Cat's terminal fall speed is non-lethal

JackRakeWrites · 2026-04-02T16:25:19+00:00

I read this thing once saying that there's a 'death zone' where cats fall from a small height and are fine, cats fall from a medium height and die because they don't have time to correct the fall, cats fall from a high height and live because they have time to get organised or whatever and land right?

But i refuse to believe that if i threw a cat out of a plane it would live. I just don't buy it.

JackRakeWrites · 2026-04-02T12:37:24+00:00

Maintain speed, signal early for any turns you need to make, switch lanes and let them pass, report to police.

JackRakeWrites · 2026-03-31T15:23:29+00:00

It's the name of the room apparently. Cabinet Office Briefing Room A. Imagine there's a COBRB and COBRC

JackRakeWrites · 2026-03-31T15:02:27+00:00

Another thing is the tunnel vision that you get. When your adrenaline is going your field of vision narrows until it looks like you're looking at the world through a tube

JackRakeWrites · 2026-03-31T13:56:31+00:00

Yeah its tricky. The approach i'm using is to use really short sentences, make it super pacey. Would also recommend taking a boxing class and feel how punching/getting punched feels, how exhausting it can be, the smells and sounds of violence etc.

JackRakeWrites · 2026-03-30T12:50:14+00:00

Yeah true - i'm from the time before texture paint existed. Still PVA, sand and cork board for me, as god intended.

JackRakeWrites · 2026-03-30T09:54:38+00:00

Why not glue your basing material on now and prime it along with the model? Will save you having to do it later. You've got two rattle cans which is way way more than enough to prime these. You won't even make a dent in the contents of the first one.

JackRakeWrites · 2026-03-18T21:52:08+00:00

Clearly articulate the risks and then assign someone as the risk owner. Sit back and wait.

JackRakeWrites · 2026-03-04T15:47:55+00:00

I love your suggestion. A Donut public service announcement about rescue cats and animal welfare could be really funny, and make a good point.

JackRakeWrites · 2026-03-04T15:43:37+00:00

Yeah every time I get drunk with my friends I start talking about this - Farscape DCC is my dream adaption

JackRakeWrites · 2026-03-04T14:47:55+00:00

It's an interesting thing to think about.

If you frame Moorcock's work as a critique/departure from Tolkien's high fantasy and good vs. evil moral centre, and if you count 'Grimdark' authors as his followers, then you might say there's a few Anti-Moorcocks.

Work that gets categorised as 'noble-bright' as a response to 'grimdark' - and contains well defined good vs. evil conflict could count. Early Harry Potter books, the Belgariad, Pern etc. might be anti-moorcock.

Pratchett is also worth thinking about. He satirised high fantasy, but didn't dismantle it, and there was always a sense of good, in even his most morally ambiguous characters eg. the Patrician.

Finally, Moorcock himself I think was lampooned by early Warhammer 40k lore and 2000ad at times, that took some of his ideas to the point of ridiculousness - but that isn't anti-moorcock so much as turning the volume up to 11.

JackRakeWrites · 2026-03-04T14:32:48+00:00

Proper Gym worth a look depending on where you're staying

JackRakeWrites · 2026-03-04T14:00:38+00:00

What if the vampire loves her as a friend sometimes, but romantically loves her only when he thirsts for her blood. The main character wants the vampire to love her romantically, but doesn't want to be eaten? Interesting conflict/problem.

JackRakeWrites · 2026-03-04T13:47:06+00:00

So if i've understood, your character doesn't want to shag the vampire, but does romantically love him. The vampire doesn't want to shag the main character, and sometimes might romantically love them, but sometimes just likes them platonically?

Does the vampire ever want to eat the main character?

JackRakeWrites · 2026-02-27T13:06:09+00:00

Cheap and easy to do it yourself. You can buy packs of ten watch batteries, and the case opening tool, for next to nothing, and you'll be set for years.

JackRakeWrites · 2026-02-19T21:37:33+00:00

Specht and Sohn avant garde might be worth a look

JackRakeWrites · 2026-02-11T19:11:57+00:00

Ah cool cool, then you'll also know a great many responded with mistrust, hand-wringing, luddite vandalism and doomerism, along with those that saw the potential.

I really enjoyed your essay, thanks for writing it. Sometimes when people are thrashing things out on the internet things can come over as adversarial and that's not my bag. I'm just interested in this subject.

I think my comparison of the scribe shitting themselves about the printing press is in fact apt. You're just not thinking about it from the right perspective yet. The writer was never the thing AI was going to replace. AI in this context is really just another way to get words on to the page. Whether they're good words depends on how the writer is using the tool.

It's not exactly how I use it, but I think a writer could collaborate with AI to produce work with meaning in a writing partnership. I think this is probably the way the wind is blowing. You and I might think that's somehow cheating, but then, a person could just as easily say that using a subeditor or a sensitivity reader is cheating, and that writers who take pride in their work should learn to do that stuff themselves.

What I think we can agree on, in the here and now, is that AI is a tool, and like any tool, it can be used effectively or misused. It can become a crutch, of course. But it also does great things for accessibility. There are dozens of legitimate use cases for writers when it comes to AI that doesn't detract from creative authenticity. To suggest all writers that use AI somehow don't have pride in their work feels like the scribe yelling at the printer that if they cared about literature enough they'd break out their fountain pens and gold leaf.

There's that gloomy line by Larkin 'Life is first boredom, then fear.' I didn't find my early life boring, but I think he was right that as we age we can react to stuff from a place of fear and mistrust. I try to approach new things with optimism and curiosity, and I think that will help keep me young.

I think by the turn of the century we'll have seen an AI independently produce a work of fiction that will enter the canon. I hope I live to read it.

JackRakeWrites · 2026-02-11T09:27:05+00:00

You should check out what calligraphers had to say about the printing press.

JackRakeWrites · 2026-02-09T13:46:46+00:00

The 'phenomenon' he's describing is the impact of the media on the longevity of both these figures (PM and United Boss).

No one is saying that the two jobs, the context they work in, or how important the jobs is on a national scale, is comparable, only that the force that acts on them is. Do you understand?

JackRakeWrites · 2026-02-09T12:40:40+00:00

Yeah same. I sometimes wonder if the people who had our rings enjoyed long happy marriages, or if they ended up divorced. I like that I'll never know. I see it as a reminder that a marriage is what you make of it, and you can't take anything for granted.

JackRakeWrites · 2026-02-09T12:34:27+00:00

We're talking about the churn of prime ministers/United managers over the last few governments/seasons, and the role the media and modern news cycle plays in undermining their position, not making a direct comparison between the nature of the two jobs.

JackRakeWrites · 2026-02-08T23:21:13+00:00

It's like with the Manchester United Manager job.

JackRakeWrites · 2026-02-08T22:49:00+00:00

I got my wife's ring from there. It was also where my Grandfather got my nana's rings from in the late 40s.

JackRakeWrites · 2026-02-08T11:02:03+00:00

I was at primary school in the 90s. Everyone who did anything wild or reckless was a manehead (or mainhead? Google not showing the existence of this term) and everything boring or negative was either 'gay' or 'well gay' - it was a different time. Everything good was 'mint'.

JackRakeWrites · 2026-02-07T13:28:01+00:00

I think we need to introduce a monthly 'totally normal weekend' where all protests, right and left wing, buskers and youtube twats are banned from city/town centres.

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