astrotomato
@astrotomato.bsky.social
I don't post much these days, but if I do it'll be about #writing #scifi #sustainability #ClimateChange #music // Left of centre
My books:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Graeme%20Maughan/author/B007904WIK
My books:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Graeme%20Maughan/author/B007904WIK
Purple IS a fruit!
BBC News - Move over açaí - the Amazon has more 'superfoods' to offer
www.bbc.com/news/article...
BBC News - Move over açaí - the Amazon has more 'superfoods' to offer
www.bbc.com/news/article...
November 16, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Purple IS a fruit!
BBC News - Move over açaí - the Amazon has more 'superfoods' to offer
www.bbc.com/news/article...
BBC News - Move over açaí - the Amazon has more 'superfoods' to offer
www.bbc.com/news/article...
November 16, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Amazing to see Elisabeth Moss in this.
Up late by myself. I'm going to watch Girl, Interrupted and drunk a Negroni.
November 16, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Amazing to see Elisabeth Moss in this.
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Slanted Saturn - From Val Klavans (valklavans.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/k1h5xs
November 15, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Slanted Saturn - From Val Klavans (valklavans.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/k1h5xs
We started watching Riot Women tonight, which appealed to Mrs Astro but not me. I just couldn't get over the central conceit that middle aged women forming a rock band was radical in 2025.
November 16, 2025 at 12:01 AM
We started watching Riot Women tonight, which appealed to Mrs Astro but not me. I just couldn't get over the central conceit that middle aged women forming a rock band was radical in 2025.
Lovely, lovely Winona Ryder.
November 15, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Lovely, lovely Winona Ryder.
Up late by myself. I'm going to watch Girl, Interrupted and drunk a Negroni.
November 15, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Up late by myself. I'm going to watch Girl, Interrupted and drunk a Negroni.
The Anchoress at Union Chapel last night, with Roxanne de Bastion on supporting vocals.
She really is phenomenal.
She really is phenomenal.
November 15, 2025 at 8:06 PM
The Anchoress at Union Chapel last night, with Roxanne de Bastion on supporting vocals.
She really is phenomenal.
She really is phenomenal.
Stuck on a tube train at Euston. Apparently the whole station is being evacuated due to an emergency.
November 14, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Stuck on a tube train at Euston. Apparently the whole station is being evacuated due to an emergency.
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happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands by the Perimeter Fence and Screams for Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing day
November 14, 2025 at 6:39 AM
happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands by the Perimeter Fence and Screams for Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing day
Who will light the Bat signal now?
BBC News - South East PCCs react to decision to axe role
www.bbc.com/news/article...
BBC News - South East PCCs react to decision to axe role
www.bbc.com/news/article...
South East police and crime commissioners address abolition plans
The Home Office says this move will see front-line policing awarded an extra £20m every year.
www.bbc.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Who will light the Bat signal now?
BBC News - South East PCCs react to decision to axe role
www.bbc.com/news/article...
BBC News - South East PCCs react to decision to axe role
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Sabrina is ON the spider beat 🧪🕷️
1: Biggest web found! Cave with more than 100,000 spiders in some sort of co-op housing, 2 species, one of which normally eats the other. But not in the dark cave.
2. The wee spiders using prey to make giant fake spider puppets to scare off predators. So metal.
1: Biggest web found! Cave with more than 100,000 spiders in some sort of co-op housing, 2 species, one of which normally eats the other. But not in the dark cave.
2. The wee spiders using prey to make giant fake spider puppets to scare off predators. So metal.
breaking!!!!!!! spider web!!!!!!!! news!!!!!!!!
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Drop Whatever You're Doing Right This Instant, There's Big Spider Web News | Defector
After a brief foray into creatures big, flashy, and famous, we must return to form and focus on the spineless, creepy, and crawling. Today we’re shining a spotlight on one of the most loathèd creepy-c...
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November 13, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Sabrina is ON the spider beat 🧪🕷️
1: Biggest web found! Cave with more than 100,000 spiders in some sort of co-op housing, 2 species, one of which normally eats the other. But not in the dark cave.
2. The wee spiders using prey to make giant fake spider puppets to scare off predators. So metal.
1: Biggest web found! Cave with more than 100,000 spiders in some sort of co-op housing, 2 species, one of which normally eats the other. But not in the dark cave.
2. The wee spiders using prey to make giant fake spider puppets to scare off predators. So metal.
What will eventually bring down Trump?
a) Epstein files
b) Dementia
c) Scheming Republicans
d) Random Meteorite Strike
e) Ghost of Elvis Stopping His Heart While Going for a Shit
f) All of the Above?
a) Epstein files
b) Dementia
c) Scheming Republicans
d) Random Meteorite Strike
e) Ghost of Elvis Stopping His Heart While Going for a Shit
f) All of the Above?
November 12, 2025 at 10:20 PM
What will eventually bring down Trump?
a) Epstein files
b) Dementia
c) Scheming Republicans
d) Random Meteorite Strike
e) Ghost of Elvis Stopping His Heart While Going for a Shit
f) All of the Above?
a) Epstein files
b) Dementia
c) Scheming Republicans
d) Random Meteorite Strike
e) Ghost of Elvis Stopping His Heart While Going for a Shit
f) All of the Above?
I think I'd quite like to be one of the pod people
Watching Pluribus on 🍎TV. As far as I can tell it's a modern day take on Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
November 11, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I think I'd quite like to be one of the pod people
Watching Pluribus on 🍎TV. As far as I can tell it's a modern day take on Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
November 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Watching Pluribus on 🍎TV. As far as I can tell it's a modern day take on Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
Amazing coordinated attack on BBC to bring it down.
November 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Amazing coordinated attack on BBC to bring it down.
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Hey so Michael Burry (the dude Christian Bale plays in The Big Short) just took out a billion dollar short bet against a few HUGE Ai companies…………
Reminder that he made mega bank betting on the housing market to fail back in 2008. No one believed that was even possible at the time.
Reminder that he made mega bank betting on the housing market to fail back in 2008. No one believed that was even possible at the time.
November 9, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Hey so Michael Burry (the dude Christian Bale plays in The Big Short) just took out a billion dollar short bet against a few HUGE Ai companies…………
Reminder that he made mega bank betting on the housing market to fail back in 2008. No one believed that was even possible at the time.
Reminder that he made mega bank betting on the housing market to fail back in 2008. No one believed that was even possible at the time.
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It’s not at all clear to me how the BBC can do any kind of serious journalism if its top two bosses can be forced to quit over such an obviously confected scandal. There is no substantive error here. How can the BBC report on Trump, or Farage, or anyone else, in these circumstances?
November 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
It’s not at all clear to me how the BBC can do any kind of serious journalism if its top two bosses can be forced to quit over such an obviously confected scandal. There is no substantive error here. How can the BBC report on Trump, or Farage, or anyone else, in these circumstances?
Feel free to eat pastry and mincemeat at any time of the year. But woe betide the person who has a mince pie before an arbitrary date set by someone on social media.
November 9, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Feel free to eat pastry and mincemeat at any time of the year. But woe betide the person who has a mince pie before an arbitrary date set by someone on social media.
#Writing I hit 133k words in my WIP. More importantly I wrote a scene today which signalled the end sequence of the book. I reckon I'm within 10k words of the finale.
November 8, 2025 at 9:00 PM
#Writing I hit 133k words in my WIP. More importantly I wrote a scene today which signalled the end sequence of the book. I reckon I'm within 10k words of the finale.
Watching Ballad of a Small Player. 8 read the book in the 00s. Do I remember that the protagonist Lord Doyle is a heroin user? It's not represented in the film.
November 8, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Watching Ballad of a Small Player. 8 read the book in the 00s. Do I remember that the protagonist Lord Doyle is a heroin user? It's not represented in the film.
Shorn of the head
November 8, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Shorn of the head
Shorn of the head
November 8, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Shorn of the head
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While agreeing in the round,
I've found this (below) both reassuring and highlighting of the need for constant vigilance. There is no perfect end state. See if you can see where the 'thousand year reich' occurs (also, that Roman Empire lasted quite a while).
m.youtube.com/watch?v=UY9P...
I've found this (below) both reassuring and highlighting of the need for constant vigilance. There is no perfect end state. See if you can see where the 'thousand year reich' occurs (also, that Roman Empire lasted quite a while).
m.youtube.com/watch?v=UY9P...
The History of Europe: Every Year
YouTube video by Cottereau
m.youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:56 AM
While agreeing in the round,
I've found this (below) both reassuring and highlighting of the need for constant vigilance. There is no perfect end state. See if you can see where the 'thousand year reich' occurs (also, that Roman Empire lasted quite a while).
m.youtube.com/watch?v=UY9P...
I've found this (below) both reassuring and highlighting of the need for constant vigilance. There is no perfect end state. See if you can see where the 'thousand year reich' occurs (also, that Roman Empire lasted quite a while).
m.youtube.com/watch?v=UY9P...