This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Bluesky, where some are singing about opening up a window while others sing for independency.

@vaspider.gay, I believe we have specifically discussed this very topic before.

The thing about Star Trek is that the majority of it has the crew spending most of the episode trying to figure out, through arguing and investigating, what's the right thing to do in a complicated situation and I don't think any shows do that now? Like in a Very Special Episode but not all the time

NEW data I've received: Just 5% of people detained by ICE since October 1 have had violent criminal convictions, 3/4 had no criminal convictions at all. Most "criminals" had immigration, traffic, and vice offenses. Not the "worst of the worst"...

No matter where you go, Charlie Brown, there you are.

Sadness. There were a few years in the late 90s and early 00s where I saw this guy in just about every third film I watched. I used to call him the guy Cuba Gooding Jr wanted to be when he grew up. But, you know, in a good way.

For my history and cartography nerds.

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

1927 Paramount Studio Map Of California Filming Locations That Look Like Foreign Countries & Regions Full article: brilliantmaps.com/californi...

You know, when the "Let's You and Him Fight" trick works in the movies, you often end up shaking your head at how dumb the folks involved can be. And then it happens in real life, and you just ... end up shaking your head at how dumb the folks involved can be.

Post your favorite Star Trek character. Wrong Answers only.

There has never been a better time to release an interracial lesbian Christmas movie because the outrage grifters are whisper quiet. Hell, you could probably put a black person in Star Wars right now. The anti-DEI freaks are too busy wallowing in the shame of secretly being pro-CSA all along.

Vending Machine.

Because, y'know, I may actually know some of the intended audience for this. Maybe. A little.

I’m sorry I just found out that in 1379, as in, 650 years ago, a baby girl was born in Yorkshire and named Diot Coke history is a fucking joke lmao

A longish thread worth sharing for my lit nerd chums and those who stand up for the Romani ... in my friend-groups, these are not *entirely* the same circle, but there is very very strong overlap. You know who you are.

Okay, Trek nerds… post a picture from your first #StarTrek movie! (I am known in my circle of friends for photoshopping this shot of Ilia with a Santa hat around the holidays to ask the question "Kirk-unit, why do you not bring the figgy pudding?", and have no regrets)

"Mark my words, one wrong step in this town’ll land you in a whole heap of social services."

If you see this, post a #StarTrek.

Port Huron Times Herald, November 12, 1966. I did not know Leonard Nimoy based Spock's speech patterns on Somerset Maugham! Remarkable. "Spock probably learned English formally. To achieve this kind of speech pattern I listened to recordings of Somerset Maugham reading his own short stories."

What good is even having the power to filibuster if Democrats fold every single time it matters?

@geodesaurus.bsky.social, creator of the Spooky Lake Month series on TikTok and Instagram, gave us a guided tour of some of the world's most mysterious lakes. 🎧 Listen—if you're feeling brave: buff.ly/SyRWeKb

He's going to implement Sha Na Na Law. Everyone will have to bid everyone else "Good night, sweetheart" with a doo-wop backing every night.

Literally sitting down in one of my favorite delis to have breakfast and laughed so hard at this that everyone turned to look at me. I shall endeavor not to let it spoil my bialy and baked salmon. 😁

In the category of "things I wish I had written or even thought to write"

The Speaker is so committed to his willful blindness shtick that if a reported said to him "But, sir, we have *video* of you watching the 60 Minutes video in which this came up," he would tell you that he hadn't seen the video of him watching the video and therefore could not possibly comment.

And so, of course, I rushed immediately to order a shirt. Because some things do spark joy.

Since my random, pre-caffine, free assocation of rambling thoughts muttered aloud while preparing my breakfast this morning, I have been dwelling on the notion of a Jack Reacher/The Witcher mashup. But would it be called 'The Reacher' or 'Jack Witcher'? THIS IS A SERIOUS AND BURNING QUESTION!

I get as far as I've heard there were two trunkless legs In lands controlled by sheiks and begs But you don't really care for statues, Do ya? But I keep stalling out because I haven't had breakfast or caffeine yet

Relevant to the interests of many people I know and love, a story about union solidarity.

"The chances of being assaulted by a duck on a roller coaster are low ... but never zero."

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

i really resent the continued assertion that there’s so much anger on both sides, as if the causes of the anger are equally legitimate. we’re angry because masked maniacs are violently snatching our family and neighbors off the street, and they’re angry because we’re calling them out for it.

Diplomatic Talks Break Down Between Trump, Motion-Activated Ghost Decoration

Sean Hargreaves just uploaded some intriguing concept art for a cancelled Star Trek project to his portfolio. No other information is given, but most of it features designs for a Starfleet assembly building.

Vance’s Double Standard: Nazi Jokes Are “Kids Being Kids,” But Mocking Charlie Kirk Gets Your Visa Revoked JD Vance thinks praising Hitler and talking about putting political enemies into death chambers is harmless “kids being kids,” but criticizing Charlie Kirk is somehow deserving of…

There is no foundation or evidence to the idea that I am immortal and have been around since at least the 16th cent---DAMMIT!

I mean, look, this just tells me that betting against Gov. Pritzker ain't necessarily a great idea. www.thedailybeast.com/trump-foe-jb...

It continues to bewilder me how Conservative-types as old as 35 or 40 are considered "young kids" when they do bad things, but "Urban Youth" as young as 12 or 13 are responded to and treated as, aggressive full-grown adults. I can't qwhite put my finger on why. Just so confusing.

A handful of my small group of followers on this site are actual real life friends, or at least virtual friends for a long enough period of time that we know each other's backstories and are not mere NPCs in each other's lives. For you lot specifically, the regular reminder that I love you all.

Look, I'm just asking this: Given that AI's cachet is that it analyzes the most statistically likely next-word-after-this-word to make the safest possible choice, how is it any different from a risk-averse CEO? Maybe it's replacing the wrong people?

The Sorceress by Jan van de Velde II (1626). A young sorceress mid-conjure with a motley crew of demonic “familiars”, one of which is sporting two pipes from his bum, both streaming with powders in elegant arcs: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-sorceress-jan-van-de-velde

I mean, surely not the exasperated Captain, too?

Although to be fair, we currently have a President who is neither because we are in the height of an age where the campaign financiers aren't taxpayers and many voters can't pass the civics exam.

A little moment in my newest James Gunn interview www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking? Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

I mean, in theory, this is as valid evidence for a future court hearing challenging the deployment as any social media post which catches the White House's attention, right?

Waiting for Bari Weiss or Bret Stephens or someone of that ilk to tell me why he is qualified for this in all the ways Hunter Biden was unqualified for any board seat,