adwright

adwright, 4 days ago to StarTrek

If you're like me, you have a long-abiding love for the sheer elegance of line of 23rd century Starfleet design.

And yes of course you'll watch 26 minutes of Adam Savage drooling over the most amazeballs 23rd century classic tricorder ever produced for sale.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX_-yrJgpH4

#StarTrek

adwright, 4 days ago to random

I haven't seen or talked to anyone from my home town in years. An extraordinary number of my contemporaries have died; the place is a cancer hot spot despite the natural beauty, and the #103 has taken most of the rest.

There's not a lot of folks would think of me for any reason but I think about all of them. And everything else, I just think a lot.

There was this one girl growing up, year ahead of me, was almost etherically lovely, blonde, willowy, with that grace from nature like she was

adwright, 4 days ago to random

Working on exhibit #002 of 126 of my great big graphics project.

Completed earlier this year, the project's first 18 exhibits were originally mastered at half the resolution of the other 108 so are being re-done from scratch using all the xp I gained doing all the subsequent ones.

I'm taking my time on these, making them as perfect as I can.

More than half done; discovered variation in the source material was not previously aware of so even now still learning by Mysteroning.

Huh.

adwright, 4 days ago to random

Oh, eh. William Russell, one fourth of the original Doctor Who cast from 1963, who last appeared in the series in 2022, has died, age 99.

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/jun/04/william-russell-obituary

adwright, 4 days ago to random

I think the conclusion to be drawn here is Microsoft wants to kill its Operating System business.

It's killing the world's dominant Operating System in favor of one that only runs on a small fraction of hardware, telling the world they have to junk all their perfectly working computers and buy only the newest computers with an already-compromised non-modifiable hardware security feature.

Now that new OS is explicitly going to spy on you and anyone who talks to you or sends you anything.

Win!

adwright, 4 days ago to random

That thing where you wake up from a dream that you spilled milk and you're still annoyed at yourself for spilling it.

adwright, 6 days ago to random

Honest Government Ad: Democracy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCphS4_Rp3w

adwright, 6 days ago to random

Lotta deaths in my world this year.

Being the survivor means you're all that's left of all of them and you're by yourself.

It means setting aside a little bit of each day to think of them, and keep their memory alive inside.

It means carrying on.

Being the one who keeps living means having to watch everyone else around you die. They don't really go on about that in the sales pitches on life but now I'm here I see why others wouldn't with a wee more empathy than young me'd ever've thought of.

adwright, 6 days ago to random

Another billionaire is headed to the Titanic.

This is the Triton Explorer, still currently in the design stage commissioned by one Larry Connor.

Triton's built them to go as deep as folks go and this is based on one of their existing proven designs, so they have credibility but even so that's still a lot of pressure for the clear acrylic sphere crew compartment.

It's got to be weird being that rich.

• Oh I'm bored, let's jetpack off Kilimanjaro.
• Right away, sire.

adwright, 6 days ago to random

Watching people with less personal integrity than dog poo has standing on their personal integrity is really something.

At this point it's all completely performative; they cannot still be fooling themselves if indeed they ever troubled to before, their followers are uncaring of integrity if it truly ever had any meaning to them before, and the rest of us have just seen them as lying liars lying emptily for personal gain without consequence for decades.

The way prayers turn into empty rote.

adwright, 8 days ago to random

Aw. Canadian mass murderer Robert Pickton is dead.

Talk about nothing of value being lost.

adwright, 8 days ago to random

Trump pulls ahead to a 4 pt lead over Biden in NPR/PBS/Marist poll.

Ought to make the Fuck Biden people all warm and fuzzy, like our Fuck Trudeau crowd here.

Whole world's just going straight-up nuts, huh.

Multiple covid exposures infecting neural vascular structures turning everyone into rage-filled plant life? Pressures of modern society being co-opted into a capitalist doomsday cult too much for hunter-gatherer brains to cope with?

Who knows? We're too busy setting fire to it all to stop.

adwright, 8 days ago to random

Another day with chickenshit foreign oligarchs threatening the world with nuclear annihilation.

These bags of mostly foul water would last less than a day. And good riddance to the lot.

Go ahead. We can hunt you like the rabid dogs you are in the aftercaust. Go all medieval just like you like.

Oh, you thought you were going to be the new gods, huh.

Nope, just the dinner show, toots.

adwright, 8 days ago to random

That thing where a demented rapist with a Hitler fixation has 34 fresh felony convictions and is still in the running for the top office in the country.

Q.E.D. The right is so completely corrupt and morally bankrupt that it accepts this as fine.

It's hard to know what to make of this kind of information.

On the one hand, it shows that humans are fine with literal evil if they think it serves their ends and will hurt people they hate, usually everyone else.

On the other, it's so common now.

adwright, 9 days ago to Halifax

Today, in The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same:

A robot has replaced the person with the lawnmower on Citadel Hill National Park, but even so, it's still a Federal government gig, so one does the work and one, inset, stands there supervising.

#Halifax #Canada

adwright, 9 days ago to random

Randy Rainbow talks to Trump.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMRxhfYSdhc

adwright, 9 days ago to Halifax

Nightmare scenario.

All you have is a room that's yours. No running water. No cooking.

There's shared bathroom and kitchen. 8-15 other users of each.

Your place gets sold to some young capitalists. You're surrounded by housing for the wealthy. Nobody is making new humble accommodation like you can afford. Only destroying it.

Then the hammer drops. Fuck You time now is here at your doorstep. Here's a tent. Go far away with it.

Playing capitalist roulette.

#Halifax

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/tenants-rooming-house-halifax-told-to-vacate-1.7218066

adwright, 9 days ago to random

Saw a report emigration from Canada to the US is way way up.

My first thought, sad to say, was MAGA nuts wanting to move to Red States so they could get more of that right wing "goodness".

But figured out it was probably the torrent of overseas folk flooding into here, flowing into there.

adwright, 9 days ago to random

Maybe if they sell naming rights to Victoria Park to Scotiabank and Scotiabank gives Waye Mason and Mike Savage new cars or something we can have our public park back.

God, I loathe our municipal politicians. They seem determined to make this city unlivable while constantly patting themselves on the back for what an extraordinary job they're doing.

"Spite Park", a fenced off place for garbage to blow into, is their idea of a public space.

#Halifax #Wankers

adwright, 9 days ago to random

That thing in the 21st century where waking up into the day is one of the worst parts of it.

Yeah, all that crap is still here.

No help coming.

The nightmares on waking are usually better than reality.

adwright, 10 days ago to random

Huh. So 2/4 of the Seinfeld cast were racist psychos. What are the odds.

Seinfeld seems to have figured out 17 year olds though.

The ones with big breasts are for dating, as a "dominant masculinity" proponent, and the ones in the Middle East where Israelis have no use for them are for bombing and sniper practice.

Last time I saw actors being this cringe was the 60s and California Republicans were supporting the whole killing [omitted offensive term for Vietnamese] any way it could be done.

adwright, 10 days ago to random

Wow, this "food professor" can't tongue that billionaire taint any harder.

What a dribbling sell-out.

I have no damn money, no future, no nothing, but at the very minimum I have my integrity and if I say something, anything, it's something honest, not a script from some billionaire RWNJ.

That other berk lives someplace fine, gets a salary like a lesser god plus whatever side plums his masters drop on him and I would not trade places with him if his entire pay day was quadrupled.

adwright, 11 days ago (edited 10 days ago) to random

CBS reporting the Secret Service is in discussion with authorities how former President Trump would serve time in jail in NY state.

The right wing outrage network says this would guarantee Trump every state, a landslide across the board.

Today's Poll.

What do you think?