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Phav Nosnibor @phavnosnibor.bsky.social · 6h

Every gym everywhere. They're so good at talking their way out of my money with the endless upselling.

Phav Nosnibor @phavnosnibor.bsky.social · 7h

Further subtlety in the news of the day. It's only been eight years since this movie was made and we're already living up to some of its predictions.

Screenshot of futuristic-looking news footage: an assortment of people wearing gas masks, bandanas, and eyepatches look off into the distance, presumably as part of some "non-citizen" mob. Below, a chyron (for the creatively-named DNN) bearing the headline of the day: "NON-CITIZENS THREATEN LOS ANGELES DOME: Citizen dome residents on high alert after bomb blast. President Mendez urges caution."

Phav Nosnibor @phavnosnibor.bsky.social · 7h

First of all, damn... that's some serious Trek representation. (That's Manu Intiraymi on the left.) Second, Tim Russ' Vulcan eyebrow is just a tiny fraction of him being an even bigger dick than his brother. This is not a subtle movie.

Three men are gathered around a sci-fi video display for a conversation: the imperious-looking one (Tim Russ) arches an eyebrow haughtily at the youngest (Manu Intiraymi), a manual labourer in a sci-fi jumpsuit, while the oldest one (Armin Shimerman) looks on and holds his tongue. There is clearly some tension in the air.

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Phav Nosnibor @phavnosnibor.bsky.social · 8h

Hey, remember how good Iron Lung Corp. were? This gives off very similar vibes. deadanimalassemblyplant.bandcamp.com/album/the-on...

The Only Good Dictator Is A Dead Dictator, by Dead Animal Assembly Plant

1 track album

deadanimalassemblyplant.bandcamp.com

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If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social · 10h

My neighbor who grew up in the commuter suburbs of NJ was talking about how she hates how 9/11 memorialization because her memories of the aftermath was not grotesque displays of jingoistic patriotism but the care of people whose first question was, “did you know someone?” My memory was different 1/

loarider @loarider.bsky.social · 10h

in case anyone hasn't watched the full thing, do it. it's a damn treat.

I don't think I realized it until now, but I'd been waiting my whole life to hear a politician sound like they want the people to govern with them

FULL SPEECH: Zohran Mamdani's victory speech following historic NYC mayoral win

YouTube video by ABC News

youtu.be

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Phav Nosnibor @phavnosnibor.bsky.social · 9h

Oh, she earned it.

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Phav Nosnibor @phavnosnibor.bsky.social · 9h

This makes my heart sing, and I hope the only person I've ever dated who has probably voted Republican still lives there to see it.

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Phav Nosnibor @phavnosnibor.bsky.social · 9h

Captain Cheekbones here is going a little overboard with the constipated intensity. I get that your brother is missing, sir, but you're one twitch away from Batman shouting about hockey pads.

A tall, lean man with a shaved head and wearing a space-uniform jumpsuit looks over his left shoulder with an expression somewhere between anger and having smelled a tainted cheese.

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Phav Nosnibor @phavnosnibor.bsky.social · 9h

Yeah, this was made all of a year after The Expanse started airing and it doesn't come close to matching that show for the intricate dance of many things moving around one another in space, but the exterior bits still look pretty alright considering the (non-existent) budget.

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Phav Nosnibor @phavnosnibor.bsky.social · 10h

It would be really funny if somebody had just introduced him to Babylon 5.

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Phav Nosnibor @phavnosnibor.bsky.social · 10h

To be fair, thousands of people in Iraq and Afghanistan got an entire clipful of democracy thanks to Cheney & Co.

Phav Nosnibor @phavnosnibor.bsky.social · 11h

"We weren't mobilizing tonight, not really; we were saving some of our mobilization... juice, keeping it in the tank for the big show later on. You'll see." *sniffle*

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Lena @mslenakay.bsky.social · 13h

Bad week to be a famous sex pest named Andrew

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Phav Nosnibor @phavnosnibor.bsky.social · 13h

There's a real whiff of "be our voice or be our target" to this US election news and I hope the right people here in Canada are appropriately jolted out of any recent dickish leanings by what they're seeing.

Phav Nosnibor @phavnosnibor.bsky.social · 13h

I love that .24% still voted for a guy who had dropped out.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 14h

Abandoning our climate initiatives because of the US *is* putting the US ahead of our sovereignty and economy.

Paul 🇨🇦 @dw2112.bsky.social · 14h

Mad?

Good. Now channel it where it needs to be... the belligerent country south of us is largely responsible for today's budget.

I'm all for climate initiatives, but NOT ahead of our sovereignty or economy being crushed by a bunch of churls.

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Phav Nosnibor @phavnosnibor.bsky.social · 14h

If there's a mailing list for those, sign me up! One of my favourite podcasts ever did an air disasters episode right after I started listening, quickly cementing it as essential listening every week. (I miss you, Caustic Soda!)

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 14h

Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.

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Linotype Pilgrim @symbo1ics.bsky.social · 14d

meanwhile at openai, they're

Twilo's Version @nicethiccbackpack.bsky.social · 15d

frantically digging through a box of horseshit looking for a pony

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Phav Nosnibor @phavnosnibor.bsky.social · 14h

Tangible? Frangible? You could turn them into plural nouns if need be.

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Phav Nosnibor @phavnosnibor.bsky.social · 14h

As flavours of autism go, that's definitely one that could make for a podcast I'd listen to.

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Phav Nosnibor @phavnosnibor.bsky.social · 14h

I can just imagine the narration of the video when they get to the bottom row: "Just like with fashion, some TikTok personality has been trying to bring something from twenty years ago back into the public consciousness... in this case, the idea of donkey-punching. Dame da yo!"

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Phav Nosnibor @phavnosnibor.bsky.social · 14h

And wow, what a difference a decade makes. This opening looks and sounds so much better than Of Gods and Men or anything like that, though this kerning is making my eyes bleed.

A spacey background of stars and blue-grey nebulae set the mood at the beginning of the movie as the credits run. Layered over top, an angular, italicized font conjures up images of mid-2000s graphic design; it reads "Make-up Design & Supervisor: Thomas E. Suprenant", but the spacing of the letters makes it particularly difficult to read the surname.

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Phav Nosnibor @phavnosnibor.bsky.social · 15h

Some of them were alright — I just watched Inalienable for the first time in about fifteen years this afternoon and in some ways, it's more timely now than it was in 2007 — and some of them were Star Trek: Renegades, but tonight, I'm watching 5th Passenger (www.imdb.com/title/tt3165...).

5th Passenger (2017) ⭐ 3.3 | Sci-Fi, Thriller

1h 29m | TV-14

www.imdb.com

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Phav Nosnibor @phavnosnibor.bsky.social · 15h

Remember that fun time about twenty years ago when Enterprise had gone off the air and a bunch of Star Trek actors started getting together to make some low-budget movies and hang out with their friends without having to sign autographs for hours at a convention?

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