Ok so I have to find a way to justify buying the new Lego Enterprise D as TNG is easily my first favorite tv show and a huge influence on me becoming a space communist.

Yesterday was my sixteen year quit-a-versary from WoW. It had quite a hold on me: I /played 362 days over a four year period.

Top new release?! I know it’s in a niche genre, but I’ll celebrate when I can these days. I’m so grateful to everyone who encouraged me along the way and to everyone who has purchased this!

I keep thinking about this comment. Just bizarre to think of someone being a fan of the optimates.

I wish I had the ability to make playlists for TV shows on streaming services or have a "pick random episode of this TV show" button. I need some Star Trek, but picking an episode takes like half the time I set aside for it! Why isn't this just an option already?

I’ll forever love that Denny’s named their festival of adding bacon to things the ‘Baconalia’. Just amazing.

I ordered author copies of my commentary to send to my parents as soon as it published. They haven't even been shipped yet. But my coworker who bought it has it already?! Come ooooooooon!

My wife works at a primary care office and was trying to report fraud today...but the government shut down means the place you report fraud to the FTC is down. I know it isn't nearly the most important consequence of the shut down, but it's depressing that I keep finding out more of them.

Hi Bluesky! I post on Greco-Roman (late) antiquity, metal music, & especially combinations thereof. 🏺🎸 My 1st book, "Julian Augustus" is out 26 September. Preorder here: global.oup.com/academic/pro... Lastly, I'm undertaking a challenge to cook a dish from every country in alphabetical order. 🌍🍴

Bit of self-promotion: I have published a commentary on a selection of Martial's epigrams, so if you are a Latin teacher/instructor...or a fan of having Latin grammar and rhetorical devices analyzed...feel free to check it out. a.co/d/e1FBrHH

My pre-viewing guess as to why he failed: he went woke. Will update as to whether or not I was correct.

Because history is so often written by the victors, it’s difficult to discuss ancient history without making the Romans our protagonists- this week we look at the life and career of Persian king Shapur I, discussing why his achievements surpassed his Roman rivals youtu.be/o4xwbcMA4IU

Republicans in 2025: "no equity but private equity"

Buy this book, it’s great! If you’re at all interested in the history of Roman social movements from the perspective of the masses then this is an incredibly valuable text

I don’t like giving money to Bezos or advocating for buying books from Amazon, but they are selling my book for $3.83 today—in hardback (as opposed to $35). The paperback will be out in January, so I guess they are fire 🔥 selling their stock. In case you are interested www.amazon.com/Strike-Labor...

his father was unavailable for comment

A wild sentiment even if you grant the premise: violating the fourth amendment is fine if it’s only for a bit.

The next Democratic president should declare that the National Emergencies Act and Article II of the Constitution allow him to: •admit D.C. and Puerto Rico as states •abolish ICE •grant citizenship to any immigrant •disband the 5th Circuit •expand the Supreme Court Seriously: Why the hell not?

Bill Kristol having a better take than Democratic leaders is really bumming me out.

Admin emails out to us (teachers): “before our first meeting next week, we ask that you create a ChatGPT account” I’m so defeated.

Kaos is the best Netflix show I’ve seen in forever. So of course they cancelled it. The modern TV landscape of shows getting hardly any seasons with hardly any episodes and multiple years between these short seasons is terrible.

I don’t want everyone to have health insurance. I want everyone to have healthcare. Insurance can still deny. I want taxes to just fund people having all the access to healthcare that they need.

I don’t actually remember my first experience, but I know I was watching TNG weekly when it came out by the time “The Best of Both Worlds” aired, and I was born in ‘84. So I was young. And I’ve seen them all in the theatre since Generations. Despite its ups and downs, I still do like most Trek.

Deep Space Nine’s “Children of Time” (season 5, ep. 22) is one of my favorite episodes of television ever. Gets me choked up every time.

So I often like the discover tab to see what else is going on, but lately it’s just been AI art. Why?!

In the car today, my son heard me mention PragerU to my wife & piped up that his 1st grade teacher last year showed those videos in class. A lot. upon further interrogation he knew the theme song & several characters. Sigh. I had concerns when I found out she went to Liberty; rightly so it seems

To think that DC could have been a state if the Democrats had any political will and now it might become a freedom city run by Trump cronies is unreal.

I held off deleting Twitter from my phone because I never updated it and it was still the old Twitter app. But today I deactivated my account and deleted the bird.

Late to the party: but gee golly Andor season two is fantastic! Where has Star Wars like this been??

I don’t often advertise for companies, but I can’t recommend Larian and Baldur’s Gate 3 enough. Easily the best game (for me) of the last decade.

Baldur’s gate 3 Diablo 2 Skyrim

Me waking up most days:

Second day of summer as a teacher: planning how to use some Pliny letters in AP next year** **not a complaint; I love picking new passages to work with

“lucrum sine damno alterius fieri non potest.” —Publilius Syrus “Profit is not possible without another’s loss.”

Agree. Many of our class discussions are about how not to revere a “might makes right” view of history.

In video essay form: By @skipintroyt.bsky.social

Every time I read about cancer diagnoses it reminds me to make a doctor’s appointment. But then I don’t.

ACAB includes cops.

Does ACAB include Worf?

As a Latin teacher I have to share that it’s Rome’s birthday.

Oblivion remaster announcement tomorrow!!

Instead of grading, like I should, I spent my planning period working through some of Martial’s epigrams because he’s just so good. And oh man, every time I get into some good translation and research I am reminded of how bummed I am not to have JSTOR access as a public school teacher.

Oblivion remake, wherefore art thou?

Ranking my favorite Trek TV: 1. DS9 2. TNG 3. VOY 4. SNW 5. LD 6. TOS 7. ENT 8. Disco 14. Picard I’ve never seen TAS, and only a few episodes of Prodigy, so ranking seems premature. I’m 41 so I never grew up with TOS so that’s why it’s so low. I really did not enjoy Picard.

I saw TNG as a tiny kid before seeing TOS movies on video.

Probably not a popular take but: I’m a bit bummed that nearly all interactions I’ve engaged in since I was 16 have had alcohol as a requirement and main ingredient to them. Parties, meals, weddings, get togethers, etc. I dunno. It just seems a bit too ubiquitous.

Did @eve6.bsky.social say anything about today being 311? Seems like an easy shoutout to alternative royalty. Transistor was one of my favorite albums in middle school.

I sure wish the Star Trek Voyager episode “Critical Care” wasn’t such an apt analogy to for how terrible it is to have profit involved in (for example) healthcare.

I gotta say, as a Latin teacher, I will never not love that Denny’s named an annual promo, the Baconalia, after a Roman forest orgy. It’s a reference most patrons won’t get, and a wildly inappropriate one for those who do. Kudos indeed to the marketing ppl who came up with it.