It’s interesting to me that Disney’s Luke costume leans so much more monochromatically into black than his Return of the Jedi costume or some of his Legends looks. People remember his RotJ outfit as being all black so it may just be that, but I’d love to know the thought process behind the choice

It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way

SpaceCraft by @shirogames.com enters Early Access on Steam on May 20! "An online space exploration and building game. Explore a vast galaxy of solar systems and planets, mine and craft resources, design and build ships, automate planetary bases and interplanetary logistics, trade and cooperate."

Emily created a gif of the ICONIC kill we witnessed in ASSAULT ON DOME 4 on today's SCI-FI FRIDAY

Breathe. Just breathe. Reach out with your feelings. What do you see? The island. Life. Death and decay... that feeds the new life. Warm. Cold. Peace. Violence. And between it all? Balance. And energy... a force. And inside you? Inside me... that same Force. And this is the lesson. -Luke VIII

Today on #SciFiFriday, Emily continues the journey through #Henson sci-fi with BRATS OF THE LOST NEBULA! Plus, ASSAULT ON DOME 4! 3p PT / 6p PT live.radiofreemultiverse.com #retrotv #scifi #scifitv

100+ journalists, including Cory Doctorow, Rachel Maddow and many more, are backing the Internet Archive’s #WaybackMachine as essential to preserving the public record 🗂️ Read more at Fight for the Future 👇 www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-04... 🧵⬇️ @fightforthefuture.org

I suspect the Pope sounds "woke" to many Christian conservatives because the US is steeped in prosperity theology, where the point of worship is to deliver health and wealth to believers. Thus, "feed the hungry" and "show mercy for the poor" sounds needlessly political and "woke."

Fash is a loser ideology

George Lucas Calls Darth Maul To Congratulate Him On Disney+ Series https://theonion.com/george-lucas-calls-darth-maul-to-congratulate-him-on-disney-series/

I hope in the Lucas Museum there's a 3D recreation of Rockwell's Freedom of Speech where you can stand in Mister Honesty's place and offer a hot take to a curated online collection. But! If your take is too hot, a trapdoor opens beneath you into the lava pit from Temple of Doom.

David Duchovny played a transgender woman, Denise, on Twin Peaks in 1990 and when greeting Cooper, the show's protagonist, she says, "I prefer Denise, if you don't mind" and Cooper responds with "OK" and her identity is settled within a couple seconds and was a non-issue, 36 years ago.

The only thing I have to add to this accurate pitch for Farscape is that 1. The ship is alive 2. It’s got a pilot intertwined with the ship & Pilot is both very polite & incredibly sassy

NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.

To celebrate Jedi Outcast's 24th anniversary, I've updated my oral history. 🫡 You'll learn the full story behind the creation of this SW adventure, including how the same actor played both Gremlins and Luke Skywalker, and how LucasArts reacted when stormtroopers were cut down in pools of blood.

Spielberg saying this about WEAPONS is like Zach Cregger winning an Oscar. It might even be better. Imagine the guy who made JAWS being so thoroughly affected by your filmmaking that you reverse inspired him into NOT making a horror movie.

🚨 Christina Koch has officially become the farthest any woman has ever traveled from Earth

"Fascism always eats its foot soldiers and early proponents in the end. If she'd kicked back and just ironed her uniform and played her part, she’d be fine. But she worked too hard. Fascism eats its young." -Tony Gilroy scriptmag.com/tony-gilroy-... fullofsith.libsyn.com/fos/episode-...

Just want to tell a story about the day I was proudest of Kat's campaign, and why I'm so excited she's quadrupling down on it. One day when she was running, a potential constituent reached out to her. She needed baby formula with a specific protein in it ASAP, but she could no longer afford it.

Space travel remains cool as hell

Happy trans day of visibility! To everyone in my life and beyond who is trans: you make the world so much better and I mean that every single day, not just today.

It's Trans Day of Visibility, so we've made our special series about being trans on the internet completely free to read for everyone, forever. www.theverge.com/cs/features/... Here are a few stories from the collection:

Everyone of my generation whose first election was 2000 really can relate to how the world we were promised as children started going to shit pretty much the moment we came of age. And to a degree no one really imagined at the time.

Doing away with Section 230 “and really removing a fundamental piece of architecture from the Internet is a really ham-handed blunderbuss way” of trying to address online child exploitation, EFF’s @davidgreene.bsky.social told WVIK. www.wvik.org/wvik-top-st...

that’s right kids. if you ever write a bill it must be by hand. and you have to write it like it’s a wedding invitation (because you’re “inviting” citizens to follow this new law)

I love this photo of Bob Anderson unmasked in the Darth Vader costume; he looks like the ghost of a medieval knight, cursed to evermore wander the earth

This is lovely.

For Immediate Release. "STAR WARS" SET TO BEGIN PRODUCTION IN TUNISIA ON MARCH 22.

rip robert mueller you taught me it was okay to do nothing when faced with the most consequential task of my life

It is truly wild how we could be sleepwalking towards the death of free speech on the Internet. Repealing 230 won’t protect children, but it will chill if not silence speech critical of the government and dominant power structures / paradigms.

They’re trying to ram through KOSA, a full Section 230 repeal, and a slew of other anti-LGBTQ censorship and surveillance laws under the guise of “cracking down on AI” and a ton of dumb leftists are falling for it.

Pope Leo is the first Pope to have ever experienced the US healthcare system, so there's that

Took California less than a day to begin the process of holding people accountable and making efforts to right wrongs. And Chavez was a revered figure! He wasn't some random finance bro pedo from NYC. Funny how the Ivys/prestige universities and the GOP protect Epstein and his buddies at all costs

Farscape started 27 years ago today. "Thrown into a distant part of the universe, an Earth astronaut finds himself part of a fugitive alien starship crew."

lmao

see? here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared

A Canticle For Leibovitz but the monks preserve complete romsets for everything up to the PS3.

Mike Masnick joined my section 230 mini series this week to break down how this one law became so villainized and debunk the most common myths about it.

My big takeaway from the Oscars is that as someone from Richmond who lives in Oakland I **LOVE** that Coogler shouted out the City of Pride and Purpose and The Town

OAKLAND

THX 1138, the first movie directed and co-written by George Lucas, was released 55 years ago today. Lucas has always loved politics and car chases. THX 1138 is so key to understanding his work. 👌 Iconic role for the late Robert Duvall (1931-2026).

An amazing science-fiction film called Prospect, directed by Zeek Earl & Chris Caldwell and starring Pedro Pascal and Sophie Thatcher pre-Star Wars. Wish more people would see this.

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

Farscape (1999-2003): Peacekeeper command carrier, art by Kevin Hunter "The iconic shape had been established in an earlier concept run. I did a sort of update, redesigning the front and rear, bringing the ship in line with Ricky's evolving PK design style."

my new essay in @talkhouse.bsky.social about henry david thoreau, the man who went to jail for refusing to pay his taxes in protest of slavery & the mexican war and also about easing back into standup comedy after the covid shutdown

I remember learning about the Hays Code in film school and how it made it so that any amoral protagonist had to meet karmic justice by the end of the film and going “wow, that’s really silly” and then once a week I log online and see people argue that we need stuff like that now or it’s problematic

really tired of conversations about how we need to get people to spend more time offline that don't acknowledge that one of the reasons people ARE online is their access needs aren't being met in physical spaces. This is especially true for queer people and disabled people.

The kneejerk reaction to say we *should* keep kids out of corners of the internet is one I understand, but this isn’t the way. We’ve seen this in the gaming space. Parents need to monitor their kids’ online habits, not politicians, and certainly not AI. Parent your damn kids.