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Dad (he/him). Shabbos goy. Antifascist Gen-X in NWMT. I dance like the king of the eyesores
Sometimes I talk disparagingly about nerds obsessing over minutiae, but this thread has the exact kind of nerdily obsessive knowledge of the particulars of the sci-fi handwave plot element that I love
Sean Kelly@storyslug.bsky.social · 3h agoDespite all the meme jokes about transporters killing you and sending off your clone to finish your mission, that's not really how the transporters on Star Trek work: They convert your matter into energy and then *transmit* that *same* energy to a location to be reassembled as matter.
“Ernest” is what Bert calls him when he’s pissed off
Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 4h ago
Revolver turns sixty today. Been my favourite Beatles album for about forty of those years (and how gratified I was in the 90s to see it overtake Pepper as the critical favourite too). There is no "best album ever" but if there was, it'd be hard to make a case against this being it.
Man that kid had a hell of a vocal instrument
Who's Loving You by Jackson 5 on Apple Music
Song · 1969 · Duration 4:04
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Today is There Will Come Soft Rains day, and it’s interesting how much the story reads to me now less as a “horror of nuclear war” snapshot and more as an examination of how impersonal our automated homes have become, that they could just go on without us
When you lost the assembly instructions for the cat’s legs
buddy all we ever do on bluesky is publicly struggle
Everyone's favorite main character slagging on Vimes Boot Theory reminds me of that scene in American Werewolf In London where David tries to get arrested by shouting "Winston Churchill was full of shit! Shakespeare was French! Fuck! Shit!" in public
The modern trend of responding with GIFs instead of words is known as regression to the meme.
I do get why people use genAi. What I don't get is why nobody proofreads anything before flinging it to production
Ray Padgett@raypadgett.bsky.social · yesterdayMy two favorite country musicians: "Alan Carrie" and "Underwood"
What's that surf rock instrumental that has the same beginning as My Best Friend's Girl?
Anyway, the first unit of the class is called Foundations of Popular Music, and I guess what I'm arguing is that the main foundation is racism. But then it gets complicated! What happens when Aretha sings the song?
YouTube Music has pushed a "one hit wonders of the 90s" playlist at me, and I'm really enjoying it, but it has Suzanne Vega, Take That, and Sinead O'Fuckingconnor on it.
“No one said life is fair” I know, I’m saying we can make it fairer
molly priddy@mollypriddy.bsky.social · 2d ago“life is hard!” ok but what if we decided to make it easier
Also Blue Turtles is only matched by The Blues Brothers in my happily listening/watching & only later going, "holy shit I had no idea those were such major session musicians"
There are about 900 cartoons on my plex server and overnight the match data for around half of them just went missing, poof
Five really good points here regarding consumer choice.
Nathan Tankus@nathantankus.bsky.social · 3d agoI think this is fundamentally wrong but in an interesting way I will need to write about sometime. The key is a) consumers do not choose what is produced, or how, they choose between what is produced. This is a crucial difference
Media reviews: conflicted, bought, drowned out by frauds Brands: Decoupled from manufacturer and build quality by outsourcing, acquisitions, etc. Relative price: when was lying about MSRP/regular price last punished? Country: Retailers deliberately hide it Peer ratings: Bots, bribes and lies
Excellent review thread top to bottom, and highlighting this part because I felt exactly the same way. Nolan was like “hey have I told you about the sea peoples?” which was both mildly annoying and kind of charming
Mike Fragassi@refrag.bsky.social · 3d agoEveryone saying "Sea Peoples" every other scene really makes Nolan look like that guy whose mind was blown by one cool book and won't shut up about it. This is the book, by the way: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1177_B....
Chiron was known to be well-versed in medicine (having learned it from Apollo) making him the original Centaur for Disease Control
One time I was on a road trip with a co-worker, and we had been talking about Sheryl Crow's recent remake of Sweet Child O' Mine, and then the original came on the radio and we high-fived so hard it knocked the rear view mirror out of whack I love broadcast surprises
Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 2d agoSame way your favorite song on the radio was so much cooler than on a CD (Even though the sound was often objectively worse)
