Oh, actually, looking at that machine it's not talking about teabags but bags of tea. Still, i'd guess heat sealing?

Looks like heat sealing, which I think makes sense as most teabags contain plastic which would then act as "glue". Not sure how it would work for no-plastic bags (eg Clipper) (www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BZVCV29Q)

I have the highest bid on an ebay auction for a board game I've been looking for for YEARS. First time i haven't immediately been auto-out-bid. Checking the site every 10 mins for the next 1 day and 22 hours & re-reading the description to make sure i haven't bid on just the box or something.

Exciting news! Hopefully this'll be waiting for me on the door mat when I get back to London next week (or nestled soggily between some bins)

You'll have a great April, don't worry about it!

* Travelogue of a city in the the form of a detective story
* Nature of reality in question, remains unresolved
* Conscious spaceship
* Protagonist has no clue what's going on, not much agency
* Alternative social structures
* What if this obviously wrong thing was actually true?
* Hive inteligence

Feel like there should be a labeller(?) for when your post hits the character count exactly. A little medal or something.

i guess it's the old saw about creativity and limitations.

For a long time technically advanced sfx tended to go hand in hand with being visually interesting, I think a lot of film makers seem to have confused the two and now that the technically impressive stuff is more easily achieved the imaginative side of things seems to have atrophied

... with hindsight I think this is largely because they were really good at leaning in to the limits of the printing process and paper they had to work with.

yeah, the 400s & 500s era of 2000AD is my favourite (its when I started reading regularly so of course it is) at the time i always just thought it looked better than other stuff on the shelf even though it was fairly obviously low bugdget compared to american stuff

Cheap, annoying, blobby MadCatz PS1 controller

Worth it to avoid the MadCatz controller

Oh no! Just realised that ″ is the INCHES symbol, the classic Spinal Tap mistake! He's really tiny

screen grab of the youtube thumbnail - jensen buck, mugshot in front of a height scale. The image has been edited to show hidden values on the scale which are out of shot these imply Buck's body has very unusual proportions.

His head is nearly 3ft high! his body over 5ft wide!

Russell Hoban - Ridley Walker
Gene Wolfe - Book Of The New Sun (fantasy adjacent and a bit of a doorstop though)
Neville Schute - On The Beach

My personal faves, not sure about master pieces but I recomend them without resevation...
Frankenstein (obv)
Le Guin - dispossed, left hand...
Ted Chiang - both the short story collections are stacked
HG Wells - Time Machine and War of the Worlds are my favourites
Olaf Stapledon - Star Maker
...

I'm about half way through, it does feel a bit like i've been about half way through for the last couple of weeks 🤔

When our mum called is in for our tea
We cowered for fear that an Alzabo she be

Love the Repo Man title sequence!

Snow Piercer and Under The Skin are both good and not US, though both have US actors in the lead roles.

YEah, I'm a long time Iowa apologist. Hated so much about metal of that era but I've always had a soft spot for early slipknot

Yes! And Priest Daddy too, though that's more straight memoire

If I had to pick one or two I'd say Murmur and Emergency are my faves.
(also, perhaps investigate M John Harrison's recent memoir "Wish I Was Here" not on shelf as it's languishing on my 'to read' stack)

Photo of a bookshelf... Anna Quin - The unmapped country Diane Williams - Fine,Fine,Fine,Fine,Fine Will Eaves - Murmur Emergency - Daisy Hildyard Sum - David Eagleman Alice Oswald - Dart Alice Oswald - Memorial Kalpa Imperial - Angelica Grodischer (translated by Le Guin) I Hate The Internet - Jarett Kobek Soft and Cuddly - Jarett Kobek

This is my /that-kind-thing/ of section of the book shelf. I happily recommend any of them but I think those on the right of the shot are maybe closer to the kind of thing you're looking for.

Quick scan suggests I've got about 15 of them which is more than I expected tbh

you only found out yesterday?

To be fair it's hard to compete with excel if your audience are heavy excel users (and you probably shouldn't try)

Saw a self driving waymo in the wild this morning, blocking a junction in the city of London whilst pedestrians streamed round the front and the back of it. Hopefully as they continue to roll these out we'll see more of them holding up traffic to let pedestrians walk the streets freely

I was once stuck in a dingy B&B room with chicken pox whilst the person next door played Champagne Supernova at full volume on repeat for what felt like several weeks

an image that shows pixel pac-man on the left and says "dlss5 off", and the weird pac-man from the side art on the right and says "dlss5 on"

wow