Notices by Mr. Completely (mrcompletely@heads.social), page 3

@Wikisteff @inthehands I say that too (really! It's nice to see the same thought out in the wild) and usually the response is "is reify a real word?" (yes, it's the essence of software)

@lauren certainly true. When I think about it, the iconic impact of that character is almost all in the first two films. The first more than the second, but the second one has the amazing loader vs mama alien fight. So I think the way the series trails off has been harmless in terms of Ripley at least

@lauren there's nothing wrong with a horror movie where everyone dies, but I'm glad it went the other way specifically because Ripley has become such an iconic hero. She is in the pantheon of all time great SF characters and especially one of the toughest, coolest action-hero women in screen history, something we still could use more of.

@Jerm seriously, it's so fucking lame

@Jerm that's a good idea

@Jerm vegas on a thursday afternoon featuring two midwest teams is begging for a low energy crowd

the tournament overall is fine but I feel like the hype that it's this massive win is a bit much

@Jerm dude it's so weird. They flex this new thing, it's working, and then they run this hard from the NFL? wtf

I double fucking dog dare you to be the one with a zag take on Kissinger right now. Do it. Scold people about being happy. It'll be great.

@Jerm people are starting to look over their shoulder and stuff. Like he's haunting em

Dame fucking Lillard though #nba

Hannah Waddingham will follow a person of your choosing around while chanting ‘Shame’ for $2600

With crowdfunding we could keep her busy for 100 days at least easily. How many people do we have to do first before we can get to Pete Shapiro?

I really can't believe this is only $2600 - on one hand an insane luxury purchase, but on the other, welllllll....

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#film #kubrick #madness #mugshot

I shared this privately before, but I just got the okay to share it in public. The Bluegrass Archive is online with a website and everything. This is a MASSIVE trove of legal live #bluegrass recordings from earliest days right up to now, which you can download and listen to for free. It is one of the greatest achievements of the fan-driven #music archiving community I've ever seen. I contributed a small number of filesets out of the thousands here. #music

https://bluegrassarchive.com/

@MikeRiverso "if only someone could have seen this #bluesky mod problem coming - hold on [taps earpiece] - well folks I'm being informed that in fact many, many people predicted this. Maybe we should start listening to them? No? We won't be doing that? Ok, well, back to you, Dave"

@alisynthesis @kevin @thompsonize @flockofnazguls I gave up, in order, hard drugs, cigarettes, and alcohol; but kept weed, caffeine, occasional but resolutely non-micro psychedelics, Nintendo, weirdly diverse music tastes, chaotic yoga, love for regular folks' art, being better at the internet than most people, and a supposedly paradoxical blend of cynicism and hope. Feels like a more sustainable version of the same basic vibes. We were right to not trust those [gestures broadly] fuckers though

@seitz @alisynthesis @kevin @thompsonize @flockofnazguls I didn't read it. Too many people told me I should. But imo the thing to understand about "gen X" is that most people our age were always normies, Reagan izod mall business conservatives, and the generational image of "gen X" is about the punk/art/political 10-20% who went hard the other way. A huge part of our age cohort is maga or close & always have been & the "gen X"ers you think of were always in reaction to that lameness

@blogdiva @seitz @alisynthesis @kevin @thompsonize @flockofnazguls a lot of millennials and a huge proportion of gen z are fucking awesome. Absolutely love the zoomer "all inherited categories are irrelevant, we're making this shit up fresh because it's obvious none of the existing answers are right" approach to life and identity

@blogdiva @seitz @alisynthesis @kevin @thompsonize @flockofnazguls that's my son and his friends. Fairly extreme forms of radical left anticapitalism for my generation are their relatively centrist starting point. Some of it's idealist foolishness doomed to disappointment but some is rock hard pragmatic mutual support shit with a vibe of wholesome care between peers that's just gorgeous

@thompsonize @blogdiva @seitz @alisynthesis @kevin @flockofnazguls fwiw this ties directly into how stupid much of the discussion about mastodon relative to other platforms is. This is not a capitalist endeavor. It does not need to grow to survive or meet any other external criteria. All that matters is whether it benefits the people and communities on it. Analysis in the context of zero-sum "winning and losing" compared to Twitter or Threads assumes a profit imperative that simply doesn't exist

@jef @pluralistic there was a superb thread on /r/AskScience about the engineering of that vessel that went deep into the many reasons that the carbon fiber choice was insane, including the fact that delamination from the adhesive layers after an accumulation of microfractures is a known and expected failure mode of such things under repeated exposure to high pressure. It was the best informed discussion I saw on the topic, sadly demonstrating the value that's being destroyed by Reddit