cambrian-explorer.bsky.social @cambrian-explorer.bsky.social · 4hIt'd probably look like the current crop of car names. The ones which look as if someone kicked the Scrabble board over and accepted anything the human larynx could pronounce without injury as a viable word to stick on the back. 010
cambrian-explorer.bsky.social @cambrian-explorer.bsky.social · 4hI know totalitarian regimes insinuate themselves into every aspect of daily life, but controlling horse names is a new one! 000
cambrian-explorer.bsky.social @cambrian-explorer.bsky.social · 7hI'd hope any Cornell alumni are refusing to donate and explaining why. That and a drop in the number of freshers (because it clearly isn't a safe place to send your kids) would do wonders to focus their attention. 020
cambrian-explorer.bsky.social @cambrian-explorer.bsky.social · 7hYup. Re-reading Thud at the moment in fact. Just got to the meeting with Mr Shine. 010
cambrian-explorer.bsky.social @cambrian-explorer.bsky.social · 7hKnew a few at Uni. Basically as soon as the parents could palm them off on boarding schools, that was it. 010
cambrian-explorer.bsky.social @cambrian-explorer.bsky.social · 7hContext for those not familiar with Discworld: This is the Commander of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch reading to his son. Sir Samuel Vimes, Duke of Ankh spends his days as a big tough copper, but will not let anything stop him being home in time. 130
cambrian-explorer.bsky.social @cambrian-explorer.bsky.social · 10hAh, they've run out of kit for air defence then... 0100
cambrian-explorer.bsky.social @cambrian-explorer.bsky.social · 10hHang on... If we give Putin a sock will he go away? 1110
cambrian-explorer.bsky.social @cambrian-explorer.bsky.social · 14hI'm rather glad to be 363 years away from the inevitable explosion... 020
cambrian-explorer.bsky.social @cambrian-explorer.bsky.social · 14hDoes someone want to explain that targetting civilians to break morale doesn't work. You just make them angry at the people who are bombing them, not desperate to accept peace at any cost. 020
cambrian-explorer.bsky.social @cambrian-explorer.bsky.social · 14hYup. My response to the "It's your BBC" ads is now "Nope, if it was mine it wouldn't have spent the past decade platforming and boosting fascists!" 020
cambrian-explorer.bsky.social @cambrian-explorer.bsky.social · 15hYep, still active. I rode on it back in about 1994 on holiday, in those days they were still boosting their income by running school trains. 010
cambrian-explorer.bsky.social @cambrian-explorer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Plenty of those about. Many of them are paid for by governments... 110
cambrian-explorer.bsky.social @cambrian-explorer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Who's launching amateur military satellites, and how do I get involved? 100
cambrian-explorer.bsky.social @cambrian-explorer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The music is almost certainly to make sure the listener has the right station. Hard to tell one stream of numbers from another otherwise. 020
cambrian-explorer.bsky.social @cambrian-explorer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026NATO's decision making is entirely military. They won't be doing things like organising the evacuation of civilian casualties to specialist hospitals, repairing damage to infrastructure, etc. 010
cambrian-explorer.bsky.social @cambrian-explorer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026HP42, for the fact that it looks like an escapee from Porco Rosso. 020
cambrian-explorer.bsky.social @cambrian-explorer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Excellent soundtrack choice. Kavinsky is sadly missed! 000
cambrian-explorer.bsky.social @cambrian-explorer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Coming to it from another angle, I can see a range of slightly different tones being useful for matching real paint shades. When one of the existing range is a bit dark but the lighter colour is too yellow. 000
cambrian-explorer.bsky.social @cambrian-explorer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Also just building/making things. Figuring out how to get from what you're looking at to what you want it to be is good for the brain. 010
cambrian-explorer.bsky.social @cambrian-explorer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I remain convinced that the next major disaster is going to involve someone who's too scared to contact their manager and asks AI how to solve their screwup. 010
cambrian-explorer.bsky.social @cambrian-explorer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Any functional House would have impeached him as soon as he started giving orders without consulting them. Checks and balances. They've allowed themselves to be bypassed and ignored. 0120
cambrian-explorer.bsky.social @cambrian-explorer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026France pretty much did, there's a Quai Gambetta in Boulogne (amongst other towns) and Rue Gambettas all over the place. 020
cambrian-explorer.bsky.social @cambrian-explorer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026This is where an edit button would be helpful... Apparently it was an attempt to get mail into Paris (they used balloons to get it out) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moulins...en.wikipedia.orgMoulins Ball - Wikipedia 030
cambrian-explorer.bsky.social @cambrian-explorer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Read a fascinating thing about the siege a while ago. Obviously normal postage methods wouldn't work, so they tried sealing letters into metal spheres and dropping them into the Seine, which would wash them downstream. Obviously a bit unpredictable, the spheres still turn up occasionally. 110
cambrian-explorer.bsky.social @cambrian-explorer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"Dredd's Land Raider" looks awfully like the "Raider Command" vehicle from the Matchbox Adventure 2000 range. This was presumably before Games Workshop grabbed "Land Raider" for one of their tanks too, although I realise there was crossover between Dredd and 40k in the early days. 110
cambrian-explorer.bsky.social @cambrian-explorer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I'm still amazed we got to hear about the death. Unless it was a deliberate leak to rattle the biowarfare sabre... 020
cambrian-explorer.bsky.social @cambrian-explorer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Evidently the latest cheque from the Kremlin just cleared in her bank account! Absolute coward. She'd throw anyone to the lions to save her own skin. 0340
cambrian-explorer.bsky.social @cambrian-explorer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I hear it's along the lines of a bigger chicken. Got talking to a sailor in a tavern once, he saw them when his crew made landfall after weeks at sea. 110
cambrian-explorer.bsky.social @cambrian-explorer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026What has happened to that poor chap's legs? Did he fall off last time he tried to stand on that shop sign? Elizabeth 1 was well known for inventing the galvanised steel crowd barrier... 0210
cambrian-explorer.bsky.social @cambrian-explorer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Aww, is the orange baby having a tantrum because Macron got to watch a new type of ICBM being test launched and the USN doesn't have any new toys for him? 030
Reposted by @cambrian-explorer.bsky.socialSteven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise. 161191503869
cambrian-explorer.bsky.social @cambrian-explorer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Germany is keen on it, didn't know it was popular further north as well! You can watch it multiple times across various channels on NYE, they're that fond of it. 110
cambrian-explorer.bsky.social @cambrian-explorer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The Stasi used to be keen on this sort of thing. Break in, move things around, generally leave a message that they had access to every part of the victim's life. I await the first FSB agent arriving in A&E, after discovering that Finns are inventive and have a rather robust sense of humour... 010
cambrian-explorer.bsky.social @cambrian-explorer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026And do some of the colours tend to flake off in the packaging because the manufacturer didn't get the spray process quite right? 010
Reposted by @cambrian-explorer.bsky.socialtoilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately 190113703092
cambrian-explorer.bsky.social @cambrian-explorer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026It's just getting worse. Between various attempts to bowdlerise and "correct", and now AI is undoubtedly telling people that The Wicker Man is an accurate portrayal of ancient paganism. Trying to find real history under that lot makes needles and haystacks look easy! 000
cambrian-explorer.bsky.social @cambrian-explorer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Ah. That looks a bit more complex than the late '70s Pentax lenses I've had apart for cleaning before now... 010
cambrian-explorer.bsky.social @cambrian-explorer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Honestly expecting the next Chornobyl scale disaster to come from someone who's too scared to contact their manager and asks an LLM how to fix their mistake. "Sure, you can shut down a nuclear reactor safely by pushing all the control rods in immediately!" 010
cambrian-explorer.bsky.social @cambrian-explorer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Does anyone still do brass rubbings? I remember a mania for them but it all went quiet. Presumably after it was realised that the brass was getting worn away by the constant handling. 020
cambrian-explorer.bsky.social @cambrian-explorer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Disturbing numbers of people seem to need this when joining multi-lane roads, where you're supposed to match speed and merge with the traffic already on there... 010
cambrian-explorer.bsky.social @cambrian-explorer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Nothing from the Allied side at all? That wouldn't interest them... 010
cambrian-explorer.bsky.social @cambrian-explorer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026AI reacts to a closed door or a "no" by trying to smash its way in. This is by design, and reflects the attitudes of those who program it. 0150
cambrian-explorer.bsky.social @cambrian-explorer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Was going to say I built that for a winter Trial in FH4. Hey, whatever it takes to beat the game! I always AWD swap the XJ220, but that's just doing what Jaguar promised and never delivered IRL. 010
Reposted by @cambrian-explorer.bsky.socialGabe @cwgabriel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026There is no such thing as AI art. 16638127
cambrian-explorer.bsky.social @cambrian-explorer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The first man to be killed chasing the land speed record, only a few months after this photo. "Babs", his aero engined LSR car, rolled after the rear axle failed at speed on Pendine Sands. 000
cambrian-explorer.bsky.social @cambrian-explorer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Start by dealing with the Russian agents masquerading as a political party... 010
cambrian-explorer.bsky.social @cambrian-explorer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026It was a site aimed at students circa 2000. Their chatroom censor appeared to have been set up by particularly tedious self-appointed moral guardians (oddly enough, nobody aged 18-ish wants their morals guarded for them)! 010
cambrian-explorer.bsky.social @cambrian-explorer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Or the unfortunate residents of Cumbria, who had their home county forcibly changed to "white weeweebria" by one particularly stupid robocensor. 120
cambrian-explorer.bsky.social @cambrian-explorer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Woo-woo and fake history peddlers are one of the major reasons I've avoided that cesspit since last February. Their algorithm seems to work on the basis of "You follow history pages, so we'll show you conspiracy bollocks about "hidden civilisations" instead of the pages you actually chose to follow" 010