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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXYfnWRp1Q0

• Show: Red Dwarf
• Episode: "Stoke Me a Clipper" (Series 7, Episode 2)
• Original air date: 24th January 1997
• Scene: Ace Rimmer wrestles an alligator out of an exploding plane without a parachute, captures and then surfs the gator through the sky to bite the head off a Nazi in mid-air and then rescues a beautiful princess from a Wehrmacht firing squad on a rocket-powered motorbike. I mean, do you know anything more awesomer than that?
• More info: https://reddwarf.fandom.com/wiki/RD:_Stoke_Me_a_Clipper

I kind of remembered that the European flag is not just for the European Union. (It was actually created for the Council of Europe.)

I had no idea that the stars are properly called mullets.

"On an azure field a circle of twelve golden mullets, their points not touching."

What I think of when I hear "a flag with a circle of twelve golden mullets":

Trek screencaps without context https://pixelfed.ca/i/web/profile/798960058146846397

https://youtu.be/s-bKFo30o2o

EDIT: This article is not by me, just a site whose feed I subscribe to.

Cheapskate's Guide to Computers - Here Linux Mint is Existing Again, so I am Back Using It Again

When new versions of Mint came out, I upgraded as one would expect, but when Mint 17.3 began behaving badly on all my computers back in 2015 or 2016, I stopped using it. Instead, I went back to Mint 17.1 and stayed there for as long as I could. Finally, in late 2019 or early 2020 when version 17.1 was no longer supported sufficiently for me to install new applications, I had to give up on Mint completely and move to Parrot OS.

Two months ago, I decided to test the most recent version of Mint. That was Mint 22.1, and I chose the MATE desktop environment, which uses the Metacity windows manager. To my shock, the problems have finally been fixed after nearly a decade! I don't know who the Mint team had to fire to make Mint work again, but whoever it was, thank god they did! So, since here Mint is existing again, I am back using it again.

Why are some comments highlighted (or "greylighted"), e.g. the three in the middle, and some are not?

https://pixelfed.ca/p/klu9/806559107614177586

Is it something to do with my instance (lemmy.ca)? Their instance? Invidividual users?

(I'm viewing in a web browser. Default settings, lemmy.ca)

New to Lemmy, hope it's OK to cross-post this here.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/40607914

https://www.pushing-pixels.org/fui/

An ongoing series of interviews with the people who have created the fantasy UIs for movies and shows over the last three decades: background, experience, inspirations, goals, technology, process etc.

Altered Carbon, Black Mirror, Continuum, Demolition Man, The Expanse, Fast & Furious, Her, Iron Man, Kingsman, Minority Report, The Net, Picard, Ready Player One, Tron: Legacy, Westworld and many more.

Also:

https://www.pushing-pixels.org/inmotion/

Interviews with people responsible for other visual aspects of films & shows: cinematographers and production designers.

They had me at Demolition Man.

https://www.pushing-pixels.org/fui/

An ongoing series of interviews with the people who have created the fantasy UIs for movies and shows over the last three decades: background, experience, inspirations, goals, technology, process etc.

Altered Carbon, Black Mirror, Continuum, Demolition Man, The Expanse, Fast & Furious, Her, Iron Man, Kingsman, Minority Report, The Net, Picard, Ready Player One, Tron: Legacy, Westworld and many more.

Also:

https://www.pushing-pixels.org/inmotion/

Interviews with people responsible for other visual aspects of films & shows: cinematographers and production designers.

Found this in Windows 93!

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If you loved horror-comedy Mr Vampire, then you'll want to see Lam Ching-Ying return as the "vampire"-fighting Taoist priest, only this time he's also a modern-day Hong Kong cop, fighting a drug gang that employs ghosts and the hopping dead!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Cop

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098150/

https://archive.org/details/magic-cop-eng-subs

via https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2025/03/gay-dating-app-profiles-frozen-during-two-sessions-political-meetings/