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Mike - Towards a Metric America!
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An American who fights for British Rail.

Also big on manga/anime.

He/Him
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"Rescue Wings", A JASDF pilot wanting to be a fighter pilot finds himself assigned to fly a search/rescue helicopter.

2006 anime, no official EN release. Found it from an AMV I stumbled upon ~2 years ago.
Promo image for anime, "Rescue Wings", showing the main character, a JASDF pilot in his flight suit, and a woman in a blue suit, his high school friend/lover, a yellow and white rescue helicopter flies in the background of a bright blue cloudy sky.
December 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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@terrible.moe, Columbo has encountered mahjong.

Don't think he'll be playing it, sadly.
I feel like that would be something to witness.
Columbo inspecting a wooden box containing a mahjong set. Columbo inspecting a wooden box containing a mahjong set with curiosity, for a second time, as he says "Mahjong".
December 2, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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So, I'm watching more "Columbo", season 5, and some fucking guy is talking about economics or something, I don't know...

Anyway, this is the actual fucking dialogue.

Fucking *INCREDIBLE* to hear given what the fuck is happening right now.
Screenshot of "Columbo", Columbo, in his trademark tan rain jacket, standing in front of a very nice dark wooden door, the subtitle of an off camera speaker is "You're worried about the Chinese?" Screenshot of "Columbo", Columbo, in his trademark tan rain jacket, standing in front of a very nice dark wooden door, the subtitle of an off camera speaker is "I tell you, don't worry about the Chinese. You know why?" Screenshot of "Columbo", Columbo, in his trademark tan rain jacket, standing in front of a very nice dark wooden door, the subtitle of an off camera speaker is "Because they can pull out of the Olympics," Screenshot of "Columbo", Columbo, in his trademark tan rain jacket, standing in front of a very nice dark wooden door, the subtitle of an off camera speaker is "...but they can't pull out of soybeans!"
December 1, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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Footage of the fuck up.
November 29, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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I close the UAV launcher, greeted by just a wall of fire to my left, as I had fired upon a mass of guys stood right beside our building without even realizing that I was like 10 feet from firing on myself with the UAV.
Annotated screenshot of "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2" (Original), explaining where the poster was relative to where he targeted with the UAV. The player was on top of the building with a flat roof to the left of the sub, and targeted the ground at the base of the stairs of that building.
November 29, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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On a YT clip of "Castle Super Beast 348", I referenced old school, WorkSafe BC (also known as 'Workers' Compensation Board of British Columbia') safety posters that were just "1990 CONSTRUCTION FATAL - FLAG PERSON WAS HIT BY A PICK-UP" and incredibly detailed, brutal illustrations of the incident.
A 1990 WorkSafe BC safety poster - "1990 Construction Fatal - Flag Person - A flag person was struck by a pick-up truck in a traffic control zone. Safe Work Practice - Flag persons must at all times, protect themselves against traffic violators." The poster is dominated by a very detailed black and white illustration of a older model pick up truck striking a construction worker with a traffic control paddle. A 1988 WorkSafe BC safety poster - "Hazard Alert - Blaster Killed By Flying Rock - After detonating a blast, a Blaster was struck on the head by flyrock and later died from his injuries. The worker did not move a safe distance away from the blast area. He was approximately 135 feet from the blast when struck. The WCB reminds all people working around blast areas to take adequate coverage and be a safe distance from the blast area." The bottom poster is dominated by a very detailed black and white illustration a man being struck in the head by a large rock, as several other rocks also fly around him. A label on the bottom of the illustration says "Take Adequate Cover" A 1988 WorkSafe BC safety poster - "Logging Fatal - 6-88 - Excavator Operator - A blast to widen a corner left a fairly clean 50 ft. rock face that looked safe when examined. Not visible was a slip that created a 35 ft. column of rock. When the excavator started to scale the column tipped out at a 22 degree angle from the face. A 12’ x 12’ x 9’ boulder fell onto the cab. The rock was estimated to weigh 17,500 lbs. and it completely crushed the guard cab of the excavator." The bottom poster is dominated by a very detailed black and white illustration a massive bolder landing on top of a large excavator, obliterating the cab area.
November 27, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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A movie that takes place where you're from

I still can't believe this thing is set in Cleveland.

I remember finding out from @cinematicexcrement.com's project reviewing all the Razzies winners.
Movie poster for "Howard The Duck" (1986) - "More adventure than humanly possible - Howard The Duck" A large white egg on a black background, with a duck beak smoking a cigar pocking out of the egg.
November 23, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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What about the Custom Finishing's kits for a tracked crawler/dozer and side boom pipelayer?

(Walthers Part No. 247-7070 and 247-7274)

(Or were you trying to avoid building those kits?)
Photo of an assembled HO model yellow bulldozer kit. The bulldozer actually lacks the bulldozer blade and is more like a tractor. A catalog image of a side-boom add-on kit for a model bulldozer. The photo 'grays out' the bulldozer that's not included to highlight the boom and counterweight that the kit includes.
November 21, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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I often think back to this passage in a 1999 DOJ study on school security; where they talk about a Sandia National Labs study that found even motivated people struggle to stay on task monitoring security cameras where nothing is happening.
Experiments were run at Sandia National Laboratories 20 years ago for the U.S. Department of Energy to test the effectiveness of an individual whose task was to sit in front of a video monitor(s) for several hours a day and watch for particular events. These studies demonstrated that such a task, even when assigned to a person who is dedicated and well-intentioned, will not support an effective security system. After only 20 minutes of watching and evaluating monitor screens, the attention of most individuals has degenerated to well below acceptable levels. Monitoring video screens is both boring and mesmerizing. There is no intellectually engaging stimuli, such as when watching a television program. This is particularly true if a staff member is asked to watch multiple monitors, with scenes of teenagers milling about in various hallways, in an attempt to watch for security incidents. (exhibit 2.5) The Appropriate and Effective Use of Security Technologies in U.S. Schools ~ September 1999
November 18, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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So, I was looking for an argument I got in on Twitter, via my archive- Not important... I stumbled upon this old Tweet.

I got an email TODAY from this VN project, the first update in 2 years.

(I have NO idea what I was referring to, but I'll stand by the VN as a better use of $25.)
Screenshot of a 2023 Tweet from the user's archive - The_NavigatorBR @DirtyBilgeRat @renfamous The visual novel I backed like 6 years ago and I'm not sure if it's ever releasing was a better use og my money as there was a chance of a VN, and it was a one time payment of $25. (Or I could have gotten 3 months of Twitter Blue...)
November 18, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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And there were the E units with red/white striped nose, that lasted into the 1990s with Metra and MARC.

📸George Cockle
Photograph of BN E9A number 9919, a green round nosed locomotive, with a broad, white stripe along the side terminating before the cab ladder, and orange and white safety stripes on the nose.
November 18, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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"What the hell is this?"
November 17, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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What the hell is this expression?
Screenshot of "Columbo". Columbo is talking to a woman, Lillian Stanhope, in a black mourning outfit. Subtitle: "Oh, no. I'm terribly sorry. No. My name is Columbo." Screenshot of "Columbo". Columbo is talking to a woman, Lillian Stanhope, in a black mourning outfit. Subtitle: Columbo: "I'm just a visiting fireman." Lillian: "Fireman?" Screenshot of "Columbo". Columbo is talking to a woman, Lillian Stanhope, in a black mourning outfit. Subtitle: "Oh it's just an expression. I'm a policeman."
November 17, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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Going to be honest, shocked to find out this sign at New Scotland Yard is this (1972) old.

This seems like some shit they would have done in the like 90s.

(Also VLC did NOT like trying to screenshot this. Crashed twice. Actually shocked I got a screenshot.)
Screenshot of "Columbo", showing the "New Scotland Yard" sign
November 17, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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I also love the effect, you don't get shit like this anymore, which fair, but also, look at this:
Screenshot of "Columbo", where the murder has dark sunglasses on, and they've added image of his POV of the evidence he needs to pick up onto his glasses. It looks like his glasses are two mini TV screens.
November 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Alright, bustin' out the overhead projector and transparencies.
Photograph of a 3M overhead projector unit.
November 13, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Pretty sure I have video of what the numbers were saying about the economy...
November 12, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Also the first window's wrong. That's a passenger seat window. Driver's window's is a side sliding window.

(That said, if this was set in the 1990s and they fixed that window, they did hell of a job. Even the way the little marker lamps look.)

📸: Michael Rivera - CC-BY-SA-3.0
Side profile photograph of a Blue Bird school bus, with the camera flash highlighting the reflective tape on the bus.
November 11, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Me turning on MSNBC, and discovering that apparently the fucking Senate is voting on something right now, and it sounds like they're voting on dogshit.
Screenshot from "V-Tuber Legend", Awayuki Kokorone staring off with a dead look in her eyes as she sits at a streaming microphone set up.
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Third time the charm?
November 7, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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We have an update from the game, Strong Bad has come away with the Ford Bronco.

He is happy, but somewhat unclear what he's supposed to do with it.
Photoshop of Strong Bad, from Homestar Runner, standing beside Andrew Coumo's White Bronoco.
November 6, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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I made this at like 2:30 am last night, as I was explaining to a buddy about how MSNBC was becoming MS NOW in about a week.
November 5, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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I was disappointed it wasn't also Wales, but I also told off the other founder on Twitter in 2022 after he said something that was a 'thank fuck he's not in charge' bad.

(Don't recall what, and I long since trashed my Twitter, so I have no easy way of looking.)
Screenshot of an archived Tweet from January 17, 2022 by The_NavigatorBR, "@lsanger @seemsallbad Going be honest here, was a good thing you decided to leave the Wikipedia project. Since you would have destroyed it with leadership like this..."
November 3, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Every time Jimmy Wales is in the news:
Aqua Team Hunger Force meme, with Carl on the floor of a wood panel room with a couch and coffee table, behind the couch out of view of a window which is filled with Jimmy Wales. He is saying "so tired of this, friggin go away you freak". Carl is labeled "Wikipedia Editors". Photo of Wales by ZMcCune
November 3, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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What'd you do today?

Took photos of various things near me for uploading to Wikipedia, including an 'Fire Department Connection' (FDC) sign, to try and further expand our photo coverage of this.
Close up photograph of a rectangular red sign with "FDC" in white capital letters, against a burry background of grass and sidewalk.
November 3, 2025 at 3:45 AM