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For those who have never seen Michael Jackson's Thriller, here's a synopsis...

Michael turns into a cute fury.
His girlfriend is thrilled.
But it's just a movie...

Walking home from the movie early in the morning,
they meet up with a lot of old people who just woke up.
Then they all joyfully sing and dance.
His girlfriend is thrilled.

Later at home the old people stop by to say hello.
His girlfriend is thrilled.
But it turns out she was just having a psychotic episode.
Michael is thrilled.

Trivia: Vincent Price does a rap sequence in the video.

Michael Jackson - Thriller, 1983

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOnqjkJTMaA

#birdsite #mastodon #qoto

A quick video tip for those migrating from twitter...

This one is 100% true…

Damocles is a fictional character so he can’t do anything.

More Patsplaining…

- The story of Damocles is a very old story and predates the invention of the airplane by centuries.

- The “Horsehair” hashtag refers to the horsehair that was used to hang the sword over Damocles’ head.

- “Cicero” told this story circa 106-43 BC

- The image of an old airplane evokes the anxiety some people feel while flying, as the plane just “hangs’ in the air.

- The hashtag “232-197” refers to the vote count in the US House of Representatives to impeach Trump following his incitement of the insurrection. After that vote, the impeachment proceeding was left hanging, with Trump’s fate uncertain, until after his term ended.

This one is partly true (I think).

As far as I know, no one has done the mirror test with a naked mole rat, but doubt if an ethics committee would prevent the experiment for that reason. And I think the rat would be more traumatized by being confined and handled than it would be by looking at itself in the mirror (but I'm not sure).

The qoto UI wouldn't let me mark the actual video as sensitive, so I uploaded a different thumbnail.

This video has not been modified. This is how thin this person actually is.

I wish there was more that society and medicine could do to help people with this affliction.

#anorexia

(fair use 50s clip from an hours-long video, reproduced here for critique and commentary.)

C-SPAN website has been down all day.

Anyone know if they are still broadcasting on the cable systems?

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