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Generationalize @generationalize.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

From Quick Change: “It’s bad luck just seeing a thing like that.”

Randy Quaid in the movie Quick Change (1990) saying “ It’s bad luck just seeing a thing like that.”

The thing like that being a bicycle joust in some Latino neighborhood: two guys without shirts, on bicycles, pedaling towards each other with mop handles for lances, until they hit and one of the guys gets knocked off, the neighbors watching it all - a bit bored - and a young boy rolling the church bell afterwards.

Generationalize @generationalize.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Today's the 15th anniversary of this Pink Floyd publicity stunt when an inflatable pig (like the one on the cover of Animals) was put above the Capitol Records building.

An inflatable pig above the Capitol Records building in Hollywood, California, on September 26, 2011, seen through the branches of a jacaranda tree.

The Capitol Records building in Hollywood, California, on September 26, 2011, when a large inflatable pig (as from Pink Floyd's "Animals" record cover) was stationed above it.

An inflatable pig above the Capitol Records building in Hollywood, California, on September 26, 2011, framed by the branches of a jacaranda tree.

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Generationalize @generationalize.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Gondor soldiers, trying to sound cool about their part in the siege of Minas Tirith, while talking to hobbits.

Gary Larson’s The Far Side: a man with a wooden leg talking to another man in a sailor’s bar, saying “Well I Guess that ain’t a bad story - but let me tell you about the time I lost THIS” while indicating his own peg-leg. The other sailor, it turns out, has a peg-head.

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Generationalize @generationalize.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Monterey Bay? Our naturalist on Friday was similarly amazed at a pod of 400-500 dolphins, plus about 8-10 humpbacks, and a few sea lions. (Just the dolphins, here, unless one of the humpbacks is hanging around in the background.) Near Moss Landing, at the shallower part of the Monterey Canyon.

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Generationalize @generationalize.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Random realized that @diedrichbader.bsky.social probably could use this shirt. (A gift from a relative who visited a barbecue joint in Iowa.)

A selfie of a t-shirt saying “Vote For Jethro” in a style similar to the Vote for Pedro shirt in Napoleon Dynamite. From a barbecue place in Iowa.

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Generationalize @generationalize.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

As noted in the alt text, the poster was probably only the image, without the album title or artist name. Which fit well, I thought, with the landscape in West Texas (near San Angelo), where I was then living.

Album cover for “Pink Floyd: A collection of great dance tunes” which has a man and a woman in a pose reminiscent of a tango, but with strings evidently holding them where they are. The couple is in front of a small house on an arid landscape - reminded me of West Texas, which is where I had it on my wall. I think my poster may not have had the words, only the image: a couple dancing, it seems, but unable to move.

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Generationalize @generationalize.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

An alternative, and enough for now

Nick Fury's grave, with Pete Hegseth's name, and Winnfields explanation of his Ezekiel 25:17 verse: You're the weak, and I'm the tyranny of evil men."

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Generationalize @generationalize.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Saw Springsteen and the E Street Band tonight - Land of Hope and Dreams tour, Inglewood CA - great set, all about America, and I might just be inspired to follow The Boss’ wish that we not think every bootlicker out there is stupid and evil. (Not his exact phrasing … but I think that was the gist.)

Mr. Bruce Springsteen, at the Kia Forum on April 9 2026… wearing a blue lei that someone in the audience gave him.

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Generationalize @generationalize.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Mood. *THAT KIND OF TALK IS UN-AMERICAN.*

Superman, cape billowing behind him, talking to a group of kids, probably 10-16 or thereabouts, saying "And remember, boys and girls, your school - like our country. - is made up of Americans of MANY different races, religions, and national origins, so...." then continuing in a caption below "...if YOU hear anybody talk against as schoolmate or anyone else because of his religion, race or national origin -- don't wait: tell him THAT KIND OF TALK IS UN-AMERICAN"

With a final caption below that: Help keep your school ALL AMERICAN!

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Generationalize @generationalize.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Was wondering where this one went.

Donald Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, with a hammer and sickle denoting that he is a Russian stooge, or more like an extremely useful idiot.

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Generationalize @generationalize.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

The only reason to pretend that a baseball game is being broadcast on the radio but have it from a few years before Steve went into the ice is because Nick Fury intended it that way - probably to confirm how recovered he was, or to let Steve realize for himself how much time had passed.

https://www.nrm.org/2012/01/norman-rockwells-four-freedoms/
Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), “Freedom of Speech,” 1943. Oil on canvas, 45 3/4″ x 35 1/2″. Story illustration for “The Saturday Evening Post,” February 20, 1943. Norman Rockwell Museum Collections. ©SEPS: Curtis Publishing, Indianapolis, IN.

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Generationalize @generationalize.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

After visiting today, I’m ready to write a spec script: “Paris & Doyle at Gilmoreland,” where they are trying to comprehend how their friend’s memoir has expanded into a world of its own.

Gilmore Girls 25th anniversary experience on the backlot at Warner Brothers studio tour

A picture of the gazebo and church in Stars Hollow.

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Generationalize @generationalize.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Just spent too much time looking for this exact picture of the Davy Crocket nuke, because everyone needs to know about it. Found it at this link. Because attribution is important: www.damninteresting.com/davy-crocket...

Man posed with a Davy Crocket nuclear launcher in a suggestive way.

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Generationalize @generationalize.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

If I'm reading this correctly, the chairman of the DNC (Robert Hannegan) got Truman on the 1944 ticket with FDR by using a three-way-call attack straight out of Mean Girls. Article is at www.knoxfocus.com/archives/vic...

Harry Truman still refused to become a candidate until the enterprising Robert Hannegan got the president on the phone and the senator heard FDR inquire if Truman had been lined up.
Hannegan replied, no, and said Harry Truman was the contrariest mule in all of Missouri.
To Truman’s horror, he heard Franklin Roosevelt bark, “Well, you can tell the Senator that if he wants to break up the Democratic Party in the middle of the war, that’s his responsibility.”
The president slammed down the receiver. Harry Truman agreed to run.
From https://www.knoxfocus.com/archives/vice-president-harry-truman/

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Generationalize @generationalize.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

The news that the United States now owns part of Intel reminds me....a lot....of this bit from P.J. O'Rourke.

I don't want to disparage private enterprise. The world has political, religious, and intellectual leaders for that. But when a totalitarian government gets cozy with large financial and manufacturing concerns, it rings a twentieth-century historical bell. I'm thinking how a certain "people's car" -"ein Volkswagen"- got its start. I'm thinking "Made the trains run on time." I'm thinking, "Greater Asian Coprosperity Sphere." There's a technical name for this political ideology.

P.J. O'Rourke, from his book "Eat the Rich" (1998) describing his impressions of China in the chapter "How to Have the Worst of Both Worlds: Shanghai." This is in response to multinational corporations who were cozying up to China after the handover of Hong Kong. With this in mind, he muses "I'm just wondering if multinational executive have thought this through."

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Generationalize @generationalize.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Everyone was getting along swimmingly.

A copy of a typewritten text:
The American Ambassador stated that consultation was one thing; however, as the Soviet reply now stood it gave veto power to the Soviet Government. It gave only qualified approval. His Government surely would not accept it.

Mr. Molotov replied that it was conceivable that there might be two Supreme Commanders: Vasielevski and MacArthur.

The American Ambassador thereupon informed Mr. Molotov in no uncertain terms that this was absolutely inadmissible.

Mr. Molotov replied that he had informed Mr. Harriman of the Soviet reply and requested him, whether he liked it or not, to transmit it to his Government.

("The American Ambassador" and "Mr. Molotov" are underlined when they are at the start of a paragraph.)

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Generationalize @generationalize.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Gorman - at the very edge of Los Angeles County. Coincidence? I think not. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LA...

A Wikipedia image showing the location of Gorman, California, as a small red dot in the northwest corner of a map of Los Angeles County, with an inset map of California showing all the counties outlined and Los Angeles County highlighted. Because every time Andor talked about Ghorman and the Ghormans I kept thinking of this little drive-through town on Interstate 5, with little more than a gas station, a high school, and a Carl's Junior to it's name.

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Generationalize @generationalize.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Since @indyfromspace.bsky.social didn't allow quote-reposting on her post about how "The US is finally influencing foreign policy in a positive way," (by pushing other countries away leftward) only wanted to say that the last frame here was my immediate response to it: "We're Heroes!!!"

Calvin and Hobbes are driving with his mom when the car goes "KLUNK." Mom gets mad at it, pulls over and opens the hood to check the engine. While she's looking under the hood, Calvin and Hobbes are disappointed to see nobody is stopping to help. They decide they should honk the horn to get some attention. Because Mom is under the hood at that time, it's a very loud and frightening BEEEEP! that has her yelling AAUGH!. Despite her visible anger, Calvin and Hobbes say in unison "HOORAYY! Someone stopped! WE'RE HEROES!" The driver of the car that stopped asks the mom "Want me to call a tow truck, lady?" to which she responds "First call the police and report an infanticide."

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Generationalize @generationalize.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Hey @nathanrichardson.bsky.social pretty sure this was your work on Twitter-That-Was. Repost or otherwise claim ownership, if you like. I've been wanting to redo it using "Teufelskern" as the name but ... reality intrudes. (This is the first time I've wanted to import my tweet history.)

An image of the Slotin demon core accident diorama, cropped to the appropriate proportions for an album or CD cover, with the name of German electronic pioneers "Kraftwerk" at the upper left, and "The Demon Core" at the bottom - as if it was one of their albums, because it all looks a little too much like it actually could be.

The German for "Demon Core" is "Teufelskern" which would make it even more Kraftwerk-like, in my humble opinion.

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Generationalize @generationalize.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Pretty brilliant idea on showing what negotiation should be happening.

Text is: “The negotiating table” I would show it to the entire world by setting up a negotiating table, chair, and a rug right in the Capitol Rotunda. Then place one chair across, facing it, with a sign on the table that says “Reserved for Republicans.” Then I’d establish a rotation of Democratic Senators pulling 2-hour shifts and a 24-hour livestream of watching them sit there, read books, do paperwork, and just hang out...waiting for Republicans to negotiate.

Also includes a picture of just what this would look like

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Generationalize @generationalize.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I could not by any dark art find this through simple search on Twitter and had to go back to an article vaguely remembered and THEN search by the handle.

Image of a thread on twitter from 2017

@StevenEdeSouza Merry Christmas sir, re the notion that Die Hard is a Christmas movie (and of course it is), I'm wondering if you changed the book's 'Anton Gruber' to Hans Gruber to make him sort of the evil brother of Silent Night composer Franz Gruber? I think this must be so.

That’s a better story than the truth, which is that the typical pre-production database search discovered a real person named Anton who could claim to be maligned so the studio lawyers advised it be changed

The lawyers ruin everything again. Tragic. Thinking further last night, I looked at the timing of SNL's first Hans and Franz, thought of your work on Commando and Running Man, and guessed I had it figured out. Ah well.

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Generationalize @generationalize.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Just a quick note that “emergency food supply -132 servings” is back in stock at Costco. Just in time for Trump’s return.

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Generationalize @generationalize.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

One of those too obvious to consider situations, clearly.

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Generationalize @generationalize.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

"I'm shocked, shocked, that grifting is going on in here!"

When they met at Mar-a-Lago, Lewandowski laid it all out. He’d spent several weeks digging into the finances of the campaign, he told Trump, and things weren’t adding up. Far too much money was being spent on programs insignificant to his electoral success, and there had been no apparent oversight of contracts and arrangements that created a windfall for certain campaign employees. Lewandowski told Trump that he’d taken the liberty of bringing in a private consultant—personally escorting this outsider into the campaign’s offices—to study the books. This person’s conclusion, Lewandowski said, was: “Your people are either completely incompetent, or they’re stealing from you.”

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Generationalize @generationalize.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

The cover should be a woodcut of this image of an orangutan with otters

Seven otters in front of an orangutan, looking as if they are listening to it tell a story or describe a process.

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Generationalize @generationalize.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

Pretty straightforward, really, according to www.cambridge.org/core/journal... "The cores of the orbicules crystallized directly from the orbicule-forming magma... The orbicules occur in a matrix, which is similar to the core. (Which I think means: bubbles form in magma, then are filled up.)

Image is of the following text: The orbicular rock at Slättemossa, southeastern Sweden, has a quartz monzodioritic composition. The cores of the orbicules crystallized directly from the orbicule-forming magma; cores made up of xenoliths have not been observed. Outside the core follow first an inner mafic, a felsic and then an outer mafic shell. The orbicules occur in a matrix, which is similar to the core. They grew simultaneously and show an almost perfect parallelism in evolution. After initial ‘normal’ crystall-ization of the magma, superheating probably triggered by a sudden addition of volatiles destroyed earlier formed nuclei and also affected the already crystallized part of the rock. Cooling caused heterogeneous nucleation and rapid crystallization, which formed the inner mafic shell. This is enriched in mafic minerals, especially biotite, compared to the core. At the same time the grain size becomes significantly smaller. Depletion in mafic components, possibly intensified by a sudden change in physical conditions, destabilized biotite and amphibole crystallization, causing oversaturation in plagioclase components, forming a felsic shell having a sharp boundary with the mafic shell. Plagioclase is extremely altered. Mafic minerals were then stabilized, probably due to depletion of plagioclase components, and an outer mafic shell formed. With the return to homogeneous nucleation, matrix formation concluded the crystallization. Orbicules might have moved in the magma causing some squeezing of magma surrounding the orbicules, but major movements involved the settling of the whole package of orbicules and matrix in the surrounding non-orbicular magma.

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Generationalize @generationalize.bsky.social · 12/09/2024

Hey @wellerstein.bsky.social in case you know: A lot happened on August 6 1945, but I never hear followups on "Recent 'Quakes' Now Revealed as Bomb Blasts," wherein Larry Crosby (Bing's brother) talks about extracting energy from uranium using 10' tongs. Is anything said in there close to real?

Front page of the L.A. Times from August 7, 1945. Headline is Atomic Bomb Hits Japan; below that Jet Plane Explosion Kills Maj. Bong, and centered below that Death Ends Career of Sen. Johnson [R-CA] and below that: Recent 'Quakes' Now Revealed as Bomb Blasts

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Generationalize @generationalize.bsky.social · 02/06/2024

Note that Hamilton's response says the Republic of Rome was -destroyed- by Caesar, who (like a "whig") "flattered the follies of the people"

Screenshot from Hamilton's August 18, 1792 letter responding to President Washington, with the following text (immediately following the text usually forwarded about) highlighted: It has aptly been observed that Cato was the Tory-Cæsar the whig of his day. The former frequently resisted—the latter always flattered the follies of the people. Yet the former perished with the Republic the latter destroyed it.

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Generationalize @generationalize.bsky.social · 02/06/2024

Washington mentioned a conspiracy theory (sigh) of the day: monarchy had always been the true plan, one that the national debt was enabling. This was the 14th item he brought up in his letter to Hamilton, which is the Objection XIV that Hamilton is responding to.