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Fred Kiesche 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇩🇰
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Husband, Father, Good Cook. Reader. Keeper of abandoned dogs. Does not fit into a neat box or category. "Ah Mr. Gibbon, another damned, fat, square book. Always, scribble, scribble, scribble, eh?”

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Fred Kiesche 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇩🇰 @fredkiesche.bsky.social · Feb 28
Вільна Україна!
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FINISHED (192 YTD): Cheela 01–Dragon’s Egg (Dr. Robert L. Forward).

app.thestorygraph.com/books/b64b73...
Dragon's Egg by Robert L. Forward
"In science fiction there is only a handful of books that stretch the mind--and this is one of th...
app.thestorygraph.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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waynepeters.bsky.social
I finally got some paint on the Crooked Dice Moon Girls that I sculpted. Why didn't the men have to wear purple wigs, Gerry? Give the men purple wigs, you coward!
November 30, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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giantbrain.co.uk
This piece by my friend @malcolmcraig.bsky.social is very much worth your time. Really excited to see where this research goes next. It's free to read.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
When You Say, “Thermonuclear War,” I Think You Mean “the Call to Adventure”! The Twilight: 2000 Tabletop Role-Playing Game and the Postapocalyptic World’s Imaginary Spaces | Journal of American Studie...
When You Say, “Thermonuclear War,” I Think You Mean “the Call to Adventure”! The Twilight: 2000 Tabletop Role-Playing Game and the Postapocalyptic World’s Imaginary Spaces
www.cambridge.org
November 30, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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I remember the time some officials visited the CU Boulder campus in UH-1 Hueys from the Colorado National Guard. “How fucking loud helicopters are” does not do it justice. They were deafening from far away.

After that, I laughed at the parts in Magnum, PI where the helicopter surprised the villain
November 30, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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The most impressive thing about the trope 'Helicopters, No Matter How Close, Make No Noise Until They Appear On Screen' is that the entire production team is perfectly aware how fucking loud helicopters are.
But in movies, totally silent until they pop up from behind a tree or swing into frame.
November 30, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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It was a great game! Six players. We Klingons disabled the intruding Federation tug, having one of our D6s crippled in return. It was a merry chase through space, but under my command, the IKV Tr'keh delivered the decisive blow from close range!
My ship. Klingon D6 Heavy Cruiser, IKV Tr'keh, without a blemish. Action shot from the middle of the game. My ship is centered, running interference to try to distract the two Federation destroyers to the left from protecting the tug. The Federation tug, with one escorting DD, is in the distance, with our other Klingon D6 in close pursuit. There are asteroid and planet counters scattered across the board.
November 29, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Time to drive these Federation scum from the neutral zone! Three Klingon D6s try to capture a Federation Fleet Tug, which is escorted by three Fed destroyers. Federation Commander by Amarillo Design Bureau.
Federation Commander on a nice felt oversized hex map with miniatures for ships!
November 29, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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gianniseviltwin.bsky.social
Bong Joon-Ho for president of planet Earth.
robdelaney.bsky.social Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 1d
Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
Bong Joon Ho took a characteristically radical approach when questioned on his thoughts around the rise of Al technology at the jury press conference of the Marrakech Film Festival on Saturday. The Korean director, who is president of the jury, gave two responses, one measured, the other deeply personal. "My official answer is, Al is good because it's the very beginning of the human race finally seriously thinking about what only humans can do. But my personal answer is, I'm going to organize a military squad, and their mission is to destroy AI," he said.
November 29, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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In this video, we explore a five-game ladder of Vietnam War board games, each one increasing in complexity, depth, and realism.

youtu.be/iqaopAQLK9o
November 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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French Couple on Embankment After Albert Guillaume - 1909
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3105480
November 30, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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A drop of dream fuel - Starland by Alfred Kelsner
November 29, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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sfencyclopedia.bsky.social
Illustrations for authors without SFE entries, from Galaxy, Aug'64-Feb 1970: 1 Bill Doede, 2&3 HH Hollis, 4 Dannie Plachta (Artist: Burns, Wallace Wood, Wallace Wood and Jack Gaughan). 2&3 for "Travelers Guide to Megahouston", 4 "The Last Night of the Festival":
November 29, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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CS Lewis sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/lewis_... was born on this day, so here's some cover art (Artist: Art Sussman, [signature might be 'John Rose'], [couldn't identify] and Jay Landau):
November 29, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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The Fifth Element (1997): 2263 cash transport, art by Patrice Garcia
A concept art illustration of a heavy, industrial, futuristic transport vessel, rendered in marker and colored pencil. The dark grey-blue hull features a star emblem and the text 'PLANET EARTH MARKET' prominently on the side. The overall design is blocky and utilitarian, suggesting a cargo.
November 29, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Ben Bova sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/bova_ben died and Kevin O'Donnell Jr sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/odonne... died on this day (Artist: Oscar Chichoni, Colin Hay, Dean Ellis[?] and Stephen Fabian). 3 cover art for O'Donnell's "Bander Snatch". Really bad crinkly silver font used on 'Crime' in 2nd!
Cover for Ben Bova's "Future Crime", which has nice artwork by Colin Hay, but 'Crime' is in an awful crinkly silver font, fringed with red, that detracts from it.
November 29, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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sardonicus.eu
Christopher Lee and Tony Iommi, 2010
two men, one with dark dair and glassess the other, taller with grey hair
November 29, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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thespaceshipper.com
muhahahaha
Evil Golden Snake
November 29, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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thespaceshipper.com
Stargate SG-1 (1997-2007): Apophis (Peter Williams) mechanical headdress
A close-up studio shot of a gold-colored, intricately detailed helmet prop shaped like a stylized cobra's head. The hood is flared and covered in etched patterns resembling scales and tribal art. The front features a wide, stylized open mouth and dark eye sockets, set against a white background. A dramatic, cinematic close-up shot of a gold-colored, intricately detailed helmet prop shaped like a cobra's head. The flared hood is covered in etched patterns, and the helmet features two prominent, menacing, glowing red eyes. The helmet is spotlighted in a dark, dusty interior, suggesting a temple setting.
November 29, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Weirdly enough, I found these ones while researching two completely unrelated upcoming blog posts for my retro sci-fi art newsletter and not for a “People With Their Heads Stuck in Clocks” post.

Anyway, check out the blog and sign up here! 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io
70s Sci-Fi Art
Let's look at a bunch of retro science fiction cover art
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November 29, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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70sscifiart.bsky.social
Left: Alan Aldridge’s 1967 cover to Clifford D. Simak’s Time and Again. Right: The uncredited cover to a May 1976 issue of the Gold Key Twilight Zone comic book.
A guy with a mustache and a purple cloak appears to be choking as a result of a big clockface that is wrapped around his neck like a collar. He's holding silver handlebars that connect directly to a silver exhaust pipe that he's riding on. A man with a crazed expression wrestles with the floppy arms of a giant, gooey clock face that his neck is caught in. It's a Twilight Zone comic book cover with a blurb reading "Time was the tyrant that had to be stopped!"
November 29, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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thespaceshipper.com
Irwin Allen's Lost in Space (1965-1968): All-Terrain Chariot, filming miniature
A studio photograph of the Chariot vehicle model from the 1965 television series Lost in Space. The vehicle has a silver body, wide reddish-brown treads, and a large, transparent, yellowish cabin. Small doll figures representing the crew are visible inside, and accessories like a radar dish and cargo boxes are mounted on the roof. All-Terrain Chariot in the show
November 29, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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sfencyclopedia.bsky.social
Robert Holdstock sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/holdst... died and Madeleine L'Engle was born on this day, so here are some their book covers (Artist: Oscar Chichoni, Ron Walotsky, Jody A Lee and [couldn't identify]):
November 29, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Fallout (PC, 1996)
The main interface for the game Fallout. The PC is currently in a cave; a two-headed cow corpse is visible screen left. Top center is dominated by the Pipboy view. Left are the player's current inventory (a rifle and two stacks of ammunition); top center is the PC's appearance, a grey green army man; middle is the current armor, some football-pad-looking leather armor; bottom shows the left hand is empty, and the right hand has a grey pistol. Top right are the character's key stats (ST 15, DX 17, IQ 11, HT 14, PD 2, DR 7, Move 7, Dodge 7), attack stats (Magnum, 3d bullet), Total Weight 10, Points 138, and Unspent Points -38. Bottom left is a log showing everything the player has looked at, an inventory button, the menu button, HP 14, FP 15, the left hand button showing Punch/Kickthe right hand button showing a Magnum, three toggles for action control, a Pip-Boy button, a Character Sheet button, a button for movement, and a mollyguard that would show combat options.
November 30, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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November 30, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Evening tunes.
November 30, 2025 at 2:22 AM