Ashley R Pollard

Went and had a great day out at Herts of Lard @joewargamer.bsky.social

Alternate TOS Mutara Nebula Battle - Fan Re-Imagined w/ Physical Model Kits YouTube video by NJM Productions

One has got to love the enthusiasm of fans.

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I get all my Cherryh books from Forbidden Planet in Britain.

Alternate TOS Mutara Nebula Battle - Fan Re-Imagined w/ Physical Model Kits YouTube video by NJM Productions

In a world where people gloop together some generative spudwazz and consider themselves creative, it does a soul good to see someone think, "Hey, how about recreating the Battle of the Mutara Nebula, but the Enterprise is the TOS one, oh, and it's model work? Yeah, let's do it." youtu.be/rHYVQCaNpjM

MekTek 3: Letter's of Comment Explode The final piece of artwork generously donated by Steve Kyte adorns the cover of issue three. Again all uncredited articles and artwork for ...

Issue three of the 1989 BattleTech fanzine MekTek had ten pages of reader's comments. Heady days.

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It's a feature of the human condition to categorize things together, which is fine in context of science and technology, but unnecessary with regards to whether one likes or dislikes art.

While patriarchal assumptions do erase women, no argument from me, Shelley wasn't trying to write science fiction.

She was SF adjacent, but her work was more the horror of mankind trying to usurp God.YMMV.

Tokamak Oxford Shrove Tuesday I was at Tokamak Energy. All bundled up because it was freezing cold in Oxford.  The whole machine is housed inside this hug...

Went to Oxford, toured Tokamak Energy's spherical fusion reactor. Read about it here:

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I also report the spam. I don't know if it gets actioned, but what else can one do?

Getting a certain amount of spam that seems to resist the message that I'm not interested in whatever they want.

It's a great read.

My birthday present arrived from Japan today. My birthday was a couple of weeks ago, but this is glorious.

Chop Shop: Ogre 1 One Step Closer Above is the model from last time, given a trim, and to check I took the photo and mirrored each half to judge how close I was to my goa...

Work in Progress; old school hard surface sculpting. More info here:
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1/9 Comparison of carnivore brains beyond brain size

They compared the brains of 26 carnivore species (including canids, felids, and ursids, among others) using magnetic resonance imaging.

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MekTek Issue 2 Again another beautiful piece of artwork from Steve Kyte adorns the cover of issue two. All uncredited articles and artwork  contents for is...

Artwork by Steve Kyte for issue two of my BattleTech fanzine, MekTek. More about the contents of the issue on my blog.

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Chop Shop: Ogre 1 Conversion Symmetry Symmetry is a thing. One that castings made from sculpts were more of a suggestion, rather than something strictly adhered to. My Ral Partha...

Progress is being made. Explanation of work done on my blog.

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Posting to gauge interest.

OHMU War Machine Schrödinger Update Given the last post about I did about OHMU War Machine was 2023, which itself referred to an earlier post in 2021, and an even earlier menti...

More discussion on my blog:

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Blast from the past | OHMU War Machine I only very recently (2020) learned of the existence of OHMU and was lucky enough to acquire a lone remaining copy from one of the authors. I always enjoy taking a look at older games like this, too s...

It seems interest in OHMU won't die.

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MekTek: A BattleTech Fanzine 1 MekTek was a British BattleTech fanzine produced by me, which came out in 1988. The cover of the first issue was by Steve Kyte. All the uncr...

British BattleTech fanzine from 1988. Cover of MekTek by Steve Kyte. More details on my blog.

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Been out and about in London at the Natural History Museum to see dinosaurs with family and friends.

Looks delish.

Angry robot face, image by juicy_fish on FreePix

Latest newsletter, talking about why the techbros will NEVER sell us on fucking AI (and why companies keep getting it wrong):

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#noAI

Awesome. I just about managed 40 words the other day. So, well done.

Correcting the mistake I made.

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Reminds me of saying to Lord Layard that people are depressed because they don't have jobs, and offering therapy was less effective than jobs (or words to that effect).

Ain't that the truth.

It looks nice, almost perfect. So, proceed with caution.