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Alan Taylor (he/him/his)
@alantaylor314.bsky.social
Still alive on unceded Central Algonquian land.
to make me easier to find, https://x.com/Alan_Taylor_314
He/him/his, cis. INFJ, Leo, ᐰ🖖∮. West of Luna, east of Sol.
pinning a thread: https://bsky.app/profile/alantaylor314.bsky.social/post/3kcm7mqts6b2o
for a moment i mixed up Bletchley Park nerd enthusiast and nonfiction author Andrew Smith with Bletchley Park nerd enthusiast and nonfiction author Andrew Hodges.
thank you for the history!
October 15, 2025 at 11:31 PM
he looks exactly like Rincewind in my imagination.

i wanna make a terrifying pottery suitcase now

(The Colour of Magic (1983) by Terry Pratchett)
October 15, 2025 at 10:39 PM
"i ate Venus but its acid rain gave me acid reflux and then i died of burping"
October 15, 2025 at 10:34 PM
you're wonderful 🥰

oh this database is nicer maybe: gifdb.com/90s
October 15, 2025 at 10:28 PM
ooo, gifer isn't terrible. i clicked on one of their "download gif" buttons and it worked! as in, what i downloaded was an actual gif. i hate to be picky, but "they have one job..." and they did it.

so i'm searching gifer.com/en/gifs/1990s for a construction worker now
gifer.com
October 15, 2025 at 10:16 PM
i stg, each idea i come up with tries to be more ridiculous-silly than the last one
October 15, 2025 at 10:11 PM
when i can afford to die in one of your novels, it will be by gigantic supersized nanites.

(like if you made a robot the size of molecules, and then made *that* to be normal sized again)
October 15, 2025 at 10:08 PM
same same 👍😆🖖
October 15, 2025 at 9:34 PM
hoping and trying to help 🥲 we deserve so much better than we get
(if you just got 15 then our CAs are still working and i can do more every couple weeks or so)
October 15, 2025 at 9:33 PM
i like this stardate format! "little-endian" 😌

(i do not mind big-endian, it has virtues too, but little feels nicer)
October 15, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Let Me In,
28 Days Later,
Cube (the one with Rodney McKay and Ezri Dax)...

nuts nuts nuts my brain only goes up to three, today
October 15, 2025 at 9:21 PM
the web can be fun again 🥰 shall we make it so?
October 15, 2025 at 9:17 PM
like, Alien: Earth is maybe horror-scifi? with the "big picture" being that xenomorphs suck, but Corporate sucks so much more. and just in case we weren't getting it, this version has a trillionaire in it. lordy. 😳 therefore, i need this series to get messier than the usual 😭
October 15, 2025 at 9:16 PM
i haven't! they did play a clip of Event Horizon in a Voyager episode, but it was maybe a second long? i am curious, always meant to check it out.

i started out in scifi, but fantasy/horror is often much more fun
October 15, 2025 at 9:12 PM
dizzy dizzy, brb 🥲
October 15, 2025 at 8:01 PM
YES YES i had an idea! webpages often used to have litte construction worker in a hardhat and jackhammer? i haven't seen anything remotely like that lately.

whimsical webpage design, please
October 15, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Galaxy of Terror sounds really interesting! i never actually saw The Abyss but am trying to fix that. (kept mixing it up with Sphere. is that one any good?)

i'm sorry Lords of the Deep wasn't better
October 15, 2025 at 7:46 PM