_Counterpart_ not available in the UK now on any streaming services, for some reason. Annoyed I missed the chance, as I like JK Simmons (reading about the premise: the theme of parallel realities intersecting also features in _Man in the High Castle_... Hmm.)

You just reminded me of _Instigators_, where Casey Affleck plays an alcoholic biker set up with an Ignition Interlock Device for his motorcycle. He simply recruited any non-drinker walking around (mostly children) to blow into the breathalyzer thingy before starting up his bike...

Mystery Box in space, with critters? 😀 I hope Murderbot continues for at least as many seasons as The Expanse (which was also excellent); Martha Wells has written several volumes of Murderbot Diaries, all potential TV adaptations.

I hope there will be a thorough analysis of the man's finances. Unclear what would make a father of 4 (or was it 5?) do something that will mark those children forever; he must have known there'd be terrible repercussions for his family...

So... out of ~500 million Europeans, as many as FIVE people a day decide to move to the Russian Federation (according to RU propaganda)? At this rate, 1% of Europeans will move to Russia in just... 1 million days! or ~ 2740 years. How will the other 99% of us endure such a rejection of our values? 😜

Is that your version of the Chinese saying "if you wait long enough by the riverside, eventually the bodies of your enemies will float by"? 😀 (may append: "clutching pies purchased with your lunch money")

My mother used to say "wherever you're picking up these stray twigs from, I used to cut down trees & split them into firewood"

That's nice... (NOW you're starting? I could have used the moral support a couple of decades ago...)

When you say "going to get my appendix out", sounds a lot like you're planning DIY surgery...? if so, you win Friday Night this week. Hoping you'll let let the doctor do it! Best of luck, either way.

Have to admit, the bar is set very low: just 1 question answered correctly (did they cost me anything? then NOT gifted)

Spent a few hours cooking at a leisurely pace this Friday: filled a few jars with applesauce from gifted apples; made Maltese capunata with piles of vegetables; baked an apple + rhubarb cake (how is that back yard rhubarb still producing in Nov? zombie rhubarb?) Prefer this to going out, oddly.

@lyda.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy Might be time for that young man (son of your UA acquaintance) who was thinking of joining to have a go? (you don't have to be particularly athletic/ strong/ agile or have 20/20 vision to be a UAV operator)

if "Capacity of signatory" refers to beer intake, you might be exaggerating slightly