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Fantasy/sf author, husband, father of three, triathlete, cyclist, Chicagoan by way of MN.
I think about how when they sang La Marseillaise they were still in the midst of a war they did not know they were going to win.
15.02.2026 03:17 β π 966 π 202 π¬ 14 π 3The Olympics remain cool as hell. I know there's a ton of corruption in how they're run, but also i hung out with my buddies last night and we just watched snowboarders do jaw-dropping things for hours. It's neat that we all watch folks at the top of their game do ridiculous physical feats.
13.02.2026 17:40 β π 670 π 20 π¬ 3 π 0If there aren't ads being cut and airtime being bought with "Republican X voted to give ICE 85 billion" over video of the chaos and executions, it's just political malpractice at this point.
14.02.2026 16:10 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Here in NJ.π‘π₯Ί
14.02.2026 13:57 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0If the government creates a thing with the word "homeland" in it, that thing exists solely to do fascism and must be resisted and destroyed.
Just so everyone knows for the future.
Duckie was done dirty, but at least we got a banger OMD song out of it. A song that is obviously a cri de coeur from Duckie.
14.02.2026 15:22 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Itβs so funny to think about the fact that thereβs people out there deferring every life decision to this
14.02.2026 09:53 β π 11184 π 2602 π¬ 291 π 224Wife and I are watching the GOAT this Valentine's Weekend.
14.02.2026 04:49 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Good guys wear brown.
14.02.2026 03:49 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The 3 branches of government
13.02.2026 21:49 β π 1360 π 337 π¬ 31 π 17US Troops killed all the guards at Dachau for this kind of shit.
13.02.2026 20:45 β π 4649 π 1377 π¬ 57 π 27He doesn't get enough credit on the production and movie technology side of things. No person in my lifetime has done more to improve the moviegoing experience than Lucas. He'll always get Orson Welles applause from me for that.
14.02.2026 00:56 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Any man? Every time? Is it ordering Jimmy Johns?
14.02.2026 00:50 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Good question. I think it was in a special features on a DVD or something. Been around for a while.
14.02.2026 00:39 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Today, one day after Homan announced that his death squads were leaving here, Minnesota is unseasonably warm and very sunny. It feels like spring. Snow and ICE is literally melting, and fast.
I know. I know we can't trust these goons, but let me enjoy this too-on-the-nose metaphor for just a bit.
My favorite erotic thriller and it's not close. The most perfect script ever, deeply quotable.
13.02.2026 19:44 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0The snowtroopers attacking the base make the mistake of opening the blast door.
13.02.2026 19:14 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Echo Base having a lot of problems with rampaging Wampas. There was a big blast door where the stormtrooper is getting grabbed with a yellow sign on it with both lettering and iconography basically saying DANGER WAMPAS.
C-3PO as he is fleeing toward the Falcon reads it and quickly rips it down.
Star Trek sh!tposting. A scene from Star Trek 6. The Klingon moon Praxis explodes. Capt. Sulu asks, We just detected Praxis exploding, do you need assistance? On screen, a Klingon official says, Everything is fine here. DOW is over 50,000. This transmission ends now.
13.02.2026 14:25 β π 184 π 43 π¬ 7 π 4This is wildly appropriate β οΈ
13.02.2026 15:02 β π 5499 π 1606 π¬ 321 π 174Wish they hadn't deleted this scene because C-3PO does something clever for once.
13.02.2026 19:02 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Roses are red
Kidman starred in The Others
I'd like to know what the operation cost per person removed, both now and once all the lawsuits get paid (by we, the taxpayers).
13.02.2026 18:57 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0For me, getting a northern lights reflection is the holy grail of nature photography. Requires an absolutely incredible amount of patience and luck, but the results are hard to beat.
12.02.2026 19:05 β π 508 π 61 π¬ 11 π 1