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Robot Bastard!
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Here we go again. *sigh*
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"the US military goes after the Drug Lords, covertly or overtly" was a popular plotline in 1980s fiction of all sorts.
A screenshot of the "Goodreads" entry for the book "Hammerheads", by Dale Brown. Book-Jacket Copy: "Bestselling author Dale Brown tackles a controversial subject - American's drug war - in one of the most blistering adventures of our time. The U.S. government has created an all-new drug-defense agency - Hammerheads - commanded by Coast Guard Admiral Ian Hardcastle...and armed with the ultimate war machines, unique hybrids of helicopter and fixed-wing aircraft. The war against drugs will never be the same."
December 1, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Airfield. This was always my mother's favorite ❤️
November 30, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Crate unloader. Hopefully the goods were packed well!
November 30, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Crate loader.
November 30, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Flatbed trailer pickup. (This station has always been one of the least reliable mechanisms...)
November 30, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Pipe loader/unloader operation.
November 30, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Outtake of the dump truck:
November 30, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Boulder loader/dump operation.
November 30, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Gravel loader/unloader operation.
November 30, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Auto loader/unloader operation.
November 30, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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US1 Electric Trucking, manufactured by TYCO from the late 1970s to the early 1980s to cash in on the "trucker movie" fad. This line used TYCO's slot-car layouts and added action stations that had levers flipped as the truck moved past or gears driven by the truck wheels.
November 30, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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I have destroyed that guy so many times...
A screenshot from the video game "Gradius". A battle scene depicts a space fighter, seen from the side and facing to the right. On the right side of the screen is a large gray block with yellow and cyan details, presumably an enemy. The rest of the screen is filled with explosions and laser blasts.
November 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Looks like some 1980s sci-fi cover art:
A photo of an arctic drilling rig, showing a steel-walled structure with towers and cranes. A long pole is sticking out the side with a flame and black smoke coming out of it. Text has been added to the image suggesting that it is the cover art from a book titled "The Remnants Of Zion", by author "Kris Tarsen", published by Baen Books and costing $1.95.
November 25, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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A rotary floor buffer tool. A squat silver-and-black device with a horizontal round black disk at the front and a long pole that has two handles at the top end.
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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FM Gundam Aerial says hi
A white robot with blue and red highlights poses with its hands on its hips. The robot has a feminine silhouette, with a narrow waist and a broad chest and hips.
November 25, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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I'm not seeing that here, although I'll accept that there could be plenty of posts I haven't seen that make a different case. I think this is much more "the Democrats aren't giving us a reason to choose them".
Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper • Sep 29, 2024 Replying to @yakabikaj| When you point out that Trump did not get us embroiled in any new wars, dems argue that Biden is actually better on FP because he ended Afghanistan. But I don't think withdrawing from Afghanistan outweighs getting us entangled in two conflicts on the precipice of a world war?? Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper - Aug 25, 2024 Periodic reminder that polls show Americans are rather concerned about the risk of nuclear war, this is a perfectly reasonable concern to have given the state of the world, and it's bad when Democrats cede this issue to Trump by ignoring the public's fears and remaining silent. Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler A Harper - Jul 4, 2024 Replying to@trm234567 I think the decisive factors in Trump's ascendancy were nearly two decades of unpopular war and Obama selling out the middle class and bailing out bankers. I don't think two time Obama voters suddenly got racist.
November 25, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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"You'll be visited by three spirits."

The three spirits:
Three toy robots stand on a wooden shelf. On the left is a black and silver robot with a red wings emblem on its chest. In the middle is a red robot with white and green details. On the right is a white robot with blue and red details, wearing a brown cape on one shoulder. Mazinger Z, Dino Getter 1, and Gundam Aerial.
November 24, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Poster artwork for the movie "where the red fern grows". A blonde white man with a hatched and a lantern walks through the woods next to a pair of thin brown dogs.
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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(points to critically-damped closed-loop control system) it's AI!
A graphical plot of a critically-damped system time history. A curved line oscillates above and below a horizontal line, with the lines growing closer as the plot goes from left to right.
November 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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gee i wonder whether this situation has some historical precedent
The cover of the first edition of "Das Kapital" by Karl Marx. In German is written "Kritik der politischen Oekonomie", which translates to "a critique of political economy".
November 21, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Tweet from user "@mokefossey". "Check this shit out motherfucker [I slide one foot out from under me and fall on my ass, it's not clear what kind of move I was trying to do]"
November 21, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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"Mazinger Z" and "Zeus" from the anime "Mazinger Z-Hen". A red-and-black humanoid robot with a glass dome on its forehead and glowing eyes, and a man wearing golden armor and a helmet with the letter "Z", both run towards the viewer.
November 21, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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"Modulation 987", Julio Le Parc, 1987
November 21, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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One of the Dick Tracy movie's biggest flexes was to never explain how it was that the various bad guys got to look like they did. There's no flashback where Flattop, like, gets his face stuck in a subway door or something, he's just Like That.
Actor William Forsythe as the character "Flattop" in the movie "Dick Tracy". A man with a distorted triangular head and curly red hair, wearing a dark suit and a bowtie, points a machinegun at the viewer.
November 21, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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"If a runner escapes...everything ends."
Poster for the 1970s SF movie "Logan's Run". A man carrying a gun and a woman wearing a short dress run towards the viewer. In the background are scenes of sci-fi-themed activities and a futuristic cityscape with a rainbow arching above it. The words "LOGAN'S RUN" in a stylized font are at the top of the image.
November 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM