vilms5000 @vilms5000.bsky.social · 20/09/2026working through a flyblown found-objecty OUP collection of science fiction shorts (roughly 1900-1990). Early phase: BATHE IN/DRINK RADIUM! Middle: OMG we’re all dead from nuclear. Later: Earth is overcrowded. 030
Reposted by vilms5000John Pontoon, dissident titwillow @johnpontoon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This is gonna ruin the plot point where they shave Aslan’s balls. 132
vilms5000 @vilms5000.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I am 6’ 3” and wondering what arrangement of knees will work here #visitkefalonia 461
vilms5000 @vilms5000.bsky.social · 17/09/2026guzzled down Scarlett Thomas’ The End of Mister Y (again) and (again) I musta been going through some intense shit back when I read it the first time because it is not the thing I remembered. 120
Reposted by vilms5000SK @sk-76.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Pete Caputo: Bartender, Psychoanalyst, Painter 092
vilms5000 @vilms5000.bsky.social · 15/09/2026heavy rain through the night, so I can’t (well, could, but probably shouldn’t) go in the sea, so DEATH HIKE it is! 030
vilms5000 @vilms5000.bsky.social · 12/09/2026earth tremors in the Ionian Sea would be FINE if I were not also dining at the edge of the Ionian Sea. otoh I was trapped in a cul-de-sac of talking about ex-girlfriends I have known; basic error > come friendly earthquakes I guess 070
vilms5000 @vilms5000.bsky.social · 10/09/2026packing to flee London before this guy and his mates get airborne 120
vilms5000 @vilms5000.bsky.social · 10/09/2026First they came for me but IDGAF BAEB so whatever yeh 110
vilms5000 @vilms5000.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Meetings with #straya since 06:30 and feeling v e r y crashy now. 000
vilms5000 @vilms5000.bsky.social · 09/09/2026y’know I kinda enjoyed the whole pain of making a USB booter for that ancient Mac Pro. Not the trip to Currys for a USB 2.0 memory stick so much, but it has reminded me to keep on top of that stuff a bit more. Yes. 000
vilms5000 @vilms5000.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Date yourself with a snap of your first ever compu~ OMG I AM 60 (this thing, otoh, is 40 years old and still boots, yessiree) 160
Reposted by vilms5000richard mortimer @richardmortimer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026#MaintenanceHoleMonday Cambridge #aofoto 1275
vilms5000 @vilms5000.bsky.social · 07/09/2026been watching a show on HBO called ‘Succession’. Check it out. Sound of the Summer. 010
vilms5000 @vilms5000.bsky.social · 05/09/2026in a budget version of Virgin Atlantic’s “if not now, when?” ad campaign, me plus 1 are cooking our 60+ Oyster passes by heading to the ends of tube lines AND WALKING BACK INTO LONDON. Today: Piccadilly’s Heathrow T5. 270
vilms5000 @vilms5000.bsky.social · 05/09/2026went to Tao of Glass at the theatre in Soho: an enjoyable play but I was distracted by also having to serve as a member of The Galactic Council maintaining an uneasy peace among the diverse civilisations of the Universe: 0131
Reposted by vilms5000Jack (tehTrunk) @tehtrunk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Can I get from Tottenham to Nottingham using only public bus services? 2027066
Reposted by vilms5000Helen @internethelen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Do I know any perfume aficionados, I want a new smell 312
vilms5000 @vilms5000.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Yesterday was a very long work day, a restless night, and today I am sitting staring at my screens, jaw clenched, resentful. It’s how they getcha. 270
vilms5000 @vilms5000.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Without saying your age OMG BUT I AM SIXTY PEOPLE NEED TO KN 130
vilms5000 @vilms5000.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Repost is an account of the H Bauer publishing group’s years from around 1933 to post-WWII. 010
Reposted by vilms5000Gustav Gnahler @gustavgnahler.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Luckily there's a recent 28 page report that fills in the gaps! Historical-Review_Research-Summary.pdf share.google/Qi70lsGaeq7R...share.google 171
vilms5000 @vilms5000.bsky.social · 01/09/2026still got my nails stuck in the ceiling + heart palpitations because it /looked/ like the devs had accidentally taken a product live. And they’re all -7 in Costa Rica. 020
vilms5000 @vilms5000.bsky.social · 01/09/2026#deadlinedaylols “Villa sign 18-year-old Mbaye for £47m“ Nickname: k thx 110
vilms5000 @vilms5000.bsky.social · 31/08/2026celebrating double-hippers at Rom. Right avoiding a kid-on-a-scooter, left chewed up and spat out by the snake run. And now the race to NSAID myself before it all seizes up : ) 010
vilms5000 @vilms5000.bsky.social · 29/08/2026young parents try to raise their offspring in the ruins of San Francisco [stolen from an Olde Twitter post] 000
vilms5000 @vilms5000.bsky.social · 28/08/2026ugh iPhone hitting me with ‘Golden Hour over the years’ and causing irreversible cell damage damn u #stevejobs 130
vilms5000 @vilms5000.bsky.social · 28/08/2026finagled a [deeply unfashionable] 80s Harman Kardon CD player and the sound is absolutely jaw-dropping. My ageing ears or have we lost something in the last 40 years? 130
vilms5000 @vilms5000.bsky.social · 27/08/2026last night’s outage on the WCML, gave me time to check out the Bowes Lyon skatepark in Stevenage (1978). This halfpipe was special for the time, actually skateable instead of ‘survivable‘ and hinting at flat-bottomed vert halfpipes of the ‘80s. 210
vilms5000 @vilms5000.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I have seen A LOT of Hertfordshire today. Many people are saying too much Hertfordshire. I don’t know. But most of it has been slo-mo or stationary. (main line screwed, I am stuck on a train, in a queue of trains on the Hertford branch, trying to get to Hitchin, god help us if Hitler &c &c 120
vilms5000 @vilms5000.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I remember being parked in front of a b/w telly very early one morning, because astronauts. I don’t know if it was *the* moon landing tho. 010
vilms5000 @vilms5000.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Cally Road: a grey haired woman has just put a rolled up copy of The Sahn into the knife bin by the pool: SHARP METALLIC NOISES. 100
vilms5000 @vilms5000.bsky.social · 23/08/2026One dude beating the Sunday night blues by totally logging into work, yeah! (Jira still can’t-get-if-its-own-way slow-as-a-house bah) 110
vilms5000 @vilms5000.bsky.social · 21/08/2026testing some eyewatering developer slop and writing it all up and laughing at me as Details Guy (means something is very wrong). 001
vilms5000 @vilms5000.bsky.social · 18/08/2026haven’t thought of the Karate Onion in a lonnnnnng time. ”AGAIN” 020
vilms5000 @vilms5000.bsky.social · 18/08/2026I did not post from the St Leonards on Sea long weekend because a lot of it was spent eyemask-on, earplugs-in, head-down, riding out the most impressive tension headache. I’ve had these since breaking my arm 20 years ago, and they’re becoming more intense/frequent. I *do* live with a lot of stress. 120
vilms5000 @vilms5000.bsky.social · 13/08/2026[this is my Friday. A long weekend at St Leonard O/S beckons] 230
vilms5000 @vilms5000.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Police have taped off the entire Church of St Mellitus on Tollington Park. Much Bruegel there, lately. 010
vilms5000 @vilms5000.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Caffeined again and a-shitpostin’ I didn’t post my walk-around-with-insane-glee-in-the-early-morning-sun playlist. You are lucky. [ @gwencoco.bsky.social put me down to karaoke The Tubes ‘Prime Time’ with you at some point pliz. The years are running out. ] 010
vilms5000 @vilms5000.bsky.social · 12/08/2026ah crap. Picked up an abandoned book on a southbound Northern Line train and now I can’t put it down because someone will point out I’ve forgotten ‘my’ book. Olivia Laing: The Silver Book. This is like that bit in Alone in Berlin where they find the anti-Nazi handbill in a building stairwell. 100
