Pat @Pat@qoto.org

The top executives at the bird site have been set free.

#freebird

#freebird
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGLVMBTIAPE

I'm so stupid that I don't even know what self-deprecation is.

#science #fiction #ScienceFiction #SciFi #film #movie #racist #kids #mysticism #creepy

Retro SciFi Film of the Week…

Justin Time (2010)

A lousy, racist film. Every so often I’ll do a #FTW (film of the week) about a bad movie, but this one is not funny bad, it’s awful and disrespectfully bad. It’s a kids movie about a device that can freeze time. It’s a trite plot and this film executes it about as poorly as I’ve ever seen.

For those of you who still don’t understand what I’m talking about when I critique a film with subtle racism, this one is an example where the racism is so blatant that even a kid can see it.

Definitely not recommended unless you are studying racism in film and need to see an example where subtle racism is clearly evident in the cast of characters.

Reposting this to the local timelime because I think it's funny...

(original thread: https://qoto.org/@lupyuen/109217111189037395)

#UKpol #UK #Europe
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Congratulations to Rishi Sunak on becoming the Prime Minister of the UK, and the first Asian and Hindu PM.

And congratulations to the UK for another peaceful transfer of power under trying conditions.

(image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/hmtreasury/49753509866/in/photostream, Open Government License v3.0, http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3)

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#fakealgorithm

This one is mostly false, with tons of historical references, temporal twisters, and other Easter Eggs. Have fun!

#history #streamers #twitch #youtube #FDR #repeat

Although an avid streamer, FDR was confined to a wheelchair so he rarely did IRL, instead limiting his online social engagement to Fireside Chats. His frequent use of social media, at the time known as “bulletin board systems”, gave Roosevelt an advantage over his frequent rival, Adlai Stevenson, who didn’t even know how to use a mouse.
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#TruthBeTold = A statement that is logically or literally true (or partly true), but seems to imply something that isn’t true or is just plain weird. (for rhetoric, logic or propaganda studies… or just for fun)

This was a great movie, but the ending was somewhat anticlimatic.

#FTW

#science #fiction #ScienceFiction #SciFi #film #movie #future #revolution #technology #deception #economics #dystopia #ageism #genetics #twentyfive #poverty #action

Retro SciFi Film of the Week…

In Time (2011)

This one is definitely in my top-ten list of best science fiction films ever made.

When I sat down to watch this, I thought it was going to be some cheap, exploitive film to take advantage of Justin Timberlake’s fame, but it turns out that he can actually act. And he’s a very good actor, world class.

The premise of the film is that time, instead of money, is the currency. Everyone is genetically engineered to stop aging at 25 years old, but then their built-in clock starts ticking and if they don’t refill it, then they die. People who acquire a lot of time can live forever in their 25-year-old body.

Highly recommended. (The film, not the economic system :)

(fair use image from the film)

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Black holes that accrete whole star systems are on a planet-based diet.

#blackhole #bigbang #star #planet

IlIlIlIlIlIlIlIl

In case any of you font designers are confused...

#TruthBeTold #nasa #asteroid #ass #hemorrhoid #extinction
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NASA’s planetary defense spacecraft mission (DART) has successfully altered the trajectory of the asteroid Dimorphos and they have determined that it will not hit the Earth. The asteroid is about 170 meters in diameter and if it hit Earth it would have caused immediate massive casualties on impact with a crater more than a mile in diameter and likely spewed dust and debris into the atmosphere effecting the climate for years.

The success of the mission means we will not have to face the same fate as the dinosaurs - - at least this time.

Here’s the full briefing:
https://youtu.be/Zhzn0U2m5wQ?t=13

(Public domain image of the Barringer Crater)
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#TruthBeTold = A statement that is logically or literally true (or partly true), but seems to imply something that isn’t true or is just plain weird. (for rhetoric, logic or propaganda studies… or just for fun)

It should have been called the Godot Constant.

#UVcatastrophe #time #QM

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Happy Mental Health Day!
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"NASA will host a media briefing at 2 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, Oct. 11, to discuss the agency’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission and its intentional collision with its target asteroid, Dimorphos."

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-to-provide-update-on-dart-world-s-first-planetary-defense-test

For the historical record (or for anyone not in on the joke), someone just bombed the Kerch Bridge on Putin's birthday, and the freedom-fighters in Ukraine posted this video of Marilyn Monroe just to rub it in. (The bridge was a pet project of Putin's)

This one is 100% correct. The spacecraft missed Didymos because it was supposed to miss Didymos. The mission was to hit the smaller, companion asteroid in the system, P-Didymos.