Just ask the Yamato and the Odyssey!
I forget who actually said it, but around the TNG era one of the writers said something like "We assume all the other starships out there are having the same kinds of crazy adventures every week" and I always liked that thought.
January 18, 2026 at 11:43 AM
Just ask the Yamato and the Odyssey!
you turn everything into a joke and a meme and you can get people who weren't born bad to do this shit. how much shit is just a joke and a meme now? all of existence? oh
The more I think about this, the angrier I get. It takes a particularly virulent strain of sociopathy to sit and let hard-working people serve you a meal knowing that you plan to arrest them and send them off for deportation once they're off of work.
Really depraved shit.
Really depraved shit.
A few days ago, Fox News was whining about ICE agents getting heckled at a Mexican restaurant in Minneapolis.
Meanwhile, in the town of Willmar, ICE agents had lunch at a Mexican restaurant, waited until it closed, then confronted and arrested three workers as they left.
Meanwhile, in the town of Willmar, ICE agents had lunch at a Mexican restaurant, waited until it closed, then confronted and arrested three workers as they left.
January 18, 2026 at 11:07 AM
you turn everything into a joke and a meme and you can get people who weren't born bad to do this shit. how much shit is just a joke and a meme now? all of existence? oh
lol this guy's angling for a job in the administration
Renee Good’s former father-in-law has revealed he does not blame the ICE officer who brutally killed her.
ICE Shooting Victim’s Trump-Supporting Father-in-Law Breaks Silence
Timmy Macklin is the grandfather to Good’s six-year-old son.
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January 14, 2026 at 12:31 PM
lol this guy's angling for a job in the administration
if crowned king i promise to only have wise and just descendants
Trumpism has permanently shattered my belief that voters know what is best for them, and thus my faith in the entire foundation of democracy. What do you do when you can't trust people not to punch the self-destruct button?
January 14, 2026 at 11:12 AM
if crowned king i promise to only have wise and just descendants
@schnorkles.bsky.social this you????
Breaking NYT:
The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter.
The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status.
That is a war crime called "perfidy."
The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter.
The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status.
That is a war crime called "perfidy."
U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane
www.nytimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 8:11 AM
@schnorkles.bsky.social this you????
Ladyhawke soundtrack is legendary
Ladyhawke. Legend. The Last Unicorn. Labyrinth. The Green Knight. A Knight's Tale. Arguably Reign of Fire. The Neverending Story. Excalibur. The Dark Crystal. The Princess Bride. Clash of the Titans.
...those are just off the top of my head
...those are just off the top of my head
Without saying Lord of the Rings, name a fantasy film.
January 11, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Ladyhawke soundtrack is legendary
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I suspect that if it happens, the response will be like what happens when Trump does things that should logically crash the markets, but instead crash nothing
In the places where acknowledging reality would hurt too much, everyone will agree to ignore reality for as long as they can. Coyote time.
In the places where acknowledging reality would hurt too much, everyone will agree to ignore reality for as long as they can. Coyote time.
i mean i think a world where the US genuinely break NATO and launch an invasion of Greenland looks so alien to us that we will not be able to understand it
The thing I think folks struggle to appreciate with this stuff tho is however hard it is to wean Europe off US tech is *at least as hard* as it will be for US tech to get back into Europe after that type of transition kicks into high gear
January 11, 2026 at 5:01 AM
I suspect that if it happens, the response will be like what happens when Trump does things that should logically crash the markets, but instead crash nothing
In the places where acknowledging reality would hurt too much, everyone will agree to ignore reality for as long as they can. Coyote time.
In the places where acknowledging reality would hurt too much, everyone will agree to ignore reality for as long as they can. Coyote time.
@faineg.bsky.social it finally happened, i overheard conservative coworkers talking about how invading greenland etc is a bad idea
January 10, 2026 at 7:31 PM
@faineg.bsky.social it finally happened, i overheard conservative coworkers talking about how invading greenland etc is a bad idea
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The extent to which our eras manly food trends near-perfectly mirror trends in dog food is….just spectacular
January 9, 2026 at 10:41 PM
The extent to which our eras manly food trends near-perfectly mirror trends in dog food is….just spectacular
I thought this was quoting Eric Adams for a second
January 9, 2026 at 2:04 PM
I thought this was quoting Eric Adams for a second
maybe you didnt but im built different
While the human form is brilliant, it’s ultimately limited.
The real future of robotics lies in the permission to move beyond our own biological constraints and optimize.
Note, we didn't achieve supersonic flight by mimicking the flapping of wings.
The real future of robotics lies in the permission to move beyond our own biological constraints and optimize.
Note, we didn't achieve supersonic flight by mimicking the flapping of wings.
January 8, 2026 at 10:43 PM
maybe you didnt but im built different
@schnorkles.bsky.social thoughts on the South Carolina thing?
January 7, 2026 at 5:02 AM
@schnorkles.bsky.social thoughts on the South Carolina thing?
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January 5, 2026 at 5:11 PM
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It's so horny, no one talks about this!
I forgot how horny Book of the New Sun is.
January 3, 2026 at 12:43 AM
It's so horny, no one talks about this!
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Ancient Greece beyond myths, marble statues and temples: an everyday craftsman. The terracotta shows a carpenter at work with a bow-saw - a timeless image of human creativity and craftsmanship.
From Boeotia, Greece, late 6th/early 5th century BC
On display at National Museum Copenhagen
📷 me
🏺
From Boeotia, Greece, late 6th/early 5th century BC
On display at National Museum Copenhagen
📷 me
🏺
January 2, 2026 at 9:39 AM
Ancient Greece beyond myths, marble statues and temples: an everyday craftsman. The terracotta shows a carpenter at work with a bow-saw - a timeless image of human creativity and craftsmanship.
From Boeotia, Greece, late 6th/early 5th century BC
On display at National Museum Copenhagen
📷 me
🏺
From Boeotia, Greece, late 6th/early 5th century BC
On display at National Museum Copenhagen
📷 me
🏺
The first big AI early adopter I met previously made slop for a living. Basically the day gpt 3 dropped or whatever changed their life forever.
Yeah and like - clearly, there are some major social media networks that will richly reward a high volume of slop. They did it before AI got big, they still do it without AI (video reacting to video, video that's just a 10-year-old twitter post with a reaction gif etc).
January 2, 2026 at 5:12 PM
The first big AI early adopter I met previously made slop for a living. Basically the day gpt 3 dropped or whatever changed their life forever.
sitting around killing time doing pointless shit is great and to return to it we would have to destroy most of the modern internet and phone
Like, are any material conditions, no matter how good, going to fix whatever mental condition this is?
January 2, 2026 at 4:53 PM
sitting around killing time doing pointless shit is great and to return to it we would have to destroy most of the modern internet and phone
I feel like in the years since then we've only learned that yeah, a lot of people would be ok with a degraded hellscape ending to all human history if it meant their enemies suffer even slightly.
Ring in the New Year with some light reading on nuclear annihilation, courtesy of Ginger Nuts of Horror. George Daniel Lea's analysis of the traumatic masterpiece Threads (1984) is here to sober you up.
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@exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social
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@exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social
Threads 1984: The Nuclear Horror That Traumatized A Generation & Still Haunts Us - The Ginger Nuts Of Horror Review Website
George Daniel Lea explores the traumatic power of the BBC's 1984 nuclear war film Threads. Dive into an analysis of its bleak realism, Cold War anxiety, and enduring legacy as a masterpiece of horror ...
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January 2, 2026 at 9:41 AM
I feel like in the years since then we've only learned that yeah, a lot of people would be ok with a degraded hellscape ending to all human history if it meant their enemies suffer even slightly.
As true today as it was when it was written
Weird… I was randomly thinking about Pure Moods earlier today, wondering how many babies were conceived to it.
January 1, 2026 at 1:48 AM
As true today as it was when it was written
The whole thing being 100% Palpatine from a point before Phantom Menace means that all of the late Republican intrigue is by that point just set dressing for the Anakin story which tbf is kind of the intention.
My crank Star Wars opinion is that "there are heroes on both sides" is essential for understanding the thematic role the Clone Wars were supposed to play in the story, and the complete inability of the franchise to portray that is a big part of why the Prequels are so incoherent.
It’s funny that the movies have exactly two moments where they sort of half recognise this: when the RotS crawl says there are “heroes on both sides” and when Padmé has this kind of “uh maybe we were the bad guys?” line, and neither is remotely supported by basically anything else onscreen
January 1, 2026 at 1:24 AM
The whole thing being 100% Palpatine from a point before Phantom Menace means that all of the late Republican intrigue is by that point just set dressing for the Anakin story which tbf is kind of the intention.
@faineg.bsky.social oh no now i can only parse the steel fluorescent maze of my life as depressing and not sunny enough
December 31, 2025 at 3:31 AM
@faineg.bsky.social oh no now i can only parse the steel fluorescent maze of my life as depressing and not sunny enough
we're rich as hell but we're pay pigs getting taken for every dime
all of america is "extremely poor" you dipshit, it's trying to persuade the bulk of this country. You're so detached from reality
December 27, 2025 at 12:59 AM
we're rich as hell but we're pay pigs getting taken for every dime
Maybe people formerly had more interiority because they couldn't curate the situations they found themselves in so much. Who needs interiority in a bubble or a society where no one cares if you're loudly awful.
The older I get, the more I think fiction (which I love) has damaged our ability to judge people. We assume intricate interiority, wheels within wheels, because that’s what drives good plots. The truth is that what someone says and does on the surface is usually exactly who they are.
December 22, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Maybe people formerly had more interiority because they couldn't curate the situations they found themselves in so much. Who needs interiority in a bubble or a society where no one cares if you're loudly awful.
Strategic emethanol reserve
To put this in context, 40-billion tonnes, uncompressed, takes up about 2000 cubic km.
To concentrate and bury a significant fraction of that requires a rather big, deep, non-leaky hole.
No one has explained how you do this at a scale that matters.
To concentrate and bury a significant fraction of that requires a rather big, deep, non-leaky hole.
No one has explained how you do this at a scale that matters.
December 21, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Strategic emethanol reserve
really happy i went to community college because if anyone wants to go where i went i can just tell them ok send them money and you can start in the fall
Did four early decision interviews for my alma mater in November. As usual, none admitted. Three denied, one deferred. I think in the last five-six years of doing these I've had one interviewee accepted. And every year there are a huge number of kids that would be GREAT. The numbers are just brutal.
December 17, 2025 at 12:40 AM
really happy i went to community college because if anyone wants to go where i went i can just tell them ok send them money and you can start in the fall