Until next week 👋🏼

John M Burns masterpiece

Too Old at 32 Consistently following the tv series’ tone Consistently brilliant

Thunderbird 6 Premiered 29 July 1968 The film’s first UK TV airing was 25 May 1975 on LWT ATV, Border, Yorkshire, Tyne Tees and Southern would also screen before the end of 1975 With other regions to follow

One for the John Wiles haters, this.

More UNIT dating conundrums with this week’s the Dr Who Countdown implies the Earth setting in Jon Pertwee’s era is one year in the future.. Don’t @ me 🤷🏼‍♀️

The Cyber Saboteurs, a new Stingray story (not a reprint) illustrated by ex TV21 artist Michael Strand continues..

Max Rynish of Cargo Air Ltd suggested his airship design See illustration on right of page Could be an alternative to development of Maplin Airport (a mooted third airport for London in the Thames Estuary) AND the Channel Tunnel..

🌒 Moonbase Monday 🌒 The Countdown 🚀 thread Issue #10 On sale Monday 19 April 1971 Last week saw Countdown “On The Buses” .. This week: up, up and away in our beautiful balloons Factual features on airships Airship adventure in the 21st Century with Lady Penelope

A smooth galaxy, observed with the Apache Point 2.5m Telescope in the SDSS survey. It is at redshift 0.059 (lookback time 819.8 million years) with coordinates (204.10065, 51.61325). 41 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo 2.

I once met a Frenchman in Beijing who had been flown over for three months by Paris Baguette, the bakery chain, purely in order to teach the Chinese staff how to make better baguettes.

So Rossendale is so high that you can Ski all year round.

Lancaster's more of a hill top city and that's stretching the point.

#OPAG will be sitting in on the sessions today and will be reporting back with any notable information. PS - OPAG has been around since 2004; however, it will no longer be supported by NASA, and the community is trying to figure out how OPAG will move forward w/out NASA support.

Here’s something to savour www.therailwayhub.co.uk/68059/rails-...

Preston Docks, closed in 1981 and 16 miles inland from the Irish Sea. Redeveloped as a marina.

Stoke is a properly hilly place, even if the hills aren’t particularly high. Preston isn’t.

Hilltop city? The centre of Preston is 30m above sea level and it used to have a port. Run down ex industrial area including the Springfield nuclear fuel plant and with two major BAE aerospace sites?

Mike the Cat’s stellar behavior giving my children and my lady-wife completely unreasonable impressions of typical cat restraint when left unsupervised in the same room as a barbecued whole chicken. My previous cat Alan would have left not a trace of a prize like that

Are there any contemporary equivalents of the Manchester Arndale Centre Games Workshop ~1983 anymore? In Seattle? The US? The UK?

The science done at the National Laboratories is pretty lit though. Need me some more of that inertial confinement fusion research in case ITER is a dead end.

Quatermass and The Pitt

Doctor Who always goes off the rails when it doesn't have a precocious ten year old who asks their parents too many questions about everything as its core audience IMV.

oh I was way, way, way off on this. It's not 1%, it's .01%. bsky.app/profile/glob...

I’m starting to suspect that no UK government can actually do much ever. It’s a problem and Farage would have the same problem as the US government in that what they want they want to do is actually impossible.

I have been forgiven

I have SLIGHTLY annoyed Pants it seems. When she’s happy she cuddles against my leg fully. When she’s mad at me she turns all the way away. 45 degrees means I annoyed her but it isn’t world ending yet I can make up for it with pets.

jungle revival will bring back ccru an usher in a glorious new tech future

Believe in the strongest undercover CCRU agent

For the past 10 yrs to me it's become clear 'accelerationism' in general is just really bad and often shallow, only best substantiated when you can spit real macroeconomics but the avg acc person, even the bookworms, are theorycels and not engineers where it counts.

The problem with him even doing this is that, Landian dynamics in general is like an incoherent religion more than it is an attempt to at a meaningful cybernetics. I am not surprised if time just caught up to him and it's literally a boomer performance either.

Accelerationism baby

saving storage space by declaring myself a member of the oulipo group and then deleting all that contain the letter e

there is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men

> some kind of beans there's the solution, right there. Ham bean soup is 😘👌

HBR but for middle management LLMs. The HBR of Prompts.

Just done a spot of money laundering (and cards, wallet, loyalty cards etc)

You can tell he's a convert because he doesn't act like he feels guilty about stuff all the time like a normal Catholic raised from birth feels.

Keen devotees of Stafford Beer might sense that as the "system" unravels, it takes a different kind of intervention than usual to put things back together. (And again, not sure which field has a good pointer what to do? In commerce we usually just let the organisation die.) 2/2

From my private sector experience, what is happening with the UK government looks a lot like a company that has been run for a long time with little investment in some fundamentals and many years of cost-cutting initiatives to satisfy investors. 1/2

Fortunately Farage wins only the statutory obligation to run an underfunded social care system, 300 quid a year for half a dozen Catherine wheels on fireworks night and to have Boomers moan at him about potholes

Hungerford, Texas Pop: 141 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungerford,_Texas Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=75288765 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=75288768 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=75288764

We really, REALLY don’t do posts about politics, but this is the purest case of face-eating leopards I have ever seen.

And sorry if you want to keep fighting political mistakes made in the past and demanding they are acknowledged then you are going to be really really miserable about things. Trust me. I’m still pissed about monetarism and a fat lot of good that’s done me over the last 40 years.

I poured over the first edition of this as a PhD student at Salford: archive.org/details/hand...

Nothing wrong with a crumble a bit caught at the edge #TheArchers

Listening whilst driving. Surely the crumble catching at the edge is desirable. #TheArchers

Cat keeps going out into the conservatory to do whatever he does in there - mostly fucking up my erstwhile beautiful rug - then coming back to sit on me once he's made himself into a horrible cold little lump.