Michael

@shevekuk

He/him. Gay guy from London, very ex-physicist, into all kinds of science and geeky stuff. Left wing, when's the fully automated luxury communism arriving?

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Michael@shevekuk· Jul 11

Short click on picture in article, I see pic 1, no Details button Long press and open in new tab, I see pic 2, no Details button Switch to Desktop mode, I see pic 3, no Details button

Michael@shevekuk· May 25

Truth! Freedom! Justice! Reasonably-priced love! And a hard-boiled egg! How do they rise up? #Glorious25thOfMay #GNUTerryPratchett

A photo of a thriving lilac blush. There are several clusters of lilac flowers.

Michael@shevekuk· May 22

Am I cool yet?

A selfie of a man with short hair and kinda glowing, because of the hot sun shining on him. He's wearing sunglasses and a bit of a vapid look, and to make it a complete stereotype there's a London bus visible over his right shoulder, a 270 to Mitcham, and some bog-standard and slightly knackered, possibly Georgian, houses over his left shoulder.

Michael@shevekuk· Oct 28

I think our new do's would tessellate

Ageing millennial white guy showing off his short hair and new goatee-ish-thing. If you're familiar with the Discworld the effect is less Havelock Vetinari and more Cosmo Lavish.

Michael@shevekuk· Jul 8

Such a shame he's dead... ha! (From www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...)

An image of Grand Moff Tarkin from the original Star Wars trilogy, with black test on white background at the bottom say "Norman Tebbit 1931-2025".

Michael@shevekuk· May 26

S1E7 "Announcement", roughly 11:07 in. They've added stuff on top of the building, but below that it's clearly based on the AT&T building (Can't share real screenshot due to Disney's DRM crap, had to use my phone)

Grey, dreary buildings on Coruscant. The one on the right is clearly based on the AR&T Long Lines Building in New York.

Michael@shevekuk· May 25

Truth! Freedom! Justice! Reasonably-priced Love! And a Hard-boiled Egg! On the Glorious 25th of May, let us remember the People's Republic of Treacle Mine Road GNU Terry Pratchett. Ten years gone, and sorely missed. Mind how you go. #GNUTerryPratchett

A picture of several lilac flower heads in full bloom. They are brightly lit and beautiful to behold

Michael@shevekuk· May 6

I have bought a costume jewellery brooch. It doesn't suit me so I shan't wear it, but I shall put it on display. And do you want to know the deep reason I bought it? It's sparkly! That's it.

A gif of a hand holding a gold-coloured filigree brooch with about 13 differently-coloured paste jewels on it. It sparkles a lot.

Michael@shevekuk· Mar 12

Ten years ago, Terry Pratchett left his mortal plane To many of us, he was somehow and old, old friend. And I can honestly say that, whilst he made me laugh, he also made me a better person Mind how you go, Terry

A screenshot of three tweets from the official Pratchett Twitter account.

1) AT LAST, SIR TERRY, WE MUST WALK TOGETHER.
2) Terry took Death's arm and followed him through the doors and on to the black desert under the endless night.
3) THE END.

Michael@shevekuk· Feb 11

Fuck you, Google And this was taken in the UK

An screenshot of Google Maps showing the Gulf of Mexico, labelled by Google as "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America"

Michael@shevekuk· Jan 15

I don't know what's weirder: finding a halfpenny at the bus stop or specifically finding a decimal halfpenny at the bus stop

The tails side of a small copper coin, lying on a scruffy linen blanket. It's a British decimal halfpenny.

The heads side of a small copper coin, lying on a scruffy linen blanket. It has the familiar face of Elizabeth the Second on it. It's a British decimal halfpenny.

Michael@shevekuk· Sep 27

Welp, this made me cry 😭 www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=... (The photo is from the Facebook link. I've included the link for attribution and to point fingers at the mean person who made me cry!)

The screen if split in two halves, one above the other. In the upper, an elderly lady stands half way up the stairs on a small landing, in shadow as she is backlit by a window, looking down the stairs. In the bottom, a brightly middle-aged man in glasses looks up at her. There are subtitles. She says "Hello, boy". He says, "Hello, Wendy". These are screenshots from the film Hook.

Michael@shevekuk· Sep 16

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #647,716! I have never, EVER been at the forefront of anything. Do I need special clothing or equipment?

I'm user number 647,716 and thus part of the first ten percent of the current ten million Bluesky users. There's an official stamp saying "Bluesky elder certified - first ten percent"

Michael@shevekuk· Sep 4

Ismy.blue Hardly surprising as I'm somewhat colour blind. Most of those in-between colours are pretty much colourless to me

A colour gradient from green to blue, with a superimposed S-curve showing the cumulative statistic of when people decide green becomes blue. Text says "your boundary is at hue 185, bluer than 94% of the population. For you, turquoise is green".

Michael@shevekuk· Aug 18

Huh, looks like they can't spell in Russian. When Zhivago reaches the train station in Yuriatin, the station sign clearly says Юряитнъ Yuryaitn, not Yuriatin.

A frozen, snow-covered minor train station, with a bewildered man on the tracks and a couple of disinterested onlookers. The station sign, in Cyrillic, is supposed to say Yuriatin, but actually says Yuryaitn

Michael@shevekuk· Jul 31

Look on my kryptonite, ye mighty, and despair!

A glowing cuboid, a few millimetres on a side, glowing whilst resting on a transparent plastic sheet, which is held horizontally in a hollow plastic square a few centimetres across, which in turn is held by a finger and thumb.

Michael@shevekuk· Jun 25

Posting a queer-coded villain (for a given value of 'villain')

A reptilian-faced humanoid smiling in a very wry and knowing way. Apparently he's a humble tailor, you know

Michael@shevekuk· May 25

Truth, freedom, justice, reasonably-priced love, and a hard-boiled egg! Here's to the People's Republic of Treacle Mine Road, and the Glorious Twenty-Fifth of May How do they rise up?

A foreground image of lilac in full bloom

Michael@shevekuk· May 22

I stole this from a friend who isn't on here

Rishi Sunak is standing at a podium outside Number 10 Downing Street. He is extremely wet from the rain, with sodden suit and hair. Basically a drowned rat. There is a caption saying "Things Can Only Get Wetter"

Michael@shevekuk· Mar 9

Chrisjen Avasarala, a character from The Expanse, dressed in magnificent subcontinental finery, delivering the riposte "wherever I goddamn like". And this we are all become her bitches, and we like it that way

Michael@shevekuk· Jan 12

Apparently it's Kiss A Ginger Day. This is the closest I can get

A close up photo of a ginger nut biscuit, sitting on the corner of a glass coffee table, with the floor rug visible through the glass

Michael@shevekuk· Oct 21

This dildo schnapps is rather nice