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Michael
@shevekuk.bsky.social
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He/him. Gay guy from London, very ex-physicist, into all kinds of science and geeky stuff. Left wing, when's the fully automated luxury communism arriving?
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I think our new do's would tessellate
Ageing millennial white guy showing off his short hair and new goatee-ish-thing. If you're familiar with the Discworld the effect is less Havelock Vetinari and more Cosmo Lavish.
October 28, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Such a shame he's dead... ha!

(From www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...)
An image of Grand Moff Tarkin from the original Star Wars trilogy, with black test on white background at the bottom say "Norman Tebbit 1931-2025".
July 8, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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S1E7 "Announcement", roughly 11:07 in. They've added stuff on top of the building, but below that it's clearly based on the AT&T building

(Can't share real screenshot due to Disney's DRM crap, had to use my phone)
Grey, dreary buildings on Coruscant. The one on the right is clearly based on the AR&T Long Lines Building in New York.
May 26, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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Truth! Freedom! Justice! Reasonably-priced Love! And a Hard-boiled Egg!

On the Glorious 25th of May, let us remember the People's Republic of Treacle Mine Road

GNU Terry Pratchett. Ten years gone, and sorely missed. Mind how you go.

#GNUTerryPratchett
A picture of several lilac flower heads in full bloom. They are brightly lit and beautiful to behold
May 25, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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I have bought a costume jewellery brooch. It doesn't suit me so I shan't wear it, but I shall put it on display.

And do you want to know the deep reason I bought it?

It's sparkly! That's it.
A gif of a hand holding a gold-coloured filigree brooch with about 13 differently-coloured paste jewels on it. It sparkles a lot.
May 6, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Ten years ago, Terry Pratchett left his mortal plane

To many of us, he was somehow and old, old friend. And I can honestly say that, whilst he made me laugh, he also made me a better person

Mind how you go, Terry
A screenshot of three tweets from the official Pratchett Twitter account. 1) AT LAST, SIR TERRY, WE MUST WALK TOGETHER. 2) Terry took Death's arm and followed him through the doors and on to the black desert under the endless night. 3) THE END.
March 12, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Fuck you, Google

And this was taken in the UK
An screenshot of Google Maps showing the Gulf of Mexico, labelled by Google as "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America"
February 11, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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I don't know what's weirder:

finding a halfpenny at the bus stop

or specifically finding a decimal halfpenny at the bus stop
The tails side of a small copper coin, lying on a scruffy linen blanket. It's a British decimal halfpenny. The heads side of a small copper coin, lying on a scruffy linen blanket. It has the familiar face of Elizabeth the Second on it. It's a British decimal halfpenny.
January 15, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Welp, this made me cry 😭

www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...

(The photo is from the Facebook link. I've included the link for attribution and to point fingers at the mean person who made me cry!)
The screen if split in two halves, one above the other. In the upper, an elderly lady stands half way up the stairs on a small landing, in shadow as she is backlit by a window, looking down the stairs. In the bottom, a brightly middle-aged man in glasses looks up at her. There are subtitles. She says "Hello, boy". He says, "Hello, Wendy". These are screenshots from the film Hook.
September 27, 2024 at 9:09 PM
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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #647,716!

I have never, EVER been at the forefront of anything. Do I need special clothing or equipment?
I'm user number 647,716 and thus part of the first ten percent of the current ten million Bluesky users. There's an official stamp saying "Bluesky elder certified - first ten percent"
September 16, 2024 at 10:07 PM
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Ismy.blue

Hardly surprising as I'm somewhat colour blind. Most of those in-between colours are pretty much colourless to me
A colour gradient from green to blue, with a superimposed S-curve showing the cumulative statistic of when people decide green becomes blue. Text says "your boundary is at hue 185, bluer than 94% of the population. For you, turquoise is green".
September 4, 2024 at 2:24 AM
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Huh, looks like they can't spell in Russian. When Zhivago reaches the train station in Yuriatin, the station sign clearly says Юряитнъ Yuryaitn, not Yuriatin.
A frozen, snow-covered minor train station, with a bewildered man on the tracks and a couple of disinterested onlookers. The station sign, in Cyrillic, is supposed to say Yuriatin, but actually says Yuryaitn
August 18, 2024 at 2:59 AM
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Look on my kryptonite, ye mighty, and despair!
A glowing cuboid, a few millimetres on a side, glowing whilst resting on a transparent plastic sheet, which is held horizontally in a hollow plastic square a few centimetres across, which in turn is held by a finger and thumb. A glowing cuboid, a few millimetres on a side, glowing whilst resting on a transparent plastic sheet, which is held horizontally in a hollow plastic square a few centimetres across, which in turn is held by a finger and thumb. This is seen from slightly further away than the first picture.
July 31, 2024 at 12:37 AM
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Posting a queer-coded villain (for a given value of 'villain')
A reptilian-faced humanoid smiling in a very wry and knowing way. Apparently he's a humble tailor, you know
June 25, 2024 at 1:49 AM
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Truth, freedom, justice, reasonably-priced love, and a hard-boiled egg!

Here's to the People's Republic of Treacle Mine Road, and the Glorious Twenty-Fifth of May

How do they rise up?
A foreground image of lilac in full bloom
May 25, 2024 at 5:02 AM
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I stole this from a friend who isn't on here
Rishi Sunak is standing at a podium outside Number 10 Downing Street. He is extremely wet from the rain, with sodden suit and hair. Basically a drowned rat. There is a caption saying "Things Can Only Get Wetter"
May 22, 2024 at 9:34 PM
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Chrisjen Avasarala, a character from The Expanse, dressed in magnificent subcontinental finery, delivering the riposte "wherever I goddamn like". And this we are all become her bitches, and we like it that way
March 9, 2024 at 11:32 PM
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Apparently it's Kiss A Ginger Day.

This is the closest I can get
A close up photo of a ginger nut biscuit, sitting on the corner of a glass coffee table, with the floor rug visible through the glass
January 12, 2024 at 9:41 PM
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This dildo schnapps is rather nice
A picture of "Aalborg Dild Akvavit", a Danish dill akvavit, on a kitchen counter
October 21, 2023 at 11:47 PM