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Paul Drye
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Software design by day, table-top RPG and science fiction/fantasy writing by night. Fascinations: Unbuilt crewed space projects, phantom islands, alternate […]

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@nonfedimemes I'm guessing he will never need to buy this item, then.
An Amazon listing for a a 55-gallon drum of "Passion Lube". Yeah, I went there.
December 17, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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One country-building projects announced by the PM yesterday is adding to the electrical grid in the Prince Rupert/Port Simpson area of British Columbia.

It reminds me of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway's plan to build Prince Rupert as a fourth and most-northern […]

[Original post on spacey.space]
Black and white schematic drawing of a hotel front reminiscent of the Chateau Frontenac in Quebec city, with a tall central block with a high-peaked roof and two shorter symmetrical blocks on either side of it.
November 14, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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One of the sources for my new article on the orphan tsunami of 1700 reprinted this image from a public safety booklet, complete with startled kitty:

#earthquake #tsunami #cats #thisisprobablyyourfaulthuman
A schematic diagram of a subsidence fault causing an earthquake and tsunami. A cutaway of the earth below shows the crust in yellow and the mantle in red, with arrows showing plate motion and a dashed line demonstrating the land slip of the earthquake. The ocean is riled up with its surface a complex wiggly line. On land a yellow apartment building it cracking in half horizontally and a pink man and cat are being thrown around flailing. Both have O.O eyes.
November 7, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Artist: Ellis Rosen

https://www.gocomics.com/junk-drawer
Lying on a Hollywood lounge chair by a swimming pool, a skull is on the phone to his agent yelling "Find me something else! I am not doing Hamlet again!"
September 5, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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@juergen_hubert It's working now. I see this, and can click through the popups I get when I click a pin to read the associated story.
September 5, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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@juergen_hubert Getting a "503 Backend fetch failed" error when I click it.
A screenshot of the error described in the toot.
September 5, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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@cat_news
A picture of the old Windows program PawSense, showing its once-famous CAT-LIKE TYPING DETECTED popup, plus a text entry box labelled "You can also exit this window by typing the word 'human'" containing the text "ffffghg".
August 31, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Indulging my obsession with all things atomic-powered from the early nuclear age, here's the Saunders-Roe Princess, a turboprop flying boat that was to recreate the aerial sea routes used by BOAC before WWII once the war was over.

Delays made it obsolete by the […]

[Original post on spacey.space]
A complex cutaway diagram of the Saunders-Roe Princess. It is a high-wing configuration with six turboprop engines and small pontoons near the tips. The fuselage shows two decks within. The upper deck is divided into two pieces, fore and aft, with what appears to be structures supporting the wing roots separating them. The foredeck is partly for the crew to work in, but there is also a dining room and kitchen for the passengers at the wing end. A stairway leads down from the dining room to the lower deck. The aft part of the upper deck has a bar and another stairway down. The lower deck has a cargo and baggage compartment to forward and passenger cabins (seating, and bunks slung high up on the wall), TWO more bars, and the toilets. The keel of the plane is typical of a flying boat, shaped like the keel of a ship. The fuel tanks are in the wings. The plane is flying over water, but a small mountain and some beach-circled shore suggests that they're crossing onto land. The caption says this is Rio de Janeiro. The signature L. Ashwell Wood is in the lower left corner of the picture, in Wood's, uh, signature style -- A large L twice the size of the Ashwell and Wood, which are placed vertically one on top of the other.
August 9, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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TIL there's a concept in partlcle physics called "Electromagnetic Penguin". On an unrelated note, I have my new character for the funny animal superhero TTRPG I'm playing.
Physics Letters B Volume 224, Issues 1-2, 22 June 1989, Pages 221-228 The electromagnetic penguin contribution to €’/€ for large top quark mass # Jonathan M. Flynn, Lisa Randall * Abstract We evaluate the electromagnetic penguin contribution to €” under the assumption that the top quark mass can be large. We find a significant effect for top masses larger than the mass of the W. We also consider other operators which can affect the standard model prediction or x’.
August 7, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Mail call! @exocomics
A Tunnock's marshmallow tea cake...no wait, it's a cat...A cat with big round eyes and a blep loafs on a burnt orange t-shirt with the caption "I blob."
July 10, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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What I see at 5 AM every morning, except it's my cat Ollie.
POV is you lying on the bed looking at the ceiling. A frog has lurched into view, looking down at you. "Hey wake up. Where's my kiss?" The next panel he has leaned with a giant mlem that is so close to you that it's foreshortened. A final panel has him leaning back again, tongue still out, saying "That's better".
July 6, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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It me.

(Artist: Ellis Rosen, https://www.gocomics.com/junk-drawer)
June 14, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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"Get in, loser, we're going frogman submersible canoeing."
A black-white-and-grey labeled cutaway diagram of an SOE-designed submersible canoe. A pilot sits in its open cockpit wearing something resembling a gas mask with corrugated hose. It has a rubber bumper, no word if it's stolen from a baby buggy
May 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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An upgraded version of the Columbus Man-Tended Free Flyer, Europe's stab at an independent space station from the late 80s and early 90s. As well as the MTFF, the associated document list several other modules, including a multi-port connector, a cargo ship, and […]

[Original post on spacey.space]
A 3D computer-rendered version of the space station described in the toot, in early 90s computer graphic style. The only extra component worth mentioning is two large rectangular solar panels attached to opposing sides of the Columbus module. Bilimgual French and English text, too much to include in the character limit unfortunately. It describes the path from ESS-1 (Columbus and one more module) to ESS-2 (the addition of the attachment module and its hangers on) and boldly predicts it will be done in the 2000-2010 timeframe.
April 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Well, probably yes, BUT NOT LIKE THAT.
A ridiculous illustration of a plane in space (with the Earth below) surrounded by space junk. It is captioned "Experts Warn That Planes are at High Risk of Being Hit by Space Junk".
April 16, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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@BigJackBrass
The man-and-woman in bed "I bet he's thinking about other women" except the man is pondering Plastic Man Trombonery.
April 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Last Saturday I came across this little red dot in a Galaxy Zoo image and marked it as something someone might want to look at since it mystified me.

It seems I missed a paper published a year ago announcing a new kind of galaxy discovered with JWST, the (wait […]

[Original post on spacey.space]
A fuzzy and somewhat disturbed spiral galaxy seen from an angle, with a small bright white dot surrounded by red apparently embedded in its disk. Best guess is the arrangement is coincidental and the red one is a much more distant galaxy in the same line of site as the spiral.
March 19, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Google really stepping up their campaign to suppress negative reviews.
The display case for the famous complaint about bad copper, addressed to Ea-Nasir. The relevant clay document is missing and a sign reading "Object removed for study" is in its place.
February 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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@kaiiak ♫ ...in the middle of our street ♫
House MD's head poking up from the bottom of an image of...go on, guess...the middle of a street.
February 23, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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@BigJackBrass 🎶 "I really can't stay…"

"But baby, it's Cole outside…" 🎶
Nat King Cole out on a windy-looking pier, leaning against one of its poles and wearing a handsome white overcoat and dark grey suit. The sky is blue behind him, dominating the background, and is covered in wispy white clouds.
February 3, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Worst. Cryptid. Ever.
A BBC article headlined "Banana mystery deepens as more are spotted in street". With an accompanying photo of said mysterious bananas -- a dozen or so, peeled -- sitting on a platter in turn sitting on the grassy verge of a brick sidewalk. I think I'm going to name my Art Rock band Banana Mystery Deepens.
February 2, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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@juergen_hubert I believe I have seen this spooky cow somewhere else.
Bat-Cow rescues a man in a rodeo ring from, uh...I'm gonna guess that's Joker-Cow.
February 1, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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@BigJackBrass Hmmm, maybe...?
Black and white publicity photo of Shatner as Kirk.
January 24, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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@mathowie
Baseball card for Johnny Dickshot. Head-and-shoulders picture of a man with short, wavy black hair wearing a blue baseball cap and a white uniform shirt. A 50s-era logo for the Chicago White Sox is in one corner and he is labelled "Outfielder".
January 16, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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@chgowiz Also leading to one of the funnier patent applications:
A patent cover page for the Wontkins puppet featuring two large pen and ink drawings of it, one head on and one three-quarters view.
January 16, 2025 at 1:15 PM