I had read around that Zoran Mamdani's mom was "an Indian film director". I didn't realise it was Golden Lion winner, Monsoon Wedding's Mira Nair.

Always heed signage

Dick Cheney’s legacy is that he turned 9/11 from a national tragedy into a global disaster. He did so through a mixture of arrogance, stupidity and greed and blighted the last quarter century.

I remember how my Spanish-speaking work colleagues in Tampa, in the year of our Lord 2014, knew who Righeira were, but not Jean Reno.

Oh, how I love reading deeply reasoned analysis of the electoral system for the Venetian Doge, which conveniently omit that IT FAILED AT ITS STATED PURPOSE. Not with time, not with degradation of customs, but on day one.

New awareness campaign

Dear North American friends: "best of seven" is not a serious way to decide a sports competition. Do better.

"It is more enjoyable if you know nothing about the genre" is unfortunately true of many popular pieces of media.

I am planning a trip to Chile with my British partner, and she is always shocked at how in the Americas everything is far away from every other thing.

in the history of the 21st century, the Biden presidency will be remembered as a footnote during the long Trump era. Stephen Miller, architect of this hell, will have shaped America more, in no small part because Biden, like Obama before him, left in place the infrastructure facilitating deportation

Everyone someone says that EII modernised the monarchy i think of the other euro monarchies and hulk out. You know what wouls modernise the British monarchy? Sending a royal to jail. It wouls be very popular too.

Cats are liquid Especially on Halloween 🎃🐈‍⬛🎃

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Today thanks to @time42ndbreakfast.bsky.social I learned of the existence of the, 39th New York Infantry Regiment, the Garibaldi Guard. Imagine being at Gettysburg, and seeing a full column of Bersaglieri emerge from a cloud of smoke and do a bayonet charge!

I was trying to have only "friendly" races in the #rimworld hobbit village, but we adopted an alcoholic Oni, who risks death every time the cooks discover who to ferment or distill some new drink.

I'm watching Orguss, one of the series they thought could be one of the sequels in the Super Dimension Fortress franchise, and although it's an average anime all things considered, it has some of the most interesting ideas I've ever seen, as well as some amazing mecha design.

The #RimWorld hobbit village is very poorly optimized, since you have to go to different parts of the town to do different things, but it looks really nice. Also, there are so many ideologions that now there is a temple square, for the temples, banquet hall, and a non-denominational meditation room

For the first nuclear powered Italian Navy ship, a classic name like Vittorio Veneto or Giuseppe Garibaldi, or a more daring Enrico Fermi?

You can 100% support no kings without posting Ronald “if there’s a hell I’m burning in it” Reagan

If you are the kind of lib who's like "I miss when right wingers were cultured and genteel opponents" then okay, you're describing Hans Landa You're down with nazis, you just want them to be interesting and polite monsters

I wasn't able to articulate this 20 years ago, but this has always been a problem: most other labors are immune to revolver cannon shots, because heavy vehicles are immune to pistol fire. But we are speaking of sub-10 ton vehicles taking 37mm cannon fire from less than 10 meters.

I strongly suspect the last time I heard the word "yaponski" was in a black and white movie #patlabor

Like, this stuff aired the same year The Package was in theaters. Also, in Italian, that movie's title was "Uccidete la Colomba Bianca" (Kill the White Dove!) #Patlabor

On one side it makes me thing that Masami Yuki wanted #Patlabor to be a timeless masterpiece, and Mamoru Oshi was playing to cotemporary sensibilities trying to make something more "japanese", but the Yuki did Birdy The Mighty, so I do not know what to think.

#Patlabor the manga just hints that the Cold War is still ongoing, with a reference to DFR military labors, while Patlabor the anime has a full episode dedicated to Soviet espionage on the West Coast of Japana, because Vladivostok is so close, which is a distinctly 50s-60s obsession

If I cannot comment on your Bluesky threads, i will mute you, as having your posts pop up in my feed is fundamentally useless.

After having built two pirate ships and finally completed the castle moat, I closed my pirates vs vampires #RimWorld run and started a new medieval fantasy run. After installing another ungodly amount of mods, the concept is: fantasy village centered around a hobbit tavern. On y va...

Kaiju No. 8 is the first series I've ever seen that admits that Tokyo is as big as Belgium, and if two things happen in different parts of the city, it takes quite a while to get from one side of town to another.

It was delicious

I had forgotten how difficult was a Trinity knot. Yes: that is a stitch: it is a vintage handmade Italian necktie.

While I am quite glad that this happened and brought these numbers, I am afraid the issue is so partisan on right/left lines, that the government will ignore it, being confident that it will pay no electoral price in doing so.

Always a friendly reminder that among the numerous countries to defeat Russia on the battlefield, there was the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont too. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_...

I hope all the "Hamas must just surrender" feel very stupid now.

I hope when time comes, Ukraine will be willing to extend security guarantees to the EU.

the real glory of world war two was that it involved a warrior cult being ground down and beaten to a pulp by people who would rather have been doing something else.

Little space dude is living his best space life

When you don't smooth all the stone around your fortress in #rimworld

Who’s with me for a campaign to stop politicians wearing hi viz jackets and hard hats when talking about the economy and instead being filmed playing Total War: Warhammer

The whole point of restraint on the part of law enforcement is to keep from escalating the response of people who interact with them. Lots of them don't appear to understand that if they look like lawless thugs and act like lawless thugs, people are going to react to them like they're lawless thugs.

It has happened more than a few times, playing both videogames and boardgames, to think "if this low probability sequence of events happened, the game would stall and be impossible to finish", and then it happened. It is usually, but not always, playing with vg mods or bg expansions

Something that I've always wanted. At first I left it on the shelf because I thought it was expensive, then i compared it with a dinner out, and went back for it #philippedruillet #lonesloane #frenchcomics #bd

I was at forbidden planet, and I heard a young nerd explain Jodorowsky as “Dune-like” to his lower class nerd friends and I had a gasp