Dan Jones shared 7 months ago
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TNG scene. We're in "personal quarters" if you get my meaning, and looking at a normal looking Data, in uniform. Behind him is some space future home decoré, a glass art vase type thing on a shelf with wavy lines in it. There's also a painting on the wall. It's all very homey. Closed caption reads, "I've been debating whether or not to initiate another dream sequence."
Dan Jones shared 7 months ago
In this video from Pianote, the multi-talented Jon Baptiste hears Green Day’s Holiday for the first time (drum & vocals only) and is challenged to come up with a piano accompaniment for it — and he really *really* gets into it. https://kottke.org/24/11/jon-baptiste-hears-green-day-for-the-first-time
FYI. A buttload is equal to two hogsheads. One hogshead is 63 US gallons.
So, a buttload is 126 US gallons, or approximately 477 liters (or litres).
Or, one centibuttload is just under five liters.
Dan Jones shared 7 months ago
We often fear the future, the unknown. But a true warrior faces forward, confident that their strength and honor will help shape that future. Why should someone who carries their own light ever be afraid of the dark?
I think I'm going to fly the flag at half mast on January 20th.
https://youtube.com/shorts/U_i6PyNf_AQ
Now I understand the Electoral College.
Dan Jones shared 7 months ago
One of the last coal-powered sheep.
Most sheep are all electric now.
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A photograph of a sheep in a field with lambs around it. The sheep appears to be giving out a long plume of smoke, an illusion caused by a train, or similar, hidden in the distance behind it
Dan Jones shared 7 months ago
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Odo from Star Trek DS9 saying, "It has been my observation that one of the prices of giving people the freedom of choice is that sometimes they make the wrong choice."
Dan Jones shared 7 months agoWhen we live through difficult times it can be easy to succumb to despair, to see nothing but darkness on the horizon. But one day, in happier times, songs will be sung of those who persevered. Strive to be sung about as one who brought hope, and carried light over that horizon.
Maybe I should move to the Virgin Islands. President-elect Drumpf doesn't even know it's part of the US. Might be safe from him there.
US politics
US politics
How many votes were won by propaganda by Russian bots on 𝕏?
How many did Elon Musk (who promised to get rid of the bots) let slide because they helped his favorite Commander-in-Cheetos?
US Politics
US Politics
The second person to do a thing will never be as impressive as the first.
It's not particularly impressive that Trump will be the second president to serve a second non-consecutive term.
It is "impressive" (straining that word a bit) that he'll be the first convicted felon to be elected president.
Dark humor about US politics
Dark humor about US politics
Vladimir Putin re-elected President of the United States
https://www.legorafi.fr/2024/11/06/vladimir-poutine-reelu-president-des-etats-unis/
Dan Jones shared 7 months ago
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A digital painting comic panel of Pepper&Carrot. It's a remix of a well-known meme. Pepper, still looking like a big achievement was done, has an introspective sight on the floor while being at a bar, with tea. She says: "What a week, huh?", on her side with a motion as she just entered the panel, Shichimi replies: "Pepper, it's Wednesday". Carrot looks at the tea and wonder if it is not something else.
Dan Jones shared 7 months ago
So
I come from Malaysia & from 2008, when the govt in power for decades were shaken by a huge opposition win, the people endured stolen elections, gerrymandering, riot police, murders (yes, not kidding) of political opponents and innocents, coups, teens & social media being used to incite something even worse that America's Jan 6...and yet today we have a leader from that same opposition party.
What I am saying is, it is not the end yet. Don't treat it like it is, ok? We didn't.
Dan Jones shared 7 months ago
Sorry, but there'll be no context-free comic book panel of the day today. Instead, please accept three panels containing *too* much context, for they've captured today's mood.
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Three panels from the end of the Marvel Comics adaptation of Planet of the Apes, published in Planet of the Apes #6 (March 1975), with pencils by George Tuska, inks by Mike Esposito, and words by Doug Moench. It shows a man on the beach seen through the wreckage of the Statue of Liberty, moving into close-up through the three panels. Three words are spoken, one per panel: "Those -- damn -- FOOLS!"
Frodo: I wish none of this had happened.
Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
Dan Jones shared 7 months ago
I am 40 and I vow to keep better care of my health because I intend to outlive this shit.
Dan Jones shared 7 months ago
