Jason Thompson
@jasonjtt.bsky.social
Biochemist, Doctor Who fan, astronomer, model-maker... these are just some of the nicer terms used to describe me. Co-host of @robotsineyes podcast.
Chopped chillies for a dinner. Rubbed my eye without thinking an hour or so later. Eye started burning and streaming. Other eye started watering in sympathy. Stupidly rubbed that one too. Went to the bathroom to flush my eyes and blindly bashed the bridge of my nose on the tap!
What's the most ridiculous way you ever hurt yourself? I got out of the tub, skidded in water and tripped over the toilet. Ankle sprain.
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January 5, 2026 at 10:20 PM
Chopped chillies for a dinner. Rubbed my eye without thinking an hour or so later. Eye started burning and streaming. Other eye started watering in sympathy. Stupidly rubbed that one too. Went to the bathroom to flush my eyes and blindly bashed the bridge of my nose on the tap!
Human Spaceflight: 07 Mar 1969. Apollo 9 Lunar Module Pilot Rusty Schweickart dons the lunar surface suit and exits the hatch of the lunar module in orbit. While there he captures film of Dave Scott emerging from the command module hatch and retrieving some experiment packages from outside.
January 5, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Human Spaceflight: 07 Mar 1969. Apollo 9 Lunar Module Pilot Rusty Schweickart dons the lunar surface suit and exits the hatch of the lunar module in orbit. While there he captures film of Dave Scott emerging from the command module hatch and retrieving some experiment packages from outside.
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A repost for the evening crowd.
✨New Episode!✨
We return to the magical realms to find that one character is finally getting their long overdue spotlight episode, and to experience surely the biggest anticlimax this show could possibly deliver.
open.spotify.com/episode/7ACO...
We return to the magical realms to find that one character is finally getting their long overdue spotlight episode, and to experience surely the biggest anticlimax this show could possibly deliver.
open.spotify.com/episode/7ACO...
D&D - The Negotiations End There
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January 5, 2026 at 8:51 PM
A repost for the evening crowd.
Still in the first week of the new year and I've already booked three conventions (with a fourth I booked last year) and a holiday! 2026 is going to be a good one.
January 5, 2026 at 10:17 AM
Still in the first week of the new year and I've already booked three conventions (with a fourth I booked last year) and a holiday! 2026 is going to be a good one.
Back with D&D and honestly one of these episodes promised so much and utterly failed to deliver...
✨New Episode!✨
We return to the magical realms to find that one character is finally getting their long overdue spotlight episode, and to experience surely the biggest anticlimax this show could possibly deliver.
open.spotify.com/episode/7ACO...
We return to the magical realms to find that one character is finally getting their long overdue spotlight episode, and to experience surely the biggest anticlimax this show could possibly deliver.
open.spotify.com/episode/7ACO...
D&D - The Negotiations End There
open.spotify.com
January 5, 2026 at 6:08 AM
Back with D&D and honestly one of these episodes promised so much and utterly failed to deliver...
Human Spaceflight: 03 Mar 1969. Astronauts Jim McDivitt, Dave Scott and Rusty Schweickart ride the Saturn V into Earth orbit for a checkout flight of various lunar landing systems including the lunar module and the lunar spacesuit and life support system.
January 4, 2026 at 9:51 PM
Human Spaceflight: 03 Mar 1969. Astronauts Jim McDivitt, Dave Scott and Rusty Schweickart ride the Saturn V into Earth orbit for a checkout flight of various lunar landing systems including the lunar module and the lunar spacesuit and life support system.
Congratulations to @danielrawnsley.bsky.social for a convincing victory in mine and @sihart.bsky.social's Moffat Era Doctor Who Quiz! And to @johnboycook.bsky.social for coming in second.
Thanks to everyone who came along. Next up: the 1980s! Likely around Easter. Hope to see many of you there!
Thanks to everyone who came along. Next up: the 1980s! Likely around Easter. Hope to see many of you there!
a man in a suit is holding a torch in his hand
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January 3, 2026 at 9:44 PM
Congratulations to @danielrawnsley.bsky.social for a convincing victory in mine and @sihart.bsky.social's Moffat Era Doctor Who Quiz! And to @johnboycook.bsky.social for coming in second.
Thanks to everyone who came along. Next up: the 1980s! Likely around Easter. Hope to see many of you there!
Thanks to everyone who came along. Next up: the 1980s! Likely around Easter. Hope to see many of you there!
Links have gone out to those who expressed interest. There's still time for anyone who wants to join! Questions begin at 8pm.
✨Coming soon!✨
It's a new Zoom quiz from me and @sihart.bsky.social, this time covering the Moffat era. Come and test your knowledge!
Saturday 3rd January, questions start at 8pm. Register your interest below or DM for the link, which will be sent out on the night.
It's a new Zoom quiz from me and @sihart.bsky.social, this time covering the Moffat era. Come and test your knowledge!
Saturday 3rd January, questions start at 8pm. Register your interest below or DM for the link, which will be sent out on the night.
January 3, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Links have gone out to those who expressed interest. There's still time for anyone who wants to join! Questions begin at 8pm.
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Tonight! Come and join us to test your knowledge of the Moffat era! Message Jason if you're up for joining us this evening. We'd love to see you there!
✨Coming soon!✨
It's a new Zoom quiz from me and @sihart.bsky.social, this time covering the Moffat era. Come and test your knowledge!
Saturday 3rd January, questions start at 8pm. Register your interest below or DM for the link, which will be sent out on the night.
It's a new Zoom quiz from me and @sihart.bsky.social, this time covering the Moffat era. Come and test your knowledge!
Saturday 3rd January, questions start at 8pm. Register your interest below or DM for the link, which will be sent out on the night.
January 3, 2026 at 8:54 AM
Tonight! Come and join us to test your knowledge of the Moffat era! Message Jason if you're up for joining us this evening. We'd love to see you there!
Human Spaceflight: 21 February 1969. The Soviet Union launches N1-3L from Baikonur Cosmodrome. Their answer to the Saturn V, and almost as large, it is intended that this shall be the rocket to launch men to the moon. Unfortunately it shuts down a minute after launch and crashes to the ground.
January 2, 2026 at 10:39 PM
Human Spaceflight: 21 February 1969. The Soviet Union launches N1-3L from Baikonur Cosmodrome. Their answer to the Saturn V, and almost as large, it is intended that this shall be the rocket to launch men to the moon. Unfortunately it shuts down a minute after launch and crashes to the ground.
🚨🚨Tomorrow!🚨🚨
If you're like to join our Zoom quiz on the Moffat era of Doctor Who then replay to the original post to be sent the link tomorrow afternoon. Questions begin at 8pm.
If you're like to join our Zoom quiz on the Moffat era of Doctor Who then replay to the original post to be sent the link tomorrow afternoon. Questions begin at 8pm.
✨Coming soon!✨
It's a new Zoom quiz from me and @sihart.bsky.social, this time covering the Moffat era. Come and test your knowledge!
Saturday 3rd January, questions start at 8pm. Register your interest below or DM for the link, which will be sent out on the night.
It's a new Zoom quiz from me and @sihart.bsky.social, this time covering the Moffat era. Come and test your knowledge!
Saturday 3rd January, questions start at 8pm. Register your interest below or DM for the link, which will be sent out on the night.
January 2, 2026 at 9:15 PM
🚨🚨Tomorrow!🚨🚨
If you're like to join our Zoom quiz on the Moffat era of Doctor Who then replay to the original post to be sent the link tomorrow afternoon. Questions begin at 8pm.
If you're like to join our Zoom quiz on the Moffat era of Doctor Who then replay to the original post to be sent the link tomorrow afternoon. Questions begin at 8pm.
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I always respond to Moon landing deniers because I can't not fight the slippery slope into full blown science denial. And so I put my thoughts into a new video on my second channel. Enjoy!
youtu.be/hQVBPSmTYzk
youtu.be/hQVBPSmTYzk
I don't know if science can survive this
Conspiracy theories are a slippery slope, and with the rise of anti-science, I'm more than a little concerned.
Also the thumbnail image is EVA training from Apollo 11.
The Vintage Space:…
youtu.be
January 2, 2026 at 6:48 PM
I always respond to Moon landing deniers because I can't not fight the slippery slope into full blown science denial. And so I put my thoughts into a new video on my second channel. Enjoy!
youtu.be/hQVBPSmTYzk
youtu.be/hQVBPSmTYzk
One more time for content creators on meta: using a product exactly as designed and intended is NOT a hack. Discovering a function clearly stated in the instructions you didn’t read is NOT a hack. Creating a home version of a mass-produced, cheap and easily obtainable item is NOT a hack.
Thank you.
Thank you.
January 2, 2026 at 4:29 PM
One more time for content creators on meta: using a product exactly as designed and intended is NOT a hack. Discovering a function clearly stated in the instructions you didn’t read is NOT a hack. Creating a home version of a mass-produced, cheap and easily obtainable item is NOT a hack.
Thank you.
Thank you.
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Time to look back at 2025 one more time.
My annual Doctor Who In Memoriam is on You Tube now.
Please watch, like and circulate.
Oh, and please just be nice about it and Doctor Who as there are plenty of other places you can be otherwise.
youtu.be/mfNDgewmlEU?...
My annual Doctor Who In Memoriam is on You Tube now.
Please watch, like and circulate.
Oh, and please just be nice about it and Doctor Who as there are plenty of other places you can be otherwise.
youtu.be/mfNDgewmlEU?...
Doctor Who In Memoriam 2025
YouTube video by Toby Hadoke
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January 1, 2026 at 10:50 PM
Time to look back at 2025 one more time.
My annual Doctor Who In Memoriam is on You Tube now.
Please watch, like and circulate.
Oh, and please just be nice about it and Doctor Who as there are plenty of other places you can be otherwise.
youtu.be/mfNDgewmlEU?...
My annual Doctor Who In Memoriam is on You Tube now.
Please watch, like and circulate.
Oh, and please just be nice about it and Doctor Who as there are plenty of other places you can be otherwise.
youtu.be/mfNDgewmlEU?...
Human Spaceflight: 18 Jan 1969. After an extremely successful mission involving rendezvous, docking and crew tranfers, and the safe return to Earth of three cosmonauts on Soyuz 4, the mission nearly ended in disaster as Soyuz 5, carrying Boris Volynov, makes a near-fatal crash landing.
January 1, 2026 at 9:26 PM
Human Spaceflight: 18 Jan 1969. After an extremely successful mission involving rendezvous, docking and crew tranfers, and the safe return to Earth of three cosmonauts on Soyuz 4, the mission nearly ended in disaster as Soyuz 5, carrying Boris Volynov, makes a near-fatal crash landing.
Looking for something fun to begin 2026 with? How about a quiz on Zoom covering the Moffat era of Doctor Who?
Saturday 3rd January at 8pm.
Saturday 3rd January at 8pm.
✨Coming soon!✨
It's a new Zoom quiz from me and @sihart.bsky.social, this time covering the Moffat era. Come and test your knowledge!
Saturday 3rd January, questions start at 8pm. Register your interest below or DM for the link, which will be sent out on the night.
It's a new Zoom quiz from me and @sihart.bsky.social, this time covering the Moffat era. Come and test your knowledge!
Saturday 3rd January, questions start at 8pm. Register your interest below or DM for the link, which will be sent out on the night.
January 1, 2026 at 9:16 PM
Looking for something fun to begin 2026 with? How about a quiz on Zoom covering the Moffat era of Doctor Who?
Saturday 3rd January at 8pm.
Saturday 3rd January at 8pm.
Yes, there are things I use on a regular basis. Yes, I buy them routinely when I go shopping. Yes, it adds up to a good chunk of time spent buying the same thing over and over.
No, that does not mean I want a mail order subscription for fucking laundry detergent, cat litter and shaving cream!
No, that does not mean I want a mail order subscription for fucking laundry detergent, cat litter and shaving cream!
January 1, 2026 at 12:24 PM
Yes, there are things I use on a regular basis. Yes, I buy them routinely when I go shopping. Yes, it adds up to a good chunk of time spent buying the same thing over and over.
No, that does not mean I want a mail order subscription for fucking laundry detergent, cat litter and shaving cream!
No, that does not mean I want a mail order subscription for fucking laundry detergent, cat litter and shaving cream!
Happy New Year to all of you. Here's to 2026 being a great year.
leonardo dicaprio is wearing a tuxedo and bow tie and smiling with the words yasssss written below him
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January 1, 2026 at 12:10 AM
Happy New Year to all of you. Here's to 2026 being a great year.
Thought I'd end the year with some recommendations for some of the podcasts I've spent the last 12 months trying to find time to listen to. Many of you I'm sure are already listening to half of these (or on them!) but they're worth 'bigging up'.
December 31, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Thought I'd end the year with some recommendations for some of the podcasts I've spent the last 12 months trying to find time to listen to. Many of you I'm sure are already listening to half of these (or on them!) but they're worth 'bigging up'.
Human Spaceflight: 17 Jan 1969. Soyuz 4 returns to Earth. In a near-perfect landing, Vladimir Shatalov arrives safely back in Russia along with Aleksei Yeliseyev and Yevgeny Khrunov, the first two humans to return to Earth in a different spacecraft from the one they were launched on.
December 31, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Human Spaceflight: 17 Jan 1969. Soyuz 4 returns to Earth. In a near-perfect landing, Vladimir Shatalov arrives safely back in Russia along with Aleksei Yeliseyev and Yevgeny Khrunov, the first two humans to return to Earth in a different spacecraft from the one they were launched on.
Don't you just love it when you stick on a film you've been looking forward to killing some time with only for the DVD to freeze an hour in and refuse absolutely to advance any further. Looks like Ripley won't be confronting the Alien queen tonight after all.
December 31, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Don't you just love it when you stick on a film you've been looking forward to killing some time with only for the DVD to freeze an hour in and refuse absolutely to advance any further. Looks like Ripley won't be confronting the Alien queen tonight after all.
Nice haul of gifts this Christmas including several things made by lovely people I know. 😊
December 31, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Nice haul of gifts this Christmas including several things made by lovely people I know. 😊
Human Spaceflight: 16 Jan 1969. The Soviet Union makes history as the first docking between two crewed spacecraft takes place in orbit as Soyuz 4 and 5 link up. Another landmark is achieved as two of the Soyuz 5 cosmonauts make an EVA and transfer to Soyuz 4.
December 30, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Human Spaceflight: 16 Jan 1969. The Soviet Union makes history as the first docking between two crewed spacecraft takes place in orbit as Soyuz 4 and 5 link up. Another landmark is achieved as two of the Soyuz 5 cosmonauts make an EVA and transfer to Soyuz 4.
The Klingons?! First it was the Cardasdians, then it was the Dominion. Now it’s the Klingons! How’s a Ferengi supposed to make an honest living in a place like this?
December 30, 2025 at 5:20 PM
The Klingons?! First it was the Cardasdians, then it was the Dominion. Now it’s the Klingons! How’s a Ferengi supposed to make an honest living in a place like this?
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A nice cuppa in a very appropriate new mug that I received as a Christmas gift.
December 30, 2025 at 10:56 AM
A nice cuppa in a very appropriate new mug that I received as a Christmas gift.