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MidCenturyCinema

@midcenturycinema.bsky.social

3/11/71: George Lucas' THX-1138, w/Robert Duvall
B O flop; Lucas renounces "angry, socially relevant film"
Ya Think?
More:
@davekehr.bsky.social on the road not taken: www.nytimes.com/2004/09/05/m...
@illusiveken.bsky.social / @pastemagazine.bsky.social: www.pastemagazine.com/movies/georg...

THX 1138 Is Actually George Lucas’ Best Film

THX 1138 isn't solely a product of Lucas' imagination, but when you hold it up against his other work--and it's inevitable…

www.pastemagazine.com

March 11, 2025 at 3:43 PM

MidCenturyCinema

@midcenturycinema.bsky.social

3/11/71: George Lucas' THX-1138, w/Robert Duvall
B O flop; Lucas renounces "angry, socially relevant film"
Ya Think?
More:
@manondereeper.com: www.filminquiry.com/review-thx-1...
@noelmu.bsky.social: www.avclub.com/thx-1138-the...
@illusiveken.bsky.social: www.pastemagazine.com/movies/georg...

THX 1138 Is Actually George Lucas’ Best Film

THX 1138 isn't solely a product of Lucas' imagination, but when you hold it up against his other work--and it's inevitable…

www.pastemagazine.com

March 11, 2026 at 6:02 PM

しげる

@gerusea.bsky.social

ダースベイダーとB-2を並べるアイデアのキレがすごいし、B-2の前脚扉に「THX-1138」と書いちゃうのはオタク仕草すぎる

April 11, 2026 at 5:58 AM

Evil Hat

@evilhat.bsky.social

Well @olddog.games could best answer that question but I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say: Not much.

A spread from the Introduction of Blades '68 listing its touchstones. The list includes James Bond (various) The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015) The Operative: No One Lives Forever (2000) The Prisoner (1967-68) The Italian Job (1969) Get Carter (1971) Ocean’s Eleven (1960 and 2001) Le Samouraï (1967) Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) Soylent Green (1973) Logan’s Run (1976) THX 1138 (1971) Jason King (1971-72) The Avengers (1961-69) The Sandbaggers (1978-80) The Ipcress File (1965) GTA: London 1969 (1999) Bullitt (1968) Ronin (1998) Lupin III (various) Alphaville (1965) Thunderbirds (1965-66) A Clockwork Orange (1971) The 10th Victim (1965) The Conversation (1974) The Manchurian Candidate (1962) Funeral in Berlin (1966) Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) The Gentlemen (2024) Danger: Diabolik (1968) The Getaway (1972) The Long Goodbye (1973) Discovering Scarfolk (2014) Disco Elysium (2019) Deathloop (2021) and We Happy Few (2016).
There's a big red arrow and circle around Deathloop.

January 8, 2026 at 5:37 PM

Lizard

@lizardky.bsky.social

2/2
b)"Given a TGY classed as 78-H (under 17 pages), with a CC-91 attached (backdated 16 hours), when filing it using a 76-P//Q7, should you use a Form THX-1138 if you are not the OCD but if you have a Type-7 Inversion Waiver from your JCO?"

August 9, 2024 at 8:52 PM

Sonic Fan Game Bot

@sonicfangamebot.bsky.social

'Mega Man: Micro World!' (2021) by Kennen*B* & Team (Demo)
Inspired by the Game Boy titles - and made in 5 days!
#NonSonicWeekend
https://www.sonicfangameshq.com/forums/showcase/mega-man-micro-world-proof-of-concept.1138/

May 25, 2025 at 12:49 AM

Evo Daily

@evodaily.bsky.social

#MutualMusic R&B and some Funk
youtu.be/8ljLlnbeQEM?...

Aretha Franklin - Rock steady 1972 (Soul Train)

YouTube video by TTV 1138 Channel "Back For More"

youtu.be

March 21, 2026 at 11:12 PM

Shafik Yaghmour

@shafik.bsky.social

Retro C++ quiz #18 is it safe?

Answer here: hachyderm.io/@shafik/1138...

#cplusplus

Retro C++ quiz #18

#include <iostream>

void f() {
char buffer[32];
std::cin >> buffer; // Safe?
}

Without checking:

A. Yes
B. No
C: Show answers

January 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM

Evil Hat

@evilhat.bsky.social

*roaring autopod kitted with like 40 different kinds of aftermarket upgrades crashes through the wall*

Did someone say Deathloop?

January 17, 2026 at 12:54 AM

MU-Peter Shimon 🀄

@mu-peter.bsky.social

Exceptional discoveries on prehistoric archery from the early Neolithic period, 7,000 years ago.

First evidence of early neolithic archery from Cueva de los Murciélagos (Albuñol, Granada) revealed through combined chemical and morphological analysis 🏺🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Plant-based arrowheads and shafts from Cueva de los Murciélagos. (A) CM-1138/532 (Ua-78245), reed and wooden arrow shaft, (a.1.) Detail of white adhesive and tied fibres at the junction between the reed and the wood, (a.2.) Detail of tied fibres at the end of the reed shaft, (B) CM-1139/532 (Beta-692876), reed arrow shaft, (b.1–4.) Arrow notch, with feathers, tied fibres and black adhesive, (C) CM-1140 (Beta-692878), arrow shaft or point, (c.1.) Detail of the adhesive, (c.2.) Point of the arrow with adhesive, (D) CM-1141 (Ua-78246), arrow shaft or point, (d.1.) Spiral marks. © F. Martínez-Sevilla.

Cordage fragments from Cueva de los Murciélagos identified as possible bowstrings. (A) CM-P287 (Beta-684048), (a.1.) Knot or repair, (a.2.) Detail of twisted fibres; (B) CM-591b (Beta-692877), (b.1.) Broken/fringed cord end, (b.2.) Detail of twisted fibres with organic material between grooves. © F. Martínez-Sevilla.

January 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM

Jonathan Cyfer

@jonathancyfer.bsky.social

Peter Duryea b 1939 was in original #StarTrek "The Cage" Sid Haig b 1939 was in THX-1138 (1971) Harry Dean Stanton b 1926 was in Alien (1979) Dale Robertson b 1923 was in Son of Sinbad (1955) #SciFi #birthdays #popculture #sciencefiction #trivia #history

July 14, 2025 at 12:23 PM

猫柳

@nekoyanagi12.bsky.social

【r18】押×山。押さん視点。暗い。くbしm。思いついたところだけ。
poipiku.com/2597446/1138...

[メモ] こっそりフォロワー限定(1102文字) - nekoyanagi12のポイピク

poipiku.com

February 12, 2025 at 11:57 PM

Shlepcar

@shlepcar.bsky.social

(It took me about 15 months to type the history of the R&B charts into a spreadsheet so that I could organize by the date the song entered the charts)

1138 of 22,828

The El Dorados
"At My Front Door"
September 24, 1955

#musicsky

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAP_...

The El Dorados - At My Front Door

YouTube video by REBEL SONGBIRD

www.youtube.com

May 9, 2025 at 4:53 AM

Shafik Yaghmour

@shafik.bsky.social

#287 Given the following in C++

template
using T = int; // Well-formed?

Without checking:

A. Yes
B. No
C. Show results

Answer here: hachyderm.io/@shafik/1138...

#cplusplus

Shafik Yaghmour (@shafik@hachyderm.io)

#287 Given the following in C++ template <class T> using T = int; // Well-formed? Without checking: A. Yes B. No C. Show results #Cplusplus #Cpppolls [ ] A [ ] B [ ] C

hachyderm.io

January 21, 2025 at 6:16 PM

Daniel Suitor

@danielsuitor.com

My Minnesota appellate newsletter is on hiatus due to The Horrors, but the Court of Appeals just ruled that another piece of the eviction expungement statute, a key piece of the legislation that requires all evictions to be expunged after 3 years, is unconstitutional.

mncourts.gov/_media/migra...

STATE OF MINNESOTA
IN COURT OF APPEALS
A25-0951
Weidner Apartment Homes,
Appellant,
vs.
B. F.,
Respondent.
Filed February 2, 2026
Reversed
Harris, Judge
Hennepin County District Court
File No. 27-CV-HC-22-1138
Christopher T. Kalla, Douglass E. Turner, Hanbery & Turner, P.A., Minneapolis,
Minnesota (for appellant)
Lauren Durand, Hennepin County Adult Representation Services, Minneapolis, Minnesota
(for respondent B.F.)
Keith Ellison, Attorney General, Madeleine DeMeules, Assistant Attorney General, St.
Paul, Minnesota (for intervenor attorney general)
Considered and decided by Smith, Tracy M., Presiding Judge; Harris, Judge; and
Kirk, Judge.∗

SYLLABUS
Minnesota Statutes section 484.014, subdivision 3(a)(5) (2024), is facially
unconstitutional because it violates the separation-of-powers doctrine by mandating that
the district court expunge an eviction case three years after the eviction was ordered without
a motion by any party.

February 2, 2026 at 5:10 PM

Bandle Game 🎶🎸

@bandlegame.bsky.social

Here's the visual clue for Sunday's #Bandle #1138

🔗 iOS apps.apple.com/app/bandle-g...
🔗Android play.google.com/store/apps/d...
🔗 Amazon www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...
🔗 Web bandle.app
#Heardle #Wordle #GuessTheSong #MusicQuiz #NameThatTune

September 28, 2025 at 5:00 AM

Natalie Kraneiß

@kranatalie.bsky.social

Those present included Ibrāhīm al-Kūrānī (d. 1101/1690) and the Moroccan scholar Ibrāhīm b. ʿAlī al-Sibāʿī (d. 1138/1726), who recorded this samāʿ in his al-Shumūs al-mushriqa. Al-Sibāʿī studied under Maḥammad b. Nāṣir al-Darʿī and later taught at the Nāṣiriyya lodge in Tamgrūt.

January 20, 2026 at 5:46 PM

MU-Peter Shimon 🀄

@mu-peter.bsky.social

First evidence of early neolithic archery from Cueva de los Murciélagos (Albuñol Granada) revealed through combined chemical and morphological analysis 🏺🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Insights into adaptations to resources in production of these reed-shafted hardwood tipped arrows and bowstrings

December 6, 2024 at 6:30 PM

Icy The Space Ranger Lucario

@hurford2000s.bsky.social

What should be second to last officially for 10/6/2025?

A). September 5 (2024 Film)
B). Minority Report 2002 VHS
C). He Said, She Said (1991 Kevin Bacon Film) on DVD, VHS, and Blu-Ray
or
D). THX 1138 (1971) on DVD and VHS
I say A and B!
How about you?

June 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM

Georg

@gklimm.bsky.social

"[...]
Berlin
Das Finanzamt 1138 "für Fahndung und Strafsachen Berlin" wurde für ELSTER-Übermittlungen freigeschalten.
Für das Finanzamt 1138 gilt vollumfänglich das Prüfziffernverfahren "Berlin-B".

February 21, 2025 at 3:30 PM

Sharon Bennett Connolly

@thehistorybits.bsky.social

On this day in History: 1138
Bosworth was not the only battle fought on English soil on 22 August. 347 years earlier the Battle of the Standard was fought. At Northallerton in North Yorkshire, an English army faced a Scots army...
#medieval #theanarchy
historytheinterestingbits.com/2024/08/22/t...

The Battle of the Standard

King Stephen 22 August is a famous date in history. The Battle of Bosworth, on 22 August 1485 is often seen as the end of one era and the beginning of another: the end of the medieval age and the b…

historytheinterestingbits.com

August 22, 2025 at 8:45 AM

Evil Hat

@evilhat.bsky.social

Oh behave!

January 28, 2026 at 4:28 PM

Sharon Bennett Connolly

@thehistorybits.bsky.social

#OTD in 1138: Death of William, 2nd Earl Warenne, love rival of Henry I for the hand of Matilda of Scotland
#Warennes #medieval

historytheinterestingbits.com/2022/08/13/i... via @Thehistorybits

Earl Warenne’s Search for a Royal Bride

As you may know, in medieval times most noble marriages were arranged by parents. They were usually alliances between families whose interests were aligned, and whose assets and connections could b…

historytheinterestingbits.com

May 11, 2025 at 8:16 AM

Jonathan Cyfer

@jonathancyfer.bsky.social

Don Pedro Colley b 1938 was in THX-1138 (1971) Fred MacMurray b 1908 was in The Absent Minded Professor (1961) Raymond Massey b 1896 was in Things to Come (1936) #SciFi #birthdays #popculture #sciencefiction #trivia #history