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Chris Farnell is behind you right now

@thebrainofchris.bsky.social

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Writer of Fermi's Progress (& Wake), the Star Trek: Lower Decks Crew Handbook, the Doctor Who Jokebook, words for Spire: The City Must Fall, Film Stories, Den of Geek, the Radio Times and quoted on Barbenheimer's Wikipedia page. https://chrisfarnell.com

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Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · Jun 3

“The Fermi is the fastest ship, and the deadliest weapon in the universe. We only need it to be one of those things.”
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My homepage: chrisfarnell.com/fermis-progr...
Paperback: www.amazon.co.uk/Fermis-Progr...
Amazon: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08QG5BLFD
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The covers of the four novellas that make up Fermi's Progress: Dyson's Fear, Descartesmageddon, Planet of the Apiaries and The Phone Job.

The covers of the four novellas that make up Fermi's Wake: D & Deception, For the Trees, Graveyard Orbit and Overview Effect.

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 2h

this person posted an AI video (the reporter has three arms, for a start) and then turned off comments when people pointed it out, so i have to insist everybody block them. block this account right now and i'll give you a thumbs up in your mind

Jenn Budd @jennbudd.bsky.social · 6h

Seems like they are going after reporters who are women. They hit one w/pepper spray ammo in her car, the WGN reporter and now this.

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Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 15h

Damn, Rob.

Damn.

Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 15h

I still reckon they should have gone with my Jason Mamoa/Corbyn casting suggestion.

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Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 15h

Jonny Lee Miller Major was confusing for a lot of us.

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Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 15h

And the Edwina Curry parody account.

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Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 15h

(Sigh) No, the bear is even hotter, obviously.

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Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 15h

*THAT* is how you two met?!

I suppose it's marginally better than him Cyrano de Begeracing for the Hofmeister Bear.

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Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 16h

Having looked up the story, I think the biggest difference between the two is that one is carved directly into the stone so that it can still be legibly read centuries later, while the other will be cleaned up as if it was never there by the end of January. If anything, Canterbury is chickening out.

Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 16h

In fact, graffiti from that period is one of the only direct historical sources we have from working class people themselves, rather than about them by the nobility.

Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 16h

For many medieval, and even up to the renaissance, peasants, it was often used to memorialise people. A lot of the graffiti you can find today is names in house shapes that mirror the memorials of richer figures from the time.

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Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 16h

Nah mate, medieval churches were chill with it. It was practically a form of worship. Mind, this was back when people used to take cattle through the cathedral if it was quickest way.
But the word "graffiti" didn't even exist until the 19th century and then it didn't have any moral connotations.

Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 17h

Posting this shit like I wouldn't immediately read it.

Daniel Kennedy @fliglman.bsky.social · 17h

Ahab-Whale friends-to-enemies fan fic to be turned into a bestselling novel in 2025

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Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 17h

See if it was the third Slimy Bad Boy/Girl Nerd friends-to-enemies wizard romance novel I'd be like, fine, a trend's a trend, we're all out here merrily stealing in an attempt to find what works.

But they can't sell it without saying the quiet bit loud, can they?

Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 18h

I think we're talking at cross purposes. "Having an opinion" is good actually, it's good to learn and think about things going on in the world around you to come to at least temporary conclusions based on that until further information presents itself.
"Posting a take" is the thing you don't need.

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Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 18h

Oh crap, my feed now has two different opinions on the Nobel Peace Prize winner so now I'm going to have to learn about her myself and form my own opinion but I am *busy* and *tired*.

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Daniel Nye Griffiths @d-nye-griffiths.bsky.social · 18h

I haven't deleted a file by throwing it off a platform in a game of frisbee/jai alai since Windows 7....

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 19h

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 19h

I like to think that at 10:00am every morning Mark Wahlberg sits bolt upright, grabs his personal assistant by the lapels and screams "HOW LONG HAS IT BEEN?" into their face.

Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 19h

I cry laughing every time I think about this @brynboranga.bsky.social classic

Bryn's tweet:

a reminder that Mark Wahlberg has a 90 minute shower before a 30 minute game of golf, after which he has a 90 minute snack

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Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 19h

There are SO MANY FUTURES that are not the Weyland-Yutani version.

mills, ames, etc etc @ameliasom.com · 19h

always amazed me how much of the tech industry is driven by people just REALLY wanting random things to be true. “we can run dozens of tests on a drop of blood” “ai will make people code 5x faster” bringing about a specific vision of the future by barreling past any other alternative, at any cost

Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 21h

Ella longs for the existence of a Cutlery Showroom, where you can go in and pick up all the cutlery and feel it before you buy.

Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 22h

Ohh, *that* old workaround!

Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 22h

The theme tune to Firefly (2002)
"Take my love, take my land
Take me where I cannot stand
I don't care, I'm still free
You can't take the sky from me"

Tech Bros:
At long last, we have created a way to take the sky referred to in the from classic sci-fi theme tune "You Can't Take the Sky From Me."

Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 22h

Do we really want 250,000 mirrored satellites in Low Earth Orbit? Hasn't the Starlink megaconstellation already done enough damage?
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A US startup plans to deliver ‘sunlight on demand’ after dark. Can it work – and would we want it to?

Satellites beaming sunlight down to Earth sound like science fiction – and they have astronomers very worried.

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Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 22h

Was it:
"Then a man with a gun burst in." ?

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Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 23h

Seconding this. A critical eye on what prisons are and how and why they function seems like it should be part of the baseline left wing platform.

Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 23h

"I think we both know that only one of us is walking out of that door."
"Because you..."
"Because I'm going to walk out of the other door, yeah."

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