Ok, finally got keyboard and time. A Lifetime ago, I was a NOC engineer for a MSP. basically we dealt with phone, internet, whole shbang. when I saw the ticket "Elevator is cursing and wants a divorce" I grabbed it like an owl snatching a mouse.

“we spent four billion dollars and did not bother to write so much as an outline for our series-relaunching trilogy” remains the single most baffling Hollywood decision I have ever seen

Also, Predator is one of the few slasher movies in which the victims are highly competent. They stick together, set traps, and keep watch! But the Predator picks them off, one by one, anyway.

Since we’re doing Star Wars discourse, here’s my take: the sequels suck because they don’t actually try to tell a story. The original series, both individually, and as an arc, tell a basic heroes journey story. It’s not anything particularly new, but it’s certainly a serviceable storyline to tell.

Han, rebutting Chewie's latest unfounded assertion: "I don't see a connection to the Clone Wars, Chewie"

BILLIONAIRE: Of course it is essential for me to blot out the sun. I plan to pay for this project by stealing food from orphan children. JOURNALIST: Ah yes, a wise plan, all of us will benefit from reduced expenditure on sunscreen.

Yes. Absolutely this. "Unworkable" is what you might call an adjustment to income tax or a new railway project. Kicking out people who were welcomed into a country and told they could stay for the rest of their lives is evil.

Happy Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov Saves the World Day, everybody. 42 years ago today, Lt. Col. Petrov prevented an accidental nuclear war. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...

Yes. And not just the category of people Starmer is technically talking about. I immigrated to the UK long before the current panic, but I still take this as an insult. Following up an anti-immigrant rant with "oh, but you're one of the *good* ones" only ever makes the speaker look worse.

Happy Stanislav Petrov Day! On this day one man prevented the apocalypse.

'Borrowing from the Tiger's Majesty' (2022) Yuzu Kato

Data harvesting company has lax security.

Today's date, 9/25/2025, is probably the last date of our lifetime where the month, day, and year are all square numbers 😱 The next time this will happen is on 1/1/2116.

Among many things wrong with this: "Defensive driving" is learning to anticipate bad behaviour from other drivers. Using your signals is just... driving. It is not optional. Making a tiny hand movement and flicking a signal lever before changing lanes is not a big ask! 😡

Tech bros: Stan Lee is not there talking to you. You don't know what he would have said had he been there. This is not Stan Lee. This is not like talking to Stan Lee. People die. And they're gone. You cannot bring them back. You just have to accept mortality.

And with our crafts we shall breach the boundaries of heaven.

This is one of those situations where the rule is simply, don't be a dick. Homer Simpson yelling out the ending of Empire Strikes Back, next to a line of people waiting to see the movie: Bad The Simpsons episode in which Homer does that, aired 10 years after the movie release: Good

OTD September 23, 1977 David Bowie released the single Heroes, from his 12th studio album of the same name. It is considered one of the greatest songs of all time and remains one of his most covered songs. 🙏 #BowieForever

It's giving off "Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure" vibes, with added CG. It gave me no reason at all to care about the movie. Also, "The Mandalorian and Grogu" is a crap title. 9 syllables and it says nothing about what *happens*.

It's a trailer designed for people to make Youtube reaction videos about. Rather than actually communicate anything about the story. Filmmaking by algorithm.

Game description: “…set in the achingly strange and nostalgic period of the 90s.” Me:

The prospective Yankees vs Red Sox wild card series would be a lot of fun 🍿

The #Postseason picture looks a bit different today 👀 We're down to ONE week left in the regular season!

This. Demanding "the cure for cancer" is like demanding "the cure for old age". It's a basic misunderstanding of what cancer is -- not one disease, but many. Some have been effectively cured, others not. Forgivable in a lay person, but Schulman is a science journalist and should know better.

So today I learned that there were tie-in novels for THE DOLLARS TRILOGY that went beyond the movies and boy do they have some amazing titles.

Google is broken. These are... not the lyrics of Born To Run. It seems to be from his one-man show, Springsteen on Broadway.

I was in the UK in 1997 for Princess Diana's death. Which also brought a wild overreaction. But it was much bigger; driven by ordinary people, not political influencers; and its subject was extremely famous and well-liked in life. What we're seeing now is kind of unprecedented.

John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Miles Davis & Bill Evans recording Kind of Blue 📷 Don Hunstein, 1958 youtube.com/watch?v=kgRc...

Toronto as seen from Lake Ontario at 6:22pm on sept 19 2025. The water is most perfect. The sandbar is endless. Something something sublime. It’s still summer.

I really think The Expanse will go down as the definitive science fiction of the early 21st century.

"No vaccine was tested more extensively than the RNA vaccines, and no vaccine was given to more people than the mRNA vaccines, & they were found to be incredibly safe...and effective. They saved 20 million lives, & they stopped a pandemic that was shutting down the world." -Drew Weissman

Research and knowledge are good in their own right. If that's not enough, I started my career in the UK life sciences sector which makes a fuckton of money and saves lives using, you guessed it, knowledge. Even on his own terms, Kyle is a fool. And these are the people running the UK government?

OK Canada, that was a heck of a performance.

Randomly got Losing My Religion stuck in my head and couldn't exorcize it until I listened to the whole thing. What a song. AmaIng video too, directed by Tarsem Singh, director of THE CELL (2000) & the even better THE FALL (2006) youtu.be/xwtdhWltSIg?...

“Get Smart” premieres 60 years ago tonight, on NBC. “I was sick of looking at all those nice, sensible situation comedies,” Mel Brooks said. “They were such distortions of life. .. No one had ever done a show about an idiot before. I decided to be the first.”

I genuinely look forward to the day I get to stop sharing this video. youtu.be/VAbATWsvjTE?...

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Variation: You can only drink alcohol from one of these regions. My choice is A. French wine and brandy, Belgian/British/German beer, Scotch whisky. Sorted. G is for tequila fans, C for those rare drinkers who insist on fermented mare's milk.

The absolute garbage from Colossal continues, this time it's Dodos. I won't link to the article, because Ben Lamm their CEO is quite open about their intentions. Instead read my sweary takedown of the dire Wolf claims from earlier in the year. arutherford.substack.com/p/dire-wolve...

It's about time.

Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"

that food world map is the exact sort of dumb argument social media was invented for

Event Horizon is a perfectly good slice of sci-fi horror. Although I didn't like it on first viewing in the cinema, when I went in expecting a spaceship movie without the supernatural horror elements.

Light Blue. 10 years ago I would've said Yellow. Which is still a strong choice. But after living in Toronto I want good East Asian food. Japan, Korea, Indonesia and (I think) Sichuan? Sign me up. Unless I can just eat all the cuisines now available in Toronto, in which case I'll do that.

OK, a dubious call went against my Blue Jays, and the Rays get a 3-run homer. Them's the breaks. But there was no excuse for the fans taunting Lukas, as he lay on the ground after a heroic attempt to make the catch. Not cool.

Settling down to watch Sneakers tonight to mark Robert Redford’s death. And after this will maybe look out a copy of hacker crackdown again. It’s a very gentle film. A warm introduction to an aging hacker/yippie culture in the late 80s. As @comicsinthega.bsky.social, the cast is epic.

If you like those 99p deals on #Kindle to stock up on books you might want to read at some point, I’m sure you’ll be delighted to know that “Why Don’t Things Fall Up?” is currently being given away at this price

We're deeply saddened by the passing of Robert Redford, the iconic actor who played Roy Hobbs in the legendary baseball film "The Natural." Redford, who was a Red Sox fan, will forever be remembered for giving us one of the greatest baseball characters in movie history. He was 89 years old.

RIP Robert Redford. He had more famous and successful roles, but I'll always remember him as the lead in Sneakers, where I first encountered him as a kid. 😢