Well, I'd make another loom-related pun but I have none weft.
I don't get it. I just see NYC rolling coal.
Not your usual cheery self at all.
What a warped sense of humour.
Thanks for explaining that, now I can eventually see the OP.
I want more like the second picture by default (although I wish the tap would take me direct to the OP instead of to the reply and then I have to scroll up).
I don't want to see a main feed full of replies I don't understand because there's no context and have to decide whether it's worth tapping and scrolling up dozens (hundreds?) of times a day to find out what it's about.
I want by default to see the OP with replies underneath (perhaps the replies collapsed or collapsible). Then I can decide based on the OP, not guess by the reply, if I want to read through that thread or scroll past to the next.
Maybe it's cuz I'm new and all the content is new. Once I'm in, perhaps I'll want to see unaccompanied replies. But for now, I want to see OPs first, then replies once I've read the OP.
Continuing my "right from the beginning" rewatch:
- TOS S1E02 - Charlie X
- TOS S1E03 - Where No Man Has Gone Before
PS Data doesn't need to use his hands to hold the box up.
"We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our cultural mosaic."
Anyone remember when the Québéc govt wanted to mandate that the hold music on govt phone lines had to be by artists from Québéc?
Pretty sure it got cancelled once the suicide hotline started playing nothing but Leonard Cohen and William Shatner tracks.
Forgot to start with "Hello, bonjour".
What next? Data's [REDACTED]?
3. Data's [REDACTED]
In Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-94), the character Data was an android designed to be fully functional. Actor Brent Spiner kept his [REDACTED] in this handsome black box, presenting it to visitors, fans and random subway riders until his arrest in 2003.
Over the last couple of days, a few posts on Lemmy led me to read more about:
- Alternatives to (US-based) Wikipedia (triggered by a few comments in this /c)
- Gamergate & Rabid Puppies
Thus I found out about Infogalactic (I won't link to it); it's a fork of Wikipedia created by a far-right white supremacist mysogynist "Vox Day" (a sci fi author and publisher who tried to rig the Hugo Awards to show his disdain for non-white, non-male authors) so as to have an encyclopaedia free of "the left-wing thought police who administer [Wikipedia]".
Trying out Mojeek today, I did a search (population of Rome through history) and an Infogalactic page (History of Rome) was the 6th result.
Not only was a far right website I had never seen before in the 8 years of its existence one of the top results, but the Wikipedia page it forked is nowhere to be found.
- Is this common with Mojeek?
- Are there ways to adjust its settings so as to not return far right search results?
- And should we just stop recommending Mojeek as an alternative to US search engines as long as it does return far right search results to ordinary search queries?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_City
Exploring free-gratis channels on my Roku, I came across this "neo-noir erotic thriller", with a martial arts serial killer going after strippers managed by a "mob-adjacent" ex-boxer. Just seeing Tom Berenger and Billy Dee Williams in the cast list was enough to get me to start watching.
Then the opening theme starts... "hey, isn't that David Johansen singing?" Sure enough, it was. The theme is even titled "New York Doll".
And the cast kept coming: Melanie Griffith, B-movie stalwart Jack Scalia, Rossano Brazzi (from South Pacific!), Rae Dawn Chong, María Conchita Alonso (as just Maria Conchita), Joe Santos (Rockford FIles), Michael V. Gazzo (Last Action Hero), Daniel Faraldo (Above the Law), Juan Fernández (slick Latino bad guy in lots of 80s & 90s stuff), Robert Miano (Donnie Brasco) and then "Directed by Abel Ferrara". Awesome!
And really starring... NYC at its seediest.
EDIT: I found the website for the Roku channel where I found Fear City, it's called Free Movies +.
- https://www.freemoviesplus.com/ (viewable on Roku, Fire TV, Vizio and web)
- FreeMovies +: Fear City
Not a great selection (used to be much better a couple of years ago) but has some gems among the dross.
OTT Studio, the company behind Free Movies +, has some more free channels, e.g. Action Plus, Horror +, VHS + etc (which share a lot of content), mainly viewable on certain devices (e.g. Roku, Vizio TVs, Fire TV), but some are also viewable in web browsers.
I see the (Roku & Vizio only) Classic Movies + channel has Abel Ferrara's début feature, the original 'video nasty', Driller Killer.
Availability of these channels and movies on them probably varies according to which country you are in. For some films, I get "Playback unavailable" errors. As far as I know, it's legal. Apparently ad-supported, although I have almost never seen an ad (using a Roku, without Pi-hole or any ad-blocker).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXYfnWRp1Q0
- Show: Red Dwarf
- Episode: "Stoke Me a Clipper" (Series 7, Episode 2)
- Original air date: 24th January 1997
- Scene: Ace Rimmer wrestles an alligator out of an exploding plane without a parachute, captures and then surfs the gator through the sky to bite the head off a Nazi in mid-air and then rescues a beautiful princess from a Wehrmacht firing squad on a rocket-powered motorbike. I mean, do you know anything more awesomer than that?
- More info: https://reddwarf.fandom.com/wiki/RD:_Stoke_Me_a_Clipper
I kind of remembered that the European flag is not just for the European Union. (It was actually created for the Council of Europe.)
I had no idea that the stars are properly called mullets.
"On an azure field a circle of twelve golden mullets, their points not touching."
What I think of when I hear "a flag with a circle of twelve golden mullets":
Trek screencaps without context https://pixelfed.ca/i/web/profile/798960058146846397
On Oxford Street in London, a tourist asked me for directions to Edgware.
At first puzzled by his interest in visiting far-off social housing and knife crime, I quickly realized by his accent what he actually meant and directed him to nearby Edgware Road.