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Bradford, Ohio, USAwhatever.scalzi.comJoined March 2008

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Tonight's sunset, faraway and close up.
The sun is setting behind a thundercloud and throwing our crepuscular lightning thereby. There's also a flare due to a (probably) smudged lens.
The sun nestled in deeply orange clouds.
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That said, inasmuch as the current GOP position on climate change is "fuck it, shove some more coal into the burners, let's see if we can get to 600ppm of CO2 by 2030, who needs that liberal Eastern Seaboard anyway," yeah, maybe vote blue for a bit here, folks
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(Also, as a reminder, I did in fact address this very topic in a tweet thread last month: )
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1. In a tweet I can't now find, someone asked why there were no apocalyptic scenarios featuring progressives/liberals in "Three Robots: Exit Strategies." WELL, since it's been asked... (NOTE: vague spoilers ahead, and these are my thoughts ONLY, not representing anyone else's.)
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A scene from "Three Robots: Exit Strategies"
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The irony of whining about this the day after every single Republican senator voted against a hugely significant climate bill is absolutely delicious to me, by all means, please continue
"Some episodes of Love Death & Robots are visual and thematic feasts, and then in other episodes some robots turn to the camera and say 'The humans are extinct because they didn't vote blue no matter who'"
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Smudge has been informed that it is International Cat Day. He confirms that in any country, he is a cat.
Smudge, International Cat of Nappery!
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The reason I penned the observation "The failure mode of 'clever' is 'asshole'" is that I of all people need to be reminded of this fact on a regular - honestly, almost daily - basis. In other news, I have just deleted a unposted tweet I thought was very clever indeed.
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2. ... so you not knowing someone is the default, not the exception. I've been on the receiving end of a dismissive "who?!?" often over the years, but I know my own level of fame (not much), and also, don't mind that, of all people, that one jerk has not heard of me. It's fine.
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1. A gentle reminder, if one is needed, that if you are saying "I've never heard of them" as a way to slight/insult someone, it's not a very effective insult, and says more about the boundaries of your interest/perception than anything else. Almost no one is known by everyone...
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Today in Things The Internet Sends Me: Disco balls! You know, for the church. Thanks, The Internet!
Four mirrored disco balls of varying sizes.
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I watched Xanadu once, and once was enough. The soundtrack, on the other hand, I played daily for through much of 1980, and not only because it was one of three LPs that I actually owned at the time.
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Replying to @scalzi
One of the things that the streaming generation will never know is the weirdness of turning on the TV on a lazy Sunday afternoon and discovering that the only thing on (other than sportsball) is a movie about a roller-skating Greek muse.
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Screenwriter shares his backup employment plan
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True Story: I once held the record for San Antonio's Fastest Sandwich Artist, able to make a perfectly weighted Italian BMT from first cut to fully wrapped in 39 seconds. This might be the dumbest thing I'm still kinda proud of.
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Those specific iterations, perhaps, although in general Cain and Abel are in the public domain and have been, uhhhhhh, for some time
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Do Cain and Abel count as DC characters? They were the “hosts” of DC’s mystery comics back in the day.
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I don't think it's necessary to have read the comics, no - Pretty sure they knew lots of people haven't read them and made sure those people could get on the ride too. That said, if you've read the comics, there are lots of little bits and easter eggs for you to have fun with.
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Is Netflix's Sandman watchable by someone with no prior experience or should I rattle through those books
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I've worked from home for a quarter century now, and I gotta tell you, my life is pretty fuckin' GRAND
"Malcolm Gladwell slams working from home: 'What have you reduced your life to?'"
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Someone may have been roughhousing with his dog on the living room floor and then their heads clunked together and he got a bruise and a headache while the dog was perfectly fine because the dog, bless her, had not a single brain cell in her entire fuzzy skull
Spoiler: It was me. I have a bruise and a headache.
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I'll have more to say about the Sandman series when I'm done with it (four episodes to go!) but I will say this: as Death, Kirby Howell-Baptise is utterly perfect, and indeed, iconic. She inhabits the role completely and now I can't imagine how anyone could be better in it.
Dream and Death on a park bench, feeding pigeons.
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Watched "13 Lives," about the rescue of a Thai kid's soccer team. It was stressful as hell, even though I knew the outcome. Maybe don't watch it if you're claustrophobic, but otherwise a solid flick.
A scene from 13 Lives.
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The Midwest starts at the Ohio border, and includes (but is not limited to) the US Northwest Territories. Pennsylvania is one of the Original 13 Colonies, and on the Mason-Dixon Line. It's Eastern, and Northern (and depending, Northeastern).
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Would you say PA was Eastern US, or Midwest?
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Yup. It takes place 260+ years before the original "Predator" film, and while there a few small callbacks to other films in the series, it doesn't need the viewer to be steeped in the series lore in order to enjoy it.
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Replying to @scalzi and @hulu
Can I make sense out of it if I’ve never seen a Predator film?
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About to view this small indie production on an obscure online outlet, please watch to support
It's The Sandman.
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Shit, just give them actual phones, they can't fling shit on social media any worse than humans actually do
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today on "the Internet sells the darndest things": a toy cellphone for zoo chimpanzees who see tourists playing with phones all day and have become jealous
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A page from "Otto Environmental Solutions for Animal Care," selling a "Talkie Phone - Primate Enrichment System" which is a toy baby phone in a monkeyproof mounting. It costs $69.60.
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