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ZombieSteven @zombiekudos.bsky.social · 2m

Great Scott!

preternia @preternia.com · 2h

LEGO Speed Champions Time Machine from Back to The Future is up for preorder at Amazon ($27.99) - buff.ly/aAZKunC #ad

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 16h

Vaccines are safe and effective.

Autism isn't caused by vaccines, and autistic people and their families deserve our support.

When you want information, ask your doctor.

It's more important than ever for all of us to speak plainly, truthfully, and directly about public health.

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Kelly Knox @kelly-knox.com · 2h

"I’m selling movies, yes. But if I can do it with art, with beauty, in a way that reaches people and touches them... that’s what makes me happy." - Drew Struzan

Struzan's painted posters for Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 2h

RIP the legendary Drew Struzan (1947-2025) 😩

Even though we were expecting the news any day now, it makes me very sad. What an artist.

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Peter Clines @peterclines.bsky.social · 1h

Just to hammer this home- there are no societal problems for tech to solve. We already solved then. We know how to do clean energy. We know how to cut emissions. We have the resources to feed and house everyone. We've shown UBI and univ. healthcare work.

We just need to care enough to DO all of it.

Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 1h

The greatest difference we could make to our future generations is not…any of the shit we hear people saying about tech.

It is learning how to care for each other enough to create and hold a real, lasting peace.

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ZombieSteven @zombiekudos.bsky.social · 13h

"A little longer than 30 minutes?" Jeez, these 2-3 year waits for short seasons of short episodes is really shitty. Disney's version of the streaming model sucks.

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ZombieSteven @zombiekudos.bsky.social · 17h

It's called Candy Floss in Britain. Nobody calls it Fairy Floss...

Daddy's Beard though...

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We're just normal men @wejustinnocentmen.bsky.social · 19h

We’re just normal men

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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ZombieSteven @zombiekudos.bsky.social · 2d

Hmm, yeah. I've always found the 'Newtopia' ideology of post time jump Disco's Star fleet a bit jarring. The zelotry of latter Disco seasons doesn't help ease that feeling and now it seems like we're gunna get a front row seat to indoctrination school...

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ZombieSteven @zombiekudos.bsky.social · 2d

I don't know why exactly, but I just don't like the trailer. It gives me the ick, but I'm not sure why, it just has an off feeling. Not sure if it's the world depicted or the characters or story. People's comments in this thread tell me I'm not alone. Maybe it's just a bad trailer...

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ZombieSteven @zombiekudos.bsky.social · 3d

Specifically Peacemaker. But I could also mention Alien Earth or the Ahsoka TV show. There's a few others over the last year but I can't remember off the top of my head.

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ZombieSteven @zombiekudos.bsky.social · 3d

Nightmare on Elm Street but Freddie Kruger just wants to get a decent night's sleep...

jj @lajellybean.bsky.social · 3d

The Shining but Jack Torrance channels his big feelings into writing a bestseller

Spooky Will @dc20willsave.bsky.social · 3d

Scream but Ghostface keeps forgetting to turn the voice changer on so, suddenly, they have to make awkward small talk instead of killing their friends.

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ZombieSteven @zombiekudos.bsky.social · 4d

So, it's another case of wait 2 years for a new season and then have it end on a cliffhanger with no official news of renewal. The streaming model really does abuse the concept of a cliffhanger...
Gotta keep you subscribed...

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 4d

Web based platforms are superior to apps, in nearly every way. I honestly think we've fucked it; we've overshot the "best" version of the internet and landed in this web 3.0, internet-of-shit wasteland.

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ZombieSteven @zombiekudos.bsky.social · 5d

The staff at the Lego shop had no firm restock date. "In the next couple of weeks' was the best they'd say...

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ZombieSteven @zombiekudos.bsky.social · 5d

And it's a great deal if you're a scalper...
I just want give Lego money for a product they sell. How have they fucked this up?

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ZombieSteven @zombiekudos.bsky.social · 5d

Yeah. The reseller market shouldn't be better stocked than the multinational company who make the damn thing in the first place...

ZombieSteven @zombiekudos.bsky.social · 5d

Nope. I just want to get me some Christmas Lego, preferably you know, before Christmas...

ZombieSteven @zombiekudos.bsky.social · 5d

Lego really have fucked the release of their Christmas themed Gingerbread AT-AT. Physical shop out of stock. Online shop out of stock/backorder with a prospective delivery of Jan 2nd. Meanwhile, I can find upwards of 30 on Ebay with scalpers selling them for £20-£30 above retail. Fucks sake #Lego!

Picture of the Lego Star Wars Christmas themed Gingerbread AT-AT box.

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Dave Probert @daveprobert.bsky.social · 5d

How many Jared Leto films imploding in critical and commercial failure will it take for producers to finally realise that casting Jared Leto is a terrible idea because he's Jared Leto.

Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 5d

…and that’s one of the *better* reviews.

FILM REVIEW
Tron: Ares is the worst film of the year and a new low for Disney

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Hal Hickel @halhickel.bsky.social · 8d

The same, but more so …

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 8d

I once again beg all y'all not to screencrap nonsense from the former Twitter and bring it here to dunk on it, that's like inviting a vampire in to tell them their fangs look stupid, maybe you're right but they're still going to fucking eat you

(also "screencrap" was a legit typo but I left it in)

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ZombieSteven @zombiekudos.bsky.social · 9d

Ooh. The lore is getting deeper and deeper here. Loving it. Borf!

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ZombieSteven @zombiekudos.bsky.social · 10d

Hah! 1200m, 1300m, 1400m, 3200m... place your bets, place your bets...
At least I'm sure how long the Executor is...