I have a feeling that gender (euphoria) itself is way sweeter than sexist fragile-masculinity jerks think (binary) gender is. Then there’s the sting of being dead wrong.

It was determined that Wheelie Kids in Philadelphia were against fascism

What he is, is the teddy bear in every cradle

McCoy calling Spock robotic on TOS

McCoy calling Spock robotic

Just in case a public figure is the person crying harassment when he’s disliked, maybe don’t let anyone know you’re wealthy and fake people who don’t like you won’t flock to you. Fame attracts all kinds of negativity and sacrifice of privacy.

Almost like calling someone an AI or the fruit of an AI is an insult…are bros okay? I suspect fragile masculinity has kicked in by now.

I really like this take on the NPCs vs PCs trope that’s proven to me that the far-right is just awful at metaphor (I’ve an inkling that people who enjoy the trope are not game programmers, because by definition humans are PCs and NPCs are, uh, computer intelligences).

Wow I just felt my cartoon villain energy increase by one notch

Aww

We're getting really close to 5k! If we can hit 7.5k we will replace every single member support account we left behind when we went independent. A boy can dream, right? greatest.supercast.com

Merchant of Venice is challenging to stage today as this thread discusses, but it's almost impossible to imagine, even reading it in historical context, that Shakespeare intended Shylock to be a one-note villain. Maybe it's wishful thinking, but his speeches must have seemed so radical in their day.

Me saying early modern to denote Elizabethan and Jacobean England is my biggest flex to date💅

The figure of a dwindling cult of personality putting his face to a national parks pass is just casting aspersions on his successors who will take public money to get the civil service to reverse the changes. We're supposed to resent the next regime for rolling things back and erasing legacy.

What's a majority SCOTUS judge gotta do in terms of a recourse be face of a dissenting opinion? Just getting pi**y and mythbuilding seems futile. I thought these were powerful people, but they act like it's not power enough.

DSN S5E16, I'm afraid Delta Flyers weren't watching earlier SNW where Khan is brought up pre eugenics wars and there are multiple augment characters, and augment blood is being used in medical procedures. (ENT handled augments a bit weirdly.)

Star Wars as lens, on this, the force of maybe with you? Yes please.

Further, I have seen “Looking for par’Mach in All the Wrong Places” DS9 S5E3

2 here: we were assigned David Lodge for seminar and he has a character refer to himself as “a Jane Austen man”. And I heard somewhere that Austen was too polite to listen at doors, so she never wrote a scene of 2 men talking without ladies present. Regency end of night behavior was not pretty!

Having a joke name is akin to a gamer tag—people call you by the most expedient thing that scans out loud. Still have the good hair though

What with the 12-hour work week of the Paleolithic times

This writing prompt

A class at my kids’ school put up little statements about the good they want to do in the world and I was over the moon about this one - then I learned they meant to say “teach people in jail” which is also good!

"You may be tempted to make one last stand. To go 'I liked this blog but now, because of an opinion/idea/line-of-thinking that I abhor, I must leave, unless you retract and apologize for posting it'. Do not do this. Simply leave. The post is functioning as designed. Skip the affirming survey."

Bring back the ancient knowledge

I mention this to point out how rare it is that this radicalization happens, and how we've demystified the process. Then that dapper MT POS got punched.

Cut the funding that allows institutions to pay for these journals

Can we listen to what actual (Canadian) repentant radicalized islamaphobic racist violent terrorists had to say as far back as 2017? Not a phase.

I have seen Roxanne with Steve Martin, Cyrano with Gerard Depardieu with English subtitles, and the Rostand play onstage in the original French, in that order. I’ve got fifty something-betters for you right here.

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SNW S3E5 or thereabouts: Spock ends some other word with the same sound as “sensor” as traditionally pronounced by Nimoy and Tim Russ as Tuvok 😻

We act like he’s a charming old dude with his elbow in a glass bowl of Windex but he’s really a legacy-minded sort of low form of animal (not a metaphor)

If fascism and the right wing say they have the barest grasp of metaphor (even a mob metaphor) they absolutely lie

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

@syfysistas.bsky.social handled this in a recent show, I believe. The critique seems to be the conservative viewership of Star Trek since the 60s has had a flawed interpretation of the program.

Clever in G maps restaurant reviews? Get a blog

better link

If your humanities aren't adversarial in this moment: shouldn't they be

Edit: It's mostly the Protestants and AdultConvert TradCaths holding us back on this one lol

A moment when the impulse is strong to reread RA Heinlein for the machine g-n mounted limousine futurism

“Go to California [or] stay in San Antonio and fight.” -Harvey Milk (1970s)

Again we’ll interpret literature until it’s made a crime

If it’s artificial flavoring, why can I taste it? -Katherine Collins, comics artist and author (🍩 doughnut context)

Addictive video game, Civilization (1990s). And catchy phrase: “May our plans converge to victory!”

This is an evocation of: - Bruce Willis driving a flying car (The Fifth Element, soundtrack by Khaled) - Opening sequence of Office Space

If you thought rhetoric was dead you’re wrong and certainly not a lawyer

Skeetin’ without referencin’ evenin’

Literally it’s remove affordable parking from cities, put roads on a diet (fewer lanes, more bikes/foot) and hit drivers with tolls.

The year was 2022, after which all biopic films have now been rendered invalid. Thank you and you’re welcome.

as far as I'm concerned there is no need for any more biopic movies ever again after the weird al biopic. It's the only good one.