Seen someone point out on GB that this is the first time since 1963 neither Doctor Who or Star Trek has been in production...

I wrote about one specific way AI is ruining my life defector.com/ai-animal-vi...

If you don’t love me at my “Move Along Home” you don’t deserve me at “In the Pale Moonlight.”

why is everything in the galaxy terrible now

This thread.

rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead to their conservative families but running a lovely antique shop in vermont

Great list

"Working class" in 2026 means a blue haired barista with they/them pronouns, a Asian immigrant nail technician, and an undocumented hotel cleaner. And we are going to keep having the same fights until we let the midcentury illustrator mirage of the white guy in plaid with the lunch pail go.

People love historical what if scenarios. What if JFK was never assassinated? What if the Nazis won in WW2? A scenario I never see discussed is what if the aids crisis didnt decimate the gay men of America in the 80s-90s? Its easy to forget 1 in 15 gay boomer men died. An estimated 300,000 deaths-

I think it might be time to go back to NYC

happy pride

Good thread

I can read the words but they make no sense

Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.

Thinking about why women might not want to use a product that has forced itself into every software interface to confidently shout things that are wrong

The thing I admire most about Star Trek is that it keeps insisting people are capable of growth. Not perfection. Growth. That distinction matters.

The SCARY MOVIE franchise is older than the Department of Homeland Security

Tolkien: well well well Tolkien: now look who's laughing! Tolkien: hmm hey clive CS Lewis: what Tolkien: remind me, has the archbishop of whatever ever quoted aslan? Lewis: Tolkien: i'm sorry i can't hear you Tolkien: what was that again? Lewis: no Tolkien: ha ha that's what i thought!

Tolkien: oh it's no big deal Tolkien: just the top guy in catholicism talkin' about gandalf Tolkien: nope nope not a big deal at all Tolkien: sorry you can never experience that, clive CS Lewis: Tolkien: but that's what you get for picking anglicanism Tolkien: lmao loser ass religion

Just turned 55. Living in a dilapidated split level at the edge of a forest with an indifferent cat, so partly there.

People don't long for "inconvenience." They long for permanence. And though streaming services may be convenient, people are waking up to the fact that we are paying rent-seeking middle men month after month for things we will never actually own.

Twenty people

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

I had to try it.

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Hasn't even been a year and Zohran's governance is having a massive impact on my family. Our daycare was able to open a 15-seat 3K program because of the 2,000 extra seats the admin funded. Everyone we know got in somewhere they wanted. This is gonna save us almost 50 grand.

If unions didn't work, owners wouldn't spend ungodly sums to make sure their shops aren't unionized.

"We sold it to them as a replacement for their jobs, their friends, their loved ones, and every creative endeavour ever conceived by human beings, I don't understand why they're upset" Makes you wonder just how empty wealthy people's lives really are.

I have no opinions on Carvana as a business, but if they somehow manage to destroy car dealerships, they will have done more good for this country than most institutions could ever dream of.

"I ask all of you to think of it, graduates and families alike, let yourself dream of a future in which we can harness this amazing new technology to eliminate entry-level jobs entirely. Indeed, that work has already begun, and that future is now." /college kid booing intensifies "Wow okay,"

cooked him like groceries

Cardassians, Bajorans, Klingons, Ferengi, Vulcans and Andorians.

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

“White people can’t handle spicy food” only partially correct. There are two kinds of white people when it comes to spicy food, ones that can’t handle ketchup and ones that put hot sauce called like “insanity joe’s devilfucking sauce” on everything.

Mothers' Day for Peace, as originally proposed by poet and philanthropist Julia Ward Howe in 1872: "Our husbands shall not come to us, reeking of carnage...Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience."

happy mother’s day to mother earth 🌎💙

I still love the theory a Year 6 child proposed to me that David Attenborough is actually God and he got fed up with people not noticing the amazing things he'd created, so he made documentaries to show off.

I'm still looking for exceptions to my worrying idea that the more immediately important to society your job is — like, if no-one did it everything would be falling apart by Tuesday — the lower your wages And the less important, the higher

I gave it a lot of thought and came to the conclusion that I do believe I would rather have no new Star Trek than Larry Ellison’s Star Trek

I wish I was talented enough to write anarchist Star Trek. Writing future social structures is fucking hard, but it'd be nice to see an attempt at a utopia where we don't have an officer corps and have moved on from flirting with fascism.

Class in the US is entirely a matter of aesthetics now. Rich suburban kids are “country”. Beard Dudes who look like they love IPAs are “working class.” Teachers who make $32,000 a year but have to dress up sort of nice in JCPenney clothes are “elites“. None of these words mean anything anymore.

94% of teachers have to dip into their own pockets to buy school supplies. 85% of teachers are working second jobs during the school year, often just to keep up with the cost of living. Meanwhile, the average Wall Street employee got a bonus of $246,900 in 2025. Something has gone terribly wrong.

What is it about Garak? I started writing and reading Garak/Bashir in a time of major personal upheaval. I had accepted that we wouldn’t get a resolution to Enigma Tales. This is a fantastic surprise. I can’t believe this story is real and on AO3. What a gift.

The whole thread is amazing