Porte d'entrée centrale du manoir de Marquayrol (ca 1900), by Henri Martin

Bratsk, Siberia, USSR (1967), by Elliott Erwitt

Romance of Autumn (1916), by George Bellows

The idea that a trans woman’s presence in a woman’s changing room denies dignity to women in the space is such heteronormative nonsense. Pure panic. No danger present, only phobia. What makes women intrinsically ‘safe’ to women? It assumes all cis women are straight and all trans women predators.

Well, January was quite a month! <looks at calendar, sees it's barely half over>

I would like a Starfleet Academy spinoff that's just Gina Yashere yelling at people, please.

Experiencing a degree of anxiety & distress lately, so I’ll try to imagine a certain character’s voice saying, “Don’t panic! Breathe! Your breathing is your friend!” 😊 There are worse things to try! #StarfleetAcademy #StarTrek

The Korean Peninsula photographed from the ISS.

#100Years100FaveFilms #FilmSky Day 44: The Double Life of Veronique (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1991) www.youtube.com/watch?v=aie5... An incredibly moving, pivotal scene in one of Kieślowski’s great cinematic poems. Preisner’s music is inseparable as always, & becomes diegetic here. Such a masterpiece!

It’s appropriate that Gina Yashere, a very funny British comedian, had the most hilarious line in the whole episode - & perfectly delivered! 😂 #StarfleetAcademy #StarTrek #KidsTheseDays

“The Sato Atrium”. 🖖🏼💜 #StarfleetAcademy #StarTrek

In a Levantine Port (ca 1905), by John Singer Sargent

Elégante au miroir (1908), by Théo van Rysselberghe

Marilyn Monroe and Eli Wallach during filming of The Misfits (1960), by Inge Morath

Springtime (1872), by Claude Monet

Due to unwellness & exhaustion, I haven’t been able to see this yet, but I’m already thinking, HELL YEAH, this is how you own that chair! 😊❤️❤️❤️🖖🏼 #StarfleetAcademy #StarTrek #HollyHunter

The Cat’s Eye Nebula (NGC 6543), photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope.

#100Years100FaveFilms #FilmSky 43: The Fisher King (Terry Gilliam, 1991) www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvSl... Wonderful genre-hopping tale of trauma & redemption, with comedy, romance, drama, fantasy, & a horrifying flashback scene. Ultimately it’s very moving. This scene is both hilarious & touching.

Making it illegal to buy sex hurts sex workers the most. Criminalising the client forces sex work further underground, increases stigma, and raises the risk of harm inews.co.uk/opinion/maki...

and minbari

Just watched the Trekcore clip of the Doctor meeting SAM for the first time, and I noticed this. Lower Decks pushed the representation envelope, and Starfleet Academy is keeping it going 🖖

The central pond in the park at Marquayrol (ca 1910), by Henri Martin

Paris (ca 1954), by Elliott Erwitt

Lady Jean (1924), by George Bellows

Way too many people are focused on the trolls right now and missing the fact that the early reviews have been overwhelmingly positive. Probably the most positive early #StarTrek reviews we've seen for a new series in this new era. And the praise is well deserved. Pretty damn cool! #StarfleetAcademy

Saturn’s vast rings rising above its layers of atmosphere, in a photo by the Cassini spacecraft.

Yet another new health problem to add to the escalation of others. None of them will kill me, but they all make life more painful and distressing and I’m so fed up with it all. Thank goodness for counselling, at least.

#ArtistFave15 PAUL SIMON (Graceland onwards) #MusicChallenge Day 15: Wait (2023) www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gyJ... Paul voices doubt & anxiousness, Edie gently calls him home. A beautiful close to his most recent album, which is also one of his most unique & personal.

#100Years100FaveFilms #FilmSky Day 42: A Tale of Springtime (Éric Rohmer, 1990) www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8Fw... The first of Rohmer’s Tales of the Four Seasons, & like all his films it’s a quiet story of people negotiating friendships & relationships. And that’s part of its refreshing charm.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1887), by John Singer Sargent

Mrs H Aubry, by Théo van Rysselberghe

Arthur Miller, Paris (1961), by Inge Morath

Spring by the Seine (1875), by Claude Monet

#ArtistFave15 PAUL SIMON (Graceland onwards) #MusicChallenge Day 14: The Sacred Harp (2023) www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJy7... This album is a true, 33 minute song cycle & really needs to be heard entire. But this song is especially lovely & features angelic singing from Simon’s wife, Edie Brickell.

Earth from Apollo 11, as the tiny spaceship left Earth orbit and headed for the first crewed landing on another world, in July 1969. The view is dominated by Central America and much of the southwestern United States, and makes me feel slightly dizzy!

#100Years100FaveFilms #FilmSky 41: Life is Sweet (Mike Leigh, 1990) www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GVW... This one, partly filmed in the street I lived in at the time, has a sad, loving story within the wonderful but often painful comedy, finding release in this cathartic scene, which makes me tear up.

Deanna, I noticed you were looking at me today. Is your wish to engage in combat or would you like to have dinner? Worf

Le Printemps (1903), by Henri Martin

Vine clad shore - Mongegan Island (1913), by George Bellows

For anyone who, like me, needs a smile today… 🙂 #StarTrekLowerDecks #StarTrek

#ArtistFave15 PAUL SIMON (Graceland onwards) #MusicChallenge Day 13: In the Garden of Edie (2016) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx5K... A rare thing: a Paul Simon instrumental! And another tribute to his wife - it’s brief but tender.

Neptune’s moon Triton, photographed by Voyager 2 in 1989.

#100Years100FaveFilms #FilmSky Day 40: Wild at Heart (David Lynch, 1990) www.youtube.com/watch?v=whIU... Lynch’s road movie, contemporaneous with Twin Peaks, with Laura Dern brilliant of course. And like Kubrick, Lynch was a master of opening titles - with sublime help here from Shostakovich! 🎶

Long before the term existed, Star Trek's heart was "woke" & even though that word has been hijacked & made a cudgel to insult, to ridicule & - at the toxic extremes of social media - to justify prejudice & racism, Star Trek's heart is strong & still beating for those listening

She may be short in stature, but her acting stature is mighty! I’m so glad that Holly Hunter has a captain’s chair whose comfort befits that. 😊🖖🏼 #StarfleetAcademy #StarTrek

Melon Boats (ca 1908), by John Singer Sargent

Péniches sur l’Escaut (1892), by Théo van Rysselberghe

Still Life with Pheasants and Plovers (1879), by Claude Monet

#ArtistFave15 PAUL SIMON (Graceland onwards) #MusicChallenge Day 12: Love and Hard Times (2011) www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CMp... The bedroom breathes In clicks and clacks Uneasy heartbeat, can't relax But then your hand takes mine Thank God, I found you in time Thank God, I found you 💜

#100Years100FaveFilms #FilmSky Day 39: Kiki’s Delivery Service (Hayao Miyazaki, 1988) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARGG... One of Miyazaki’s many qualities is his beautiful depiction of the lives of women & girls. And witches. And flying! And, in this case, cats! 😻 🐈‍⬛