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Fred McNamara
@commandermac.bsky.social
Atomic-powered analoguepunk enthusiast. 💥 Website editor/classic comic compiler at Anderson Entertainment. 🚀 "Gerry Anderson pervert", apparently.

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💥 sequential21.net
⚡ gerryanderson.com/blog/blogs

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ALL SECTIONS ALPHA: THE MAKING OF SPACE: 1999 is available to pre-order from @gerryanderson.bsky.social! Edited/co-written by me, this hugely updated and gorgeously designed hardback expands Tim Heald's original book to tell the definitive story of Moonbase Alpha!

gerryanderson.com/products/all...
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The ghost is often a manifestation of things we ought to know, but cannot interpret correctly. A failure of translation across time, across place. For few truly speak the language of mystery, the tongues of the dead. - Rev. Æthelstan Morley, Church of England ghost-layer
December 1, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Sure, they've made an environmentally catastrophic mass hallucination disinformation plagiarism Clippy that will destabilize the world, but also their other goal is to replace human workers entirely and let us humans starve. A boycott of AI is the most important boycott of your entire life.
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Forty ghosts spending eternity reciting one line each from 'The Good Life' Christmas Special.
October 17, 2024 at 7:51 PM
I'm not convinced that this is *good*, but it is hella fun!
November 30, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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On your deathbed, you will probably not be thinking, "at least I totally owned those trolls on social media," and if you are it's unlikely there will be anyone there to hold your hand as you go
The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
November 30, 2025 at 8:21 PM
It's also the only time you'll ever hear a pre-Star Wars David Prowse very audibly break character when Tony Anholt smacks his rubber-suited alien character in the dick with a fire extinguisher.
If Space:1999 has taught us anything, it’s that all aliens are British.
November 30, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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If Space:1999 has taught us anything, it’s that all aliens are British.
November 30, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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November 29, 2025 at 9:52 PM
My car's radiator seems to have disintegrated, but I've made some killer buttery shortbread loaded with cinnamon and dark chocolate chips, so the day hasn't been a total write-off.
November 29, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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New Planet by Konstantin Yuon (1921)
November 29, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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3/3

Time to update the Gas Giant Portrait I created, now including the new versions of Saturn and Uranus I recently processed.

Full size & more info: flic.kr/p/2oUkYSY 🔭🧪
Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/AndreaLuck

Jupiter is next on the list to be updated :)
November 29, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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A new version of Saturn by JWST Space Telescope

Full size & more info: flic.kr/p/2rHUzZs 🔭🧪
Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/AndreaLuck

Instrument: NIRCAM
Target: Saturn-Centre
Time: 2023-06-24 (not a new release)
Filter: F322W2-F323N, F212 (partially reconstructed)
PI: Leigh Fletcher ID: 1247
November 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Another huge influence on me - a small scale fanzine with big design ambitions, but more importantly the first place that I had seen something as mundane as television production treated like it had a story to tell. Also Andrew Pixley's first venture!

timworthington.org/2018/08/25/t...
November 29, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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DID SOMEONE MENTION CYCLONUS AND SCOURGE?!

Comic by me!
November 29, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Thora Hird not so much stealing the scene in The Qatermass Experiment (Guest, 1955) as the whole frigging film

Comedy gold
November 29, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Not convinced this little venture should have taken half a year to complete, but I hope it's been a fun ride celebrating everyone's favourite Space: 1999 episodes!
November 27, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Heaven Sent is a tremendously riveting standalone effort of weird science-fantasy TV drama and a prime example of Moffat's insufferable, smug, mythology-laboured Doctor Who. It can be both things.
November 29, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Affordable UK/EU shipping avail- 106% funded!
Good news to UK/EU Folks. We've secured more favorable shipping rates for Hostile Planet!

UK shipping will be £7
EU shipping will be €13

For those that already backed, you will need to adjust your reward tier. You can do so via Kickstarter.

75% and counting: www.kickstarter.com/projects/715...
November 28, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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This just in, from one of my favourite indie creators @tomhumberstone.com! 💙🩷

I Know The Way Out is a gorgeous collection of 3 poems in comic form. Genuinely thoughtful and beautifully produced.

My favourite pick up from Thought Bubble this year.

okcomics.co.uk/products/i-k...
November 28, 2025 at 1:10 PM
It's been a morning of one final round under the dentist's drill for another filling, but we're also off to see Wake Up Dead Man this evening and we've bought tickets for Neil Young in Manchester next year. Whoop whoop!
November 28, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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I've taken to wondering if the terminally tense relationship between Ed Straker and General Henderson, with Straker continually having to justify the financial cost of running SHADO, was inspired by Gerry's own relationship with Lew Grade?
November 25, 2024 at 11:33 AM
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Audience culture is the worst it's ever been, I swear to god. People forgot how to act. I'm at the theater, trying to enjoy my show, which I've paid GOOD MONEY for, and these two old assholes are in the balcony heckling the life out of the poor bear onstage. Not letting him finish a single joke.
November 26, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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⚡️ OF THUNDER & LIGHTNING by Kimberly Wang @kmbrlei.bsky.social
Corporate magical girls and the apocalypse! A thrilling two-tone sci-fi graphic novel, growing the seeds of hope from the gravel of apocalypse.
November 27, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Next year I will be releasing my first full length graphic novel with @averyhill.bsky.social

Oracles is a graphic novel about grief and self discovery. Here is the pre/ launch kickstarter if you’d like to support the project and get notifications! ✨

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ave...
Coming soon: Oracles by Olivia Sullivan
A graphic novel journey through the wilderness to face the complications and complexities of grief and loss
www.kickstarter.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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UNBOUND AUTHORS: Leftover copies of your books in the UK (MacMillan) warehouse will be pulped within the next week or two. DM me for a link to the warehouse stock list and contacts.

If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split
November 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM