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With a hint of "I can fix her".

There must be some way of blending the Adama and Picard Maneuvers (although I'm not sure how that would work with the different FTL drive paradigms - jump vs. gorealfast).

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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A friend clocked me once.

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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hopefully it works out better than the Alderson Disk Wombat of 1983.

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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The scene towards the end of Robert Altman's live-action Popeye movie with the pirate skeleton and a matching parrot skeleton on Scab Island. They're not undead or anything. Just creepy to a 6 year old.

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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sliding into your DMs* * Doom Mantras

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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

sliding into your DMs* *Doom Mantras

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.

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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Some ended up in the Soviet Vroom-ion. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operati...

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Operation Osoaviakhim - Wikipedia

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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Sucking air in through the costume's eyeholes like a fish trying to breathe air in an aquarium with a broken aerator built strength of character, I'm told.

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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Tired: Heroes in a half shell - Turtle Power! Wired: Sucking out all of your - Eyeball Fluid!

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TMNT Krang Says 'Aw, Man.'

Alt: TMNT Krang Says 'Aw, Man.'

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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

She looks quite put together.

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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yes, it looks like ringbrynje = "chain mail" in English. Very nice! Although I hope it's not too hot out there! (having flashbacks to when I had to wear a character suit outside on a scorching summer day - I think it was around 105 Fahrenheit/43 C)

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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My guess (based on the state of his hands) is he's having some sort of infusion that couldn't be put off, and we can't have the Leader not looking STRONK!

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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Is that pterodactyl a djinn?

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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"And it was full of cheese."

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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"You clearly have some sort of secret vault, no doubt filled with donations from the DNC and DSA." "Sir, that was Cartoon Mouse Jack Benny."

Mouse Jack Benny from the 1959 Warner Brothers Merrie Melodies cartoon "The Mouse That Jack Built". It is Jack Benny (1894-1974) as a cartoon mouse, yesiree.

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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What about that invisible intangible silent elephant in the room? Prove to me it's gone!

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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Minor trivia note - her partner in this work was philosopher Phillipa Foot (1920-2010), who was the granddaughter of the 22nd and 24th US President, Grover Cleveland.

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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

MM: "WHERE'S MY MONEY?!" Bookkeeper Goofy: "Gawrsh."

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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This goes for visual puns as well.

Hana, a loyal retainer in the Fire Emblem universe, gives her opinion on wordplay while wearing a stern expression:

"People who say 'no pun intended ' are cowards. Intend your puns, weaklings."

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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A lot of good points were made, no doubt.

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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Have Manchester United expelled!" "But sir, those are..." "Do as I say!"

A scene from the S5 E4 Simpsons episode "Rosebud". After The Ramones insult Mr. Burns to his face during a birthday party concert, he angrily orders his lackey Wayland Smithers to "have The Rolling Stones killed" (sic). When Smithers tries to explain that The Rolling Stones wasn't the band on the stage, Burns angrily tells him to "do as I say!".

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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm sure there's a nice dacha in the Donetsk People's Republic ready for them...once they do their time on the front line anyway.

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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There's a good place 2 blocks from me - and another one 4 blocks away. #blessed

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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Must send more to Homeworld. Here." (strokes one guy's iPhone) "I put plan in your talkbox. Fold space easy once you know trick. Plenty of gadolinium on your world, easy peasy. My ship only carry three hundred...stones? Kilograms? Pennyweights? One of those, it not matter. Must send more."

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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We lose more space probes that way. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Cl...

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Mars Climate Orbiter - Wikipedia

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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Jamiri Cooper, a ten-year old musical prodigy on the level of Prince (who was actually a distant cousin). Then one day she threw down her guitar (not literally, they're expensive) and spent her free time drawing pictures of deer with bouquets for antlers...

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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

One thing that stuck with me was a blink-and-you'll-miss-it poster in the background warning people to watch out for medievyplague pits opening up (presumably due to the ground being saturated).

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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Good news: It really isn't bees! Bad news: It's Demon Core-kun, and he's being reeeeeeal casual with that screwdriver.

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Csillogás Gleam

Alt: A blue and green glow. Cherenkov radiation for everyone!

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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A small what? Oh, sorry, must have misheard.

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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Dear Congress, there are too many states, please remove Second Indiana. Also, if the student looks at the map and simply gives you a dead stare, does that entail a successful refusal of the prank? What would the consequences of that be?

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Elmo's Intense Stare

Alt: Elmo's Intense Stare. You know what you did.

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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Also, the "International Star Registry" and other such outfits that claim they'll have a star named after you have zero real-world importance. Which actually sounds perfect for the 🟠💩🛶.

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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I checked the rules for planetary nomenclature (craters, rifts, etc.) and here are the important bits: 1) The <International> Astronomical Union runs the show out of Paris. 2) To have a feature named after them, a person must be dead 3 years and have no political notability after 1800.

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Joe Trela @alert74.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Faking it, but never making it.

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