This is actually a big deal, and it's okay if you don't understand why. What's going on is a whole lot of academic insider baseball. But the simplest version is that the guy who defined what evidence-based medicine *is* just said SEGM is extremist and pseudoscientific. Let me explain.

We first met online. We were often told we were too old to watch 'cartoons.' We eventually decided to meet offline for #anime and pizza. Even though the anime forum *was* internet-linked via FidoNet, basically everyone lived an hour or two from the 'BBS' computer hosting the forum. That was 1985.

"Rapture arrived yet, Fawlty?"

Peeked at the fancy version of The Happiness Patrol. The extra bits in extended editions usually can put the pace off for me but this one, quite the reverse. It feels a lot less disjointed. It's a weird thing, Terra Alpha – and I appreciated having more time to soak in it.

autumn (2022)

happy #teletextDay!

Am I gonna have to arrange a showing of 'Gambit?'

I think an AI just quote posted me, celebrating what I wrote about the rap 'Follow The Leader.' Except it misunderstood me and thought I was celebrating the rap in 'Rapture.' But I didn't immediately clock it as an AI, and reassured it that in the previous post I *did* celebrate 'Rapture.' Oops.

Solidarity, Tom. Solidarity

So if Blondie's 'Rapture' is a bad rap, what's a good rap? This is not a good rap. This is a legendary rap. This is my favourite rap. Probably because it also manages to be a pretty cool science fiction adventure. Aight, listen:

Blondie get a bad rap for dropping a bad rap in Rapture. Well yeah, it is a bad rap. But a load of us who didn't know any better never heard the like, so it was a pretty cool place to start. Apparently I still have the whole thing in my head, and I remember the LED shades were called Zany Zappers...

At thumbnail size, these looked like pics of the most badass action figure ever

Monolithic: sit at the place's one table. Hope it stays cozy! Federated: pick a table, enjoy the food. Or a quiz, or whatever

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Noted lover of rock'n'roll Joan Jett turns 65 today. She does NOT care what you think of her, oh no no no no no no!

You can slice a cube in half and get a hexagon ??

You know what 63% of Russians have in common? They are women!

Remember that MLK said America suffers not just from "the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."

Thinking about President Clark declaring martial law and using EarthForce troops to storm the Interstellar News broadcast building today. For no particular reason. None whatsoever. #Babylon5

Wishing the wonderful actor Frazer Hines (also known as Jamie McCrimmon, companion to the Second Doctor) a happy 81st birthday! 🎁 #DoctorWho #FrazerHines #HappyBirthday

September 20, 1853: The construction of public buildings is revolutionized when inventor Elisha Otis demonstrates his "safety elevator," which doesn't fall even when its cable is cut.

BOXY FISH

You think you know somebody. Apparently best beloved put karela in our freezer

One of the three people who DMed me has given up or cancelled their Bluesky account. Sorry mate – I keep meaning to go to my bank at the weekend and get a credit card, to save me mugshotting myself to the management of this place. We'll ignore the fact that I traipsed about on video here for a week.

Many folks balked at the mastodon posting federation but it won't go away. It keeps waiting while everything else goes sour. Federation matches the basic data flow of the internet: united in function but decentralised in architecture: that's the only true freedom from authoritarian censorship.

I could never remember Andy Panda wearing striped overalls... because he didn't. Andy Pandy did.

"When I first started, I thought that if I took enough frames, I’d get a good picture. Photographs are taken with the brain, the camera records it, but it’s a meta-physical process because what happens in an image is beyond what you see..." Terence Donovan #botd

The old video tube cameras - you know, the ones that give black halos to flames - they make even normal photography look slightly embossed. Which, added to their fluid motion, makes the activity seem unnervingly live even now...

Yes I'll sign up to marketing emails to get 10% off my first order and definitely won't unsubscribe straightaway

This century, Scott has written half a dozen audio dramas for @bigfinish.bsky.social

back to bed • #nn

Commodore's Amiga brought pro-grade digital video chips to the public. NewTek's Video Toaster was an add-on card + app suite that rode the Amiga into #Babylon5 & #Buffy. NewTek's public face was tech evangelist Kiki Stockhammer, who appears in the dancing 'Kiki wipe' video effects and the B5 pilot.

I love London so much. So much. Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world? Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.

Two Time Lords? THE SAME TIME LORD! MultiDoctor Stories crosswords just dropped at #CrypticWho crypticwho.com #DoctorWho

The best part about David Tennant advertising tenderstem broccoli on his podcast is that I love the way he says it.

Nicole the @boozeleprechaun.bsky.social tipped a vial of @clppng.bsky.social into the stream just as I was slaking and I ended up rolling through loads of their vids. this might not even be my favourite. youtu.be/4NFoGxf5MZA

the skillful cinematography of the mid 70s in all its glory, at last...

Have a nice day

This may be the greatest thing I have ever seen.

ET go home. #MelaniaTrump #RoyalFamily

oye and her oyes

Bubbles 🫧 💕

Fully full-on fediverse energy. Grassroots, peer-to-peer, birds-of-a-feather magnificence 💕

*Mastodon watches, and waits patiently*

The YouTube-powered videos on Blogger don't seem to suffer the same braindead scanning and unwarranted takedowns as actual YouTube... but the fediverses were right all along so maybe PeerTube and even ol 'tusky deserve a second chance...