Jimijamflimflam

@Jimijamflimflam@mstdn.social
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I’m Jimi.

I quietly contemplate these days. I enjoy reading about and infrequently discussing #SciFi, #Fantasy, #Horror, #Science, #USPolitics and #Noir. I’ve been #TentCamping over half my life.

#StarTrek🖖rocks.
I love all #Tolkien.
#MST3K is hilarious.
Michael Myers🔪the 1st shape.
#Ghibli storytelling is *gorgeous*
#Svengoolie rules!
Han shot first.

Early Gen X feral latchkey kid. Married. Mostly harmless. I block AI & jagbags.

We call them gym shoes round here.

HumanNot Immortal. Really.
LocationIn far Northern Illinois. Previously Braga, Pt., Funchal, Pt., Barrie, Ontario. Far Northern Illinois before all that.
Banner ImageFall is the season on the lakefront in Barrie, Ontario. A photographer in a yellow jacket sits under a reddish dynamic sculpture. New construction is visible in the background. Blue sky with scattered white clouds. The lake is reflecting the blue sky.
TootsToots disappear like tears in the rain. However it takes a while. So I got that going for me at least.
Jimijamflimflam8m ago
emptywheel1h ago
Bc it's relevant to the Erez Reuveni comms released, here's one of the most detailed stories about why Nayib Bukele wanted MS-13 members: to prevent them from implicating HIM in terrorism. www.propublica.org/article/buke...

How El Salvador’s Government I...
How El Salvador’s Government Impeded a U.S. Probe of MS-13

President Donald Trump has praised Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele as a crime fighter, but new reporting based on interviews and documents reveals how senior Salvadoran officials have impeded a U.S. investigation of the MS-13 gang.

ProPublica
Jimijamflimflam13m ago
emptywheel5h ago
Trump's Coffee for Coup Accountability Emergency www.emptywheel.net/2025/07/10/t...

Trump's Coffee for Coup Accoun...
Trump's Coffee for Coup Accountability Emergency - emptywheel

Donald Trump wants to impose a 50% tax on coffee in an effort to prevent coup accountability for Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil. That may make it far easier for courts to affirm a court ruling that his tariffs are unlawful.

emptywheel
Jimijamflimflam13h ago
MrCopilot15h ago

🚨 We've got HUGE movie sign.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c7nB62_ob4

#MST3K

THEY’RE HUGE | A Giant-Sized MST3K Collection – Volume I

YouTube
Jimijamflimflam13h ago
SciFi/Fantasy Magazine Covers13h ago

Fantastic Adventures vol. 11, no. 9 (September 1949)

I like the kind of oblique/off-balance nature of this. They were focused on something in the foreground (something our hero had just shot?), looking out of the cover, until the plant-men interrupted them when they turned away from us. Also it looks rather friendly for an invasion.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Fantastic_Adventures_v11n09_1949-09_unz.org

#Magazine #MagazineCover #PulpMagazine #PulpFiction #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #Horror #Art #Illustration

Jimijamflimflam17h ago
SPACE-FRIDAY 🚀🛰️🪐🔭👩🏻‍🚀👩🏾‍🚀🧑‍🚀🧑🏾‍🚀19h ago
New findings from the NASA DART mission reveal that the impact on asteroid moon Dimorphos caused more complex effects than expected. (1/4) iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3... #DART #NASA #Hera #ESA #AsteroidDefence #Asteroid #Dimorphos #Meteorit

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Jimijamflimflam18h ago
Dare23h ago

It's hard to swim in wellies and full SRT kit, so this is where my partner and I had to turn back in #GrotteDeGournier in #Vercors. We got right next to Salle Chevalier, meaning we'd covered about one third of the length of the passage. Next year, hiking boots & thicker wetstuit.

#caving

Jimijamflimflam18h ago
Ravanon19h ago

It is perfectly possible to look both feminine and dangerous. Another erinys drawing, mixing angelic and demonic traits.

I went big again on the hair, but also on the poofy sleeves—and the wings, naturally. I tried out a variety of different colour schemes, but after an accident with colour filling ended up going all in on pinks and peaches, to hopefully striking effect.

Hope folk like it.

#MastoArt #FediArt #Fantasy #Illustration #Erinys #Tiefling #Demon #Angel #ArtistsOnMastodon #Procreate

Jimijamflimflam21h ago
Show threadKevin Russell1d ago

@stux

Rooftop solar, on just HALF of the world's roofs, would produce MORE electricity than is used today from ALL sources. And would uplift all people, strengthen all people, and drive a permanent economic boom.

Let every Neighbourhood become Saudi Arabia, but free.

#climate

https://theconversation.com/solar-panels-on-half-the-worlds-roofs-could-meet-its-entire-electricity-demand-new-research-169302

Solar panels on half the world’s roofs could meet its entire electricity demand – new research

India and China are the cheapest places to install rooftop solar, while the US, Japan and the UK are the most expensive.

The Conversation
Jimijamflimflam21h ago
SherBeareth1d ago

🐾 💜

#janegoodall

CC: @GottaLaff

Jimijamflimflam21h ago
Show threadSarah Taber1d ago

I did a short video on this. For anyone who might need to hear, like, *logistical* reasons for why drafting people into farm work is bad.

https://youtu.be/jyVIqq4VBy4

Thread format to follow shortly.

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SciFi/Fantasy Magazine CoversJul 3

Weird Tales vol. 21, no. 6 (June 1933)

My version of Conan is the one brought to me by Marvel comics, mostly by John Buscema but incomparably by Barry Windsor-Smith.

It's always weird to remember that the stories date from the 1930s when I see something like this. Also damn, even for Brundage, this is pretty explicit.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV21n06193306IfcIbcBc

#Magazine #MagazineCover #PulpMagazine #PulpFiction #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #Horror #Art #Illustration

Show threadibkJul 3
@SFFMagazineCovers Know, O prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the Sons of Aryas, there was an Age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars ...
Show threadBodhipaksaJul 3
@SFFMagazineCovers Thanks for sharing these. I read the first couple of pages of this story, and it was better than I expected.
Show threadDeka BlackJul 3
@bodhipaksa @SFFMagazineCovers Is one of the best Conan stoies imho.The beginning is one of the best REH wrote
Show threadGlupinicknameJul 3

@SFFMagazineCovers For me, Conan will always be either the one played by Schwarzenegger or one depicted by Frank Frazetta.

So, whenever I see the 1930s version, I'm always a bit shocked: "THIS is Conan? This... dweeb?"

Same for Tarzan and John Carter.

Show threadDeka BlackJul 3
@SFFMagazineCovers ¡Ah! A classic! One of the best Conan storiescovers by Brundage. Then, best,let's forgetthe one she dedicated to Queen of the Black Coast...