David Ketelby
@ketelby.bsky.social
science fiction, urban fantasy, (para)politics, (counter)culture * bsfa member * anarchosyndicalist * christ-follower * pronouns: he/him * more content & details at ketelby.blogspot.com
What does this summer of fire and ash mean for people raising the next generation? How can we look to the future with hope and confidence? I wrote this over the weekend for parents struggling to stay positive in the teeth of climate breakdown medium.com/the-new-clim...
A Summer of Violence
The debt is now here for us all. We knew it would come.
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J. Alfred Prufrock's redemption arc - in which he learns that, actually, he has it within himself to actually *be* somebody.
Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last wk.Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now
And haven't we all, at some point, possibly only in a metaphorical sense, battled an evil pop group from outer space..?
archivetvmusings@archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 2w agoThe Tomorrow People battle an evil pop group from outer space (Look-In, w/e 20th July 1974)
“Spain has led Europe in the installation of renewable power generation and there was plenty of energy on display today….” Really, you’re welcome.
It feels like this has social class overtones somehow - like the (apocryphal, I think) story about Peter Mandelson, MP for Hartlepool, mistaking mushy peas for guacamole..?
cathaguamia.bsky.social@cathaguamia.bsky.social · 2w agoI remember a BBC TV News presenter reading out a Scottish football result played at Tannadice, as if it were a ground in Italy.
Classic song with an unnecesary backbeat and some bad digital art on it ... very 1990 #TOTP
a brief moment of conscious happiness, in spite of everything ketelby.blogspot.com/2026/07/1974...
never can say goodbye (a short meditation on happiness and on having undeniably been there in 1974)
Concise reviews of books and films, especially science fiction, politics, poetry, urban fantasy, popular science.
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Happy birthday to #astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell! In 1967, as a grad student she discovered the 1st radio pulsar, a highly magnetized, rotating neutron star that emits a beam of EM radiation. 🧪🐡👩🏼🔬🎢🔭 #histsci This radiation can only be observed when the star is pointed towards us;
Roz Kaveney (@rozkaveney.bsky.social) was right about just how *good* Emily Tesh's (@emilytesh.net's) 'Some Desperate Glory' is. ketelby.blogspot.com/2026/02/roz-...
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Concise reviews of books and films, especially science fiction, politics, poetry, urban fantasy, popular science.
ketelby.blogspot.com
The Mike Flowers Pops Orchestra version of Wonderwall far surpassed the Oasis 'original' (using the word advisedly: lumpen 1990s Dad-rock).
The Fall / Mark E. Smith ..? Veritas / Robert Kilroy-Silk ..?
Will Jennings📉🗳️@drjennings.bsky.social · 4w agoHas a team ever been so dependent on one player?
England also deserve to lose because of those cringefest t-shirts I just saw 🤮 #FIFAWorldCup
DJ H isn't the name of an act, it's someone leftover Scrabble tiles #totp
The Jordan Peterson grift machine using a remarkably *butch* photo of Count Binface in its online advertising...
Magnificent stuff from the BBC commentator at the end of the MEXvENG game: “Forty years after the hand of God, the hands of fate have smiled on England!”
meta-jokes about longform epistemological and moral collapse, anyone?
James O'Malley@jamesomalley.co.uk · last mo.Sad I don't know enough about football to use what is happening on the pitch to make amusing references to British politics.
I've been trying to get the theme from "The Littlest Hobo" out of my head all day, but it's just stuck in there. Oh, well. Maybe tomorrow.
I've suggested to my daughter - a musician and far too cool to take this up - that she work a cover of the song 'Maybe Tomorrow' into her set list and see if any audience members aged 45 to 55 - i.e. watching children's TV in the early 1980s - tear up ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVHK...
The Littlest Hobo (season 1) - out on DVD April 26th for the first time
YouTube video by Strike Media
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How to See Like a Machine: Images After AI Trevor Paglen books.google.co.jp/books/about/...
How to See Like a Machine
We once looked at pictures. Then, with the advent of computer vision and machine learning, pictures started looking at us. By the award-winning artist, filmmaker and thinker.Today our world is under t...
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