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Gordon Hundley @drgoon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There's a CeX in Inverness that might have a copy.

The cover of the DVD to the UK TV series Life on Mars.

Gordon Hundley @drgoon.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

DEFCON is as much about the reunion of friends and the sharing of community as anything else, but this was one of the highlights of DEFCON 34 for me - a talk by Cliff Stoll reprising his original ACM talk on 'stalking the wily hacker' on the 40th anniverary of it's genesis. #defcon #dc34

Cliff Stoll giving his talk at DEFCON 34, here illuminated by the overhead projector that he's using to show the same slides used to present a version of this talk to the government some 39ish years ago.

Cliff Stoll giving his talk at DEFCON 34 - here he's standing in front of planetary images that he used as an incentive to get a phone trace.

Cliff Stoll during his DEFCON 34 talk emphatically making a point of rephrasing the questions when considering an intrusion.

Cliff Stoll and myself sitting in adjacent chairs with our arms over each other's shoulders during a marathon book signing at DEFCON 34.

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Gordon Hundley @drgoon.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

We were at Pompeii over the weekend and saw the most incredible @marillion.com concerts in the ancient amphitheatre. It was filmed and it will be a truly spectacular film. “No one knows how much time they’ve got left” #marillion #pompeii #musicsky #yougottalive

The ancient amphitheatre of Pompeii with lights, a stage and a large crowd ahead of a concert

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Gordon Hundley @drgoon.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Happy birthday Rodney Matthews. I'm an Eloy fan, so this is one my favorites. #rodneymatthews #eloy www.rodneymatthewsstudios.com/collections/...

Rodney Matthews' "Fall of the Golden Age" which depicts a dark grey creature on the left with mulitple arms and an insectiod chitinous appearance holding a cleaver in one right arm while pointing across a chasm center with his left. It looks angry and accusatory. The sky is dark and gloomy and the black shadow of a distant city is in the background. The center chasm reflects an areas of transition, becoming brighter. On the darker left side, and ominous black flying creature with a snake like tail is present. In the middle is a peak with barren trees on the dark (left) side and full canopys on the light (right) side. To the right on an overhanging grassy cliff sits a man with long flowing blond hair and beard and light flowing robes. Both his cloak and headgear are winged and he holds a staff in his left hand. His right hand is exended and held down, palm open. He appears peaceful and calm. In the background is the lighter shadow of a city with spires and several moons appear in the sky above it. The contrast and opposition of the two sides are very pronounced. This piece was popularized by its use as the cover of the Eloy album 'Planets' on its UK release by Heavy Metal Records.

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Gordon Hundley @drgoon.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

One of the most in depth volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica:

Macropædia

Knowledge in Depth

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Excretion
Geometry

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Gordon Hundley @drgoon.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Fair to say that I can't remember. 😂 #carwars

An early copy of Car Wars from Steve Jackson Games. This is a circa 1983 reprint of the first edition in the 'Pocket Box' format. It's stained with age, and being held up in front of a laptop that is open to the original post in this thread.

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Gordon Hundley @drgoon.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Bloody repeats on the telly again.

A clipping from the web page annoucing the first ever repeat of a Morecambe and Wise episode. It shows the upcoming broadcast on May 14th at 20:00 and the earlier one on BBC Two from 16th September 1968.

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Gordon Hundley @drgoon.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Post an image from a game you played as a teenager #TravellerRPG

A copy of the Games Workshop UK first print of the Traveller roleplaying game being held up in front of an embarrassingly large collection of Traveller books and games that take up two bookcases. The once teenage owner of the box has taped up the sides with electrical tape and printed his name (Gordon Hundley) in DYMO tape and attached it to the top left corner.

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Gordon Hundley @drgoon.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Me too. It has somehow survived:

A pile of games on top of a bookcase. From top to bottom, an untitled box that is Avalon Hill's Kingmaker; Games Workshop's reprint of Cosmic Encounter; TSR's Star Frontiers; SPI's Universe; Citadel Miniatures' Warhammer; SPI's Middle Earth.

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Gordon Hundley @drgoon.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Supernova SN 2026kid seen here (bright dot above main disc to right of center) in the galaxy NGC 5907 (2 minutes, 840mm f/7). This is a crop of an uncalibrated frame. I'll post more later after the astrographs have done their work. 🔭 #astrophotography

NGC 5907 or the Knife Edge galaxy, an uncalibrated screen transfer of a single two minute broadband color image. To the right of the center and above the main glow of the disc is a bright spot that is the supernova SN 2026kid, discovered April 22nd by Yasuo Sano, former director of Kitasubaru Astronomical Observatory in Nayoro.

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Gordon Hundley @drgoon.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Color camera on the 120mm is up. I'll take some calibration frames and stack in the morning.

NGC 5907, this time caputured at 840mm f/7 on a little color camera.

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Gordon Hundley @drgoon.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Two minutes, luminance, uncalibrated screen transfer.

NGC 5907 - an uncalibrated 2 minute frame in luminance at 432mm f/4.8

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Gordon Hundley @drgoon.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

XTC - Live Boots, 2026 release of a cleaned up 1981 bootleg. #RSD #XTC #thisispop

The cover of XTC’s Live Boots released on vinyl as part of Record Store Day 2026. It has an art pop image of a pair of Doc Marten -like boots, the foreground one in red, the background one in green. There is a blue Type G (BS 1363) plug as is common in the UK apparently plugged into the near side of the red boot, with a blue power cord coming from it and exiting image left. The background is a series of tight black and yellow lines (akin to a warning) sign aligned to the primary diagonal.

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Gordon Hundley @drgoon.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Drop your crime-fighting Catholics:

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Gordon Hundley @drgoon.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Sunset in Tampa after another orbit.

The sun setting over a bay of water, with light bulbs on a wire in the foreground across the orange sky.

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Gordon Hundley @drgoon.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

This is not their best album but it's good and produced at least one song that persisted in their live sets - but it's a spectacularly bad (and ill-advised from a marketing perspective) cover that pre-supposes AI slop by about 50 years.

The cover of the album "Operation" by Birth Control, which features a spider-like creature with at least 11 legs that is eating babies.

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Gordon Hundley @drgoon.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

The Sun, eclipsed in totality for 54 minutes by Artemis' position shows subtle details in it's corona while the reflected light off the Earth (albedo 0.39ish, thanks Vangelis) dimly illuminates features on the moon. (image: NASA, details:ALT text) #moon #artemis #astrophotgraphy

NASA ID: art002e009298

art002e009298 (April 6, 2026) – A close-up view from the Orion spacecraft during the Artemis II crew’s lunar flyby on April 6, 2026, captures a total solar eclipse, with only part of the Moon visible in the frame as it fully obscures the Sun. Although the full lunar disk extends beyond the image, the Sun’s faint corona remains visible as a soft halo of light around the Moon’s edge. From this deep-space vantage point, the Moon appeared large enough to sustain nearly 54 minutes of totality, far longer than total solar eclipses typically seen from Earth. This cropped perspective emphasizes the scale of the alignment and reveals subtle structure in the corona during the rare, extended eclipse observed by the crew. The bright silver glint on the left edge of the image is the planet Venus. The round, dark gray feature visible along the Moon’s horizon between the 9 and 10 o’clock positions is Mare Crisium, a feature visible from Earth. We see faint lunar features because light reflected off of Earth provides a source of illumination.

Date Created:2026-04-06

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Gordon Hundley @drgoon.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

The South Pole–Aitken basin as seen from Artemis yesterday. It's a huge and ancient impact basin - around 2500km across, and estimated to be 4.2 billion years old. (Image: NASA, details ALT text) #moon #artemis #astrophotography

NASA ID: art002e009283

art002e009283 (April 6, 2026) – Captured by the Artemis II crew, the heavily cratered terrain of the eastern edge of the South Pole-Aitken basin is seen with the shadowed terminator – the boundary between lunar day and night – at the top of the image. The South Pole-Aitken basin is the largest and oldest basin on the Moon, providing a glimpse into an ancient geologic history built up over billions of years.

Date Created:2026-04-06

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Gordon Hundley @drgoon.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Earth setting over the limb of the moon. (image NASA, details ALT text) #moon #nasa #artemis #astrophotography

NASA ID: art002e009286

art002e009286 (April 6, 2026) – As the Artemis II crew came close to passing behind the Moon and experiencing a planned loss of signal, they captured this image of a crescent Earth setting on the Moon’s limb. The edge of the visible surface of the Moon is called the “lunar limb.” Seen from afar, it almost looks like a circular arc – except when backlit, as in other images captured by the Artemis II crew. In this photo, the dark portion of Earth is experiencing nighttime, while Australia and Oceania are in the daylight. In the foreground, the Ohm crater is visible, with terraced edges and a flat floor interrupted by central peaks. Peaks such as these form in complex craters when the lunar surface is liquified on impact, and the liquefied surface splashes upward during the crater’s formation.

Date Created:2026-04-06

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Gordon Hundley @drgoon.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

A couple of photos that I took from Cocoa Beach during the Artemis II launch. Nikon Z8, 560mm f/8. 🔭

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Gordon Hundley @drgoon.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Just back from seeing Suzy Izzard perform the entirety of Hamlet solo. It was superb. Don't miss it if you get a chance. #shakespeare #hamlet #suzyizzard

Suzy (Eddie) Izzard receives a standing ovation following their solo performance of Shakespeare's play 'Hamlet' in Tampa, Florida on March 16th.

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Gordon Hundley @drgoon.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Gary Numan live last week. Interesting accident. #garynuman

A washed out monochrome image. There is a shadow of a raised hand center, holding a cigarette. In the distance is a blurred shadow of Gary Numan holding his mic stand with both hands as he sings.

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Gordon Hundley @drgoon.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

I stuck around a while longer, and my persistence was rewarded when Michael Moorcock (who had not left earlier) decided to leave via the stage door that I was stalking. By this point there were just a couple of people waiting and he walked right over and chatted and signed things. He was lovely.

Close up of the frontpiece of Michael Moorcock's "The Jade Man's Eyes" which the great man himself signed after performing with the rock Band Hawkwind at the Hammersmith Odeon on their Chronicle of the Black Sword tour in 1985, which was themed on his popular Elric books.

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Gordon Hundley @drgoon.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

I took a copy of Michael Moorcock's "The Jade Man's Eyes" with an introduction "from The Chronicle of the Black Sword" and after the show, several of the band came out and consented to sign it. Moorcock himself was present (and narrated) but I was told he left quietly after the show.

A copy of Michael Moorcock's "The Jade Man's Eyes" printed by Unicorn Fantasy in 1973. It has an illustration of a man (presumably Elric) holding a black sword (presumably Stormbringer) on the front cover that appears to originally have been drawn in pencil. Behind Elric is a large statuesque head and shoulders (presumably of a Jade Man) with dark eye sockets.

A (now loose) page of Michael Moorcock's "The Jade Man's Eyes" signed by Huw Lloyd Langton, Danny Thompson and Alan Davey of the band Hawkwind on their "Chronicle of the Black Sword " tour.

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Gordon Hundley @drgoon.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

This is a single 30 second exposure of Uranus from two nights ago. I was surprised to see four moons in the image. Left, top to bottom: Ariel, Umbriel, Titania; right: Oberon. Raw, unstacked. I took some 10s shots in LRGB so I'll see if Miranda (between Umbriel and Uranus) can be recovered. 🔭

A raw monochrome image, center cropped of the planet Uranus. At 30 seconds of exposure, it presents as a large white circle, the atmosphere scattering its intense reflected sunlight over many pixels of the sensor. To the left are three fainter points of light, the moons Ariel, Umbriel and Titania. To the right and further out is Oberon. Some stars are evident along with local background light and digital noise.

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Gordon Hundley @drgoon.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

The hospital ship that Landry and Trump have in mind.

The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) steams the Atlantic Ocean during a simulated straits transit with the Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group (GRFCSG) in the Atlantic Ocean, 9 October 2022. The Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group was deployed in the Atlantic Ocean, conducting training and operations alongside NATO allies and partners since 5 October 2022. On deck are aircraft of Carrier Air Wing 8 (CVW-8).

Image: U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jackson Adkins (via Wikipedia)

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