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John Boren @johnborencomics.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

I understand the sentiment, but ‘someday, someone will benefit from your good works’ is never going to beat ‘I got mine, fuck you’ in this top-down, power-law curve society we’re currently stuck in

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John Boren @johnborencomics.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

I took out the air conditioner that sits in this window, getting ready for the first freeze tonight. It’s not the most spectacular view, but I like it. Cue the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving music.

Picture of a closed window, the blind drawn up, looking out on a yard. There’s a large bush, and a tree, with leaves turning yellow, amber, crimson. Very much a view of late fall.

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John Boren @johnborencomics.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Wow, I dropped Disney+ a few months ago like the proverbial bad habit. Nice to see the company itself reassuring me I made the correct choice.

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John Boren @johnborencomics.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Dig around for behind the scenes info on this one, it was a troubled, bizarre shoot. For example, Kirk Douglas, at sixty, was going through a mid-life crisis on set, and boy, does it show! It's definitely worth a look for its production design, if nothing else.

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John Boren @johnborencomics.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

I understand the sentiment, and I assume this is a bit, but just in case, you really don’t want to take too much Tylenol, it will kill your liver in a hurry. Sorry for being literal, but I’ve got this dumb thing I do, I care about people, it gets me into trouble all the damn time

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John Boren @johnborencomics.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Personally, my favorite part is the Logan’s Run shirt, but of course the whole damn thing is magnificent

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John Boren @johnborencomics.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

13-year-old me loved the original. I thought Legacy was flawed, but it at least tried, and had a killer soundtrack. This thing just makes me feel like crawling into the nearest tar pit

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John Boren @johnborencomics.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

This will fill a two hour block on Disney+ that people will turn on and have in the background, while they do something on their computer, or phone. It’s not a film, or even a movie. It’s content.

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anj @forecastoctopus.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

pretend i actually posted this on star trek day

colored drawing of chapel, kirk, rand, scotty, uhura, mccoy, spock, chekov, and sulu sitting on or around a couch holding drinks and chatting with each other

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John Boren @johnborencomics.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

No shade on the Star Wars OST, obviously a GOAT, but the Jerry Goldsmith score for Star Trek: The Motion Picture is what did it for me

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a glowing light coming out of the center of a blue background

ALT: a glowing light coming out of the center of a blue background

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John Boren @johnborencomics.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Planets was very early ‘80s, maybe even late 1970s. He-Man, I watched as a teen-ager, very self-consciously, feeling I’d aged out, but Skeletor always made me laugh, and Evil-Lyn was just too cool to not watch

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John Boren @johnborencomics.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Oh wow, good question. I lived in semi-rural Alabama, growing up as a kid, and what I grew up with was way out of sync with whatever was currently popular at the time. So, Speed Racer, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Battle Of The Planets, He-Man and She-Ra, to name a few.

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John Boren @johnborencomics.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

We didn’t have Thundercats where I grew up, and I was always sad I missed that party. Great art, and as you say, freaking cool animation

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John Boren @johnborencomics.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

I remember Usenet, an early proto-social media, and how it would light up with people talking about ‘Did you see Mulder put his hand on Scully’s shoulder? It was there for a full three seconds!’ Ah, youth.

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John Boren @johnborencomics.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Saw it in the theater, with the glasses and everything. Ridiculous, cocaine suffused production. Highly entertaining. Jaws 4 requires even more dangerous narcotics be involved, trust me

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John Boren @johnborencomics.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Honestly, solid plan. Well, you know what I mean

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John Boren @johnborencomics.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Fascinating thread on 1970s-80s animation methods, techniques, & materials

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John Boren @johnborencomics.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

My spouse developed type 2 diabetes in the past year or so, and I suffer from gout, so we’re constantly trying to find ways around our dietary limitations. Zero sugar ice cream and veggie burgers for the win

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Star Wars Fonts @starwarsfonts.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

DROIDS (1985) and another happy 40th to droids, whose main title seems to be fully custom (or at least based on a font i've never found), but whose subtitle is GROTESQUE NO. 9 ITALIC (with LUCASFILM being set in what looks like NEWS GOTHIC with numbers from AKZIDENZ-GROTESK)

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Star Wars Fonts @starwarsfonts.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

EWOKS (1985) happy 40th to the animated ewoks, whose title is set in a slightly altered PUTTY BOLD (with LUCASFILM being set in FUTURA BOOK)

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John Boren @johnborencomics.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Thank you, we agree on something! You do the same.

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John Boren @johnborencomics.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

‘labor shouldn’t be treated like shit by an indifferent executive class’ is a simple idea, true, but I’ll take it over any bullshit ‘complex’ justifications.

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John Boren @johnborencomics.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Try working a minimum wage job sometime, retail, food service. You’ll see plenty of Ashes and Dallases, a Kane or two, and untold legions of Ripley wanna-be’s, trust me on that

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John Boren @johnborencomics.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

It’s labor vs. management. It’s office politics. That subtext has been talked about in this movie for decades.

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John Boren @johnborencomics.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

It’s labor vs management, same as it ever was.

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John Boren @johnborencomics.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Straight up, I do not. Dallas is that guy who’s managed to get a tiny slice of the executive pie, and is forever self-impressed. Kane was a weird brown-noser to Dallas. Ash is that asshole from headquarters, always looking for an excuse to fire someone.

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John Boren @johnborencomics.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

I see. You’re light years from home, the only way you have to get home is damaged, but instead of helping out any way you can, as an act of good leadership, you’re just going to sit on your ass and let the *staff* deal with it. Underpaid staff, I might add. Says a lot, that response.

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John Boren @johnborencomics.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Over-estimating repair times is a common labor technique for dealing with management having unrealistic expectations.

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John Boren @johnborencomics.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Roll your emoji eyes all you want, labor over management, every fucking time

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John Boren @johnborencomics.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Parker and Brett (and I assume Lambert) aren’t getting paid the same as management, yet they’re expected to, you know, fix the big-ass spaceship. Ridley rides herd on them, but I don’t see her (or Dallas, Kane, or Ash) do any repair work.

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John Boren @johnborencomics.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Ripley giving Parker manager-type shit earlier in the film colored my first impression of her strongly. If that’s uncharitable, then so be it.

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John Boren @johnborencomics.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

I’ll take the most mediocre CD video over any mainstream big studio event. You do this for the love of the game, with integrity more pure than any corporate ‘content’ ever created

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John Boren @johnborencomics.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

We know that Ash is the bad guy *now*, but at this point in the story, it could be seen as an act of compassion. Either way, Kane is royally fucked without immediate treatment, and Ripley had no quibbles at potentially leaving Kane, Dallas, and Lambert in the airlock to die, to suit me anyway.

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John Boren @johnborencomics.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

I’m not saying my interpretation is the right one or the only one. Just, this is how I see her. She was intelligent, clearly, just not sympathetic to the rest of the crew. Intelligence plus good fortune makes a lot of people seem like heroes.

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John Boren @johnborencomics.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

ALIENS was made seven years later, by different writers and a different director. I’m only concerned with the original film. Ripley’s behavior lined up with what I saw as a child, with someone in a minor position of authority, but lording over others like they were fucking divine born

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John Boren @johnborencomics.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

I always saw that as Ripley being a middle management rules lawyer, trying to cover her own ass, not someone nobly trying to protect her crew. I always pulled more for the working stiffs: Parker, Brett, Lambert.

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John Boren @johnborencomics.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Strong Ralph Bakshi vibes, definitely in my wheelhouse

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John Boren @johnborencomics.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Once the motivational poster types show up, liking the thing I like, the thing in question just curdles, right before my eyes. Sigh

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John Boren @johnborencomics.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Had no idea the Atari guys were into the Church Of The Sub-genius. Praise Bob!

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Star Wars Fonts @starwarsfonts.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

i messed up and identified some star trek fonts by accident. @starfleetdesign.bsky.social was kind enough to not yell at me and tell me to stay in my lane

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John Boren @johnborencomics.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

In 1984, someone set up a kiosk in a shopping mall close to me, printing out ASCII portraits with one of these. I sat down while the kiosk dude left it unattended on a bathroom break. I made some stick figures and stole a print-out. I felt like I hacked the pentagon

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John Boren @johnborencomics.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

@wilwheaton.net Glad to find you are on this thing! Missed you since the twitter days. We’ve never interacted before, but always liked what you had to say. Hope you and yours are well.

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John Boren @johnborencomics.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Will have to try this method out

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John Boren @johnborencomics.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Those five unskippable seconds on Youtube ads. That’s a blipvert, straight up

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John Boren @johnborencomics.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Fair enough, but using a device that feels straight from Star Trek gives me joy, I don’t care who knows it

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