“Captain Video” From Outer Space

I found it very engrossing, despite not enjoying the Safdie-bros background anxiety or the A24 aesthetics. I still feel as though the deeper meanings and message maybe passed me by? If I had to summarise, it would be “we’re all insane, some better at concealing it”? Feels facile

Don’t think I posted about If I Has Legs I’d Kick You when I watched it a while back because I honestly don’t know what I think about it. Very very A24 in style (somewhat deregatory I guess), which kind of made it hard to judge on the merits. But regardless… not sure I understood it tbh

Much like Decision To Leave and No Other Choice, can see that I’ll have this bouncing around in my head for a while

Coming to terms with the fact that only I find the petrol driven toothbrush funny but be that as it may, I do 😔

Also Joint Security Area JSA (2000) absolutely fucks as a movie. Like so many of his movies, sort of on the face of it kind of hitchcockian and twisty but it’s actually about something much more interesting than the plot

Compromised with pints and wine, chicken to be roasted on sunday

I have kept the existence of the ghibli pee filter a deadly secret from my in-laws

Was going to make a joke about how hey I’d vote for my shotta, then remembered that an MP up in the north and not too far from here turned out to have a grand a day coke habit and it turned out to not be very funny (ok it was actually a bit darkly funny)

The virgin sticking with my plan for a wholesome evening roasting a chicken and maybe a movie night with a glass of wine vs the chad what a week that was eh, let’s get some Pints

We should never ever forget why they did it

I quite like Sheffield. even though it's city centre makes no sense, and buses seem like mere rumours, it has the juice. However every time I go there it tries to convince me that reverend and the makers are real and that I should care about them. absolutely not

But surely everyone is interested in fucking the anime horses?

Really need to get everything off google. I already use DDG but I never feel motivated to spend half a weekend migrating everything to a new email account

Rewatched this last night because I logged into my YT account. Using the account is the only way to watch YT on our TV, but I otherwise never use it and hadn’t logged in in 6+ months. It had this video immediately recommended. Kind of intrusive tbh!

its not passive voice, its panpsychism voice

From r/mgmt (6 yr ago) Any update on Kid from Kids video? Like his mental health? Any update on Kid from Kids video? Like his mental health? I know he's probably only 10 now but it's early enough to know.

if karl popper was alive today he'd write one of those inexplicably lengthy airport books that's 70% liberal triumphalism about how things are better than in 1765 and 30% whining about stupid cancel culture bullshit

For eg people are incredibly blase about handing over keys to expensive cars to anyone standing near a restaurant with “valet” printed on a hi-vis. That said, security (walls, electric fences, bulletproof glass) is everywhere. Mexicans definitely have opinions about their minority of bad people too!

A few people commenting on Mexico - I was there for the 2017 earthquake and for covid. Both times there was an incredible (ugh) blitz spirit, everyone pulled together. There’s surprisingly high (thin) social trust as well as the expected friendship/kinship (thick) social trust

Life imprisonment for any infractions. It may seem harsh, but it’s ultimately for the greater good

When I am godking of the world, the rules will be that (1) pasta has to have the cooking time displayed as the first or second most prominent piece of info on the packaging, and (2) ditto whether or not vegetables need washing before use

Worth reading the thread. Sounds like google has been red-washing their LLMs

“Standard procedures for securing the upload's cooperation such as red-washing, blue-washing, and use of the Objective Statement Protocols are unnecessary.”

qntm.org/mmacevedo

Love my electric toothbrush. Really makes my teeth feel clean, and it has a little light that flashes at me when I’m brushing too hard. Soooooo much better than my old petrol toothbrush. And the fumes can’t have been doing me any good in retrospect

Letterman performance with the death metal growling and shrieking still an all-timer. Man looks like he’s speaking in tongues over a syrupy synthpop bop

Cat last night being grumpy and wearing her bobble toy as a hat

Cat this morning in disgrace (tried to leap onto dining table), again wearing her bobble toy as a hat

When my cat’s in a bad mood or in disgrace, she goes and sits in her hammock and intentionally (?) wears the bobble toy like a hat

I have a 3-day bikepacking route planned with the bairn through the nearest national park, with a train journey return. Just need to finish the bike setup, get my leg bending again and find a suitable long weekend

Balloon tyres have already been swapped out for knobbly ones (in both cases it’s helpful that it runs dinky 26” wheels with huge clearances) and the next stage is to finish the switch from butterfly bars to drops with hoods and bar end shifters. Lots of re-cabling needed

Going to positively manifest a >90º leg bend this weekend by finishing my conversion of the old balloon bike tourer set up into a XC bikepacking rig