#Reflection of the Esplanade lights on the bay in #Oban #Scotland

foot.

#caturday

2004 Film Poll - Quarter-Final Round Group 3 of 4.
Top two films from each advance to the Semi-Final Round.

The Incredibles
Team America: World Police
Kill Bill: Volume 2
Meet the Fockers

#Film #Movies #FilmCommunity #Cinema #CineMastodon #ClassicFilms #FilmPoll #FilmTournament

1998 (the year half-life 1 released):

— a humanitarian crisis in congo
— valve announces a major product launch
— clinton has a scandal over someone giving him a blowjob
— tech and stock market bubble is reaching its peak and is soon gonna crash

2025:

— a humanitarian crisis in congo
— valve announces a major product launch
— clinton has a scandal over someone giving him a blowjob
— tech and stock market bubble is reaching its peak and is soon gonna crash

@emsquared Aye, he’s so manly, swoon, phew, what’s that horrible smell?

@emsquared Heather I think was the older lady crush of the time for me hehe From seeing it again I think I stopped paying any attention about 4 or 5 years in. My ma watched literally every soap type series going though, so it was always on.

@emsquared bad but not old sadly: recently aware of videos of geezers extolling the manliness of black coffee and this weird thing that washing your arse is somehow un-masculine. 🙄🤡

@thespaceshipper.com always felt sorry for big Jim Cromwell being landed with that “some kind of star trek” clunker of a line 🤣

Next TIL from this book: in the darkest conditions where you can still see enough to not bump into things, the rate of photon capture by each of the receptors in your eyes is about 1 per hour! You’re only able to see anything by averaging together the responses of many many cells. Explains why visual acuity is so diminished when it’s dark.

❄️ It’s freezing cold outside here in Germany, and this is an interesting explainer of why that is: a warming event in the polar region is leading to an early collapse of the polar vortex, so Europe and North America are flooded with cold air, while the North Pole is unusually warm. #weather #climate https://www.severe-weather.eu/global-weather/stratospheric-warming-watch-polar-vortex-collapse-cold-snow-impacts-coming-for-united-states-canada-europe-fa/

@emsquared Aye. You are in my tribe of folk who hate x y z or not. No thoughtfulness or consideration of plurality.

@emsquared OH is watching Brookside abs it’s on STV Player and not the 4 one. Odd indeed. Our fragmented streaming media is just another enshittifed mess where what customers actually want is the last concern.

@swisslet Sounds like a classic case of the old, "It was awful but it didn't do me any harm" bullshit. Yeah Daniel, it did, look at the state your psyche ffs.

Today someone sent me a legal document to sign.

Immediately upon opening it, I was greeted with, "Save time! Read the AI summary."

🫩

Did I mention it was a LEGAL document?

🤨

That I was responsible for signing?

🧐

And... they wanted me to trust an AI summary!?!

🤦🏻

UK folk, please vote in local elections whenever possible. Hereabouts, a Tory (formerly UKIP) County Councillor, elected with a 19 vote majority on a 42.7% turn-out, has been sharing quotes from Enoch Powell on social media, seemingly as valid points for discussion.

Why #HaltAndCatchFire is the best tv programme ever made.

https://bzangygroink.co.uk/archives/2015/07/30/halt-and-catch-fire/

#KerryBishé #LeePace #MackenzieDavis #ScootMcNairy #TobyHuss #HACF

@makary @_calmdowndear @Jyoti Sorry, yes, that’s the one.

https://medium.com/@bobthomson70/the-greatest-tv-youve-never-seen-halt-and-catch-fire-4a85d1ae83b0

You're absolutely right, Jonathan! Global Thermonuclear War is a popular game with thousands of ways to win. You're really onto something amazing here and I think the doubters just aren't able to understand the paradigm shift you're bringing the world with these insights

I’d like to invite you to vote in our Favourite Doctor Who Companion Poll

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