Kieran Madden

An entire stock of chocolate flavoured butter (yet another sign of the impending apocalypse), sitting in the reduced section of a supermarket for unknown reasons…

I can’t imagine why this isn’t flying off the shelves…

Got to see an amazing performance from Abel Selaocoe in Oxford last night, with a very earnest and charming support set from @daudi-matsiko.bsky.social.

Knew little to nothing about either performer going in, a fan of both coming out.

A great evening all round.

He was also the judge in Christopher Nolan’s The Prestige

A set of size 14 black cotton socks featuring various muppet characters

I made a throwaway comment the other morning about how I needed to get some new socks.

I came home from work that day to find my partner had gone and bought some muppet socks for me during her lunch break.

Good lord, I love this woman.

*Starts googling “how to do procedural generation”*
…
*Googles “how to do procedural generation for dummies”*

a man in a suit and tie is disappointed ALT: a man in a suit and tie is disappointed

Don’t ya’ hate it when you have an idea for what could be a pretty cool little indie game, but have absolutely no idea how to make it work from a programming perspective?

Oh well, one more to add to the pile of discarded “wouldn’t it be nice if…” ideas.

Because it adds an interesting dimension to the character without undermining him or contradicting prior information?

And no, go back and watch the episode again, the condition they are describing is clearly dyslexia (and I’m speaking as somebody who works in special education).

Here’s the thing though; does anything fundamentally change about the character of Spock when you learn he has dyslexia? I’d respectfully argue that it doesn’t.

I mean, I’d understand the sentiment if they revealed he’s been a Romulan all this time, or that he could shoot lasers out of his eyes.

Yeah, while I didn’t love Legacy, I still *really* liked it and thought it was a solid foundation to build something interesting off of.

(And that Daft Punk soundtrack is fantastic!)

It’s just sad they decided to jettison it all for a project that was dead on arrival the moment it was announced.

Dare I say it, as much as the first two movies are absolute and undeniable pinnacles of genre cinema, the same is also true for the Terminator franchise…

two men are sitting next to each other and one of them says totally illogical ALT: two men are sitting next to each other and one of them says totally illogical

And the telling part is that they’d always get super angry and instantly revert to childish name-calling whenever I’d ask them to explain how or why it was disrespectful.

I remember hearing this a lot when it was revealed in Discovery that Spock had dyslexia.

As somebody who works in special education, I thought it was a nice little beat, but for some reason the chuds started shouting that that addition was “disrespectful” and “destroys his character”

(tbh, I’m going to have another stab at the Thunderbirds piece to the left at some point in the coming weeks. So… I dunno… watch this space, I guess)

Happy Thunderbirds Day, everybody!

@gerryanderson.bsky.social
#thunderbirdsday

Wow, and to think I remember the days when he’d give you £200 just for passing go…

The UK for the last 15 years has basically been:

“Hey, remember that bonkers Lord Cuthbert of Dingleberry who thought penguins are made of cream cheese and that oregano is a cure for smallpox? He was hilarious on Have I Got News For You, wasn’t he? Anyway, he’s our health secretary now…”

So Jacob Rees-Mogg has gone from “Britain needs to reclaim its sovereignty” to “Trump needs to take control of the UK” now, has he?

Give me a break.

The world would be so much better right now if we didn’t write off the moronic delusions of the ultra-rich as mere “eccentricity”

I keep wanting to draw things every day, but I’m just… too exhausted these days.🫩

Maybe in a couple of weeks when things lighten up…

When you read it as “these guys aren’t Earth’s best and brightest, they’re just the only people on the planet reckless and desperate enough to accept the paycheque,” the movie does improve somewhat.

Especially when you consider how much it tracks with today’s Silicon Valley.

I know people like to make a lot of hay man ver the characters making dumb decisions, but I kind of feel that might have been the point.

I mean, all these guys agreed to sign up for a decades-long mission from a dead trillionaire without knowing anything about what they were going out to look for.

It’s not great that I seem to have this specific headache only when I’m in the office, right?

Gas leak? Stress/anxiety? Or both?

Side note I hope you all take as much pride in your finished creative endeavours as Homer dose in that gif, you made something out of nothing. A object or drawing that was not there before you tried and you may not think it’s perfect or even good but it was nonexistent before the attempt.

Ooof, this hits hard.

I… I had both of these when I was a kid…

You can see the palpable glee behind the performative fury.

They finally have a martyr.

I will not celebrate Charlie Kirk’s death.
Nor will I mourn him.

And even then, I’m still showing him a helluva lot more respect than he ever showed anybody else in his circumstances.

Has anybody else found the YouTube app is playing up on iOS devices?

I’ll select something to watch and the playback will start halfway through the video, or even just jump straight to the end.

And it’s happening on both my iPhone and iPad. It’s so weird and annoying.🤷

Robert Muldoon, gamekeeper for Jurassic Park… taking about the lethality of eight month old Chihuahuas.

Sure, it’s cute now, but…

Finally! I remember as a kid during the 90s Anderson revival being thoroughly disappointed that they never put out a Thunderbird 5 toy.

I know it’s hardly groundbreaking stuff, and positively tame by some standards, but The First Omen was genuinely one of my most pleasant surprises at the cinema last year.

As far as legacy prequels/reboots go, it’s probably one of the best ones of the last few years, IMHO.