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Darren Grayson @darrengrayson.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

It's much harder to take a picture of the eclipse when you've left your ND filters at home, so here's a picture of a tree. #eclipse2026

A tree in the English countryside, backlit by the evening sun. Ongoing eclipse not apparent.

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Darren Grayson @darrengrayson.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

You can be the best of friends and still get a burn on with each other.

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Darren Grayson @darrengrayson.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit

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Darren Grayson @darrengrayson.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

You need warp drive to navigate around the ads on that website.

Screenshot of a web page completely obscured by ads.

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Darren Grayson @darrengrayson.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Hey, #StarTrek friends! With a lot of us discussing the negativity around #StarTrekSFA, how about we inject some positivity? Please post one screenshot/piece of art/quote/whatever from Trek that brings you joy! 🖖🏻 Photographer: Terry O’Neill

Star Trek actors Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner and Jackson DeForest Kelley at the Paramount Pictures 75th Anniversary photoshoot in Los Angeles, 1987.

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Darren Grayson @darrengrayson.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Major #aurora activity may be incoming. Absolutely clouded over from horizon to horizon here, so it's bound to be good!

Graph from https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en.html showing big increase in solar wind and magnetic field strength.

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Darren Grayson @darrengrayson.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Stand by Me is one of my favourite films. So sad to hear about Rob Reiner.

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Darren Grayson @darrengrayson.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Post your favorite Star Trek character, wrong answers only.

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Darren Grayson @darrengrayson.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

I may be a dumb robot! (Credit neal.fun/not-a-robot/)

Screenshot of a captcha style puzzle, but with an amazingly difficult maths puzzle to solve.

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Darren Grayson @darrengrayson.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Just visible beyond the windows. I wonder where it ended up?

The recreation deck scene from Star Trek The Motion Picture, showing the huge painted backdrop outside the windows.

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Darren Grayson @darrengrayson.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Not a cloud in the sky but amazing sunsets in Ixia, Rhodes, Greece. For the half hour after sunset, the horizon was like a flattened rainbow of colours. #rhodes #rodos #greece #photography #sunset

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Darren Grayson @darrengrayson.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

That city immediately made me think of how I imagined the city of Diaspar in Arthur C Clarke's 'The City and the Stars'. When I googled it to check my memory one of the old covers for it isn't a million miles away...

Book cover for The City and the Stars by Arthur C Clarke.

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Darren Grayson @darrengrayson.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Standard space explorer behaviour!

Peter Griffin decides to take an abandoned couch in a trash compactor.

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Darren Grayson @darrengrayson.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Post a non religious picture you think of as holy.

Battlestar Galactica's "Last Supper" promotional photo. It deliberately mirrors Leonardo's famous painting.

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Darren Grayson @darrengrayson.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Trekkies, if you see this, post your first experience with STAR TREK First saw TWOK at school on the last day of term. But it got turned off before (spoiler alert) Spock died. Good job as it turned out, because when I did get to see the end, it choked me up!

Kirk enters the Kobayashi Maru simulator bridge in The Wrath of Khan.

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Darren Grayson @darrengrayson.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

If you see this, post a DC comic cover you love.

Star Trek The Next Generation issue 20 comic book cover by Jerome K Moore. Features the Enterprise, and nine main characters from season 3 of the show.

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Darren Grayson @darrengrayson.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Caught #BBMF Lancaster #PA474 today. She was trailing smoke from one engine and squawked 7700 but landed safely. Hope it's nothing major.

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Darren Grayson @darrengrayson.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Here's me pretending to know all about that shot like the Trek expert I am...

Screenshot of android running apps, showing Bluesky next to Chrome. The chrome tab is showing a screenshot of the same episode from the TrekCore website.

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Darren Grayson @darrengrayson.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Random Worf of the day: Spotted at the Sherwood Forest visitor centre. #sttng #notamerryman

A wall of different Robin Hood related film and TV photos. With a shot of Picard as Robin Hood and Word as Will Scarlett.

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Darren Grayson @darrengrayson.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Probably the last photo I'll get to take in The Leadmill, Sheffield - at least in its birthplace. Taken during the Freddie Halkon gig last month. #Sheffield #Leadmill #Photography

Young people in exuberant mood during a pop concert.

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Darren Grayson @darrengrayson.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Whoever the next pope is, I wonder if he'll look at the Vatican on a map and only see the top 4 decks of the Enterprise D. #sttng #pope #popeshuttlemobile

Satellite map view of St Peter's Square, which is the shape of the top decks of the big D.

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Darren Grayson @darrengrayson.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

King Charles in his Bentley state limousine, on the Via dei Fori Imperiali in Rome, April 8th 2025. The Forum of Augustus is in the background. #Rome #Italy

A car going down a road with tourists and bystanders watching.

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Darren Grayson @darrengrayson.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Winged Victory on the Ponte Vittorio Emanuele II bridge over the river Tiber, Roma, Italy. #Rome #Photography

Classical Roman depiction of Victoria, with wings and carrying an arrow or spear.

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Darren Grayson @darrengrayson.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City, Roma, Italy. Sunset on 7th April 2025. #Rome #Vatican #Photography

As seen from a bridge on the river Tiber, with the sun setting behind the Basilica.

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Darren Grayson @darrengrayson.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Terrible news. @bsky.app has agreed takeover offer from Elon Musk. Everything will be cross-posted to X before noon today! 😩 #savebluesky

Fake 'breaking news' screenshot claiming Elon is coming for Bluesky. But don't worry folks, it's just an April fools joke. Although 2025 has been so crappy so far that I wouldn't be surprised if this actually happens.

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Darren Grayson @darrengrayson.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Always loved the matte paintings by the great Albert Whitlock. Not sure if my favourite is Rigel VII or Eminiar VII.

Albert Whitlock's matte painting of the planet Eminiar VII, from the Star Trek episode, "A Taste of Armageddon".

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Darren Grayson @darrengrayson.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Here's the dress code. Image: IWM (A 6918) www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

Winston Churchill outside the Whitehouse, dressed in his air raid suit. January 1942.

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Darren Grayson @darrengrayson.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Well done Zelenskyy for standing up to him.

Scene from the film Love Actually, where the British PM accuses the American president of being a bully. I'd like to think the scene ends with the PM raising his middle finger and hissing "fuck you, Trump" but it doesn't.

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Darren Grayson @darrengrayson.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

How did Captain White end up in the shadow cabinet? #bbcqt

Captain White from Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons.

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Darren Grayson @darrengrayson.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

The formatting is all screwed up. The chapter that starts “Something made Harve pick up the phone and call me” appears twice in the book, before and after the TMP/TWOK chapters. I'll let them know. Thanks for checking!

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Darren Grayson @darrengrayson.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Any #StarTrek fans out there have "From Sawdust to Stardust" (biography of DeForest Kelley) by Terry Rioux from ebooks.com? Both my epub + PDF seem to jump from 1978 to 1983 (even in the contents page). Can anyone confirm there should be a chapter there before I contact their customer services? 🖖

Book contents page, showing chapters covering years. Years 1979 to 1983 seem to be missing.

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Darren Grayson @darrengrayson.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

This feels risky but exhilarating...

A screenshot of a screenshot of a screenshot. Apparently the US police and FBI will be visiting me. This will make me a local celebrity, especially as I live 4000 miles away from the US.

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Darren Grayson @darrengrayson.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I've never been, I'd be too worried about being shunned by the 99.64% of the population who are regular god fearing folk.

A sign on a community library box reading "Whoever is placing the copys of pornographic literature in here, stop! Cornholme is a God fearing Christian village. If this filth is to your liking may we suggest that you move to the cesspit that is Hebden Bridge"

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Darren Grayson @darrengrayson.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Post your favorite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only.

DeForest Kelley as Elgin Clarke in 1972 film Night of the Lepus.

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Darren Grayson @darrengrayson.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Rejoice! I have solved that age old quandary of how to get crud out of your tumble dryer heat exchanger! Now if someone wants to put this into commercial production all I require is a lifetime supply of them and 25% of the turnover. #invention #geenyus

A rather amateur looking wood and wire contraption. A bit like a toothbrush for sado masochists, without the charm. Something a kid could knock up in half an hour in a year 5 CDT class.

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Darren Grayson @darrengrayson.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

When you look at the side view of the Apple II it's about half flat and half wedge shaped. The scanner looks much more like the proportions in the photo. Image from appleclub.pl/index.php/en...

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Darren Grayson @darrengrayson.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Me examining a new follower. (Turned out to be another sexbot.)

Still from Star Trek 5, as Uhura does a fan dance.

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Darren Grayson @darrengrayson.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

I used to work near the Hicks Street chippy in Neepsend. Amazingly good chips. Of course this was before it appeared so outrageously modern. They wouldn't have dreamed of doing this sort of thing before the Peddlers Market.