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Unscheduled Offworld Activation @nerdsherpa.bsky.social · 34m

Mine is probably Orson Welles as Unicron in Transformers: The Movie (1986)

paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 20h

I think everybody has a “Wallace Shawn from Young Sheldon” — my first one would probably be “Vincent Price, the guy who did the voice of Ratigan in The Great Mouse Detective”

Unscheduled Offworld Activation @nerdsherpa.bsky.social · 6h

I wonder if they had five years of ideas sketched out, and finding out during production of season 3 that season 4 would be their last made them suddenly shake things up in a way that maybe wasn’t ideal.

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Unscheduled Offworld Activation @nerdsherpa.bsky.social · 6h

Overall this season of Strange New Worlds was fine. No huge stand out episodes that made me feel like THIS IS TREK. The outline of the season is pretty shaky, like they weren’t 100% sure where they were going or how to get there, but the journey is still pretty good.

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Unscheduled Offworld Activation @nerdsherpa.bsky.social · 6h

I had let the last two episodes of Strange New Worlds sit for a while because I had been less excited about this season overall than the previous one, but they were both extremely solid. Enemy Mine, Gorn edition and SNW’s take on an Inner Light episode were both very good.

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Unscheduled Offworld Activation @nerdsherpa.bsky.social · 9h

The depression is real big today. Very hard to keep going through the motions when you’re able to figure out the date when your government, supported by a bunch of your neighbors, will put you to death.

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Unscheduled Offworld Activation @nerdsherpa.bsky.social · 1d

A movie you’ve see more than 7 times with a gif

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Unscheduled Offworld Activation @nerdsherpa.bsky.social · 1d

It’s really interesting how the news is (rightly) reporting that millions of kids will go hungry because of SNAP, but the other headline is just “Obamacare premiums are high”, with no context that this is because trump killed Medicaid in an effort to murder everyone who depends on the ACA

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Unscheduled Offworld Activation @nerdsherpa.bsky.social · 2d

The time change in my car, or as I call it six months of my car clock being right again

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Unscheduled Offworld Activation @nerdsherpa.bsky.social · 3d

Anyway, I don’t imagine a lot of the Republican dimwits responsible for pricing people with terminal chronic illnesses out of healthcare have considered that a lot of those people are now able to calculate the exact date of their death, and have until then to plan their prevenge.

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Unscheduled Offworld Activation @nerdsherpa.bsky.social · 3d

I still haven’t opened the email from amerihealth yet, but a 174% increase in my premium would put me around $1000/mo which murders me dead by at most February 5th or so, assuming I get my regular 30 day insulin refills at the end of December before my current (ALREADY TOO HIGH) rate disappears.

Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 3d

New Jersey families need relief NOW. As we approach the end of the month, people are seeing their healthcare costs double, or even triple, and making hard decisions about whether or not they can continue to afford their healthcare. 1/2

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Unscheduled Offworld Activation @nerdsherpa.bsky.social · 3d

Why is it completely impossible to find out which board of education candidates think book bans are bad. Every year I get to the weekend before election day and I can’t find their fucking politics. It’s maddening. I get 1000 texts from democrats asking for money, but not one single one with info.

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Unscheduled Offworld Activation @nerdsherpa.bsky.social · 3d

Where does the toilet that murdered Elvis fall on that list?

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Unscheduled Offworld Activation @nerdsherpa.bsky.social · 3d

So weird how all the guys screaming stuff like “blood and soil” and “Jews will not replace us” and constantly crying about George Soros turned out to be antisemitic. Who could have possibly seen this coming?

Unscheduled Offworld Activation @nerdsherpa.bsky.social · 3d

Imagine being this cool and talented. Like, what the heck, my only souvenir of my Japan trip is that 1¥ coin I found in my raincoat pocket.

Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 3d

Travel sketchbook progress so far

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Unscheduled Offworld Activation @nerdsherpa.bsky.social · 3d

I haven’t opened the email from amerihealth about how I probably have to choose between dying from not being able to afford health insurance and oh, wait there’s no other option

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Unscheduled Offworld Activation @nerdsherpa.bsky.social · 4d

fucks sake, the most pathetic loser ass bullshit, “look, I wrote a letter” fuck

Unscheduled Offworld Activation @nerdsherpa.bsky.social · 4d

Oh man, unlimited PTO is such a fucking lie. They keep every second you’re not working on a fucking spreadsheet to use against you the instant they want to fire you. In addition to just generally fostering a culture where they make you feel like you let down your team if you take any time off.

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Unscheduled Offworld Activation @nerdsherpa.bsky.social · 4d

I’m not a science genius or anything, but what happens to the insurance companies milking us for profit when we all stop paying and die because we can’t afford their premiums? Do they have a plan for remaining profitable when everyone drops out of the market?

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Unscheduled Offworld Activation @nerdsherpa.bsky.social · 4d

Continuum is surprisingly good! And it has Crash from Crash and the Boys in Scott Pilgrim! Also check out Travelers if you haven’t, it’s another Brad Wright jam.

Unscheduled Offworld Activation @nerdsherpa.bsky.social · 4d

Continuum is also a gold mine for this

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Unscheduled Offworld Activation @nerdsherpa.bsky.social · 4d

Excited for all the “I voted for Trump three times and even though ending SNAP bankrupted my farm, I’m going to vote for him again in 2028” stories over the next couple of weeks.

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Unscheduled Offworld Activation @nerdsherpa.bsky.social · 4d

White House Down is one of my stupid comfort movies, and I just watched it again today only to notice how many minor roles are played by Canadian actors you’ve seen on sci fi shows shot in Vancouver (the SecDef is played by Dan Shea, SG-1’s Siler). Turns out they filmed in Montreal.

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Unscheduled Offworld Activation @nerdsherpa.bsky.social · 4d

Anyway that’s the sort of stuff I think about when I see a new fifty skrilliondy dollar valuation of some bullshit tech company that sells plagiarized wrong answers to dummies

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Unscheduled Offworld Activation @nerdsherpa.bsky.social · 4d

One of the ways money laundering can work is, you set up a commodity where you get to make up the price, and there’s not any way to tell how much of it you have. This is why the mafia historically got involved in things like trash collection, or construction materials like concrete or stone.

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Unscheduled Offworld Activation @nerdsherpa.bsky.social · 4d

I went on vacation to Japan a few months back, and the one day it rained was the day we picked to meet the deer in Nara. When we flew home, I left my Japanese cash on the nightstand at the hotel. Next time it rained back home, I found this 1¥ coin in the pocket of my raincoat where it remains today.

A 1¥ coin in the palm of my hand, with some grass and autumn leaves in the rainy background.

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