Tackman Babcock

@tackmanbabcock

Recovering from blinders of STEM, neoliberalism & fundamentalism. Enjoy film, sci-fi, literary nonfiction, feminism, philosophy, cats. Wish: dismantle reactionary targeting of trans people, Māori, Muslims, Jewish people, etc. Tangata Tiriti, NZ

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Tackman Babcock@tackmanbabcock· 26d

There's a 1955 film about Lady Godiva, and one of the cast members seems to be that guy from Infowars that exploded...

Maureen O'Hara and Victor McLaglen in "Lady Godiva of Coventry" (1955)

Tackman Babcock@tackmanbabcock· 27d

Hoggard probably did something like this:

A google query asking AI: "on a scale of super ultra prepared to incredibly awesomely mega-prepared, how prepared am I?"

Followed by Google's actual answer: "You are exactly on the super-ultra-mega boundary. However, without context on the event or goal you are preparing for, it is impossible to calculate an exact decimal score on that highly technical scale."

Tackman Babcock@tackmanbabcock· 28d

Thank you, definitely going to order a copy. Attached is a poem I came across a few years ago, that I find myself thinking back on

Hiroshima
by Vincent O’Sullivan (NZ), 1992

The most famous shadow in the world
is the fastest ever made.

The most ordinary of mornings
is the quickest disposed of.

The second hands on the frozen watches
the most accurate of all.

There are speeches, there are prayers.
The seminars and the journalese are endless

on their way to that purest glamour,
the sun close as a mirror while a city shaves.

Light, which is god and father, Shadow, which is mystery and image,

where have you gone, words, things, we favoured?

You are too close together. You do not exist.

Tackman Babcock@tackmanbabcock· Jul 12

Is it time for poorly socialised men to renounce the right wing?

Tackman Babcock@tackmanbabcock· Jul 9

Jean Girard, from the film "Talladega Nights: the Ballad of Ricky Bobby", explaining to Marsha Blackburn voter types that pizza was invented in Italy

Tackman Babcock@tackmanbabcock· Jul 7

Sonmi-451 from the 2012 film "Cloud Atlas", beginning to speak "That ship... that ship must be destroyed..."

Tackman Babcock@tackmanbabcock· Jul 3

A Renaissance painting of Plato and Aristotle, walking dignified in animated discussion with each other, from Raphael's 'The School of Athens' (1511)

Tackman Babcock@tackmanbabcock· Jun 22

the iconic final stance of the "Theresa May resignation speech interpretive dance"

Tackman Babcock@tackmanbabcock· May 29

Dealmaking legend Harry Ellis, from the 1988 film "Die Hard" about to do the deal of his life

Tackman Babcock@tackmanbabcock· May 26

bonus level:

google search result for 'write a javascript program to calculate how many 'r's are in the word "cookie"'

it creates a javascript program that uses 'split' to divide the input string around occurrances of the letter 'r', inferring the count from the resulting array length. Then there is a code comment stating that the number of 'r's is: 1

Tackman Babcock@tackmanbabcock· Apr 18

You bolt awake. It's 1565. Elizabeth I sits upon the throne of England. Your aristocratic heritage has not transmuted into any considerable wealth, and your future looks dire. You have a sharp mind, yet your plans consistently fail due to your reliance on others. Perhaps if you could just teach—

Edmund Blackadder introducing Baldric to addition, from Blackadder Season 2

Tackman Babcock@tackmanbabcock· Apr 17

Tackman Babcock@tackmanbabcock· Apr 13

Update: hadn't seen this new post til now. Trump's posting images of himself wearing a Jesus outfit and using magic healing powers on a sick man. The NAR is a cult/scam partly based on health anxieties, hosts 'healing rooms' around the world to tell gullable folk their cancer is gone (it isn't).

Tackman Babcock@tackmanbabcock· Mar 20

Tackman Babcock@tackmanbabcock· Mar 20

hold on one sec, if I can just...

Meme image of Adam Driver from "Marriage Story", upset in a domestic breakup shouting "Every day I wake up and tell my sisphus joke" before punching the wall

Tackman Babcock@tackmanbabcock· Mar 1

Why should this wet paper bag get to lead our nation, why would he even wish in that mediocre mind of his to be in his role, if his aim is so obviously to stand for absolutely nothing ever? #nzpol

Meanwhile on RNZ, Luxon refused to explicitly say whether New Zealand supports the Iran strikes or not.
Luxon was pressed on where New Zealand stands on the current situation.
After a back and forth between himself and host Corrin Dann, he
subsequently said "our position is the same as the Australian position"
Asked if the strikes were the right thing to do morally, Luxon danced around the subject.
"Well, the strikes have actually removed a supreme leader who actually has been destabilizing both the world and in terms of threatening peace and security in the globe."

Tackman Babcock@tackmanbabcock· Feb 28

I um... uh...do not think this dude should be making Pepe Le Pew

Max Landis upcoming films list him as writing a forthcoming film "Pepe Le Pew"

Tackman Babcock@tackmanbabcock· Feb 22

People have been reposting and laughing at this image over the last few days and it is NOT FUNNY. Pedophiles only look like this when they're extremely distressed.

andrew mountbatten-windsor looking almost exactly like gollum as he shrinks down into a carseat while leaving a police station in norfolk

Tackman Babcock@tackmanbabcock· Feb 20

pig mandible in more complete form.

Tackman Babcock@tackmanbabcock· Feb 6

sexual battery of a 14 years old female, fuck these people

clipping from epstein file EFTA00022664.pdf:

"On March 30, 2005, I was asked to begin conducting surveillance and trash pulls reference Detective investigating Epstein as a suspect involved in a sexual battery of a 14 year old female. I was advised that Epstein was possibly engaging in sexual contact with young females."

Tackman Babcock@tackmanbabcock· Jan 31

handwritten psych observation logs of Epstein July 2019 were part of this pdf in DOJs friday's release, page 3+ fileame was: EFTA00045963.pdf www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Tackman Babcock@tackmanbabcock· Jan 31

another NZ mention, though not sure how unusual this sort of thing is or isn't. Pretty sure I'd heard this academic is one of the top scholars in his field. Clearly Jeff would be interested. No idea how contact was broached

email to jeffery epstein dated 9th July 2012, from an academic at university of auckland

Tackman Babcock@tackmanbabcock· Jan 7

Life is full of opportunities to join the Cool club! You don't have to copy Greta exactly. Forge Your Own Path!

good hyuck, babe!'s bluesky post with a photo of greta thunberg, and hyuck's caption: they're calling her "the coolest person who has ever been alive"

Tackman Babcock@tackmanbabcock· Jan 4

See a bridge, post a bridge.

The Bridge from Bridge to Terabithia. I'm not crying, you're crying.

Tackman Babcock@tackmanbabcock· Dec 25

I started laughing like a maniac

Tackman Babcock@tackmanbabcock· Dec 18

i don't know if u want this but if so here's a flipped version

Tackman Babcock@tackmanbabcock· Dec 8

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

Tackman Babcock@tackmanbabcock· Nov 27

the dark lord meme with me offering as tribute the missing runctitional feature to factor fexcectorn

Tackman Babcock@tackmanbabcock· Nov 18