Thom Bowers

How I arrived on Bluesky

[From Wikipedia] Catbus (Japanese: ねこバス, Hepburn: Nekobasu) is a fictional character in the Studio Ghibli film My Neighbor Totoro, directed by Hayao Miyazaki. It is a large, grinning, twelve-legged cat with a large bushy tail and a hollow body that serves as a bus, with windows and seats covered with fur. Here we see Catbus with a manic expression on their face as they zoom out of the sky and across the landscape leaving behind a Catbus-colored (tan and brown striped) streaking trail of jagged letters reading ‘Maybe it will happen today’.

YouTube video by fermanagh76 Battle of the Planets intro (high DVD quality)

I adored BOTP, used to watch it back to back with Star Blazers every morning before school. It was my introduction to anime, made a huge impact on my seven year old brain.

And the opening theme still slaps.

youtu.be/acOnskcyrtA?...

I think there should be 13 Supreme Court justices. The original bearer of the Matrix should wield the Starsaber. One should have a beast-form. One has the Enigma of Combination. And so on.

YouTube video by fermanagh76 Battle of the Planets intro (high DVD quality)

I adored BOTP, used to watch it back to back with Star Blazers every morning before school. It was my introduction to anime, made a huge impact on my seven year old brain.

And the opening theme still slaps.

youtu.be/acOnskcyrtA?...

literally your customer base was 90% parents of young children who want a good future for their kids in which they can be free to be themselves, no matter who they are. you told those people to go fuck themselves. they won't be back

I got engaged with politics because I want to make the world a better place. Even in small ways, like the referendum we had in my town about more funding for the parks.

If your engagement with politics is nothing besides “one day we’ll get to kill our (ill-defined) enemies“ you’re a sociopath

Cleanest phones in the region. As it were.

Digital illustration done in a graphite style on a toned paper background. A classic style mermaid seen sort of in profile with her body in an S-shape. Her hair is very long and flowing around in the expected way. She’s examining a human cranium with a hatchet embedded in it. She’s set against a swooshy shape filled with hatched shading. Under the bottom curve of her tail some small lettering reads ‘Maybe it will happen today’.

“We all share something fundamental: we share the privilege of working in the world of ideas, of empathy, of imagination.”

Well said, Space Dad. 🥹

me: it's okay to be a person struggling with productivity during a prolonged crisis my brain: not u though me: not me though

Not seeing many comedy recs.

Hacks
The Other Two
Bored To Death

“We all share something fundamental: we share the privilege of working in the world of ideas, of empathy, of imagination.”

Well said, Space Dad. 🥹

good reminder that like 90% of the American public's understanding of military affairs, including some ostensibly highly educated people, can best be summarized by swooping your hands around while making pewpew and woosh noises

Our President hates our troops so much he can't even cynically use their deaths as props to boost the PR of his own war. All he can muster is "meh, they died, happens, will happen more". He might as well be wearing the "I Really Don't Care, Do U?" jacket when those flag-covered coffins come home.

A photo of a light-colored cat with a gray face and ears and wide blue eyes. Unknown forces are holding up to the cat’s ear the handset of a beige antique-type touch tone phone. A rectangular speech bubble with a jagged tail has been drawn on the photo to indicate it is the sound coming out of the handset. Words inside the bubble read, ‘Maybe it will happen today…’

Star Trek TNG “Darmok” meme. Caption reads “CAPTAIN AMERICA, HAVING UNDERSTOOD THE REFERENCE!”

RABBIT RABBIT, LISA!!!

I DID NOT HIT HER! I DID NOT!

Never beating the allegations

YouTube video by moviebob This Movie Exists - HOPALONG CASSIDY

Spoon feeding from @thombowers.bsky.social

youtu.be/Y4KcKvDer-U?...

EP 608: Elk Skirt (The Peter Anthony Holder Story) Podcast Episode · The Spoon · February 20 · 1h 8m

The Spoon stirs again, with @paholder.bsky.social joining in to provide copious quantities of CanCon. Listen up!

The Norman Rockwell painting meme of that guy standing up like "oooh, look at me, I have 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘴; blah blah blah"

I have sciatica, so I have to periodically stand up to stretch my muscles. It's not always an expression of my personal beliefs.

Murdock: "What have you found?"

"These red lights keep moving back and forth. This seems to have no function."

M: "That’s impossible, it must have some sort of function. Why would the government spend billions of dollars into a thing with red lights which keeps going back and forth?"

Black and white digital illustration on a warm gray mottled background. Stout, indeterminately goth-y serif lettering filling out a shield-like shape with some decorative additions top and bottom. Like lettering you’d see on an overly ambitious gravestone or an overly sincere tattoo. Kind of runic. Kind of metal. And a little Victorian with flourishes and vines twisting through the spaces. It reads ‘Maybe it will happen today’.

Not only do a bunch of people interpret a description of X as an endorsement of X, but you can literally include “fuck this stupid X” in your post and it still gets treated as an endorsement.

“Everyone is twelve” remains undefeated.

David Lynch saying ‘One day, the sadness will end. But I don’t think today’s the day.’

A trip to the theater to see if the YouTube guy made a real movie (he did!) and revisiting a childhood favorite on Blu-ray to see if it holds up (it does!)

In between, still very much in Oscars catchup mode. Dug both movies (and their nominated performances) quite a bit.