Gordon Hundley

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Old school hacker, amateur astronomer and photographer. Woke AF. Ally. "Work as if you live in the early days of a better world." - Alasdair Gray.

An image grabbed from an imgflip that consists of five screenshots from on of John Oliver's recent part's on ABC's General Hospital. The top two frames show John (as Zee (not Zed)) as he cruelly mocks his co-star with an absurd caricatured accent, the next two shows his co-star (whose name I do not know, as I don't follow General Hospital) slapping him, and the final frame on the bottom is a close shot of John looking ...taken aback. Over it I have lazily used imgflip to type "SOMEHOW TOOK" at the top and "15 TAKES" at the bottom over John's askance stare. Which I thought was funny.
Rodney Matthews' "Fall of the Golden Age" which depicts a dark grey creature on the left with mulitple arms and an insectiod chitinous appearance holding a cleaver in one right arm while pointing across a chasm center with his left. It looks angry and accusatory. The sky is dark and gloomy and the black shadow of a distant city is in the background. The center chasm reflects an areas of transition, becoming brighter. On the darker left side, and ominous black flying creature with a snake like tail is present. In the middle is a peak with barren trees on the dark (left) side and full canopys on the light (right) side. To the right on an overhanging grassy cliff sits a man with long flowing blond hair and beard and light flowing robes. Both his cloak and headgear are winged and he holds a staff in his left hand. His right hand is exended and held down, palm open. He appears peaceful and calm. In the background is the lighter shadow of a city with spires and several moons appear in the sky above it. The contrast and opposition of the two sides are very pronounced. This piece was popularized by its use as the cover of the Eloy album 'Planets' on its UK release by Heavy Metal Records.
Jupiter (upper center) and Venus (mid right) low on the horizon among clouds.
Macropædia Knowledge in Depth 19 Excretion Geometry
An early copy of Car Wars from Steve Jackson Games. This is a circa 1983 reprint of the first edition in the 'Pocket Box' format. It's stained with age, and being held up in front of a laptop that is open to the original post in this thread.
SUNSET CHEETO: WE"RE ALL DOOMED
A Burger King logo pastiche with the bun around the words SUNSET CHEETO and the the subtext WE'RE ALL DOOMED.
A clipping from the web page annoucing the first ever repeat of a Morecambe and Wise episode. It shows the upcoming broadcast on May 14th at 20:00 and the earlier one on BBC Two from 16th September 1968.
A copy of the Games Workshop UK first print of the Traveller roleplaying game being held up in front of an embarrassingly large collection of Traveller books and games that take up two bookcases. The once teenage owner of the box has taped up the sides with electrical tape and printed his name (Gordon Hundley) in DYMO tape and attached it to the top left corner.
A pile of games on top of a bookcase. From top to bottom, an untitled box that is Avalon Hill's Kingmaker; Games Workshop's reprint of Cosmic Encounter; TSR's Star Frontiers; SPI's Universe; Citadel Miniatures' Warhammer; SPI's Middle Earth.
A car park not commemorating where a psychotic madman finally killed himself.
NGC 5907 or the Knife Edge galaxy, an uncalibrated screen transfer of a single two minute broadband color image. To the right of the center and above the main glow of the disc is a bright spot that is the supernova SN 2026kid, discovered April 22nd by Yasuo Sano, former director of Kitasubaru Astronomical Observatory in Nayoro.
NGC 5907, this time caputured at 840mm f/7 on a little color camera.
NGC 5907 - an uncalibrated 2 minute frame in luminance at 432mm f/4.8
A long exposure cell phone photo showing a cloudy sky above a balcony with two visible telescopes (the third is behind me).
The cover of XTC’s Live Boots released on vinyl as part of Record Store Day 2026. It has an art pop image of a pair of Doc Marten -like boots, the foreground one in red, the background one in green. There is a blue Type G (BS 1363) plug as is common in the UK apparently plugged into the near side of the red boot, with a blue power cord coming from it and exiting image left. The background is a series of tight black and yellow lines (akin to a warning) sign aligned to the primary diagonal.
My notifications: "! Not Enough Resources" is the illuminating error message that the BlueSky resource management game gives.
The Night and Day sculptures on top of the remaining fascade of the main entrance to the demolished Berlin Anhalter Bahnhof. The originals were cast in zinc by Ludwig Brunow and now reside in the German Museum of Technology nearby. Night is a woman in flowing robes and cape, looking away and toward the ground. Day is a man in more open robes looking up. They are offset to the lower left to accentuate their respective gazes, Night on the left looking down into shadow, and Day looking to the bright summer sky which dominates the upper half of the photo. To the right a foreground tree arches over the sculputes on their ornate brickwork seats.
Al Pacino as Frank Serpico.
The sun setting over a bay of water, with light bulbs on a wire in the foreground across the orange sky.
The cover of the album "Operation" by Birth Control, which features a spider-like creature with at least 11 legs that is eating babies.
NASA ID: art002e009298 art002e009298 (April 6, 2026) – A close-up view from the Orion spacecraft during the Artemis II crew’s lunar flyby on April 6, 2026, captures a total solar eclipse, with only part of the Moon visible in the frame as it fully obscures the Sun. Although the full lunar disk extends beyond the image, the Sun’s faint corona remains visible as a soft halo of light around the Moon’s edge. From this deep-space vantage point, the Moon appeared large enough to sustain nearly 54 minutes of totality, far longer than total solar eclipses typically seen from Earth. This cropped perspective emphasizes the scale of the alignment and reveals subtle structure in the corona during the rare, extended eclipse observed by the crew. The bright silver glint on the left edge of the image is the planet Venus. The round, dark gray feature visible along the Moon’s horizon between the 9 and 10 o’clock positions is Mare Crisium, a feature visible from Earth. We see faint lunar features because light reflected off of Earth provides a source of illumination. Date Created:2026-04-06
NASA ID: art002e009283 art002e009283 (April 6, 2026) – Captured by the Artemis II crew, the heavily cratered terrain of the eastern edge of the South Pole-Aitken basin is seen with the shadowed terminator – the boundary between lunar day and night – at the top of the image. The South Pole-Aitken basin is the largest and oldest basin on the Moon, providing a glimpse into an ancient geologic history built up over billions of years. Date Created:2026-04-06
NASA ID: art002e009286 art002e009286 (April 6, 2026) – As the Artemis II crew came close to passing behind the Moon and experiencing a planned loss of signal, they captured this image of a crescent Earth setting on the Moon’s limb. The edge of the visible surface of the Moon is called the “lunar limb.” Seen from afar, it almost looks like a circular arc – except when backlit, as in other images captured by the Artemis II crew. In this photo, the dark portion of Earth is experiencing nighttime, while Australia and Oceania are in the daylight. In the foreground, the Ohm crater is visible, with terraced edges and a flat floor interrupted by central peaks. Peaks such as these form in complex craters when the lunar surface is liquified on impact, and the liquefied surface splashes upward during the crater’s formation. Date Created:2026-04-06
Artemis II in early ascent.
A photoshop of a panther lying in a laundry basket. The comment by John Sadowsky says "We had a Florida panther fall asleep in a laundry basket in our sun room. What is a bit odd about this is we live in Maryland."
Tucker Carlson 'interviews' Vladimir Putin.
FlightRadar24 capture of a test flight of the NASA X-59 QueSST vehicle.
A 'Dune' poster that is styled to look like one for Dune II. There are two figures standing in front of a huge orange sun that is setting into a dusty background. The text says "The Melange" in large letters and "Are you sure it's not cinnamon?" in a subtitle.
Vince McMahon, former President of the WWE. Photo from Wikipedia, by Airman 1st Class Nicholas Pilch, 2006.
Suzy (Eddie) Izzard receives a standing ovation following their solo performance of Shakespeare's play 'Hamlet' in Tampa, Florida on March 16th.
A washed out monochrome image. There is a shadow of a raised hand center, holding a cigarette. In the distance is a blurred shadow of Gary Numan holding his mic stand with both hands as he sings.
Map of presidential results for Florida in the 2024 Presidential Election. I have added layers with icons of wind turbines aound the coast. The Gulf of Mexico is correctly labeled. It says "Windmills" in the top right, and there is a blue-green background that encircles the district map making it look like Florida has broken off the rest of the United States and is drifing away into it's own reality.
Product image of a Heath bar.
An emulator running MacOS System 7 that has crashed because Excel has insufficient memory to run.
Close up of the frontpiece of Michael Moorcock's "The Jade Man's Eyes" which the great man himself signed after performing with the rock Band Hawkwind at the Hammersmith Odeon on their Chronicle of the Black Sword tour in 1985, which was themed on his popular Elric books.
A copy of Michael Moorcock's "The Jade Man's Eyes" printed by Unicorn Fantasy in 1973. It has an illustration of a man (presumably Elric) holding a black sword (presumably Stormbringer) on the front cover that appears to originally have been drawn in pencil. Behind Elric is a large statuesque head and shoulders (presumably of a Jade Man) with dark eye sockets.
The full moon in partial eclipse. Monochrome, Ha filter.
Iconic image of evacuees being led up a ladder to a helicopter waiting on a small rooftop during the fall of Saigon in 1975. (image credit: Hugo van Es, source: Wikipedia)
A satirical image generated that imitates the apocalyptic headlines of Daily Telegraph editor Allister Heath. Stylized as the headline of an opinion article, it says "Allister Heath" then "Why Gordon and Denton is the final tragic end of the British dream" with "Allister Heath" and "The Telegraph" next to a icon-sized headshot of Mr Heath. The identifier "Try it for yourself at: tiny url.com/tnw-heath" both identifies the source and offers the reader an opportunity to try it for themselves.
Homer Simson sitting in front of a paper in a classroom. The text says "All right brain. You don't like me and I don't like you, but let's just do this and I can get back to killing you with beer."
A raw monochrome image, center cropped of the planet Uranus. At 30 seconds of exposure, it presents as a large white circle, the atmosphere scattering its intense reflected sunlight over many pixels of the sensor. To the left are three fainter points of light, the moons Ariel, Umbriel and Titania. To the right and further out is Oberon. Some stars are evident along with local background light and digital noise.
The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) steams the Atlantic Ocean during a simulated straits transit with the Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group (GRFCSG) in the Atlantic Ocean, 9 October 2022. The Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group was deployed in the Atlantic Ocean, conducting training and operations alongside NATO allies and partners since 5 October 2022. On deck are aircraft of Carrier Air Wing 8 (CVW-8). Image: U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jackson Adkins (via Wikipedia)
A very old picture, a 25,000 year old cave painting perhaps illustrating somebody surrounded by conflict. From Serra da Capivara, Brasil. Image: Douglas Iuri Medeiros Cabral, 2014 (CC BY-SA 2.0)
John McGinley and Paul Willson in the move Office Space sitting at a desk. Their characters, 'The Bobs' are management consultants and an involuntarily honest worker is about to turbocharge their careers.
A colorful nebula with an oxygen rich core surrounding denser hydrogen clouds. The central region has an unusual filamentary structure.
The cover of Blue Oyster Cult's "Some Enchanted Evening" album, featuring a skeletal rider in a hooded robe on a black horse holding a scythe.
A monochrome star field. Near the center is a star so bright that it is saturating hundreds of pixels with its light. This is Betelgeuse, the huge red giant in the shoulder of Orion.
This infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the Helix Nebula, a cosmic starlet often photographed by amateur astronomers for its vivid colors and eerie resemblance to a giant eye. The nebula, located about 700 light-years away in the constellation Aquarius, belongs to a class of objects called planetary nebulae. Discovered in the 18th century, these colorful beauties were named for their resemblance to gas-giant planets like Jupiter. Planetary nebulae are the remains of stars that once looked a lot like our sun. When sun-like stars die, they puff out their outer gaseous layers. These layers are heated by the hot core of the dead star, called a white dwarf, and shine with infrared and visible colors. Our own sun will blossom into a planetary nebula when it dies in about five billion years. In Spitzer's infrared view of the Helix nebula, the eye looks more like that of a green monster's. Infrared light from the outer gaseous layers is represented in blues and greens. The white dwarf is visible as a tiny white dot in the center of the picture. The red color in the middle of the eye denotes the final layers of gas blown out when the star died. The brighter red circle in the very center is the glow of a dusty disk circling the white dwarf (the disk itself is too small to be resolved). This dust, discovered by Spitzer's infrared heat-seeking vision, was most likely kicked up by comets that survived the death of their star. Before the star died, its comets and possibly planets would have orbited the star in an orderly fashion. But when the star blew off its outer layers, the icy bodies and outer planets would have been tossed about and into each other, resulting in an ongoing cosmic dust storm. Any inner planets in the system would have burned up or been swallowed as their dying star expanded. So far, the Helix nebula is one of only a few dead-star systems in which evidence for comet survivors has been found.
The BSD Deamon 'Beastie" as drawn by John Lassiter.
Screencap off pizzint.watch showing high pizza ording activity around Arlington, VA.
Converging flight lines in/out of the Persian Gulf.
A Peak Design belt clip being held up. It is attached to a thick padded camera belt. A library of old roleplaying books is in the background.
A Nikon camera held to show the underside which has a small Peak Design plate to which is attached one end of a hand grip. There is a red tab hanging off the far strap attachment which allows a Peak Design strap to be easily added or removed.
A small twin battery charger for Nikon EL15 series batteries. It’s atop a Think Tank battery pouch with four such batteries inside. The background is a scrap photo of the heart nebula.
The same image of Jupiter, this time with some deconvolution applied, neutralization of a green cast and some exposure compensation. The processing is still rough, but I'm finding my way.
A stacked image of Jupiter taken from video produced on an ASI 585 MC Pro camera captured at 1080P through a Sky Watcher Esprit 120 triplet with field flattener. The great red spot has rotated into a fairly central position in the southern bands of Jupiter with trailing spots and convoultion quite defined. The moons Io and Europa are visible to the right of Jupiter.
A stacked image of Jupiter taken from video produced on an ASI 585 MC Pro camera captured at 1080P through a Sky Watcher Esprit 120 triplet with field flattener. The great spot is just visible lower left of Jupiter's face, with convolutions visible in the northern cloud bands. Two moons are visible as hazy points of light to the right of Jupiter. The image was created using simple options in Planet Stacker X on MacOS and reflects a lack of processing knowledge.
A copy of Titan by John Varley with an image of a tentacles creature and a disk shaped spacecraft in front of a giant planet and one of its moons.
A 'Paladin' imprint of "mirrorshades, the cyberpunk anthology" by "bruce sterling, editor." The cover is for what passes for white after 35+ years of grubby handling, with a stylized image of prismatic mirror effect lenses connected by a center nose bridge support to a wire band. Published by Collins in the UK, printed (and purchased) in Glasgow.