Seeadler @seeadler.bsky.social · 3hTo this I would add that in other genres they get even more complicated – speculative (and historical) fiction add world-building, social structure and politics to the mix. On a technical level, a well-written sex scene is an act of conjuring against damn near impossible odds. Respect the skill. 000
Seeadler @seeadler.bsky.social · 6h"No weirdos," announces individual unfit to lick Joseph Rochefort's boots. 020
Seeadler @seeadler.bsky.social · 7hGiven the death of Esther Rantzen, it seems appropriate to share this: one of the most extraordinary things ever broadcast on television. www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0H4...youtube.comStory of Nicholas Winton BBC That's life Short versionYouTube video by vanilla lattae 4205
Seeadler @seeadler.bsky.social · 13hImagine setting up "trust the experts" vs "trust a machine notorious for getting it wrong, no intrinsic desire not to harm you, and no liability if it all ends disastrously" and taking the side of the machine. Just think what that says about someone's judgement. 0104
Seeadler @seeadler.bsky.social · 13hA tremor shakes my Aberdeenshire home. I look south. A mushroom cloud is rising over Oxford. I realise @majnouna.com has Gone Off. 021
Reposted by Seeadlerdan mentos @danmentos.com · 10/09/2026REACHER: I need help with my iPhone SUPPORT: regular iPhone or duo? REACHER: how can I tell SUPPORT: if it folds it’s the duo *extremely loud crunching noise* REACHER: it’s the duo 346473960
Seeadler @seeadler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Given the technical wizardry this effort requires, can we call it "the Merlin airlift"? 010
Seeadler @seeadler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The one with half the number of engines carries three times the bomb load three times as fast. 230
Seeadler @seeadler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This is me. But instead of AI hounding me, it's Strictly Come Dancing. (credit, of course, to @smoothdunk2.bsky.social) 000
Reposted by SeeadlerStephMac @stephaniemac.bsky.social · 27/09/2026If you need a timeline cleanser, this is marvellous! 162
Seeadler @seeadler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Some unexpectedly bad takes on Ireland doing the rounds this evening. 320
Seeadler @seeadler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Oh God.static.klipy.comJared Leto as Dr. Michael Morbius: I'm ComingALT: Jared Leto as Dr. Michael Morbius: I'm Coming 000
Seeadler @seeadler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The MkIX is definitely my favourite. The 4-bladed prop just sets it off. 050
Reposted by SeeadlerBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026People say Bluesky is a bubble, but mostly it's because the entire rest of the internet is an absolute sewerthemomoftheyear.substack.comI’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night. 1973394
Seeadler @seeadler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026We live in a time – God help us – when major news organisations can write articles that essentially boil down to "Literate Black people are a threat and we must discredit them by whatever means necessary." 050
Seeadler @seeadler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I think @majnouna.com will love this. Not least because the instrument looks like something the Doctor put together. 2113
Seeadler @seeadler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I once sent an email to my entire company – including senior management and the board – explaining that I was going on holiday but would be back in a few weeks. I signed off the email with "and with that, I'm out for the count!" Reader, I left the 'o' out of 'count'. 2322
Seeadler @seeadler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It's not that it's fussy, it's that banning it says "we will not hire someone who intends to remake their environment, in however minor a form, to be more congenial to them, for that usurps our authority and control over the workplace – and, by extension, the people in it." 010
Reposted by Seeadlerdfprovine @dfprovine.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I was convinced to use the Oxford Comma by my parents, CS Lewis and GK Chesterton. 042
Seeadler @seeadler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"His pulse never got above 85, even when he ate her tongue." #TheSilenceOfTheLambs 040
Seeadler @seeadler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The othering that allows a person to consider other people "unreal" is the thread tying together so much harm internationally. It is also the focus of the parable of the Good Samaritan. It would be nice if those clothing their bigotry with Christianity were confronted with that occasionally. 080
Seeadler @seeadler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Not low-tech; much more appealingly, they're low-techbro. 040
Seeadler @seeadler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I re-read "That Hideous Stength" recently and it's interesting how it's *more* than I remember – Lewis's blindspots are more significant than I recalled, but the good bits of that novel are even more punchy and arresting. 131
Seeadler @seeadler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is the wrong perspective, because it only looks at the US. Compromising the F-35 is a disaster for *everyone* using it – particularly in Europe, where the prospect of a major conventional war with Russia is daily less hypothetical. 150
Reposted by SeeadlerSte Johnson @steillustrates.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Today is the 36th Anniversary of The Best of Both Worlds Part 2 - so gotta wheel this out again - can i get 100 reposts (unsubtle hint 😜) This poster was a long long time in the making but it's one of the few painting's I've done that I'm actually proud of. #startrek #thebestofbothworlds #fanart 7304137
Seeadler @seeadler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This headline, by @theguardian.com, is untrue. It's not eight sailors on the USS Abraham Lincoln: it's eight sailors across all the ships assigned to work with the carrier as part of its group. 050
Seeadler @seeadler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This isn't a programme designed or intended to get people back in work. It's a programme intended to cut welfare by a third, and blame the poor for their poverty rather than the government for witholding assistance. 021
Seeadler @seeadler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I see Stancil's come out in full-throated defence of a category error. No, resisting AI anthropomorphisation does not 'inhibit understanding': it creates it, by reminding the reader of the fundamental differences between people and AIs – and how it is permissable to treat them. 110
Seeadler @seeadler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The things that have thus far saved the world during this presidency – insofar as it has been saved – are the pettiness of Trump's ambition and the authority of his cowardice: imagine what he could do if his ambitions were for a global remaking under US dominion and he had the courage to enact them. 230
Seeadler @seeadler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This will seem like nonsense to some, but I'm sure others will understand the reference: "MAGA marsh-wiggles must burn their feet, not only for their own benefit, but for their fellow travellers'." 010
Seeadler @seeadler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"...And had the Throats of Birds: Attitudes to Communal Morphology in Changeling Literature." 042
Seeadler @seeadler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026My parents like to tell of the studied boredom with which the conductor announced that, yet again, there was a bomb *on their train.* NI in the 1970s was quite something. 171
Reposted by SeeadlerAnna Cusack @annacusack.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Just a PSA: the RNLI website has some great Christmas items up... cards, decorations, gifts, etc. 100% of the profits from these items go towards supporting RNLI lifeboat crews and their search and rescue services. 12815
Seeadler @seeadler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I am aware of precisely one (1) case of attempted violence legally defended as performance art, and it did not go well for the perpetrator (jailed for 16 years), because the claim was obviously full of shit. If Tommo were acting, if theatricality was the goal, the knife would have been fake. 151
Seeadler @seeadler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026"How different, how very different, from the home life of our own dear Queen!" 000
Reposted by SeeadlerJared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026This is a really fun example of radicalized Right Wing men are LARPing as paramilitary warriors in order to gain social media clout and increase profit while also radicalizing viewers to become violent in a feedback loop that’s already led to violence and increases the likelihood of future violence. 2023070
Seeadler @seeadler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Given the catastrophic disconnect between the IJA and IJN, one of the most interesting questions of WW2 is "How did Japan manage to achieve as much as it did?" 051
Seeadler @seeadler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I sometimes point to these books as the worst I've ever read. Even ignoring their subject matter, and their very peculiar eschatology, they're just tremendously incompetently written. The dialogue, in particular, is more wooden than a rainforest. 020
Seeadler @seeadler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"Swinging! Rape! Paedophilia!" I seem to recall a very long and arduous educational conversation that had to be had when it was "Homosexuality! Rape! Paedophilia!", so let's try to avoid doing it all over again; it's exhausting.static.klipy.comBig Bird Sings 'One Of These Things Is Not Like The Other'ALT: Big Bird Sings 'One Of These Things Is Not Like The Other' 020
Seeadler @seeadler.bsky.social · 20/09/2026No shade here, but while this seems perfectly sensible, I'm not at all sure it works: what are the physics of trying to sever nets (which are mostly holes) with explosives? It may need a "missile then drone" approach, which has implications for long range strikes. 200