Barbara Stanwyck from a still for A Message to García (1936).

This was also not an elusive goal! FDR called for this in 1943, as the war began to turn to the Allies' favour in the European, Pacific and African theatres (and he did so in the recently liberated from Vichy city of Casablanca.) The Allies then continued to, you know, win, until won

You know, I’m not sure offhand which episode even fits that description. The introductory episode with Romulans - “The Balance of Terror” - is the one where an officer is racist to Spock to the level Kirk tells him to cool it, and has an ambivalent Romulan commander who doesn’t want a war.

try and imagine a bigger W as an academic

I’m reading War and Peace, and you know, probably a lot more people would read it if they knew just how extremely cunty the dialogue is

One-off love interests in Star Trek are notoriously terrible (Dax and Deral? Troi and Devinoni Ral? Chakotay and Kellin?) so it's amazing that not only does Quark have three that worked but that he pulled the best baddies out of the entire cast

thank god i found it again

Wow this is finally relevant to the discourse. I guess my note is my introduction to Wagner was through a recording of the Ring Cycle conducted by Daniel Barenboim, who is Jewish and frequently fielded questions as to the ethics of playing Wagner’s music today.

when they threaten me with ai

DELPHI Lets Your Imagination Run Free

This is the most adhd swapping between scene shows every lol

Overworld Shore (Astonishia Story, MS DOS-GP32-PC-PSP, Sonnori-Compile Heart [PSP], 1994-2006)

Thread: Luciano Pavarotti summer mood board

A couple of interesting videos about the slit scan effect, famously used by Douglas Trumbull to create the stargate sequence in 2001: A Space Odyssey and also cleverly adapted by John Knoll to create the TNG warp jump effect. [1/2] www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vgu...

📜 An Ottoman Manuscript, 1778 "Diagrams showing 24 different plays in the game of chess."

Every now and then I'll drift off and spend a while thinking about Hedonism Bot from Futurama. Who decided to build an Ancient Greek robot that was part couch and commissions operas? What did they stand to gain? Obviously it was the correct decision either way

My government told me that there was a housing crisis. So, I asked how many homeless people there are, they told me they don’t know, they keep going to property conferences to get more landlords, so I said it sounds like you’re just feeding the social contract to landlords.

Found the most bluesky board game possible.

Not only that but the Critic was spoofing exactly the kind of ‘restoration’ the article’s preamble refers to (the Ted Turner push to colourise black and white movies.)

Lucy Lawless deserves a project where she wins an Oscar because I think she can do her part of that no problem

YouTubers whose frame of reference are somewhere along an axis containing Babylon 5 and Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These are my kinda YouTubers

The Walking Dead 1x01, “Days Gone Bye”

I took previous shot of "Tears" myself, from an alpha that's been archived online. But just now stumbled onto a bunch of promo screenshots from 1995:

You know, my vote actually counts in Michigan. I was born there. It was my last place of residence in the United States (granted: not recently.) I’m a real salt of the earth common sense Midwestern type. Had a Detroit Pistons shirt and everything. Anyway I use my great authority to say nah to this

Didn’t realise it until they did a UK version but boy SNL really airs late huh. Midnighter audience.

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay

"Be a good friend to your workmate", Soviet poster, 1983

It’s so known that in the 90s Decca had a recording series called Entartete Musik (degenerate music in German) about the works they despised. Everything from Johnny spielt auf, an opera about a black jazz performer, to the music of Erwin Schulhoff and Viktor Ullmann, who both died in the Holocaust.

Xon and comedian Ronald B. Moore are my two favourite references in the show, the latter for its deep cut specificity and the former because that also they found a way to make the fourth wall winking gag work in the moment. Sterling bit

I finally got around to making the poster I'd been planning on making for years, but kept putting off because I knew it'd be a lot of work. Feels good

shout-out to Khosrow II. Anushirwan for becoming the biggest Poster in history by conquering the entire byzantine city of Antioch and then rebuilding an exact copy of it in Persia and calling it "Weh Antiok Khosrau", a.k.a. Khosrow's Better Antioch

I raise you a Peggy Olson Plan B ad

I submit that Jamie Foxx has the weirdest career in Hollywood history: •In Living Color •Failed music career •Eponymous sitcom that ran for five years on the WB •Third Black man to win Best Oscar •SECOND MUSIC CAREER! •Believable action star •Host of a game show based on an app (1/2)

What if instead of being Project Hail Mary and having all these feelings in it what if it was Project Hail Gary Cooper, you know, the strong silent type, what ever happened to him?

Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford married on March 28, 1920, described as the "marriage of the century.” They divorced in January 1936.

Can this be a solution?

No, this is Sarah Connor in Judgement Day

Watching "Jin-Roh" again in 4K with more accurate colors ♡

shame The Seventh Seal became shorthand for selfserious europeans & their dour pretentious art films. cause it's actually such a funny little movie. perfect entry point into european art films. you go, Ooh so they're in on the bit. it's demystifying. hey these guys DO know about fun and they LIKE it

No one in the history of sentient life has ever been more happy than Weyoun when Dukat & Sisko are furious with each other in Quark’s bar. Weyoun obv is not at all nice!! But I just love how much he loves drama. In a show full of people who can pull off v entertaining smirks, he’s really up there.

"Fear of a Melmac Planet." There's an ugly set of anti-immigrant subtexts baked into the premise of most sitcoms about aliens stuck on earth. Link: hugoclub.blogspot.com/2026/03/fear...

This would fix me

Happy Birthday Sarah Vaughan www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNcS...

Did y’all know that Leonard Nimoy was married to Michael Bay’s cousin?

I don’t have time for a diarrhea mega-learn so this is perfect

God this looks cool