Sporadic Ramblings and Nerdery

I just remembered that this was a thing that was HILARIOUS in 2006 and apparently that was ten years ago now.

Old people: join with me in remembering how funny we found this on LiveJournal.

Young people: look at this lolrus, it’s so happy, it has a bucket.

“Mothman being just an owl would be boring…”

Florida voters who were in support of President Donald Trump during the last presidential election are now bashing him after learning how much he made during the first year of his second term.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday made a claim that lit up social media, given how unlikely it seemed. 

Except this one was ― sort of ― true. 

Trump bragged that he had a conversation with President Teddy Roosevelt, which seemed unlikely given that the 26th president died in 1919 and Trump wasn't even born until 1946. 

But earlier in the day, Trump visited the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in North Dakota, which is opening this weekend and features an interactive AI projection of the former president.

If that thought gives you an all consuming sense of dread, do not worry

Neuromancer Season 1 Teaser 2 | The Next Chapter Is Loading'

Yeah, cassettepunk Neuromancer let's go!

Have to say, the design choice to have the Neuromancer show look like the 1980s idea of the future (thus making the presence of rotary phones and the famous opening line make sense) was a great choice, even if, as of late, cyberpunk works are leaning more into the retrofuturism aspect that has developed within the subgenre.

See also the new Ghost in the Shell show and the Cyberpunk 2077 game.

Although admittedly that's kind of as a consequence of the cyberpunk subgenre coming out of the 1970s and 80s as a reaction to said decades (the heavy use of Japanese signage and imagery coming from concerns in the West over Japan's economic boom in that period... a boom that ironically ended in the 1990s right when MOST Western science fiction from Batman Beyond to Sherlock Holme sin the 22nd Century were adopting the aesthetic), so while the themes of cyberpunk still hold true (especially today) the works that informed the subgenre are somewhat anachronistic?

This is also held up in the Neuromancer show in an amusing way, as I know that they filmed partially around the Isle of Dogs in London around the Canary Wharf area. For context, in the Thatcher years London's docklands were aggressively gentrified as working class families were pushed out of the former industrial parts of the city lining the Thames, with the Isle of Dogs in particular intending to serve as the new financial centre of the city as various corporations got new (for the 80s) purpose built skyscrapers for this purpose... BUT, in the decades sense with the advent of the internet and especially as working from home became more viable after Covid, most of these purpose built buildings that they displaced communities to build are standing increasingly derelict or near abandoned, with people trying to float ideas such as converting them back into housing.

bop-cule, anyone? (batfam related free art requests are open btw!)