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Malcolm Herbert

@mjcherbert.bsky.social

a little bit of this ... a little bit of that ...

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that was the best Ivanova episode

20.02.2026 08:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

that's my usual question to fans - who's your master?

10.02.2026 21:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

ooh ... big fan of the book, how does the film hold up?

08.02.2026 02:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

looks interesting ...

04.02.2026 21:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

... say on ...

04.02.2026 10:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

read somewhere a review that if this were screened on a plane, the audience would still walk out ...

30.01.2026 21:17 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

... that is a hideously familiar frame grab, but I can't place the film ... what's it from?

30.01.2026 10:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

metadata is hard

17.01.2026 23:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm impressed that you can lay hands on an 18y old photo file, regardless of the actual image you took ...

17.01.2026 04:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

so close ...

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17.01.2026 00:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

also, your discounted price seems to be UK-only - Amazon won't let me purchase via that link, sorry

14.01.2026 10:27 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

ok, so I'm slightly confused by reports that there are multiple versions ... I have the ebook on Kindle, my son has an Amazon print copy ... your recent release came after both of these editions, how does the new one differ? or is this some meta-story thing going on ... ;)

14.01.2026 09:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Timeline synchronicity

04.01.2026 01:00 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Typographica

ok, so I know there will be typography nerds among my online social group who might already know about this, but if not, enjoy typographica.org

03.01.2026 11:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

lucked out today

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01.01.2026 21:09 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
Melbourne Ska Orchestra - Get Smart (Official FULL Version)
YouTube video by Melbourne Ska Orchestra Melbourne Ska Orchestra - Get Smart (Official FULL Version)

Melbourne Ska Orchestra is headlining Wangaratta’s NYE celebrations tonight youtu.be/CVyJkKKfRFs?...

31.12.2025 10:10 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
πŸ”΄ LIVE: Global New Year Tracker 2026 🌍 3D Earth Countdown & Space Facts
YouTube video by Interstellar News Hub πŸ”΄ LIVE: Global New Year Tracker 2026 🌍 3D Earth Countdown & Space Facts

ok, interesting live stream of an "Earth view" app showing the New Year around the globe ... YouTube being YouTube there may be ads at some point and you will want to mute it with extreme prejudice, but it does tweak my appropriate-visualisation-appreciation gland ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=oS-c...

31.12.2025 11:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
a frame from the video "Get Smart" by the Melbourne Ska Orchestra showing a long, flourescent-lit corridor extending into the distance where there is a turn to the right.  The floor is bare concrete, the walls are lined in beige metal panels but two sets of panels close to the camera are picked out in a burnt orange colour. The passage is a pedestrian access tunnel running between St Vincent’s Hospital and the Royal Eye and Ear Hospital and runs under Victoria Pde

a frame from the video "Get Smart" by the Melbourne Ska Orchestra showing a long, flourescent-lit corridor extending into the distance where there is a turn to the right. The floor is bare concrete, the walls are lined in beige metal panels but two sets of panels close to the camera are picked out in a burnt orange colour. The passage is a pedestrian access tunnel running between St Vincent’s Hospital and the Royal Eye and Ear Hospital and runs under Victoria Pde

love this clip and have been playing it regularly for years ... for those interested, the colourful tunnel they move through later in the video is an underground patient transport tunnel running between St Vincents and the Eye and Ear Hospitals

31.12.2025 11:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

the Paramount arcade just feels so deeply 90s to me with the chunky off-kilter architecture and the wild colour scheme ...

30.12.2025 22:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

isn't it a gas oven? that's what I always understood it to be. I'm assuming coin-operated for use in very cheap rental/share housing (had heard of coin-operated hot water heaters in similar situations) but ... I have no idea why it is on the moon, nor why it is sentient ...

21.12.2025 22:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

always love that moment when working from home when you can remove the work laptop from the dock, plug in your personal one instead and never move from your chair ... it's the clear break between work and leasure time that I appreciate ...

18.12.2025 09:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

done .... mainly because I read the book flavour text and heard it as your voices in my head ...

14.12.2025 10:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Rolling Stone Shorts: 'OH YEAH'
YouTube video by Rolling Stone Rolling Stone Shorts: 'OH YEAH'

have been a fan of Yello since being introduced to them in high school - Rolling Stone produced documentary on Yello and the backstory to Oh Yeah and how it became instrumental in Ferris Bueller's Day Off and from there into the social mainstream ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=07Me...

29.11.2025 09:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I apologise, I do get twitchy about that because folk don't necessarily understand how easy it is to inadvertently dox someone with supposedly anonymised public info ...

20.11.2025 22:51 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

please tell me Athena was happy with her new house being made public on blue sky ...

20.11.2025 22:44 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1

do not use spicy autocorrect to manage your spicy cheese ...

19.11.2025 21:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

pinch-punch house rule is that for combat to commence, all participants need to be confirmed to be awake and have the wherewithal for defense ... receiving a phonecall from a friend and then disclaiming loudly that "damnit, I'm awake" counts ... bwahahah ...

01.11.2025 01:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

ah ... *hugs*

30.10.2025 10:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

*hugs*

27.10.2025 10:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I love how the bridge is at eye-level on Street View ... that's impressively low ...

14.10.2025 21:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0