There's this episode of Star Trek where Captain Picard is captured and tortured, and the main way that the torturer tries to break him is by showing him four lights, and telling him that there are five. There are four lights. This is not a post about Star Trek.

Gul De-sac isn't real, he can't hurt you. Gul De-sac:

… and he SERVED ✨

Did it hurt? When you fell from heaven?

Happy Friday🎉

I wouldn't say if I won the lottery, but there would be signs...

The iPad client can’t handle too many players on the screen, but still shows their pets.

The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?

Hello #AfterPortfolioDay and new Bluesky users. We are the CPSC - a federal agency that oversees the safety of thousands of kinds of consumer products. Our social media work has been described as "unconventional" and "what?" We are not open for commissions, but we are open to unsafe product reports.

REP. RANDY FINE: Nuking Gaza would be a terrible idea. The fallout would drift into Israel. It would kill the hostages. CNN: But you're not worried about killing women & children in Gaza? FINE: War is a messy thing... Palestinianism in Gaza is on level of evil that we saw in Japan & Germany in WW2

The National Guard and Marines are in Los Angeles, CA to "liberate the city from socialists and burdensome leadership"? Isn't that the definition of a coup?

Susanna Leijten's glowing, mid-transformation eyes, in #StarTrekTNG's "Identity Crisis" are a practical effect, using contact lenses and UV lights. Similar effects using UV lights will be seen again in later season 4 episodes.

the first conspiracy.

Mike Lawler told me, to my face, he would not vote for a bill that cut a single penny of benefits from Medicaid. Mike Lawler got MAD at me when I called him a liar for moving the bill forward. And now he broke his promise AGAIN. Mike Lawler is a liar and a fraud. And a terrible lay.

The Supreme Court holds that fascism is bad. Thomas and Alito dissent.

Crazy how long this conversation has been going on

Another day of reminding everyone of Carl Sagan’s eerily accurate warning about the dangers of not being able to ask skeptical scientific questions to those in power or authority.

Six years since Big Diet wouldn't allow this dog to continue to revel in what a unit he was.

Actually though

Department of Homeland Security announces plan to screen foreign U.S. residents' social media for antisemitism. "USCIS will consider social media content that indicates an alien endorsing, espousing, promoting, or supporting antisemitic terrorism, antisemitic terrorist organizations"

credit to cory booker for bothering to do anything at all

Mister Rogers never misses

is ur child texting state secrets in a Signal chat? ily - I Leaked Yemen (attack details) smh - Secret Message Hahahaha tbh - Talkin 'Bout Houthis idk - I Doubt Korea (is in this signal chat) gtg - Gonna Text Goldberg

#StarTrekMemes #Airplane Because Tom Paris had to go to sickbay to cover for the Doctor.

'Solar System' quilt by Ellen Harding Baker of Cedar County, Iowa, US in 1876, she used her textile work as a teaching aid for her lectures on astronomy in the small towns of her state. Via the @womensart1 book, 'Unravelling Women's Art'....

Jewish students at Columbia university today organized a demonstration in solidarity with anti-war student organizer Mahmoud Khalil and to denounce Trump's attacks on public education and protest. Photo via @/Columbia_psc

happy international women’s day!! here are 4 of my favorite female star trek characters to celebrate 💖🖖🏻

Cat cafe which fosters abandoned kittens greets the next round of tiny employees. 📹 nekocafekibunya

let my story be told: in 2022 Hollywood mogul Terry Bradshaw sold me authentic cuban cigars that turned out to be Really hard pieces of poop

Nielsen ratings show that Reid outperformed Morning Joe, Andrea Mitchell, and Symone Sanders. So why was she canceled? There is one area in which Reid was relatively unique: her willingness to report truthfully on Isreal’s genocide in Palestine. www.currentaffairs.org/news/why-did...

Always wear a helmet when riding your ATV through the Forest of The Clowns, but also other places.

You will not find the “nuclear family” modeled in the Bible, and every single attempt to do so is the direct result of someone either not understanding what a nuclear family is or thinking King James wrote the Bible.

Amsterdam-based jewellery designer Gésine Hackenberg is classically trained as a goldsmith, and is known for her jewellery made from old ceramics #womensart

me trying to have a chill Saturday while also knowing facts and information about the world

admiral forrest when the vulcan advisory council told him about what happened at p’jem:

The Woman Who Demonstrated the Greenhouse Effect Eunice Newton Foote showed that carbon dioxide traps the heat of the sun in 1856, beating the so-called father of the greenhouse effect by at least three years. Why was she forgotten. Because a woman??!!! www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

A homophobic interpretation of the Bible is as much a product of its context as one that liberates queer people. jonnyrashid.substack.com/p/a-response...

logging on

Resegregation

He’s firm but polite. Don’t you dare touch his noms.

Making progress. #handquilting #Startrek

computer, please run the da Vinci program where he has a riffle and yells in a Mario kart accent

apple intelegbence? whas next,, bananer insight?

Ok so at this point it's pretty much 100% confirmed Elon took no resumes and just hired 4Chan Nazis who swore they could do this job right

Another timeline cleanser.