More than 20,000 Christians have signed a petition calling for the cancellation of Good Omens, the television series adapted from Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s 1990 fantasy novel – unfortunately addressing their petition to Netflix when the series is made by Amazon Prime.
The six-part series was released last month, starring David Tennant as the demon Crowley and Michael Sheen as the angel Aziraphale, who collaborate to prevent the coming of the antichrist and an imminent apocalypse. Pratchett’s last request to Gaiman before he died was that he adapt the novel they wrote together; Gaiman wrote the screenplay andworked as showrunner on the BBC/Amazon co-production, which the Radio Times called “a devilishly funny love letter to the book”.
But Christians marshalled by the Return to Order campaign, an offshoot of the US Foundation for a Christian Civilisation, disagree. More than 20,000 supporters have signed a petition in which they say that Good Omens is “another step to make satanism appear normal, light and acceptable”, and “mocks God’s wisdom”. God, they complain, is “voiced by a woman” – Frances McDormand – the antichrist is a “normal kid” and, most importantly, “this type of video makes light of Truth, Error, Good and Evil, and destroys the barriers of horror that society still has for the devil”. They are calling on Netflix to cancel the show.
Gaiman responded to the petition on Twitter, writing: “I love that they are going to write to Netflix to try and get #GoodOmens cancelled. Says it all really. This is so beautiful … Promise me you won’t tell them?”
The publisher and science fiction critic Cheryl Morgan tweeted: “Miraculously God has already done it. Don’t tell them She put it on Amazon instead.”
Return to Order is based on the writings of the author John Horvat II. It “calls upon Americans to put principles into actions by working toward what is called an organic Christian society”. Another of its petitions in April called on Walmart to “stop selling Satanic products” following a 2018 protest against a “blasphemous ice cream chain called Sweet Jesus”.
You know who’s responsible for making them think it’s Netflix, right? Yeah? 😁🤣🤣
I JUST SNORTED RICE KRISPIES UP MY FUKGING NOSE THIS IS THE FUNNIEST THING I’VE SEEN ALL WEEK
Link must be down right terrifying for normal people in Hyrule to encounter.
He’s like a fucking heroic cryptid.
Just imagine it, your village/region/kingdom is under attack by some monster or another and out of the trees this slender little twunk appears and immediately starts acting like he’s gonna help.
And you’re skeptical of course cause look at him.
And then you find out that he’s basically a one man army who just fuckin wrecks the dragon/god/monsters/etc terrorizing your place before he breaks all of the pots in town and disappears again.
Shit must be wild.
Your village has a statue of Link that’s built between his reincarnations, and people put clay pots around it as offerings and thanks.
One day some fucking kid shows up, breaks all your worship pots, and runs off without anything more than a “YAAAH!” as they jump off a cliff into the forest below. You’re confused as fuck but your great-grandmother is weeping like she just saw a god.
its like if you met jesus and he was a gremlin
Villager: (Wakes up one more morning to see all the pots in town are broken) HE IS RISEN
This documentation of a barely-known species of small wild felid is incredible – it’s potentially the first active Chinese mountain cat den ever found! As documented in a recent blog post, a researcher working on a crane conservation project took photos of what he thought was a Tibetan fox, only to discover later that he’d actually photographed a cat so rare it was only discovered as a species in 2007! Researchers returned to the site later and were ecstatic to find that the cat was a mother with two young kittens. The placed a camera trap close to one of the den entrances and was able to record multiple days worth of footage before the family moved on.
Chinese mountain cats (Felis bieti) live in a very small, high-altitude range in remote northern China. They’re well-adapted to the harsh weather at those heights, with a stocky build and thick fur in the winter, and are often called “grass cats” by locals because they blend into the the dry grass of the alpine meadow habitats where they’re most often observed. What little information we have about these elusive felids comes mostly from observations by herders whose livestock graze in those meadows. The IUCN lists that no substantive knowledge has been gained about Chinese mountain cats since 2010, so this new footage from Shan Shui Conservation Center is a major contribution to the scientific understanding of the species.
i’m watching an art theft documentary and they’re interviewing this art history professor from new york who was asked to go with the fbi to authenticate a rubens that had been stolen but it was a sting operation so they had to pretend like they weren’t the fbi, that they were some private buyer about to pay $3.5 million for it, and the fbi was like “this is a VERY delicate operation because you never know how they will react to what you have to say so let the agent do all of the talking, don’t say a word to anyone just nod if it’s the rubens, the last operation we did the guy in your position got shot because things went wrong in a second” and then it cuts to the professor’s interview and he says “i wasn’t going to fly down to miami to be a part of an undercover fbi sting operation to handle what could be rubens’s aurora and just NOT say anything. i was gonna have to ad lib a little” and then he tells the interviewer that when he & the fbi agent got to the hotel while he was examining the painting he started lecturing the other people, first on how badly they had wrapped it, and then about like how it had been painted, the history of it, what the subject was and what she was doing, etc etc, and he was like “i hadn’t taught a class on rubens in 15 years, so for me it was like being back in the classroom except my students couldn’t leave”
at one point during the deal the professor turned to the woman selling it and he said “isn’t this just the most beautiful rubens you’ve ever seen outside of a museum?” (because the fbi had told him earlier that this piece had been stolen from a museum) and THEN he said “where on earth did you get it from?” and the group of people the woman had with her was like taxidermy-fox.png but the woman was like “inheritance” can you IMAGINE the fbi agent about to have a fucking aneurysm when this random guy you’ve brought in just to nod if it’s the right painting not only starts giving an impromptu lecture but then he asks how they got it
omg BLESS YOU for the link and the time stamp that was as glorious as described by the OP
holy gosh. So the painting was wrapped in a manila envelope and the professor did NOT appreciate this:
I was so outraged that they would have been so casual about the handling of this picture that I immediately scolded them and said “This is no way to wrap a Reubens.” And I said “Next time be sure you have in wrapped up in bubble paper….They all were kind of nodding and smiling sheepishly.”
NO MORE RED AND ORANGE LAVA IN MOVIES! FROM NOW ON WE HAVE BLUE, GREEN, PURPLE OR EVEN PINK! STOP HOLDING BACK! ESPECIALLY IF ITS AN ALIEN DAMN PLANET! NOT ALL CORES ARE THE SAME!!
For decades, programmers have talked about the tendency of software to
become less reliable over time as “rot,” but Konrad Hinsen makes a
compelling case that the right metaphor is “collapse,” because the
reason software degrades is that the ground underneath it (hardware,
operating systems, libraries, programming languages) has shifted, like
the earth moving under your house.
Building on this metaphor, Hinsen identifies strategies we use to keep
our houses standing: building only on stable ground; building in
reinforcements to counteract the expected degree of shaking; fixing the
house after every quake, or giving up and rebuilding the house every
time it falls down.
These strategies are of limited use to software developers, though:
building in a risk-free environment means using systems that don’t
change, which severely limits your options (some large fraction of ATM
transactions today loop through a system running COBOL!); we don’t
really know how to make software that remains reliable when its
underlying substrates change; and rebuilding software from scratch over
and over again only works for very trivial code.
Which really leaves us with only option 3: constant repairs.
I love this analysis but I wonder where “technology debt” fits in (the
idea that you shave a corner or ignore a problem, then have to devote
ever-larger amounts of resources to shoring up this weak spot, until,
eventually, the amount of work needed to keep the thing running exceeds
all available resources and it collapses).
I’ve compiled all current space emperor updates into one large Google Doc, which you can read here. I’ll continue updating this link and possibly go back and make minor edits as I see fit. I’m not sure how to format it so you can easily skip from chapter to chapter from the outline, but I’ll work on that! The most recent update is chapter nine.
OK now I figured out how to make chapters. If you go to “View”, find the dropdown menu, and select “Show document outline” it all shows up as clickable chapter sections.
But seriously, over half of the things on that list we actively DID NOT WANT in our house search. We LIKE older homes, we WANT actual rooms and hate the modern open floor plans, we LIKE older neighborhoods with trees, and leaves, and frankly, our home is more efficient because of rooms. If we heat our kitchen up in the summer, it’s separated from the main living area by WALLS. Also, there was absolutely no mention in that rash-inducing article of what quality of materials you get buying an older home. We have oak hardwood floors on both floors that just needed some TLC. Our neighborhood has brick homes (not just the decorative brick on the street side of the property for that “look”). To get that kind of material in a modern home, you’re paying well over 3x what we did for a home of similar size (granted, we got a home that needed some cosmetic work, so I lucked into a pretty good deal for this 3 bed/3 bath, 2000sq ft place). Also! Because we live in an established neighborhood, we’re 10 minutes away from downtown where we both work, rather than a 40 minute commute from the new ‘burbs.
I FUCKIGN HATE OPEN FLOOR PLANS I HATE THEM SO GODDAMNED MUCH HATES THEM PREIOUS
Last year my parents almost couldn’t sell their AWESOME older (not THAT old) house because all these new money tech bro families had it in their head that they NEEDED an open floor plan. When my dad asked “Why?” The answers were mainly “Because that’s what’s ‘in’ right now.”
They ended up having to sell for $90,000 under asking price, just because it was built in the early 80’s, and nobody back then planned on bad home planning being what idiots wanted in the 2010’s.
I’m waiting for the granite countertops trend to die away too, because I bet you a LOT of $$$ that twenty to thirty years from now people will think it looks “dated” and you’ll see all these guides on how to rip out granite countertops or paint over them or something, and I intend to laugh forever.
