@VK_HM on twitter, Val (or valondar) most places. Autistic. Trans woman. (she/her) Dublin, Ireland.
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Okay, I get it, I'm old, but we're just moving in circles here.
Do we really need explainers why latte is shorthand for liberal. Didn't we do the latte liberal bit when John Kerry ran for President over twenty years ago now
Oh you also call that the Saltire. Makes sense. Briefly made me think of the so-called St. Patrick's Saltire, a flag with extremely little fondness in Ireland regardless of one's political affinities.
i had been waiting for someone to write about that specific incident and of course it was always going to be @milesklee.bsky.social
Me announcing to everyone on my cruise that The Newsroom complete series set is coming to Blu-ray.
id report this to the police as a murder but unfortunately crime hasnt been made illegal yet
Saw someone call an episode of the Twilight Zone filler. I will now stare into the middle distance and collapse
THE 7TH SAGA PRODUCE CO. 1993 SNES
Take care!
Had a lot of fun writing up this piece for EW: The 20 best ‘80s cartoons to rewatch on Saturday mornings ew.com/best-80s-sat...
Love to hear support for disabled folks. They’re under fire by almost every party across the globe.
Godzilla / Ishirō Honda
Vect yourself before your wrect yourself.
There’s a weird thing where these guys pretend things they say on right wing podcasts don’t count. They do!
The load-bearing myth at the heart of UK politics is that the politicians and media are tolerant and decent and working people are knuckle-dragging bigots, but it's actually completely the other way around.
I've often warned the real risk of AI images is giving people the ability to deny the real images more than making them believe things that aren't true.
She literally said the exact same things about NFTs like, 18 months ago. variety.com/2025/film/ne...
Gotta rep some Bizet cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/detail.php?q...
When late 90s CGI, FMV adventure games, and GUNDAM 0079 combine. And things do not go as well as usual on Side 7. 📺: Gundam 0079: The War for Earth, Presto Studios, 1997 (Apple Mac version)
That clarity satire shirt guy could've been posted by anyone...
He *wishes* he had that Yee. It's more like Ginsberg and Draper.
It took this event for Rowling to acknowledge him, which he was famously sore about. I doubt he will ever get to speak to her, though.
Right. Like one of my favourite titles of this wave would be Ascendance of A Bookworm, which takes the core power fantasy of your knowledge of something leading to success in the fantasy world but in this case it’s a book otaku in a world without books becoming the Johannes Gutenberg of her world
Oh 100%. But SAO is just important in the modern sense because it was a hit web novel that then got adapted as an anime and a *lot* of isekai slop comes from adapted web novels. That’s the pipeline that made this A Thing
It’s not inherent, though, and some of what are considered older examples of isekai (like Aura Battler Dunbine) do use a portal.
Yeah. The work that made Isekai popular was Sword Art Online, which depending how you define it is not an isekai, but is about being trapped in a MMORPG you already knew. A lot of the post-SAO wave of isekai titles involved thriving in a new world due to knowledge of game mechanics.
sony discman ads in the 90s would be like "SUCK MY DISC" and ads for pc games would just be underboob with goosebumps and the text would say "GET HARD" because the name of the game was like BIG STEEL or something
Question to Zach Polanski at the leadership announcement: "Q: How can you take on Nigel Farage when your policy on immigration is so different?" Everything wrong with British politics and media summed up so succinctly in a single absolutely unhinged question.
That Wallace. A name we hear it more and more. Don’t we love Wallace folks? Where’s Wallace at? Were looking into that very strongly
Me playing civ against the ai after building my first aerodrome
Nothingburger is one of the quintessential American words. To provide context for the concept of nothing, consider the burger
radioactive tunnel, shot on kodak colorplus 400 at the MFAH
BRO. THAT’S THE BOOK. THAT’S LITERALLY THE BOOK. WHAT THE FUCK.
Well there may have been hints…
Yeah. Tough shoot for her, but part of that was Rod Serling’s dialogue, per her recollections.
Seated in Cineworld to see a movie by a noted Columbo and Night Gallery director.
I always enjoy that the instructions for ancient monasteries are like 3% wisdom, 97% "do not let Stinky Pete into the meditation hall. Do not breakdance in the meditation hall. Under no circumstances should you use the meditation hall for 'a kegger.'"
Nadesico's now older than Mazinger Z, Getter Robo, and Space Battleship Yamato were when Nadesico aired.
Real Tempo with Bill Mahler
Moving Stargate Command from the Cheyenne Mountains because of woke
W.O. Wilson's "Madge the Magician's Daughter" first appeared on September 2, 1906. It was clearly influenced by the fantastic, panoramic approaches of Winsor McCay and Lyonel Feininger's comic strips, though Wilson introduced a female protagonist (1/2).
The Aussie press not holding back when it comes to its coverage of neo-Nazis.
St. Irenaeus would have to be up there. Man was a professional hater.
there he is
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The difference between the text of the post and the headline of the article below it is staggering
i will never forgive them for making the computer bad at math
i met anubis in the realm of the underworld, big strong guy by the way, had a dog’s head, i’m not so sure about that. and he said to me, mr president, you’ve got the heaviest soul we’ve ever weighed down here. can you believe it? they’ve never seen a soul that heavy in all of duat
Fun thing about HARD BOILED is that if time passes between viewings you remember it as this cop action movie with big action scenes and then you rewatch it and you remember it's loads crazier than that and John Woo might be a goddamn lunatic.
Modern Decay (2003)
Armored Trooper Votoms (1983, 装甲騎兵ボトムズ)
this is gonna end up being one of the weirdest weeks of my life isn't it
Science (Fiction) cover art by Philippe “Manchu” Bouchet #scifiart
It’s Pat Labor’s Day
Great show. One of the best SF shows of this decade really.
Have a nice flight!
hans zimmer like
weinrich building, oshkosh, wisconsin, 1988
really dig this cover piece by Naoyuki Kato. killer work.
This is also routine rhetoric in Silicon Valley — even by immigrant founders! — about America and nobody says shit. Journalists refuse to even *mention* it, let alone ask questions or hold anyone accountable.
Good episode. While his character plays an adversarial role in the episode Armin Shimerman really liked it because in real life he was active in the actor’s union, felt it was good to see TV showing the value of unionisation.
How to not solve a housing crisis. “just 44 applications were made via the Compulsory Housing Acquisition Act in the whole of 2024. The latest Geodirectory Residential Buildings report – released this week – found that there were 19,821 houses recorded as derelict in June 2025…”.
They were never going to stop at foreigners
This is a really good read; I have been thinking a lot about reactionary backlash in genre and the relationship to early 20th century modernism in art, but I hadn't considered the influence of SFX as a turning point.
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Yeah, especially true formally of Worf, whose role was 'backup officer.' When you have your senior staff gong on away missions every week a spare seat warmer character probably made a lot of sense in the series bible. And with Geordi I did like he'd have a command arc in "The Arsenal of Freedom"
There's a bit in @maryrobinettekowal.com's Lady Astronaut books about "do something twice in space, and it's a tradition, three times it's a long-standing tradition", and similarly, "show up twice on Trek, you're an important character, three times you're a beloved important character."
Oh hell yeah
Griffin’s definition of fascism as palingenetic ultranationalism—specifically a reactionary nostalgia for a lost history of the nation that never existed—remains undefeated. A nostalgia for a type of bread that is ubiquitous, created in the 20th century, and rage towards bread as old as civilisation
"The House Didn't Forget" #photography #bloomscrolling #philly
Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
Japanese poster for DEATH AT AN OLD MANSION (1975), starring Takahiro Tamura - BOTD in 1928
There wasn't even a scene in the engineering room in the pilot script because there were no characters who would hang there, but they realised they needed the set so they shot part of Picard's captain's log there so they could build it on the pilot's budget. Had a big set which nobody was based at.
Season one of TNG has a lot of reinventing the wheel. Very few of the main cast have the exact same job as someone from the original show - McCoy's role is sort of split between Crusher and Troi, Spock's between Riker and Data (*and* Riker takes a bit of Kirk as the away team lead) and so on.
One of them - Argyle got two appearances, and, according to Wil Wheaton, he lobbied to get more by trying to start a fan write in campaign. This backfired by annoying the products so appear again he did not. He was also introduced once as 'one of our chief enginers' and boy was that true.
Pseudoscience is a time honoured fascist tradition. There were Nazis who didn't like the impact Jews had on physics so they had their own version. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsch...
Everything in cities is scary except when large quantities of white men go around smashing everything to make some kind of belligerent point and then that's just fine. This is the world they want.
Over on the other site the far right are hyping up a violent incident in Dublin City Centre as an example of how scary the city is now and yet frankly the only time I have ever felt that unsafe in the city centre was when they had a riot two years ago. So it goes.
"City pre-funeral house" in Toruń, Poland. I have no idea what pre-funeral means r/brutalism
Definitely some kind of official capacity but hasn’t cracked that as it is an Air Force base as you are key to. SG-3 is a good point though. Maybe someone from the marines made a faux pas on an alien world and needs legal representation and as it is classified that we have Stargates, well
this is a watto if it was Paulie from the sopranos
replacing Batman fight onomatopoeiae with old midwestern brewery names
Blish did so much good, Trek book wise.
Half asleep pondering the real questions like ‘what if Mac from JAG visited Stargate Command’
Yeah. And he was soundtracked a couple of times over the show’s run, too.
Miami Vice is filled to the gills with this sort of thing - James Brown as an alien visitation, Frank Zappa as a dealer, Phil Collins as a shady British con man named Phil. Sonny Crockett spends an arc married to Sheena Easton.
Leonard Cohen on Miami Vice as a shady French Interpol boss is up there. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOiU...
actually I hope this is where the news breaks
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theyre calling it the last great adventure folks, can you believe that? well we’re gonna do it better than anyone has ever dreamed before. theyre saying theyve never seen anyone heading toward the light quite as quickly, the biggest beautiful light theyve ever seen
originally tweeted this when the thing happened. reposting it here because i remembered the phrase and it made me laugh
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”