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    Rescue Bots/Rescue Bots Academy/Dinobot Adventures/Classic Heroes Team thread

    I'm rewatching Robo-Cody, and I can't help but notice how empty Griffin Rock is in the show. They spend a significant portion of the episode there, and aside from Cody, the only other human on-screen is the china shop owner, who's there for plot purposes. Not sure if it was budgetary reasons, or...
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    The blockchain is going to destroy everything

    "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes" -- Benjamin Franklin
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    The COVID Vaccination Thread

    Neil Young is a mob?
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    P&R Funnies!

    It's going to be great press the first time someone is turned into a vegetable because they missed one of the monthly payments on their brain chip subscription plan.
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    Traitor Watch - The 45 & 47 Thread

    Michael Cohen says Donald Trump told him if one of his kids had to go to prison to ‘make sure’ it was Donald Jr., not Ivanka Father of the year
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    IDW to Lose the Transformers License?

    IDW had some excellent creators give us creative and entertaining stories. I hope whoever gets to publish Transformers next is able to do as well.
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    The COVID Vaccination Thread

    We're still doing pretty well. The Delta outbreak is dying down, so the main worry now is Omicron getting out into the community and spreading.
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    What stupid thing did the GOP say or do this time? Episode 3!

    Texas AG Ken Paxton admits that if they allowed everyone to vote in Texas, the Republican Party would be screwed.
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    What stupid thing did the GOP say or do this time? Episode 3!

    It's a brilliant plan! If everyone except Lindell is in prison, then he is the only one who can vote in the election and therefore he can vote himself into the presidency.
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    we've lost Derrick J Wyatt...

    An update:
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    Conspiracy lunatic thread - people who believe in absurd nonsense are dangerous

    Let's see how the Q Anoners in Dallas waiting for JFK/JFK Jr to turn up are doing! https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/dallas-qanon-cult-members-are-drinking-toxic-chemicals-en-masse-13038506 They've started drinking a chemical cocktail that includes industrial disinfectant chlorine dioxide...
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    What stupid thing did the GOP say or do this time? Episode 3!

    She still has her professional account at RepMTG which they haven't banned, so Twitter's action seem pretty weak TBH.
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    we've lost Derrick J Wyatt...

    Transformers would not be the same without his work on Animated, and you could always tell when he had designed on a show. Scooby Doo Mystery Inc looked fantastic. So sad to lose him.
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    Timey Wimey Business- a thread for Doctor Who

    People were much the same when the classic series was being made, they just didn't have the Internet to express themselves on, so it was mainly angry letters to the Radio Times.
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    Anti-Semitism

    Try this one: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/holocaust-reenactment-third-graders/
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    Star Trek: Discovery

    Well spotted! I looked at a bunch of easter egg listing sites/videos for the episode and none of them mentioned it, so I'm not sure if they missed it or the character turned up and was noted then, and I just missed it. Edit: Ah, there was one in "Kobayashi Maru" on the station the Discovery...
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    UK politics thread – meet the new boss, same as the old boss

    Christmas Party update: The civil servant whom Boris Johnson put in charge of investigating the claims that there were parties during lockdown has had to quit... because it turns out his office was also having a party last Christmas when everyone was supposed to be in lockdown...
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    Star Trek: Discovery

    I rather liked that there was a clear indication that the Discovery has shifts, as we got alternate crew members manning some of the bridge stations, but now I would like to know more about this character.
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    UK politics thread – meet the new boss, same as the old boss

    Yeah, the previous Member of Parliament for North Shropshire resigned, so they had to elect a new MP to represent the electorate. Said MP was Owen Paterson, who resigned after it came out that he had been breaching rules around paid advocacy - basically he had been working as a consultant for a...
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    UK politics thread – meet the new boss, same as the old boss

    If people haven't been following politics in the UK, things have been happening. Everyone is mad at Boris Johnson because it turned out the Tories were holding Christmas parties last year in violation of the covid rules of the time. The raging storm has resulted in the Tories losing a...


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