Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org

RT @UnvirtuousAbbey
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I didn't sign up for this. #DoNotGoGentle #YesButImVeryImmature #SomePeopleHaveAWeirdIdeaOfWhatRetiredMeans

RT @HarrietMould
Italian singer Adriano Celentano released a song in the 70s with nonsense lyrics meant to sound like American English, apparently to prove Italians would like any English song. It was a hit, and resulted in this: THE GREATEST VIDEO I HAVE EVER SEEN.

RT @catsdotexe

RT @xkcdComic
Life Before the Pandemic https://xkcd.com/2391/ https://m.xkcd.com/2391/

Violet was having stomach troubles earlier today, but she's ready for her turkey now.

RT @nyrath
Back in the early 1970s, I did some illos for Metagaming's STELLAR CONQUEST table-top war game. The dreadnought had an antimatter powered photon weapon to destroy ground targets.

I had got the inspiration from somewhere, but wasn't sure where.

Now I know...

RT @ToughSf
The Sukhoi T-12 was a strange twin-fuselage Close Air Support plane design that featured forward-swept wings and stacked turbofan engines that could shut off in flight to save fuel, and even considered Wing-in-Ground flight for further fuel savings.
https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/sukhoi-t-12.132/

The headline is even more sensational, if misleading: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2020/11/25/covid-19-denmark-mink-rising-from-the-dead/6426378002/
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RT @gengelstein
Um... OK.
https://twitter.com/gengelstein/status/1331812740332138496

RT @UnvirtuousAbbey
2020

It's only a rom-com if it's burned into the hardware. Otherwise it's a ram-com.

Julius Squeezer, automotive guardsnek.

RT @BrothersMurph
You may have seen that we’re trying to play our ENTIRE Game collection in one week starting 11/30. How will we get it done? Planning and preparation. Here’s a quick video on some of the prep we’ve been doing #MarathonMurphs

.@htdrake has reached peak quarantine.

RT @TheOnion
Giuliani Wheels Straitjacket-Wearing Trump Into Courtroom In Bid To Win Election With Insanity Defense https://bit.ly/3m1DVQh

RT @shouldhaveaduck

RT @amye
Portland! Portland! Finally!
https://covid.oregonstate.edu/exposure#install

RT @blader
This may be the strongest optical illusion I’ve ever seen.

RT @valfrogkamen
sea urchins protect themselves by putting rocks and shells on their "heads" so apparently if u give them tiny hats they will put them on and wear them

RT @Rainmaker1973
This 2019 picture shows researchers inside FAST, the world's largest single-dish radiotelescope, testing a 7.6 m helium balloon based mechanism during maintenance, to help reduce the body weight to a value within the reflector panels' range of durability https://buff.ly/2Kog5QU