Andrew Robinson (no, not Garak)

two men wearing sunglasses are driving a car and one of them is saying it 's dark and we 're wearing sunglasses Alt: Blues Brothers: two men wearing sunglasses are driving a car and one of them is saying it 's dark and we 're wearing sunglasses

"We're on a mission from God".

Photograph of Fay Ajzenberg-Selove

For #WomensHistoryMonth: Let us celebrate the life and accomplishments of experimental physicist Fay Ajzenberg-Selove (1926-2012). An expert on the lighter atomic nuclei, she had many notable triumphs in the struggle to improve the standing of women in physics. 🎢⚛️🧪 #WomenInSTEM 🧵1/n

Your job is to pick the worst possible actor to play James Bond. Go!

Your job is to pick the worst possible actor to play James Bond. Go!

Better rein them in.

Ignore the neigh sayers

I once drew a horse on the blackboard (I was talking about horsepower) and it looked much more like a moose 🫎. 😀

I like that slide 😀

Big Spud is watching you.

A grey plastic model of a Spitfire is held between two blue clamps, while the glue dries.

Here's an Airfix Spitfire PR.XIX being stuck together. It's the 1/72 scale version. It will be finished as a Royal Thai Air Force example.
A Thai fighter. 🤣
#HistScaleModels #ScaleModels

Nice summary of British airfield decoy sites here:

www.aviationmuseum.net/AirfieldDeco...

The British even had spoof aircraft sites with moving dummy aircraft!

And there's that story about a British bomber dropping a wooden bomb on a German wooden spoof town...

Absolutely everybody did this kind of spoof in WW2, it's not some huge modern innovation.

Of course, you would have to move the inflatables every day, so that it looked like they moved when the next recce aircraft came over.

No, but you aren't likely to have farm animals on grass airfields, so it's a spoof.

Delicacies In The Garden of Plenty, by Sarah Peebles, Kyle Brenders, Nilan Perera 4 track album

Bandcamp Friday! My partner Sarah, who is, sensibly, not on here, would like you to consider this album; all of the proceeds go to second harvest, a food rescue org here in Toronto. Cover art by @minouette.bsky.social !!

secondharvestca.bandcamp.com/album/delica...

If you are raiding Quaker Meeting Houses (again!) then your moral compass is seriously off.

Question: someone i know who's already a writer in another area wants to do a crime-writing course. No getting published content, they have that covered, just craft stuff. Preferably online, suitable for a UK timezone. Please do share if you don't know of one! #AuthorSky

My favourites

And stole all the content to feed into the LLMs.

More columns than the NYT. 🙄

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

Anyone who wants Britain to join the war in Iran needs their head examined They don't know what they want to achieve, why they're doing it or what the consequences might be. They are lost in the void.

Anyone who wants Britain to join the war in Iran needs their head examined open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

Monster swapsies

In the UK, an MP wishing to resign has to be appointed to the position of "Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Chiltern Hundreds", and then resign from that. I expect "Shield of the Americas" is a similar thing. 😆

This war with the Gorn Hegemony will not be an endless war. I only expect it to last about 4 weeks.
#StarTrek #Sisko197

This is amazing. Genuinely thought it was from The Onion when I first glanced at the title.

Is this your Bond Supervillain phase?

Wales, famously, has absolutely no attractive landscapes that you could use a photo of for the front of your manifesto.

We only get the regular ones!