Lawrence Miles
@lawrence-miles
That's nothing, there was a guy in here yesterday with a chicken.
This was my second guess and it feels like I'm taunting myself. #Wordle
The blather about communists trying to blow up Mount Rushmore has reminded me that in the Marvel Comics version of "Planet of the Apes" (1975), there's a passage in Abraham Lincoln's nose that leads to a secret cache of alcohol and explosives. The story is called "Up the Nose-Tube to Monkey-Trash".
(Quite like it so far. Imagine if Captain America had been created by European goths. #TheSentinels)
Also, Freeview 41's trailers for "Babylon 5" keep referring to it as "the Crossroads of the Galaxy". Since this is a UK channel, they're presumably inviting us to decide which of the aliens is the Benny.
I've been watching "Babylon 5" on Freeview 41 (because I want to see how well / badly it's aged, yes it was very exciting in the '90s BUT), and I'd forgotten how much Bishop Brennan was in it. Nerdfact: Jim Norton was in more episodes of "Babylon 5" than he was in "Father Ted".
On a lighter note: Lego have finally released a minifigure based on their early-2000s "Bionicle" maxi-figures. But how do they explain this meeting of incompatible universes...? Well, the figure is officially called "Bionicle Cosplayer".
The gateway arch of Stonehenge is so precisely placed that on the summer solstice, the Colonel's face rises directly above it.
Starmer spent his leadership chasing right-wing policy in an attempt to pull in right-wing voters, giving the electorate a choice of near-indistinguishable right-wing parties. If ending any sense of meaningful democracy in the UK doesn't qualify someone as "objectively bad", then what the fuck does?
Every now and then, citizens' familiarity with the figure of Judge Dredd reminds you that a patrol cop who claims his place is on the streets also happens to be one of the most important figures in human history, who LITERALLY ENDED THE APOCALYPSE WAR BY MURDERING HALF A BILLION PEOPLE. #2000AD #315
Turns out that nearly two years before the Lego Lego delivery van, there was a Lego Lego delivery *truck*. And one of the Lego Lego sets in the Lego Lego delivery truck was a Lego Lego Lego delivery truck. So, we've been trapped inside this since 2024. I'm sorry if I gave you false hope. #Legopolis
Further to the above... so far early #2000AD has seemed like the work of violently ironic leftists, though a weird exception is its use of East Asians (yes, we would've said "Orientals" at the time). Given its roots in war comics, the Kamikaze Samudroids are maybe inevitable. But it gets worse. #313
*The* theme of '80s #2000AD is race-hate, with a variety of mutants and aliens taking the roles of oppressed minorities in futures where "normal" racism is assumed extinct. But "Skizz" goes full on-the-nose with an evil South African ET hunter, and Alan Moore isn't above using The Accent. #312 #Slep
At this point #2000AD has been running a series of time-travel stories under the banner "Time Twisters", most of them turgid "caused-the-thing-we-were-trying-to-prevent" paradox jank. Then Alan Moore steps in, again. "Chrono-Cops" is a classic of its genre, best known for its running lobby gag. #310