Notices by The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 (drakkenzero@retro.pizza)

"This" The Doctor says, with a grand sweeping gesture, "is Far Reach Delta, one of Humanity's greatest achievements, a massive space station and thriving settlement where races from many planets meet for trade, transit, and the occasional brunch. And if I have landed the TARDIS correctly, today is the first contact between the Humans and the Faldorians, a race that would eventually become one of our greatest allies in the centuries to come."

"Are the Faldorians blue with large red gemstones in their foreheads?" A voice calls from behind him.

"...why yes, how did you know?"

The Doctor asks, wheeling around to see Jessica Fletcher cautiously poking at a dead Faldorian in very official borderline regal gear that's just fallen out of a broom cupboard. "Call it a hunch."

"That's it," The Doctor huffed, abusing his hat in the process. "I'm taking you back to New England. I don't know how, but I am starting think you're somehow *causing* this."

#MicroFic #DoctorWho #MurderSheWrote

Step into this circle of deep fried mushrooms and I will take you to Flavortown

The MAGA acolytes that are still desperately holding on to the hope that Trump somehow is not in the Epstein files get so mad because they want liberals to be upset that Clinton is almost guaranteed to also be in them. And that's just not how we work, because it's not a fucking cult on this side.

If Clinton is in the files, fuck him
If Clinton is in the files, fuck her
If Obama or Biden are in the files, fuck them
If Bernie is somehow in the files, fuck him
If Mr. Fred Rogers is somehow in the files, fuck him, because that is exactly what he would want us to feel.

I cannot think of a single person alive or dead that I would not wholly completely roundly condemn if they show up in those files.

Is there a fediverse version of, like, Wordpress? Something for MacroBlogging instead of MicroBlogging?

I know you can use federation plugins ON Wordpress, but I... tend to get very distracted by design elements when using Wordpress with themes and plugins and then before I know it I've spent two months doing custom css and beating out-of-date plugins into submission, and I've forgotten to actually create content for the sites

I just want something that's basically... livejournal in ye olden days, but if it's already part of the Fediverse ecosystem, that's a bonus

#fediverse #macroblogging #writing

Time to play Norman Reedus and the Magic Fetus

The massive boat that nearly missed some random guy's house in Norway is still stuck. And I'd seen pictures from the side where it was clear that it was CLOSE to his house, but I had not seen this one before and it really sells exactly how close it is.

So, just remember, no matter how bad you fuck up things today, you have not fucked them up as hard as this boat captain did.

Can I pick the brains of the collective #horror and #movie fans here? A decade or so ago, I "composed" a theme song for Season 3 of my internet #MST3K rip-off, Cinematic For The People.

Shortly after I made it, my computer was destroyed in a flood, and while I had the rendered versions of the song I lost all the clips I had used, as well as the list of sources.

Any of you with a keen ear and an understanding of old B-movies want to give it a listen and see if you recognize any of the dialog?

@jacklaridian Yeah but in order to become Timeless, they would have to have... actively remember they have a women's division... and given her tv time... and let her make such a unique character... and let the women's division have ongoing storylines... and book matches that aren't just 2-on-2 and 3-on-3 matches to burn through the entire roster of women's matches in one go...

@ppb1701 @BeAware We have so fundamentally broken all forms of social media and communication that not being able to actively game SEO literally breaks some people's brains.

He even had that late 90s/early 2000s grimdark Regeneration that nobody liked

I would like to remind everyone that 20 years ago The SciFi Channel (not fucking SyFy) released one of the best worst movies I've ever seen: Alien Apocalypse.

Starring Bruce Campbell and his frequent Xena costar Renee O'Connor, it is an unchained melody of other scifi movie plots happening one after another after another for 90 minutes

🧵 for a plot recap because there's too much happening in this nothing movie to explain in just one toot

#Monsterdon

@BeAware The Fediverse, as a whole, is one giant plane that is both still being built AND in the air at the same time. Some people want to be airplane mechanics, building the plane under us as we go, others want to be pilots and control where the plane is headed.

Others (it's me, I'm bitches) just don't want the plane to fall out of the sky again, as they are getting really tired of slamming into the ground at near-to-above terminal velocity.

@BeAware What I settled on is two accounts - one here (still my main one) which is duplicated over to BlueSky, and one that's ACTUALLY on BlueSky.

The one on BlueSky is basically a carnival barker - it lets me follow people who aren't on here and gives me a direct way to (repeatedly) advocate to them that they should at least follow my shadow account, that way they can see the sort of nonsense I'm up to.

It's dumb, but it does work.

@BeAware If it helps, think of it as a "checks and balances" sorta deal - the same barriers that make bridging more difficult also help keep bad actors out. And it's not on the Fediverse to twist and turn themselves into a Swiss Army API that supports everybody else's protocols... if they want to make the effort to connect, we'll welcome them* with open, probably indifferent arms.

*Inclusion in "them" not valid in Meta, X, or Truth Social

Why did nobody tell me that there was a 1979 made-for-tv movie and following scifi series about Andy Griffith being a junkyard owner who builds a rocket to fly to the moon to "salvage" the moon landers and re-sell them.

Doesn't look like there was ever an official release, we appear to just have recordings, but we DO have them.

I present to you... Salvage 1

https://archive.org/details/Salvage-1-Series

LOCAL 58 JUST UPDATED

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=82sMwdFq2z4

Because I can change my password, and everybody ought to be doing that all the time anyway. But if the archived version of a web page from 2002 is gone, it's gone forever.

Or worse yet, what if they altered some of the stuff that's been archived. Might take forever to find changes that were made, depending on the scope and the amount of access that they have.

Archive has more knowledge in one single place than anywhere else in the world, it getting hacked "for the lulz" is like The Smithsonian getting broken into and having someone rummage around in the exhibits.

Yes, it's not ideal that they got personal data, but I feel like we're really burying the lead here.

@nocontexttrek Don't threaten me with a good time.

@BeAware So what happens on Threads if you post a link to someone that has their linkability turned off? Does it refuse to post the link at all, or does it just show it as a link instead of doing it like a quote?