rob_t_firefly

joined 2 years ago
[–] rob_t_firefly 1 points 5 hours ago

Also, the stupid name chosen by mid-1990s edgelords trying to be funny is still stupid.

[–] rob_t_firefly 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I have an appointment to get my first tattoo this afternoon!

[–] rob_t_firefly 2 points 6 hours ago

Scrolling around on her Wookieepedia article I'm most entertained by the fact that they designed this comic book character to go around mostly naked in horny fanservice poses while giving her elaborate full-body tattoos that no two artists would ever be able to draw the same.

[–] rob_t_firefly 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

"Also very important for family entertainment reasons that the slave lady Leia replaces had her boobs literally out of her skimpy costume and flopping around when she got murdered."

[–] rob_t_firefly 2 points 6 hours ago

The sets of fancy expensive-looking porcelain plates and cups my older relatives all had on display in a glass-fronted cabinet for use on some theoretical special occasion, but no occasion was ever actually special enough to allow anyone to use it.

[–] rob_t_firefly 11 points 7 hours ago

A smartphone in my hand.

[–] rob_t_firefly 7 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Talking of the news on September 11th, 2001, I had that day off and was sleeping in that morning when my sleep was interrupted by my (landline) phone ringing, I groggily answered and it was my best friend frantically telling me to put on the news. I fumbled, still half-asleep, for the TV remote while mumbling "what channel?" and she said "any channel!" just as I turned the TV on and, sure enough, whatever channel it was on was showing what was happening.

It's a funny trope in film and TV to have characters generically tell each other to "turn on the TV/radio/etc." without specifying which channel or whatever, and the required plot-fueling info just happens to be broadcasting live on whatever station is already tuned in. That's the only day I remember that actually happening to me in real life.

[–] rob_t_firefly 1 points 7 hours ago

This is such a remarkably apt way to put it.

[–] rob_t_firefly 1 points 1 day ago

I loved that Tom Hanks movie!

[–] rob_t_firefly 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I am looking way forward to posting images with alt text! They brought that in for 0.19.4 and it's the one thing that I've been really feeling the lack of on here since the start.

[–] rob_t_firefly -3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

And the world supports many free and open source OSes, many of which have no present ties to or support by the people or organizations who started the things they were forked from.

I see no reason why the next big browser thing couldn't be a Firefox fork.

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by rob_t_firefly to c/lemmyshitpost
 

Because at that moment, there will be 20 2024 hours to go.

 

Photo of a US passport and a passport cover custom-printed with the cover art from the original US edition of the novel "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." Said art features a hand giving the universal thumb gesture for hitching a ride while a green planet makes a silly face against a backdrop of space. (Douglas Adams and many fans dislike this version of the cover, but it was on the first copy of the story I had as a kid and I'll always have great fondness for it.) The passport in its Hitchhiker's Guide cover.

I got a new passport and learned you can get any image you want printed onto a passport holder, and this had to happen.

I briefly considered making some original cover art based on how the Guide itself is described in the story, but I then thought about all the reasons not to pull out something that says "DON'T PANIC" in large, friendly letters in view of some jittery border guard who may not get the literary reference.

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Nancy - September 1, 1969 (self.comicstrips)
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Photo of Donald Trump shouting, his mouth forming a near-perfect O shape. To the right of his O shaped mouth, the letters L and D have been added to form the word "OLD."

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by rob_t_firefly to c/tenforward
 

Parody of the "Keep Calm and Carry On" poster which reads "Keep Colm and Carry On. At the top is an illustration of Colm Meaney looking stubborn. The image is watermarked RobVincent.net, for that is my site and I made this thing.

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