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I think one thing about Star Trek that bears interrogation is that its utopian vision of equality is only made possible by technology that eliminates scarcity. Which means that nobody has to actually sacrifice anything. Wealth hoarders are off the hook

Robert Prevost jump a little lighter, Leo XIV come sit by my fire

This episode of Blake’s 7 (1x13) has a diegetic ‘previously on’. Not sure I’ve ever seen one before??

ObsIdentify says these are green shield bug eggs on the wall just outside my back door. How cool!

I was honestly contemplating shaving my head on my bus ride home this afternoon. Although I did not make the explicit connection with fascism I was also reading 1984 at the time sooooo

You can put washi tape over the Neil Gaiman blurbs on your books FYI (was there ever a more prolific blurber jfc can’t pick up a paperback in the fantasy-adjacent sphere from the last 20 years without getting a jump scare)

I'm old enough to remember when we thought Gen Z were going to save us 😵‍💫

Crocs in the early 2000s

Trump aides give ultimatum to UN over Gaza aid plan https://www.ft.com/content/f9d23764-152f-4434-a4bd-48ab0264ad09

I remain unconvinced that we are going to see significant improvements in the NHS. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

god it's so good

Don't miss this @zeteo.com doc on the murder of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. The film reveals the identity of the Israeli soldier who shot her dead as she wore her blue press helmet & vest in Jenin in 2022, and reports that the Biden team pretended her killing was accidental:

How many other people had no idea that the “there are four lights” scene is almost directly repurposed from 1984

Need to fall in love with someone who can drive so I can get a lift to IKEA

Honouring the ancestors

The low number for Con-Reform shows why you can't just add their poll numbers together and assume that's what a "united" party of the right would get.

Speaking of Sinners, this seems to be the first recording of ‘Pick Poor Robin Clean’, from 1927 youtu.be/uVM8MuN8CKo?...

I’ve been wanting to get into making video essays for a while but never quite bit the bullet. I think I might finally do it. I have an idea for a Sinners video essay building on something I wrote all the way back in undergrad

Two minute silence today to commemorate the end of a genocidal war, to match the eighteen months of silence from our leaders on a genocidal war

Anyone else going down the rocky road and all the way to Dubberlin or is it just me and all these vampires

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When people are like “YouTube keeps showing me fascism! The algorithm is fucked!” I’m always like, I have no doubt the algorithm is fucked but mine has never done that so maybe some self-reflection is also in order idk

Podcast episode on Sinners up now :) As always you can also search Panicky Pictures on your podcatcher shows.acast.com/panickypictu...

This is also my mother's birthday and tbh I think that might be one of the main reasons why I exist (my dad could not resist having a girlfriend who made him feel like he was in a Bob Dylan song)

Happy Isis Day to all who celebrate

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How come Passenger isn’t on Wunmi Mosaku’s TV filmography on Wikipedia? I thought I was going nuts, I had to double check she was in it

Watching FernGully for the first time and wow Moana cribbed from this pretty heavily eh?