Patrick Smith
@drpaddysmith.bsky.social
Astronomical optics, get 'em while they're cold
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Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life https://theonion.com/man-who-thought-fleetwood-macs-the-chain-was-over-in-for-thrill-of-his-fucking-life/
November 24, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life https://theonion.com/man-who-thought-fleetwood-macs-the-chain-was-over-in-for-thrill-of-his-fucking-life/
Nice. Bubastis made it out of the intrinsic field subtractor
“Here kitty kitty” ❤️
33 lb Maine Coon
Theodore Scritches McWiggles
TT: tonnagrimm
33 lb Maine Coon
Theodore Scritches McWiggles
TT: tonnagrimm
November 24, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Nice. Bubastis made it out of the intrinsic field subtractor
Why no SF/fantasy-themed cheap Christmas romance films?
Starship administrator loses her job, has to return to her home planet for Space Christmas, meets nerdy xenobotanist next door
That sort of thing
Starship administrator loses her job, has to return to her home planet for Space Christmas, meets nerdy xenobotanist next door
That sort of thing
November 24, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Why no SF/fantasy-themed cheap Christmas romance films?
Starship administrator loses her job, has to return to her home planet for Space Christmas, meets nerdy xenobotanist next door
That sort of thing
Starship administrator loses her job, has to return to her home planet for Space Christmas, meets nerdy xenobotanist next door
That sort of thing
Leave the gun, take the cannoli Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Leave the gun, take the cannoli Charlie Brown
Julian Barnes was Booker shortlisted for telling the real story of Doyle responding to a Holmes fan letter by solving the crime
www.julianbarnes.com/books/arthur...
www.julianbarnes.com/books/arthur...
November 24, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Julian Barnes was Booker shortlisted for telling the real story of Doyle responding to a Holmes fan letter by solving the crime
www.julianbarnes.com/books/arthur...
www.julianbarnes.com/books/arthur...
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As an occasional watcher, and someone just following by text, would it fair to say, what the fuck was that match? No-one could bat, and then one guy was really good at batting and wrapped the whole thing up in an hour?
November 22, 2025 at 10:06 AM
As an occasional watcher, and someone just following by text, would it fair to say, what the fuck was that match? No-one could bat, and then one guy was really good at batting and wrapped the whole thing up in an hour?
Beat the Devil and Korda's version of The Four Feathers
Solid programme from TPTV today
Solid programme from TPTV today
This afternoon on #TPTV Thursday 20th November
12:05 Z-CARS (1975) (s)
13:05 BEAT THE DEVIL (1953) (s)
14:50 LOOK AT LIFE: Keeping Clean (1963)
15:00 CROWN COURT (1973) Parts 1, 2 & 3 (s)
16:30 THE FOUR FEATHERS (1939) (s)
18:45 PLACE IN THE COUNTRY (1969) a short, filmed in Buckinghamshire
12:05 Z-CARS (1975) (s)
13:05 BEAT THE DEVIL (1953) (s)
14:50 LOOK AT LIFE: Keeping Clean (1963)
15:00 CROWN COURT (1973) Parts 1, 2 & 3 (s)
16:30 THE FOUR FEATHERS (1939) (s)
18:45 PLACE IN THE COUNTRY (1969) a short, filmed in Buckinghamshire
November 20, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Beat the Devil and Korda's version of The Four Feathers
Solid programme from TPTV today
Solid programme from TPTV today
As the dust settles on last night's footy, I notice that New Caledonia are in the inter-confederation play-offs
Suggesting the possibility of Old Caledonia v New Caledonia on the biggest stage of all
Suggesting the possibility of Old Caledonia v New Caledonia on the biggest stage of all
November 19, 2025 at 12:09 PM
As the dust settles on last night's footy, I notice that New Caledonia are in the inter-confederation play-offs
Suggesting the possibility of Old Caledonia v New Caledonia on the biggest stage of all
Suggesting the possibility of Old Caledonia v New Caledonia on the biggest stage of all
🎶 McLeaaaaan
from the halfway line 🎶
from the halfway line 🎶
November 18, 2025 at 10:00 PM
🎶 McLeaaaaan
from the halfway line 🎶
from the halfway line 🎶
Who have YOU seen in the nip on the London stage? I'm starting the bidding with Rufus Jones and Fiona Shaw
for the past couple of weeks I have been in a slightly testy argument with my mother about whether it was David Tennant or David Threlfall we saw naked on stage at the Royal Exchange in the 1990s.
It turned out we were talking about completely different plays we had gone to separately.
It turned out we were talking about completely different plays we had gone to separately.
November 18, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Who have YOU seen in the nip on the London stage? I'm starting the bidding with Rufus Jones and Fiona Shaw
Almost done! I've put up the dangly blue ones, the fiddly pink glass one and the trio (although my other half made me put two of them away)
I can never find the big daft-looking one. It'll probably just appear somewhere when it's too late and drive me mad
I can never find the big daft-looking one. It'll probably just appear somewhere when it's too late and drive me mad
I never put the decorations up until Standing by the Fence Screaming Day
November 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Almost done! I've put up the dangly blue ones, the fiddly pink glass one and the trio (although my other half made me put two of them away)
I can never find the big daft-looking one. It'll probably just appear somewhere when it's too late and drive me mad
I can never find the big daft-looking one. It'll probably just appear somewhere when it's too late and drive me mad
Little Broody Bat Man,
Hopping through the Gotham,
Scooping up the evildoers,
And bopping them on the head
Hopping through the Gotham,
Scooping up the evildoers,
And bopping them on the head
November 13, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Little Broody Bat Man,
Hopping through the Gotham,
Scooping up the evildoers,
And bopping them on the head
Hopping through the Gotham,
Scooping up the evildoers,
And bopping them on the head
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50 YEARS AGO TODAY: BBC Schools' Near And Far talks wind. When people talk about unsettling theme tunes they understandably reach for Picture Box first but that's because more of them haven't heard this Radiophonic Workshop set to maximum creepiness.
BBC SCHOOLS - NEAR AND FAR: When The Wind Blows (TX 2.2.83)
Mary Downing presents this long running primary school series, with it's creepy opening sequence! We learn all about the damage that strong winds can do to the land and to the people who live there. Recorded in Spring Term 1983. No continuity here, just a glimpse of the Dots Clock. From my own perso
www.youtube.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:30 AM
50 YEARS AGO TODAY: BBC Schools' Near And Far talks wind. When people talk about unsettling theme tunes they understandably reach for Picture Box first but that's because more of them haven't heard this Radiophonic Workshop set to maximum creepiness.
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I've had an idea...
Someone told me that cos there are nearly 800 episodes of the Simpsons, it's possible to describe all other shows with a clip from a Simpsons episode. So with that in mind, I'm going to use a freezeframe/gif to describe every classic Dr Who serial 😁 1 season per day...
Someone told me that cos there are nearly 800 episodes of the Simpsons, it's possible to describe all other shows with a clip from a Simpsons episode. So with that in mind, I'm going to use a freezeframe/gif to describe every classic Dr Who serial 😁 1 season per day...
November 12, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I've had an idea...
Someone told me that cos there are nearly 800 episodes of the Simpsons, it's possible to describe all other shows with a clip from a Simpsons episode. So with that in mind, I'm going to use a freezeframe/gif to describe every classic Dr Who serial 😁 1 season per day...
Someone told me that cos there are nearly 800 episodes of the Simpsons, it's possible to describe all other shows with a clip from a Simpsons episode. So with that in mind, I'm going to use a freezeframe/gif to describe every classic Dr Who serial 😁 1 season per day...
Feature length Star Cops reboot
Serial killer horror, not my favorite—but why has no one made a serial killer in space movie? This question brought to you by a discussion of the weird Jason movie.
November 11, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Feature length Star Cops reboot
OK I replied to this with a cheap shot, but also
If you had a mind to celebrate this resurrection, Osterman's manifestations could work as inverse stations of the cross
He died a lot more suddenly than Jesus but he came back a lot more gradually
If you had a mind to celebrate this resurrection, Osterman's manifestations could work as inverse stations of the cross
He died a lot more suddenly than Jesus but he came back a lot more gradually
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 6:11 PM
OK I replied to this with a cheap shot, but also
If you had a mind to celebrate this resurrection, Osterman's manifestations could work as inverse stations of the cross
He died a lot more suddenly than Jesus but he came back a lot more gradually
If you had a mind to celebrate this resurrection, Osterman's manifestations could work as inverse stations of the cross
He died a lot more suddenly than Jesus but he came back a lot more gradually
I hope this finds room for Gary Pratt
Welcome to the Guardian’s 100 best players in the history of the men’s Ashes
Welcome to the Guardian’s 100 best players in the history of the men’s Ashes
This week we will be publishing a run-down of our judges’ greatest Ashes cricketers in the buildup to this year’s series opener on 21 November. Here’s how we did it
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:30 AM
I hope this finds room for Gary Pratt
Thanks to @jonnelledge.bsky.social recommending Trainspose I've found that the Tube fits quite nicely into Edinburgh, complete with a commuter line to Fife
November 10, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Thanks to @jonnelledge.bsky.social recommending Trainspose I've found that the Tube fits quite nicely into Edinburgh, complete with a commuter line to Fife
I read the article. It's mostly tegenaria domestica, your ordinary house spider! Which on the one hand makes this megaweb less of a horror. It's our regular guys, we know them. On the other hand...
World's biggest spiderweb discovered inside 'Sulfur Cave' with 111,000 arachnids living in pitch black.
www.livescience.com/animals/spid...
www.livescience.com/animals/spid...
November 9, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I read the article. It's mostly tegenaria domestica, your ordinary house spider! Which on the one hand makes this megaweb less of a horror. It's our regular guys, we know them. On the other hand...
New to me but I recognised the name... this is another from the maker of Tango (1981)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z27z...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z27z...
November 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
New to me but I recognised the name... this is another from the maker of Tango (1981)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z27z...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z27z...
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now where's the Institute of Gremlins 2 Studies
September 8, 2025 at 5:38 PM
now where's the Institute of Gremlins 2 Studies
First day on set as the new prop assistant. Was asked if I'd mind helping fit the sabre teeth to the lions. "What did your last servant die of? Oh. Oh yes, of course"
November 7, 2025 at 10:40 AM
First day on set as the new prop assistant. Was asked if I'd mind helping fit the sabre teeth to the lions. "What did your last servant die of? Oh. Oh yes, of course"
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Arzach & his loyal Pterodelphus, by the indisputably great Moebius, from 2011’s “Arzach: El vigilante”.
November 6, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Arzach & his loyal Pterodelphus, by the indisputably great Moebius, from 2011’s “Arzach: El vigilante”.