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Series D, Episode 05 - Animals
VILA: Are we expecting trouble on this trip?
AVON: A federation patrol attacked Scorpio at Bucol Two. They might wonder what it was doing there in the first place. I would in their position.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/405/287 B7B4

I've never wanted to be a pig more than I do right now

So I grew up next to #Chernobyl and this is, well, TERRIFYING.
A story for y’all: I’m from a city called Zhytomyr, 2 hours west of Kyiv in the North of #Ukraine. We were downwind of the Chernobyl #nuclear power plant when the 1986 disaster happened.
I wasn’t born for another 12 years, but my childhood was filled with stories and the aftermath of it all. Things like:
- My grandmother worked as a head doctor in a hospital and rehabilitation facility exclusively for children of Chernobyl victims to treat the extremely high prevalence of Tuberculosis and other severe health complications. (To specify: these were SECOND GENERATION of exposure).
- A lot of the kids in that facility were orphans, because their parents died young from health problems.
- My uncle’s wife was born in Pripyat. She was 1 year old when the disaster happened. Her parents were told to evacuate while given no information about what happened. They had to pack up their things and rush out to an unfamiliar city with their baby, never to see the rest of their belongings, apartment, or hometown again.
- When I was a kid, it became so common to see weirdly mutated animals and insects that even 2-3 year olds would make jokes about “Chernobyl mosquitos” and I wouldn’t even flinch seeing occasional giant bugs, dark frogs, weird-looking dogs.
- We’d frequently hear of nearby farms having issues with their animals being born too mutated to survive or random outbreaks from contaminated water / food. Crops would randomly fail. People would get poisoned on a regular basis. This all got less common as I grew up.
- My mother still remembers being a little girl, 10 years old, and looking outside from their balcony at the clouds blowing over from Chernobyl that day. People were told to not go outside and to shut all the windows, but not given an explanation as to why. My mother swears that the rain looked different. They weren’t able to go and buy more food for the kitchen for multiple days.
Anyway - nuclear safety isn’t a joke. I don’t understand how this level of carelessness can happen after Chernobyl and Fukushima.

https://www.404media.co/power-companies-are-using-ai-to-build-nuclear-power-plants/

Finished 'Brick' and 'Dangerous Animals' (both intense) and now starting up 'Cat People' (1982). I won't finish it today, it'll have to be tomorrow. Surprised I haven't seen it. Malcolm McDowell 😹 Looks like a strange one
https://boxd.it/21SQ

Cat People (1982)
After years of separation, Irena Gallier and her minister brother, Paul, reunite in New Orleans. When zoologists capture a wild panther, Irena is drawn to the cat – and zoo curator Oliver to her. Soon, Paul will have to reveal the family secret: that when sexually aroused, they revert into predatory jungle cats.

I'm watching "My Epic Camel Adventure with Gordon Buchanan" on BBC 2, and the camel sounds a lot like a wookie.
#tv #animals #starwars

#ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

Series D, Episode 05 - Animals
BORR: That's against Bureau standing orders, Commissioner.
SERVALAN: Who do you think wrote those orders, Borr? I did. So do as I say and do it now.
BORR: At once, Commissioner Sleer.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/405/180 B7B4

For this #tunetuesday the theme is #animalcalls. Well this whole song must be an animal call since it’s sung by The Animals. I really love their style - they’re so cool, and the lead singer is positively fizzing with soul. I’m sorely tempted to get a suit like theirs 😎. In my mind’s eye, the l…