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I headcanon Sanctuary Moon as a kdrama
posted to MetaFilter by potrzebie at 6:58 PM on December 14, 2023

What, they couldn't get Tilda Swinton? what a crushing disappoint. Oh well, I know I'll watch it anyway.
posted to MetaFilter by Mary Ellen Carter at 6:53 PM on December 14, 2023

Kevin R Free does such a great job portraying Murderbot in the audio books, I would be thrilled if he got some cameo or supporting role in this. maybe he could voice ART. He's also probably the reason I picture murderbot being masc presenting.
posted to MetaFilter by mrgoldenbrown at 6:49 PM on December 14, 2023

Some ideas about how to show Sanctuary Moon:

- It is never actually shown. We see Murderbot's reactions, and characters talk about events happening in the show, but all we ever see or hear is some theme music.
- It's an anime.
- It looks like a 1960s sitcom.
- Characters in the show are played by recognizable real-world soap opera actors.

Endless possibilities.
posted to MetaFilter by allegedly at 6:33 PM on December 14, 2023

Skarsgård might need to upgrade its "walk like a human" code
posted to MetaFilter by skippyhacker at 6:33 PM on December 14, 2023

I like the idea of stopping at the first few words of the post text with just "Apple announces Murderbot"

imagining Tim Cook talking about how Apple believes in privacy as a fundamental human right, which is why it's more important than ever to avoid leaving any loose ends
posted to MetaFilter by DoctorFedora at 6:29 PM on December 14, 2023

> I really really really want to see the clips from Sanctuary Moon and Worldhoppers.

This is honestly the best reason I’ve heard for this adaptation to exist. Bonus points if Sanctuary Moon is so well-done that it becomes a spin-off series.
posted to MetaFilter by mbrubeck at 5:46 PM on December 14, 2023

Fantasy-casting Vico Ortiz as Murderbot. Yeah, I think that could work.
posted to MetaFilter by humbug at 5:29 PM on December 14, 2023

I'm fairly certain Martha Wells told fans once that Sanctuary Moon is a piss-take on How To Get Away With Murder, so let's find out what Viola Davis is doing.
posted to MetaFilter by The Pluto Gangsta at 5:22 PM on December 14, 2023

Murderbot is affirmatively genderless, as in has no gender and doesn't want one, and is written in a way that some readers have a more feminine mental picture of Murderbot and others more masculine. (EDIT: like that, see?!) So there was no casting that would have ever satisfied everyone. Me, I think at least Skarsgård is pretty good at the "being wearily put upon yet again" part of Murderbot.

I'm also cautiously hopeful about it, but the novella/novel series... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by GCU Sweet and Full of Grace at 5:20 PM on December 14, 2023

I forgot S3's "The Gas Man" hasn't been pulled down yet; it's a good self-contained episode if you never watched Homicide. It's more of a Bruno Kirby showcase (as it's one of those episodes where you see the main cast primarily through the eyes of an outsider) but Pembleton gets a killer last line.
posted to MetaFilter by praemunire at 8:41 PM on December 12, 2023

No, everything's not OK.
posted to MetaFilter by whuppy at 12:19 PM on December 13, 2023

This is quite nice: Andre Braugher: How his deadpan delivery made Captain Holt Brooklyn Nine-Nine's beating heart
posted to MetaFilter by oulipian at 6:47 AM on December 13, 2023

Henry fucking Kissinger makes it to 101, Andre Braugher gone at 61. Only the good die young, indeed.

Beautiful piece by Alan Sepinwall this morning: Andre Braugher Played Two of TV’s Greatest Cops. But His Family Came First. The final paragraph just gutted me.

Braugher was an incredible actor AND a great guy. Far, far, FAR too few of those in the world.

.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Frayed Knot at 6:31 AM on December 13, 2023

Well, it makes sense. Who the fuck else is God going to put in the Box to get the truth out of Kissinger?
posted to MetaFilter by Hogshead at 5:17 AM on December 13, 2023

"Because no one will ever believe you."
posted to MetaFilter by praemunire at 7:51 PM on December 12, 2023

enjoying this season so far! Wishing i let more air before starting on it like I did with the last two.

Poor Catherine, but at least she’s getting ham and/or cheese now.
posted to FanFare by supercres at 11:09 PM on November 29, 2023

This episode was wild. Bringing Scott back and going full throttle on the plot could have undermined what was making this series special, but it was awesome.

Favourite things:

- Yah, Getting Will Forte was a coup
- I love that "future" Toronto (basically 2023 based on the time jump) is in some kind of post-apocalyptic state and no one comments on it or explains.
- The Japenese-language song... [more]
posted to FanFare by Alex404 at 5:38 AM on December 7, 2023

Santos has finally moved on to what should have been his career in the first place: Cameo.
posted to MetaFilter by signal at 4:18 PM on December 4, 2023

Been a bad month for folks with names starting with "Kiss"...
posted to MetaFilter by Greg_Ace at 3:51 PM on December 3, 2023

With proper cloud resource management, they really can rock and roll all night and party everyday.
posted to MetaFilter by dr_dank at 2:54 PM on December 3, 2023

Oh. Oh no.

I am a spreadsheet person. My wife has suggested more than once that it might be ASD; I haven't looked into it. A FWB once called it "weirdly pro-social sociopathy", which doesn't feel quite right either. Here's a small sampling of some of the Excel files you can find on my computer:

The recipient of every one of the thousands of greeting cards I have sent over the past eleven years, along with the date the card was sent, a... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Parasite Unseen at 8:33 AM on December 4, 2023

which makes me think maybe it is more autobiographical than fictional?

To me it reads like the fantasy of a tech bro. The magic powers of mushrooms, the "effective charity" bit, the way the main character goes "I can change every aspect of my life through sheer willpower." I don't know anything about the author but it wouldn't surprise me if they were a rationalist*.

*pejorative
posted to MetaFilter by simmering octagon at 6:04 AM on December 4, 2023

Flunkie, that's the same video Mid posted, that you responded to

Whoops, sorry. Here's the one I meant.
posted to MetaFilter by Flunkie at 5:42 PM on December 1, 2023

What are the odds that Santos takes a page from George Costanza and just shows up in Congress next week "like it never happened."
posted to MetaFilter by SPrintF at 1:36 PM on December 1, 2023

GOP Melts Down

Ooh let's get a quote in here:

“There’s going to be a lot of consequences coming here,” warned Cotton. “I cautioned a lot of you. Listen to me! I cautioned a lot of you!”
...
“Mr. Cotton says the chairman needs to rethink his decision,” said Cotton, as his name came up in the roll call. “That’s what Mr. Cotton says.”

disarrayed
posted to MetaFilter by away for regrooving at 1:08 PM on December 1, 2023

As if Republicans gave 2 licks about precedent.

Funny you mention that: GOP Melts Down As Dick Durbin Uses Its Tactics For Advancing Biden Judges
posted to MetaFilter by JoeZydeco at 11:50 AM on December 1, 2023

Miller's letter may have been decisive in swinging the vote against Santos. At least, NPR's story makes it sound like the voting was pretty close and that Miller's story helped influence it and Mediaite agrees.

As to the tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees, the key part of his letter (Twitter link) is this:Earlier this year I learned that the Santos campaign had charged my personal credit card — and the personal credit card of my Mother — for contribution amounts... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Nelson at 10:54 AM on December 1, 2023

The Republican party has lost diversity by expelling practically its only gay, one of its few Latinos, one of its few immigrants, one of its few Jew-ish, one of its few extraterrestrials. Not to mention he invented volleyball.
posted to MetaFilter by dances_with_sneetches at 9:50 AM on December 1, 2023

It is a sad day indeed when such a patriot as George Santos, not only a veteran of all three world wars but also the first black woman to win both a Nobel Peace Prize and the Stanley Cup, is expelled from congress.
posted to MetaFilter by Pickman's Next Top Model at 9:45 AM on December 1, 2023

Within minutes of Santos' departure, a similar looking car arrived, and out stepped a man with a massive beard and mustache, who held up a sheet of paper on which read:

"I APPOINT BORGE BANTOS TO BE US GOVERNMENT

SIGNED

THE GOVERNOR OF THAT STATE THAT GEORGE SANTOS IS FROM"

After which heavily-bearded and now expliciably sunglassed indoors Borge Bantos walked into the House chambers... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by AzraelBrown at 9:41 AM on December 1, 2023

Too obviously corrupt for (some) Republicans is VERY obviously corrupt.

What did him in, the only thing that did him in, was that he was stealing from his fellow Republicans, and not just the rank and file that they normally grift.
posted to MetaFilter by Parasite Unseen at 9:18 AM on December 1, 2023

I think it finally got personal for some Republicans. Via Joshua Friedman on Bluesky : "Rep. Max Miller, who called Santos a "crook" on the floor yesterday, sends out this e-mail to fellow members."
Colleagues -

Late yesterday on the floor I alluded to a personal impact of Rep. Santos's conduct. Earlier this year I learned that the Santos campaign had charged my personal credit card - and the personal card of my Mother - for contribution... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by maudlin at 9:16 AM on December 1, 2023

OMG, Megaforce. The guy riding the upside-down flying motorcycle at the end...I am 12 again.
posted to MetaFilter by Mid at 2:39 PM on December 1, 2023

It's even more brutal when you compare it to his statement on the passing of Rosalynn Carter.

Or Tony Bennett.
posted to MetaFilter by Gelatin at 7:04 AM on December 1, 2023

The Onion with their unerring unfaltering genius, included Bashar al-Assad at the bottom of the "React to the Death of Kissinger" article.

The Bashar al-Assad satirical quote?
“Game recognizes game.”
posted to MetaFilter by spamandkimchi at 8:13 PM on November 30, 2023

Biden's "condolence" statement is hilariously ice cold and doing the absolute least.

wow.
The whole thing is *chef's kiss* but that last line...

It's even more brutal when you compare it to his statement on the passing of Rosalynn Carter.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by cheshyre at 5:59 PM on November 30, 2023

Here's something distressing to think about: What if this is the best possible timeline and things are uniformly much worse in every alternate timeline where he didn't exist?

It's nothing to do with Kissinger, but it turns out that this is the only timeline with mammals and reptiles and suchlike. All the other timelines just have rocks with googly eyes.
posted to MetaFilter by GCU Sweet and Full of Grace at 5:51 PM on November 30, 2023

Well, this is how I found out Henry Kissinger died.
posted to MetaFilter by dirigibleman at 7:21 PM on November 29, 2023

Don’t know how to link from FB, but Corey Robin: “Gore Vidal was once in the Sistine Chapel, where he stumbled upon Henry Kissinger “gazing thoughtfully” at the Hell section of Michelangelo’s Last Judgment. “Look,” said Vidal to a friend, “he’s apartment hunting.”
posted to MetaFilter by lassie at 8:43 PM on November 29, 2023

@dasharez0ne has posted
posted to MetaFilter by credulous at 7:54 PM on November 29, 2023

Two weeks ago, I posted this to social media: [nitter.net]

Nov 14, 2023 · 12:25 AM UTC

My drinking hasn't been at a level where it's a problem, but I feel like my drinking in the last, say, five years or so has been much higher than what's normal for me. So I'm making a public pledge:

I will not have any alcohol until Henry Kissinger is dead.

It could be a week. It could be ten years.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by AlSweigart at 7:12 PM on November 29, 2023

CONGRATULATIONS.

IF YOU ARE READING THIS, YOU HAVE OUTLIVED HENRY KISSINGER.
posted to MetaFilter by AlSweigart at 6:55 PM on November 29, 2023

Okay Metafilter, you have finally won the "we don't have to be nice on obituaries" argument.
posted to MetaFilter by corb at 6:42 PM on November 29, 2023

This morning while I waited for my coffee, I distinctly thought, “Kissinger better not outlive DJ, or I SWEAR TO GOD…”

If you could do this on command, you could start up a hell of a Patreon with a talent like that.
posted to MetaFilter by notoriety public at 6:42 PM on November 29, 2023

This is all my fault, guys. My geriatric tuxedo cat is ailing, and we have an appointment with the vet tomorrow to figure out what’s going on and how to proceed.

This morning while I waited for my coffee, I distinctly thought, “Kissinger better not outlive DJ, or I SWEAR TO GOD…”

Deej is curled up with me now, snoozing, using the orange tabby’s butt as a pillow.

So, sorry about that. Totally my bad!
posted to MetaFilter by armeowda at 6:39 PM on November 29, 2023

I'm a bit saddened he managed to outlive Rosalynn Carter if only by a few days.

In my head-canon the timing here is due to Mrs. Carter raising some objections upon arrival upstairs.
posted to MetaFilter by Jarcat at 6:39 PM on November 29, 2023

I was waiting for a critical obit, not the mealy-mouthed "architect of foreign polciy" other outlets had.

Nailed it and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 6:12 PM on November 29, 2023

Lotta grim reaper at playing the grabber arm machine memes right now.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 6:11 PM on November 29, 2023

And they're still sardonically relevant: here's What Are We Going To Do About The Rich? and Give Stupidity A Chance. Both of which are exactly as political as you might expect from the titles ...
posted to MetaFilter by cstross at 8:53 AM on November 24, 2023