Satirical map illustrating the ongoing Strait of Hormuz crisis in March 2026. References Super Mario video game series ("Collect star," "Power through while invulnerable") mocking unserious responses to the situation (such as digging a 100km canal).
The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit
if you don't want to spend time reading and thinking about other people's research, a PhD is not for you
I love it so much, it's so unrelentingly funny (well, it relents with some Beria stuff, but you can't avoid that)
Feeling stressed this week, pursuing entertaining stuff, mostly successfully! #LetterboxdFriday 📽️ #LastFourWatched
A fantastic, beautiful film, on top of the fortuitous survival story. I hope all the Dr Who fans have a great time seeing these thought-lost eps.
Finding old Dr Who eps in someone's film collection is very, very cool from a film preservation/survival perspective, which is about where my interest ends as a non Dr Who enthusiast. Makes me think about Iranian film Chess of the Wind (1976), thought lost and then rediscovered by chance.
somehow this is the exact guy you would figure to have lost old doctor who eps
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do you know about the Iranian film Chess of the Wind (1976), which was thought lost after a state ban and destruction of negatives and prints, until a negative was rediscovered in a junk shop? it's a great film, on top of the incredibly fortuitous survival story
"While in opposition, Labour committed to a Scottish-style right to roam, under which anyone could walk around the countryside as long as they left no trace and did not disturb farmland. After being lobbied by landowner groups, the party U-turned on this."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
If you go down to the woods today, you're in for a big surprise... most of them are closed off to the public.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
that sounds so nice :3
Should do this as a double-bill with John Wick. Get you in the mindset.
wow, that is simply evil
I love the importance the film places on going for a hike in the woods.
I'm watching Bong Joon-ho's first feature film, about a guy who kills dogs, and while parts of it are undeniably funny, every time this guy goes for a dog I think about my cat and want to climb into the film, armed.
Fitzcarraldo
Can this be a solution?
Far Side cartoon showing a liner with a party taking place on board sailing towards some floating mines and a small boat apparently manned by pirates with a machine gun. There is a warship in the distance. It’s dated 12/6/87 and captioned “Through a gross navigational error, the Love Boat steams into the Strait of Hormuz”
Unexpected bit of pop culture prescience…
Sorcerer (1977), Dir. William Friedkin
A google maps view of the area around the Strait of Hormuz, with crude markup showing the 4 steps to successfully clearing the strait: 1. Build up speed 2. Hit Trampoline 3. Cool backflip 4. Nail the landing The boat is illustrated using a clip art yacht, and the trampoline is also just kind of floating there.
wait. wait. everyone hold on. i've solved it
two birds with one stone, really
maintaining my hyper-online inner monologue as I fall unconscious under a medieval-looking hedge and die
all I can think is that this woman is going to die of exposure (walking around in a sodden rag? too exhausted to shiver? extremities going numb? why is this all chatty modern hyperbole and not the last hours of a person's life)
The fish and the otters in particular. They're so good. They do also have people on them (no monarchy! Nan Shepherd on the fiver, which is cool).
I'm glad we're getting animals on the Bank of England bank notes, simply because I've loved the Royal Bank of Scotland ones for years and wanted the ones down here to be so lovely.
when I saw we're getting animals down here, I just thought that someone wanted to replicate how lovely the RBS ones are
what a banger
This is the sort of thing a cashless society robs us of, the opportunity to try to get away with paying the bus fare in Carthaginian currency www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Mohamed Atta boarded an American Airlines flight for what could have been a peaceful flight to LA....
