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@cepheusradio.bsky.social
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daniel @cepheusradio.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
william shatner rocket man, sitting pensively on a stool with a cigarette
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daniel @cepheusradio.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
William Shatner rocket man on a stool with a cigarette
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daniel @cepheusradio.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Amazing Criswell, per wikipedia, "an American psychic known for his wildly inaccurate predictions", at the beginning of PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE (1959)
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daniel @cepheusradio.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
TNG scene from Data's Day. Ensign Kellogg looks on with concern as Riker sits (!) on the tactical station while telling a joke
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daniel @cepheusradio.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
TNG scene from Data's Day. Ensign Kellogg is listening to Riker telling a joke on the bridge with Data in the background
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daniel @cepheusradio.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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daniel @cepheusradio.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Stupid AI! I never should have put you in charge!"
Homer Simpson strangling a drinking bird which he left in charge of typing Y on his computer keyboard
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daniel @cepheusradio.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Terry Gilliam animation from Monty Python: a giant bipedal cat stalks London
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daniel @cepheusradio.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
you made a whole guy for that?!
zooble and ming from the amazing digital circus
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daniel @cepheusradio.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Media coverage identified the shows' largest audiences as insomniacs and prison inmates.
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daniel @cepheusradio.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
DANGER! HIGH VOLTAGE!
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daniel @cepheusradio.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
ahem
group of mummers dressed in animal masks from medieval manuscript (Bodleian Library MS Bodley 264, f.21v.)
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daniel @cepheusradio.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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daniel @cepheusradio.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
PREPARE YOURSELF FOR WARP-10 EXCITEMENT!
Cover of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan novelization, by Vonda N. McIntyre
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daniel @cepheusradio.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Miyazaki with a cigarette
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daniel @cepheusradio.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
FYI the first 3 seasons of the expanse are available to watch on cbc gem:
Cbc gem page for the expanse
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daniel @cepheusradio.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Glenn Gould
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daniel @cepheusradio.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Noticed while rewatching tadc episode 5 that there is a little origami abstraction creature behind anime gangle
anime gangle looking embarrassedorigami abstraction figure, black covered in neon eyes
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daniel @cepheusradio.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Green on black text from THE MATRIX:

Call trans opt: received. 9-18-99 14:32:21  REC:Log>
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daniel @cepheusradio.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Tim Curry as Mozart and Ian McKellen as Salieri
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daniel @cepheusradio.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Fry: It was just a dream, Bender. There's no such thing as two
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daniel @cepheusradio.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Scene from Today's Special, a 1980's kiss TV program. Jodie carries a mannequin of Jeff, a man in a checked vest and flat cap, into the children's department after closing time. Upon saying the magic words, Jeff comes to life and dances.
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daniel @cepheusradio.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
is it a good sign when the radar map pivots to "fire and smoke map"
Fire and Smoke map of southern Ontario. It is all shades of orange
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daniel @cepheusradio.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
experiencing unfamiliar weather iconography
sun and cloud icon from the weather network app, with horizontal lines to indicate smokesmoke icon from environment canada app -- three grey wisps of smoke
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daniel @cepheusradio.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Remembering that the only women in the original magazine publication of Asimov's first Foundation story were the two in the Pepsi-Cola ad on the opposite page
Pepsi-Cola ad from the ASTOUNDING May 1942 issue. Two women - one in city outfit and one in a country outfit - are on either side of the Pepsi-Cola logo.

NO FINER DRINK IN TOWN OR COUNTRY

BETTER TASTE... BIGGER DRINK

PEPSI-COLA 

Purity... in the big big bottle -- *that's* Pepsi-Cola!
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daniel @cepheusradio.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Sandra Bullock in THE NET (1995) ordering pizza from pizza dot net on a 90s-era computer
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daniel @cepheusradio.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Ananas, the creepy pineapple puppet from telefrançais
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daniel @cepheusradio.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Far Side comic. 

Bullfrog: "Yeah, I remember Jerry. Good friend of mine. ... You, I never understood a single word he said, but he always had some mighty fine wine."
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daniel @cepheusradio.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Jax: I'm just a misunderstood little chicken fetus in an egg
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daniel @cepheusradio.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
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daniel @cepheusradio.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
The alien from the episode is of course Executive in Charge of Production Herbert F. Solow
Balok, a fearsome looking grey alien puppet with credit:

EXECUTIVE IN CHARGE OF PRODUCTION 

HERBERT F. SOLOW
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daniel @cepheusradio.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
The Star Trek 12 cover bugs me since it illustrates The Corbomite Maneuver (S1E3) with Chekov at helm when he didn't appear until S2 and should be at navigation
STAR TREK 12 cover. Ensign Chekov points to the alien Balok on the viewscreen.
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daniel @cepheusradio.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
The bottom paperback is Ace Double D-479: TO THE TOMBAUGH STATION (Wilson Tucker) / EARTHMAN, GO HOME! (Poul Anderson)
TO THE TOMBAUGH STATION (Wilson Tucker) EARTHMAN, GO HOME! (Poul Anderson)
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daniel @cepheusradio.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
The used bookstore down the street is closing and moving online so managed to get a bunch of mostly star trek paperbacks for $0.50 each
70s era paperbacks:

• SPOCK, MESSIAH!
• TREK TO MADWORLD
• THE WOUNDED SKY
• STAR TREK 3, 6, and 12
• TO THE TOMBAUGH STATION
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daniel @cepheusradio.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
cn tower, toronto
CN Tower. Photo by Chris Woodrich
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daniel @cepheusradio.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
attention canadians: I SAW THE TV GLOW is available to stream for free on cbc gem
cbc gem screen showing the "watch with pride" section featuring I SAW THE TV GLOW
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daniel @cepheusradio.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Captain Kirk on a planet whose sky is a pink to purple gradient.

Kirk: Are there men on this planet?
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daniel @cepheusradio.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Jayden the Iceman pays a visit
Lt Cmdr Data from the S7 Star Trek TNG episode "Thine Own Self". He is walking disheveled into a village carrying a suitcase with radioactive material. Unfortunately, he has amnesia and nobody knows about radiation poisoning.
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daniel @cepheusradio.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Mike from Canmore, and older man with plaid shirt, vest, and ball cap, stares open-mouthed
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daniel @cepheusradio.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
We always pointed out this detail
Runaway Bunny: the mother bunny fishes for the little bunny with a carrotThe room from Goodnight Moon with the same Runaway Bunny picture on the wall above the Quiet Old Lady Whispering Hush
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daniel @cepheusradio.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Therapist: AI Flowerpot Island Flowerpot isn't real, it can't hurt you AI Flowerpot Island flowerpot:
Realistic AI rendition of the "flowerpot" sea stack on Flowerpot Island, Ontario. The stack is essentially a chimney shape with evenly-sized bricks, like something from minecraft
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daniel @cepheusradio.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
GORDON COLE from Twin Peaks
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daniel @cepheusradio.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Bystander from The Simpsons: This enormous woman will devour us all!
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daniel @cepheusradio.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Nancy: The way you do everything is too glamorous!

Fritzi: What?
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daniel @cepheusradio.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
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daniel @cepheusradio.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Calico cat lying on couch
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daniel @cepheusradio.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
This is referencing an almost 100 year old advertisement!
1927 advertisement:

"They Laughed When I Sat Down At the Piano 

But When I Started to Play!~"
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daniel @cepheusradio.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
"It will not be AI in government. It's going to be AI *as* governments."
Klingon from Star Trek TOS, calling the Enterprise a garbage scow.

“I didn’t mean to say that the Enterprise should be hauling garbage, I meant to say that it should be hauled away AS garbage!"
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daniel @cepheusradio.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Sailors can abide a great deal, but not a Jonah
Aubrey and Maturin from MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD
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