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Rhinestone Browboy @rhinestonebrowboy.bsky.social · 38m

Watching The Orville lately, and later than everyone else. Enjoying it - I thought it was more of a Star Trek spoof and while there's elements of that, it's often just a decent Star Trek space-adventure with more laughs. Best of The Orville easily beats a weak Star Trek:SNW episode.

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The Orville | official trailer (2017)

YouTube video by moviemaniacsDE

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Rhinestone Browboy @rhinestonebrowboy.bsky.social · 2h

Really want to know what other people think about the TV show, but also terrified of spoilers.

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Rhinestone Browboy @rhinestonebrowboy.bsky.social · 3h

Going to run a workshop on how to put relevant facts in headlines. Going to call it “The Lost Art of What’s Actually Happened” and charge £600 a day. Going to go bankrupt doing this, then it will be reported as “Local suffers problem” as nobody came to my workshop.

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Rhinestone Browboy @rhinestonebrowboy.bsky.social · 21h

New favourite Wikipedia sentence. That ice skater is having a very weird day. Intense screaming. “Now hold your arms out” Screaming intensifies. “You’re losing your north-south orientation!”

Inner regions are dragged more than outer regions. This produces locally rotating frames. *For example, imagine that a north-south-oriented ice skater, in orbit over the equator of a rotating black hole and rotationally at rest with respect to the stars, extends her arms.* The arm extended toward the black hole will be
"torqued" spinward due to gravitomagnetic induction

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Rhinestone Browboy @rhinestonebrowboy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I am seriously starting to think I need to phone hotels up and ask "If I am on the toilet and my partner is in bed, will she be able to see me?" Because she doesn't like it and frankly the novelty's worn off somewhat for me as well.

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Jo Hutchinson @jojohutchinson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My theory is all a lot of voters want is good, competent, realistic decision making and implementation so they don’t have to spend all their time worrying that the sky is falling in.

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Rhinestone Browboy @rhinestonebrowboy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is a thousand time true. Watched the first two episodes of S4 last night - was expecting it to be a weekly watch, but they've put all six on iPlayer. Those two episodes were... relentless. They've earned every minute of it though. This is a very real "Best TV Ever" contender for me.

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Rhinestone Browboy @rhinestonebrowboy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Big fan of free updates/enhancements to games I already own. Got a decent amount of play from the Conan:Exiles one and now they've done the same for Witcher 3.

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Rhinestone Browboy @rhinestonebrowboy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Every time I see "foreign actor" I'm thinking, like, who? Jean-Paul Belmondo? Russell Crowe? Wagner Moura? Or all three of them?

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Rhinestone Browboy @rhinestonebrowboy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As part of the global response to the rise of AI, I am calling for a wholesale shift to serifed typefaces. Unserifed I's were never meant to be used like this.

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Rhinestone Browboy @rhinestonebrowboy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"I'm not sure about the durability of the soul." Me too, shoe reviewing guy on Amazon. Me too.

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Rhinestone Browboy @rhinestonebrowboy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Right, one more song of singing badly and loudly to Olivia Rodrigo and then it’s back to work.

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Rhinestone Browboy @rhinestonebrowboy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Born '76. For most of my life, tech was fun. My dad renting a VHS player (yes, the player, plus tapes). ZX Spectrum. First email at university. A phone which was mobile. Dial-up internet. I used to photoblog from a SE W810i. All "cool, future is here" memories. This shite can fuck off though.

theguardian.com

‘Charming and disarming’ … how Meta’s technology-packed Muse harnesses the power of cuteness

The tech giant has launched a cute ‘little guy’ that can answer emails, book travel or do your weekly food shop

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Rhinestone Browboy @rhinestonebrowboy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'll go one better and name a film with TWO: Blow the Man Down, Bridget Savage Cole and Danielle Krudy. Fantastic tight 90 min black comedy crime thing, very nearly with an all-female cast. And the men that are in it are frankly not up to much. Currently on Prime if you have Prime.

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Blow The Man Down – Official Trailer | Prime Video

YouTube video by Prime Video

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Rhinestone Browboy @rhinestonebrowboy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New word for me alert: Imbrication. Overlapping pattern, like fish scales or roof tiles.

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Rhinestone Browboy @rhinestonebrowboy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Just did the maths on a thing that I thought was bad and it turns out that it's not going to be bad until March at the earliest and very likely well into the summer. Which is as good as never.

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Rhinestone Browboy @rhinestonebrowboy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There’s a version of hell where it’s just me and an e-reading device loaded with all the 99p ebooks I’ve bought over the years.

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Rhinestone Browboy @rhinestonebrowboy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Oh man, not only did I MAKE my lunch while waiting for my coffee earlier, I also FORGOT I'd done that so I didn't eat it for elevenses. And I think, I really think, there might be a coffee left in the pot as well...

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Rhinestone Browboy @rhinestonebrowboy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Some fun shots of the West Highland Line here.

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Rhinestone Browboy @rhinestonebrowboy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Watched Barbarian last night, just sat down for Resident Evil. Might rewatch Weapons later for a Cregger hat trick. And because it’s a great movie. 🎦

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Rhinestone Browboy @rhinestonebrowboy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Genuinely unsure if there's a child on an underpowered dirt-bike going up and down the street or if the neighbours are sorting out the garden...

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Rhinestone Browboy @rhinestonebrowboy.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Me clicking on book on Amazon: This is just what I need. It will change my life. Amazon: You purchased this item on March 12, 2017.

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Rhinestone Browboy @rhinestonebrowboy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

These kids being described as Scottish is by far and away the most irritating bit of the internet for me today.

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Rhinestone Browboy @rhinestonebrowboy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

You'd think the Evri tracking details being changed to "package damaged beyond repair" would make a refund from an eBay seller easy to obtain, but no, you would be wrong.

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Rhinestone Browboy @rhinestonebrowboy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Any Edinburgh folk want to take a guess on where "Hadensworth" (?) was? Sounds a bit West-Lothiany to me, with those goings-on.

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Rhinestone Browboy @rhinestonebrowboy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Doing all the fun things you do before booking a hotel these days. Seeing if the breakfast looks tasty. Checking it’s close to the train station but not too close to the train station. Forensically analysing photos of the room to see if for some ungodly reason the toilet walls are made of glass.

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Rhinestone Browboy @rhinestonebrowboy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Similar wee story here "The incredible story of the Scots who managed to ground half of Chile's Air Force, from the other side of the world, in the longest single act of solidarity against Pinochet's brutal dictatorship."

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Rhinestone Browboy @rhinestonebrowboy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Nothing gets me excited about a movie more than a mismatch between Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB scores. Critics love it but general public hates it? Critics hate it but general public love it? Either way, something interesting or fun or genius is going on. Latest example (6.4 vs 99%!)

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Blow The Man Down – Official Trailer | Prime Video

YouTube video by Prime Video

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Rhinestone Browboy @rhinestonebrowboy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I need one of those am/pm day-of-the-week pill boxes you get, but big enough for kit-kats and Tunnock’s tea cakes.

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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 22/09/2026

[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right

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Rhinestone Browboy @rhinestonebrowboy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Searched my fairly-unusual surname wondering if we'd owned any slaves and while there weren't any records of ownership, there was one slave listed in Jamaica.

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Rhinestone Browboy @rhinestonebrowboy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ballinluig, Tulliemet and Guay is my favourite trio of village names. Could be anything. Firm of lawyers. Crime-fighting orc siblings. An obscure regional dish. Whisky competition finalists. The infighting minds of a Culture spaceship squadron.

bbc.co.uk

Traffic chaos in Perthshire villages after Google Maps glitch

The issue saw vehicles leave the A9 and travel through the Perthshire villages of Ballinluig, Tulliemet and Guay.

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Rhinestone Browboy @rhinestonebrowboy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Refund for dirty fries missing from delivery last night: £2.99 It’s not enough. It’s not about the money. It’s about the disappointment. I’m still sad and they weren’t even mine.

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Rhinestone Browboy @rhinestonebrowboy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The problem here is that we keep inventing new kinds of drudgery.

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Rhinestone Browboy @rhinestonebrowboy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Rewatching after many years The Descent. Hadn’t clocked it’s a Neil “Dog Soldiers” Marshall movie before, although in retrospect of course it is.

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The Descent: 20th Anniversary 4K Restoration | Official Trailer | Park Circus

YouTube video by Park Circus

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Lady Of Seven @ladyof7.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Absolutely loved The Incomer. Gorgeous and hilarious. Wonderfully played comedy with some surprisingly touching moments and lovely splashes of animation. The childlike wonderment of the main protagonists is both charming and startingly violent. The soundtrack is also beautifully woven throughout.

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Rhinestone Browboy @rhinestonebrowboy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

/quits making purchase from website as pop-up encouraging me to make purchase from app instead too irritating.

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Rhinestone Browboy @rhinestonebrowboy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Was expecting to enjoy this and I did, but by the end I was just grinning and gaping. Fantastic.

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The Incomer | Official Film Trailer

YouTube video by Universal Pictures UK

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Rhinestone Browboy @rhinestonebrowboy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Disturbed to see there are a dozen other folk booked in for my early morning cinema showing. It’s normally just me and maybe one or two others…

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Rhinestone Browboy @rhinestonebrowboy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Surprised I hadn’t heard of this before, from 2019. Lovely little dark crime tale with some stunning performances, not least from Margo Martindale. Tight 90 mins, as all good films are. On Prime just now.

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Blow The Man Down – Official Trailer | Prime Video

YouTube video by Prime Video

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Rhinestone Browboy @rhinestonebrowboy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Sorry wait who was that last one? “The parish has been approached by hundreds of other town and village councillors and residents for advice on replicating the campaign, which was backed by the Conservatives, Reform UK and the Liberal Democrats.”

theguardian.com

‘Outright racist’ activist Daniel Thomas will face ‘full force of law’ over any crimes, says home secretary

Shabana Mahmood says she wants to distinguish between far-right extremism and legitimate local concerns over asylum sites

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Rhinestone Browboy @rhinestonebrowboy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

New word of the day: columbarium, "a structure for the reverential and usually public storage of funerary urns holding cremated remains of the dead. The term comes from the Latin columba (dove) and originally solely referred to compartmentalized housing for doves and pigeons, also called dovecotes."

en.wikipedia.org

Columbarium - Wikipedia

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