Peter Gordon 🇺🇦

Robert Llewellyn in Red Dwarf

A Happy Birthday to Robert Llewellyn. 70 today!

How one wealthy, amateur astronomer convinced the world Martians were real.

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Still from a promotional video under a tweet from Kwasi Kwarteng: Kwasi Kwarteng We are delighted to welcome @Nigel_Farage and @blockchain as strategic investors in Stack. Nigel's long-standing support for British business and his belief that Bitcoin will play an expanding role in global finance align closely with...

A detail which would have been rejected by any self-respecting writer as too on the nose: his promotional video spells "credibility" wrong:

1. Are you currently using an AI tool for work-related tasks or projects? * Yes * No, but I would like to (PLEASE SKIP TO QUESTION 7)

My employer asks me to complete a survey on AI usage for which this is the first question (required):

17 Real-Life Would-You-Rathers I, a Woman, Have Had to Ask Myself 1. Would you rather have a career or a family? 2. Would you rather be perceived as likable or competent? 3. Would you rather be told to...

Would you rather be perceived as likable or competent?

Would you rather be “shrill” but finish your sentence or polite but interrupted by your male colleague?

Would you rather shoot literal botulism into your face or look your real age, you hag?

The Iran war should be a lesson for Keir Starmer's Government. If you take a clear line on an issue where the public agree with you then it's your opponents who end up having to back down, not you

Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available

I'm disappointed that Rick Stein's wife isn't called Phyllis.

Y’know, I totally get why people had bad experiences with Mastodon, it wasn’t ready or welcoming (and because of that it's now skewed towards certain people/topics & far less interesting as a result), but we got SO close to Twitter’s main successor being a genuinely grass-roots VC-free thing

The whole "I don't want to explain gay stuff to my kids" is so stupid.

Here's how it went with our kids.

"Why does [girl who lives across the road] have two mummies?"
"Sometimes a woman loves another woman in the same way mummy loves daddy. Also sometimes a man might love another man."
"Oh. Ok."

Green Claws from CBBC.

On this day in 1978 The Incredible Hulk, starring Bill Bixby as David Banner and Lou Ferrigno as his green alter-ego, made its US television debut.

Christ.

Also, how depressing is it that useless, brainless, gobshites like Mel Stride and Priti Patel have knighthoods and damehoods. Services to imbecility no doubt.

lol

Encounter - One year later Encounter was released on December 20th 2024, about one year ago. The game was not originally supposed to be a commercial release, but we had discussed for a while the feasibility of making commerc...

Spent the day improving the blog:
- There's now a RSS feed
- OpenGraph support for preview/metadata
- Article titles in the URL
- Bunch of http/https fixes

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France became the first country in the world to ban supermarkets from throwing away unsold food. Lawmakers passed the Loi Garot, which requires all grocery stores larger than 400 square meters to donate edible food to charities and food banks instead of sending it to landfills.

England's *men*, you mean

historical oil demand vs secnarios

On the second fossil fuel crisis of this decade (and likely to be worse than the last, fair to say), a few small thoughts

First: global oil demand would be so much lower without climate delay, fossil corruption, oversized SUVs, western overconsumption. Everyone who pushed these holds responsibility

2030 Is Closer Than You Think | In the Car with the Climate Minister YouTube video by Everything Electric TECH

For very long term viewers of my disjointed output, here's a Carpool flashback with a difference, Katie White, MP, Climate Minister, drives me around in her electric Fiat 500.
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A handicap blue and white painted sign on the asphalt of a parking space. The symbols are meant to be a pregnant women and a baby stroller, but it doesn't look like that. It looks like pac man being killed with scissors next to a dancer

Twerkers at the barbeque get priority parking 🫡

Interview c64, get to your job interview on time, Ive seen it all now :) #c64 #commodore

Nothing says "we support women's rights" like a bunch of beardy cunts forming a mob in order to harass a woman *about women's rights*.

Everyone in the US suddenly has bone spurs.

I feel like Dwigt Rortugal has what it takes to turn the middle east around.

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*sopranos accent* Every day is international women's day to me because I fuckin love the broads

Well I'm economically secure but I've gone to the greens because I'm sick of labour pandering to reform on immigration and trans rights.

A bowl of what???

We have a MASSIVE Retrogaming sale going on today.
You can still get bargains like it’s 1999.

So much retro out for sale today, let me know if you want to see more…