Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only

We're calling Iranian control of the Strait of Hormuz the Ayatollbooth, tell your friends

"Mantasy" Ahahahahahahabababab fuck off.

Oh the first episode of Witch Hat Atelier was *lovely*. Really gorgeous animation and interesting set up.

Our big weeb family when Crunchyroll defaulted the new series of a show to "Dubbed"

I've played a lot of MMORPGs over the years but this may be one of my favorite mounts I've ever had. #ffxiv

One of things that strikes me about the hate campaign against Starfleet Academy is that SFA is not actually that radical in what its saying. Its like, Empathy is Important. Hate is Bad, Love Wins. Teamwork is the Answer. What they hate is the faces of the characters doing it. Its so uttery shallow.

Some light reading recommendations to get your mind off the news.

OK I just had it pointed out the Wolverine has "little tufty hair ears" and yes he does and how did i never notice that before?

Everyone: look at this wholesome example of human endeavour. Guardian Columist: this is Bad, actually.

Reid Wiseman on #Artemis II: "We have Earth out window 4 and Moon out window 3... the Moon is about 3-4 times the size of the Earth and it is almost full, and the Earth is just a small crescent out there... it's magnificent... such a majestic view out here" Mission Control: "Amaze, amaze, amaze!"

There is going to be 40 minutes when the Artemis crew are cut off from news from Earth and for that time they'll be the happiest humans alive.

And know this, the day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of the Empire's authority and then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege. Remember this. Try

Do please fuck off with this sort of framing, actually.

But her emails.

Happy Easter, may the Seasonal Bunny bring you what you happiness.

If you see this, I implore you to post a picture from whatever device you’re using with no explanation

Everyone involved seems to be having a blast with this.

Movie Night

I dont have much to add to the latest round of "Bluesky is dying" other than to wryly observe that the folks who point at the Mastodon have the same air of the guy who would respond to every query you had on Windows with "just install Linux".

I love it when I get presents from Past Me

I don't remember Sunday School very well but it Jesus is dead today does that mean Sin doesn't count?

Great question but I'm not sure RPGs are ever cinematic and we are kidding ourselves if we think they are. I think we can and do take elements of cinematic language but its probably closer to TV, structurally.

Local chippie packed out like it's selling the last petrol in Yorkshire.

Clearing stuff out and completely torn between flogging my childhood Action Force or nostalgically storing it in the shed for another decade.

Sorting out some dead projects to eBay and forgot how happy I was with the Legion Separatist starter.

I freind of mine has just informed me that his local bookshop stocks not one but two sci-fi lesbian retellings of Moby Dick, a genre of which I was previously unaware.

This shot of the Artemis II launch goes hard Credit: Brian Balail (@balail.bsky.social)

Pictured: Casper, claiming he has not been fed and please, needs bikkits. Also pictured: Caspers food bowl of uneaten breakfast.

right with the latest "anime season" wrapping up, a quick run down of what we watched on Weeb Wednesdays.

Every opinion poll you see seems to be "Should we do the Bad Thing?" and the results are: 30% Yes Do The Bad Thing 30% For God's Sake Don't Do The Bad Thing 40% Had Not Heard of The Bad Thing And yet all politicians then say "The People had spoken clearly that they want us to do the Bad Thing".

Staying up for #artemisII like a big kid.

(Stolen from elsewhere, sadly no attribution for the original genius)

So we finished Detectorists last night and I'm slightly bereft. What a small miracle of a show.

Mini of the month - Synth When? Entry 3 by @thegrampus.bsky.social Star Wars Armada Scale Victory Class Star Destroyer at the best 1980s electric disco #Nerdlings #MiniOfTheMonth

Me, an Idiot: April Fools suck James Workshop, Genius: OK but have you seen this? youtu.be/59NORGNnWlQ?...

The whole world will be your enemy, prince with a thousand enemies. And when they catch you, they will smash you with a hammer. But first they must catch you.

The Emperor told me Rogue Jedi keep killing his Inquisitors so I asked how many Inquisitors he has and he said he just goes to the Fortress Inquisitorius and gets a new one afterwards and I said it just sounds like you're feeding Inquisitors to Rogue Jedi and then his Apprentice started crying.

I know that noone likes to bash the BBC as much as the BBC but I cant help feeling the Scott Mills story just isn't the number 1 story in the UK today.

Lads stop pretending you might blow the entire Federation. No one believes you are going to do that, it adds literally NOTHING to the stakes.

I'm absolutely a fan of the modern Trek shows but I do really wish they didn't need to end every season with a cataclysmic, end-of-the-galaxy threat to confront. It's a little tiring.

Afternoon plans have hit a snag.

Movie night!

Not sure how I feel about the kids describing my little Pokopia village as a "pokemon slave labour camp". Not really the aesthetic i was going for.

Exciting anxiety dream where we kept finding new cats in the house and I had to look after all the cats but there was always more cats and I love cats but oh god so many cats.

Catching up with Monarch and i feel that the Apex sales pitch of "join us and do unspecified but ethically murky experiments" would work better if they just said "join us we're building a fucking giant robot dinosaur".

all i want to do today is wrap myself in a duvet and play Pokopia. is that too much to ask?

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1838

There is genuinely so many great movies, books and TV around that you can't consume them all so honestly why the hell would give even a tiny fraction of brainspace something that doesn't deserve it. Promote what you love; bin off that which you hate. You don't owe it your time.