Good luck to the Artemis II crew

5 cartoons to get to know me Battle of the Planets / Gatchaman Futurama The Simpsons Star Blazers / Space Battleship Yamato Transformers

From less than a month ago, given reports that one of the Black Hawks trying to find the fallen F-15 pilots also got hit. Trump Dreads Failing Like Jimmy Carter Did on Iran emptywheel.net/2026/03/09/t...

Samuel Beckett, the only Nobel Laureate to play First-Class cricket, had to drive Andre the Giant to school because, even at that age, he was too big to fit in the school bus. Racquel Welch's cousin was President of Bolivia. Overthrown in the Nazi-backed Cocaine Coup by her cousin in turn.

It’s that time of year again.

Post an interesting celebrity connection. I'll start : Alice Cooper used to babysit a very young Keanu Reeves

Out of me, my two brothers, my parents, my grandparents, my five cousins, my three siblings-in-law and my four aunts / uncles....I'm the only one who has been divorced.

This is Marx Brothers stuff.

Space Battleship Yamoto aka Star Blazers was the greatest thing in history when I was at primary school. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTY1...

Born this day in 1979, Heath Ledger tragically passed away in 2008. He always understood the assignment.

Spell a film you love with the first letters of other films you love. Chariots of Fire Alien Sweet Smell of Success Adventures of Robin Hood Breaker Morant Lawrence of Arabia Arsenic and Old Lace North by Northwest Citizen Kane All About Eve

Add a food to a movie title

King David, the guy who arranged the murder of a lowly soldier purely and simply because he wanted to bang the guy's wife. Yeah, he's the one we should be guided by.

Paris, 1945. I could never be this effortlessly cool.

Jesus, noted warmonger.

Spell a film you love with the first letters of other films you love. Chariots of Fire Alien Sweet Smell of Success Adventures of Robin Hood Breaker Morant Lawrence of Arabia Arsenic and Old Lace North by Northwest Citizen Kane All About Eve

Smoking is incredibly bad for you but damn if it doesn’t look incredibly cool in black-and-white movies.

Studio head : I like your pitch, but let's ease up on those instances of on-the-nose symbolism, ok? Screenwriter :

I can smell the flop sweat from here, and I live in Australia.

A real headscratcher, that one.

I genuinely think there is a room for a presidential candidate to run on the platform of cutting the military budget in half.

Just because : 'Singing, "Hey!" We're all just earrings to the left of our parents They're all just haircuts to the left of theirs And we all wonder, "Why do Nazis grow like wildflowers?" ' www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNZH...

Well played, everyone. 1. The World According to Garp or Hook 2. The Quick and the Dead 3. In Time 4. Body of Evidence 5. It Could Happen To You.

"They pay $34.00 for burgers. Should their paved streets be free?" Oh, that's right. NO-ONE ASKS THAT.

It is instructive that when conservatives talk about 'the good old days', they usually reference *fictional* characters. It's almost like the past they remember with rose-coloured glasses never actually happened...

Number 5 is apparently still baffling everyone.

I'm beginning to think that the Adelaide Crows collectively tripped over a black cat while walking under a ladder on Friday the 13th.

And you wonder why the Hawks got rid of Jaeger O'Meara.... #AFLCrowsDockers

I got lots of problems with these people but one of the biggest complaints I have is none of them know any of the pop culture references they keep using in memes. This guy literally threw the detonator out the window so no one would die

Talking of banger tweets

Guy got confirmed as Defense Secretary doing stuff at professional meetings I wouldn't have done visiting Vegas as a 25-year-old www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

If you read this in a vacuum, you would believe that Iran had just woken up one morning and said "Hmmm, nothing good on TV. Guess we'll block the Strait of Hormuz."

Anyone else rewatching Downfall?

Me: So what are these weird itchy bumps on my finger? Dermatologist: It's a type of eczema. You need to reduce your stress. Me: So you're telling me it's incurable.

"Australia's ski industry"

Dementia suffers from Trump.

I'm reviving #ActorPairings. I give two performers, and you (without google) name a movie in which they have both appeared. 1. Robin Williams / Glenn Close 2. Sharon Stone / Russell Crowe 3. Justin Timberlake / Cillian Murphy 4. Madonna / Willem Dafoe 5. Nicolas Cage / Bridget Fonda

Donald Trump is barely literate, and this is well-known. Telling obvious lies is seen as a measure of your true devotion to the Trumpster.

every single one of these fired losers will sycophantically praise trump on the way out and as soon as he dies will claim they were fired for being the only person in the room to dare to stand up to him

[checks notes] Then said Jesus unto him, "Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword". - Matthew 26:52

Born this day in 1924, Marlon Brando sadly passed away in 2004. He always understood the assignment.

I loathed Tiger Woods *before* it was cool.

Who’s your favourite fictional assassin who could get the job done?

“No.” Kills me.

If AI wrote the show: Murder, She Stole.

I’m amplifying this. It should be taught in schools as ‘How to deal respectfully with someone in replies, while still refusing to back down.’

If I was the desk sergeant in a cop show, when the hero tosses a criminal at the desk and growl "Book him!" I'd just politely nod and hand them a copy of, say, A Wizard of Earthsea.