I think I’m seeing some new followers with the sharing of David’s Star Trek starter pack so I’d thought I’d say hi and elaborate on my bio a bit. For most TV shows there’s a Studio and Network/Platform associated. I work at a studio and currently cover the Star Treks (P+) and Murderbot (Apple).

Sigh. No, what I said was money from stranger things doesn’t direct material benefit Israel as Harry Potter directly monetarily benefits antitrans actions through funding JKR, just as giving money to Microsoft materially benefits Israel’s military actions which is a better equivalency.

Whelp, since this happened and I’d rather talked about good things for a bit so AMA, so long as it’s about positive stuff.

My plane got delayed and I may not make my connecting flight and they’re full everywhere else. Weeeeee fun.

Honestly, this is why I considered quitting talking about tv shows or movies. Even on my YouTube vids when I post a review, I get at least 5 comment saying “you didnt consider this thing, you’re a bad person.” I just getting tired of constantly having to be defensive over just talking about shows.

If not everything his about gettting a “I supported Palestine the right way” button why is your goal to shame me for not supporting Palestine in the way you want?

“Im getting on my high horse to morally test, shame, & actively disassociate with a leftist who repeatedly uses her platform to vocally support Palestine and works raise money for charity’s that materially help Palestinians because they watched a shitty tv show.“ Ok. Where is the praxis here?

Been feeling this a lot the past year. So many of us are stressed af and I’ve seen so much anger and vitriol between marginalized communities, or even within them.

One thing I've found from years online is moral discharge (frustration taking the path of least resistance into lateral violence) reigns when people are stressed out

BDS chooses targets very specifically, because they understand that "just stop consuming anything problematic" is not really a viable solution in 2025. If anything, part of the pressure is seeing other shitty, but not shitty in *this way*, companies doing business unimpeded.

This isn’t praxis. There’s reasons that BDS is targeted & specific. Going around randomly shaming people online for watching a show that they weren’t aware was being organically boycotted by some isn’t praxis. It’s just getting mad at people you were willing to listen so you feel a sense control.

I said this in my review of it, but maybe it was just because my expectations were nonexistent for this show, but it really was surprisingly good. Much better than Stranger Things newest season that’s for sure.

Final thought on this. Want to be clear, I don’t think anyone is wrong in this convo. Again, it’s a messy af situation. At the end of the day, I think we all should support BDS, be vocally supportive of Palestinians, give $ to orgs who tangibly help & try to do more to support as we’re able.

I don’t think anyone can say their media consumption is 100% morally pure & if they do, I would question those ppl. I try my best to be vocally supportive of Palestinians, give $ where I can, and try to support targetted effective boycotts campaigns like BDS as I can. I think that’s a good bar.

Is there? I mean, I know Noah Schnapp has expressed Zionist views and is a pos for doing so - and I certainly don’t support him - but I don’t see Netflix on the BDS list nor Stranger Things specifically? I’ve cancelled my Xbox membership for exp.

There’s some real good & cool stuff in Stranger Things Season 5, but I can’t help but feel like it wastes so much time. It feels like 5 hours of story spread out over 10 hours. I desperately don’t need 2 scenes per episode of Netflix-mandated verbal exposition for those watching while vacuuming.

My current post-Christmas read and prob last book of 2025!

Whiteness is a trick made to get people to believe their supposed racial superiority and that they can one day become an elite and therefore think interests are aligned more with the elite then with working people of all identities with whom they actually share much more in common.

ONE DAY IN A VERY LONG DOMINION WAR: WINNER'S ANNOUNCEMENT With 31 final entries of exceedingly high quality, it has been a challenge for our judges to deliver a result: however, their submissions our in an we can announce our winners!

Metroid Prime 4 is so cool and it perfectly recaptures the feeling of Metroid Prime 1, until characters open their month and then it’s some of the dumbest lines ever and the most handholding instructions that don’t trust the player. Which is WILD considering how little other Metroid games did that.

PLURIBUS FINALE SPOILER: Man that opening scene’s ending was absolutely horrifying - just watch a whole culture be packed up and put away - subsumed into the hegemony. And that girl being emotionally manipulated by The Hive to join with them play acting her town for her. It’s so colonial coded.

Jesus Christ, this is the most self-important, overtly assholish email I’ve ever read. Also, I love that ending line “Merry Christmas- and thank you, especially, to everyone who is working over this holiday.” After that email, it reads as “get to work lazy bums, how dare you take time off.”

Nothing against Thomas Jane, I’m sure he’ll do great, but he feels wildly too old compared to Paul Weasley’s Kirk. McCoy is supposed to be older than Kirk but not wildly so… but they did signficantly age down Kirk and Spock for SNW. www.reddit.com/r/startrek/s...

I'm doing some research on old Daily Wire videos and dear god, I never realized they had an USS Enterprise on their fucking mantle. Really proves the point of my last video...

Frak this Podcast! follows the events of Battlestar Galactica as a figure from Adama's past reappears, and @jessiegender.bsky.social laughs as I lose my sh*t over something that happens on the Cylon Basestar. YouTube - youtu.be/GVqtaPq1cv4 Podcast - councilofgeeks.libsyn.com/frak-this-po...

This was one of my fav interviews I’ve had! Mainly because we need out a lot about science fiction. youtu.be/juJ37z5yReE?...

I know JD Vance said I don’t have to anymore, but I still want to apologize to you all for being white.

Well, War Between the Land and Sea was not particularly fucking subtle about what it was allegorizing in its final episode.

I'm 3/4 through @jessiegender.bsky.social's excellent rundown of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Season 3, which puts a detailed voice to just how toothless and insubstantial it felt this time around. Found myself reflecting on the episode "What is Starfleet" (1/x)... www.youtube.com/watch?v=EroI...

GenAI is inevitable and will definitely be a major part of every art form from now on. Just like NFTs!

There is an epidemic of the trans and non-binary kidsthat do exist being cool as hell tho.

Buddy, wait until I tell you how history didn't start with feudalism and Rome, nor that they were not the only societies that existed, even at the time!

We're now screening IDENTITEAZE and then chatting with showrunner Jessie "Gender" Earl

Hey all! I’m going to be on the Nebula charity livestream in about 30 min where we’re going to showing IDENTITEAZE live for free, and afterwords I’ll be chatting with actor James Tison about the film! Come help us raise money for a good cause and watch good scifi! www.youtube.com/live/MpVYz3h...

Paul Giamatti listed Deep Space Nine as his favorite Star Trek show, and now I only love him more. youtu.be/kX7xzUfbluM?...

Also we all know that whatever this ends up being, it’s gonna be weirdly fascist eugenics-y. Like it’s gonna be a bunch extremely conventionally attractive athletic mostly white kids a la the Nazi Olympics to underscore of “strong” white people are.

Can anyone name me one thing GenAI has truly made better? Like fundamentally better? Not slightly easier to do, but actually, final end product better?

Another absolute [movie length] banger from @jessiegender.bsky.social 🖤 www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-7S...

Trans people will not forget the names of Henry Cuellar (TX), Vicente Gonzalez (TX), and Don Davis (NC).

This is legit the plot to the Long Walk. Glad we’re fucking making the god damn Hunger Games, Jesus fucking Christ. We gonna do a god damn lottery to pick the special boy and girl form each district, I mean state?

Studio heads believe "GenAi is so fucking magical and will take us back to the old days of smaller teams and shorter production times" when the obvious answer is either make a smaller game or Universal Basic Income 😀 But when the bubble pops, the artists will be the first to suffer, not him.

Legit, I hate this country so much. Fuck Congress for what they did today.

cis people on the skyline are genuinely more distressed by karoline leavitt’s lip fillers than the fact that congress just said, “what we should do is put any doctor or pharmacist in prison who gives lifesaving medical care to this specific kind of child we find gross.”

The wider political apparatus of the West and the US in particular is determined to declare trans existence an illegitimate way of being. If you can't bother to understand and empathise with a tiny, vilified, relentlessly attacked population in the face of that, what good are you?

Whelp, Kit Harrington continues to be on my shit list. Guess when your career has collapsed, you gotta try to suck up to the fascist TERF lady. Sucks, cause I really did like his work in and out of GOT, and I know he had a hard go of it. But fuck him at this point.

I see why Newsom wants to be identified with Reagan, because just like Reagan, he’s abandoning LGBTQ people. Also he’s a neoliberal enabler of capitalist domination and control.

I legit do not remember any of the plot of Avatar: The Way of Water other then the good guy from the first has kids now and the bad guy from the first movie somehow returned but in the body of the Na’vi. Oh also there was water. A lot of it

You know, some days I sit and think about how absolutely wild it is that we've built a society where we don't provide a place for people to even sleep at night without having to pay for it, and that we've somehow made it seem like that's normal.