Continuing my #StarTrek rewatch with TAS S01E09, "Once Upon a Planet". Really weird how a ship full of explorers convince a robot that it can't possibly explore the galaxy, it needs to fulfill its purpose of putting up with their bullshit.

Really weird that the Enterprise was cruising near the Galactic Core and found Lucifer, and didn't think to stop by 18 years later when they found God right next door.

Continuing my #StarTrek rewatch with S01E08 "The Magicks of Megas-tu". Not bad? Surprisingly sticking to the ideals of tolerance and understanding, Jim rolls well on Diplomacy and gets away without fighting Magic Space Satan And His Devil Friends.

#HEMA rapier and war fan worked pretty well. The war fan held up as an OK-ish buckler/offhand dagger, and I managed some deflections.

Hey I interviewed a queer Yemeni man, who spent nearly 3 years in ICE detention before being granted asylum. He’s looking for therapy— do we know a Queer Arab or queer affirming Arab therapist who’d be willing to take him on? He has Medicaid so it’d have to be that pro bono

If you have nsfw set to "hide" I implore you to set it to "warn". You still won't see anything except for a blurred post Otherwise once they roll out account-wide adult content labeling a whole lot of people including me are going to disappear from your timelines, even our sfw text posts

Three ways for me, fucking OOF.

Today, my difficulty is "I need to get up, change out of my work robes and into my sword athletic gear". It's nice to have made the series of decisions where I ended up with that sentence.

Just reminding people who keep making excuses that this exists.

turns out "do you know how it works" and "does it look like you expect" are different questions in important ways

I am on my THIRD "somebody vibe coded Big Problems into a script that passed review and hit Prod" in the past year. Going faster sometimes isn't worth the mistakes, folks.

I got Forza 5 on the Playstation and my wife has been stealing it from me because she enjoys it so much. I walk into the living room this morning and see this

to the person who donated $13.12 after noticing our $1, $3, $12 standard donation option boxes: you understood the assignment

RIP Marcia Lucas. And thank you. x

Some good stuff in here. Find your friends, decide what rules stick, and what monsters you're willing to work with. And always remember to call yourself something ridiculous, to force everyone else to say it.

Not a bad summary. I'd add that this doesn't mean it won't change long-term, and that the EU and China could make strides to change this over the course of the next decade or three. The US isn't fucked yet, but that'll be the case until it rapidly isn't.

Turns out "be careful so the giant tube full of explosions only explodes the way you want to" was the actual way to do engineering. What, move fast and break things on the explosive tube results in more bad explosions?! Who could have predicted this?!

star trek but instead of cold war US liberalism as an ideology of unity & source of contradictions, cold war european social democracy. spock all judging kirk for his provincial prejudices and then just screaming incoherent supersitious peasant shit when a specific federation species comes up

okay with the number of people stuck living at home with their parents unironically actually affordable love hotels would probably have a huge market in the US now. young ppl need cheap private places to fuck nasty.

Clowning lessons become mandatory in high school, and a yearly multimillion dollar prize goes out to the best short form comedy video to grace the Internet that year. Let the games begin.

I prefer the wisdom of my Daoist elders, "That seems like work", or "bitch pay me".

Start up the airship travel industry. Combo with surveillance tech to identify random people on the ground and run messages on the side targeting them. Ex: "BOB JOHNSON OF 123 FAKE STREET, YOUR DOG GOT OUT. THIS HAS BEEN A PUBLIC SERVICE DERIGIBLE"

The actual Anarchist Cookbook has recipes for feeding 250 people with $100 and whatever got donated that week.

Tim Hortons farmer's breakfast wrap.

Distant View of Niagara Falls, by Thomas Cole (American, born England, 1801–1848) 1830 More info: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/90048

I'm from Buffalo. Sponge Candy is meh.

Ive been saying that this is what valve should have been selling: a kit that you can mash into a user office PC for 350$

The Squamish people of what is now Vancouver were illegally dispossessed of their land 100 years ago. They sued, got the land back, and used their sovereignty to ignore local zoning and build 6,000 new homes over the loud objections of nearby wealthy NIMBYs. Now other tribes are getting in the game.

Continuing my #StarTrek rewatch with TAS S01E07, The Infinite Vulcan! On one hand, it's a stinker. The plot is all over the place, and I have no idea why giant clones are the secret to universal peace. On the other hand, GIANT SPOCK! BIGGER AND THEREFORE BETTER THAN REGULAR SPOCK!

A quiet life for me and mine, where we live to see those who would destroy us fade into irrelevance.

Being able to do something good, or something cool.

Trying to be present in the moment. Life is the totality of the experience, and the interactions along the way.

We have to live with our regrets, and our beloved dead. Absolution is a bandage, not a cure, and all you can do is live with that, and hopefully have it change you for the better.

Realizing there's some hurt you can inflict that won't ever heal, only scar.

A Knight's Tale is a great example of the vibe pre-9/11. And then shit went grimdark.

Star Trek. I got my beefs with it, but it's been a hyperfixation since I was 4.

Podcasts, finding and listening to experts, and occasionally reading nonfiction.

The bakery I grew up near had danishes made with cherry pie filling. Now I can't get them, or the slightly worse ones Wegmans made.

Free time. I got more things I want to do then time/spoons to assign to them, and that list will only get bigger.

Everything, Everywhere All At Once. A silly action movie about how we relate to each other, somehow.

Smartphone? I'm easily lost and easily bored. More fun answer: A pair of dance shoes live in my car.

First thing in the morning, post workout, when the caffeine hits.

Earth tones? I keep things pretty simple, clothing wise.

If I had money to play angel investor? Animation studio or a video game company. For something I'm competent to do? Bookstore/cafe/game shop.

Tired. Would be real fucking nice to get a full night's sleep. Beyond that? The standard "things are going decent for me, personally, as the world burns"

people are making fun of this but like there's no way these two aren't having the most fun anyone has ever had in human history

In spite of everything, we still persist. Namaste! 🫶🏾