Dave Probert
@daveprobert.bsky.social
He/Him. Occasional podcaster, writer, and doodler. Sci-fi & fantasy fan, predominantly Hitchhiker's Guide, Doctor Who, Blake's 7 and Star Trek.
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Yeah, hi, I’m a person with “mobility challenges” (excuse me while I hurl). What we want, by and large, are not expensive, heavy devices that will “help us walk again”, but ramps.
I know, it’s not sexy, as technology invented before Christ, but it is overlooked in favor of…this. Repeatedly.
I know, it’s not sexy, as technology invented before Christ, but it is overlooked in favor of…this. Repeatedly.
Nike's battery-powered footwear system, which propels wearers forward, is part of a broader push to help humans move farther and faster.
'E-bike for your feet': How bionic sneakers could change human mobility
Nike's battery-powered footwear system, which propels wearers forward, is part of a broader push to help humans move farther and faster.
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February 14, 2026 at 1:16 PM
Yeah, hi, I’m a person with “mobility challenges” (excuse me while I hurl). What we want, by and large, are not expensive, heavy devices that will “help us walk again”, but ramps.
I know, it’s not sexy, as technology invented before Christ, but it is overlooked in favor of…this. Repeatedly.
I know, it’s not sexy, as technology invented before Christ, but it is overlooked in favor of…this. Repeatedly.
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can you imagine how disappointed you’d be if you knew nothing about this book and only picked it up for this particular cover
February 14, 2026 at 8:23 AM
can you imagine how disappointed you’d be if you knew nothing about this book and only picked it up for this particular cover
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It’s Saturday and you deserve a treat so sit back with a cuppa and catch up on this week’s Wombling Along gathering reviews and more I saw online this week www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2026/2/...
Wombling Along — Runalong The Shelves
Hellloooo! Hope you’re all ok? Welcome to the blog’s weekend supplement where I gather up reviews and articles that caught my eye this week. Not much to update on this week. I have a new team member...
www.runalongtheshelves.net
February 14, 2026 at 8:16 AM
It’s Saturday and you deserve a treat so sit back with a cuppa and catch up on this week’s Wombling Along gathering reviews and more I saw online this week www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2026/2/...
I would watch the hell out of this crossover.
“We saw you from across the bar and really dig your vibe.”
February 13, 2026 at 11:34 PM
I would watch the hell out of this crossover.
@annabower.bsky.social Would you be able to signal boost this at all?
Hi everyone, switching gears for a personal request: my friend's cousin has been detained while trying to check in at an immigration office in Wisconsin, and is now at risk of deportation.
If anyone has links to immigration resources in Green Bay or Milwaukee, I'd really appreciate it. Thank you!
If anyone has links to immigration resources in Green Bay or Milwaukee, I'd really appreciate it. Thank you!
February 13, 2026 at 8:26 PM
@annabower.bsky.social Would you be able to signal boost this at all?
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Facebook plans to put facial recognition in its glasses and they think we’re too stupid to fight back.
Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 12:16 PM
Facebook plans to put facial recognition in its glasses and they think we’re too stupid to fight back.
Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
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Side note, but Trek's longeivity as a franchise makes it a great example of the Douglas Adams maxim about tech: anything invented before you were born is just part of how the world works, anything invented when you're young is novel and exciting, and anything invented when you're over 30 is heresy.
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“Captain Mumbles” is a hell of a thing to call Holly Hunter, whose distinctive speech pattern is due to mumps taking her hearing on one side. The disrespect from someone who cares more about “decorum” than decency.
“Captain Mumbles” is a hell of a thing to call Holly Hunter, whose distinctive speech pattern is due to mumps taking her hearing on one side. The disrespect from someone who cares more about “decorum” than decency.
February 13, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Side note, but Trek's longeivity as a franchise makes it a great example of the Douglas Adams maxim about tech: anything invented before you were born is just part of how the world works, anything invented when you're young is novel and exciting, and anything invented when you're over 30 is heresy.
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Too many Brits do not properly appreciate the NHS. The system is a fucking gem, and it’s truly criminal that the right wing has done so much fucking damage to it.
I’m from the US. I know. Y’all DO NOT appreciate, truly, how much money gets sunk into the US system.
And no, it’s not faster. (1/2)
I’m from the US. I know. Y’all DO NOT appreciate, truly, how much money gets sunk into the US system.
And no, it’s not faster. (1/2)
February 13, 2026 at 11:33 AM
Too many Brits do not properly appreciate the NHS. The system is a fucking gem, and it’s truly criminal that the right wing has done so much fucking damage to it.
I’m from the US. I know. Y’all DO NOT appreciate, truly, how much money gets sunk into the US system.
And no, it’s not faster. (1/2)
I’m from the US. I know. Y’all DO NOT appreciate, truly, how much money gets sunk into the US system.
And no, it’s not faster. (1/2)
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ICYMI.
I would probably be remembered as the author who spearheaded werewolf urban fantasy in Singapore. So, if you would like to read werewolf urban fantasy, written as a response to all the UFs (so white) written around that time...
www.foxspirit.co.uk/jan-xu-or-we...
www.foxspirit.co.uk/jan-xu-or-we...
Jan Xu or 'Werewolves in Singapore' -
Am very pleased to announce that the re release of the first two Jan Xu novels ‘Wolf at the Door’ and ‘Obsidian Moon, Obsidian Eye’ by Joyce Chng writing as J. Damask are now available from Fox Spirit...
www.foxspirit.co.uk
February 13, 2026 at 7:57 AM
ICYMI.
Wrestling fans are, of course, historically well known for not chanting things once they hear that people don't want them chanting.
February 12, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Wrestling fans are, of course, historically well known for not chanting things once they hear that people don't want them chanting.
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Gandalf really is heroic when you consider that there were originally five wizards and one of them turned evil, two of them fucked off and went out east to have orgies, and one is just super into talking to gophers. The one last hope of free peoples was the stoner and that crazy mfer did it.
February 12, 2026 at 4:24 AM
Gandalf really is heroic when you consider that there were originally five wizards and one of them turned evil, two of them fucked off and went out east to have orgies, and one is just super into talking to gophers. The one last hope of free peoples was the stoner and that crazy mfer did it.
My favourite sub genre of military history is mad weapons the designers thought would be the next big innovation but were often more dangerous to the operator than anyone on the business end.
February 12, 2026 at 11:51 AM
My favourite sub genre of military history is mad weapons the designers thought would be the next big innovation but were often more dangerous to the operator than anyone on the business end.
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Going back through old stuff. Here’s that time I switched out Gerty in Moon for Holly in Red Dwarf.
February 12, 2026 at 10:46 AM
Going back through old stuff. Here’s that time I switched out Gerty in Moon for Holly in Red Dwarf.
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Love that every time people try to put words into Zack’s mouth he just goes ‘well no, that’s unrealistic, here is the extremely sensible and normal thing I am actually saying.’
“Are you firmly in favour of rejoining the European Union?" - Robert Peston
“Firmly very much in favour. Brexit has been a disaster under any criteria, under any measure" - Zack Polanski
“Firmly very much in favour. Brexit has been a disaster under any criteria, under any measure" - Zack Polanski
February 12, 2026 at 8:46 AM
Love that every time people try to put words into Zack’s mouth he just goes ‘well no, that’s unrealistic, here is the extremely sensible and normal thing I am actually saying.’
My evening with @lajellybean.bsky.social had devolved into an impassioned argument as to whether a piano is a violin or a balalaika.
It would take far too long to explain.
It would take far too long to explain.
February 11, 2026 at 11:12 PM
My evening with @lajellybean.bsky.social had devolved into an impassioned argument as to whether a piano is a violin or a balalaika.
It would take far too long to explain.
It would take far too long to explain.
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Hated Jellico as a kid. It's very interesting watching that with adult eyes and realising that literally the only thing he did wrong in the entire two parter was to not be particularly approachable, and he was actually nicer to Riker than Picard was in Encounter At Farpoint.
February 11, 2026 at 9:50 PM
Hated Jellico as a kid. It's very interesting watching that with adult eyes and realising that literally the only thing he did wrong in the entire two parter was to not be particularly approachable, and he was actually nicer to Riker than Picard was in Encounter At Farpoint.
Watching Chain of Command, still makes me boil watching the Enterprise senior staff being a bunch of whiny little babies about having a new Captain and behaving in a monumentally unprofessional manner by openly discussing how much they think he sucks in the corridors where anyone can hear them.
February 11, 2026 at 9:32 PM
Watching Chain of Command, still makes me boil watching the Enterprise senior staff being a bunch of whiny little babies about having a new Captain and behaving in a monumentally unprofessional manner by openly discussing how much they think he sucks in the corridors where anyone can hear them.
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All that money, yet he looks like a hobo that’s been fired through a bramble thicket from a trebuchet.
'The UK has been colonised by immigrants', says INEOS boss and Man Utd co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe
'The UK has been colonised by immigrants', says INEOS boss and Man Utd co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe
Britain has been "colonised" by immigrants, who are draining resources from the state, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, one of the country's richest and most influential men, has told Sky News.
news.sky.com
February 11, 2026 at 5:40 PM
All that money, yet he looks like a hobo that’s been fired through a bramble thicket from a trebuchet.
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"The country's resources have been drained" says billionaire who changed his domicile location to Monaco to avoid paying tax in the UK.
'The UK has been colonised by immigrants', says INEOS boss and Man Utd co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe
'The UK has been colonised by immigrants', says INEOS boss and Man Utd co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe
Britain has been "colonised" by immigrants, who are draining resources from the state, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, one of the country's richest and most influential men, has told Sky News.
news.sky.com
February 11, 2026 at 5:29 PM
"The country's resources have been drained" says billionaire who changed his domicile location to Monaco to avoid paying tax in the UK.
I love the fact that this suggests that counteracting incursions from extraterrestrial abductors is a local council issue. That's as far up the chain as it needs to go.
February 11, 2026 at 11:39 AM
I love the fact that this suggests that counteracting incursions from extraterrestrial abductors is a local council issue. That's as far up the chain as it needs to go.
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I, naturally, second this proposal
February 11, 2026 at 9:26 AM
I, naturally, second this proposal
I would like to propose the "tainted copper" rule for memes which would state that once Ea-Nasir has entered the chat a meme has reached its apotheosis and should be shut down.
February 11, 2026 at 9:24 AM
I would like to propose the "tainted copper" rule for memes which would state that once Ea-Nasir has entered the chat a meme has reached its apotheosis and should be shut down.
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starting to feel like there's a direct relationship between the growing obsession with lifestyle hygeine (no drinking, no caffeine, no sex, obsessive working out and looksmaxxing) and the inability to meaningful moral stands on issues of actual import
Cafes across the U.S. are embracing the low- and no-caffeine lifestyle, with options that are a far cry from dusty tea bags and rewarmed decaf. nyti.ms/3XKlqoj
February 9, 2026 at 5:12 PM
starting to feel like there's a direct relationship between the growing obsession with lifestyle hygeine (no drinking, no caffeine, no sex, obsessive working out and looksmaxxing) and the inability to meaningful moral stands on issues of actual import
Bought a new fountain pen yesterday. I'm officially a person who collects fountain pens now I guess. I find them soothing to use.
February 10, 2026 at 9:11 PM
Bought a new fountain pen yesterday. I'm officially a person who collects fountain pens now I guess. I find them soothing to use.