Connections
Puzzle #1045
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More evidence (as if I needed it) that I am of an earlier time 🤨

...And/or are hoping to be gifted a free trip to space.

Palantir & me shaping legislature (10)
#cryptic #crossword

#thefilmcrowd Thank god that drivel's over. See y'all Wednesday.

Next week, I wanna see a cop on a jet ski chasing a dolphin. And the week after that a cop in a microlight chasing a goose.

a dog wearing a saddle is riding a horse in a field with the word collective on the fence ALT: a dog wearing a saddle is riding a horse in a field with the word collective on the fence

#thefilmcrowd "It's Mad Dog on a horse!"

#thefilmcrowd Right. Blue Plymouth on Red Rock Road. They do know it's a black-and-white film, yes?

#thefilmcrowd how has he not caught up with her yet?

#thefilmcrowd Right, so if I've got this right, the psycho phoned his friend the psycho to come and help get rid of the two psychos he's with?

#thefilmcrowd Running around ≠ plot

#thefilmcrowd Casually ignoring the noose hanging in the doorway...

"Clint Eastwood? What kinda stoopid name izzat?"

#thefilmcrowd Characters grinning happily while listening to radio news reports of murders and escaped mental patients...

"We're all weird here. I'm weird. You're weird."
—The Cheshire FilmCrowder

#thefilmcrowd "Glasses", she says, drawing out what are clearly mugs.

#thefilmcrowd This guy looks cool.

#thefilmcrowd ...unfortunately, Joe's in this.

Evening all :-) #thefilmcrowd

something something popular new game from Japan called "Poke-eye-man: Go".

If you see this, quote with a picture of you wearing glasses.

DEFINITION OF THE DAY
Australopithecus, n. A concise swear from down under.

I think it seven worse than that.

Mementobermori.

I'm happy with that because a punctuation mark is a distinct thing from (and carries meaning distinct from) any word it may be attached to.

My gripe with the first is that as presented it doesn't say what it means (breaking Afrit's injunction). I feel that the need for the solver to insert a word space is a wordplay operation just as much as anagramming or deletions etc., and so requires an indicator.

I think the Goodliffean sense is so much a part of basic clueing that it barely needs a name, but the splitting-a-word sense definitely does.

e.g. when you see the word "not" in a clue and the setter expects you to read it as "no T" (letter deletion), or the clue starts "Hatchback" and it turns out that "Hatch" is the definition and "back" part of the wordplay.