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MURDERBOT 1.05 "Rogue War Tracker Infinite"

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MURDERBOT | 1.01 FreeCommerce

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Murderbot quoting The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon in episodes 1 and 2

[4 and 6]

Bonus:

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Alexander Skarsgård on ‘Lorraine’ (May 23, 2025)

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🎵 there's a place beyond the wormhole a place that only lovers know the brave, the hopeful, the lost, the true... 🎵

Murderbot (& Dr Mensah) in Sanctuary Moon | 1.04

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alexander skarsgård on murderbot (via newsweek)

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Are you saying that you purposely erased your copy? Yes.

Murderbot 1.06 Command Feed

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Security Units have morning routines too.

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A wall of Spam. I spotted this in a Japanese store in Seattle.

Spam gets a pretty bad name in US, but in other parts of the world it is considered real food. Places where there was a large US military presence after WWII, Spam was commonplace. In Korea, Japan and Taiwan, there are numerous dishes using Spam as a key ingredient.

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Pride Flag Unfurled by Chiachio & Giannone

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The Gilligan's Island radio was actually NOT a prop. It was a working radio...Packard Bell model AR-851 table-top AM radio...previously purchased by show creator Sherwood Schwartz to listen to Dodger games in his office. Schwartz didn't like the black radio used in the pilot...thought the white radio would show better. (He had the prop department add the handle and antenna for effect). When the show wrapped after the 3rd season, Schwartz took the now iconic TV prop back to his office, plugged it back in, and continued to listen to Dodger games on it for decades....

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i learned that the average peasant in medieval times would not be able to recognize their king if he walked right up to them

The fact that Joan of Arc was able to do so was considered divine intervention.

Joan was only 17 years old when she first met Charles VII at a castle in Chinon in March of 1429. Joan was brave and self possessed, even amongst people who should have intimidated her. Charles was less bold, retiring into the crowd before she entered the room.

But Joan knew him immediately, and went directly to speak with him. He was impressed with her, and came to believe she did indeed have divine powers.

“Informed that she was coming, the King retired behind some others. Nevertheless, Joan recognized him very well and made him reverence. She conversed long with him. And after hearing her, the King appeared joyful." (Simon Charles).

This may be part of the legend that has grown up around Joan, but it does reinforce the idea that common people would not necessarily have recognized royal figures, who were mostly removed from their daily lives.

At her trial, Joan confirmed that God had shown her the way to Charles, saying: "After dinner I went to the King, who was at the castle and I recognized him among many others by the counsel of my Voices. I told him I wanted to make war on the English."

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Lewis Carroll standing before his De Morgan fantastic birds and beasts fireplace at Oxford.

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“The universe clearly operates for the benefit of humanity. This can be readily seen from the convenient way the sun comes up in the morning, when people are ready to start the day.”

— Terry Pratchett - Hogfather

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“When you hit your thumb with an eight-pound hammer it’s nice to be able to blaspheme. It takes a very special and strong-minded kind of atheist to jump up and down with their hand clasped under their other armpit and shout, “Oh, random-fluctuations-in-the-space-time-continuum!” or “Aaargh, primitive-and-outmoded-concept on a crutch!”

— Terry Pratchett - Men At Arms

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“The Ephebians believed that every man should have the vote (provided that he wasn’t poor, foreign, nor disqualified by reason of being mad, frivolous, or a woman). Every five years someone was elected to be Tyrant, provided he could prove that he was honest, intelligent, sensible, and trustworthy. Immediately after he was elected, of course, it was obvious to everyone that he was a criminal madman and totally out of touch with the view of the ordinary philosopher in the street looking for a towel. And then five years later they elected another one just like him, and really it was amazing how intelligent people kept on making the same mistakes.”

— Terry Pratchett - Small Gods

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“Vimes didn’t like the phrase ‘The innocent have nothing to fear’, believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear’.”

— Terry Pratchett - Snuff