Unihertz Jelly Star!

Granted, I’m not certain how you’d define “good.” I got one just to play music on, and it might well have become my regular daily phone, but the camera isn’t quite what I would want. But it’s so small!

Betteridge’s law of headlines is an adage that states: “Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.”

I just rewatched The Long Kiss Goodnight with Geena Davis, and it might be that I’m in my 40s now, as compared to teens when I first saw it, but I really appreciate that Geena Davis looks amazing in that movie, but she looks like an amazing-looking 40-year-old woman. She’s got a few lines around her eyes, and they don’t go out of their way to hide them with tons of makeup or soft focus or whatever. There’s nothing obscene about looking your age, and there are precious few settings where actors are allowed to.

OPEC managed to fuck United States up pretty bad back in the 70s.

See also: Commando. And Red Heat. Honestly, straight men spent a lot of the 80s and 90s lusting after Arnold Schwarzenegger’s rippling muscles.

God bless Limited Run Games and their bizarre, seemingly-nonsensical business model. They made a physical release of Doom with a deluxe edition where the box the game came in could play Doom. They’re modern-day Willie Wonkas.

Well, we know that Tik-Tok also exists in Oz, so maybe there are more mechanical beings than you’d expect.

MiB Fans: 🗡️

That foot down at the bottom left is the foot that was always stomping on things in Monty Python.

There was a Star Trek novel where a Horta joined the crew. Not sure if it was the first non-humanoid member of Starfleet, but it was a petty great addition to the plot.

Frieda: What does the name “Aglet” mean, anyway?

Braydon: Well, a long time ago, “Aglet” meant “He who puts those tiny little plastic things on shoelaces.” You see, a long time ago, a man’s name was his profession.

Frieda: Oh, so a man named Fred Carpenter would build houses and John Baker would make bread.

Braydon: Exactly.

Ned: So what did John Hancock do?

[Repossessed (1990)] (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100475/quotes?item=qt0194949)

Starfleet HR

There was a young lady from Venus

Equipped with the world’s largest penis

She met a Nausicaan

Who was hung like a hoss’ican

And said “Let’s play Dom-jot between us!”

Scenario A: Maid Marian is born to fox parents. One of their siblings marries King Richard. Richard, being both a king and a lion is allowed to marry whomever the fuck he wants.

Scenario B: Marian is orphaned, and Richard adopts her, and she refers to him as her “uncle” because she was old enough when her parents died that she felt Richard was more of an uncle than a new father to her.

Scenario C: Marian’s parents aren’t dead, but Richard is such good friends with them that she calls him her uncle purely as a term of affection.

That’s just off the top of my head. I’m sure there are other fully plausible configurations.

“Evolution?”

The irony of this being Soviet anti-war propaganda is not lost on me.

Don’t buy clothes to make yourself happy.

Buy knives to make yourself happy! And then, if you’re feeling unhappy, you can go out for a walk with your knife, and find a cool stick, and you can whittle it into a magic wand or a spoon if you want to get really creative, and then you’ll feel happy.

We need never be afraid of the vote of informed Americans. It is only the ignorant voter we have to fear, ignorant politically, no matter how fine his house or how expensive his schooling. Such people have never experienced democracy; they have merely enjoyed its benefits. It is hard to explain what democracy is; it is necessary to participate in it to understand it.

The former Berlin businessman I referred to earlier told me that he blamed his own group, people with the time and the money and the opportunity to know better, for what happened to Germany. “We ignored Hitler,” he said. “We considered him an unimportant fellow, not quite a gentleman, not of our own class. We considered it just a little bit vulgar to bother with him, to bother with politics at all.”

They thought of the government as “They.” The only possible route to a clear conscience in politics is to accept political responsibility, either as an active member of the party in power or as an equally active member of the loyal opposition.

–Robert A Heinlein, Take Back Your Government

Every day brings us closer to All-Despising Baby Skull.