.2025 19:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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01.05.2025 09:35 👍 1136 🔁 281 💬 12 📌 8

The rot at the heart of British culture that allows something like today’s Supreme Court ruling to be made…

Boycott Rowling. Teach your dad about pronouns. Withhold your vote from politicians who don’t vocally support trans rights. Fund trans artists and creators.

TERF Island needs to die.

16.04.2025 14:29 👍 815 🔁 208 💬 8 📌 2
Photo of a Thames Water roadworks sign that says "We've unearthed the cursed bones of an ancient god"

Photo of a Thames Water roadworks sign that says "We've unearthed the cursed bones of an ancient god"

Sounds bad

14.04.2025 16:15 👍 266 🔁 74 💬 7 📌 6