Throwback to when Burger King made this for corporate alliedship.

Post a poster that you used to have on your wall This followed me through several apartments.

Going through some old boxes of books and I stumbled across my first copy of Doctor Who: The Dying Days by @lanceparkin.bsky.social. This was available on the BBC website for a while, so I copied it all into a word doc, formatted it, printed it, and had it bound. I later acquired a real book copy.

whenever i see people gloat about how they "don't use references" for art i just think about this bit from sam and max

Relativity is a time-travel story that at last confronts the issue that there are too many time-travel stories. Seven gets recruited by a far-future Federation ship whose job appears to mainly be cleaning up the messes that Voyager leaves behind with all of their time-travel shenanigans. They’ve…

Someone to Watch Over Me is the story of the Doctor trying to teach Seven about love and instead learning a little something about it himself. The stories that I’ve liked about the Doctor so far involve the Doctor having a proactive position to take in a crisis. The stories that I’ve disliked about…

‘Til Death Do Us Part continues from the previous story in what is now obviously the final story arc of the show. I wouldn’t be surprised if it all runs together from this point. The episode title has a nice double meaning: obviously, Sisko and Yates’s marriage is part of it, but also the…

Course: Oblivion is a parlor trick. It’s a follow-up to a story that didn’t really need a follow-up, Demon. The end of Demon saw copies of Voyager being made on the demon-class planet. This story is about those copies, but it spends several minutes not telling the audience about that. As such, it…

Dark Frontier is a rare double-length episode, which means that it’s here to herald something important. Previously, these have been used with series premiers and finales, as well as the introduction of Worf into DS9. So do we have a major enough event to justify a feature-length story to be…

Gravity is a story trying to tangle with a number of issues. On the sci-fi side, we have a time-distortion, making time for Tuvok and Paris happen thirty times faster than for Voyager. On the character side, we examine Tuvok’s loyalty to his wife. Most relationships with Alpha Quadrant companions…

What board games did I play at Geekway 2026? boardgamegeek.com/blog/9268/bl... #boardgames

DON HERTZFELDT, in this the year of our oversized spoon 2026, has uploaded a HD version of Rejected to his YT channel?!?!?! OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS I'M SO HAPPY HIIIIII

This is an appropriately targeted message to companies that scrape names from Tolkien’s work, like Palantir or Anduril.

The new theological position of the Catholic church. "It is important to reaffirm that the 'just war' theory, which has all too often been used to justify any kind of war, is now outdated." Pope Leo XIV - Magnifica Humanitas

As the ‘British food’ discoursers are at it again, here’s Priya Wickramasinghe’s puri recipe and ingredient notes for chicken curry from her appearances on Yorkshire TV’s The Farmhouse Kitchen. From *1984*

Prodigal Daughter is ostensibly the sequel to the organized crime story that O’Brien was in last season, but it turns out to be much more about diving into the character of Ezri Dax while we have a chance. We’re halfway through her run, and while we’ve had a little bit of focus of who she…

Gift link to the NYT summary of “Magnifica Humanitas,” Pope Leo’s encyclical on A.I. and humanity, and here are some extra significant bits that have to do with labor and the dignity of the worker www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/w...

Thirty Days is a story that feels incomplete. It feels like it should be building something towards Paris’s character. But, like so many Voyager stories, it just ends. Voyager finds a really neat ocean planet that has been settled by non-native aliens. They discover that the planet is leaking…

Timeless is a big time-travel story set almost entirely in the future, with future Kim and future Chakotay having made it back to Earth when the rest of Voyager died. This makes it a nice twist on the usual version of “we found a way back to Earth and it’s happening this story and oh no it didn’t…

In the Flesh is a story that’s perhaps a little too idealistic. Voyager encounters on a space station a full recreation of Starfleet Academy in San Francisco. This is populated by cadets, teachers, officers, and Picard’s favorite groundskeeper Boothby. But this is obviously part of a secret plot…

Drone is a Borg story, natch. It’s one of the low-stakes Borg stories, much like I Borg in TNG. And just to keep that comparison going, it’s basically I Borg, but with Voyager characters. They accidentally grow a super-powered Borg drone using the future technology that they picked up in the…

All of the Pertwee future-history cycle.

Shadows and Symbols directly resolves all of the plots from the season opener. Worf gets his glorious victory alongside (if not despite of) his comrades. Kira plays chicken against Romulans and wins, but because the Federation flinched, not the Romulans. Sisko obviously has the biggest story. He…

Many of the rationales for my AI course policy appeal to students' self interest (say no for your own sake). But I also stress (& they find it eye-opening) that inputting anyone else's work into a chatbot is unethical because it "turns over" that work w/out consent to for-profit tech companies...

in awe of how much ball Tatiana Maslany knows

If the US can prosecute former Cuban President Raúl Castro for the extrajudicial killings of four people in international airspace 30 years ago, then Trump should be prosecuted for the extrajudicial killings of nearly 200 people in international waters in the past year.

What board games did I play at Geekway 2026? boardgamegeek.com/blog/9268/bl... #boardgames

Youtube video that doesn’t exist that I would drop everything to watch: @amabel.bsky.social responding to Mark Rosewater’s Ten Things Every Game Needs.

Podcast I’m listening to debating ITYOOL 2026 if Magical Athlete is a game or an activity. #boardgames

I mostly shop at local indie bookstores, but when I need something quick it isn't unheard of that I'll go to B&N. Sadly, this is the nail in the coffin. Unfortunate, as I have many great memories of hanging out at the local B&N since childhood.

Orson Welles: I worked with Grogu. Not in film you see but on the stage. Brilliant performer but a cruel disgusting wretch of a soul. Interviewer: Pourrions-nous parler de Citizen Kane à la place, s'il vous plaît ? Welles: yes he did sell out his friends to HUAC, I will never forgive him for that

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Neom at Geekway to the West #boardgames

This is how I grew up on Doctor Who, Red Dwarf, Mystery!, Blackadder, I Claudius, and basically most of my childhood: VHS tapes of PBS programming.

New Angeles at Geekway to the West #boardgames

Runewars at Geekway to the West #boardgames

7 Wonders Dic at Geekway to the West #boardgames

On Mars at Geekway to the West #boardgames

A Study in Emerald at Geekway to the West #boardgames

This is the longest I’ve ever waited in line for registration at Geekway to the West. The part of the line I’m in is wrapped the long way around the convention center. And this is the time that I always get into line for registration. #boardgames

watching one Robert Altman movie all way through without their phone would send these people into a full-on dissociative coma

I think sandbox games would be the contender here, games with little ecosystems running even without player input. Therefore my answer is Magic Realm.

Now that I’ve finished Voyager – Season 4, here is my ranking of those stories.

Now that I’ve finished Deep Space Nine – Season 6, here is my ranking of those stories.

Hope and Fear is the story of Voyager almost getting home, again. They encounter a friendly alien named Arturis who plays Janeway like a fiddle and ultimately turns out to be not friendly. He decodes the Federation message that Janeway has been working on for half a season, inserted a fake message…