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Darren Grayson
@darrengrayson.bsky.social
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Father and husband (trainee). Web / ERP dev. Round earther. Interests: Sci-Fi/Trek. UK Politics. Photography. Retro tech. Daft stuff.

I follow back real people who have posted something other than scams/grifts/lorem ipsum/memes/quotes/lies/scripture etc.
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Same energy.
A Volvo print advert with the slogan, "they're boxy but they're good."
October 29, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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I may be a dumb robot!
(Credit neal.fun/not-a-robot/)
Screenshot of a captcha style puzzle, but with an amazingly difficult maths puzzle to solve.
October 17, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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Just visible beyond the windows. I wonder where it ended up?
The recreation deck scene from Star Trek The Motion Picture, showing the huge painted backdrop outside the windows.
October 7, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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Not a cloud in the sky but amazing sunsets in Ixia, Rhodes, Greece. For the half hour after sunset, the horizon was like a flattened rainbow of colours.

#rhodes #rodos #greece #photography #sunset
A sunset scene.
September 6, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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That city immediately made me think of how I imagined the city of Diaspar in Arthur C Clarke's 'The City and the Stars'. When I googled it to check my memory one of the old covers for it isn't a million miles away...
Book cover for The City and the Stars by Arthur C Clarke.
August 29, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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Standard space explorer behaviour!
Peter Griffin decides to take an abandoned couch in a trash compactor.
August 26, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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Post a non religious picture you think of as holy.
Battlestar Galactica's "Last Supper" promotional photo. It deliberately mirrors Leonardo's famous painting.
August 21, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Save yourself the heartache of deciding between your children... You can use my picture for a small one-time fee of ONE MILLION DOLLARS!
A very ordinary picture of the aurora. The chances that Vincent will cough-up one million dollars for it are literally a million to one, and therefore it's quite likely.
August 12, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Trekkies, if you see this, post your first experience with STAR TREK

First saw TWOK at school on the last day of term. But it got turned off before (spoiler alert) Spock died. Good job as it turned out, because when I did get to see the end, it choked me up!
Kirk enters the Kobayashi Maru simulator bridge in The Wrath of Khan.
August 6, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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If you see this, post a DC comic cover you love.
Star Trek The Next Generation issue 20 comic book cover by Jerome K Moore. Features the Enterprise, and nine main characters from season 3 of the show.
July 20, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Caught #BBMF Lancaster #PA474 today. She was trailing smoke from one engine and squawked 7700 but landed safely. Hope it's nothing major.
July 12, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Here's me pretending to know all about that shot like the Trek expert I am...
Screenshot of android running apps, showing Bluesky next to Chrome. The chrome tab is showing a screenshot of the same episode from the TrekCore website.
June 27, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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I hear Vodka affects the memory...
#hypocrites
Russian Foreign Ministry statement of 22 June, in connection with the US strikes on Iran, reads... This reckless decision to launch missile and aerial strikes on the territory of a sovereign state, regardless of the justifications offered, constitutes a blatant violation of international law, the UN Charter, and relevant resolutions by the UN Security Council, which has consistently and unequivocally deemed such actions unacceptable. Particularly concerning is the fact that the strikes were executed by a permanent member of the UN Security Council.
June 22, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Good night from #Derbyshire, England.
Landscape scene just after sunset. Clouds and stuff.
June 20, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Random Worf of the day: Spotted at the Sherwood Forest visitor centre.
#sttng #notamerryman
A wall of different Robin Hood related film and TV photos. With a shot of Picard as Robin Hood and Word as Will Scarlett.
June 15, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Probably the last photo I'll get to take in The Leadmill, Sheffield - at least in its birthplace.
Taken during the Freddie Halkon gig last month.
#Sheffield #Leadmill #Photography
Young people in exuberant mood during a pop concert.
June 7, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Whoever the next pope is, I wonder if he'll look at the Vatican on a map and only see the top 4 decks of the Enterprise D. #sttng #pope #popeshuttlemobile
Satellite map view of St Peter's Square, which is the shape of the top decks of the big D.
May 8, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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King Charles in his Bentley state limousine, on the Via dei Fori Imperiali in Rome, April 8th 2025. The Forum of Augustus is in the background.
#Rome #Italy
A car going down a road with tourists and bystanders watching.
April 9, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Winged Victory on the Ponte Vittorio Emanuele II bridge over the river Tiber, Roma, Italy.
#Rome #Photography
Classical Roman depiction of Victoria, with wings and carrying an arrow or spear.
April 8, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City, Roma, Italy. Sunset on 7th April 2025.
#Rome #Vatican #Photography
As seen from a bridge on the river Tiber, with the sun setting behind the Basilica.
April 8, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Via Panisperna, Roma, Italy
#Rome #Photography
Street scene. There are restaurant tables by the side of the street. The restaurant external walls are covered in foliage, which also extends over the street on the wire of a streetlight.
April 8, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Terrible news. @bsky.app has agreed takeover offer from Elon Musk. Everything will be cross-posted to X before noon today! 😩
#savebluesky
Fake 'breaking news' screenshot claiming Elon is coming for Bluesky. But don't worry folks, it's just an April fools joke. Although 2025 has been so crappy so far that I wouldn't be surprised if this actually happens.
April 1, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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Always loved the matte paintings by the great Albert Whitlock. Not sure if my favourite is Rigel VII or Eminiar VII.
Albert Whitlock's matte painting of the planet Eminiar VII, from the Star Trek episode, "A Taste of Armageddon".
March 22, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Here's the dress code.

Image: IWM (A 6918)
www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
Winston Churchill outside the Whitehouse, dressed in his air raid suit. January 1942.
March 1, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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Well done Zelenskyy for standing up to him.
Scene from the film Love Actually, where the British PM accuses the American president of being a bully. I'd like to think the scene ends with the PM raising his middle finger and hissing "fuck you, Trump" but it doesn't.
February 28, 2025 at 6:59 PM