Look like a desk toy:

(Amazon link with video of it in motion)

Alternatively, the thing from Event Horizon:

…not just Canadians:

You’ll Always Find Me In The Kitchen At Parties - Jona Lewie - 1980

No clairvoyancy needed - Revelation is just a hyperbolic list of stuff that the Emperor Nero had already done, dressed up with a bunch of supernatural gubbins and set in the future.

Narcissists gonna narcissist…

I assume it’s (loosely!) based on this:

https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/02/pwned/

No mention of China - just a rival company finding a hole in the secure network (network enabled coffee maker with a default password) and using it to steal company data.

Have a look under POST Behaviour.

Ambassador Mollari: Tell me, is there anyone along our border with whom we are not currently at war?

Lord Refa: We need the room to expand.

Ambassador Mollari: Only an idiot fights a war on two fronts.

Only the heir to the throne of the kingdom of idiots would fight a war on twelve fronts.

Babylon 5 - Ceremonies of Light and Dark

“Space,” it says, “is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist, but that’s just peanuts to space. Listen…” and so on.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Repurpose any useful bits, Mythbuster the rest.

I used to follow a guy on Tumblr who ended up watching a lot of daytime TV while recuperating from surgery.

He came to the conclusion that wrestling was essentially a soap opera designed to be socially acceptable for men to watch.