Argh, tons of this at the moment. The trick is:

1. Questioning whether it seems weirdly well choreographed and timed.
2. Looking at the background where you'll probably notice, e.g., someone's head morph into a teapot.
3. Asking how the same person sees this kind of thing 8 times every single day.

We must not become less of ourselves in the face of annihilation. We must hold to who we are, hold tight to our joys. i came into this world dead, grey and silent. I shall go out of strange, full of love and wondrous curiosity. I shall go a fully-grown changeling with a kiss of intent on my lips.

I'm working on the next instalment of this. If any of you are actually numerically articulate, you can probably guess which Thunderbird craft we'll be uplifting next.

TRDQ: Transformers x Macross 7 - Basara Prime Review! YouTube video by TRDQ

Look, it's Dolly time. Extended Dolly time because *gestures*.

youtu.be/7AsUd5kA7Ak

A very odd but fantastic toy!

#TRDQ

Congrats to the crew of Artemis II for conducting the first flight to the Moon since 1972 - the pictures they've sent back definitely remind us of Space: 1999!

[alt text by NASA] The Moon, seen here backlit by the Sun during a solar eclipse on April 6, 2026, is photographed by one of the cameras on the Orion spacecraft’s solar array wings. Orion is visible in the foreground on the left. Earth is reflecting sunlight at the left edge of the Moon, which is slightly brighter than the rest of the disk. The bright spot visible just below the Moon’s bottom right edge is Saturn. Beyond that, the bright spot at the right edge of the image is Mars. Credit: NASA

Whoa 🤯

The Moon, in full eclipse, with the #Artemis II Orion spacecraft. Part of the Moon and spacecraft are lit by Earthshine, and both Saturn and Mars are visible to the lower right. Incredible. Details: images.nasa.gov/details/art0...

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back

Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

Humanity is so cool( well almost all of them)
You have some making music, other drawing porn of your favourite characters, others sending a spaceship around the moon. etc etc

Truly fantastic.

A close-up view from the Orion spacecraft during the Artemis II crew’s lunar flyby on April 6, 2026, captures a total solar eclipse, with only part of the Moon visible in the frame as it fully obscures the Sun. Although the full lunar disk extends beyond the image, the Sun’s faint corona remains visible as a soft halo of light around the Moon’s edge. From this deep-space vantage point, the Moon appeared large enough to sustain nearly 54 minutes of totality, far longer than total solar eclipses typically seen from Earth. This cropped perspective emphasizes the scale of the alignment and reveals subtle structure in the corona during the rare, extended eclipse observed by the crew. The bright silver glint on the left edge of the image is the planet Venus. The round, dark gray feature visible along the Moon’s horizon between the 9 and 10 o’clock positions is Mare Crisium, a feature visible from Earth. We see faint lunar features because light reflected off of Earth provides a source of illumination. [alt text from NASA]

Eclipsed Moon, with Venus, from #Artemis II. The subtle color in the corona is beautiful.

On a black background of space, a blue and white Earth just before 'setting' behind the Moon, in foreground, seen from Artemis II, 6 April 2026

Totality seen from lunar orbit, the Moon eclipses the Sun, revealing a view few humans have ever witnessed, a dark disc surrounded by a pale solar corona.

✅ #Artemis II update: 'Earthset', 6 April 2026, and 'totality', 7 April, seen from lunar orbit, the Moon eclipses the Sun, a view few humans have ever witnessed (pics: NASA)

🔗 www.nasa.gov/gallery/jour...

@exploration.esa.int l

I've recently cracked open Intervals of Darkness and it's proving every bit as darkly humorous and wonderfully unsettling as Municipal Gothic. Looking forward to the latest collection!

A poster in purple with a halftone image of a carving of a horse rearing up.

Poster #5: The Horseman.

Pre-order the eBook of 'Thin Places in Hard Concrete' here www.amazon.co.uk/Thin-Places-...

There'll also be a paperback available to order from 30 April.

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I am super geeking out over these new Artemis photos.

The “Earthrise” is crazy.

Flat earthers are in shambles.

Some 3rd party big boys: Pangu Toys' Mighty Miracle God, Newage Firefox, Craftsman Toys' Tactilord, Zeta Toys' Ford.

Good morning from: The Lads.

1967 Fireball XL5 annual, art by Mike Noble

Script for Fireball XL5 short story The Living Rock, originally titled Don't Touch!. One of four stories David Motton wrote for the 1967 XL5 annual.

Operation Motton Part 1 is in the can! Nearly 4,000 words examining David Motton's scripts for the 1967 Fireball XL5 annual. Still in need of some firm editing, but it should be published on Sequential 21 within the next couple of weeks!

I don't like this 'vibe coding' nonsense. I think you're best to subscribe to the blog so you'll get articles transmitted direct to your inbox via Unity City Press Control, relayed by Thunderbird 5.

sequential21.net/contact-21/

I'm very much a fringe/part-time author who'd definitely struggle without the dayjob and my GOD, I'd love it if my books brought in that kind of money.

I don't like this 'vibe coding' nonsense. I think you're best to subscribe to the blog so you'll get articles transmitted direct to your inbox via Unity City Press Control, relayed by Thunderbird 5.

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1967 Fireball XL5 annual, art by Mike Noble

Script for Fireball XL5 short story The Living Rock, originally titled Don't Touch!. One of four stories David Motton wrote for the 1967 XL5 annual.

Operation Motton Part 1 is in the can! Nearly 4,000 words examining David Motton's scripts for the 1967 Fireball XL5 annual. Still in need of some firm editing, but it should be published on Sequential 21 within the next couple of weeks!

a cool thing about "cd's" is you push one button and it plays an entire album of music ad free and then (unless you request otherwise) it just stops and awaits further instruction. a very elegant system.

And it’s also why you should be as annoying and insufferable to the shitlibs who showed up and botted their way to “no dem under 10k” unusable follower counts - they are late arriving parasites who only came here because all the annoying queers and leftists made this a place worth being already.

Fuck em. BlueSky is our spoils. Right Of Conquest. We ain’t fucking leaving. You want us to ditch then you better start doing exactly what Musk did to Twitter and then try to compete with The Nazi Website as A Nazi Website.

We literally stole this place from Jack Dorsey’s NFT con artist tech bro friend circle, and the company he left behind has never forgiven the users they are now forced to manage a website for.

Again - BlueSky was originally Jack Dorsey’s pet project to make a Web3 social media / NFT trading post until a bunch of trans furries got ahold of invite codes and started mass-proliferating them to other trans furries and then suddenly BlueSky was 90% queers and annoying leftists and Jack fled.

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Happy birthday, duuude!! Hope it's a good'n!