Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org

.@htdrake isn't sure whether to be more bothered by the CGI baby* or Jacob's plotline.

*Not doing faces, I didn't notice this, but apparently everyone else found it creepy AF, and the earlier animatronic draft "Chuckesmee" was even worse.

We didn't get a noticeable karmic payoff from enduring the 4th Twilight movie, but since 4 & 5 are "parts I and II" of the last book, maybe we'll get a big bounce from completing the series.

RT @UnvirtuousAbbey
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I didn't sign up for this. #DoNotGoGentle #YesButImVeryImmature #SomePeopleHaveAWeirdIdeaOfWhatRetiredMeans

RT @petersagal
I have a Fermat joke but it’s too long to fit into a tweet. https://twitter.com/sarahpinsker/status/1332445995196706824

RT @portablecity
I have a joke about Christo, but I’m keeping it under wraps. https://twitter.com/TangoCharlie/status/1332717860855025666

RT @sigfig
chat reminded me of the movie gravity (2013) and i still cannot understand how they could have an art team that could render all those spacecraft completely faithfully and a writer who didnt know anything at all about orbits

In Kerbal Space Program, just as I was approaching the surface of the Mun, controlling my throttle by tapping Shift and Ctrl, Windows interrupted to ask if I wanted to turn on sticky keys.

#MurderedByClippy

RT @HarrietMould
Italian singer Adriano Celentano released a song in the 70s with nonsense lyrics meant to sound like American English, apparently to prove Italians would like any English song. It was a hit, and resulted in this: THE GREATEST VIDEO I HAVE EVER SEEN.

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RT @rbrowntweets
I’m a feminist but... when walking past a boys secondary school today one of the boys called for me to throw their football back over the very high fence.

I responded “there’s no way I can get it over that fence”

To which he said “but feminism miss - use your girl power”
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RT @xkcdComic
Life Before the Pandemic https://xkcd.com/2391/ https://m.xkcd.com/2391/

Violet was having stomach troubles earlier today, but she's ready for her turkey now.

RT @nyrath
Back in the early 1970s, I did some illos for Metagaming's STELLAR CONQUEST table-top war game. The dreadnought had an antimatter powered photon weapon to destroy ground targets.

I had got the inspiration from somewhere, but wasn't sure where.

Now I know...

RT @ToughSf
The Sukhoi T-12 was a strange twin-fuselage Close Air Support plane design that featured forward-swept wings and stacked turbofan engines that could shut off in flight to save fuel, and even considered Wing-in-Ground flight for further fuel savings.
https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/sukhoi-t-12.132/

RT @MsPackyetti
So, I really try my best not to use the quote tweet for shade or snark. I employ it for funny/sweet things or if there’s a lesson we really, really need to understand.

This, you’ve by now guessed, is the latter. Because this isn’t just wrong, it’s dangerous.

Yes, thread. https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1331278283372187649

Somewhere, someone is using a mallet to try to fit a frozen-solid turkey into a microwave.

RT @elizhargrave
I was chuckling until I got to the Transmogrifier, then I was laughing so hard for the rest of it that I had to rewatch to see what I missed https://twitter.com/DragonsTomb/status/1331595773130190850

RT @qikipedia
A survey in 1958 found that only one in ten paper clips was used to hold papers together. Three out of ten were lost, and others were used as improvised fasteners for clothes, decorative chains, toothpicks, ear cleaners, chips in card games, and weapons.

The headline is even more sensational, if misleading: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2020/11/25/covid-19-denmark-mink-rising-from-the-dead/6426378002/
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RT @gengelstein
Um... OK.
https://twitter.com/gengelstein/status/1331812740332138496