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Potent, full of juice

@dayuan.bsky.social

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aka Fondor Haulcraft/Jean-Luc Lemur. A god walking among men for being relatively handsome and taking the subway.

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Potent, full of juice @dayuan.bsky.social · Jan 7

The rewards for being clever are meager and cleverness is no guarantee you’ll be right either.

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Potent, full of juice @dayuan.bsky.social · 13h

“I told her he wasn’t in a cave” legit makes me laugh every time.

Potent, full of juice @dayuan.bsky.social · 13h

Theater playing “Fuck bin Laden” in between features

Potent, full of juice @dayuan.bsky.social · 2d

The thing (based on my memory of being six) is while maintenance and some landscaping would be fun if you introduced actual *cleaning* into the roster the entire thing would fall apart

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Potent, full of juice @dayuan.bsky.social · 2d

If kindergartners and first graders had the skills they’d do a decent chunk of the school’s maintenance and upkeep for fun

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Potent, full of juice @dayuan.bsky.social · 2d

At least in LA I believe these are throttled at 18 mph—it’s can be very frustrating being on one since I can go faster on a regular bike so I’m basically using it as an elliptical

(though 18mph really is functionally the same speed as driving/biking for the types of trips I use these for)

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Potent, full of juice @dayuan.bsky.social · 2d

Watching the special features and Michael Mann’s talking about how as a kid in Chicago he’d go around taking pictures of bridge. Dudes rock.

Potent, full of juice @dayuan.bsky.social · 2d

Great movie for tool use too (unfortunately couldn’t quickly find any screenshots of Jim Belushi physically hacking into the security system)

James Caan using a safecracking drill in the 1981 movie Thief

James Caan and others using a thermal lance in the 1981 movie Thief

Jim Belushi listening in on people operating an electronic security system in the 1981 movie Thief

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Potent, full of juice @dayuan.bsky.social · 2d

*Exactly* when I hit post

Potent, full of juice @dayuan.bsky.social · 2d

lol has nothing changed with Tigers-Mariners since I started and finished a whole-ass (great) movie?

Potent, full of juice @dayuan.bsky.social · 2d

Just started watching Michael Mann’s Thief and saw an incredible name @cheatlines.co

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 2d

Some more remade posters, among the others at www.danamania.com/print/

Feel free to download and print in whatever way you like.

A screenshot of a french magazine and language apple double page spread turned into a poster. On the left is a small macintosh 128k, and on the right a macintosh II with monitor and full size AEK keyboard. In between are books labeled by mao tse tung, engels, lenin, marx and trotsky. The text above reads in french "Il était temps qu'un révolutionnaire..." and "soit aussia capable d'évoluer." - indicating that it's time a revolutionary was also capable of evolving.

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Potent, full of juice @dayuan.bsky.social · 2d

I think this is everyone else’s response after I tell them to watch Tai Chi Master (which is goofy, flawed, but ultimately winningly earnest and come on, it’s Jet Li as Zhang Sanfeng)

Potent, full of juice @dayuan.bsky.social · 2d

Oddly my default answer here’s Everything Everywhere All At Once (it’s okay, not bad but not close to great either)

Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 2d

What's your pet "Mid genre movie that's fine but didn't deserve the raves"?

Mine's Crazy Rich Asians. Maybe unfair, because I read the book first and enjoyed that. But the film is just so oddly paced and characterless. It's watchable, but just for pretty faces, nice scenery, and Michelle Yeoh

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 3d

My unfair opinion is that we all have genre blindspots which means that one breaks containment some people go mad for a mid movie.

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Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 3d

Blessed Guillaume of Toulouse prays with beatific expression on his face while being beaten and tormented by 3 monstrous demons. Demons labelled ICE, Gaza, and Corruption, and Blessed Guillaume labelled: Me thinking about Portland Frog

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Potent, full of juice @dayuan.bsky.social · 3d

Also the fact that things aren’t happening on his social network of choice. Bluesky is irrelevant, your place in the network hierarchy here gives you no power, and you develop the complexes of people who speaks loudly and don’t have any sticks.

Potent, full of juice @dayuan.bsky.social · 3d

Everyone in that subreddit was clearly miserable too, also see that everywhere online

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Potent, full of juice @dayuan.bsky.social · 3d

One thing I first noticed when reading in a car subreddit was how people weren’t even arguing from their own point of view or taste anymore: rather it was usually some version of “everyone,” “the market,” “a majority,” “most people,” etc. See that everywhere now

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Potent, full of juice @dayuan.bsky.social · 3d

Probably the only way I think the 2024 election was personally liberating is that it finally forced me to admit “I don’t know shit” and “I don’t know the minds of my countrymen and frankly I don’t want to know”

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Potent, full of juice @dayuan.bsky.social · 3d

Overhearing people talking about experiencing the broader cultural aftermath of 9/11 as kids in Orange and Riverside Counties CA vs. my experience in urban/inner suburban Chicago really driving this home

Potent, full of juice @dayuan.bsky.social · 3d

It must be odd for the entire culture of the country to be so nationalized now—I’ve always thought I had a “normal” upbringing I’m realizing the default my childhood background culture was both way more liberal and Catholic than everywhere else

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 3d

could we mod up with self-made armor, like Stephen Root in Buster Scruggs covered in pans, in pursuit of our quasi-Mohist strategy of peace even with the unruly?

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Potent, full of juice @dayuan.bsky.social · 3d

Feeling old because I had a good edgy erudite quip and thought better of posting it, finally hitting a level of maturity online I achieved irl at age ~14

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Coffee III: Saison of the Witch @unlox.bsky.social · 4d

why don’t the Simpsons use their “union nuclear technician who owns a house outright” wealth to address the root causes of crime instead of dressing up as the Bartman

Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 4d

“Homer Simpson earns enough to feed a family of five on a single income because (a) of unions (b) working class people earned so much more in the heyday of the 90s” etc

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Potent, full of juice @dayuan.bsky.social · 4d

If a chart guy misses their monthly fertility post something’s up

Potent, full of juice @dayuan.bsky.social · 5d

I’ve long assumed the modal posting class HS experience was more like this

Liz Lemon being a nerd in high school, unpopular not because she was a nerd but because she was a glibly mean one

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