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Very sad to lose this old friend and Star Trek icon.

RIP Walter❤️

Speaking locally; the extent to which the Irish far right is influenced by and coordinated with their counterparts in the UK and the US is pretty obvious by this point. The internet’s global village has had a lot of knock on effects

In addition to playing Chekov and Bester, Walter Koenig wrote "The Stranger," a great (and trippy when I was a kid) 𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘰𝘴𝘵 ep. We're losing too many good people from animated 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘳 𝘛𝘳𝘦𝘬 shows. Koenig wrote "The Infinite Vulcan." Eric Bauza voiced multiple roles on 𝘓𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘋𝘦𝘤𝘬𝘴 and 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘪𝘨𝘺.

He’ll always be Pavel Chekov to me (was a delight to revisit The Voyage Home this year, where he has some of his best moments from the movie series) but so too was he Babylon 5’s Alfred Bester. RIP. m.youtube.com/watch?v=s72f...

My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.

Hahahahahaha gas. I want them to keep going with this. how much water does Sally Rooney drink? How much electricity does her fridge use? How much disinformation does she spread and how many data privacy laws does she breach?

You ever looked at a character design and thought, “yeah I’m definitely gonna see her on my mutuals’ profiles”

The news from Brazil and Serbia are great and show that you don't defeat the far right by copying it or trying to appeal to their supporters You do it by being uncompromising, showing the danger they pose and offering something different to the many crises people suffer from

Yissss

Sort of revealing to see an Ireland-based Brazilian news account post about a 80/20 pro Lula vote in Ireland. Every single comment is right wing crying, almost as if social media is so completely seized by the right, globally, and there's no way out but to dismantle it entirely

during the 2023 WGA strike. a real one.

Not only an incredible talent, but a rare talent who also thought it was funny to just voice random memes every once in a while

this is fake. never happened

Siskel & Ebert are getting a memorial statue in Chicago. The bronze "Two Thumbs Up" statue marks a quarter century after their final TV appearance together. www.rogerebert.com/chazs-blog/s... #FilmSky

If you were minded to support the Jim O’Callaghan position this week I invite you here, into this tiny calm and quiet room to just reflect on the people you’re standing with. Do these people (the ChatgTD, Aontú, Genghis Khan, an actual burning waste basket full of rotten potato peelings) appeal?

Haven’t seen anyone point out that, for the Ghost Rider announcement, Ryan Gosling was dressed like James Dean in Rebel Without A Cause (a movie where James Dean does not ride a motorcycle), which also means Gosling was dressed as Philip J. Fry.

get in, no time to explain

Forgot my phone charger so I bought a new one while clinging to low battery. This is exactly what it feels like to successfully complete a fetch it quest in a video game

my god

100% wanker rate on Irish public figures who attacked the consent ad. David Quinn, Dan O'Brien, Alan Shatter, Charlie Flanagan, Brigid Laffan, Eoin O'Malley, Eddie Hobbs, Niall Boylan, Mattie McGrath. and, of course, the Four Horsemen of the Wankerpocalypse: Big Jim, Peadar, AI Ken and Matt Carthy

Headline of the week

I think the only time I've ever drawn Clayface was in a couple panels a 2022 "Batman Hot Takes" shitpost, but that somehow feels appropriate

Do not recommend touching grass. It’s actually a lot healthier to be online all the time instead

While RT is back in the news I just want to vent a grievance. As the Toy Show -one broadcast, one day a year - grew bigger and more cinematic each year under his stewardship, the production of original children’s programming by RTÉ (where RT got his breaks) shrunk down to nothing.

The invincible airplane

Background paintings for Space Ace (1983), dir. Don Bluth, Bluth Group