Richard Swift

@swiftofopal.bsky.social

Just seeking what passes for human interaction in these end times. Film geek, comic book dork, Star Trek nerd, horror movie dweeb.

I don’t know how to use chatgpt etc but I imagine it’s going to a website and typing “oh no what groceries do I buy please tell me false god for I am so weak I cannot go on” as your brain atrophies and leaks out of your ears from disuse and the machine is like “buy eggs milk bread and a horse”

Just learned of this movie’s existence three years after it came out and learned that despite my knowing who Zach Galifianaskis is for twenty years all he needed to do was shave and I’d have no idea who he was.

Poster for the Apple Original movie “The Beanie Bubble.”Zach Galifianakis beardless abs unrecognizable.Zach Galifianakis beardless abs unrecognizable.Zach Galifianakis beardless abs unrecognizable.

In this month in 1961, Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, visited England. Cold War or not, his reception in London seems to have been, press reports say, close to what would soon be Beatlemania. Though photos rarely show the worst of it, the press reports detail huge crowds & fearsome crushes.

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Seabiscuit hitting abnormally harder in 2026 than in 2003… “Pretty soon other businesses had borrowed the same technologies. Seamstresses became button sewers. Furniture makers became knob turners. It was the beginning and the end of imagination, all at the same time.”

Poster for the 2003 film Seabiscuit that takes place in the 1930s.