Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

TheTrekspert wants a giant obsidian sphere @thetrekspert.bsky.social · 4h

a woman driving a car with the words lawsuit pending behind her

ALT: a woman driving a car with the words lawsuit pending behind her

media.tenor.com

TheTrekspert wants a giant obsidian sphere @thetrekspert.bsky.social · 4h

The internet peaked with Wikipedia and it's been downhill since then.

4

TheTrekspert wants a giant obsidian sphere @thetrekspert.bsky.social · 10h

And there's that comic from early 00s where the Falcon crashlands in the WA forests, gets discovered by Indiana Jones, and it turns out that Chewie is Bigfoot!

2

TheTrekspert wants a giant obsidian sphere @thetrekspert.bsky.social · 1d

Because who needs morals when you can have viewers and ad revenue?

1

TheTrekspert wants a giant obsidian sphere @thetrekspert.bsky.social · 1d

#Letterkenny just made a reference to Beto O'Rourke.

Unexpected!

TheTrekspert wants a giant obsidian sphere @thetrekspert.bsky.social · 1d

Hey!

Secretary-General of the UN Nancy Gao was in this episode of #Letterkenny!

TheTrekspert wants a giant obsidian sphere @thetrekspert.bsky.social · 1d

@davidmack.bsky.social Theory: Lear is Khan & Marla's daughter, taken off-world by Delmonda, and is looking into the history of her parents, and, thus, herself.

Can't wait to see if I'm right! Or not.

TheTrekspert wants a giant obsidian sphere @thetrekspert.bsky.social · 1d

Time for #StarTrek #Khan

KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAN

TheTrekspert wants a giant obsidian sphere @thetrekspert.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, to be fair, if they were to look in the right area of the deep sky with a powerful enough telescope......

1

TheTrekspert wants a giant obsidian sphere @thetrekspert.bsky.social · 1d

Note to self: Google "how to set up talent agency based on human rights values and basic human decency that actively avoids projects like this for their clients"

3

TheTrekspert wants a giant obsidian sphere @thetrekspert.bsky.social · 1d

😮‍💨

Thanks.
Glad you understood.

1

TheTrekspert wants a giant obsidian sphere @thetrekspert.bsky.social · 1d

True. Sorry.

I meant it in the sort of joking way people do, like Spirk and such.

Apologies.

1 1

TheTrekspert wants a giant obsidian sphere @thetrekspert.bsky.social · 1d

The taste profile just...doesn't match for me, mentally.

TheTrekspert wants a giant obsidian sphere @thetrekspert.bsky.social · 1d

2 17

TheTrekspert wants a giant obsidian sphere @thetrekspert.bsky.social · 2d

And so much of Pinterest now is AI slop, which is - y'know - awful.

1

TheTrekspert wants a giant obsidian sphere @thetrekspert.bsky.social · 2d

@jasoncfry.bsky.social

TheTrekspert wants a giant obsidian sphere @thetrekspert.bsky.social · 2d

Just a young gun with a quick fuse?

1

TheTrekspert wants a giant obsidian sphere @thetrekspert.bsky.social · 2d

a woman in a white tank top is standing in front of a blue wall .

ALT: a woman in a white tank top is standing in front of a blue wall .

media.tenor.com

TheTrekspert wants a giant obsidian sphere @thetrekspert.bsky.social · 2d

Even AAA movies sometimes have weird very literal translations.

Like into German or (your native) French, Star Wars: A New Hope becomes "Space War Between the Enemies: The Teenager From the Desert Planet Becomes the Hero He Was Destined to Be"

I'm being hyperbolic here but you know what I mean.

1