we don’t serve their kind here: “clanker” from the Star Wars franchise has become a universal slur for robots
jeanine, you’ve changed: a thread about how a consultancy firm in 1987 was responsible for making late 80s and 90s cartoon characters bland and unanimated—via Super Punch
retrospective: an interview with photographer Dennis Morris whose expansive portfolio of music royalty and documentation of the East End offer a correspondence and symmetry
do you take this burger to be your dinner: the return after a long hiatus shows that King of the Hill was always about food
regolith: former reality TV star, Fox News anchor and acting NASA administrator (plus also US Secretary of Transportation) announces the acceleration of the building of a lunar nuclear reactor, as well as freeing commercial drones from line-of-sight supervisor requirements
ásatrúarfélagið: the resurgence of Norse paganism in Iceland
bakeneko: superstition and myth regarding cats in Japanese culture—via Nag on the Lake and Everlasting Blört—see previously, see also
hamburger royal ts: some facts about the McDonald’s Quarter-Pounder
just another way to claim our attention, so that beautiful certainty we had starts to fade: set in 1984 California during Ronald Reagan’s reelection campaign, the critically polarising 1990 Vineland by Thomas Pynchon (previously) speaks to the present
flivverboob: a 1922 slur for a careless driver that didn’t not seem to catch on