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Movie TV Tech Geeks #MovieNews #Crank #JasonStatham 20 Years Later, Jason Statham’s Explosive Action Masterpiece Is Back on Streaming http://dlvr.it/TTFtP2
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Learn how to do Shimano Hollowtech II Bottom Bracket and cranks Replacement with the skills and tools in this vid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlN9CFXCNBI
#ThreadedRodsForBeginners #Cycling #BB #bottom #bracket #crank #torque #wrench #torquewrench #steel #Al #Fe
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Movie TV Tech Geeks #MovieNews #JasonStatham #Crank #AmySmart Jason Statham’s ‘Crank 3’ Gets Disappointing Update From Original Star [Exclusive] http://dlvr.it/TSyNS3
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Notice the hobbyist #crank #edgelords who harp on #perfectionism on #socialMedia including #Fediverse/ #Mastodon
Such accounts work hard for #MAGA to win. Purposefully or cluelessly
It's #voterSuppression
High holy fire and brimstone #purityPolitics #drama is easy. Anyone can manufacture it. It's not #morality it's cheap #dopamine hits
How to spot #fake #leftist accounts:
Is their message
an appeal of #psychology?
Amping #cynicism and #toxicIdealism is a #scam
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Movie TV Tech Geeks #MovieNews #Crank #CrankHighVoltage Jason Statham’s 2-Part Action Saga Is the Perfect Weekend Binge http://dlvr.it/TSvcVn
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Movie TV Tech Geeks #Movie #JasonStatham #Crank #WrathofMan Jason Statham's 5 Best Performances, Ranked http://dlvr.it/TShRl2
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Movie TV Tech Geeks #Movie #Crank #CrankHighVoltage #TheBoxersOmen Only 3 Action Movies Are More Extreme Than 'Crank' http://dlvr.it/TShCK0
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Crank (2006) and Crank: High Voltage (2009)
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Movie TV Tech Geeks #MovieNews #Crank #JasonStatham #Action 20 Years Later, Jason Statham’s Most Chaotic Action Movie Is Leaving Streaming http://dlvr.it/TSZR7Q
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Movie TV Tech Geeks #Movie #JasonStatham #Crank #CrankHighVoltage 6 Most Extreme Jason Statham Action Movies, Ranked http://dlvr.it/TST49y
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I've spent the last hour-plus going through more of the "stuff" he links from the overview, and (a) I still have no way to tell if it makes sense or if it's just LLM-generated physics drivel, and (b) I get more and more concerned that "one self-educated non-physicist overturns all of modern physics and solves all outstanding problems", while hypothetically tenable, strains credulity.
I mean, a long history of cranks "disproving" Einstein (dunno why they all hated relativity so much) and Dirac and everything else just screams "This guy is a nutter". The alarm bells are ringing. I really want people who actually understand this stuff to read it and tell me whether I can write this guy off as such a crank.
But weirder things have happened. Einstein was just a clerk in a patent office who no one had heard of when he demonstrated the then-new and completely unsupported-by-evidence quantum theory, which had only been proposed to solve the (ultra)violet catastrophe, could actually explain the completely unrelated and then-unexplained photoelectric effect. He won the Nobel in physics for that - not relativity - and cemented quantum theory in place, even if he never liked it. A nobody who single-handedly stamped the dividing line between classical physics and modern physics.
<brain-exploding>
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Taste the Rainbow
This article was first published in Crank Magazine from Pinknantucket Press in 2014.
Things were simple in my youth. There were twelve VFL teams, four TV channels, two types of potato. And four flavours of potato chip. Whether Thinly Sliced, or Crinkle Cut, chips came in Plain, Salt & Vinegar, Chicken and Barbecue. What’s more, no matter what the brand, you could rely on the colour of the packet to tell you what flavour you were holding. Plain chips came in blue, Salt & Vinegar came in magenta, Chicken came in green, and Barbecue came in orange. All quite distinct, even for those with red/green colour blindness. Back then, as a preliterate child, I knew what I was getting. There were no surprises.
How times have changed. If you’re not looking, you can now pick up a pack of chips only to discover that it is Cheddar flavour, or Sour Cream & Chives flavour, or Tasmanian Mountain Pepper & Braised Beef, or Dill Pickle, or Habanero Chilli, or Meat Pie with Tomato Sauce, or Wasabi and Ginger, or Red Caviar. These are all real flavours.
In this mad rush for the most bizarre flavours, brands have abandoned the universal colour coding of the past, and now we have the dangerous situation that a red packet may signify Sour Cream & Sweet Chilli, or Sweet Chilli & Sour Cream, or Aussie Hot Dog! Frankly, this is intolerable. And unnecessary. As humans are capable of recognizing hundreds of different flavours, we can discern hundreds of colours too.
I propose an international registry of potato chip packet colours. Existing flavours will be grandfathered in and assigned appropriate colours: Salt & Vinegar will naturally receive Pantone Process Magenta. Barbecue orange is Pantone 1585. Light & Tangy can be assigned Pantone 809, a bright fluorescent lime, to act as a prominent deterrent to the unwary. Newly proposed flavours will be taste-tested and assigned a colour by qualified synaesthetes, who can finally earn a living from their otherwise useless superpower. International trade treaties will provide harsh penalties for noncompliance, and here I am specifically thinking of American chip companies who try to pass off Salt & Vinegar using Pantone Process Cyan, which of course is reserved for Almond and Coriander Pesto flavour. Handily, if anyone ever tries to make a Tobacco flavoured potato chip, it can be assigned olive brown Pantone 448, just like plain cigarette packaging.
Without these precautions, it’s only a matter of time before some innocent youngster ingests a Roast Turkey & Cranberry Sauce flavoured potato chip. Think of the children!
Deborah Pickett (@futzle) can still taste that Mint Raita chip years afterwards.
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<https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/codger?s=t> strong matches:
crank | dodo | eccentric | fellow | galoot | miser
😸 OK, I'm probably most of those, except a miser.
The word "galoot" was new to me. <https://www.dictionary.com/browse/galoot#example-sentences> led to a 'Godzilla vs. Kong' review in The Washington Post, which I can not read. Instead, the sponsorship invites me to use Comet Browser, which was also new to me. <https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/announcing-comet-plus-launch-partners> launch partners, et cetera. <https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/comet-is-now-available-to-everyone-worldwide> two weeks ago:
"Today we are releasing the Comet browser to the world, for free."
Yeah, right /s ‖ <https://www.perplexity.ai/download-comet> "requires an invitation | Comet download is not available to you yet | Join waitlist | Get immediate access to Comet when you upgrade to Pro. | $20.00 USD / month"
Erm, no thanks ‖ you've got to be fucking kidding me.
How Perplexity is Evading Anti-crawling Measures | Lobsters <https://lobste.rs/s/i81fly/how_perplexity_is_evading_anti_crawling> and if that's not bad enough, <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45487511> 🠶 <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45004846> "Comet AI browser can get prompt injected from any site, drain your bank account" 🠶 ‖ 🠶 My Lethal Trifecta talk at the Bay Area AI Security Meetup <https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/9/bay-area-ai/> (August 2025), about which <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44846922> includes a response from "one of main devs of GitHub MCP" (whatever MCP is … I'm severely undereducated in these areas).
https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/114996947615300629 @simon
https://infosec.exchange/@patrickcmiller/115336355573208202 @patrickcmiller
https://social.skynetcloud.site/@jos1264/115391181813017065 @jos1264
#codger #crank #dodo #eccentric #fellow #galoot #undereducated #Comet #Perplexity #MCP #lethal #trifecta
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Yulia the Cossack Princess was appalled when she saw the corsets the high-society women of London submitted to. What nature of torture was this?
"Men like a waist so tiny they can wrap their hands around it," explained Lady Eunice.
"I see," said Yulia. She envisioned a solution: all men who wished to court her had to submit to the Finger Extender. Their hands were put in a machine and a #crank turned until their fingers were long enough to encompass Yulia's waist.
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Calling all fans of #ActionMovies , #JasonStatham , #Crank and #Electrocution
You need to follow @cranktober
It's like an advent calendar, only every day in October you get a piece of the movie 'Crank:High Voltage' (2009) instead of a crappy chocolate. How great is that!
Tis the season to be cranky!
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The creator of "One of the most learned monstrosities of all times" believed that he had deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphs while incorporating Greek esoteric texts, Jewish Kabbalah, Arabic magic, alchemy, astral medicine, and pure antediluvian wisdom. "One may be tempted to dismiss him as a learned charlatan or a crank."
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/athanasius-kircher-and-the-hieroglyphic-sphinx/
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A quotation from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
That is what you have to expect if you invent anything that puts an old machine out of fashion, or solve a problem that has puzzled all the world up to your time. There never was a religion founded but its Messiah was called a crank. There never was an idea started that woke up men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as a crank.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American poet, essayist, scholar
Article (1890-06), “Over the Teacups,” No. 7, Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 66Sourcing, notes: wist.info/holmes-sr-oliver-wen…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #acceptance #change #changeagent #crank #crazy #idiot #innovation #invention #malcontent #progress #reform
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Looking forward to Season Two of @playdate games 🤩 Getting that pre-order in NOW!
https://social.panic.com/@playdate/114354609520351026
#videogames #playdate #panic #gaming #season2 #crank #technology #tech -
New release review: Novocaine
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This thread is a mixed bag of @playdate news:
The price of the console is going up in future 📈 but you can buy refurbished hardware for a discounted price 🪛 or grab a console NOW at the existing price 💸
I like my Playdate. It's a very fun handheld console to use and I really admire that @panic ventured into that space. 👏
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Ideas to get you started:
• People who eat hot chips on public transport (solution: chip shop in the carriage)
• Road intersection windscreen washing panhandlers (solution: drive-thru car wash lane)
• Safety wear is unfashionable (solution: hi-viz haute couture) -
We should bring back Crank magazine.
Write a blog post:
• 350 to 500 words
• about something that annoys you
• but is actually trivial
• (important!) propose a solution!Crank was the brainchild of Alice from Pink Nantucket Press, who seems to be on Instagram these days. A few print issues were published around 2014–15 but the format suits the blog publishing pipeline too.
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So Sad They Had to Fade It
This article was first published in Crank Magazine from Pinknantucket Press in 2014.
Back in a previous life, I fancied myself as something of a musician. I was self-taught, so I would play on the family piano what I heard on the radio. When my listening skills weren’t up to the job I would spend hours in the basement at Allans on Collins Street, leafing through the sheet music and memorizing chord progressions—something I was genuinely good at—for me to practise when I got back home. The sheet music was way too expensive to actually buy.
So many songs on the radio would end the same way: Repeat And Fade. This would be what the sheet music said: 𝄆 eight bars 𝄇, then, as if it was helpful to me on my 1927 Becker upright grand, Repeat And Fade. In case you younger readers didn’t know, no, analogue pianos don’t have a volume control. The best I could manage was to play ever softer, poco a poco piano, until I was barely touching the keys.
When I was older, I started taking music theory lessons. One part of the syllabus was “cadences”, with peculiar names for the different chord progressions that end a piece of music: perfect, imperfect, pluperfect, plagal, interrupted. Cadences seemed to me at the time pointless. Who uses them? Surely everyone just ends with Repeat And Fade!
Apparently not, I was to learn as i broadened my musical tastes. Classical music hardly ever ends with Repeat And Fade1. Classical music is full of proper, perfect (or imperfect, or past perfect) cadences. And it hardly affected sales of their albums at all! When Mozart was writing his Requiem, he didn’t just toss together “Kyrie eleison” (Repeat And Fade). He stuck a proper plagal cadence onto it, sung to the now-famous lyric: “Amen!”
So how did we lose the art of The Ending? When did composers decide, “screw it, it’s too hard to end this song properly, I’ll just turn the volume down”? Or was it the sound engineers, concerned about job security, putting their inimitable touch onto the recording process? Or was it the performers, too absorbed in their jam sessions, to remember how many bars they’d played? Is all modern music written by Stephen King? I don’t know, but I think it’s a cop-out, and it has to stop. All songs should end properly. Heck, even “99 Bottles of Beer on the wall” has an end.2
My plea goes out to all musicians everywhere: Shun Repeat And Fade! Spend five minutes wrapping up your songs properly. Use a cadence if you need; there are plenty to choose from. Kids with their analogue pianos will thank you from the bottom of their too-cheap-to-buy-the-sheet-music hearts.
Plagal cadence to that!
Deborah Pickett (@futzle), like everybody, wants to rule the world.
- footnote: One well-known exception was the last 15 seconds of John Cage’s 4′33″ ↩︎
- Imagine if it didn’t: zero bottles of beer on the wall / take one down, pass it around / minus one bottles of beer on the wall. ↩︎