Jez Becker
@jezbecker.bsky.social
Writing sci-fi and fantasy to salve my soul. #bipolar --- DnD. Nerdy nonsense... a little science and a twist of art. Shaken well and served over ice.
Just watched Sho Kosugi in Revenge of the Ninja at Glasgow fantastic monthly #TrashCinema.
So good. So bad. Two ninja related jacuzzi incidents in one movie.
Remember kids. Only a ninja can stop a ninja...
So good. So bad. Two ninja related jacuzzi incidents in one movie.
Remember kids. Only a ninja can stop a ninja...
January 12, 2026 at 10:59 PM
Just watched Sho Kosugi in Revenge of the Ninja at Glasgow fantastic monthly #TrashCinema.
So good. So bad. Two ninja related jacuzzi incidents in one movie.
Remember kids. Only a ninja can stop a ninja...
So good. So bad. Two ninja related jacuzzi incidents in one movie.
Remember kids. Only a ninja can stop a ninja...
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When I flew ANA airlines in Japan, they had a Pokemon-themed inflight safety video that I thought was my favourite, but I think Phillippine Airlines might take the cake:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UkT...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UkT...
Philippine Airlines Inflight Safety Video #PALSafetynovela | Care That Comes From The Heart
YouTube video by Philippine Airlines
www.youtube.com
January 7, 2026 at 6:54 AM
When I flew ANA airlines in Japan, they had a Pokemon-themed inflight safety video that I thought was my favourite, but I think Phillippine Airlines might take the cake:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UkT...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UkT...
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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
Yeah - that's a niche present suggestion in the browser ads. Not sure what I did to the algorithm to deserve that.
December 23, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Yeah - that's a niche present suggestion in the browser ads. Not sure what I did to the algorithm to deserve that.
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my favorite thing about the benoit blanc movies is that they aren't really about benoit blanc. he is not grappling with demons from his past. we are not getting flashbacks to the husband whose murder he never solved. he just shows up and does his job like mary poppins for homicides
December 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
my favorite thing about the benoit blanc movies is that they aren't really about benoit blanc. he is not grappling with demons from his past. we are not getting flashbacks to the husband whose murder he never solved. he just shows up and does his job like mary poppins for homicides
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I feel you, screaming chicken who is also the statue of liberty
December 14, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I feel you, screaming chicken who is also the statue of liberty
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Christmas night: "But Santa, you've hardly touched your Zardoz cookies."
December 14, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Christmas night: "But Santa, you've hardly touched your Zardoz cookies."
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We have a meeting room in our Stockholm office named Gävle.
December 1, 2025 at 9:54 PM
We have a meeting room in our Stockholm office named Gävle.
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![Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihwhjblp5lyiwp63ouar7ocfea7evmckytoeo7rkfuoo4gw5rnrra@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Phyllis Haver!
November 26, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Phyllis Haver!
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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The artwork on a 4300-year-old silver goblet unearthed in the Palestinian West Bank appears to show the universe forming out of primordial chaos – making it the oldest known visual representation of a creation myth.
Ancient silver goblet preserves oldest known image of cosmic creation
The images hammered into the sides of a goblet found in Palestine give us an idea of what people living more than 4000 years ago imagined the creation of the cosmos looked like
www.newscientist.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:35 PM
The artwork on a 4300-year-old silver goblet unearthed in the Palestinian West Bank appears to show the universe forming out of primordial chaos – making it the oldest known visual representation of a creation myth.
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Part 83 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg dnd
Queen Boudica revenge was so great against Rome she burned Londinium leaving a scorch layer still runs under modern London, named by archaeologists the 'Boudican Destruction Horizon'
Queen Boudica revenge was so great against Rome she burned Londinium leaving a scorch layer still runs under modern London, named by archaeologists the 'Boudican Destruction Horizon'
November 13, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Part 83 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg dnd
Queen Boudica revenge was so great against Rome she burned Londinium leaving a scorch layer still runs under modern London, named by archaeologists the 'Boudican Destruction Horizon'
Queen Boudica revenge was so great against Rome she burned Londinium leaving a scorch layer still runs under modern London, named by archaeologists the 'Boudican Destruction Horizon'
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I’m sorry I just found out that in 1379, as in, 650 years ago, a baby girl was born in Yorkshire and named Diot Coke
history is a fucking joke lmao
history is a fucking joke lmao
November 13, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I’m sorry I just found out that in 1379, as in, 650 years ago, a baby girl was born in Yorkshire and named Diot Coke
history is a fucking joke lmao
history is a fucking joke lmao
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Port Huron Times Herald, November 12, 1966. I did not know Leonard Nimoy based Spock's speech patterns on Somerset Maugham! Remarkable.
"Spock probably learned English formally. To achieve this kind of speech pattern I listened to recordings of Somerset Maugham reading his own short stories."
"Spock probably learned English formally. To achieve this kind of speech pattern I listened to recordings of Somerset Maugham reading his own short stories."
November 12, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Port Huron Times Herald, November 12, 1966. I did not know Leonard Nimoy based Spock's speech patterns on Somerset Maugham! Remarkable.
"Spock probably learned English formally. To achieve this kind of speech pattern I listened to recordings of Somerset Maugham reading his own short stories."
"Spock probably learned English formally. To achieve this kind of speech pattern I listened to recordings of Somerset Maugham reading his own short stories."
This will never get through the filters..
but trump giving Hungary Russian oil exceptions is so cunt to cunt it should be called tribbing.
but trump giving Hungary Russian oil exceptions is so cunt to cunt it should be called tribbing.
November 8, 2025 at 12:41 AM
This will never get through the filters..
but trump giving Hungary Russian oil exceptions is so cunt to cunt it should be called tribbing.
but trump giving Hungary Russian oil exceptions is so cunt to cunt it should be called tribbing.
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This may be one of the best things I’ve ever seen.
November 7, 2025 at 10:26 AM
This may be one of the best things I’ve ever seen.
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Me waiting for the bus omw to kick your ass
May 13, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Me waiting for the bus omw to kick your ass
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Wallace the priest must defend the Chapel while surviving waves of undead trout, and lay them to rest for good.
A short, spooky experience coming VERY soon!
demmy.itch.io/troutpriest
#indiegame #trailer #dark #spooky
A short, spooky experience coming VERY soon!
demmy.itch.io/troutpriest
#indiegame #trailer #dark #spooky
November 7, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Wallace the priest must defend the Chapel while surviving waves of undead trout, and lay them to rest for good.
A short, spooky experience coming VERY soon!
demmy.itch.io/troutpriest
#indiegame #trailer #dark #spooky
A short, spooky experience coming VERY soon!
demmy.itch.io/troutpriest
#indiegame #trailer #dark #spooky
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BBC really burying the lede there
November 7, 2025 at 12:07 PM
BBC really burying the lede there
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Re: tendencies to ascribe personhood to #AI:
"...it was impossible not to invest the machine with some faculty of intellect; it seemed to have made the first step from brute matter to life and purpose, showing its progress by great power."
Dorothy Wordsworth, 1803, encountering steam-powered pump
"...it was impossible not to invest the machine with some faculty of intellect; it seemed to have made the first step from brute matter to life and purpose, showing its progress by great power."
Dorothy Wordsworth, 1803, encountering steam-powered pump
November 5, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Re: tendencies to ascribe personhood to #AI:
"...it was impossible not to invest the machine with some faculty of intellect; it seemed to have made the first step from brute matter to life and purpose, showing its progress by great power."
Dorothy Wordsworth, 1803, encountering steam-powered pump
"...it was impossible not to invest the machine with some faculty of intellect; it seemed to have made the first step from brute matter to life and purpose, showing its progress by great power."
Dorothy Wordsworth, 1803, encountering steam-powered pump
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New capybara just dropped
(Commissioned)
(Commissioned)
October 24, 2025 at 11:14 AM
New capybara just dropped
(Commissioned)
(Commissioned)
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I would watch every one of these
October 27, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I would watch every one of these
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Soviet submarine commodore Vasily Arkhipov may well have saved the world today in 1962.
Off Cuba, Soviet sub B-59 was being depth charged by US ships & was out of contact with the USSR. The captain, assuming they were at war, wished to launch a nuclear torpedo. Arkhipov vetoed it.
Off Cuba, Soviet sub B-59 was being depth charged by US ships & was out of contact with the USSR. The captain, assuming they were at war, wished to launch a nuclear torpedo. Arkhipov vetoed it.
October 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Soviet submarine commodore Vasily Arkhipov may well have saved the world today in 1962.
Off Cuba, Soviet sub B-59 was being depth charged by US ships & was out of contact with the USSR. The captain, assuming they were at war, wished to launch a nuclear torpedo. Arkhipov vetoed it.
Off Cuba, Soviet sub B-59 was being depth charged by US ships & was out of contact with the USSR. The captain, assuming they were at war, wished to launch a nuclear torpedo. Arkhipov vetoed it.
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Today's sketch: now on YouTube! See if you can spot the very subtle continuity error when the airlock opens.
youtu.be/NWoEWDJr6tA
youtu.be/NWoEWDJr6tA
Let Me Tell You a Story (Before the Ship Explodes)
YouTube video by Alasdair Beckett-King
youtu.be
October 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Today's sketch: now on YouTube! See if you can spot the very subtle continuity error when the airlock opens.
youtu.be/NWoEWDJr6tA
youtu.be/NWoEWDJr6tA