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Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Mini kaiju movie where it's baby Godzilla vs a fishing village of like six old people and a dog. You are thinking "ah yes, they beat him by throwing him a birthday party" but no it's a gritty action movie and they have to use C4

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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I saw it once suggested it's like the Joker gets elected Mayor of Gotham City and puts the criminals in charge of their bureau of expertise, like Scarecrow runs the health dept, Poison Ivy the ag dept, Firefly the fire dept, Riddler as school superintendent, etc

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Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Two-Face as the district attorney goes without saying but personally I'd like to see Catwoman running the museums

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Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"public unholiday" where on a random Saturday everyone still arbitrarily has to work

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Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This seems plausible to me as well

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Paul @pauljonmilne.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I imagine the Cenobites are always having their darque adventures scuppered by whimsy in the 21st century

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Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

(from my fortress) Stupid monkeys...

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Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I actually do want to know an enormous amount about this

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Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yes the whole argument inexorably moves in this direction - endgame is Peter Watts' Blindsight universe where we're all just automata with consciousness glued on by mistake

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Dorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The largest corpus of autochrome photographs (70k of them) comes from French baker Albert Kahn. Here are a couple of his photos from Morocco & Algeria, ca. 1913 & 1910. You can read more about him at the links below. publicdomainreview.org/essay/albert... mymodernmet.com/albert-kahn-...

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Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Don't you mean... the Crime Office

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Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

skip. i dont like this pokemon. skip it

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Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Also they've gotten too fancy too quickly with the secondary typing, there's a lot of low-hanging fruit in classic stuff like Water/Ice or Grass/Poison. Why do we have three separate fire wrestlers and multiple wizards before just another big evil flower

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Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I feel like it's weird when the starters are overly humanoid, not sure why but I think they should have animal body types. Like Incineroar has bad vibes

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Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I think "religion true" is at least in the realm of possibility - I know I think that though, it's not an unexamined assumption

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Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"Did Shakespeare really write his own plays. No but are you sure. Like how do you know man"

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Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Said this before but they should sell it to another country and have the Doctor traipse through all that country's conventional period pieces

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Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The name's misleading, it's actually more of a peninsula

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Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

1 Mark Carney for Australia please. Placing an order with the global elite for a Mark Carney

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Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Mark Carney v. Jim Chalmers is a real nuclear bomb v. coughing baby type situation

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Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My curiosity is that of a slack jawed yokel gawking at a circus accident but I'm willing to be up front about it

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Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is incredibly funny information

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Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Someone in the group chat was like "have you seen this, needs damage control" and she got on top of it right away. Classic cult stuff, you put in an unreasonable amount of effort to track everything anyone says about you and try to make them sound crazy

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Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Meanwhile In China they're just like, yeah this stuff is cool, could probably help us make the electric car factories 9% more efficient

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Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Doing God's work here, really good to have this all in one place. It's sort of incredible to me how much influence Yudkowsky, one of the weirdest and most off-putting people of all time, has been able to accrue over this entire industry just by deciding he wanted a cult and putting the work in

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Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Hate that we've got the Olympics in Queensland, terrible decision all round, but it's very funny that we've committed to doing the rowing on a crocodile-infested river

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Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

As good a place as any to drop my GTA7 pitch, which is that the Mexican border runs straight through the middle of the map and you're a guy from Honduras who doesn't have a passport

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Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

GTA is actually weirdly uninterested in cars when you think about it. Like surely the main premise of every game ought to be that you're a Gone In 60 Seconds style car thief and you're in debt to a guy who runs a chop shop

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Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Wait how come you never have to stop for gas in GTA. Would this be an interesting mechanic, like would it lead to explosive shootouts at gas stations and tense police chases where you have to escape before you go dry

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Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Gas prices in GTA should fluctuate in real time with world events

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Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Just build a superintelligent AI to contain the eugenic supermen

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Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I love the China a/b test. "AI risk" would be so much more convincing to me if the Chinese had come up with it independently

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Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The Hubbard comparison is apt for sure but the other guy I think he resembles is Karl Marx. Just hanging out in the reading room at the British Library working everything out from first principles, totally confident in his prophecies, zero interest in fielding input from anyone else

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Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

He's not dumb at all, he's an intelligent guy but he has contempt for the external world and sincerely believes he can fully predict the entire future course of human history just by sitting in a little room and thinking about it. Very solitary idea of what human reason can accomplish

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Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

He has a strategy where he's built up his own system of jargon and refuses to communicate in anything else - interlocutors are forced to adopt his framing, thus allowing him to control the flow of the conversation and avoid clarity around issues he doesn't want to address

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Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Yud speaks very confidently due to his narcissism and produces a lot of plausible-sounding bullshit with little effort - this makes him sound like he's thought very deeply about the matter at hand. He's also pretty careful not to say anything that could actually be falsified

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Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It rules how everyone responding to this saw "Rockefeller Republican" and just thought "Republican"

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Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Congratulations, now you have two hurricanes

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Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I don't really get this, if automation makes food infinitely cheap then wouldn't we expect less starvation rather than more

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Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

RAYLAN: They done yet? ART: Nope. (four hours have gone by, we observe yet more pontificatin' through the one-way glass)

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Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Trying to sketch out the Benoit Blanc / Boyd Crowder interrogation scene and realising I have no idea what happens when two of these guys talk to each other

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Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I always forget this since I was never a goon but SomethingAwful is the skeleton key for understanding a lot of bad internet behaviour. The whole strategy of inventing accusations that make your lolcow "deserve it" was perfected there

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Westerns & the Old West @davidlambertart.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Sam Fuller said that in I Shot Jesse James he wanted to depict Jesse as a bisexual cross-dresser. Fuller claimed Jesse seduced soldiers so Frank James could rob & kill them. As outlandish as this sounds, Jesse James Jr. relays a similar story in his memoir (without the bisexual seduction)

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Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Message recieved, remaking Morrowind

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Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I don't like the Yud/Bernie crossover, I feel like those compartments should have been kept separate. Sort of embarrassingly obvious that one persistent and highly online 25-year-old staffer is making the decisions

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Strange Ian @ianstrange.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Wouldn't we have even more generational turnover if everyone died at 65

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