The frustrating thing about the Star Trek discourse is it sucks that they're being dismissed as bad because they're 'woke' -- which is obviously dumb because Star Trek's politics have always been progressive, but also it is true that most of the new Trek shows are not good.

One thing I love about replaying RPGs is appreciating companions I ignored the first go around. When I played KOTOR as a kid I didn’t care about grumpy old man Jolee. Replaying a few years ago; he was the lynchpin of the emotional journey. Had the same experience with Sera in DA Inq

Happy Trans Day of Visibility ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️

Every time I see a brutalist building in DC now it makes me think of Control. Start instinctively thinking about what I’d fling around telekinetically

I love this beautiful city. So hyped my kid gets to grow up here.

His first time in DC / first Metro ride

Star Trek: The Next Generation, possibly the best television show ever, is not about spaceships shooting lasers at each other, it is about a man who represents the best of us trying to teach his robot son to be human while debating whether humans even deserve to exist with his best frenemy, God.

Health insurance being tied to the company your work for is so purely, transparently evil. It’s serfdom. www.thegamer.com/epic-games-l...

When my mom was reading the Left Behind books when I was little, I got hooked on Left Behind: The Kids and I remember my main takeaway was an intense feeling of FOMO that I’d be stuck in heaven after the Rapture while a clique of outcast teens had post-apocalyptic adventures

It's fascinating that Last of Us and Bioshock Infinite came out the same year and have identical narrative structures -- and both end with the question: is the world as it is, with all its misery, worth holding onto for what's good. Last of Us answers "yes" and Infinite weirdly goes "nope"

Stuff like this makes the royal scandals that precipitated the French Revolution look tame in comparison

"The NYT has always loved protests as history but hated them as news." I talked about this a bit on a show today. I think a lot of establishment makes a big fuss about protests not meaning anything (for obvious reasons) but behind closed doors history shows us they DO have a significant impact.

For the last five years my friends have watched a movie every Monday. We pick on a rotation and the only rule being that half the group can’t have seen it. Last night we had our Fifth Annual Nuties, with the Best Picture winner taking home a small statue of Nute Gunray

My work found out I hate popcorn today and I've had to fend off an hour-long barrage of abuse over it

I’m going to be producing on the Saturday show starting this weekend and they said I can bring in guests

I finished DS9 this weekend (saw episodes here and there growing up but never watched the whole thing through). One of my favorite ST episodes is The Wounded and I was happy Miles O'Brien's last scene had a little homage to this www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx40...

Go on and have a seat: I have something terrible to tell you about "pork" and "beef"

You can tell the "destroying Confederate statues is getting rid of history" people were always full of shit because that's (rightly) happening with Cesar Chavez and you're not hearing a peep

Had a kind of interesting journalistic quandary. We're doing a story about a church helping to clean up the Potomac in Alexandria today and I was like "I recognize this name" and they're a pretty notorious cult in South Korea. I was inclined to mention that in a story but another editor --

The third Thrawn book focuses on a fight for R&D funding between Thrawn’s next generation of TIE fighters and Krennic’s Death Star. This is, no joke, the kind of shit I love in my Star Wars

Tried finding something on Etsy and it's wild and absolutely gross how much the site is just overrun with AI slop now

For years I’ve been like “the later Dune books aren’t really worth reading but Dune Messiah is the best one and Dune feels incomplete without it” and it’s kind of nutty that the people who shared that opinion are making the movies. (Sorry Children and God-Emperor lovers)

There’s one copy of each of the six Thrawn audiobooks at the Falls Church library. There’s apparently one other person working through them at the same time, trading holds, and I kind of want to hang out with them and swap reviews.

It's always funny seeing people glazing Robert E. Lee with their dumb Lost Cause slop when he wasn't even the best general in the Confederacy.

Let my parents finally post a picture of my kid on Facebook and within minutes someone put him through an AI filter. Everybody opting not to put pics of their kid on social media is making the right call

Happy March 15. Here is my favorite Ides of March meme:

I haven’t seen it yet but rooting for The Secret Agent at the Oscars purely because Kleber is super cool and wrote a nice message when my son was born

I know I've said my piece about this before, but I disagree with a LOT of crime reporting. We're running a story today (I have no say over this) about a woman who was previously accused of killing her mother being arrested again for disorderly conduct --

I am very bad about planning things out in advance, we still don't have a bunch of important summer plans set in stone, but I'm still making the case for this eight months before Halloween

I am such a sucker for anything that’s like “it’s World War I… IN SPAAACCEEE!” youtu.be/JUmGUecdj1o?...

It's funny watching a Fairfax County report and remembering when I used to take one item (crime stats, a parks update, etc) and find ways to spin that out into five stories. I'm almost nostalgic for that. Now it's "take this whole meeting and find one 15 second soundbite"

Installed Stellaris to play the Star Trek mod. Opened it: rows of spreadsheets and obtuse mechanics. Close and uninstall. Trying Endless Space 2 instead for that sci-fi 4x kick.

I just sent this email to the news director at NBC4 Washington about the unprofessional and disrespectful way they handled publishing the body camera footage of the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that was obtained via my FOIA lawsuit:

There's a producer in the newsroom I thought hated me for the longest time until we bonded over both having this reaction every time they try to shove more AI stuff down our throats, and now he's one of the people here I'm probably tightest with

Swivel from the actual point of this post but: In addition to the "Alexandria, Fairfax" nonsense my Alexandria crank issue is we never should have let the city get away backsliding on recording meetings after Covid. www.alxnow.com/2022/05/11/a...

Spending obscene amounts of money to build artificial ruins is still somewhat popular in England

I know this is just the nature of doing news in the US but it does seem bizarre and a little vile that most of the top-line-item news stuff about the war against Iran is the impact on gas prices and not "we've murdered over 1,300 civilians in Iran including around 170 girls in a school"

“It is 2015 and I am covering a bike lane fight in Alexandria” “It is 2019 and I am covering a bike lane fight in Alexandria” “It is 2026 and I am…”

Happened to be on a show to talk about other stuff when breaking news hits. If I knew this was going to happen I wouldn’t have come dressed like a New England fisherman: youtu.be/T9Y-WNBya2o?...

One of the producers is going with "Secretary No More" as their headline and I'm punching the drywall that I didn't come up with that first

One of the producers is going with "Secretary No More" as their headline and I'm punching the drywall that I didn't come up with that first

One of the producers is going with "Secretary No More" as their headline and I'm punching the drywall that I didn't come up with that first

So far the two songs that calm Cadien down when he’s crying are “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” and “Yub Nub (Ewok Victory Celebration”

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed...This is not a way of life...it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.” -Dwight Eisenhower 1953

never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.

It’s kind of funny how communities around the country have absolutely barren news scenes and then in Alexandria it’s like:

Just finished Discovery s3 to get through enough to watch Starfleet Academy. I *love* ranking things and not sure if I’ve posted my Trek ranking. I haven seen TAS, Prodigy or Starfleet Academy yet. 1. TNG 2. DS9 3. TOS 4. SNW 5. VOY 6. Disco 7. ENT 8. Lower Decks 9. Picard

Doing three stories in a row today about local govts around the area doing everything in their limited power to muck up the gears for ICE and I could not be more proud. Civics nerds doing the thankless, anonymous work: using their knowledge of zoning to fight evil on a million little fronts.

Finishing up my DS9 watch (I didn't grow up with it the way I did TNG and Voyager, long story) and didn't expect a Ferengi and a Frank Sinatra hologram pastiche to make me cry youtu.be/WDjg2K58YXc

Absolutely wild to kill or capture two world leaders in as many months and say it's because *they're* threats to international peace and stability