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• Post #4468192

  Shaman Space Part 5 14 months after leaving Mother of All. In final jump to Mother of All. Sparks and Alaine were in the engine room checking over the engines before exiting jump. It had been a much busier jump than usual, as the Captain and Suri, the navigator, were bringing in the captured raider ship. At least, the crew hoped they were. Once they entered jump, there was no way of communicating or even locating the other ship. "How are you and Seeker holding up?" Sparks asked, wit...

• Post #4105860

  New rule of thumb: Watch what the techbros are doing, and do the exact opposite.

• Post #3831741

  Walter Justin Deanmoore looked at his hotel room. His belongings appeared to be all present, but what was not present was his suitcase. Again. Over the last ten years of near constant travel he had been through eight suitcases, seven travel packs, five trunks, and three duffel bags. All had vanished the day before he was due to check out. All had later surfaced in cities he had never visited and had absolutely watertight alibis for. Which was a very good thing, because each time they had a...

• Post #3759430

  "November Victor Victor Victor, this is Victor Hotel Charlie Seven Bravo, We are seeing some heavy weather ahead. Over." Annika waited for a reply, glancing across at Chika her co-pilot. "Seven Bravo" started the reply, followed by a burst of static and silence. "November Victor Victor Victor say again" Annika sent back. Nothing. "Annika? BOM has a cat four three hundred to our south" Chika's broad Alice Springs accent stronger than usual. "How o...

• Post #2147714

  Thank you @Taweret and @miru for the show and @cherizilla for the Bingo. #Monsterdon #HerculesInNewYork

• Post #2099301

  I do not often plug things. One, I suck at it, two, most things are perfectly good at plugging themselves. For this site, I am making an exception. We all know that there is a lot of horrible stuff going on in the world. And we do need to be informed about it so we can do something about it. But what about the stuff that has had things done about it? We hardly ever hear about that. A few years ago, David Byrne - ex-frontman of Talking Heads, and all-round nice guy, noticed this problem, and...

• Post #2047281

  People often underestimate the power of soundscapes in TV and movies. And I am not talking about background music - I am talking about the actual soundscape built by the foley artists to portray a setting. The sounds of desert winds, the rustling of leaves, the swoosh of long grasses, or the dripping of water in a cave. We only really remember these when they are done wrong. A kookaburra in a South American rainforest, for example will pop any Australian's disbelief suspenders. Done...

• Post #1928059

  Behold the majesty of the Osprey! #Osprey #Raptor #Bird #BirdingInAustralia #ScarboroughBeach #WesternAustralia #Photography

• Post #1813491

  It is early in the morning on Sunday, and I am opening the back door to see if there are any ripe lemons on the tree. Instead I almost tread on a fox. Curled up and asleep. Now, you have to understand that ever since Europeans settled here, we have had Japanese immigrants as well. Some by choice, some ... less so. This is why I am not too surprised to see that the fox has three tails. My opening the door has not awakened it, so I step over and continue on to the lemon tree. There are two ri...

• Post #1423728

  Thankyou @miru@social.miyaku.media for the stream and @Taweret@timeloop.cafe for organizing. But, please, can we have a movie where the monster is in the movie, not one where the movie is the monster? #Monsterdon #Communion1989

• Post #1036063

  Have you ever tried to pinch-zoom on a piece of paper (or book, or photo, etc)?

• Post #960437

  And there goes the thermostat! #Monsterdon #TheMonsterThatChallengedTheWorld

• Post #960435

  Amazing ... they actually had a developing relationship. And the kid runs off into the Salton Sea.

• Post #960434

  @miru thanks for the stream! #Monsterdon #TheMonsterThatChallengedTheWorld

• Post #939251

  Angela was laying on her back, with Circe's head resting on her thighs as they watched the column of smoke and fire climb into the Florida sky. "What was the last one called, dearest?" drifted up from her legs. "Apollo. Fifty four years ago." "Hmm." Suddenly Circe sat up, and got to her feet. Angela didn't know what had prompted it, but she leapt to her own feet and started scanning the area for threats. "What is...

• Post #753833

  I have a book! Short Stories from a Distracted Mind is out on April 19th! #microfiction #tootfic #IAmWriting #microfic #selfpublish

• Post #746715

  One week ago: Alaine was on the bridge, shadowing Suri the navigator. She was only a couple of years older than him, but still called him "kid" like everyone else aboard. "OK kid. Let's see your plan" she held out her hand for his PDU. He handed it over asking "Why head for an uninhabited system, though?" "There's a good market for the fabrication units just beyond. We could stop off at a couple of other planets fi...

• Post #653180

  Under the bedclothes, Mahtab gripped the scimitar she'd bribed a guard to give her. She knew her late father's vizier would be making his move soon. She was going to make sure it was his last. No usurper was going to claim the throne that was her birthright. Cyrus crept through the palace. He had never been here before, having been whisked away as a baby by a loyal servant when his step-sister had killed his family. She had raised him, and told him of his heritage, but a fever t...

• Post #561990

  March 2026 Lunar Eclipse, Perth. This was shot on my #Dwarf2 while my #Dwarf3 was busy doing a time-lapse. Post processing in #Snapseed . #TotalLunarEclipse #Astronomy #Astrophotography #Astrodon

• Post #504726

  My partner has one of the Percepterol implants. She uses it to tag names to faces, so we got it on PBS. Anyway, I was scrolling my news feed, and saw an alert about a manditory product recall on Percepterol implants, so I asked "Hey, sweety, have you had a ping from Percepterol about the recall?" "No, I've not seen anything." So I showed her the article. That was when things got weird. "It's great to see that Percepterol is doing so...

• Post #25048

  It is a popular mathematical experiment to try and work out just how fast Santa has to be to reach every house with a child in a single 24 hour period. The calculations always end up with a significant fraction of the speed of light. There then usually follow discussions about what the collateral damage from Santa's passing would be. And cargo limits, and so on. All of these are wrong, and ignore another end-of-year tradition. The portrayal of the ending year as an old man. Now that I...