Alistair Young @cerebrate@schelling.pt

I should also say that the absence of this essential character is my chief disappointment with Dune (2021).

(In the absence of other evidence, I choose to believe that he lived a long and happy life after growing fat on the blood of Harkonnens.)

So, as you may have gathered from my last toot, I rewatched Dune (1984) last night.

And I have a pressing question: what happened to the Atreides battle pug!?

We just folded space from Ix.

@cinebox

Hey, if there's one thing living in Kansas has taught me, it's that the correctest procedure for tornadoes is to stand on your porch and play spot-the-funnel-cloud.

A tornado watch has been issued! Everyone rush outside and watch the tornadoes!

@chaucerburnt

Oh, man, if I had to rely on my charitability to carry me through doing it, I wouldn't have lasted five minutes. Maybe not even one.

@chaucerburnt

In the interests of avoiding abyss-gazing and preserving the remaining tatters of my soul, I make a point of trying not to assume people are lying goddamn shitweasels even when it is really simple and easy to assume that they’re lying goddamn shitweasels.

@_thegeoff

It was on sale.

"Might've been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."

There are those who say that adhering to principles over pragmatism condemns you to be a loser.

Myself, I say it depends on which game you are playing. You may well lose the game of "wield political power in 2020s America", but if the game you're actually playing is "avoid becoming an integrity-void sack of shit", you're going to come out way ahead of the field.

@cinebox

Indeed. I cannot think of any value of it for which this would not be true.

@chakatfirepaw

...you know I had to know that to make the pun, right?

There's something special about seeing someone defend the Florida ban on cultured meat as "libertarian", on the grounds that it's a defensive move against hypothetical future plans to ban animal meat.

Much like trade wars, fighting bans with bans is another variant on the strategy of defeating your opponent by punching yourself in the face until they give up.

Or, as Nietzche might have said, "if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss crawls right up your asshole and eats your brain".

Meanwhile, if people are going to accuse others of working for the international Jewish conspiracy, could they at least call them "minyan minions"? I mean, come on, conspiracist nutballs. Put the work in!

(Given my particular skillset, "missile bus" is totally the name for my post-apoc madcap technical.)

Why do we call it an "ammunition ship" when we could call it a "missile bus"?

The bear discourse has successfully achieved its goal, if its goal was to make me want to go live in the woods with the bears.

'Cause they're the only group involved that hasn't posted concussively dumb-assed takes on the whole concept.