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@valondar.bsky.social
@VK_HM on twitter, Val (or valondar) most places. Autistic. Trans woman. (she/her) Dublin, Ireland.
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Miami Vice. www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-Aj...
February 7, 2026 at 2:43 AM
Miami Vice. www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-Aj...
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you wouldn't wuther a height
February 7, 2026 at 1:50 AM
you wouldn't wuther a height
I love the internet. I was just thinking 'I bet some nerd on reddit has systemised George Martin's loosely defined Thousand Worlds setting' and lo and behold www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co...
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February 7, 2026 at 2:07 AM
I love the internet. I was just thinking 'I bet some nerd on reddit has systemised George Martin's loosely defined Thousand Worlds setting' and lo and behold www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co...
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Ireland: A stunning 71 per cent of respondents favour putting a guarantee about neutrality in the Constitution.
Latest Irish Times poll.
Latest Irish Times poll.
February 7, 2026 at 12:59 AM
Ireland: A stunning 71 per cent of respondents favour putting a guarantee about neutrality in the Constitution.
Latest Irish Times poll.
Latest Irish Times poll.
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Never forget that Commander Sinclair was a real bad boy in The Gathering!
#Babylon5 #Bab5 #B5
#Podcast: linktr.ee/yumyumpod
#Babylon5 #Bab5 #B5
#Podcast: linktr.ee/yumyumpod
February 6, 2026 at 11:01 PM
Never forget that Commander Sinclair was a real bad boy in The Gathering!
#Babylon5 #Bab5 #B5
#Podcast: linktr.ee/yumyumpod
#Babylon5 #Bab5 #B5
#Podcast: linktr.ee/yumyumpod
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Of course, it totally didn't click the first time I watched #StarfleetAcademy's "Series Acclimation Mil" but after I had finished watching and went through the episode again, I noticed this right away! 😄 Screenshots from #StarTrekDS9's "Emissary" (1st), "Dax" (2nd) and "Facets (3rd).
February 6, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Of course, it totally didn't click the first time I watched #StarfleetAcademy's "Series Acclimation Mil" but after I had finished watching and went through the episode again, I noticed this right away! 😄 Screenshots from #StarTrekDS9's "Emissary" (1st), "Dax" (2nd) and "Facets (3rd).
Surprising amount of American TV in the 80s was secretly British. The Muppet Show (ITV). Robert Ashley's opera for television, Perfect Lives (Channel 4.) A third example
bit where i get really mad that the muppet show isn't made in britain anymore
February 6, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Surprising amount of American TV in the 80s was secretly British. The Muppet Show (ITV). Robert Ashley's opera for television, Perfect Lives (Channel 4.) A third example
Oh wow. Never had any idea an accessible version exists, given how famously little data there was about it. I wonder what else they have there. The Lost Media wiki page has no direct information on who was cast in or worked on it (other than Adams himself)
The live-action Dilbert sitcom pilot IS real, but cannot hurt you. Unless you go to the Library of Congress, in which case it absolutely can. defector.com/i-watched-th...
I Watched The "Lost" Live-Action 'Dilbert' Pilot Episode, And It's Clear Why It Didn't Get Picked Up | Defector
The death of Dilbert creator Scott Adams in January at age 68 was followed by obituaries with a predictably wide range in tone. While some were charitable to the late cartoonist, most were less forgiv...
defector.com
February 6, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Oh wow. Never had any idea an accessible version exists, given how famously little data there was about it. I wonder what else they have there. The Lost Media wiki page has no direct information on who was cast in or worked on it (other than Adams himself)
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i think we all need to step back and realize that peak art was made when neolithic pot in the shape of a pig was fired
February 6, 2026 at 7:46 PM
i think we all need to step back and realize that peak art was made when neolithic pot in the shape of a pig was fired
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it's also infuriating how smol bean ai boosters talk endlessly about privilege and democratizing etc. while entirely ignoring how selfish it is for them to use the world burning corporate machine to make their little art instead of doing it honestly like other people in their exact situation do
February 6, 2026 at 6:47 PM
it's also infuriating how smol bean ai boosters talk endlessly about privilege and democratizing etc. while entirely ignoring how selfish it is for them to use the world burning corporate machine to make their little art instead of doing it honestly like other people in their exact situation do
Picard was listening to Les Troyens in First Contact. He knew ball, as the kids say, a grand opera not truly appreciated until long after Berlioz had passed.
During the first mock dinner scene in #StarfleetAcademy's "Series Acclimation Mil"⬆️, the aria "Habanera" from Georges Bizet's Carmen is heard in the background. This is (finally) the first time music composed by Bizet is heard on #StarTrek. 😄
www.ex-astris-scientia.org/database/cla...
www.ex-astris-scientia.org/database/cla...
February 6, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Picard was listening to Les Troyens in First Contact. He knew ball, as the kids say, a grand opera not truly appreciated until long after Berlioz had passed.
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[extremely 1980s stand up comic making a humorous observation like how they should make the whole plane out of the same material as the black box voice]
they should make the whole work week out of the same material as Whiskey Fridays with Tony Dookiepill
they should make the whole work week out of the same material as Whiskey Fridays with Tony Dookiepill
February 6, 2026 at 3:49 PM
[extremely 1980s stand up comic making a humorous observation like how they should make the whole plane out of the same material as the black box voice]
they should make the whole work week out of the same material as Whiskey Fridays with Tony Dookiepill
they should make the whole work week out of the same material as Whiskey Fridays with Tony Dookiepill
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This is what the WaPo lost its entire foreign affairs press corps for?
February 6, 2026 at 12:58 PM
This is what the WaPo lost its entire foreign affairs press corps for?
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Prey (Dan Trachtenberg)
February 6, 2026 at 2:04 PM
Prey (Dan Trachtenberg)
I’m calling it: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is one of the Shows of the Year
February 6, 2026 at 2:10 PM
I’m calling it: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is one of the Shows of the Year
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Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings (1999)
January 25, 2026 at 1:59 PM
Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings (1999)
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The government is gonna look themselves in the mirror, take a deep breath and tell themselves 'we gotta get more racist'
New polling on Ireland's housing crisis:
- 81% want the government to build more social housing "even if there are local objections"
- 64% disagree government is making progress on housing
- 67% would vote for a constitutional right to housing
- 29% are personally affected by the housing crisis
- 81% want the government to build more social housing "even if there are local objections"
- 64% disagree government is making progress on housing
- 67% would vote for a constitutional right to housing
- 29% are personally affected by the housing crisis
Appetite for radical change grows as voters’ patience wears thin over housing crisis
Half of all voters say country’s problems are getting worse instead of better
www.irishtimes.com
February 6, 2026 at 11:16 AM
The government is gonna look themselves in the mirror, take a deep breath and tell themselves 'we gotta get more racist'
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This week’s Gist is about how the U.K. Labour Party unknowingly has been blowing itself up by following Morgan McSweeney’s FG electoral instincts.
They don’t know the patterns, but we do.
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-uk-...
They don’t know the patterns, but we do.
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-uk-...
The Gist: UK Labour's FG mastermind
The UK Labour Party is being run into the ground, thanks to adopting FG's election tactics. This is the Gist.
www.thegist.ie
February 6, 2026 at 9:24 AM
This week’s Gist is about how the U.K. Labour Party unknowingly has been blowing itself up by following Morgan McSweeney’s FG electoral instincts.
They don’t know the patterns, but we do.
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-uk-...
They don’t know the patterns, but we do.
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-uk-...
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one of my favorite jokes in arrested development is when tobias is talking about his marriage falling apart and says "well i DONT wanna blame it all on 9/11 but it certainly didn't help" (a risqué joke for the time) but that's how i feel about donald trump rn
February 6, 2026 at 3:31 AM
one of my favorite jokes in arrested development is when tobias is talking about his marriage falling apart and says "well i DONT wanna blame it all on 9/11 but it certainly didn't help" (a risqué joke for the time) but that's how i feel about donald trump rn
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ah yes the Tanuki Effect
Times article has an incredible illustration
February 6, 2026 at 1:46 AM
ah yes the Tanuki Effect
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TIL that C-3PO and R2-D2 were added to Tom Jung's original Star Wars poster by DC artist Nick Cardy.
February 5, 2026 at 1:27 PM
TIL that C-3PO and R2-D2 were added to Tom Jung's original Star Wars poster by DC artist Nick Cardy.
Gorbachev is dead and Pizza Hut no longer operates in Russia. The nineties is over
Pizza Hut closing hundreds of locations in 2026. Here's why.
Pizza Hut closing hundreds of locations in 2026. Here's why.
Pizza Hut is closing 250 “underperforming” locations as its parent company continues a strategic review of the struggling brand.
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February 6, 2026 at 1:29 AM
Gorbachev is dead and Pizza Hut no longer operates in Russia. The nineties is over
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February 6, 2026 at 1:15 AM