Steve Foster
@boredtownboy.bsky.social
Amateur astrophysicist. Tom Waits fan. Member @thefabians. Married to @Goody200Shoes. One planet. One species. One nation.
(Liverpool, UK)
(Liverpool, UK)
So true!
December 23, 2025 at 5:48 PM
So true!
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A little 3I/ATLAS update building on @marshall-eubanks.bsky.social's nice RNAAS from last week. Given its non-grav acceleration and the rate at which it's losing mass, you can work out its size. The answer: a diameter around 1 km, very typical for comets. arxiv.org/abs/2512.18341 🔭 🧪
December 23, 2025 at 1:05 PM
A little 3I/ATLAS update building on @marshall-eubanks.bsky.social's nice RNAAS from last week. Given its non-grav acceleration and the rate at which it's losing mass, you can work out its size. The answer: a diameter around 1 km, very typical for comets. arxiv.org/abs/2512.18341 🔭 🧪
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As ever, is it really Christmas until Mr
Blobby saves the Nakatomi Plaza?
Blobby saves the Nakatomi Plaza?
December 22, 2025 at 11:31 PM
As ever, is it really Christmas until Mr
Blobby saves the Nakatomi Plaza?
Blobby saves the Nakatomi Plaza?
Such a great film, and an R-rated cut would be hilarious.
Also around about this time was another underrated gem: Mystery Men.
Also around about this time was another underrated gem: Mystery Men.
Galaxy Quest - a perfect movie, just a wonderful love letter to actors, sci-fi, Star Trek in particular, and to fandom - really deserves a proper physical release with decent extras. Think Weaver's right that releasing a R-rated cut would be fun, too.
Sigourney Weaver Says She Wishes DreamWorks Released A Director’s Cut Of ‘Galaxy Quest,’ Reminisces On Sequel That Never Came To Pass
Sigourney Weaver reflected on cult classic Galaxy Quest and how she wishes the sci-fi satire had released an R-rated director's cut.
deadline.com
December 22, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Such a great film, and an R-rated cut would be hilarious.
Also around about this time was another underrated gem: Mystery Men.
Also around about this time was another underrated gem: Mystery Men.
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Radio 3 Unwind is such a wonderful addition to the airwaves.
December 21, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Radio 3 Unwind is such a wonderful addition to the airwaves.
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This was my biggest tweet over in the bad place. It will live here now. 🧙♀️🎄
December 11, 2024 at 2:40 AM
This was my biggest tweet over in the bad place. It will live here now. 🧙♀️🎄
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Sinclair Research Year in Review
New computers released: 0
Annual sales income: £0
Outgoings: £0
New computers released: 0
Annual sales income: £0
Outgoings: £0
December 19, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Sinclair Research Year in Review
New computers released: 0
Annual sales income: £0
Outgoings: £0
New computers released: 0
Annual sales income: £0
Outgoings: £0
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We commissioned this over a year and a half ago when for some reason no game publication wanted to run it. Granted it took us forever to publish it but we'd like to do more of this. If you would are interested in seeing more writing on insert credit, both goofy and serious, give this a look/share!
Fallout Season 2 starts tomorrow. In true insert credit fashion, we had to find out the answer to the big question on everyone's mind: What level was Lucy by the end of season 1?
Thanks to the hard work of @iantothemax.bsky.social we now have the answer, just in time for her journey to New Vegas.
Thanks to the hard work of @iantothemax.bsky.social we now have the answer, just in time for her journey to New Vegas.
What is Lucy's level by the end of Fallout (TV)?
[Editor’s note: I commissioned this article from Ian Walker over a year ago upon learning he had pitched it to multiple outlets only to find nobody was buying. I then, due to various circumstances, sa...
insertcredit.com
December 16, 2025 at 10:42 PM
We commissioned this over a year and a half ago when for some reason no game publication wanted to run it. Granted it took us forever to publish it but we'd like to do more of this. If you would are interested in seeing more writing on insert credit, both goofy and serious, give this a look/share!
ATel #17511: Recurrent Nova M31N 2008-12a: discovery of the 2025 eruption
ATel On
www.astronomerstelegram.org
November 30, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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November 29, 2025 at 7:28 PM
We always knew that this was going to be a circus. The only positive that I can see is that the infighting would otherwise have been within Labour.
Chaos has engulfed the first 24 hours of the inaugural 'Your Party' conference in Liverpool, with Zarah Sultana boycotting the first day of the event, Jeremy Corbyn facing "witch-hunt" allegations, and an entryism row
@siennarodgers.bsky.social & @tomscotson.bsky.social report from Merseyside
@siennarodgers.bsky.social & @tomscotson.bsky.social report from Merseyside
“End The Witch-hunt”: The First 24 Hours At The Chaotic ‘Your Party’ Conference
Chaos has engulfed the first 24 hours of the inaugural conference of ‘Your Party’, the new political party being founded by Jeremy Corbyn, Zarah Su...
www.politicshome.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:31 PM
We always knew that this was going to be a circus. The only positive that I can see is that the infighting would otherwise have been within Labour.
My new retirement income plan is to write vitriolic clickbait on X under multiple fake identities so as to make easy money from Elon😁
November 25, 2025 at 10:25 AM
My new retirement income plan is to write vitriolic clickbait on X under multiple fake identities so as to make easy money from Elon😁
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It's been obvious for years that many social media accounts are foreign trolls. The tragedy has been the utter complacency about it. All an enemy had to do was tinkle a little bell and the dumb doggies would bark away at each other. Why bother with a nuclear arsenal?
November 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
It's been obvious for years that many social media accounts are foreign trolls. The tragedy has been the utter complacency about it. All an enemy had to do was tinkle a little bell and the dumb doggies would bark away at each other. Why bother with a nuclear arsenal?
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Really enjoying the new series of Celebrity Traitors.
Nathan Gill is out, but will the others spot that Farage is also a traitor?
#CelebrityTraitors
Nathan Gill is out, but will the others spot that Farage is also a traitor?
#CelebrityTraitors
November 22, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Really enjoying the new series of Celebrity Traitors.
Nathan Gill is out, but will the others spot that Farage is also a traitor?
#CelebrityTraitors
Nathan Gill is out, but will the others spot that Farage is also a traitor?
#CelebrityTraitors
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Speaking as a spacecraft engineer, the thing that gets me about Loeb's interpretations is that his alien engineers are insultingly incompetent.
RCS thruster plumes visible from the other side of the solar system, making no difference in the trajectory?!
And 'Oumuamua was a *terrible* solar sail.
RCS thruster plumes visible from the other side of the solar system, making no difference in the trajectory?!
And 'Oumuamua was a *terrible* solar sail.
November 8, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Speaking as a spacecraft engineer, the thing that gets me about Loeb's interpretations is that his alien engineers are insultingly incompetent.
RCS thruster plumes visible from the other side of the solar system, making no difference in the trajectory?!
And 'Oumuamua was a *terrible* solar sail.
RCS thruster plumes visible from the other side of the solar system, making no difference in the trajectory?!
And 'Oumuamua was a *terrible* solar sail.
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You’d need a heart of gammon not to laugh…
November 3, 2025 at 1:52 PM
You’d need a heart of gammon not to laugh…
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1. Fundamentally, a significant part of what I do is the prediction of both the behaviour of pathogens in the future and our likely collective response to future pathogenic threats. I have an excellent track record in this regard for two main reasons:
November 1, 2025 at 10:37 AM
1. Fundamentally, a significant part of what I do is the prediction of both the behaviour of pathogens in the future and our likely collective response to future pathogenic threats. I have an excellent track record in this regard for two main reasons:
I ordered some glue from Amazon and got these recommendations. The mind boggles at what some of their customers must get up to!
November 1, 2025 at 10:43 AM
I ordered some glue from Amazon and got these recommendations. The mind boggles at what some of their customers must get up to!
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The most French story since bumbling jewel thieves hit the Louvre.
A French cyclist survived for three days after a horrendous 130-foot fall into a ravine, kept alive by the bottles of red wine he had in his shopping bag, police said.
Cyclist falls down 130-foot ravine in France, survives 3 days by drinking wine he had in shopping bag
A helicopter airlifted him to hospital, with a rescue doctor calling his survival "a miracle."
cbsn.ws
October 31, 2025 at 6:10 PM
The most French story since bumbling jewel thieves hit the Louvre.
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October 31, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Who would have thought that this would be the most accurate prediction of any sci-fi film of the 21st Century
www.imdb.com/title/tt0387...
www.imdb.com/title/tt0387...
Idiocracy (2006) ⭐ 6.5 | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
1h 24m | R
www.imdb.com
October 25, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Who would have thought that this would be the most accurate prediction of any sci-fi film of the 21st Century
www.imdb.com/title/tt0387...
www.imdb.com/title/tt0387...