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Chris Limb

@catmachine.com

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Writer, Music, Dreams, Space #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent They/them UrbanFantasy MusicBiz novels: http://comeba.co.uk Hastings based

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Chris Limb @catmachine.com · Oct 18

In the meantime I've added it to my Redbubble so you can get it on a sticker.

No AI Art by catmachine | Redbubble

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Chris Limb @catmachine.com · 2m

Yes, it’s only a little bit further than the Martian equivalent of geostationary orbit and orbits in the same plane as the Martian equator so just about gets hidden by the curve of the planet.

Chris Limb @catmachine.com · 18m

Another favourite Deimos fact (which also applies to Phobos) is that it’s so close to Mars that it can’t be seen from the poles.

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Chris Limb @catmachine.com · 30m

My guess is if they jumped off the trailing edge of Deimos their speed would be deducted from Deimos’s so they’d move into a lower orbit but not necessarily a plummeting one!

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Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 5h

Since we call it a cold when we're snotty and grotty we should call it a hot when we're feverish and sweaty.

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Chris Limb @catmachine.com · 5h

One of my favourite Deimos facts is that from the surface of Mars it just looks like a bright point of light - similar to how Venus does from Earth. Not moonlike at all.

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Fergus Murray @fergus.oolong.co.uk · 5h

Deimos, the smaller of Mars's moons, is slightly bigger than Cardiff, and has an average escape velocity of around 5.7m/s: a little over 20km/h.

This is low enough that an athlete could jump off into space if they got a running start - but they couldn't, because the gravity's too low for good grip.

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Chris Limb @catmachine.com · 6h

I always used to mistake Alfred Molina for Timothy Spall and vice versa.

Chris Limb @catmachine.com · 6h

(Mentioned because I’m *still* trying to find the source for the psychological experiment where a significant proportion of people would rather lose £10 if that meant someone else lost £20 than gain £10 if the other person gained £20. It seems to sum up most contemporary right wing thinking.)

Chris Limb @catmachine.com · 6h

I did used to be able to zero in on exactly what I wanted when googling. Now it's like rummaging in an enormous bin full of everything and hoping I come up lucky.

Chris Limb @catmachine.com · 7h

Yes, must be puzzling! Plus the allegorical nature of a lot of SF must pass them by.

Chris Limb @catmachine.com · 7h

I have noticed that some people use the term "science fiction" for anything that isn't mainstream fiction. For instance I once heard someone refer to Game of Thrones as"that sci-fi show".

I suppose it mean that these people just divide fiction into Could Happen and Couldn't Happen buckets.

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Michael Legge @michaellegge.bsky.social · 7h

I’m having a sale!

Michael Legge @michaellegge.bsky.social · 19h

All my BRILLIANT Bandcamp stuff is “pay what you want” until midnight on Sunday. Audiobook (recommended), EPs and live shows! You can even have them all for free, if you want. Get them while you can. Normal price returns on Monday. THANK YOU! SPREAD THE WORD!! michaellegge.bandcamp.com/music

Michael Legge

Bandcamp page for comedian Michael Legge. Follow him on Twitter: @michaellegge.

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 8h

stop thinking right now

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Chris Limb @catmachine.com · 8h

#OnThisDay

11 October
Brighton, Hastings

Close up of tabby cat with her ears inside out which makes them look like devil horns.

Black and white cat sitting neatly on some Lino

Street art of a green woman elf type figure’s head on a comms cabinet on the pavement.

Starlike sun rising over the flat sea next to the wide beach in Hastings

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Sarah O @erniebufflo.bsky.social · 11h

Don't feel stupid, but also, if someone helpfully tells you "that's fake," the correct response is "oh shit, let me delete this" not doubling down and disabling comments.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13h

Don’t feel stupid if you fell for fake video. It can be really hard to tell these days. But we do have to try and be careful with what we share because there’s so much AI video out there.

It’s just the world we live in now.

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Chris Limb @catmachine.com · 9h

And what does the saying about bad apples say they do to the rest of the apples in the *entire* barrel?

I suspect Farage himself was Bad Apple Zero.

Headline from online newspaper saying

“POLITICS
Farage says ex-Reform chief who took Russian bribes was 'bad apple'”

With a picture of Farage and the bad apples chief.

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 9h

“Nobody dreams about being on their phones” oh really? So why have I had three dreams this week where I was trying and to post something because I didn’t have the dexterity or concentration to get the words right?

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Jon @gnarly140.bsky.social · 23h

Pirating isn't theft if purchasing isn't ownership 🤸

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𝖌𝖗𝖊𝖌𝖌 𝖒𝖊𝖓 𝖙𝖊𝖑𝖑 𝖓𝖔 𝖙𝖆𝖑𝖊𝖘 @clinteldorado.bsky.social · 23h

Obligatory:

We're not watching the bloody Good Life!

YouTube video by EtovaKala

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Chris Limb @catmachine.com · 20h

Sorry should be “Rik” or “Rick” but too late now.

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Chris Limb @catmachine.com · 21h

Unsolicited Ric pic

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chiller @thechiller.bsky.social · 21h

I think they become billionaires by being evil.

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Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 1d

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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Chris Limb @catmachine.com · 23h

Quote posting to remind everyone of the aurora borealis one year ago today.

Chris Limb @catmachine.com · 1d

#OnThisDay

10 October
Brighton, Hastings

Hove beach at low tide, streaks of sea foam on the sand making it look as if the silvery sea is a multi tentacled creature reaching out for the camera. Overhead the sun shines over the top of a massive grey cloud.

Selfie of me in purple hat and jacket sitting in some long grass

An old paved pathway furnished with a Narnia style lamp post heads down hill between the backs of some houses and the plant filled grounds of a square towered church

Pink and purple aurora borealis over West Hill Hastings

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Chris Limb @catmachine.com · 1d

Of course when I actually get around to writing a shopping list, I don’t need to look at it when I’m in the shop. It’s as if the act of writing it down is enough to cement it in my brain.