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Inspector Dim @inspectordim.bsky.social · 18h

You're just the kind of sonker who doesn't appreciate these names

Inspector Dim @inspectordim.bsky.social · 20h

Did we ever find out if it was SOCOM or SOUTHCOM doing the killings?

Inspector Dim @inspectordim.bsky.social · 21h

What this game needs is a "Realistic Pre-Modern Teeth" mod!

And a "Realistic Dysentery" mod. Cause nothing says "fantasy adventure" like dying of dysentery.

Inspector Dim @inspectordim.bsky.social · 22h

Never heard of it, but I would have hoped a film about the Eddington expeditions to test general relativity would have been welcomed. Or was it about the actor when he appeared on Yes Minister?

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Inspector Dim @inspectordim.bsky.social · 23h

Big Corner Is Watching You

Inspector Dim @inspectordim.bsky.social · 1d

Does he have another house that's feeding him? Maybe you're just the side house.

Inspector Dim @inspectordim.bsky.social · 1d

Wikipedia says that some of these were Xi's cronies, so I'm puzzled why he got rid of them. They started questing his ideas, or actual incompetence/corruption?

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Inspector Dim @inspectordim.bsky.social · 2d

After the results from Trappist-1 I've become very pessimistic about whether planets orbiting the smallest red dwarfs will have atmospheres, but here's hoping that Teegarden b may still have one.

Inspector Dim @inspectordim.bsky.social · 3d

Time to get cracking on my cachyos install.

Inspector Dim @inspectordim.bsky.social · 4d

It was shown here in Australia and they showed the spinoff series as well!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yILS...

Newstopia - Inspektor Herring Kidnapped

YouTube video by stirlo

www.youtube.com

Inspector Dim @inspectordim.bsky.social · 5d

Look on my Wankfest, ye Mighty, and despair!

Inspector Dim @inspectordim.bsky.social · 6d

ROU A Sensible Display of Productive Violence

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Inspector Dim @inspectordim.bsky.social · 7d

Commercial fission power? Though the inputs are probably expensive all that way from the rocky planets.

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Inspector Dim @inspectordim.bsky.social · 7d

And maybe using mirrors made out of cheaper materials to concentrate the sunlight could help, especially if the solar cells are designed for the insolation at 1 AU.

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Inspector Dim @inspectordim.bsky.social · 8d

When I read this my first thought was "Jamelle 1990? That's an interesting title, I never saw it in the cinemas here."

Inspector Dim @inspectordim.bsky.social · 8d

Yes, the "Physics: the study of circular motion" joke.

Inspector Dim @inspectordim.bsky.social · 8d

Model understands that there are a lot of people who would say "Yes, I'm absolutely sure."

Inspector Dim @inspectordim.bsky.social · 10d

So she's now the president of the US? Good choice.

Inspector Dim @inspectordim.bsky.social · 12d

The model seems to have finally given up on giving the Fork Devil his fork.

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Inspector Dim @inspectordim.bsky.social · 12d

I'm curious what President Vance will be like. Obviously he'll be a horrible nazi with no charisma, but he's also been a sniveling toady his entire life. Who will he toady to when he's in charge? How will he cope with having to actually have his own ideas?

Inspector Dim @inspectordim.bsky.social · 13d

The cavity magnetron, famous German invention.

Inspector Dim @inspectordim.bsky.social · 18d

He's stolen all of Man's album covers!

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Inspector Dim @inspectordim.bsky.social · 21d

Thanks. Much bigger and further south than I'd imagined. For some reason I'd developed the idea it was centered around Sacramento.

Inspector Dim @inspectordim.bsky.social · 21d

I don't have really good idea of the scale, so I'm not sure if the Empire is more than ya-Sattra and immediate environs or it still covers a significant area of Northern Cal.

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Inspector Dim @inspectordim.bsky.social · 21d

Apropos of nothing, but how big is the remnant Empire? I know the coastline has moved out thanks to the expanded icecaps, but roughly how much of this map does it control: www.google.com/maps/place/N...

www.google.com

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