Unless you’re in the US (without a VPN) where you can’t actually watch the video you shared. *sad trombone*

I am strongly of the opinion that Canada and NZ should be invited to participate (as long as Australia is part).

But meanwhile, sure, Australia being a participant totally makes sense. (At least Israel, while not Europe, is close enough to Europe-adjacent that I can make it work.)

I mostly just want to understand how the fucking juries are voting. Every year I have watched (going back almost a decade), I am utterly baffled by the country that usually is at the top at the end of the jury vote tallies. (The popular vote, on the other hand, often makes far more sense. I may not always agree with…

Every month when io9 puts out their new sci-fi/fantasy books list, I always log in to my public library portal and add the ones I want to read to my “To Read” list so I don’t forget about them. Those are most often books I am hesitant to buy but that I’m definitely interested in. Then whenever I finish the current…

Setting aside the parasite possibility, it usually is OK to flush cat litter made from natural materials (basically most non-clay based litters), assuming you’re flushing into a sewer system, not a septic system. (Septic systems have all kinds of complicated shit going on, so be damn careful what you introduce to…

I bet my aunt and her husband would have done it if they’d been smart enough (and if Evil Grandma hadn’t already been in a nursing home when she died).

The only reminder I need that my mom could have been worse is my mother’s own mother (whom I often refer to as Evil Grandma).

If YT weren’t forcing ever more frequent ads down our throats, I might be more OK with it and less prone to using ad blockers, but when an ads pop in TWICE in the middle of a 12 minute, video (in addition to the beginning/end) that’s too much. Beginning and end: yes, sure. Middle: only depending on video length, and…

On an oven related note: speaking of hacks, do you know that if your oven consistently cooks too hot/cold, you can recalibrate it?

It is also because Hershey’s won a case that effectively allows them to “ban” imported Cadbury products, allowing them a monopoly on products with that brand name in the US. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/snit-kat/

The dick strings joke was fine, whatever, but watching Roy giggle about it made me fucking guffaw.

If you like horror, I do recommend reading Clover’s book. I was a weirdo who stumbled across the book and read it during college just for funsies (it is actually a fairly easy read that doesn’t get too heavy in the weeds with academic-ese). I only discovered years later that it was actually this really important work…

While I’m totally on board with “no sequels” as per Drew Goddard, I would love to see movies about some of the other failed scenarios from that last ritual.

If anyone has seen Majors’s acting, it is very clear that he can convey menacing while keeping a calm, measured tone. “Not having raised his voice” doesn’t really mean anything.

YES. Patronize your local library, people!

I believe Disney owns Hulu. So yeah...

Oh, ABSOLUTELY. When I train my staff to review stuff, I explicitly tell them that it’s partly so they can catch if they themselves may have made a mistake before ending the call. (Which happens, and then you’re glad you reviewed everything.)

Then now is also the time to move those to the top of the queue so you can watch them before it gets a lot harder.

Recasting in the MCU isn’t entirely unprecedented. They have also established that variants can look different (thank you, Loki). If worse comes to worst, they can recast, and just have it be a variant with a different physical appearance.