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@kara@witchcraft.cafe @KaylinEvergreen fuck, now I'm vividly picturing some dipshit exec talking to John Carpenter and asking if there can't be a hot young blonde in her twenties there inexplicably to add "character"

@BernieTB I'm not sure if it's just me, but there seems to be a real dearth of local TV right now. I'd be happy to try anything that isn't another season of Rake

@BernieTB oh cool, that sounds potentially pretty interesting. I'll have to check it out!

@kara@witchcraft.cafe @KaylinEvergreen I fucking love The Thing. Horror at its absolute best: every character does the most sensible thing they could at every step, and it's just not enough to get them out alive

@BernieTB what is it? A doco?

@wion@writing.exchange I don't know about ISSNs, but there are organisations like Figshare that offer freely available DOIs

@squid seems to have deleted his account, sadly. All I remember is him being weirdly sympathetic to atomwaffen, and everyone mocking him for this:

@squid oh man, Jacob wohl used to hang out on a slack I'm on and his posting was sooooo bad

@rey @saxnot pro tip: rather than using stolen electricity to mine coins, try using it to run a covert electrolytic aluminium refinery $$$

@BernieTB trying to figure out if that's better or worse than my shamefully unsaved eternal notepad++ to-do list

@natecull I get the same thing in a slightly weaker form from Brits: "So, do you celebrate Christmas in winter or in December?" is a question I've heard more than once. Incoherent cultural plurality seems to be a real challenge for those not born into it

There's something about good body horror that I just love: it's clever and creative, can demonstrate real technical competence in film making, but at the same time it's normally far enough removed from reality to avoid being genuinely disturbing

It's nearly Halloween! What's everyone been watching or planning to see this year? I've had a great time rewatching Pan's Labyrinth and The Thing, enjoyed some new-to-me Cronenberg in Scanners, and attempted the woefully awful Vampyros Lesbos

@skulljudenfreund that's fucking metal I love it \m/

@MySideIsHumanity Dutch is fun like that: I don't speak it, but if you adopt the mindset of a toddler making funny sounds it's actually pretty easy to understand simple words and sentences

Anyway, there was lots of stuff like that. I get that it's a replica, but I just don't see why you'd go to the effort of building a big fake boat (pictured) without making at least a plausible effort on the rigging.

(to those who followed me for chemistry or whatever: it'll come back, but please try to empathise with my boat disappointment)