Marcel Plichta

it's that time of year again youtu.be/sABdtEaKMYE?...

Had a great time seeing the mountain goats (@themountaingoats.bsky.social)and Craig Finn play in Glasgow tonight. I was especially happy to hear messing with the settings and Diaz Brothers I love both those songs and didn't expect to hear them tonight

You run sixteen prompts, and what do you get

Very happy that my paper “Belonging, Violence, and Natural Resource Governance: Experimental Evidence from Mali and Niger” (with Alma Bezares Calderón, Simon Mercer, and Ifeoluwa Olawole) is out at the Journal of Peace Research doi.org/10.1093/jopr...

Houthi, Ukrainian, and Russian OWA drone use are all the subject of my academic work: On the Houthis and Russia: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... On Ukraine (open access): www.tandfonline.com/doi/metrics/...

"Gee, this town I have zero personal or cultural connection to has a nice golf course, I guess I'll be rector of their university" is peak American-visiting-Scotland

It's not this, it's that. That matters.

Look you're nice and all but you're not putting nearly enough red pepper flakes on your food there

Adding my expert insight to your dumb post:

I'd say Lost Boys ranks between The Lost Boys and Hook for me

The Metaverse was always a kinda a silly concept, as was idea of VR for enterprise, but I really like playing VR games and I worry that the money for better hardware and developer engagement will wane.

first thing you want me to read in your meme should be higher and more to the left than the second thing you want me to read in your meme

I only really listen to classic rock the new stuff doesn't really grab me

The image of millions of books being cut for AI scanning and then just thrown away hurts me to the core . And deeply frightens me. It’s not even about these particular books - it’s about the spirit in which it’s done. The butchering. The throwing away instead of donating to libraries .

I dont think the Neuromancer trailer looks very good but i usually like apple stuff so we will see

Houthi supreme leader: We're gonna do the thing Houthi military spokesperson: Here's how we will do the thing Houthi communications: this is a radio message warning you that we will do the thing Houthi military: does the thing 'middle east experts': 😮😮😮👀👀👀

Europeans partying with their 50k

it is important for the public to have a passing understanding of how intelligence works, especially when it is leveraged in this manner

modern audiences could never relate to the metanarrative where a a unisoft-like company uses pop history to make unchallenging entertainment

I liked Star City a lot but I wonder if it has a polar opposite view of For All Mankind? the latter is broadly a story where the pursuit of space exploration makes society kinda better, whereas the former is about doing as much space exploration as you can get away with in a broken society.

it was a lot like peaky blinders, but with shutter shades and in the suburbs

I think nationalizing one specific company on national security grounds would go a long way to sorting this all out

"it's going to be really hard for Eggers to walk the line between historical accuracy and audience intelligibility because the film is set BEFORE the great vowel shif-"

The discourse about the roman helmet guy and the right wing suit guy are fundamentally the same: there are people who fume at historians, classicists, fashion experts, and anyone else that gets in the way of what they THINK the past was like

Crazy that For All Mankind S5 does its season finale time jump to 2020 to Savage by Megan Thee Stallion

it's only a "co-op" game if the campaign is cooperative

For All Mankind is better than Warhammer 40k.

The chokehold capuchin monkeys had in 2000s films

I genuinely believe that the US's inability to embrace hybrid drivetrain technologies in cars (meaning like the OG Prius, not new plug-in stuff) was a very bad sign of cultural decline which we really should have paid more attention to. We decided to look at innovation and say "no thanks"

I dont mean this as a rebuke, but Q is receiving a lot of hate from the tabloids, social media, and some sitting MPs to the point of needing security recently. So, they need our support right now not to be used as a cudgel in this manner.

We are concerned by the nature of the media attention focused on the election of Dr Q Manivannan to the Scottish Parliament at the recent election.

uh I think you mean the west of Virginia

Huge congratulations to Iris Duane and Q Manivannan, soon to become Scotland's first ever trans and non-binary MSPs 👏🏻👏🏾👏🏼🏳️‍⚧️💪🏼 #ScottishGreens #ScottishElection2026 #ScottishElections #ScottishParliament #scottishpolitics

if nobody knows how to use a semicolon then you can just use it whenever; who's gonna stop you?

'Cause your friends don't dance and if they don't dance, well, they can be my friends in other contexts

This Plan Zed can't possibly fail

"Ukraine’s OWA drone campaign shows that key assumptions about the strategic impact of drones – that they are too vulnerable and too small to impose costs at the strategic level – do not apply across the entire spectrum of uncrewed systems." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I mean this is bad but we had the tide pod challenge like 8 years ago so

So kind of like a video essay but written down?