ArchiveDrone @archiveslabe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026There are a lot of women who are conventionally attractive in the same way as Elizabeth Holmes, but Elizabeth Holmes was the one deliberately cosplaying as Steve Jobs 0223
ArchiveDrone @archiveslabe.bsky.social · 11/07/2026It feels like a slur that was invented for the most mediocre episode of Star Trek you ever forgot you watched 000
ArchiveDrone @archiveslabe.bsky.social · 04/07/2026It's always a good time to play Star Control 2 (aka Free Stars: The Ur-Quan Masters). Feel free to mod out the time limit if you feel it's too restrictive, just enjoy some good video game sci-fi where you scoot around and meet some weird lil' guys 042
ArchiveDrone @archiveslabe.bsky.social · 22/06/2026In the UC alone you have two factions willing to risk a mass exctinction event, one that has it as an explicit goal, the literal Gestapo And in late UC you have the guys who massacre millions with buzzsaw robots and one that basically has a WH40K superweapon to make all Terrans mental vegetables 010
ArchiveDrone @archiveslabe.bsky.social · 22/06/2026I think that one of the franchises where its ideal fights against is own reality is Gundam, and I'm not here to talk about the War Bad/Cool Robot dichotmy More that people, even Tomino, clearly want it to be morally ambiguous/shades of gray but most of the antagonists are just Turbo Space Hitler 110
ArchiveDrone @archiveslabe.bsky.social · 22/06/2026To be fair, the idiocy goes way beyond misogyny The Serf definitionally didn't own their own land Also high quality goods lol, enjoy your bag of flour that's been cut with sawdust, peasant, there's a reason that millers were villains in some tales of Robin Hood 0190
ArchiveDrone @archiveslabe.bsky.social · 15/06/2026I mean I knew about it just from watching Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego 010
ArchiveDrone @archiveslabe.bsky.social · 15/06/2026There are a few videos about the "American Food" section in European grocery stores that might answer some of those questions 140
ArchiveDrone @archiveslabe.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Josh Johnson did a whole thing in his standup about how Trump's messaging on Iran was giving off "recently divorced friend" energy 000
ArchiveDrone @archiveslabe.bsky.social · 21/05/2026There are like 27 Zatoichi films and 100 TV episodes (28 films if you feel like counting Blind Fury) 000
ArchiveDrone @archiveslabe.bsky.social · 19/05/2026The whole is greater than the sum of its parts 040
ArchiveDrone @archiveslabe.bsky.social · 13/05/2026One of these days I want there to be an RTS where one of the faction rosters consists entirely of the fever dreams of Popular Mechanics 000
ArchiveDrone @archiveslabe.bsky.social · 12/05/2026And when I do say average I mean it, some is better, some is worse 000
ArchiveDrone @archiveslabe.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Not because Bram is especially modern- he's better than you might expect but there's stuff that will make you wince But because your average anime is on the level of a novel written in the 1890s by a 50-year old Irishman who's figuring out how he feels about a woman owning a bicycle 100
ArchiveDrone @archiveslabe.bsky.social · 12/05/2026I was reading Bram Stoker's Dracula recently (there are very good reasons to start in May) and I thought about how to answer the question "It's a classic, but what kind of Victorian Baggage does it have?" The answer I came up with is "If you can watch an average anime, you can handle Dracula." 100
ArchiveDrone @archiveslabe.bsky.social · 08/05/2026The general estimate is that if there's major jump on food prices, it's going to land around September 070
ArchiveDrone @archiveslabe.bsky.social · 02/05/2026I've been watching the new Fist of the North Star adaptation, but even though the phrase didn't really exist yet when I first read the manga, I find it morbidly amusing that God's Land is a literal Cult of the Operator. 000
ArchiveDrone @archiveslabe.bsky.social · 30/04/2026The other thing is that the joints that serve the curled pepperoni and ricotta pizzas also sell a lot of typical pizzas too (One of the ever-present and maddening temptations in my life is that I live within walking distance of a really good pizza place) 010
ArchiveDrone @archiveslabe.bsky.social · 27/04/2026There's even precedent- LBJ was sworn in on Air Force 1 in Dallas as soon as they could get someone to him to officiate. 010
ArchiveDrone @archiveslabe.bsky.social · 18/04/2026I can't say much for sure about whether Star Trek: Academy should have continued. But I think that when a creator's first impulse to make their mark on an established setting is "burn it all down" they're going to start at a deficit that they have to make up for to justify that choice 000
ArchiveDrone @archiveslabe.bsky.social · 17/04/2026It's pretty well known that Yaoi is written for women, especially straight women. I wish I could find the post, but a gay man on a forum I used to visit a lot once explained at length at how aggressively heteronormative-coded the relationships in Yaoi manga are. 030
ArchiveDrone @archiveslabe.bsky.social · 14/04/2026There are stubborn costs that are rising well above the overall wage/inflation rate, like health care. If prices on some essentials are making, big, noticeable jumps that's going to stand out more. My food prices have been stable for the last two years but my premiums are up 25% over the same time. 010
ArchiveDrone @archiveslabe.bsky.social · 14/04/2026My guess would be parts of both the far right and the far left 020
ArchiveDrone @archiveslabe.bsky.social · 09/04/2026If they're afraid of a debate against Mills then they're in looney tunes land if they think he'll have a chance against Collins 020
ArchiveDrone @archiveslabe.bsky.social · 04/04/2026I'll just bring up that quote, even if it's from an unfashionable source (George Will) "Twitter is the perfect format for Trump to communicate with because what he knows about anything can fit into 140 characters." 010
ArchiveDrone @archiveslabe.bsky.social · 29/03/2026Charles Barkley has always been a straight shooter There was one interview where he was asked what went through his mind when kids tell him they want to play in the NBA when they grow up And his response was "The first thing I think of is that there are 500 players in the NBA." 0371
ArchiveDrone @archiveslabe.bsky.social · 28/03/2026>He "feared" for his safety (not sure why) Protestors were leaving messages on his sidewalk in chalk- Not even personal threats or anything, just generally "down with this sort of thing" 000
ArchiveDrone @archiveslabe.bsky.social · 25/03/2026The state house district that flipped is the one that contains Mar-A-Lago 060
ArchiveDrone @archiveslabe.bsky.social · 20/03/2026I mean, sometimes folks can get a hit if a pilot or pilots go the same route a bit too many times and the man on the ground is a little creative. That's how the Serbs took out that F-117 in the '90s. 021
ArchiveDrone @archiveslabe.bsky.social · 06/03/2026I think everyone online who derided the Art of War as "basic" or "obvious" owes Sun Tzu an apology right now 130
ArchiveDrone @archiveslabe.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Another thing to remember was that Colonel Jessup was a commander at Guantanamo Bay pre-9/11, which was one of the coziest assignments you could have in the Marines at the time, especially in the 80s/90s 030
ArchiveDrone @archiveslabe.bsky.social · 05/03/2026I think everyone who called The Art of War "basic" and "obvious" owes Sun Tzu an apology right now 000
ArchiveDrone @archiveslabe.bsky.social · 21/02/2026Yeah, while the dot-com boom had a lot of chaff, it was driven by enterprises like, "Hey, if you want to buy a book, you can buy it from our online shop and we'll get it to you wherever you are." Some stuff regular people could see the practical use for 000
ArchiveDrone @archiveslabe.bsky.social · 20/02/2026He's already been doing that and that hasn't saved his numbers. 060
ArchiveDrone @archiveslabe.bsky.social · 19/02/2026I know that history isn't always literary But there's something amusing that the Axis nations, that viciously enforced conformist "purity" of thought, culture, race, and national character were also being defeated by Allied generals named things like Simon Bolivar Buckner *Jr.* 000
ArchiveDrone @archiveslabe.bsky.social · 17/02/2026In many cases, they didn't- Quite a few employees of the first Trump administration had a lot of trouble getting into the typical lobbying sinecures. 072
ArchiveDrone @archiveslabe.bsky.social · 12/02/2026He was not able to recapture the battle flag of his ideological forefathers I see 010
ArchiveDrone @archiveslabe.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Basically a hearing held outside of congress and congressional procedure by an opposition party. It's like the principle of the "Shadow Cabinet" you hear about in British politics, where the opposition designates its own spokespeople on certain topics to articulate the opposition's position. 040
ArchiveDrone @archiveslabe.bsky.social · 11/02/2026It feels like basically everyone on every side forgot juries exist in the equation of "Trump will prosecute political opponents" 120
ArchiveDrone @archiveslabe.bsky.social · 10/02/2026You ever watch Dragon Ball Z? Even five minutes can be longer than you think! 140
ArchiveDrone @archiveslabe.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Well, it's pretty clear that Tolkien also thought so 200
ArchiveDrone @archiveslabe.bsky.social · 05/02/2026One of the more persistent things seems to be the idea that voting machines are connected to the internet when they're more air-gapped than industrial infrastructure 020
ArchiveDrone @archiveslabe.bsky.social · 03/02/2026It's Bolshevik mentality- How dare they have a movement without us 1230
ArchiveDrone @archiveslabe.bsky.social · 02/02/2026They became more openly violent only after they had actually captured control of at least some of the levers of state power, as well as coopting significant parts of the army and their commanders- Lenin even wrote about "building our house out of the bricks that were thrown at us." 1130
