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Posted: 2nd December 2024

This week's title is A Sense of Perspective. Clockwise from upper left: A no parking sign beside the water line at high tide, some black sheep on a rocky hillside, a 5000-year-old settlement of round houses in Paphos, Cyprus, below it, a fantasy painting from the Chernobyl Bar in modern Paphos, a cat on a sofa above a blanket with the picture of a similar cat, a Husky-Shepherd mix dog lying down and looking up at the camera, a rushing waterfall that looks huge but is really three inches tall (thanks, Caiman), a windmill that is really a fake facade for a pub, and a very genuine flock of godwits against a sunset sky.

It is hard to maintain a sense of perspective this week. The year grinds to an end, with some of us feeling unsure as to how it will start up again, or even if it will. Your results may vary. This issue of the h2g2 Post reflects that uncertainty: you may not be able to trust your eyes, or our narrators.

'Things are seldom what they seem,' wrote WS Gilbert, and he was right: life imitates art, and art life, and so on. You'll like these photos. Most are brand-new, while a few are rescues from the fly-by attack from a couple of years ago. Can't keep us down.

The stories and features, too, interrogate the nature of truth v fiction. SashaQ ferrets out a historical mystery. Ben Moore is back to tell you what he and Raven told Keir Starmer. (Will he listen?) Awix tells us about the illusions of cinema, and I carry on about the communicative strategies available on social media. Speaking of which, the quiz this week is about a fifth-century meme. Nothing changes, really.

The animals in the videos? Real. I have to swear this is true for Youtube. Why would we AI a bird or a bat? They're perfect the way they are.

Enjoy these postcards from the edges of reality. Send us your own. Seriously: I need the copy. Have a good week. Stay warm unless you're with Willem, in which case, wear your rain hat and hope you need it.


Dmitri Gheorgheni



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I am enthusiastic over humanity's extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuity. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top buoyant enough to keep you afloat that comes along makes a fortuitous life preserver.

– Buckminster Fuller1
Montage of clock images.


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Zebra Finches Greeting the New Neighbours
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TROMPE L'OEIL
Waterfall

Three-inch waterfall by Caiman Raptor Elk.

THOUGHTS

ANIMAL SPIRITS

Bats (Video)

Bats hanging upside down, by Mrs Hoggett.

MOODS



Study in Grey
Brookville, shapes in shades of grey, by DG.
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1Buckminster Fuller, architect, died in 1983. Therefore, he did not live to participate in the debate over whether Jack and Rose could have shared that floating door from Titanic.

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