CDM
@imajica.bsky.social
Father, writer, reader, gamer, nerd. Do a little tinkering here, a little tailoring there. Never a soldier, often a spy. He/him, but ally to all.
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@imajica.bsky.social
· Oct 7
Counting down the days to KARLA'S CHOICE by @harkaway.bsky.social, turned up these old snaps from Karla's desk at Moscow Centre. Looking forward to seeing what he was up to in the years before Tinker Tailor.
Legend.
I'm old enough to remember when CBS News and journalists like Edward R. Murrow held power to account, instead of capitulating to it.
January 7, 2026 at 8:24 PM
Legend.
Very pleased with this little Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy MOC, replacing the crap Disney inserts included in the TV set with one of George Smiley in the Circus SCIF. cc @realjohnlecarre.bsky.social bcc @nickharkaway.com ❤️
January 6, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Very pleased with this little Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy MOC, replacing the crap Disney inserts included in the TV set with one of George Smiley in the Circus SCIF. cc @realjohnlecarre.bsky.social bcc @nickharkaway.com ❤️
Make a Bond Movie Academic:
CASINO ROYALE: Combinatorial Probabilities, Bayes's Theorem,
the Law of Large Numbers, and the Utter Bullshit of Bond's Winning Hand (and How It Required Zero Skill as a Secret Agent, You Lucky Twat): A Doctoral Thesis.
CASINO ROYALE: Combinatorial Probabilities, Bayes's Theorem,
the Law of Large Numbers, and the Utter Bullshit of Bond's Winning Hand (and How It Required Zero Skill as a Secret Agent, You Lucky Twat): A Doctoral Thesis.
Make a Bond movie academic:
Moonraker: high and low plausible ROI of asteroid mining and Earth Orbit resource gathering weighted to account for scalable de-orbital delivery of captured material
Moonraker: high and low plausible ROI of asteroid mining and Earth Orbit resource gathering weighted to account for scalable de-orbital delivery of captured material
make a Bond movie academic:
Casino Royale: The Political Economy of Capitalism & Global Finance, by Susan Strange
Casino Royale: The Political Economy of Capitalism & Global Finance, by Susan Strange
December 27, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Make a Bond Movie Academic:
CASINO ROYALE: Combinatorial Probabilities, Bayes's Theorem,
the Law of Large Numbers, and the Utter Bullshit of Bond's Winning Hand (and How It Required Zero Skill as a Secret Agent, You Lucky Twat): A Doctoral Thesis.
CASINO ROYALE: Combinatorial Probabilities, Bayes's Theorem,
the Law of Large Numbers, and the Utter Bullshit of Bond's Winning Hand (and How It Required Zero Skill as a Secret Agent, You Lucky Twat): A Doctoral Thesis.
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I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?
December 23, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?
Have you ever seen this Japanese copy of Tinker Tailor, @nickharkaway.com ? Just got hold of it, isn't it lovely?
December 22, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Have you ever seen this Japanese copy of Tinker Tailor, @nickharkaway.com ? Just got hold of it, isn't it lovely?
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Things are going great over at X, The Everything App
December 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Things are going great over at X, The Everything App
Really grateful that the @greatesttrek.com pod went on a Battlestar Galactica sidequest recently, while Trek was on hiatus. It's been such a joy watching BSG again, for the first time in 15+ years, and I wouldn't have come back to it without Ben and Adam. Thanks, from a loyal and long-time FoD.
December 19, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Really grateful that the @greatesttrek.com pod went on a Battlestar Galactica sidequest recently, while Trek was on hiatus. It's been such a joy watching BSG again, for the first time in 15+ years, and I wouldn't have come back to it without Ben and Adam. Thanks, from a loyal and long-time FoD.
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I’d guess I’m not entirely alone in having assumed it would continue to mean Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics…
December 13, 2025 at 6:40 AM
I’d guess I’m not entirely alone in having assumed it would continue to mean Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics…
This time in French, and no longer open to debate. @nickharkaway.com , it's 100% Chunk Smith, cased closed, done and dusted. Setting it in stone.
Rest in Peace, he who could have been Chunk Smith.
www.facebook.com/watch/?v=461...
Rest in Peace, he who could have been Chunk Smith.
www.facebook.com/watch/?v=461...
Redirecting...
www.facebook.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:28 PM
This time in French, and no longer open to debate. @nickharkaway.com , it's 100% Chunk Smith, cased closed, done and dusted. Setting it in stone.
Rest in Peace, he who could have been Chunk Smith.
www.facebook.com/watch/?v=461...
Rest in Peace, he who could have been Chunk Smith.
www.facebook.com/watch/?v=461...
The genius of @kipwilliams.bsky.social 's username has me corpsing; first he Sort Of liked my comments, now he's Sort Of following me. 🤣🤣🤣 Absolutely love this level of Manufactured Disinterest, wish I'd thought of it first.
November 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
The genius of @kipwilliams.bsky.social 's username has me corpsing; first he Sort Of liked my comments, now he's Sort Of following me. 🤣🤣🤣 Absolutely love this level of Manufactured Disinterest, wish I'd thought of it first.
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
Was scrolling too quickly and my pre-caffeinated brain saw this @pivotpod.bsky.social caption as THE QUEST FOR KARLA. My tour of @realjohnlecarre.bsky.social 's London is so nigh that I'm seeing little Smileys everywhere. Cannot wait to get across the pond. And possibly just stay there.
November 10, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Was scrolling too quickly and my pre-caffeinated brain saw this @pivotpod.bsky.social caption as THE QUEST FOR KARLA. My tour of @realjohnlecarre.bsky.social 's London is so nigh that I'm seeing little Smileys everywhere. Cannot wait to get across the pond. And possibly just stay there.
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I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.
- Will Rogers
- Will Rogers
November 10, 2025 at 6:44 AM
I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.
- Will Rogers
- Will Rogers
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Democrats in office need to know: all of us with very few exceptions want all of you with very few exception to lose your god damn jobs because you refuse to do them.
November 10, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Democrats in office need to know: all of us with very few exceptions want all of you with very few exception to lose your god damn jobs because you refuse to do them.
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Bell bottom-era tape unearthed, could contain lost piece of Unix history
www.theregister.com/2025/11/07/u...
It might have the first-ever version of UNIX written in C
<- by me on @theregister.com
www.theregister.com/2025/11/07/u...
It might have the first-ever version of UNIX written in C
<- by me on @theregister.com
52 year old data tape could contain Unix history
: It might have the first-ever version of UNIX written in C
www.theregister.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Bell bottom-era tape unearthed, could contain lost piece of Unix history
www.theregister.com/2025/11/07/u...
It might have the first-ever version of UNIX written in C
<- by me on @theregister.com
www.theregister.com/2025/11/07/u...
It might have the first-ever version of UNIX written in C
<- by me on @theregister.com
I hope to walk @realjohnlecarre.bsky.social 's London next week. I hope to see the Tradecraft exhibit in Oxford. I hope to attend the opening night of The Spy Who Came In From the Cold. But we live in a tin pot dictatorship run by idiots, monsters, fascists, racists, and ghouls. So...who knows.
November 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I hope to walk @realjohnlecarre.bsky.social 's London next week. I hope to see the Tradecraft exhibit in Oxford. I hope to attend the opening night of The Spy Who Came In From the Cold. But we live in a tin pot dictatorship run by idiots, monsters, fascists, racists, and ghouls. So...who knows.
What a sweet little nugget. Just needs a thousand kisses on that head. An hour.
November 5, 2025 at 7:47 PM
What a sweet little nugget. Just needs a thousand kisses on that head. An hour.
I do, but shan't spoil it.
It's THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD. It's that one. The one that made le Carré a household name, the OG, the book Graham Greene called the greatest spy story ever told.
It's THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD. It's that one. The one that made le Carré a household name, the OG, the book Graham Greene called the greatest spy story ever told.
November 4, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I do, but shan't spoil it.
It's THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD. It's that one. The one that made le Carré a household name, the OG, the book Graham Greene called the greatest spy story ever told.
It's THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD. It's that one. The one that made le Carré a household name, the OG, the book Graham Greene called the greatest spy story ever told.
Also soul-rot, acute assholism, and side-effects from the greedy ingestion of the hopes and dreams of young children.
Cheney, who extolled the power of the presidency, died Monday, according to a statement from his family. The cause was complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease.
Dick Cheney, one of the most powerful vice presidents in American history, dies at 84
Cheney, who extolled the power of the presidency, died Monday, according to a statement from his family. The cause was complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease.
n.pr
November 4, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Also soul-rot, acute assholism, and side-effects from the greedy ingestion of the hopes and dreams of young children.
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The Senate is still meeting and holding votes as normal despite the shutdown.
The House has not held a vote in a month and a half now solely because Mike Johnson wants to prevent the release of the Epstein Files.
They've killed our government to save their pedophiles.
The House has not held a vote in a month and a half now solely because Mike Johnson wants to prevent the release of the Epstein Files.
They've killed our government to save their pedophiles.
October 29, 2025 at 12:04 PM
The Senate is still meeting and holding votes as normal despite the shutdown.
The House has not held a vote in a month and a half now solely because Mike Johnson wants to prevent the release of the Epstein Files.
They've killed our government to save their pedophiles.
The House has not held a vote in a month and a half now solely because Mike Johnson wants to prevent the release of the Epstein Files.
They've killed our government to save their pedophiles.
Traveling without bookstore access for the week, so just ducked into a little airport bookseller looking for KING SORROW by @joe-hill.bsky.social ; found it sold out (yay!) but I'm hauling 90 lbs of carryon so probably for the best. They DID have a faced-out TTSS by @realjohnlecarre.bsky.social, tho
October 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Traveling without bookstore access for the week, so just ducked into a little airport bookseller looking for KING SORROW by @joe-hill.bsky.social ; found it sold out (yay!) but I'm hauling 90 lbs of carryon so probably for the best. They DID have a faced-out TTSS by @realjohnlecarre.bsky.social, tho
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September provided Trump and his administration a bevy of opportunities to continue to fuck shit up, and boy did they ever come through. #LestWeForgetTheHorrors
Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes: September 2025: Atrocities 417-466
Early in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We...
buff.ly
October 20, 2025 at 1:07 PM
September provided Trump and his administration a bevy of opportunities to continue to fuck shit up, and boy did they ever come through. #LestWeForgetTheHorrors
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Seems like a great moment for some magazine to do a big spread of photos of the East Wing throughout its history, driving home exactly what kinds of spaces have been taken from the people.
October 23, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Seems like a great moment for some magazine to do a big spread of photos of the East Wing throughout its history, driving home exactly what kinds of spaces have been taken from the people.
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Notifications about insurance hikes and SNAP/WIC cuts are rolling out.
I personally would NOT start construction on a fancy ballroom the same week but I also don’t run a successful cult so maybe they know what they’re doing.
I personally would NOT start construction on a fancy ballroom the same week but I also don’t run a successful cult so maybe they know what they’re doing.
October 21, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Notifications about insurance hikes and SNAP/WIC cuts are rolling out.
I personally would NOT start construction on a fancy ballroom the same week but I also don’t run a successful cult so maybe they know what they’re doing.
I personally would NOT start construction on a fancy ballroom the same week but I also don’t run a successful cult so maybe they know what they’re doing.
Added this Time magazine to the Musée du Cirque; a wonderful @realjohnlecarre.bsky.social cover story. Includes possibly the silliest photo of le Carré I've ever seen (though delightful all the same) and redeems itself with a lovely family photo including Jane and @nickharkaway.com. #tradecraft
October 19, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Added this Time magazine to the Musée du Cirque; a wonderful @realjohnlecarre.bsky.social cover story. Includes possibly the silliest photo of le Carré I've ever seen (though delightful all the same) and redeems itself with a lovely family photo including Jane and @nickharkaway.com. #tradecraft