Bruce Everett

@TheMechFrog @peterrhague To be fair, Buzz Aldrin gave them a whole heap of karma to the face in advance for a lot of those 36 years. :P

@peterrhague They've been some of the most irritating people on the Internet for 36 years so perhaps all of what is coming is karma.

The Moon landing deniers coming out in forces is a sign of desperation on their part. The fact that humanity is going there again is deeply threatening to them. Not only will Artemis yield great benefits for science, exploration, and development - it will also produce a torrent of additional evidence that these people are stupid.

@TheMechFrog Narcissists don't like being upstaged, even if unintentionally. If someone's bad at STEM, but vainly identifies as a person of peak intelligence, the sight of a rocket going up is going to be one hell of a blow to the ego. Tantrums follow.

I do not understand the anti-human mindset that crawls out of its cave to petulantly scream any time we accomplish anything in space.

@TheMechFrog ...all while overlooking that satellite imagery was a required part of the solution to many a said problem.

"We have problems here on Earth that need solving!" Then we're never leaving Earth, because there will always be problems.

I remember when "engagement" meant getting into the substance of someone's ideas. Now it basically just means "likes" and "views". In less gloomy news, death's cold embrace will eventually remove all of us out of this state of affairs. Cheer up!

@janeclarejones At least people won't have to read their research into the question "do bears shit in the woods?", on account of the team not being able to write after being shat in the woods. Still don't know how they published this tripe, though, given that the bear is safer.

Shocker.

Dear fellow Gen-Xrs, If you have to lean into heavily identifying with being a "latchkey kid" or "drinking from the hose", please stop pretending to be hard. Having to let yourself in ranks up there with "once being barked at by a dog", and it's not a competition anyway.

@MotherN90933211 @TheVikingDane @GappyTales It's almost as if certain people are apt not to realize that the Church of England has a huge presence across a number of African nations... 🤔

@TheVikingDane @Bruceeverett @GappyTales "Not you, you're the wrong colour!"

What the actual fuck have I just witnessed? 🤣

@GappyTales @MotherN90933211 I was half expecting Yakety Sax to make an appearance.

@MotherN90933211 They're school assembly songs 🤣

@TheMechFrog @DgpRector I suspect you'd prefer/possibly enjoy a Bunnings snag. (There are plenty of Bunnings snag videos on YouTube, but I can't endorse any I've seen).

@DgpRector At some point it's just a pile of miscellaneous garbage.

It may be my most dangerous hot (dog) take but, I think there's a law of diminishing returns for hot dog condiments.

@helenstaniland Yes, but by not putting "I've not been hiding my opinion" on t-shirts and billboards and the like, you've been hiding your opinion that you haven't been hiding your opinion for the past decade, which has been terribly confusing for poor sods like Richard here.

I love this idea that I've been hiding my opinion for the past decade.

@TheMechFrog @Pretzelbear13 I wasn't going to go there, but...

@Pretzelbear13 I wish I had that much dry powder.

I love seeing other people who shop like i shop (they got one of everything for Leviathans on Day 0 of Adepticon. Very close to my original Kickstarter order).

Very sad to see Philip Castle has died. He painted the iconic artwork for the original Elite:

@PulpLibrarian I don't know why this is giving me an earworm from a 2000s cartoon... youtube.com/watch?v=O3Rl6M…

Still, could be worse...

Doctor Who season 24 (1987). New titles, new Doctor, but still the same problem: a lack of BBC confidence in the show. BBC TV continuity focuses on the galaxy of stars here, and less on the Doctor for some unknown reason. The Doctor visits a tower block, goes to Butlin's and gets to meet Tony Selby and Kate O'Mara again in season 24. We also see Sylvester McCoy move the Doctor from lighthearted jester to a more mysterious, even cunning figure. Time has been kinder to this season then reviewers were at the time; there is some interesting stuff lurking in the stories and a sense the show is moving onto a new track, if the Beeb will give it the time and budget to do so...

@nightsky56 @latestincosmos @2014Mu69 Came here to say this. Would like twice if I could.

@latestincosmos @2014Mu69 This illustration is fake. Get the real story here: phys.org/news/2023-11-c… Actual image from study⬇️

The James Webb Space Telescope has done it again—revealing a breathtaking structure now dubbed the “Cosmic Vine”: a string of 20 galaxies stretching across a staggering 13 million light-years! What makes this discovery so shocking? This colossal formation dates back nearly 11 billion years, forming just 3 billion years after the Big Bang—a time when galaxies were thought to still be forming in isolated clumps. Instead, JWST captured a massive, organized structure linking galaxies together much earlier than expected. This discovery challenges traditional theories about how and when galaxies clustered together in the early universe. It hints that the cosmic web—the vast, invisible scaffolding of the universe—was already weaving galaxies into chains and networks far earlier than we thought. 📚 Scientists are now rethinking the models of galactic evolution and exploring how such a structure could arise so quickly in cosmic history. The “Cosmic Vine” might just be the key to understanding how galaxies interacted, merged, and shaped the universe we see today. 🔭 Thanks to JWST’s infrared vision, we’re seeing the universe not just as it is—but as it was, long before Earth even existed. 📸 Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / JWST

@Strobe_Lightly Dude's pulling the old self-pinkwash beardos are fond of, perhaps to clean off the lingering smell of his creepy Portman dating story. Randomly call things transphobic, and all is forgiven. Works even when they've made fun of trans peeps in the past - just ask Frankie Boyle.

Moby doesn’t like ‘Lola’ because the lyrics are ‘transphobic’. I think it’s fab so here are my top 5 troon tunes: 5. I’m a boy - The Who 4. He’s a woman, she’s a man - Scorpions 3. Arnold Layne - Pink Floyd 2. Dude looks like a lady - Aerosmith 1. Lola - The Kinks (obvs!)

@BevJacksonAuth @AudreySuffolk @TracyEdwardsMBE @suzanne_moore

@AudreySuffolk @TracyEdwardsMBE @suzanne_moore Isn’t it the political intelligence of the person who chose her that is at fault?

Harriet Harman hasn’t the emotional intelligence to understand she wasn’t the right woman to comment about Jenni Murray on the BBC. It needed someone like @suzanne_moore who understands the great courage and integrity needed to sacrifice her job for women’s sex based rights

@MotherN90933211 @GoodwinMJ And there's so many of them around, griftin' and projectin'.

@Bruceeverett @GoodwinMJ That is a beautiful word 😅

We are now Number 5 of all books on Amazon. No major publisher (deliberately, they would have censored me). No BBC coverage. No Establishment behind me. Just the people. Wanting to know the truth. I will tell you the truth. This is what is happening to your country.

@MotherN90933211 @GoodwinMJ If he's going to borrow the title of Koestler's book from 1963, he should probably look up the word "mimophant" too. Would be educational. en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mimophant

@GoodwinMJ Why would the BBC report "Churlish Loser Writes Book"? You stupid bastard.

@DreyfusJames Animals can no more consent to this than they can consent to.... well, we all know. Lock the abusers up.

@MotherN90933211 @McivorJaymey @marksandspencer @GBNEWS Dude's been consuming too much ragebait if the idea of a War on Easter(tm) has sent his eggs up into his abdomen.

@McivorJaymey @marksandspencer @GBNEWS You daft bastard.

Any chance I can get an Easter Egg please M&S? Will they ever learn 🙈 It’s like they do it on purpose to offend. Easter is not National Chocolate Day. Which extremists are you trying hard to not offend? @marksandspencer @GBNEWS