The original idea for Alien 3 was a little like that alienseries.wordpress.com/2013/12/14/w...

OMG yes this would rule so hard

>Will Stancil had a network of honeypot informants who’d get ice to dump operational information to them
>if cover blown, would forward the chats to the guys wives to ruin their marriages

This is all a bit Starship Troopers

The New Balance of Power After the Ceasefire How the United States lost control—and Iran gained it

Everyone sees it: "Iran has demonstrated the ability to impose costs on the global system and force adjustment across multiple actors. The U.S., despite overwhelming military superiority, has accepted a halt under conditions it cannot fully dictate." professorrobertpape.substack.com/p/the-new-ba...

Oooh nice, thanks!

Co-writers Dan O'Bannon and Don Jakoby began developing the plot while living together in a Hollywood apartment in the late 1970s, where low-flying police helicopters woke them on a regular basis. Their original script was a more political one, attacking the concept of a police state controlling the population through high-tech surveillance and heavy armament.

Reminds me of how Dan O’Bannon was inspired to write Blue Thunder because he was annoyed with LAPD helicopters buzzing his house

Watching a helicopter circle the neighborhood while I grill in the back yard.

1984 calendar meme with the lady saying "the empire is at war with Persia and the Pope" and the calendar says January 1054

I like this because it articulates the conservative concept of freedom in a nutshell. You have the freedom to do x, except you don't, because I don't want you to. bsky.app/profile/atru...

sure didn't expect to see this on JP news.

Special Alert: Horoscope U.S.A. | Vanity Fair

(Oh forgot the link: archive.vanityfair.com/article/2007...)

government will try to impose. The greatest time of upheaval will be between 2015 and 2019, when the square of Uranus in Aries to Pluto in Capricorn peaks. Then, from 2023 to '25, the final stages of the Pluto return and the Capricorn effect will reach a climax. Some astrologers believe that an empire lasts no longer than one Pluto cycle, and by 2025 ours will be played out. The period of turmoil that lies before us is a necessary step in the evolution of this country that will result in a reworking of the Constitution in the last half of the 2020s. It will mark the rebirth of the United States as a more global nation—a member of the world, if not its leader. This is an affront to our Cancer nation's cherished ideas about wealth, security, and supremacy. Luckily for us, however, the horoscope of the U.S.A. is strongly influenced by Venus and Jupiter, so we'll never go totally broke or hungry.

@meowrey.bsky.social introduced me to this crazy astrological prediction from Vanity Fair in 2007, and I still think about it a lot. Maybe this is just the moment where the US becomes more like the post-colonial UK? Which…might not be the worst outcome.

Recklessly producing and then accepting a situation where a foreign power can restrict freedom of navigation is not just a strategic defeat, it is a reversal of the most fundamental foreign policy and national security priority of the United States since the founding of the republic.

Anyway, American influence is never really recovering from Trump, is it?

And the there’s all this bsky.app/profile/elio...

I was also thinking this. Like, even the fact that the US is being used in the same sentence as “cease fire” really says something about how its global position has changed.

This is real

The emotional foundations of Fascism. (from Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism)

I predicted someone like Trump many years ago, in THE DEAD ZONE. So now I'm saying this--in the next 12-16 months, we're going to find out if the two machines for the removal of a man unable to fulfill his duties actually work. They are impeachment and the 25th amendment. He is deeply unwell .

It is clear that Trump is in full mental decline. The serious problem is the conspiracy of silence among his allies and Republicans, and the normalization by the media. They will go down in history as accomplices to one of the most shameful pages of American democracy. 1/2

Awkward scenes aboard Artemis II as Trump stops ranting and none of the astronauts have anything left to say to him, leading to extended dead air

There is no excuse for downplaying or eliding the insanity of Trump’s morning post. It is the most unhinged public comment by a president in US history and should be reported and remarked upon as such.

This can’t be allowed to continue. It just can’t.

Peter Doocy: "His latest post on Truth Social has some really bad words in it, so we're just going to give you the gist of it"

I was killing time before an appointment the other day and walked into an Apple Store. While I was checking out the new Neos, two teen girls walked up to the display, and one said “This is the one I want to get.”

So…looks like this marketing strategy is working!

He is talking about creating a humanitarian disaster, a clear war crime

a bunch of peeps in a gaudy Oval Office wearing too-big shoes.

The winner of this year's WaPo Peeps Diorama Contest is "A Shaming of the Shoes."

www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...

Pair the Bluetooth device, HAL.

The answer will surprise you!