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A geologist and archaeologist by training, a nerd by inclination - books, films, fossils, comics, rocks, games, folklore, and, generally, the rum and uncanny… Let’s have it!

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Don’t forget the Tory press getting their knickers in a twist about Just Stop Oil inconvencing a few people!

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This was pretty inevitable. If people were burning down 5G masts because it gave them spaces AIDS or was part of Bill Gates’ efforts to hack their children to become surly and uncooperative then something nominally based in reality was always going to get out of hand. I say nominally because you don’t do this because you object to paying a few quid, you do it because you’ve drunk the 15-minute-city Kool-Aid (and I’d bet they believe an awful lot of other conspiracy theories too).

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My uncle is a huge Monty Python fan so when I was setting up the mobile phone we’d bought him I added this as his notification sound. It was still pinging away the other week. I did realise that, as he’s deaf as a post, he might not even know about it. Still a great notification sound.

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I used to think nurses

Were women,

I used to think police

Were men,

I used to think poets

Were boring,

Until I became one of them.

Who’s Who

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Eight-eyed cave creature

So a spider in a hole.

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He’s a character. Literally.

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Is the floor at an angle too in that first photo?

Martin Starr Is Finally the Star In a New Holiday Horror Comedy Film (gizmodo.com)

What would National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation look like if Clark and his family had to fight a bunch of killer elves? You can get a very, very close approximation in the new movie There’s Something in the Barn. It stars Martin Starr (Freaks and Geeks, Silicon Valley) as a happy-go-lucky father who moves his family to...

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Quite why FNAF didn’t sue is a mystery.

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It builds clanking replicators and punts them out into the galaxy which start mining resources to make other clanking replicators, so it spreads exponentially.

Until…

A) It meets a more advanced species of clanking replicators that start converting it into themselves or: B) some distant version develops a change that makes it superior then sweeps back converting the older generations into itself, which goes on and on evolving until the heat death of the universe by which point it has evolved into a god like state and sublimed or figured out how to make a portal to the next universe or jump sideways into a younger parallel universe, where it does the same.

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Peak Crazy Cage - it’s an unmissable performance.

Drive Angry (2011) ⭐ 5.4 (Comedy + Fantasy) (www.imdb.com)

Hell-bent on rescuing his brutally slaughtered daughter’s infant from the clutches of the demon-worshipper, Jonah King, and his occultist minions, the eternally condemned sinner, John Milton, breaks out of the nightmarish netherworld. Having less than three days before the next full moon to avert the unholy offering, Milton...

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This is.not much of a surprise given all the nonsense with new oil and gas contracts as well as the constant chipping away at green policies.

What I don’t get is the lack of sense of urgency amongst the 0.1% - we all live in the same planet and their mountains of cash will only get them so far (this side of jumping on a rocket ship to somewhere an order of magnitude or two more hostile to life).

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Most of them probably think they will have died by the time the effects of climate change are great enough to bother them

But they have tend to have children and grandchildren.

or that their money will be enough to insulate themselves from it.

Yes, if there’s a cull, they’ll be on the right end of the scythe.

I have a horrible suspicion that they’ve just drunk the Koolaid - if you only hang around with energy executives who are also denying climate change you either buy into the idea that there isn’t a problem or hand-wave it away by saying some boffin will solve the problem.

It is an enormous task to get the entire world to take coordinated and far reaching action on anything, and some don’t think it’s possible.

It may not be.

Carbon capture and storage or geoengineering just look to be fig leaves that allow Big Carbon to keep rumbling on (why a lot of the argument at COP 28 was over “abatement”). Which feels very short-termist, if they redirected a fraction of the profits (or the money they spend lobbying against green legislation) into building things like solar energy farms across North Africa and the southern states in the US, they could create a future of near limitless profit for themselves. Unfortunately, while the dirty energy companies are fighting any change to their status quo, making any progress will be impossible.

Dream Scenario review: Nicolas Cage is on peak form in this surreal, nightmare-filled dark comedy (Comedy + Horror) (www.bbc.com)

In this delirious dark comedy, Nicolas Cage and director Kristoffer Borgli (Sick of Myself) take us down a rabbit hole, with the eccentric, unclassifiable star ideally paired to a filmmaker with a wonderfully mordant imagination. Cage plays Paul, a nondescript professor who, for no reason, starts popping up in other people’s...

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I’d missed the fact that it was a comedy horror until now as I was going to see it anyway, so had been avoiding spoilers.

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We’ve all fancied a bit of a minger from time to time, now it is easily available in Scottish Asda.

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Wiktionary to the rescue. See also: munter.

High Court blocks investigation into Tory internal election machinery (newsroom.tortoisemedia.com)

*Tortoise and the Tories The Conservative Party is a private members’ club that does not need to provide any information to the public about the membership that elects the party leader and prime minister or how the election is run, the High Court has ruled....

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It’s an aspect of our “democracy” we rarely scrutinise because that’s the way it’s always been but it’s a mess wide open for corruption.

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Did I understand that correctly?

Unfortunately, yes. Decisions are made in smoke-filled rooms from which the next leader of the country emerges, often going straight into power with no need for an election. It’s horrifying when you stop to think about it.

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Digital identity wallets and, our favorite, facial age estimation, where the features of a user’s face are analyzed to estimate the user’s age.

Well that could be “fun”. Poor George Dawes - he’s just a big baby.

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That’s how they get you - the French are too busy making le sweet sweet amour to watch porn. Probably. Better to pretend to be Dutch or German.

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Reddit is full of it, or so I’m told, and there’s a few NSFW Lemmy communities out there, allegedly.

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All well and good, I suppose, but stuff like this just sounds like technobabble (I think people just throw “AI” into anything these days) saying it’s in the feasibility study stage:

To this end, Genesis was tapped to deliver a technology-agnostic concept and engineering design study while H2GO Power and Fichtner Consulting Engineers were awarded contracts for value chain optimization for the potential green hydrogen offtake option.

Using AI machine learning and robust modeling, these studies will investigate the multitude of interdependent variables required to optimize a potential green hydrogen production facility, such as offshore wind farm sizing, electrolysis capacity, transport and storage capacity, water availability, and offtake optionality.

'Limbless' creature found digging beneath rotten tree in Vietnam: It's a new species (phys.org)

Researchers ventured into the dry lowland forest of Nui Chua National Park on three surveys between September 2022 and March 2023, according to a study published Dec. 1 in the journal Zootaxa. They were searching for a type of lizard known as a blind skink....

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Was he promoting his OnlyFans page at the time?

I Went Alien Hunting on Chile's Mountainous 'UFO Route' (www.vice.com)

“The most popular legend is that this plateau is a UFO landing strip,” said Peyo Orellana, the co-owner of “holistic tourism” service Peumayen Vilches, after a five hour hike to the summit, known as the Enladrillado. “Because there are always sightings actually, that come from west to east, towards the volcano.”...

This 400-Year-Old Cat Flap in Exeter Cathedral Door Is Thought to Be the World’s Oldest (earthlymission.com)

Exeter Cathedral is one of the most impressive Gothic buildings in England, dating back to the 12th century. It is famous for its stunning stained glass windows, intricate carvings, and magnificent vaulted ceiling. But there is also a hidden gem that many visitors might miss: a small hole at the bottom of a wooden door near the...

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After a cat fell on his head because it was getting in and out through an upstairs window?

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No problem. The whole.point of it is as a federated Goodreads replacement - the data is freely available, so all Goodreads has in its favour is it’s momentum and the sunk cost fallacy.

Ever since Amazon bought Goodreads I’ve been waiting for something like this, although I haven’t found the time to.impott my data and get properly stuck in. The main downside is I now want a BookWyrm for films,.comics, action figures, etc, etc. They’ll turn up eventually I suppose.

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Very true. The success of BookWyrm makes me hungry for other variations covering a range of stuff but the pool of talent isn’t massive and they all seem to be busy on various projects.

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Good find!

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No worries. When we get enough control we’ll run a few different skins - this is on the list.

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