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Art from 'Aliens: Reapers' from 1991. This was a short 8 page no dialog comic story by John Arcudi and illustrated by Simon Bisley about 'Reapers' - an alien race that infiltrate Xenomorph hives to eat their eggs. My kinda alien race. 🍳
#Alien #SimonBisley

Someone created a website where you can make bets on German trains and their delay.
Biggest payout is probably for a train to be on time :-D
#train

I know the people who need to be told this aren’t following me, or for that matter, they’re not even on Mastodon or Bluesky:
If the President of the United States were to give me a blanket pardon, nothing about that would keep someone from rocking the fuck out of me in an alleyway.

"The crew was hungry, the crew was angry, and we tried to survive only day-by-day."
"Back in 2016, 20 ships were abandoned around the world, according to the ITF. In 2025 the number had ballooned to 410, with 6,223 merchant seamen falling victim. Both of those figures for last year were up by almost a third on 2024."
https://www.…

The shadowy world of abandoned oil tankers
A growing number of tankers and other commercial vessels are being ditched by their owners.

The media I'm following show 70 constituency seats called; presumably the list votes have all been tallied, so the list seats ought to be all allocated as soon as the last constituencies are called.
I can see that Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch is still pending; where are the other two?
#ScotPol
#Holyrood2026

If you think it’s OK to make someone feel like crap for being LGBTQIA because of your faith then you aren’t following the true doctrine of your faith.
The hurt I see happen to members of the LGBTQIA by “righteous” people makes me so angry and sad. I hate being associated with those people.

I had a medium distance/degree cousin who wrote two - yes two! - episodes for this TV series...
And if you listen closely to various episodes you will recognize the voice of the Billionaire John Berrisford Tipton as someone who moonlights for narration jobs on old Disney films or was Orson Wells.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v…

Catching up on a few stray pods this morning:
🎧Career in Ruins - archaeology with Derek Pitman and Lawrence Shaw. I like the practical and career-focussed slant to this.
🎧Tides of History - er, history. I like the way Patrick Wyman weaves it into a personal story.
🎧Front Row - general cultural stuff that I can feel remote from in my day to day.
🎧Film Stories - Simon Brew is a great presenter and really draws you in to what went on behind the scenes of the films we all kn…

What wakes better in the morning than an ice cold shower or freshly brewed coffee ☕ / mate 🧉 ?
2390 unread messages in the inbox, all sent by someone called "Cron Daemon" 👹
#infosec #sysadmin

"One proves political maturity by not banging on about injustice, by not troubling too much the rich and powerful. To try it out, simply stand in front of a mirror and slowly declare yourself to be “pro-business and pro-worker”. If you can do that without flinching at the obvious contradiction, then congratulations! You too can be prime minister"
This isn't my analysis of why #Starmer