Cats!

This is a deeply weird article.

If this were a person, it would be creepy. Because it's a kitten, it's cute!

Anyways.

I wonder if the Tarratins wanted to be normal size #TOSSatNight

The animation allows you to do so many cool things that wouldn't fly through practical effects in the 1960s, such as dodging volcano ash. #TOSSatNight

I like how the automatic door openers are fancy (electric eye), but I remember those from the 1980s at the grocery store. #TOSSatNight

I like how you get a much more diverse, complete view of the Enterprise in TAS #TOSSatNight

I grew up on TNG, so I'm less familiar with TOS. It's interesting to see just how different TOS is and how the two shows approached these issues. Much more physical comedy in TOS. #TOSSatNight

These serial killer aliens are just misunderstood. #TOSSatNight

They're cold-blooded killers but also have the soft side from the human bodies. Very creative of DC Fontana. #TOSSatNight

I read today that warp engines wouldn't work between galaxies because there isn't enough matter to warp spacetime around or have subspace or something. So good luck traveling at impulse power. #TOSSatNight

The second time this week that a galactic barrier has come up this week (though Academy was a barrier around the Federation). #TOSSatNight

#TOSSatNight Seeing Nurse Chapel with the Beehive reminds me of the last lady on earth to have that hairdo, who happened to work at my elementary school in 1989.

Pete Hegseth's murderous buffoonery, coming amid a lifetime in which he's betrayed everyone close to him and failed up from one disaster to the next, is a perfect example of how the appeal of Trumpism is that it creates a permission structure for people to openly be their worst selves

Jadzia licking Gosia...

Well WW3 did start in 2026 in Star Trek.

It's so cool that the fbi is basically the make a wish foundation for one podcaster

We should've known when he yelled at his hearing, "I like beer!"

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The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Nicki Minaj https://theonion.com/the-onions-exclusive-interview-with-nicki-minaj/

Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking around a microscopic volvox algae colony. 🫧🐻🧪

I wish she'd help me write some emails

He's no Wilson Phillips, but he can sing a good tune.

London was a turbulent place, where immigrants’ place was contested and a source of social strife among laborers. And while their children too faced stigma as times, they were not strangers to the realm. Their birth on the king’s lands made them Englishmen.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Colombian food is good. I need more of this in my life.

I'm not in the Epstein files and neither are my cats.

This teaser trailer gave me a nightmare.

Caturday night vibes on a Sunday.

🧵“How do seemingly ordinary people become agents of state murder?” This is one of the guiding questions I ask students in my graduate class on genocide/state violence. With recent events, it is a question many Americans are asking. I do not have a definitive answer, but here is a reading list: 1/

I want to address my friend Ilan who says here that he has been subject to “a lot of hate” from academics who “should know better” and haven’t respected the “academic enterprise.” I don’t dislike Ilan. I also think his paper is fundamentally wrong and not scholarly. m.youtube.com/watch?v=pFge...

I think most historical landmarks are like this.

Double cat love

This is an evergreen post for the Trump era.

Current view

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

Cats gonna cat

Here’s this year’s Books We Love—but thanks to lots of work by lots of people, you can also look over all the Books We Love years back to 2013. It’s a remarkable project, and I can say that because I have nothing to do with it. (/fin)

5 animals you've seen in the wild: 1. Cassowary 2. Bald eagle 3. Bear 4. Porpoise or dolphin 5. Crocodile

I subscribed in the spring, and it was a great choice. Helps keep me sane during Trump 2.

This concert was terrific & it's still available on YouTube. What better way to spend your Sunday night. m.youtube.com/watch?v=1d3f...

NEW SEASON of Tides of History starting soon, so stoked! Oct 9: The Ancient Economy from Assyria to Augustus Oct 16: Living and Working in Imperial Babylon Oct 23: Interview with @peterbrannen.bsky.social on his new book Oct 30: The Ancient Egyptian Economy Nov 6: Interview with Eric Cline

Got my COVID and flu vaccine today, and yes, unfortunately that is my best sexy baby face.