If I were making a Odyssey movie I'd make sure the characters spoke in the correct accent for the late Bronze Age Aegean: Dracula accent, or "Draccent"

I’m sorry to be a hater in a random person’s mentions but they captured my nemesis car

The Wellness industry has the same greed as the biomedical industry but nothing it sells you actually works

The man who gave us TNT Monstervision and Cartoon Network. Thank you sir, for programming my brain at a formative age🫡

JFK gets dogwalked by Goldwater '64 over Vietnam going pear shaped after Diem is whacked, Goldwater authorizes nukes in SEA, USSR response escalates to general nuclear war. In an underground multi-generation bunker physics lab in 2108, a man prepares to be sent back in time to Dallas, 11/24/63...

A reminder that the living coelacanth gets up to the size of a middle schooler

i think many of the effects of LLMs on cognition are continuous with and compound the effects of always-available web search. effects which were widely researched and mostly ignored at the time.

Hate to say it but it’s Sober Bands.

1960s - weed and acid bands 1970s - heroin bands 1980s - cocaine bands 1990s - heroin bands 2000s - cocaine bands 2010s - percs and weed bands 2020s - ?

My Star Wars take: it succeeds in hitting a mythic register purely through industrial light and magic, and most attempts to add substance to its iconography have revealed its shortcomings as either America’s answer to Arthuriana or an allegory for American decline.

If you are a teacher reading this, please know that this mom of school-aged kids loves you. Thank you for loving my kids.

Sure it's more mind-cure vitalist drivel, but it DID give me the opportunity to grunt "Let the bodies keep the score, let the bodies keep the score, let the bodies keep the scoooooore" at my wife, so it's impossible to say whether it's bad or not.

Ella McCay has arrived at the Met Gala

"It brings sf film up to about the Lensman stage" is such a perfect sf nerd assessment. Bless you, Delaney.

I hear it’s a day to celebrate science fantasy with hokey old religions and blasters and swords and giant space monsters and maudlin androids

Why not celebrate Alex Guinness's Embarrassing Dialogue Day and the impending release of the first SW movie in eight years by listening to our review of one man's vision to recreate Heir to the Empire entirely in PlayStation 3 cut scenes? TRUE Star Wars cinema shows.acast.com/thrawnderdom...

Roger Zelanzy's novel Damnation Alley was coincidentally the subject of TWO adaptations in 1977. A couple of months before this movie was released, Hawkwind dropped their album Quark, Strangeness, and Charm which included a ten minute opus based on the book. youtu.be/-aHR0JAro8w?...

Star Wars (1977) is the only work in the franchise touched by The Spirit of Art.

Doing some night grilling listening to a great horned owl who nests in the trees between our house and the road hooting.

"the singularity is real and it happened two hundred years ago" is really a key thing to understanding how i think about the world

The Cook, the Thief, the Mandalorian, and Grogu.

Local columnist discovers conservatism, we will bring you more as this story develops

Don Draper: "Ok so the PC guy is this huge nerd. A little overweight too. A square who wears a suit." Steve Jobs: "And the Mac guy?" Draper: "Also a nerd."

The Hand of Providence

Love to see an appreciation of the finest regional delicacy of my ancestral stretch of the Ohio valley. www.foodandwine.com/kentucky-hot...

Happy Thirty Fifth Anniversary to THE singular achievement of 20th century American literature, Heir to the Empire! Celebrate with Thrawnderdome by experiencing the journey all over again with this first episode of our exhaustive recap of the trilogy. shows.acast.com/thrawnderdom...

He died of a broken heart.

Playing Baldur’s Gate 3 No Pressure edition after completing honor mode and also listening Daydream Nation, which may or may not be unlocking something inside me

The Barbarian Conversion by Richard Fletcher The Proud Tower by Barbara Tuchman The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon The Stammering Century by Gilbert Seldes The Discovery of France by Graham Hobb

did each beaver get his own parachute please. how brave were they. i bet really brave

“1 ticket for the mandalorian and grogu please”. - a pervert

“The Mandalorian and Grogu” is the single worst title for a movie I’ve ever heard, beating “Ballistic: Ecks versus Sever” for the crown. Ungainly on the tongue & nakedly marketing-brained. it gets worse the more you think about it and worse still if you have to say it out loud.

Hoe the turnip patch at a Scottish mission frontier monastery in the Franconian forest.

All nesting site evidence for sauropods indicates that they would communally lay huge nests of eggs then leave, with the hatchlings fending for themselves much like sea turtles. Littlefoot would never have known his mother in the first place.

People hate to see an Albanian thriving

Welcome back, Carl Weathers

[turning the chair around backwards] Hey you know, there really WAS a man who got no-scope one-shotted by the divine... [proceeds to explain Philip K. Dick's encounter with the information-rich pink beam in February of 1974]

The point of art and entertainment is to meet other human minds, to be surprised by that. Children of Men is my favorite movie. There is no world in which that movie and its impact on me would happen through an AI prompt. And thank god for that

It’s gonna be like freaking Kenobi meets The Bad Batch… on crack!! And the crack? Well heh heh let’s just say that’s… Ahsoka

God damn the knives are out for Pihakis lol www.al.com/news/2026/04...

HEYOOOOO Baldur's Gate 3 Honour Mode completed in the LEAST honorable run I've ever done (defeated Orin by giving Karlach an invisibility potion to sneak up and yeet her into the pit, agreed to Gortash's deal so that the Elder Brain just snuffed him for me, sent Gale his one way trip to destiny).

Birmingham restaurant baron Nick Pihakis’s empire seems to be imploding, this development devoted to four of his restaurant chains only opened in December www.shelbycountyreporter.com/news/valley-...

Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon (complimentary)

@mauraquint.bsky.social apropos of nothing, I was reading an old Casey Johnston article which contained this tweet of yours and I laughed my ass off

"They are faking it to annoy me, personally" is the reactionary's bedrock believe about any and all variation in humanity that causes them the slightest emotional friction.

Well that’s an exasperating thing to have happened in honor mode

This 1918 edition of von Clausewitz’s On War, prefaced by facsimiles of Imperial German Army officers’ letters from the front about how valuable a text it is, printed entirely in Fraktur