oh my GOD the system in this country is so broken

Oh, absolutely. I'm a big believer in Star Trek doing biting, serious, pertinent social commentary and having important things to say, but I think it needs to be able to lean into the inescapable goofiness of the whole thing, too. Silly episodes would be a must.

You should know that the infamous I Love You virus uses the same trick - Always make sure to turn on 'show file extensions' in your windows/browser settings.

from what I can find, the earliest design of what would eventually become MMS (circa 2015ish?) (identifying features and other characters removed) -> the current MMS rig (taken from yesterday's video file, 2026). Quote with the oldest and newest art of your character!

like hypno-glasses are a funny concept and all but ultimately they (like many other justifications along those lines) are unnecessary, because a good-faith audience isn't gonna want to nitpick the secret identity thing, and if you make your movie to appeal to bad-faith audiences, it's not gonna work

hey anyone out there with an erdos number wanna co-write a skit with me so I can have one too

as effective of a rhetorical tool the "leopards eating people's faces party" thing is, I do think it's possibly unfair to actual irl leopards, who are, as a whole, not evil

we're really lucky that the symbol for a heart ♥ wound up being that way up instead of flipped vertically, because otherwise those cute tops with the heart-shaped window cut out in the front wouldn't work at all, structurally. like if you tried to do that with a spade ♠ it would fall open awkwardly

the fun thing about being a youtuber is that no matter how fun and silly you make your stuff you're still gonna get someone coming into your comments being like "and what if I shot myself and made you watch? what then?" like they're RPing as motherfucking Desmond from Smiling Friends

"The whole affair made something clear: for many on the right, their past tolerance of gay and bi people who aligned with them on a few pet issues was never rooted in principle. It was always about convenience" GIRL YEAH THEY HATE YOU! THAT'S LIKE THEIR WHOLE ENTIRE THING! THAT'S THEIR WHOOOLE THING

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Polls close at 7pm ET in Georgia. They close at 7pm local, meaning 8pm ET, in Oklahoma. They close at 7pm local, meaning 8pm ET, in Missouri. They close at 8pm local, meaning 9pm ET, in Wisconsin. They close at 7pm local, meaning 10pm ET, in Arizona.

oooh the bluesky servers are having prooooblemmmmmssss

This, right here. This is Spines' pricing page? spines.com/pricing/ *A publisher does not have a pricing page.*

I wanted to call out the specific red flag issue here. The review from user Andrew says, "[T]hey are quick to take your money but never respond" - A PUBLISHER DOES NOT TAKE YOUR MONEY. Money moves *exclusively* from publisher to author.

"Experiencing interruptions? Find out why" I know why you stupid piece of shit you gag browsers with anything remotely resembling an ad blocker whether or not it's active and happily force the page to take 30 seconds just to load a 15 second ad but are ready to give up on the actual video within 5.

youtube be like "if playback does not start shortly, consider restarting your device" cheers love but I'm not rebooting my entire PC because one little self-important website is riding its own dick. there's other websites, pal, if you don't get your act together then I will simply do something else

actually let me add: i am more connected to and invested in every character on The Pitt than any other show because i’ve gotten 30 eps with them in 2 years some shows now don’t get that across 3 seasons in 6 years! also I’d like the industry i love to be saved and people to have jobs again so

there are two absolutely canonical Good Friday posts

every time I post a youtube video I'm like "but what if THIS time I accidentally copy-pasted my entire full name and address and social security number into the title and just didn't notice"

"gary gygax wouldn't have said that!" and it's multiple direct quotes from gary gygax

If you inexplicably feel the urge to help Nestlé with ANYTHING, maybe remember the 10+ million infants they murdered in the last half century

but also

Happy TDoV, have a pic of Girlmode Ranma hatching from an egg that predates the literal Trans flag

Art is mysterious like that.

An openly gay Klingon tells Starfleet to shut up, listen, and accept Klingons for who they are. That they are the ones to define what a Klingon is no one else; to compromise themselves is to lose their cultural identity. That's why I watch Star Trek.

useless but correct Star Trek take: Modern Trek's biggest flaw is a lack of Jeffrey Combs.

happy tdov! give trans people money.

they've done it again ........ @skatunenetwork.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAKJ...

Trans day of support trans creators. bsky.app/profile/dani...

like genuinely one of the main things about star trek is that the romulans and the federation shooting at each other is absolutely the worst-case scenario and NOT something we want to be happening. most of the worst episodes of TNG were the ones with romulans and starfleet shooting at each other

hey man, if I can be real, and I mean no hate by this, but this absolutely tracks as something Andy "I wrote Satan to be a hot girlfriend for my self-insert character" Weir would say the guy still doesn't understand Star Trek tho

"but billionaires do so much good for the world!!" NAME ONE SINGLE BILLIONAIRE WHO HAS ACTUALLY WORKED IN ONE OF HIS FACTORIES FOR MORE THAN JUST A PROMOTIONAL STUNT BRO

every day I log onto social media and every day I am met with a deluge of brilliant and amazing artists (like, the 21st century Michelangelos and Da Vincis) all saying "I'm sad because the fact that nobody will pay me to make art clearly indicates that I am a bad artist and a bad person also"

The official White House Android app has a cookie/paywall bypass injector, tracks your GPS every 4.5 minutes, and loads JavaScript from some guy's GitHub Pages.

DO YOUR STRETCHES AND THANK ME LATER

Impossible not to say Vagina Dentata to the tune of Kokomo

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alright, nerds, new rule: every new Star Trek show has to have at least one fat black lesbian Klingon/Jem'Hadar hybrid character in a main or AT LEAST major supporting role

lower decks I miss you

ultimately the goal of a movie trailer is to make the viewer want to see the movie as much as possible while ABSOLUTELY MINIMIZING the amount of time the viewer spends waiting for things from the trailer to happen

my problem with pastafarianism isn't that the central point it's trying to make is wrong (saying "forcing pseudoscience into the public school curriculum is bad" is a pretty based take tbh), it's more that every actual pastafarian I've ever encountered just comes off as an insufferably smug wiener

Every picture of ICE agents in airports is just this again

Chuck Norris died on Mister Rogers' birthday and I hope that's the only time a Lemon Demon song is prophetic.

You say that there is no breaking news on Bluesky, I SAY FUCK THAT THIS IS THE BREAKING NEWS OF ALL BREAKING NEWS AND I LEARNED ABOUT IT HERE ON BLUESKY THE SPORTS APP