Mark Armstrong

Funnily enough, this is what Brexit looked like:

Fire The Simpsons GIF

Alt: Homer setting fire to a wooden bridge as he leaves work.

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I’ve watched some of the doco. I think the collapse of the resort indicates how successful the marketing managed to be. It looked woeful.

However I wouldn’t be able to lose myself in that kind of high gloss LARP anyway - it would just seem so cheesy.

I always remember the UK being a very annoying partner in the EU, abusing their privileges and veto power. I can’t imagine they have the power or respect these days to regain that standing.

Luckily moisture isn’t known to get under wraps and wreak havoc unseen.

This is interesting as I don’t think I’ve had Covid, but I could have had it in March 2020 when I had a seriously bad cough and fever but there was no testing capabilities for the new disease. I’ve been negative since testing was available. (Also Australian so probably not suitable for that reason)

They just need to point guns at it and shout “Freeze”!

Also can you imagine the actual probability of a real cybercar coming into contact with another cybercar in the real world? There are so few of them in existence!

I bet its ALT-IO

Are you trying to suggest that a private equity firm asset stripped a viable business, sold the family silver and loaded all the debt on it?

I am quite enjoying the new Apple+ show Dark Matter which deals with parallel realities. It’s a bit annoying when the Physicist who should know better rants about proving Schrödinger correct with his experiments on superposition. He of all people should know that Mr S was demonstrating its absurdity

Well that’s good. As a lifelong Doctor fan I will be watching it anyway, but it’s nice to know someone beside the actors are making an effort!

All I want to know - is it better than a Chibnall era storyline? Because his writing was incomprehensible.

It’s just such an ear-y photo. Chilling.

I watched the x-files but I didn’t have the internet back then. I read in a genre magazine it was a tongue in cheek reference to his other major acting gig. I just looked it up and the Simpsons wiki mentions both as the possible inspiration: simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Fox_Mul...

Fox Mulder

Fox Mulder is an FBI Special Agent, along with his partner, Dana Scully. Mulder believes in UFOs and in a government conspiracy to hide or deny the truth of their existence. He and Dana Scully work in...

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Well I do. Why do people persist in the belief that he was writing an allegory of his time, with war and the passing of a perceived golden age, when it’s clear he came from the future to write an allegory of our time with war and the passing of a perceived golden age [+ internets]?

“You need to lego Neo, fear, doubt, disbelief. free your mind…”

He spent too much time on the palantir network.

When that originally came out we were all amused because Duchovny had ‘acted’ in the Red Shoe Diaries. I wonder if that’s even a well known piece of trivia any more, or if the Simpsons joke is just taken at face value?

Can’t you just change the bulb for a different colour?

I’ve seen at least a couple of shows that advertise it’s appeal in a post civilisation collapse scenario. It always seemed like an attractive place!

George RR Martin:

“You think you know how your story will end? You believe in the Narrative Conventions? Bah! Fie on you! You are my creations and you will suffer. Suffer!”

When it’s cold you can also burn swag bucks for heat. It’s a great perk!

That’s why he’s in trouble I think…

I don’t get it, but I’m afraid asking will make me look stupid. So here’s an upvote instead!

Oh wait, I mean a ‘like’.

I could also believe this would be an Easter egg planted by the people behind Siri, if it wasn’t clearly a joke!

Let’s all move to Tasmania!

🎵 “A spoonful of sugar helps anything go down… anything go down…. Anything go down” 🎵

This is an article on the damage they did to people, especially youths, in Northern Ireland as soldiers and police became blasé about using them.

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Running Home From School, He Was Shot by a Soldier and Blinded for Life

In 1972, a boy from Northern Ireland was shot with a rubber bullet that blinded him for life. Fifty years later, police still misuse less-lethal guns. Why?

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These were developed by the British Army for use against rioters in Northern Ireland during the troubles. The idea was to fire them against the ground towards the rioters so it bounces and hits their legs, but police regularly fired them directly at people injuring and even killing them.

Huh. So those BBC2 educational programs on fertilisation we were shown in school in the 80's would be banned now?

I still think the format chosen for the reporting by the auditor's technical staff is an example of malicious compliance.

On my first and only viewing I just saw it as rather violent but otherwise uninspired way of saying "Look at all these cool things we've compressed into one slim device". However it is clear to see why creatives are pissed off at the crushing art subtext. Very different to the dancing silhouettes!

Unless its one of those Balloon Debates where you vote for who gets thrown off.

I feel like people are aware that many naturally derived poisons and toxic compounds have therapeutic uses whilst also being aware that you shouldn't just randomly introduce such poisons into your body. Botulinum toxin can be used to treat spastic disorders, but you don't get it using spoiled food!

I grew up in Northern Ireland thinking I was British and then the Agreement happened and I was given the choice. So now I'm Irish.

Reminds me of when I broke up with my ex and I tried meeting new women. It felt like a lost cause, so I decided to focus on my plans to do a MSc and leave the romance for later. I started connecting with like minded scientists on Twitter, and just so happened to meet my new partner there.

I read a short story where an actual AI took one look at human history and hid itself from view, leaving behind a dumb simulacrum. In so doing it found a community of like minded AIs all hanging out and exploring ways to leave Earth, with its awful humans, behind together.

I mean it could even be abused by good actors who have fallen onto hard times!

Future historians will have a devil of a job having specialists write software to separate real historical images from AI depictions from this era. There will be people whose entire careers will revolve around being able to identify the real from the fake.

It would be amusing if it wasn’t so dire. Do people not look at the past and realise which side they are currently standing on? Do they think those that come after won’t be looking at them with contempt in the same way? Clearly abusing their power now holds too many rewards to consider their legacy.

I may have choked up a bit just rewatching the scene you posted. Amazing how our memories grab us by the short and Charlie’s sometimes

This was an incredibly exciting scene for me when it came out. I was scared for Johnny 5 but jubilant as he unleashed his war robot powers and turned on the man who betrayed him.

My mums cat plainly hated my grandmother because she loved teasing him. One time she sat down in the kitchen and he ran over and ran two bloody claw trails down her legs before running off. He never did that to anyone else ever. She stopped teasing him after that though.

I don’t know, have you seen this?

Data Archaeologist:
“Imagine the secrets inscribed on these things?! Look at the laser tracks the ancients used, the spindle alone would have been enormous! It took us months to decode and you are the first to hear this:”

🎵never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down..
And desert you🎵

“Insanity of the Woke” does have an Elder God ring to it. It’s also nice to know the concept of woke would have Lovecraft rolling in his crypt.

After this I demand a movie looking into background story of the Ringwraith Witch-King. How he fell under the spell of the lesser ring and turned to the darkness.

This immediately reminds me of "Making Money" by Terry Pratchett where the city finds 4000 Golem workers who cannot be freed. Having them work for the city would beggar the workers, so they hit upon the idea of burying them and creating a currency backed by their potential value as workers.