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My only knowledge of Robert Pattinson comes from the stalker anecdote and this glorious interview fragment
Robert Pattinson being interviewed, subtitles read "It was definitely my concept to jump out of the tree" Robert Pattinson in a tree, subtitles read "For some reason, I have always have a suggestion" Robert Pattinson facing another actor across a tree branch, subtitles read "to be like, Why doesn't he just appear" Robert Pattinson being interviewed with a mischievous look on his face, subtitles read "just jumping out of a tree?"
January 21, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Reminds me of this comic that absolutely made me feel seen.
A single panel comic showing a man and son looking at a room full of power adapters. The caption reads "One day, son, all of these perfectly good AC adapters, which have long outlived the products they were originally designed for, will be yours.".
October 8, 2024 at 9:47 AM
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K'ranch!
K'ranch, a large, imposing alien with melee weapons on his back, poses for a selfie with an unconscious and battered-looking Brad Boimler.
September 25, 2024 at 10:56 PM
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Probably not the answer you're looking for, but I reckon the best narrative use of her look, and the one that sticks in my mind, is the moment she takes off the wig.
Lwaxana Troi and Odo standing next to each, Odo looking unwell, Lwanana with a serious expression and holding her wig in her hand.
September 21, 2024 at 6:12 PM
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I'm going to try to show restraint and not clutter your timeline with endless Star Trek screenshots, but also: the TNG finale (the poker game, Q), and the Klingon episodes, like Once More Unto the Breach (Kor's last words to Worf and beaming out, discovering the outcome of the battle on the bridge).
An overhead shot of a poker table, with the Enterprise's senior staff seated around it. Picard is dealing the cards. Picard with his head in his head, in front of Q sitting on a throne. The Klingon, Kor, standing proudly. A group of Klingons singing, except for Martok in the foreground, who looks serious.
September 7, 2024 at 9:43 AM
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I love how the series can integrate the serious and the absurd and everything in-between. For instance: Riker impersonating Picard on Captain Picard Day, Crusher drinking from Riker's head, the Magnificent Ferengi, Picard in Family coming to terms with being assimilated.
Commander Riker holding a small puppet of Captain Picard close to his mouth, as if to voice the puppet. Dr Crusher drinks from a straw protruding from Commander Riker's head. Riker looks... bored? Mildly irritated? Six Ferengi looking down at the camera, with varying looks of shock and dismay. Captain Picard covered in mud on the ground, starting to cry.
September 7, 2024 at 9:33 AM
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Electric Bastionland has a delightful solution to the "why are we together" question: everyone rolls d100 to pick their failed career, and the youngest player's roll also determines who the group is £10k in debt to.
A photo of a section of Electric Bastionland reading "If you are the youngest player the whole group is £10k in debt to... Walken Civic Gorilla Studies: You have a Civic Gorilla chaperone (5HP, d8 maul). It is highly civilised and obedient, but never violent and still bound by the limits of being a gorilla. If it returns to your Debtholder having learned something about the world your Debt is halved. If it is lost, your Debt is doubled."
July 22, 2024 at 7:00 PM
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This image is seared into my brain as a reminder that even top-tier politicians can be duped into believing the glory of some technology fad.

Having said that, Blair does seem to have a particular weakness for believing we could fix everything if only we could technology hard enough.
A photo of Tony Blair and Bill Clinton wearing suits without ties, sat on stage alongside Sam Bankman-Fried wearing shorts and a t-shirt.
July 9, 2024 at 12:42 PM
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Celebrating the manifestation of democracy the only way I know how.
A photo of a meal, a succulent Chinese meal.
July 6, 2024 at 12:24 PM
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"Probably true"

This election is turning into performance art, it's the only plausible explanation.
A Reform UK candidate has claimed the country would be "far better" if it had "taken Hitler up on his offer of neutrality" instead of fighting the Nazis in World War Two. A Reform UK spokesman said: "Through offence archaeology the BBC has found that Mr Gribbin has made a series of comments about a number of subjects. "They were written with an eye to inconvenient perspectives and truths. That doesn't make them endorsements, just arguing points in long distance debates. "His historical perspective of what the UK could have done in the 30s was shared by the vast majority of the British establishment including the BBC of its day, and is probably true.
June 10, 2024 at 2:37 PM
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I think I'm spending my day off well.
March 1, 2024 at 1:37 PM
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I wish we got the version of Picard where he solved fun little mysteries in the village with his dog. variety.com/2020/tv/feat...
You know, personally speaking, my own tastes and inclination, I always said when we were in the earliest versions of the room for this show, if we could have just done a whole show about Picard and the dog on the vineyard in France, with no starships, no phasers, the only Romulans would be those two Romulans who work for him on the vineyard, and no politics — just, like, there’s a funfair down in the village and they all go, and maybe Picard solves a very low stakes mystery in the village, like, someone has stolen the antique bell out of the bell tower, or something like that? I would have loved to write that show. Um. I don’t think the world’s quite ready for a “Star Trek” show like that, and there’s probably maybe not that big of an audience for a “Star Trek” show like that.
December 15, 2023 at 9:22 AM