Stephen Cass

It's easy! 1) At least one item of outwear must be "tactical." 2) Sees medical professionals only when immediate surgical intervention required for injury. 3) Despite never having taken a flying lesson, has a better than 85% chance of landing a passenger plane when crew incapacitated.

AMAZE!

YouTube video by Göksel Köksal Aragorn's Battle Speech

What I imagine is happening right now at Netflix's content delivery network's operation center, as the 8pm EST release time for Stranger Things 5 approaches: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwMU...

This looks amazing, but if it hasn't been designed so you can visit every exhibit by only making left-hand turns I will be very disappointed.

Yay! I really enjoyed Stargate, and how it plausibly progressed from small-scale planet-of-the-week adventures to full-up galaxy-scale space opera. True, it didn't hit the kind of TV highs that contemporaneous genre shows like BSG or Lost achieved, but it didn't misfire either, until maybe SGU.

this thing hides posts it judges as ‘rude’, by some US standard. Thereby silencing most of the conversations in Ireland and Scotland, at least.

This was surprisingly suspenseful!

A black and white photograph of a deserted office space with a corridor lit by daylight coming in from offices on one side while dark doorways lead off to spaces on the other side.

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#251 "Backrooms"

YouTube video by the_miracle_aligner Running up that hill Cover in Early Middle English BARDCORE/MEDIEVAL version. Original by Kate Bush.

This has been my earworm for nearly 10 days now, so I'm so so sorry, but now I have to inflict it on you: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHsp...

Escape From PETSCII Castle Preview - The Oasis BBS Watch Jimo9757’s new PETSCII Castle preview for the Commodore 64, featuring ray casting, blocky foes, and 12 minutes of gameplay.

Escape From PETSCII Castle Preview
#Commodore64 #C64Gaming #PETSCII #RetroGames #HomebrewC64 #EscapeFromPETSCIICastle

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Crowdsourcing Secrets for Indie Hardware Success How do indie creators turn prototypes into polished products without breaking the bank? Helen Leigh shares insights on avoiding common pitfalls.

Some of you will already know @crowdsupply.bsky.social's @helenleigh.bsky.social from conferences like Teardown and HOPE. I got to interview her about the biggest mistake people make gearing up from project to product: simply not charging enough. spectrum.ieee.org/helen-leigh-...

I will miss saying hi to Greg (and his various suits) at HOPE, a deeply thoughtful and kind person.

Oh no! I've been running into Greg in his zoot suit or similar every couple of years at HOPE for the last two decades or so, and he was always such a thoughtful presence... RIP

I agree, looks like something from an Irish medieval illuminated manuscript.

I've been crossing my fingers and hoping that what happened to runic alphabets doesn't happen to ogham...

I was thinking of putting one on a human-pullable cart, with a solar panel on top that flips up to reveal a big flatscreen and trade movie nights and sideloaded books & TV episodes onto old smartphones for supplies and shelter, (plus the know-how to make lead-acid-battery-to-USB charger adapters).

A photograph taken at night of a red door recessed into the stone wall of a building. A single light illuminates the door as cast shadows of the open iron gate and fence in front of the door onto the sidewalk.

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#250 "124"

I think you mean "Four in the Atlantic Archipelago." :)

A black and white photograph of a concrete structure in sunlight. A squat cylinder with a set of of horizontal bars covering half its circumference sits atop a curving, neck-like, support.

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#249 "Grin"

Agreed: I'm an NTSB stan, which is why the "Scully" movie enraged me so much. Their reports are so well-written and illuminating.

A black and white solarized image of a huge arched suspension bridge tower, taken along the axis of the bridge. A grid of steel cablework radiates from the tower, reflecting sunlight, and an American flag waves atop it.

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#248 "Suspension"

How does a professional horror writer not realize THE LATTE WAS THE MONSTER ALL ALONG!? :)

A black and white photograph taken at night of the head of a stone lion with a voluminous mane. Tree branches and the columns of a neo-classical building can be seen in the background.

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#247 "Patience"

A black and white photograph of the trunks of five tall trees standing at the base of a rock-strewn slope rising into the background with shrubs and other trees.

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#246 "Collanade"

A black and white photograph of a derelict factory with a single smoke stack sitting by the edge of a canal under bright sunlight on a deserted piece of ground.

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#245 "Dissolve"

Only 15 years to go!

A black and white photograph of a long barrel-vaulted room with large windows with panes criss-crossed with metal bars. Shelves of books line the opposite wall, and the room is filled with neatly arranged long tables and chairs, with pairs of reading lights placed on each table.

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#244 "Whispers"

A black and white phtotograph of an empty street lined by walls underneath an elevated train line. Pools and gridded rectangles of bright sunlight stand out from the shadows.

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#243 "Overhead"

<Laughs hysterically in Irish orthography>

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