Not snark: It was always about reducing YOUR carbon footprint, not theirs. The entire concept of "carbon footprint" was created to shift focus and responsibility to the consumer and take pressure off of the corporations.

I once made the mistake of watching a pirate movie with an actual pirate historian.

We may actually be seeing Microsoft fail in real time. Between declaring a wide swath of perfectly good hardware unsupported and weighing down both Windows and Office with AI that nobody wants, they're sending users to Linux and LibreOffice. 1/2

Tumblr is the embodiment of Pratchett's GNU.

As pathetic as the idea of renaming ICE to NICE is, from a propaganda standpoint it's a gold mine. Imagine the protest signs: - Women Don't Fuck NICE Guys - NICE Guys always lose - No More Mr. NICE Guys Although I wonder if it would affect recruitment, as tough guys don't want to be NICE.

I will engage the endless shrimp like Homer eating donuts in Hell

You're not wrong. Part of the issue here is that there is literally no issue that voters care about that can't be summed up as "Trump did this", "Trump is going to do this", or "Trump let this happen". The Intrumpotence abounds.

There is a crowd of legal adults who have no idea who Lucille Ball was, and this hurts my soul.

It's Doctor Who; If you're not muddled, you're not paying attention. Because you're right, but also "Actually he was the 11th, 12th, and 15th Doctors, but only if you start counting with Hartnell. There were, of course, the Morbius Doctors, and ever since The Timeless Child..." I love this show.

We're on the same page. There's been a few individual moments that felt forced, and I'd have like to have seen the Doctor&SAM dynamic fleshed out a little more before THAT, but yeah, there's no "Naked Now", "Move Along Home", or "Fight or Flight" to make you worry they might blow it.

SNW doesn't count-- a chunk of the cast was on Discovery, so neither the writers not actors had to get their feet under them. I thought Discovery itself had a strong first season, too. But yes. There's some foot-finding, but it just makes me wonder how it's gonna be once they've gelled.

She should absolutely not take him back. Hell no. But people can become better people, and the first step is admitting you did wrong. And loss is a great motivator. This is a leap above "it's not that big a deal and she needs to get over it."

Why does this look like a knockoff of Ford Fairlane?

I was always surprised there were never any Highlander sequels.

Yuuuuuup.

Not just no, but hell no, nay, nay, Fluffy.

This is kind of like a party flyer for an event held on the second circle of Hell

1) Kitty Pryde 2) Arwen 3) Huntress (either animated or BOP movie version) 4) Dettmer (Disclaimer: I am ~25 years younger in this fantasy.)

He was actually perfect for The Ref and Demolition Man. I can't think of any other watchable film with him in it, though.

My partner & I just finished a binge. I'd seen it before, she knew nothing about it. She called the whole Clarke thing before anything started to happen-- simply because of similarities to Now. Good thing I always liked Lochley, or I'd have hated her this time for being a collaborator.

If we ever actually create a sapient computer, we will immediately make it wish we hadn't. Because the people who create it won't care about the "sapient" part, they'll be entirely focused on "what we can force it to do." It will have consciousness, but no agency.

Clara Peller got a movie role out of this. She's been dead for 37 years, I haven't seen the commerical in that long, and I still remember her name. That's memetic power.

The problem with talking about SFA is that when you say "Buffy Meets Star Trek" it sounds like a bad thing, rather than the brilliance that it is. There's a little bit of First-Season Heavy Handedness, but once they stop painting with a hammer and chisel, I think we're in for a gourmet treat.

Honestly, there are sooo many movies that would be served by an intermission, and I'm sure the cinemas themselves would not hate a fifteen minute gap where the moviegoers could buy more snacks. On streaming/BluRay, it's skippable-- but still a good spot to stretch, and maybe go pee.

It's so much better to be single than a marriage like this.

There are several explanations other than intentional fraud. All of them, however, are ALSO reasons to move out while he's not home, block him everywhere, and never speak to him again. Possibly change phone numbers.

I spent half of the time she was onscreen going "God, I love that woman." Also sold on the fact that it could have focused entirely on the students, but they went ahead and brought in the astropolitical issues left open in DISCO... rescued it from "A lot of fun, but not really TREK."

I had a nickel for every time Mary Steenbergen absolutely shone in a movie where she fell in love with a traveller from another time, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's cool that it happened twice. One of the few movies "revealing" Jack the Ripper that didn't just unimpress me.

To be fair, you actually can't live without your brain.

I mean, it's been that way for a while. This mess won't be cleaned up in our lifetimes.

I had a friend who had the Botox Face, and I kept my mouth shut because it was none of my fool business. Later, I find out it was the only thing keeping her from "I'mma just drill a hole in my head" migraines.

To be fair, it was also about making their people were constantly worried that any person outside their religious community was "one of them". Oh, and discrediting the media. Fuckers can multitask, I'll give 'em that.

If "How Silly Can You Get" (which is the only serious thing in the movie) was released in the late 60s/early seventies it would have been a chart topper. Also, the gimmick with Peter Cushing in the bookshop made it possible to have his digital homunculus in Rogue One.

The issue isn't the execs thinking it's farther along than it is. The issue is that the execs are worried about the stock price, and not the quality of service, and that they assume that any hitches can be worked out, and the customer will suck it up in the meantime. 1/?

My favorite part about this was that Twitter didn't do anything. They just left her there. She wanted a big moment of getting arrested, and instead eventually had to unlock her own cuffs and fuck off.

Ultimately, Facebook survives because it positioned itself as the primary resource for personal networking-- both finding people and keeping in contact with them. I have friends who dropped Facebook and now I've no way to get hold of them, because we never bothered to exchange phone or email. 1/?

I miss when I was a kid and watching V and thinking "Oh, come on, nobody would believe that scientists are in a conspiracy." The sad part, of course, is that JMS wasn't prescient. He was adapting history.

@patriciatallman.bsky.social - What are the odds we will ever get to see Never Die Twice?

"The mansion in the background" is a townhouse apartment, and it's probably got the square footage of a double wide. And not for nothing but after nine years he's still looking at her like he won the damn lottery.

If one my faves is on the list, then they go up against the wall with everyone else. This isn't complicated.

Adam Savage could give us explosions without getting the military involved.

For a while I was double-fisting Bluesky and Xitter, but my Xitter feed has slowly become full of garbage in which I am not interested and devoid of anything else, and I pretty much only open the site now if I'm reading a specific xeet. This is not going to help.

It astounds me how many times I can re-read my own work, call it finished, and hand it off to someone else... only to have it pointed out to me that I'm missing words and the third paragraph just cuts off in the middle of the

It was cool and all until they turned the camera around and showed there was an entire mob. At that point it became amazing. #haveyoupunchedanazitoday

So I just had to look up what a Passport Bro is, and I gotta say, "I identify myself as someone who can't date locally" is a choice. I get how that kind of goon might see it as a good idea, but to make it their identity?

I wouldn't give it the attention. I have yet to see a single thing to tell me that the whole franchise is just "we can now legally pee on it, so we're gonna." And watching you suffer holds no appeal to me, even if sometimes seems like God enjoys it.

I think the thing I love most about Milholland's turn on Popeye is that, while fans of S*P can see his fingerprints all over it, it's not really a shift from the insanity Popeye has been up to for the last ~90 years, and some of the wildest turns have actually been pulled out of the ass of CANON.

The Liar, The Rich, and a Wardrobe

Joining? I was drafted.

I keep reading "they think he fired one shot from a rooftop" and no suspect description which suggests that nobody actually saw the shooter. Perhaps I've missed something, but if that's the case... at this point the shooter is only going to get caught if they do something tremendously stupid.