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Rachel Wells 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺
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Trans gender woman, still rather closeted. Sci-fi/fantasy fan. Explorer of imaginary galaxies. Not looking for dates. She/Her
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And I wonder if I'm right about where the Nora got their name from, and whether Aloy will have a "Vger" moment at some point. 😉
Scene from STAR TREK THE MOTION PICTURE where Kirk, Spock, and Ilia encounter the old Voyager 6 probe.
July 18, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Giving Horizon Zero Dawn a try, at least Aloy's world *looks* cold! 🥵
Banner for Horizon Zero Dawn, depicting a red-headed post-apocalyptic woman archer in a snowy, mountainous backgdround with robotic dinosaurs.
July 1, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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The "Lawaai voor de Leifde" (Make a Noise For Love) demonstration during the NATO summit in The Hague on Tuesday. Protesting against the Trump and Orban regimes' cruel anti-LGBT+ policies.
Demonstration against Trump and Orban's anti-LGBT+ policies during the NATO summit in The Hague. Large crowd of people in a city park on a sunny day listening to a speaker on stage and waving various Pride flags. Demonstration against Trump and Orban's anti-LGBT+ policies during the NATO summit in The Hague. Large crowd of people in a city park on a sunny day listening to a speaker on stage and waving various Pride flags. Demonstration against Trump and Orban's anti-LGBT+ policies during the NATO summit in The Hague. Large crowd of people in a city park on a sunny day listening to a speaker on stage and waving various Pride flags. Man in a wheelchair during an anti-Trump, pro-LGBT+ demonstration. He has a sign which reads "WHEN GOD CREATED TRUMP, SHE WAS ONLY JOKING"
June 28, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Hell yeah!
The rear mudguard of a rather decrepit old bike, bearing a number of stickers, the most prominent of which reads "FUCKING STRONG COFFEE!"
June 27, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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It's the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere. The longest day. Happy Litha!

#wheeloftheyear
Just before dawn at stonehenge; a stone circle in the predawn light, with the not yet risen sun casting golden beams into the pale lavender sky.
June 21, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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Are you absolutely sure sir? It does mean changing the bulb!
Kryten aks Rimmer: Are you absolutely sure sir? It does mean changing the bulb!
June 18, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Solidarity with our American cousins who are having to resist a mad tyrant threatening them with military force.

#NoKings
June 14, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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The movie "2001" continues to be prescient in unexpected ways. 😕
A still from the movie "2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY", a passenger on an interplanetary spaceship studies the very lengthy instructions for using the toilet.
June 1, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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So, we've been under the sea and to the centre of the Earth. Next stop, the Moon.
Modern copy of Jules Verne's FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON and AROUND THE MOON, cover showing a steampunk style rocket ship blasting away from the earth.
May 2, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Completed episode 3 of The Expanse. Ouch. Made some bad choices. Even discovering that Tolkein is still being quoted in the 23rd century couldn't make up for it. 😬
Screenshot of the Steam store page for Telltale's The Expanse.
April 21, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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This planet is wierd even by no man's sky standards.
#nomanssky
Screen shot from no man's sky, a planet with purple vegetation, floating islands and bipedal animals with translucent membrane skin and glowing green skeletons.
April 19, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Run out of missiles, has he?
Screenshot of BBC News story about Putin announcing an "Easter truce" (yeah, sure)
April 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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On to the next of the "Voyages Extraordinairs", under the earth rather than under the water....
A modern print of Jules Verne's novel, "Journey To The Centre Of The Earth". The cover shows an abstract painting of an erupting volcano.
April 19, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Yeah, this was a more complete translation, with more of the stuff I remember from reading it, ahem, some decades ago. It's fun seeing the scenes and dialogue that made it into the Disney movie.
Modern print of Jules Verne's novel, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea. The cover shows a giant octopus dragging a sailing galleon under the waves.
April 19, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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Saw this on sale on Steam and decided to give it a whirl.
Screen shot of the Steam store page for "The Expanse: A Telltale Series" Take on the role of Camina Drummer and explore the dangerous, uncharted edges of the Belt. From scavenging wrecked ships in a zero-g environment, to combating fearsome pirates, you make the difficult choices in this latest Telltale adventure. All five episodes playable at launch!
April 17, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Lovely sunset and a misty moonrise
A dark road and a canal under a dusk sky, red on the horizon, fading to dark blue at the zenith A park with trees and low buildings at twilight with a misty moon low in the sky.
April 11, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Life goes on
A sunlit park with a pond in the background. A mummy goose and daddy goose (possibly) are keeping watch over their brood of fluffy little goslings as they peck about in the grass.
April 8, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Lovely day for a lunchtime walk.
A footbridge over a stream in a lightly wooded park. The sky is blue and the sun is shining.
April 4, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Starting the Relics expedition in No Man's Sky, and it's given me this rather fetching and entirely appropriate pink space suit!
No Man's Sky screenshot with a traveller with a pink exosuit on a planet with golden grass
March 28, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Not *another* No Man's Sky update?
March 26, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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I mean, who wouldn't want a nice holiday on Septic Prime?
#nomanssky
March 23, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Lovely morning. Definitely no need for the Big Coat. 🌞
A lake in a park under a blue morning sky with wisps of cirrus cloud.
March 21, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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It's the Spring Equinox in the northern hemisphere. Happy Ostara!

Art by Karen Cater.
March 20, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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Ok, let's try this one.
Another modern print of jules verne's 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea,. Cover depicts a giant octopus dragging a galleon under water.
March 18, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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I think this was actually a translation intended for children! Still it was fun reading it again.
March 14, 2025 at 4:35 PM