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@breakingyoun I first experienced 2001 as a kid through the soundtrack LP, and boy howdy some of that music was absolutely terrifying

Putting on 2001 A Space Odyssey in the background just so I can listen to it, but forgetting how scary some of the music is and having to turn it off.

@decoyrobot It was a fun class. "Spaghetti Westerns and Italian Horror." Obviously they had been creative with how loosely to curate films, but I ain't complaining

@CentipedeMouse Wish my classes were like that

God when he made me rizzless:

@UnderstanderArt Yep. And it's mildly funny, the right often prides itself on understanding "rules aren't real" in other kinds of confrontation, but not here.

@CentipedeMouse Yes. Exactly. The left can say "who cares?" for a bunch of reasons and the right can say "but you care despite those reasons in a bunch of situations" to which the left can respond "didn't you say not to care in those situations?" And vice-versa.

My thoughts on the controversy around Mamdani's wife's past social media posts is we're in a strange area now where there are basically no agreed-upon norms for how to treat social media posts from the past. So it's hard to stir up people to go after her or defend her.

@bloobird_return I feel especially dumb because my kid's school is named after McAuliffe

@CentipedeMouse Sally Ride wasnt on Challenger

They should cast Robert Pattinson, doing his silliest voice yet, as the malfunctioning O-ring

@ArtDuggy I am appropriately ashamed, but why is it called The Challenger!!

wrong astronaut lol

Having re-read The Phantom Tollbooth for the first time in 30 years, I’m struck by all the verbal cleverness & wisdom I missed as a kid, but also how it assumes a level of familiarity from children with idioms, aphorisms, metaphors, & the English language in general which has long since passed (the book was published in 1961 iirc.) The end passage where Milo loses his desire to return immediately to the land of knowledge because he looks around his room & realizes there’s already so much to do in his own world is the only “the wonder of learning & the magic of imagination” rhetoric I think has ever been written that really feels authentic & not like an adult trying to motivate a child to do their homework. You’re left wanting to write a book for kids today that could feel as relevant, although the messages of the book haven’t aged at all. Maybe someone like Owen Cyclops could do it. The hard part of writing a modern Phantom Tollbooth would be not making screens / the internet the villain, which somehow always feels corny when you see it today, & maybe that’s why Norman Juster didn’t include any warnings against TV - though it may just be that in 1961 TV didn’t seem as much a danger to the public mind yet.

@IrateMaxwell Which threw me especially because one of my kids goes to a school named after the late Ms. McAuliffe

@CentipedeMouse Sally Ride wasn't in the Challenger disaster, which makes the title confusing as hell

@MTchamp406 I will show the O-ring taking her out in 2012 anyway

@CentipedeMouse the women you are thinking, Christa McAuliffe, did not make it to space because she was on Challenger

The Terror Season 3 should have taken place on the distant world of Hyperion and followed a group of pilgrims on their way to face an enigmatic creature known as The Shrike

@johnwatersbot When the Marilyn Manson album ends

@ClayHale7 They didn't even realize he was Method acting!

@CentipedeMouse Ah fuck. They cast Jared Leto, and for the next 6 weeks he just rolled around in a circle, spread bits of rubber, and jetted hot exhaust gas at his costars.

@sufan___ @DailyMantle3 Beastmode

@DailyMantle3 big day for Spay nation... tried visiting him last week but he just licked his big fat ass and then fell asleep for 4 hours

PRINSESSA HAS A BOYFRIEND, I REPEAT SHE HAS A BOYFRIEND

@vonFurious @fandompulse Look under your chair 😊

@CentipedeMouse @fandompulse Just me over here waiting for the trans Tribbles. Just me?

Alex Kurtzman on what to expect from Season 2 of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy: "The balance between standalones and serialization feels like it’s been maintained in Season 2. I would say that really what it means is it’s emotional serialization, but individual stories that get closed-ended by the end of each episode, more or less. ... New characters will introduce new problems in Season 2, and those problems are going to ripple through our cadets, and it’s going to shake things up a bit. You might find romances between characters that you could never have expected. And let’s see, what else can I say? You’ll get to learn more about Nahla, a lot more about Nahla, actually." Who is interested in a second season?

@roringthunder It would be funny to refer to life itself this way

I love the retard dating show

@ofreacharound I remember a National Lampoon cartoon of a guy in a bookstore telling the clerk "I'm buying a book on chutzpah and *you're* gonna pay for it"

His book was called CHUTZPAH

Any news article about pollution from plastic bags or other plastic products that does not point out that the US produces essentially zero per capita plastic pollution is ridiculously misleading. You can't even see the US here because it's basically on the x-axis. In a lot of countries, people literally just throw all their trash in the river. That's the plastic problem.

@AJFCPassalacqua My house had a basement "apartment" like this when we bought it. It didn't have two exits and the circuit box was above the toilet, but the previous owner charged rent and she even paid her taxes

@CentipedeMouse Without looking into it but based on the graphic the main change here is a lot of basement apartments that definitely did not exist are about to be legal. Whether or not this is good or bad for the supply of housing is another q.

Perfectly good idea to streamline this kind of construction. It's only useful for a thin slice of New Yorkers, but whatever I definitely think you should only use these for family members and not unrelated tenants, but that's just me and my big fat common sense talking