Michael
@littlexander.bsky.social
Civil servant, Wales. Big Star Trek fan and overall nerd. "Who you are from moment to moment is just a story." He/him.
I don’t have the energy to be this stressed anymore. :(
November 11, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I don’t have the energy to be this stressed anymore. :(
Had a shower and now I’m exhausted. Is this my life now?
November 9, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Had a shower and now I’m exhausted. Is this my life now?
If you see this, post an anime you love
November 6, 2025 at 9:59 PM
If you see this, post an anime you love
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November 6, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Glad it’s finally announced, and it looks better than I first thought. My wallet screams, though.
NEW — LEGO finally unveils their long-rumored 3600pc, $400 STAR TREK: TNG Enterprise-D brick set and limited-availability shuttlepod kit, coming in late November
#StarTrek #Lego
blog.trekcore.com/2025/11/lego...
#StarTrek #Lego
blog.trekcore.com/2025/11/lego...
LEGO Unveils New 3600-Piece STAR TREK: TNG Enterprise-D Brick Set
LEGO finally unveils their long-rumored 3600pc, $400 STAR TREK: TNG Enterprise-D brick set and limited-availability Shuttlepod kit, coming in late November
blog.trekcore.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Glad it’s finally announced, and it looks better than I first thought. My wallet screams, though.
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Delighted to say that an updated and expanded version of my series on one of the most extraordinary acts in aviation history will be running on The Up Front over the coming weeks.
And even better: it's now completely free to read.
And even better: it's now completely free to read.
In December 1941, Pan Am flight 18602 was trapped the wrong side of the Pacific by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
To get home, her civilian crew would need to do the near-impossible: circumnavigate the world in commercial seaplane.
In our new series, we tell tell their remarkable story.
To get home, her civilian crew would need to do the near-impossible: circumnavigate the world in commercial seaplane.
In our new series, we tell tell their remarkable story.
The Long Way Round: The remarkable journey of the California Clipper, Part 1
In 1941, the Japanese attacked Hawaii, leaving Pan Am flight 18602 trapped the wrong side of Pearl Harbour, To get home, its civilian crew would have to do something incredible: circumnavigate the wor...
theupfront.media
October 31, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Delighted to say that an updated and expanded version of my series on one of the most extraordinary acts in aviation history will be running on The Up Front over the coming weeks.
And even better: it's now completely free to read.
And even better: it's now completely free to read.
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Above, Below at Night
From Canning Town station you can see the Docklands Light Railway traveling over the London Underground. Here's a shot taken during blue hour.
From Canning Town station you can see the Docklands Light Railway traveling over the London Underground. Here's a shot taken during blue hour.
October 30, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Above, Below at Night
From Canning Town station you can see the Docklands Light Railway traveling over the London Underground. Here's a shot taken during blue hour.
From Canning Town station you can see the Docklands Light Railway traveling over the London Underground. Here's a shot taken during blue hour.
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We all know - and have known for decades - just how important women are in preserving and championing Star Trek. From running the first conventions to our current podcasters, women have always been a major presence in the fandom.
You are valid and we see you, ladies! Keep kicking ass 🖖🏻💜✨
You are valid and we see you, ladies! Keep kicking ass 🖖🏻💜✨
October 26, 2025 at 5:33 PM
We all know - and have known for decades - just how important women are in preserving and championing Star Trek. From running the first conventions to our current podcasters, women have always been a major presence in the fandom.
You are valid and we see you, ladies! Keep kicking ass 🖖🏻💜✨
You are valid and we see you, ladies! Keep kicking ass 🖖🏻💜✨
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The GFRobot article about Star Trek fans being majority male/conservative is still going around several days later, so I was to say 1) don't click on it or they will "write" more just like it & 2) the site is known trash.
Here's my Star Trek Feminist Community starter pack!
go.bsky.app/BJx9pao
Here's my Star Trek Feminist Community starter pack!
go.bsky.app/BJx9pao
October 26, 2025 at 5:33 PM
The GFRobot article about Star Trek fans being majority male/conservative is still going around several days later, so I was to say 1) don't click on it or they will "write" more just like it & 2) the site is known trash.
Here's my Star Trek Feminist Community starter pack!
go.bsky.app/BJx9pao
Here's my Star Trek Feminist Community starter pack!
go.bsky.app/BJx9pao
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It's very much "go ahead and cite the Deep Magic to me, witch, I shipped it when it was written"
October 25, 2025 at 1:19 PM
It's very much "go ahead and cite the Deep Magic to me, witch, I shipped it when it was written"
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Can I share something with you? I'm really really scared of the day when one of the #StarTrekTNG main cast members dies. I remember the days when DeForest Kelley and Leonard Nimoy died vividly. But #TNG is *my* #StarTrek. I just can't imagine at all how I will cope. 🙈
October 24, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Can I share something with you? I'm really really scared of the day when one of the #StarTrekTNG main cast members dies. I remember the days when DeForest Kelley and Leonard Nimoy died vividly. But #TNG is *my* #StarTrek. I just can't imagine at all how I will cope. 🙈
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I remember when so many nerds were begging for serialization, but maybe we should go back to the long overarching story mixed with standalone episodes format.
I mean, sometimes you gotta take a break from your intergalactic war to play baseball with some jerk Vulcans.
I mean, sometimes you gotta take a break from your intergalactic war to play baseball with some jerk Vulcans.
October 21, 2025 at 3:48 AM
I remember when so many nerds were begging for serialization, but maybe we should go back to the long overarching story mixed with standalone episodes format.
I mean, sometimes you gotta take a break from your intergalactic war to play baseball with some jerk Vulcans.
I mean, sometimes you gotta take a break from your intergalactic war to play baseball with some jerk Vulcans.
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Here’s one of my favourite recent Nap Comix, to give you an idea of the Kickstarter.
NAP COMIX! #327
Beautiful.
Thank you to everyone so far who has signed up for the NAP COMIX pre-launch Kickstarter! Sign up with no obligation here: kickstarter.com/projects/flimsykitten/nap-comix It really does help me out!
Beautiful.
Thank you to everyone so far who has signed up for the NAP COMIX pre-launch Kickstarter! Sign up with no obligation here: kickstarter.com/projects/flimsykitten/nap-comix It really does help me out!
October 20, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Here’s one of my favourite recent Nap Comix, to give you an idea of the Kickstarter.
Rachael has done great comics work over the years, and this collects another lovely project. Go support!
Oh my goodness, everyone!!
The NAP COMIX Kickstarter is now LIVE!
Help me reach my goal of £6k to bring my bittersweet, heartwarming, hilarious webcomic to life in Real Book Form!
tinyurl.com/napcomixks
Thank you all so much for your support with this project!
Rachael xxx
The NAP COMIX Kickstarter is now LIVE!
Help me reach my goal of £6k to bring my bittersweet, heartwarming, hilarious webcomic to life in Real Book Form!
tinyurl.com/napcomixks
Thank you all so much for your support with this project!
Rachael xxx
October 20, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Rachael has done great comics work over the years, and this collects another lovely project. Go support!
Flu jab achieved and now I am having some jelly babies as a reward for braving the scary sharp thing.
October 17, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Flu jab achieved and now I am having some jelly babies as a reward for braving the scary sharp thing.
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Also it's worth noting something about the scene where Scotty tries to talk to a 1980s computer in Star Trek IV.
When he realises it ISN'T a talk-to-it computer, he proceeds to type INSANELY fast.
You know. Like someone who only talks to computers when he wants simple shit done. Not complex shit.
When he realises it ISN'T a talk-to-it computer, he proceeds to type INSANELY fast.
You know. Like someone who only talks to computers when he wants simple shit done. Not complex shit.
I feel like (as with so many things with AI) this is techbros confusing the affordances of science fiction *media* with reality, when those affordances are often driven by the needs of the *media* rather than the SF.
I.E. they talk to the computer on Star Trek because typing is visually boring!
I.E. they talk to the computer on Star Trek because typing is visually boring!
Can you imagine a writers retreat where everyone is talking to their computer all the time? Or a classroom? Or trying to work in an open plan office where everyone in every cubicle is talking in loud clear voices and then things go wrong because their computer heard Bill talking two cubicles over...
October 16, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Also it's worth noting something about the scene where Scotty tries to talk to a 1980s computer in Star Trek IV.
When he realises it ISN'T a talk-to-it computer, he proceeds to type INSANELY fast.
You know. Like someone who only talks to computers when he wants simple shit done. Not complex shit.
When he realises it ISN'T a talk-to-it computer, he proceeds to type INSANELY fast.
You know. Like someone who only talks to computers when he wants simple shit done. Not complex shit.
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Okay. So. Amazing scenes playing out at the vets when i arrived to pick up Napoleon.
Names changed/removed. But get ready for a lost kitty story with a happy ending.
It starts late last year, when the elderly neighbour of a young couple went into a care home /1
Names changed/removed. But get ready for a lost kitty story with a happy ending.
It starts late last year, when the elderly neighbour of a young couple went into a care home /1
October 16, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Okay. So. Amazing scenes playing out at the vets when i arrived to pick up Napoleon.
Names changed/removed. But get ready for a lost kitty story with a happy ending.
It starts late last year, when the elderly neighbour of a young couple went into a care home /1
Names changed/removed. But get ready for a lost kitty story with a happy ending.
It starts late last year, when the elderly neighbour of a young couple went into a care home /1
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Heartbroken that, per his social media accounts, Drew Struzan has left us. His poster and album art was quite simply shorthand for imagination for countless young people.
October 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Heartbroken that, per his social media accounts, Drew Struzan has left us. His poster and album art was quite simply shorthand for imagination for countless young people.
Share a cartoon from the past that kids today have probably never heard of
October 14, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Share a cartoon from the past that kids today have probably never heard of
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Not Enterprise related, but this is a perfect joke.
October 10, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Not Enterprise related, but this is a perfect joke.
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Two nights of 3:45am alarms, blazing full moon lighting the sky like daytime and washing out the light of everything else, comet included. Then two days of post-processing battles, as comet processing is maddeningly tricky.
But I finally pulled it off: here is C/2025 A6 Lemmon. 🔭
#Astrophotography
But I finally pulled it off: here is C/2025 A6 Lemmon. 🔭
#Astrophotography
October 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Two nights of 3:45am alarms, blazing full moon lighting the sky like daytime and washing out the light of everything else, comet included. Then two days of post-processing battles, as comet processing is maddeningly tricky.
But I finally pulled it off: here is C/2025 A6 Lemmon. 🔭
#Astrophotography
But I finally pulled it off: here is C/2025 A6 Lemmon. 🔭
#Astrophotography
You know, it’s somewhat reassuring that Benylin tastes exactly the same as it did when I was a kid.
October 8, 2025 at 7:59 PM
You know, it’s somewhat reassuring that Benylin tastes exactly the same as it did when I was a kid.
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Mi nam is cow
An wen in daye
I fele the erj
To hit the hey
A ston or carre
Mi pilo iz
Or els a shepe
On wiche i zizz
An wen in daye
I fele the erj
To hit the hey
A ston or carre
Mi pilo iz
Or els a shepe
On wiche i zizz
Highland cattle are famous for their ability to "disco nap". Normally these brief, efficient sleeps will last between three and twenty minutes, deploying a variety of objects as pillows, including moorland boulders, cars or any particularly large dog or sheep who happens to be nearby.
October 8, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Mi nam is cow
An wen in daye
I fele the erj
To hit the hey
A ston or carre
Mi pilo iz
Or els a shepe
On wiche i zizz
An wen in daye
I fele the erj
To hit the hey
A ston or carre
Mi pilo iz
Or els a shepe
On wiche i zizz
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🚨 NEW BLOG KLAXON!
This month we take a look at Abbie Sweetwine, the woman the British press dubbed “the angel of platform 6”.
carvehername.org.uk/abbie-sweetw...
This month we take a look at Abbie Sweetwine, the woman the British press dubbed “the angel of platform 6”.
carvehername.org.uk/abbie-sweetw...
Abbie Sweetwine and the Harrow and Wealdstone crash - Carve Her Name
When Abbie Sweetwine ran triage at the Harrow and Wealdstone train crash in 1952, she paved the way for the creation of paramedics.
carvehername.org.uk
October 8, 2025 at 6:46 AM
🚨 NEW BLOG KLAXON!
This month we take a look at Abbie Sweetwine, the woman the British press dubbed “the angel of platform 6”.
carvehername.org.uk/abbie-sweetw...
This month we take a look at Abbie Sweetwine, the woman the British press dubbed “the angel of platform 6”.
carvehername.org.uk/abbie-sweetw...