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Paul Drye

@ pauldrye @lemm.ee

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@pauldrye@spacey.space : Unbuilt crewed space projects, phantom islands, alternate history, Muppets, Atomic Age design, weird-looking galaxies, temporary moons of Earth, languages, cartography, the Ediacaran biota, old cutaway diagrams. Canadian with malice aforethought. Baggage Books on DriveThruRPG.

  • That'll keep me off the police radar!

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  • Nick's hat was coloured to look like a cigarette butt, but the resemblance is uncanny.

  • "Next Stop The Moon" (Collier's Magazine, September 1946)

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  • The shields are thermocouples to generate solar power, in those days before photovoltaic cells -- well, they'd just been patented a few months before and nobody had heard of them yet or even knew why they worked.

    The poles are, I think, just trekking poles with gaffs on them to help with steep inclines.

  • Weekly Recommendations Thread: What Canadian products do you recommend?

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  • I had some Covered Bridge potato chips over the weekend and they were pretty good.

  • Proposed Presidential Standard of Equatorial Guinea

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  • It's got tree yellow stars.

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    "Next Stop The Moon" (Collier's Magazine, September 1946)

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  • Spotify is based in Sweden, technically in Luxembourg. While they do have an American subsidiary, they also have a Canadian one so I believe a Canadian's subscription would be handled through that.

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  • Jail locks down after convicted killer goes missing for 12 hours. Then cops realize they forgot him at the courthouse

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  • Has your wallet murdered anyone? Asking just in case.

  • Altoona-style pizza

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  • distant sound of Italians exploding

  • The P is silent

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  • I would like one violence, please.

  • An Entire Company Was Staffed With AI Agents and You'll Never Guess What Happened

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  • I was gonna say, yeah.

  • Drivers targeted in horse crime crackdown

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  • Well, those horses should not be driving anyway.

  • Cat.

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  • Cat.

  • Spock, the master of using logic to lay down an insult

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  • Misterspock.

  • Is there any practical use for pine cones?

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  • Organic enemas?

  • Support Local: 20 Canadian Products You Didn’t Know Costco Carried

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  • At least it's "Not American". The Quaker Oats listing is a bad joke: -- Quaker is owned by PepsiCo.

  • 1955 - Moomin on the Riviera (19/86)

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  • Moomins have no bones and just squish like rubber balls.

  • Why Was a 1940s Car Discovered in the Wreck of an American Naval Ship That Sank During World War II?

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  • I'd be more impressed if it was a 1970s car they discovered.

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    Goodyear METEOR

  • Microsoft Is Dedicated To Building A Dodgy New Database Of Every Windows 11 User’s Online Behaviors

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  • Oh, good lord. Have you met my 82-year old father?

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    The Ambrosian Iliad, c.500 CE, Byzantine Egypt

  • Creepy Wikipedia @lemmy.world
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    Albert Stevens - Man secretly injected with plutonium as an experiment because he was dying anyway -- except he wasn't dying

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Albert_Stevens
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    2015 TB145 - An asteroid that looked like a skull in radar images which passed Earth on Halloween 2015

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2015_TB145

  • Unsecured penguin caused helicopter crash in South Africa

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  • smiles and waves, boys

  • Moving to piefed.lemmy.fan/c/weird_news - Weird News - Things that make you go 'hmmm' @real.lemmy.fan
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    Unsecured penguin caused helicopter crash in South Africa

    www.bbc.com /news/articles/cn5xx036p4vo
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    Inscribed Bronze Sword, Zhou China, ~5th Century BCE

  • Fake Album Covers @lemm.ee
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    Mary Goodwill - Coal

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    George Forster (murderer) - After being executed in 1803, his body was "reanimated" with electricity by a scientist

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Forster_(murderer)
  • Fake Album Covers @lemm.ee
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    The Lectroids - The Lectroids

  • Fake Album Covers @lemm.ee
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    Solid Star - So Far Away

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    Malaria therapy - Deliberately infecting patients with malaria to cure mental illness

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Malaria_therapy
  • Out of Context Comics @lemmy.world
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    These are a few of my favourite things

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    Third man factor - Psychological phenomenon where a person having a long traumatic experience feels the presence of an unseen "other" encouraging them to make it through

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Third_man_factor
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    Murder of Bridget Cleary - A woman is murdered when her husband and neighbours think she's been taken by spirits and replaced by a changeling

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Murder_of_Bridget_Cleary
  • Out of Context Comics @lemmy.world
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    Wait 'til you see what you get for being judgmental

  • Creepy Wikipedia @lemmy.world
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    Roopkund - Icy lake in the Himalayas with hundreds of skeletons below its surface

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roopkund
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    Thiess of Kaltenbrun - A 17th century man claims to be a part of a shadowy group of Devil-fighting werewolves

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thiess_of_Kaltenbrun