My favourite of the images I made this year: HOTOL taking off. It sort a long time in my head before I got around to making it, and it turned out just as I’d hoped.

🌪️ Our ExoMars TGO spacecraft captured these images of whirlwinds of dust on the Mars surface. 🔗 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

Some film noir Christmas nonsense: youtu.be/yBubU4lY2cI?...

TICKETS GO ON SALE ON THE 24TH JANUARY!!!

joining the great machine consciousness

He saw the light.

Beats: youtu.be/zRuzs8Syrf0?...

If, like me, you've always hated the term 'teaching your grandmother to suck eggs' because it's weird, confusing and makes people feel like there's some cultural reference they're not getting, I'd like to present the Bulgarian alternative I found out about yesterday: 'teaching an ass to shit'.

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

I can’t emphasize enough how much you need to watch this until the end

me to the 7-year-old: "it's very sweet that you made her this medal, but you cannot scotch-tape pieces of paper to the side of the cat. cats do not like that"

Our #JUICE spacecraft captured comet #3IATLAS during its active phase, showing its glowing coma, plasma tail, and maybe even a dust tail. The full data will arrive in February, but here is a sneak preview from JUICE's navigation camera. More info 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

You’ll never guess how the IDF decided to talk about killing these two kids, 8 and 11 years old, in its official statement

I’m sorry Laura Kuenssberg but I’m happy to pay more tax if it helps out the poorest in our society. I cannot get made angry by you for wanting to support children, the disabled and pensioners. You seem to want to keep your foot on their heads.

Since 2011 fuel duty freeze has cost the Treasury a whopping £133bn and added to yet more climate emissions. Freezing it yet again is reckless & irresponsible #budget2025

Salami Advent Calendar, Czech Republic. podnikovka.cz/uzeniny_c103...

The Grave Awaits All of Us 🐈‍⬛ #Art by Yakup Aydın

I’m not a great political analyst, but I do feel Labour have made a tactical error by opting to be cunts.

Folks, I really need some help. For the last 10-15 days, I've been pretty much out of action, which has put me two weeks behind on promoting my Film Stories 500 show in London next week. I'd be grateful for any help/support in getting the word out. Thank you. www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/wor...

Amazing to watch a government just totally squander a big parliamentary majority through incompetence, an absence of leadership, and a total lack of of ideological coherence. The fact that they started election campaigning on day one reveals the paucity of ideas - get elected to get elected again.

Take the wedding rings? Gold fillings? Does this remind anyone of anything?

Every time I hear a politician say that an issue is “dividing” this country they always then come down on the side of the right wing view of it. Just once I’d love to hear someone say “this issue is divisive, which is why I’m making the argument that kindness and compassion is important”

For the Aussies, the zoologists and the architects out there. 💩🧊🧪 By @chazhutton.com

How many private companies are going to nail landing and re-use of rockets before *Europe* can do it? One was bad enough, now it's two; meanwhile our disposable rocket can't even fly once a month.

Happy Fenton Day to all who celebrate. Jesus Christ, fourteen years. youtu.be/3GRSbr0EYYU

"NASA is postponing launch until space weather conditions improve." You're just making stuff up, now

📷 This image taken in October 2024 by ESA's Mars Express shows Coloe Fossae, an area on Mars showing signs of an ancient ice age. 🧪🔭 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... @science.esa.int @dlr-spaceagency.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

Lil Halloween video: youtu.be/07AwJy7UC4I?...

I think I can live with it.

Good old AI

This is Diana. She was only 7. Russia murdered her today 🕯 Despite the doctors’ efforts, they could not save her. Diana was brought to the hospital with severe facial injuries. Her heart stopped multiple times during resuscitation, and at 11:15, doctors pronounced her dead.

If anyone is at all interested I can get you in contact with her owners, they'll be happy to discuss whether it would work, she's such a sweet dog I'm desperate for her to avoid having to go to a shelter or something

Youtube has announced that all low-res videos (i.e. older ones) are to be automatically AI upscaled to HD. Creators can opt-out on a per video basis (but the channel may be long abandoned). When researching props or behind the scenes, old videos are useful, but not if upscaling produces artefacts.

Happy All Hallows Eve ~ Trek or Treat 2025 🖖🏻🎃 "Oops! All Kirks!"

Minority representation on TV causes outrage From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

X is a cesspit led by an unhinged billionaire who is desperately trying to stir up civil war in Britain. Nobody with any sense or decency should be there. No organisations, government departments, or politicians should be there. Everyone who is, is enabling this monster.

I've made a new t-shirt design to commemorate an important memory that we all share roryblank.bigcartel.com

MONKEYTRUCK (2025)

The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR supportjamaica.gov.jm

Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.

Yup 😒

WOW: "Covid-19 vaccines... set off a powerful alarm that rallies the human immune system against cancer and nearly doubles the median survival length of patients, according to a new retrospective study by researchers at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center & the University of Florida."

This new database will fix almost everything annoying about driving (FREE TO READ!) takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/fix-annoyi...

why did this take two fucking days though? did the Prime Minister have his notifications switched off? was he stuck in the bath? why, exactly, is this obviously true thing something that apparently needs running past the boss anyway? what is *wrong* with their comms operation?

Kevin McCloud is on a transatlantic flight for the Grand Designs Christmas Special.

Do it!