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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

How do you think your grandparents' automatic transmissions worked? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluidics

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Someone is sure to paint it Gulf livery, so why fight the inevitable?

A Porsche 911 racing car painted in the hideous, but traditional, orange and cyan of the Gulf oil company.

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Australia says "hold my beer":

In May 1899, in a break with the common international practice of setting one-hour intervals between adjacent time zones, South Australia advanced Central Standard Time by thirty minutes after lobbying by businesses who wanted to be closer to Melbourne time and cricketers and footballers who wanted more daylight to practice in the evenings.

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oh. As in the Northrop B2. Huh.

described as Quetzalcoatlus northropi in 1975 by Douglas Lawson. The generic name refers to the Aztec serpent god of the sky, Quetzalcōātl, while the specific name honors Jack Northrop, designer of a tailless fixed-wing aircraft.

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ah very good - Back To The Future! That film where you have to drive... oh shit... 88.

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

According to WP, it's a planet HOWEVER...

The ship started life as a CR90 named as Star of Alderaan, but was renamed in honor of diplomats from Tantive IV who visited Alderaan

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I speak as "an Australian" whatever the fuck that is. Pictured - a close relative.

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Belgians are rather good at bobsledding, which means you just pitched...

The poster for Cool Runnings, the film about the Jamaican bobsled team. Fun fact - nobody in this picture is Jamaican :-(

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Oh I remember this guy yeah.

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We aaaaaare the Supreeeeme Intelligence.

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Lots of people complaining they can't read the paper because they're just rummaging around in the GitHub repo and opening the raw HTML. Folks - it's a repo. You have to "download" it. Are people just way too Web 3.0-pilled these days? Feeling like Principal Skinner here...

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The trailcam in my yard caught a douglas squirrel chasing a gray. I've never seen the two species interact much before. Not sure if they're fighting or playing.

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Oh look it's these people again.

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I have the perfect delivery system.

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Similar vibes, lower altitude. First time out in our new Oru kayaks - they fold up and fit in the trunk!

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I choose to rhyme hothands with Bothans.

A Bothan. Might be a spy. Might not be. You'll never know. That's how good they are. Sadly, very mortal.

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I still miss the ancient days when a button was a single-pixel border that was colour A on one side and colour B on the other, and when you click it, the colours swap. Dirt simple, but worked.

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Wikipedia editors knocking this one out the park.

These culminate in the Battle of Badon, where he is said to have single-handedly killed 960 men. Recent studies question the reliability of the Historia Brittonum.

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Halibut are flatfish - you know, like plaice or flounder. I only just discovered that sure, that is true, but they are MUCH bigger.

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Nominally the sound subsystem. Absurd bloody machine...

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This thing? Yeah, even I have never actually owned an 8-track, only seen them in movies. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8-track...

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This is a fantastic map of the current situation. And by "fantastic" I mean we all wish it was in a Tom Clancy book and not something our idiot president actually did.