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

RT @novysan
We have now been self-isolating for ~260 days. The quickest reasonable voyage to Mars takes ~260 days.

Congratulations, my fellow Iso-nauts, YOU'VE MADE IT TO MARS!!

I'm going to @PlaySquadrons Tuesday night. If you're a @lewisandclark student, alum, or employee and want in, let me know. #PioneerSquadron

Are there video games where trading with NPCs is the central mechanism? Asking for Science.

RT @dinoman_j

Update upon her reading this tweet: "Oh, Jacob's plotline is WAY worse than CGI baby."

.@htdrake isn't sure whether to be more bothered by the CGI baby* or Jacob's plotline.

*Not doing faces, I didn't notice this, but apparently everyone else found it creepy AF, and the earlier animatronic draft "Chuckesmee" was even worse.

We didn't get a noticeable karmic payoff from enduring the 4th Twilight movie, but since 4 & 5 are "parts I and II" of the last book, maybe we'll get a big bounce from completing the series.

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

RT @petersagal
I have a Fermat joke but it’s too long to fit into a tweet. https://twitter.com/sarahpinsker/status/1332445995196706824

RT @portablecity
I have a joke about Christo, but I’m keeping it under wraps. https://twitter.com/TangoCharlie/status/1332717860855025666

RT @sigfig
chat reminded me of the movie gravity (2013) and i still cannot understand how they could have an art team that could render all those spacecraft completely faithfully and a writer who didnt know anything at all about orbits

In Kerbal Space Program, just as I was approaching the surface of the Mun, controlling my throttle by tapping Shift and Ctrl, Windows interrupted to ask if I wanted to turn on sticky keys.

#MurderedByClippy

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 @rbrowntweets
I’m a feminist but... when walking past a boys secondary school today one of the boys called for me to throw their football back over the very high fence.

I responded “there’s no way I can get it over that fence”

To which he said “but feminism miss - use your girl power”
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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/