Pete
@eyebrowsofpower.bsky.social
Scottish programmer. Not that I mention it on here. Mostly here for bad films and political Posts
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in honor of the odyssey discourse, please read this post i have been thinking of nonstop for the last 24 hours
December 24, 2025 at 1:28 AM
in honor of the odyssey discourse, please read this post i have been thinking of nonstop for the last 24 hours
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“Pray tell, the Baron, what sort of gentleman is he?”
“Well…”
“Well…”
December 23, 2025 at 9:17 PM
“Pray tell, the Baron, what sort of gentleman is he?”
“Well…”
“Well…”
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i wonder what combination of microsoft writing ten billion lines of windows code with ai + game developers downsized beyond feasible limits + every game now installs an anti-cheat rootkit on your pc will lead to an extremely public disaster in the coming years
December 23, 2025 at 9:38 PM
i wonder what combination of microsoft writing ten billion lines of windows code with ai + game developers downsized beyond feasible limits + every game now installs an anti-cheat rootkit on your pc will lead to an extremely public disaster in the coming years
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isn’t this how Easter started
December 23, 2025 at 7:56 AM
isn’t this how Easter started
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Thinking about a type of internet bloke who (a) knows everything there is to know about a particular topic; (b) resents anyone less expert daring to write about that topic, and will slap them down if they try; but (c) never writes anything digestible or coherent about it themselves.
December 23, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Thinking about a type of internet bloke who (a) knows everything there is to know about a particular topic; (b) resents anyone less expert daring to write about that topic, and will slap them down if they try; but (c) never writes anything digestible or coherent about it themselves.
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Some of these are *chef's kiss* but I reckon the UK local papers might still have an edge. 1/
The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees
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December 23, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Some of these are *chef's kiss* but I reckon the UK local papers might still have an edge. 1/
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While I'm here: Paul Verhoeven's 1987 film RoboCop is a Christmas movie.
It wouldn't be entirely out of the question to interpret RoboCop as a western through the lens of Reagan-era austerity policy (and the Cold War-era containment policy that largely preceded it).
We even see the culmination of Nancy Reagan's life work through the course of the series.
We even see the culmination of Nancy Reagan's life work through the course of the series.
December 23, 2025 at 7:17 AM
While I'm here: Paul Verhoeven's 1987 film RoboCop is a Christmas movie.
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>torrrent 60 minutes video
>open VLC
>15 minutes
>open VLC
>15 minutes
December 23, 2025 at 7:50 AM
>torrrent 60 minutes video
>open VLC
>15 minutes
>open VLC
>15 minutes
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This is a great PHOTO ESSAY on “solar hockey stick of hope”, and countries breaking free of oil and gas dependence.
IF your country's media isn't telling you about the renewables global boom, then consider why....
www.science.org/content/arti...
bsky.app/profile/scie...
IF your country's media isn't telling you about the renewables global boom, then consider why....
www.science.org/content/arti...
bsky.app/profile/scie...
Science has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
December 19, 2025 at 9:02 PM
This is a great PHOTO ESSAY on “solar hockey stick of hope”, and countries breaking free of oil and gas dependence.
IF your country's media isn't telling you about the renewables global boom, then consider why....
www.science.org/content/arti...
bsky.app/profile/scie...
IF your country's media isn't telling you about the renewables global boom, then consider why....
www.science.org/content/arti...
bsky.app/profile/scie...
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*gasps and clutches laptop screen*
GIVE IT ME
GIVE IT ME
Galaxy Quest (1999)
Sigourney Weaver: “I wish they put out a director’s cut of the movie because, at the last minute, DreamWorks decided to release the movie with some of the more sophisticated scenes cut that Alan [Rickman] was in because it needed a kids’ movie to go up against Stuart Little.”
Sigourney Weaver: “I wish they put out a director’s cut of the movie because, at the last minute, DreamWorks decided to release the movie with some of the more sophisticated scenes cut that Alan [Rickman] was in because it needed a kids’ movie to go up against Stuart Little.”
a woman is sitting at a table talking to a man in a conference room .
ALT: a woman is sitting at a table talking to a man in a conference room .
media.tenor.com
December 22, 2025 at 12:37 PM
*gasps and clutches laptop screen*
GIVE IT ME
GIVE IT ME
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Currently watching that Christmas classic where The Terminator almost gets himself killed to get an action figure for Anakin Skywalker
December 21, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Currently watching that Christmas classic where The Terminator almost gets himself killed to get an action figure for Anakin Skywalker
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Half Ma’am Half Brisket
December 21, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Half Ma’am Half Brisket
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On the tenth day of Christmas, my Bigbot gave to me...
Ten Lordbots Leaping...
#12BotsofChristmasRemastered
Ten Lordbots Leaping...
#12BotsofChristmasRemastered
December 21, 2025 at 11:03 AM
On the tenth day of Christmas, my Bigbot gave to me...
Ten Lordbots Leaping...
#12BotsofChristmasRemastered
Ten Lordbots Leaping...
#12BotsofChristmasRemastered
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dog: (alternating between looking at her food bowl and looking expectantly at me)
me: look you have reasonable goals and plenty of pathos but what's missing in your rhetoric is any coherent theory of change
dog: *whines*
me: see all you can do is double down on methods already demonstrated fruitless
me: look you have reasonable goals and plenty of pathos but what's missing in your rhetoric is any coherent theory of change
dog: *whines*
me: see all you can do is double down on methods already demonstrated fruitless
December 20, 2025 at 11:21 PM
dog: (alternating between looking at her food bowl and looking expectantly at me)
me: look you have reasonable goals and plenty of pathos but what's missing in your rhetoric is any coherent theory of change
dog: *whines*
me: see all you can do is double down on methods already demonstrated fruitless
me: look you have reasonable goals and plenty of pathos but what's missing in your rhetoric is any coherent theory of change
dog: *whines*
me: see all you can do is double down on methods already demonstrated fruitless
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Watched MANCUNIAN MAN: THE LEGENDARY LIFE OF CLIFF TWEMLOW (2023) the 7️⃣1️⃣1️⃣th film I've seen with an exploding helicopter.
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Only had a vague awareness of Cliff Twemlow going so this documentary was an absolute treat.
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Only had a vague awareness of Cliff Twemlow going so this documentary was an absolute treat.
December 21, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Watched MANCUNIAN MAN: THE LEGENDARY LIFE OF CLIFF TWEMLOW (2023) the 7️⃣1️⃣1️⃣th film I've seen with an exploding helicopter.
🚁💥📽️
Only had a vague awareness of Cliff Twemlow going so this documentary was an absolute treat.
🚁💥📽️
Only had a vague awareness of Cliff Twemlow going so this documentary was an absolute treat.
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I feel like I'm going to get a lot of use out of this Pluribus screencap
December 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I feel like I'm going to get a lot of use out of this Pluribus screencap
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Norman Rockwell, American Artist, 1894-1978
Tired Salesgirl on Christmas Eve, 1947, Oil on Canvas, 77.2x71.8 cm, Private Collection
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
Tired Salesgirl on Christmas Eve, 1947, Oil on Canvas, 77.2x71.8 cm, Private Collection
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
December 21, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Norman Rockwell, American Artist, 1894-1978
Tired Salesgirl on Christmas Eve, 1947, Oil on Canvas, 77.2x71.8 cm, Private Collection
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
Tired Salesgirl on Christmas Eve, 1947, Oil on Canvas, 77.2x71.8 cm, Private Collection
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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james cameron makes seventeen billion dollars a movie because he has median american voter politics like no one else on earth and commits to them fully despite them being the most incoherent ideas on earth
December 20, 2025 at 10:17 AM
james cameron makes seventeen billion dollars a movie because he has median american voter politics like no one else on earth and commits to them fully despite them being the most incoherent ideas on earth
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Donald Duck and Daffy Duck in WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT?
I also adore Droopy's cameo in the same film
I also adore Droopy's cameo in the same film
December 20, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Donald Duck and Daffy Duck in WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT?
I also adore Droopy's cameo in the same film
I also adore Droopy's cameo in the same film
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just thinking about how all the bands and actors and singers and artists are either comfortably posh or from wikipedia lineages nowadays
December 20, 2025 at 7:27 PM
just thinking about how all the bands and actors and singers and artists are either comfortably posh or from wikipedia lineages nowadays
Wait, *this* is what was in those files?
Does anyone wanna see a really good Getty image of Rita Moreno and Sam The Eagle having dinner in 1979?
December 20, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Wait, *this* is what was in those files?
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December 20, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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This is a personal favourite, heard it a while ago and love it from so many directions.
Okay, I’m breaking my promise (sorry) because I forgot one of my favourites, which is a Nigerian way of disparaging someone’s intellect that goes “why are you such a Dundee United?” Dundee has been synonymous with being idiotic ever since Dundee United’s disastrous West African tour in the 1970s.
December 20, 2025 at 1:19 AM
This is a personal favourite, heard it a while ago and love it from so many directions.